Path to Prevention

The Path Of Prevention

M.A. Neimeyer,M.D.

    As a health care professional, I recommend all kinds of changes in a patient's lifestyle...everything from weight-loss, eating habits, and exercise, to quitting smoking. The problem, however, is compliance and a patient's personal commitment to really getting on track with a lifestyle that sustains health and vitality. Simply put...PREVENTION OF DISEASE.
     I face an incredible challenge when it comes to the prevention of disease...especially when the three most commonly consumed foods in the United States are white bread, coffee, and hot dogs. In almost every case, unless a patient is in medical crisis, very little advice is heeded.
     I'm just like you...always on the go and much too busy to eat properly every day. Bad habits are hard to change. If people think something is going to be a hassle orrequires a lot of time and work, real change, if it happens at all, seldom lasts. Having said that, let me ask you a question. Would you like to actually...
                       1) Increase Lean Mass?
                       2) Lose weight safely while maintaining muscle?
                       3) Improve your skin and decrease wrinkles?
                       4) Lower your cholesterol and blood pressure?
                       5) Improve your memory?
                       6) Slow the aging process?
                       7) Reduce your risk of cancer, stroke, and heart attack?
Would you like to do all of this naturally, safely, and inexpensively? Keep reading...

    In the United States, 65% of all deaths are due to heart disease, strokes, and cancer. These are in part related to poor nutrition, and may be preventable by changing our diet. The U.S. diet, usually processed, frozen, or over cooked, is high in fat and cholesterol, while being low in dietary fiber. Only 1 in 11 people eat 3 servings of vegetables and 2 servings of fruit on a daily basis.
     The medical profession is beginning to understand how a diet rich in fruits and vegetables can prevent disease and speed the recovery process associated with microtrauma in the muscle tissue due to resistance training. Molecular biologist Dr. Bruce Ames tells us that "you might as well stand unprotected in front of an X-ray machine as to not eat enough fruits and vegetables."
     Fruits and vegetables contain a variety of powerful antioxidants that fight oxidation in the body. When you burn a pile of wood, you get smoke. When your body burns fuel, oxidation occurs. You get 10,000 oxidative hits per cell every day.
     AIDS research has shown us that the body produces a million T-cells every day. That's only one kind of cell. You've got muscle cells, bone cells, lung cells...all kinds of cells. Billions of cells. Each one of those cells takes 10,000 oxidative hits every single day!!
     You must have antioxidants to fight that kind of oxidation. They must be there in your body every day. Free radicals, the by-products of these oxidative hits, can be neutralized only by antioxidants. The best source of antioxidants is not an isolated vitamin or a specific antioxidant. The best source is Whole Food.

     "It is whole foods-especially fruits and vegetables- that pack the disease preventing wallop. That's because they harbor a whole array of compounds that have never seen the inside of a vitamin bottle for the simple reason that scientists have not, until very recently, even known they existed, let alone brewed them into pills." - Newsweek, April 25, 1994.

     Medical science has tried studying the effects of specific antioxidants on cancer and other degenerative disease...with mixed results.

     1) The Harvard Physician's Study of 22,000 physicians showed that 50 milligrams of beta-carotene every   other day reduced the risk of cancer in one group of doctors, but actually increased the risk of cancer            in another.

     2) A study published last year in the Journal of American Medical Association found that 60 IU of             vitamin E a day strengthened the immune system in a group of elderly patients, and 200 IU generated a            4 to 6 fold improvement, but 800 IU of vitamin E resulted in worse immunity than those patients                    recieving no vitamin E at all.

Scores of additional studies underscore the same warning: If you take individual antioxidant supplements like vitamin E and beta-carotene, it may do more harm than good.
     Only whole foods - fruits and vegetables- can provide balance. Antioxidants work together in ways that we have just begun to understand. If you're deficient in one and have excess of the other, the balance is wrong. You cannot take them as isolated supplements. They cannot work together in the ways nature intended.
     Taking an isolated vitamin or antioxidant supplement is like putting a quarterback on the field without an offensive line; you're not going to win many games. It's like an orchestra where you have a French horn that's playing too loud. You're not going to have good music.
     The only proven path of prevention is whole food nutrition. Fruits and vegetables are the natural balanced source of antioxidants. It takes the whole team of players...the whole orchestra of instruments... the whole food array of antioxidants and other nutrients, to get the benefit.
     So where do you start? Begin by recognizing that putting more raw fresh fruits and vegetables into your diet is important. In the real world, however, conforming to this discipline is not only unlikely, it's highly impractical! We lack the time. It's inconvienient. Some of the most nutritious vegetables (like kale) don't taste very good. It is also expensive...$40.00 - $50.00 or more each week to purchase these component fruits and vegetables.
     For those who wish a less expensive, scientifically proven, equally or even more effective substitute nutritional regimen, I am recommending JUICE PLUS --- a whole food concentrate.
     JUICE PLUS provides a vital nutritional support system for an individual's diet. You can increase your intake of raw fruits and vegetableswithout changing your eating habits, without the hassle ofshopping and trying to find foods that may not be in season, without having to taste unfamiliar or unpleasant food and best of all, at an affordable price. The cost per week is less than $10.00.
      JUICE PLUS is the next best thing to actually eating 17 fresh raw fruits and vegetables every day. My family and I have been taking JUICE PLUS for some time. After reviewing the medical studies and the scientific evidence, I am recommending JUICE PLUS to all of my patients.
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