The Health Zombie

One of the biggest myths out there is the myth that eating healthy costs too much.

Just the opposite… and I’ll prove it to you in three ways.

#1:  Cash

Here’s some sample figures courtesy of Scott Tousignant’s fitness blog…

:  2 medium size sweet potatoes $1 or… small fries from a fast food joint

:  2 red peppers $1 or… a can of pop

:  Bowl of oatmeal with fruit & protein powder $2 or… large bag of chips

:  6 Chicken Breasts $10 or… a sub combo from a fast food joint

:  18 eggs $3.50 or… a burger from a fast food joint

:  2 salmon fillets $15 or… large pizza

:  Loaded chicken salad (homemade) $3 or… bag of cookies

:  Large bag of oatmeal $3.50 or… 4 chocolate bars

Not much of a comparison, it is?

Yet the foods on the left would feed a family of two or more for 4-7 days… the foods on the right? 2-3 days if you live through it.

Tips to make the most expensive part of eating healthy — the cost of quality meats — go further include…

1. Use tofu fillers in chicken and beef recipes. Even if you hate tofu, you can barely taste the difference when combined properly.

2. Buy your meats in bulk online. You can find less expensive grass-fed beef and naturally-raised chicken and have it delivered to you if you live near a large city. If not, check the local farmers.

3. Eat meat only 3-4 times per week and use black beans with rice or inexpensive tuna for your other days. I eat tuna cooked in a skillet with lots of veggies and some olive oil almost every night and I LOVE the taste!

Jon Benson’s book The Every Other Day Dietplan (video3) has over 40 pages of recipes in it to help you eat healthy and cheap… and you can still eat out and consume your favorite foods several times per week.

#2:  Your Health

Do we ‘really’ need to talk about buy new (usually larger) clothes every year or two? Or about the health care costs associated with being even 20 pounds over your ideal weight, let alone more? How about the time you miss from work with excessive colds?

Eating healthy and taking care of your body adds years to your life… and for the record, the years eating poorly takes away from your life, on average, costs each American over 80,000 in medical expenses.

Want to add that to your food budget?

#3: The Big Picture

Anyone who has been fit knows the joy it brings… the freedom you feel from wearing whatever you want… the productivity you see from increased energy… the pace at which you move during the day.

Not only are these gifts priceless, but they are also massive cash-savers. Your productivity alone can add thousands to your bottom line each year, well off-setting any costs associated with eating quality food.

The Bottom Line…

Like any good accountant would suggest, you need to look at your ROI (return on in.vest.ment) if nothing else.

What does in.vest.ing in a better body, greater health, and vibrant energy do for your life? How can that actually translate into more in.come AND less expense?

You will be surprised.

Sincerely,

Michael

P.S.  If you want some tips on getting started with shedding that excess weight… go here for a short video… and prepare to take some notes! …

it’s freee….

video3 <— click.here



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Did you read the news?

A few days ago CBS broke the story on a new and shocking journal article.

Naturally they only told half the story.

To save your life (literally) I’ll tell you the half they left off.

First:  I have some big news:

Jon Benson’s book “7 Minute Body” (also called “7 Minute Muscle”) is on sale for 61% OFF for the next 7 days.

He does a yearly promo for the book in July (the 7th month… go figure!) as a bit of help for my readers who want the books and the 6 videos that come with it (online) but need a break on the price.

The page with the discount is here:

http://bit.ly/8Y2x3A <—click-here

After you read this newsletter you will want to click that link super-fast… believe me…

Now, the story:

Headline:

“Sitting At Work Ruins Any Benefits Of Workouts”

Sub-headline:

“Risk of death not decreased if you work out but

SIT for 6 hours a day or more, researchers say”

There’s a kernel of truth to this… but a lot of falsehood.

Researchers reported their findings of a 14-year male and female-based study on exercise, sitting down while working or watching TV for more than 6 hours a day, and mortality rates in the American Journal of Epidemiology.

The study was long, detailed, and rather shocking to say the least as far as the results go:

Exercising the way most people exercise did

NOTHING to prevent early death from heart

disease if individuals sit for more than 6 hours

per day.

And most Americans sit for about 11 hours… yikes.

So, throw away your workout gear and toss your gym membership in the garbage if you have a desk job… right?

Not so fast.

Here’s the part the news folks failed to cover:

This research never took into account NUTRITION

or workout plans less than 24.5 MET-hours per week.

The first bit you know all about:  Nutrition.

If you read Jon’s newsletters, you know how to eat… but 90% of the people involved in this study probably did not.

It’s highly (in fact, dangerously) doubtful that they were…

1. Eating low-starch meals at least 3-4 days per week;

2. Consuming healthy sources of lean protein at each meal;

3. Consuming healthy fats;

4. And using sugars and starchy carbs only at specific times
as Jon teaches in “The Every Other Day Diet.”

The study only briefly mentions that the subjects ate a “normal diet”… and that could mean anything.

Let me make this clear:

Exercise ONLY works if you have a dietplan that works.

So if you are NOT eating correctly, then yeah… toss the gym membership in the garbage. It will do you little if any good except help you blow off some steam.

However, there’s another VERY important part this study missed.

This part:

“Less than 24.5 MET-hours per week of exercise.”

What the heck does that mean?

“MET” stands for Metabolic Equivalent of Task. This is the energy and oxygen required by the body in the form of exercise to do a specific task as compared to the body at rest.

The body at rest has an MET of 1, roughly speaking.

The exercise performed by the study group was your typical 5-6 day per week bout of running or perhaps some other form of cardio. Weight training? Sure, the old way… with an MET of 4 (i.e. lift, rest, chat on the phone, lift… repeat.)

Now, are you ready for this?

Jon’s style of training, “7 Minute Body”-style, Phase 2 to be specific, has an MET of about 12. TWELVE. And that is two 7-minute bouts, totaling 14 minutes flat in the gym (or at home.) This is done 4 days per week.

He simply follows that by either GXP cardio and brisk walking at least 5 days per week. The walking takes about 50 minutes; the GXP only 9.

That’s IT… and he is a fitness guy… you know, magazines… photo shoots… competitions?  Yeah. That kind of fitness guy!

The funny thing is that ANYONE using Phase 2 (and there are grandmothers using it) will have the same MET ranking.

And my MET-hours per week?  32!

This is WELL over and above the average person who is working out LONGER, but not SMARTER.

That’s the key behind the 7MB and 7MM Systems… SMART training, but BRIEF training for maximum muscle shape and definition.

And, if Jon’s health is any indication, the program solves the sitting problem nicely.

He told me he sits at least 12 hours a day. He works at a computer (all sitting) and relaxes at night (usually sitting).

But his intense workouts solve the problem sitting causes… and his nutrition plan takes care of the rest.

So now you can do the same… and this week only (the next 7 days) you can do it for 61% off.

Just go here:

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It’s the SMART way to train… and also the healthy way.

P.S.  Please do not think that this article is insulting to the average workout enthusiast; not at all. Most people simply don’t have the latest data on brevity and density training that Jon covers in 7 Minute Body (also called 7 Minute Muscle.)

Now you can have it at 61% off… the counter is on this page:

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I’ll make this super-quick:

There’s a genetic trigger in your body.

The gene:  SIRT1.

It’s like a “save the body” gene.

It saves the body by metabolizing more fat… or
so we think. The research is still in the beginning
phases, but case studies have been done on
humans and lab studies on mice.

In both cases, the subjects dropped a lot of
bodyfat without lowering their weekly caloric
intake… hmmm…

That sounds a LOT like my Every Other Day
Dietplan if you ask me…

Kinda.

It appears that fasting… not eating ‘any’ food…
followed by periods of eating a lot of food triggers
this gene.

It’s one of those dormant genes that requires
us to do something to trigger it…

In this case eat less food one day, more the next.

Same thing I’ve been saying for 10 years now.

I’ll be letting you in on a better way to do this
than “fasting” in my next email to you.

For today, I want you to learn about another
genetic trigger… but this one is not-so-good.

This one is your “fat-making-gene”… or that’s
what I’m calling it.

It’s a nasty little “rogue protein” that causes
your body to not only store more bodyfat but
also make your fat-cells grow in size.

I first read about this “demon” fat-storing protein
in The New England Journal of Medicine.

I have a short presentation that covers…

1. What it is;

2. How to turn it off;

3. What I use to make sure it STAYS off…

The result has been the best fatburning I’ve
had in years.

Go here to check out my findings:

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You’ll not only laugh at “how” I found out about
this (pretty funny story) but you’ll no-doubt want
to start using this technique yourself.

Happy fatburning!

J O N   B E N S O N

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3 tricks to suppress your appetite

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Quick-Links:

“Favorite Foods” Dietplan Diagram:
http://www.everyotherdaydiet.com/go/manker521/video3 <== click.

Article:  “3 Reasons Dietplans Fail YOU”:
http://www.everyotherdaydiet.com/go/manker521/3-reasons-diets-fail-you

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Another good article appeared today in the fitness section of MSNBC.

Since you’re busy, I’ll do a quick summary of the article — the good
stuff, the bad stuff, and what you need to do today to get started…

First, you need to know this…

And this will probably shock you…

Rarely, if EVER, do you need to suppress your appetite!

The real secret is to increase your metabolism… the rate at which
your body uses food for fuel.

Then being hungry is a good thing… as long as you’re eating the right
foods at the right time.

Jon Benson’s “Favorite Foods” plan is a great way to do this…

http://www.everyotherdaydiet.com/go/manker521/video3 <== click.

But let’s say you want to curb your appetite at night…. that’s the
time most people really lose it on a dietplan. Even on a plan that
ASKS you to eat frequently like mine, there are times where
night-time cravings need to be put to sleep.

So use these tips from the article to ease the urge to eat at night:

1. Protein First

As Jon stresses in his dietplan, “Rise and shine with protein.”  But
what does this have to do with night-time cravings?

Everything.

Set the body up to use your own fat-stores for fuel by eating protein
in the morning and your appetite FOR fatty foods goes way down during
the day and the night. Protein is “thermogenic”, meaning it helps
increase your metabolism. It also acts as a natural appetite regulator.

Notice I said “regulator” and not “suppressant.” That’s because you
only need to regulate your appetite, no matter how much bodyfat you
desire to drop.

Jon explains more here:

http://www.everyotherdaydiet.com/go/manker521/video3 <== click.

Cool, right?

2. Go For The Grapefruit

In a study at the Nutrition and Metabolic Research Center at the
Scripps Clinic in San Diego, people who ate half a grapefruit with each
meal lost an average of 3.6 pounds in three months. That doesn’t sound
like a lot (and it isn’t) but that’s ALL they changed.

It doesn’t matter for our purposes… we want to lower insulin at
night. Why? Insulin is not only dangerous for your health in excess but
it also can cause a LOT of fat storage if secreted too much at night.
Enter the lowly grapefruit.

A great snack, especially if you have a few bites of lean protein
with it.

3. Smell This!

This is a trick I didn’t know about until recently.

Smelling food can trick your brain into thinking you’ve eaten.

A recent study found that those who inhaled peppermint in scent form
every 2 hours at (get this) 2700 calories LESS per week than they
normally did.

Let me put that in perspective:  That’s a fatloss of more than half a
pound a week… from sniffing peppermint!

Vanilla also works. You can keep vanilla-scented drops or even candles
around the office and take a wiff every few hours.

How easy is that?

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The Bad Part
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The MSNBC article goes on with advice like “eat potatoes” and “eat just
a little bit of fat”, both of which are nonsense.

Potatoes may fill you up, but they are still starch – and starch should
be consumed on your “off” days.

Potatoes are especially bad due to the higher-than-desired glycemic
index of 85 (anything over 50 is too high.)

You also need dietary fat… and not just “a little.” You need a
moderate amount to stay healthy and keep insulin regulated.

Olive oil and even coconut oil are excellent sources, as are naturally
occurring fats in fresh fish, grass-fed beef, farm-raised chicken and
whole eggs.

The rest of the article is common sense stuff:  Workout, eat dense food
that requires you to chew a lot (tire out the jaw muscles and you
naturally eat less), etc.

The top 3 are the real winners.

Sincerly,

Michael

P.S.  You may be wondering, “How do you eat your favorite foods (like
pizza or burgers) and still stay so fit?”

The answer is here:

http://www.everyotherdaydiet.com/go/manker521/video3 <== click.

P.P.S.  I found another really good article you may want to check out
as well. It’s all about how dietplans fail YOU… and this may do more
than relieve some “guilt” you might have over the start/stop dieting
so many of us have gone through.

Read it here:

http://www.everyotherdaydiet.com/go/manker521/3-reasons-diets-fail-you <== click.

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If you’re looking for a way to jack your fat-
burning sky-high, here’s a great tip for you:
focus on single ingredient meals, especially
after 6:00pm.

Note:  this is not a long-term strategy,nor is it
something you should do every day. Aim for
consuming 3-4 meals per week at first that
contain only one ingredient.

Guess what ingredient that is?

–Protein.–

Eating hard proteins foods as I describe in “Simply
Eat!” is a great way to get lean. You can do this
using animal or vegetarian based protein foods.

The key is one ingredient. Consume your normal
meal’s calories all in protein. This will help
elevate your thermogenic rate and keep that fat
burning.

If you select a second ingredient, select celery –
and lots of it. Celery will fill you up and help
expend even more calories in the fat-burning
process.

For more tips on why “ingredients”, not calories,
are the key to long-term fat-burning and success,
go here now –

Simply Eat!

This will tell you all you need to know.

Sincerely,

Michael (The Health Zombie)

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