Book Review: The Healthy Home...

Dave Wentz and his dad, Dr Myron Wentz have written a very important book for our times. "The Healthy Home", written in a pleasant, reader-friendly and easy to understand way, walks you through every room in your house, highlighting the hidden dangers there AND offering practical, realistic solutions to help you overcome those dangers.

I've just read through it but will read it again just to make sure I pick up even more points to act on.

Grab your copy from amazon today!

100% of the proceeds from sales of the book go to charity.

Exercise - VITAL for treating Type 2 Diabetes

It's not that we didn't know this before, but it's now been established such that the American Diabetes Association and the American College of Sports Medicine have issued brand new guidelines and recommendations for exercise.

Please note that what is to follow benefits not only people suffering from Type 2 Diabetes, but also anyone who desires to be healthy, particularly if you are a victim of the Metabolic Syndrome.

These are the key points from the latest guidance, as published in the December 2010  issues of 'Medicine and Science in Sports & Exercise', and 'Diabetes Care' journals:

• Regular physical activity can prevent type 2 diabetes, improve glucose control, positively affect blood fat levels, blood pressure, improve cardiovascular disease and improve mortality.
  
  
• These improvements are because of the short and long term benefits of exercise on insulin activity.
  
  
• Most of these benefits are accomplished with a combination of aerobic and resistance exercises.
  
  
• The expert panel recommend at least 150 minutes of AEROBIC exercise each week, spread out over a minimum of 3 days, with no more than 2 consecutive days between physical activity.
  
  
• RESISTANCE TRAINING should  ALSO be done at least 2ce a week - ideally 3 x per week - every other day. See below for examples of resistance exercises that anyone can do..If you're just starting out, get a personal trainer to guide you to make sure you don't injure yourself, until you get the moves right.
  
  
• Using a pedometer regularly is a good idea as it helps you quantify your progress when you set a measurable goal eg to walk 10000 steps per day. Also, a study found that people who used a pedometer increased their physical activity by 27% over their baseline.
  
  
• You must exercise regularly to get the full benefits of it.
  
  
• Exercise improves your insulin activity for 2-72 hours after the exercise. It's got to be moderate to vigorous exercise to be of benefit.
  
  
• If you lead a sedentary life, you need a pre-exercise assessment if you plan to do exercise more than brisk walking. Visit your doctor and ask them to arrange this.
  
  
• If you are at high risk of cardiovascular disease (get your doctor to confirm this), and you have no symptoms, you may benefit from having an Exercise Stress ECG done before you commence your improved exercise program.
  
• Works best also if you're part of a support system of one or more people...

About Those Resistance Exercises...

Here's the link to a post I wrote, with pictures of 6 simple resistance training exercises you can do every other day...
Strength Training Blog Post

As For Aerobic Exercises...

Examples include:

• Walking
• Climbing up and down your stairs at home
• Cross trainer
• Treadmill
• Swimming
• Running
• Sports eg tennis, basketball, football, martial arts...

There are others of course. The point is you've got to pick one you enjoy and can stick to. Then do it for up to 150 minutes per week (break it down to say 30 minutes per day) - and add resistance training every other day to the mix.

Getting Started...First, choose your preferred aerobic activity or activities

• Break it down into baby steps.
  
• If you've been sedentary, don't expect to be able to easily exercise for 30 minutes each day from day 1.
  
• Start with 5 minutes of aerobic activity each day. This will get you into the habit of doing something each day. Setting aside a regular time to do it each day, works best for some people.
  
• When you've done 5 minutes exercise each day for 1 week, upgrade to 10 minutes each day.
   
• Do this for 2 weeks.
  
• Upgrade to 15 minutes each day
  
• Add in resistance training every other day: aim to go through the 6 exercises I mention in the article at least once every other day.
  
• Stick with 15 minutes aerobics daily and resistance training every other day - for 3 weeks
  
• After 3 weeks, upgrade your aerobics time to 20 minutes daily
  
• Stick with this for 4 weeks
  
• After 4 weeks, upgrade to 25 minutes of aerobic activity daily
  
• Do this for 2 weeks
  
• After 2 weeks, upgrade to 30 minutes of aerobic activity daily
  
• CONGRATULATIONS!!!!  You've just completed a 12-week jumpstart to a regular exercise program that has been proven to improve your blood sugar, blood pressure, reduce LDL cholesterol and improve quality of life overall!
  
• By now regular exercise should be a habit for you. You can't remember or imagine what your life was like without it.
  
• Now hook up that pedometer and let's see how many steps your 30 minutes get you. If you're not walking 10000 steps in your 30 minutes you'll need to gradually increase until you do.

Here's wishing you a fit, healthy and happy new year!

Blessings to ya.

The 8 Pillars of A Healthy Life...An Overview...

The 8 Pillars of A Healthy Life

1. Positive Mental Attitude

 
- This includes

• personal development, 
• stress management: what is YOUR biggest source of stress? Comment below please.
• self esteem and confidence building, 
• self-motivation,
• self-discipline and in general, the mindset that promotes health and success in life.
  
  I have a whole portion of this site www.doctorkem.com (Personal Development – and the corresponding blog) devoted to this pillar, it’s that important. You’re not truly healthy if this area is messed up.

- Optimists are generally more healthy than pessimists, likely because they interpret events in ways that are conducive to health in the body.

- Your body responds even at a cellular level, to your thoughts and mindset. Mind-body connection is for real.

- Cultivate a positive mental attitude, learn how to manage your stress and build a healthy self esteem, self-image, self-concept, discipline yourself to take appropriate actions and do what you know to do when you know to do it – and your health will improve. The newsletter and blog over at www.doctorkem.com teach you how to do all this.

- The Healthy Lifestyle Project (www.thehealthylifestyleproject.com) includes practical ways to help you out in this area too, so go check it out now!



2. Adequate Hydration
- You must drink enough water for your body size, each day, in order to function optimally.

- Dehydration causes many symptoms such as headaches, body and joint pain, heart burn, etc. Don’t treat these symptoms with drugs – treat them with water! If you’re well hydrated (see below) and you’ve still got the symptoms then go see a Doctor.

- Drink (33ml x your body weight in kg) of water each day. More if you exercise or drink anything that dehydrates you eg caffeine-containing drinks, alcohol, etc.



3. Adequate Nutrition
- You must eat the right types of healthy carbohydrates, healthy fats, healthy proteins, in a proportion that depends on your ‘metabolic type‘. No one ‘diet’ fits all.

- Adequate nutrition shall be your medicine, as Hippocrates wisely said all those years ago. Nutritional medicine is Preventive Medicine.

- You must also take high quality, comprehensive, complete and balanced nutritional supplements daily, to provide optimal levels of vitamins, minerals, antioxidants for your cells.

- According to 2 reviews published in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) in June 2002, “…it appears prudent for all adults to take nutritional supplements.”

- So start eating a healthy balanced diet according to your Metabolic Type, PLUS take high quality nutritional supplements such as the Essentials made by USANA Health Sciences (Visit the page on ‘Essentials!’ to learn more)

- What constitutes a healthy balanced diet? What are healthy carbs, proteins and fats? Sign up for the FREE Health & Success newsletter at www.doctorkem.com to find out!

- As a participant in The Healthy Lifestyle Project, we work with you to help you optimise your nutrition - you'll get to go through your larder and replace unhealthy, disease-promoting foods with healthy, life promoting ones. What fun! Apply to take part here: www.thehealthylifestyleproject.com - you get FREE consultations (worth £75 - £195) for the entire 3 months, as well as unlimited, FREE email support, and FREE weekly webinar attendance.



4. Adequate Physical Activity and Posture
- You must exercise regularly, and your exercise program must include aerobics, strength training and flexibility exercise.

- At least 30 minutes of aerobic exercise at least 3 times a day, strength training with weights for at least 20 minutes every other day (check out my health blog for pictures of 6 simple strength training exercises you can do at home), stretching for flexibility daily.

- Start today, don’t delay! Discipline will bridge the gap between your dreams and their realisation so get that butt moving!

- You must maintain correct posture at all times as well. Images of examples of good posture are found on my health blog over at www.doctorkem.com.


- The Healthy Lifestyle Project includes 2 powerful exercise resources that empower you to cultivate regular exercise habits at home or at the gym, up to you. You've got no excuse now! Apply to take part here: www.thehealthylifestyleproject.com


5. Adequate Oxygenation
- You must breathe well enough to ensure your cells have enough oxygen for you to function optimally. Many other benefits of being well oxygenated (see FREE newsletter when you sign up!)

- This includes deep breathing exercises and laughter.

- Now you know why laughter is like medicine! So find reasons to laugh each day.

- Do daily deep breathing exercises. An example is described in an earlier post on this blog.



6. Adequate Sunlight
- Vitamin D is now known to do more than just give you strong bones and teeth: it affects the functioning of most every cell in your body, and boosts your immunity, therefore a host of illnesses occur when your levels are lower than normal. Certainly if you feel ‘tired all the time’, get your doctor to add this to the other blood tests they’re doing to see if low levels are contributing to your symptoms.

- Pregnant women also MUST have their Vitamin D levels checked as low levels have not only been associated with hypertension in pregnancy, but are also known to lead to deficiency in the baby, with sometimes serious health consequences for the baby.

- You must ensure you have optimal levels of Vitamin D (ask your doctor to test for ’serum (25, OH) Vitamin D’ levels. If insufficient, order USANA’s Essentials today – the HealthPak alone contains enough vitamin D per serving (2000IU Vit D3) to keep you from having insufficient levels of this important vitamin, and to treat you if you ARE already insufficient or if deficient, order USANA’s Essentials PLUS USANA’s Vitamin D3 supplements, then go have your blood levels tested again after a month on the supps. to make sure they’re improving.)

- It's 'flu season'. One reason why flu and colds are more common in the winter seasons is that there isn't much Vitamin D being made at this time, so you've gotta make sure your levels are optimal, to boost your immunity.

- Again, as a participant of The Healthy Lifestyle Project, this will get checked and optimised for you. Sign up NOW for these FREE sessions www.thehealthylifestyleproject.com


7. Adequate Rest
- You must get enough sleep each night. A lot of your body’s restorative and growth processes take place while you sleep. Certain hormones are released at night while you sleep, to aid in the said processes.

- Just as a point of interest, inadequate sleep has been linked with weight gain…

-’Experts’ seem to agree that 6-7 hours of sleep minimum per night, are enough for most adults.



8. Support: Receive support, Give support
- Studies show that being part of a support system helps you maintain a good habit. Studies also show that people in a stable relationship are generally healthier than those who are not.

-’Support’ could be in form of a spouse/partner, friends, coaching group, Personal coach, church fellowship, etc.

- You must be plugged into a proactively support system if you are to establish, build and maintain 8 strong Pillars for your Healthy Life. Isolation is bad for your health! You’ve got to have at least someone you can confide in and offload/share your burdens with. ‘No man is an island’ may be cliche, but it’s true. We were not created to be loners. And disease (either mental or physical) ALWAYS results when we go against the way God designed us to function, as a general principle…

- You should also seek out ways to be a source of support to others. Give of your time, talents, money, to those in need. This is a powerful therapeutic habit. Volunteering. Certainly does wonders for you if you suffer from depression: it’s hard to feel depressed if you’re focused on others and what you can do for them…(this mindset ties in with the first pillar, however the taking action bit of it is under Pillar 8.). Seek ways to bless others and you too will be blessed: it’s an undeniable and irrefutable spiritual law.

If you find yourself feeling unwell, go through the above 8 pillars and honestly ask yourself where you’ve gone wrong. Contact me if you need help in working through this. Better yet, sign up now for The Healthy Lifestyle Project and you'll be coached to optimal health, for life!

Sign up over at www.thehealthylifestyleproject.com

HOW TO SHRINK YOUR FIBROIDS NATURALLY

I get asked a lot to advice women on how to shrink their fibroids without surgery. So here're my top tips. But first, a bit of background on the issue.


WHAT IS A FIBROID?
A fibroid is a benign (non-deadly) tumour of the smooth muscle cells of your uterus (womb). A woman can have just one or multiple fibroids as you can see in the image below:

Fibroids in multiple locations in the womb...

However the point of this article is not to tell you all about what a fibroid is - the focus is to tell you how to get rid of it without getting rid of your womb!


Symptoms of fibroid include these main ones: (if you have any of these symptoms, see your doctor to make sure there's no other cause for them)
- Heavy periods
- Painful periods
- Pelvic pain
- If large and pressing on your urinary bladder you may experience the feeling of going to pee often, and not emptying your bladder completely


NATURAL WAYS TO SHRINK FIBROIDS
The basis for this is controlling oestrogen levels in your body because one major factor in fibroids is excess oestrogens and oestrogen-like effects. This is why fibroids naturally shrink when a woman reaches the menopause.

Note that the reasons for fibroids in your case may be different for the reasons in another woman, as you will see below from the lists of causes of increased oestrogens. So you'd need to have a discussion with a Healthy Lifestyle Medicine practitioner to ascertain what is the cause in your case, if it's not clear to you after reading this post:


Causes of increased oestrogens
- Stress
- Overweight/obesity
- Contraceptive pills
- Pregnancy

Causes of increased oestrogen effect
- Substances that mimic oestrogens in your body, such as pesticides used in non-organic foods,
- hormones used in non organic beef, poultry, etc.


HOW TO SHRINK YOUR FIBROIDS NATURALLY...
(First make sure your doctor has assessed you to confirm there is no other gynaecological condition you're suffering from, apart from the fibroids).


The 8 Pillars of A Healthy Life (www.doctorkem.com) will guarantee you to be free from symptoms of fibroid, because it takes care of these components:

a) Healthy Liver
This includes avoiding things which not only contain oestrogens, but also things which mimic oestrogens, such as certain toxins (such as the pesticides used in non-organic foods) and pollutants (which is why a healthy liver is essential to your total health: it helps your body get rid of these toxins, thus contributes to shrinking your fibroids if this is the cause in your case.)

Practising the 8 Pillars keeps your liver detoxified. In addition, if you suffer from fibroids, I would recommend that you take a high quality supplement that contains nutrients that support your liver function.


b) Healthy Weight
Excess oestrogens are stored in fat cells. Fibroids have been shown to occur more often in overweight women. If this is the cause for your fibroids, then when you lose weight, your fibroids will shrink.

An overweight body is an unhealthy body. The whole point of The 8 Pillars of a Healthy Life is to empower you to transform your body into a healthy body: weight loss is a 'side effect' of this process.


c) Anti inflammatory state
If your fibroids are due to your being in a hyperinflammatory state (which can be the case if you're, among other things, eating the wrong types of food)…eating naturally anti-inflammatory foods may help, eg purified fish oil capsules, cumin, rosemary, hops, oat.

Certain lifestyle habits keep your body in a hyperinflammatory state. For instance eating a lot of processed foods, eg refined carbohydrates, processed meats, etc contribute to this. Lack of physical activity also contributes to this because then your body is unable to produce the substances that protect you from this effect.


d) Healthy Nutrition
The 4th Pillar.
In addition to the basic healthy nutrition guidelines you follow in The 8 Pillars of A Healthy Life, you need to :Avoid food that has been injected with hormones eg meat, poultry. Eat only organic foods as these are free from pesticides. Include non GM soy isoflavones (about 80mg/day) in your diet. Take complete, balanced, bioavailable, comprehensive, high quality nutritional supplements daily.


e) Stress Management
This is part of the 1st Pillar of A Healthy Life.Stress leads to release of cortisol. Cortisol increases fatty tissues and fat cells. Fat cells store excess oestrogens. Stress management is a way to manage your weight also.


f) Sunshine!
The 6th Pillar of A Healthy Life. Vitamin D has been shown to halt the growth of fibroid cells, which could explain why fibroids are commoner in black women - dark skinned people make less vitamin D and thus have insufficient levels in their bodies for it to do its protective work.

Vitamin D helps your immune system suppress tumour activity. Fibroids are tumours (benign ones)

So take a blood test with your doctor (ask for 'Serum (25,OH) Vitamin D levels) and if your levels are below normal, take a good vitamin D3 supplement at a dose of 2000IU per day.


g) Miscellaneous
Needless to say you must stop smoking and other such unhealthy habits, and keep your alcohol intake to the barest minimum, as these contribute to your worsening fibroids.


You CAN beat this, ladies!
You CAN shrink your fibroid!
You CAN avoid needless surgery!


Give your body a chance to do what it does best: heal and restore itself. However, it can't do this if it is receiving less than optimal treatment from you.


That's why I've written this overview on The 8 Pillars of a Healthy Life to stir you up to treating your body the right way - when you do, your body will reward you with health. No more fibroids!


Here's to your Total Health!


Dr Kem
www.doctorkem.com
www.thehealthylifestyleproject.com

FLU SEASON IS UPON US! HERE'S A SAFER WAY TO BEAT THE FLU!!

The flu season is fast approaching, and it's on everyone's mind how to fight the bug that seems to be so rampant today.

Today's post is about a nutrient which is gaining more prominence as it's numerous roles in keeping you healthy emerge. It's my favourite preventive and possibly curative 'secret' weapon for beating the flu:

Meet the humble vitamin, the sunshine vitamin, Vitamin D. Vitamin D is the 6th Pillar of A Healthy Life. All 8 Pillars must be solid in your life for you to enjoy true health and success in every area of life.





This vitamin is well known for its role in healthy bone development and calcium metabolism. However, for the past 30 years, other roles for Vitamin D have been emerging and some recent, well-conducted studies are coming to the fore now and we now know that:

There is a vitamin D deficiency epidemic worldwide.

This deficiency is worse in the winter months because there's not enough sunlight for our skin to make enough of its own vitamin D.

Vitamin D boosts your immune system and helps it work better.

Most of your cells need adequate levels of Vitamin D to function optimally.

Vitamin D has been shown to be protective against colds and flu when taken in adequate amounts, therefore in winter months, when vitamin D levels are particularly low, colds and flu are more common.

Vitamin D in appropriate levels, is also protective against several forms of cancer: one of its functions is to arrest the multiplication of these abnormal cells in the body.

Vitamin D insufficiency symptoms include, among other things, depression, joint pain, tiredness (which has often been 'diagnosed' as chronic fatigue syndrome or fibromyalgia or 'psychological'), muscle ache, diabetes (Vit D helps regulate insulin activity), osteoporosis, heart disease, some cases of high blood pressure (Vitamin D plays a role in regulating the Renin-Angiotensin pathway). Deficiency causes osteomalacia in adults, rickets in children, and heart failure if severe.

The current recommended daily allowance of 400IU/day is not nearly enough to protect you from the major illnesses and symptoms mentioned above.

The level of Vit D in your blood should be in a range between 75-150nmol/l. (Get your Dr to test your level asap, to know if you need more vit. D).

You need to make sure you are well stocked up on Vitamin D, especially in the winter months. It's been suggested that the reason colds and flu occur more frequently in winter months, is lack of Vitamin D (less sunlight).




Those at most risk of suffering from dangerous Vit D deficiency are:

• Dark skinned people, or people whose clothing covers most of their skin most of the time
• obese people, 
• people suffering from malabsorption syndromes eg coeliac, inflammatory bowel disease,
• the elderly, 
• housebound, 
• excess use of sunscreen.
• Babies of mothers with insufficient levels of vitamin D.

How To Get Enough Vitamin D:
1) Stay out in the sun (sunbathe) for 30 mins each day (this makes your body produce 20,000IU of vitamin D per day.) Clearly not practical though. However, do get as much sun as you can manage. Early morning sunlight is best as that contains mostly the UVB rays which protect you from getting skin cancer, while helping you make Vitamin D.

2) Eat loads of foods containing Vit D. Foods like Oily fish, cod liver oil, egg yolk. The amount in these foods is really minimal. Still won't give you enough per day, but these things all add up and every little counts, so do this as well.


3) Take a high quality Vitamin D3 supplement (there's a cheaper counterpart, Vitamin D2, but this form is less effective so you want to avoid it if possible. Certainly you wish to avoid any Vitamin D plus calcium only combination unless blood tests show your calcium levels to be lower than normal).

This is the most practical way to ensure you are getting the right amount of D3.

But first get your doctor to test your Vitamin D levels by requesting the test called 'Serum (25, OH) Vitamin D).

If blood tests show you have insufficient levels of Vitamin D, you need to take between 2000IU and 5000IU of Vitamin D3 daily and remain on a maintainance of 2000IU when your levels normalise. So you'd need a repeat blood test when you've been on the supplements for at least a month.

If blood tests show you to be Vitamin D deficient, you need to take at least 10,000IU of Vitamin D3 per day, and maintain on 2000IU per day when your levels normalise. So here also you need a repeat blood test after a month on supps.

This may sound like a lot of Vitamin D to be taking, but remember your body can easily make twice that amount just by you sitting out in the sun for 30 minutes.

During flu season, you may, if you were originally insufficient or deficient, need to increase your daily intake to 5000IU per day, then go back down to maintainance doses afterwards. Read on to discover the supplements I trust, use and recommend (highly).

Take home tips:

If you want to win the fight against flu this year, optimise your vitamin D levels.

Get your Dr to request Vitamin D levels for you. Ask for the 'serum 25-OH Vitamin D' blood test. Optimise your intake such that you're well within healthy levels of Vit D. Give your body a fighting chance this flu season! The supplements I use and recommend to friends and family are the ones made by USANA Health Sciences: they're of the highest quality, contain the right amounts in the right proportions and have been independently shown to not only contain what they say they contain in the amount it says on the 'tin', but also that they are bioavailable (available to your cells after you've taken them, which is where they're needed!)

Every adult should be on their Essentials multivitamins, multimineral and antioxidant pack. Their HealthPak contains 'The Essentials' including 2000IU of Vitamin D3 per serving, as well as additional antioxidants. If you are vitamin D insufficient then this is all you need.

They also make Essentials for children and for teenagers so your young ones have the chance to optimise their levels too. Every child should be on the Usanimals (Essentials multivitamin, mineral and antioxidants for children aged 1-12 years old) and every teenager should be on BodyRox (Essentials for teens)

If you are vitamin D deficient then you ALSO need to take their Vitamin D3 tablets (each little tablet contains 2000IU of vitamin D3), to optimise your levels.

Take control of your health! Continue eating your veg and fruit (ratio of 3 veg to 2 fruit, mind you), exercising regularly and applying all the other components of The 8 Pillars of A Healthy Lifestyle (TM).

6 simple strength training exercises

Do these exercises every other day (check with your doctor first before you start any new exercise program).

This series of exercises workout every major muscle group and if you do them consistently, they will help you shed your excess fat FOREVER.


Recommended Reading for men and women:
Strong Women Stay Slim, by Dr Miriam Nelson.





For each exercise below:
- Do 2 sets
- Each set should consist of 8-12 reps.
- Maintain good posture throughout
- Breathe out on exertion
- Move slowly and deliberately to a count of 1-2-3-up, 3-2-1-down.
- Re: dumb bells, start with say a 1kg pair then gradually increase.
Target to aim for depends on your age range, and the specific exercise in question.
You could get a Personal Trainer in the gym to show you or advice you on your specific target.
- If you don't have dumb bells, be creative. A friend of mine used 1.5L bottles of water in each arm (roughly 1.5kg) to start with. Or cans of food. Be creative. Where there's a will there's a way.



1. The Chair Squat

- Aim to just about sit on the chair - without actually sitting on it. This forces your core muscles to hold you steady.
- Slowly 1-2-3-up, 3-2-1-down!
- You will feel the effort in your thighs, buttocks and trunks.



2. The Biceps Curl

- Start with dumb bell weights that are comfortable but challenging for you to use.
- Do this with both arms at the same time.
- You will feel the effort  in your upper arms.
- Slowly now: 1-2-3-up, 3-2-1-down!



3. Overhead Press

- Slowly do it: 1-2-3-up, 3-2-1-down!
- You will feel the effort in your upper arms, shoulders and upper back.



4. Calf Raise

- To make this more challenging for yourself, take your hands off the chair!
- You will feel the effort in your ankles, feet and calves.
-Slowly: 1-2-3-up, 3-2-1-down!


5. Seated Reverse Fly

...or variations of this.
- Slowly: 1-2-3- up!, 3-2-1-down!
- To make it even more challenging, bend your elbows slightly.
- Assuming you're doing aerobics to aid in the fat burning process, this exercise helps strengthen your shoulder muscles, making them also look lovely and shapely.
- You will feel the effort in your shoulders and upper arms.



6. Bent-over Row

- If you can't do this standing up, sit on a chair: sit close to the edge of the chair, bending slightly forwards at the waist, with your back straight, until your chest is just above your thighs.
- Slowly 1-2-3-up, 3-2-1-down!
- You will feel the effort in your upper back, upper arms, shoulders, lower back, abdomen, thights.



ALWAYS MAINTAIN GOOD POSTURE THROUGHOUT.

Strength training will also help you develop good posture as your muscles become stronger and more toned.

The Healthy Lifestyle Seminar: October 30, 2010!

The Healthy Lifestyle Seminar:

October 30, 2010
Come get equipped to take your health to the next level!

DR. KEM'S
HEALTHY LIFESTYLE SEMINAR:
Empowering YOU To Take Control Of Your Life!
"Don't leave your health to chance - come and discover the practical, no-nonsense principles you must apply to enjoy a life free from chronic degenerative illnesses, free from the influences of 'Big Pharma' and the 'Processed food industry'! "

The Problem:

Studies repeatedly show that certain conditions are 100% preventable and 100% reversible with healthy lifestyle habits.

Most days at the surgery, GPs are faced with patients suffering from chronic degenerative diseases, which cause a lot of distress to patients, and which can successfully be managed by healthy lifestyle changes. However, GPs have very little time with each patient so often have to resort to 'quick fix medicine' - pills, pills, pills.

Many people do not like taking pills, and would rather be (empowered, by being...) shown what they can do themselves, to improve their health, with support while they make the necessary changes.

These chronic degenerative conditions greatly affect the quality of life of the people suffering from them. They include conditions such as:

• Overweight and Obesity
• High blood pressure (hypertension)
• Type 2 diabetes mellitus
• High Cholesterol (non-familial type)
• Tired all the time
• Some forms of arthritis
• The so-called  'syndrome X', which affects 1 in 4 people especially in the western world, and which is ENTIRELY reversible and preventable: (raised triglycerides, reduced HDL -the 'good cholesterol', truncal obesity aka belly fat, polycystic ovarian syndrome, diabetes, hypertension)
  

Very often you go to the doctor and face frustrations such as:

• You're handed down a bunch of pills to 'control the symptoms'
• They're too busy to talk with you and understand what is really going on with you (not their fault really - they've got only 10 minutes per patient!)
• You suffer from side effects from all the pills you're taking so you're given more pills to control those side effects!
• You're not feeling right yet all blood tests are normal.
• You're tired all the time yet all blood tests are normal, so you're told nothing is wrong.
• Feeling like you've not been heard when you talk about your health concerns. You feel rushed out of the doctor's surgery and 'fobbed off'.
• Feeling unsupported by 'the system'
  

Or if weight is your issue see if you can relate:

• You've tried various 'diets' and perhaps lost weight but it comes right back. I've had lots of patients reel off lists of 'programs' they've been on, which have not helped them - weight watchers, slimming world, diet chef, you name it, I see them at the surgery, having not achieved true health or lasting weight loss, with these 'diets'. After analysing their food and activity diary it becomes crystal clear why these programs don't, and can't work, in the long term, to prevent the chronic illnesses mentioned above.
  
  
• You are too busy to exercise or prepare healthy meals.
  
  
• You're confused with all the information out there on what to eat and what to do to stay healthy- who can you trust? What do you believe?
  
  
• Your self confidence is suffering because of your size (over weight or under weight).

Currently there has not been any program available to empower individuals with TRUE information (based on the unchanging fact about the way your body really works) and SUPPORT to help each person make changes to their lifestyles and stick to them...until NOW, that is!

If you can relate to any of the above, or you know someone who can relate to any of the above, then you cannot afford to miss this Powerful New Seminar taking place on the 30th of October 2010 at the Holiday Inn (London-Elstree M25 Jct 23).


Introducing.....Dr Kem's Healthy Lifestyle Seminar.

Just Who Is Dr Kem Anyway?

• A Multi-distinction and Multi-award winning medical Graduate, currently working in a GP Surgery in North London
  
• A Professionally qualified Performance Coach with a passion for healthy lifestyle as a form of preventing and treating disease, peak performance and women's issues.
  
  
• An accomplished writer and published Author
  
• A Speaker, Trainer and Consultant
  
• Former University Lecturer (Biochemistry and Physiology - undergraduate medical students). This role re-opened Dr Kem's eyes and mind to the fact that most every disease condition stems from a deviation from the normal biochemistry and physiology of the body - which imbalance can be restored with a Healthy Lifestyle!
  
  
• A Mom - her most fulfilling role yet.
  

Why This Seminar?

• The content of this program was borne out of Dr Kem's passion for health, fitness and wellness, her (increasing base of) medical knowledge and her work at the practice in London, where she has helped many patients improve their conditions without prescription medication, but by patiently helping each one change their lifestyle habits into healthy ones that cause their bodies to reverse from disease to health.
  
  
• Part of Dr Kem's work with patients involves careful assessment and analysis of each person's current state, education about what is wrong with what they're currently doing, and what they need to do differently.
  
  
• From working with hundreds of patients over the past year it became clear to Dr Kem that there is a lot of misinformation out there. For instance, many people think they're eating right but wonder why their blood sugar, cholesterol or blood pressure remain high, or why they don't shed any extra fat.
  
  
• This seminar is designed to equip you with the practical information and resources that can help you get on track, get proactive and make lasting changes to your health.
  
  
• It is produced in collaboration with the fabulous Edith 'Entrepreneur Coach' Okadigwe of Living Foundations Entrepreneur Coaching fame (http://www.entrepreneurcoach.org.uk/).
  

What You Will Get From This Seminar: The 8 Pillars of A Healthy Lifestyle revealing:

• What the real connection is between your state of mind and your physical health and why 'mind over matter' is not just a bunch of jargon.!
  
  
• Nutrition, exercise - how it all fits together to keep you healthy!
  
  
• The one test you MUST ask your doctor to request for you as soon as possible, and why!
  
  
• The one beverage you MUST ensure you get adequate amounts of DAILY if you wish to be healthy!
  
  
• The three components of ANY exercise program you undertake and why you MUST include all three regularly!
  
  
• Why 'Beauty Sleep' may not be 'just a myth'!
  
  
• The truth about what you REALLY need to be eating for health (hint: no such thing as 'one diet fits all')!
  
  
• One vital element that any health program worth its salt MUST contain!
  
  
• Value packed health information nuggets from other Health Professionals!
  
  
• Lots more!

What Are The Details for This Seminar?

• Venue: Holiday Inn London-Elstree M25 Jct 23 (on the A1: Barnet Bypass, Borehamwood WD6 5PU)
  
• Date: Saturday October 30, 2010
• Time: 11am to 4pm
• Price: £40 (non-business owners), £50 (business owners - details at www.healthylifestyleseminar.co.uk)
• Book NOW to avoid disappointment!
• Limited spaces so places are booked on a strictly first-come, first serve basis. No exceptions.
  

What To Do Now? Book Your Place NOW, that's what!!

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If you're a business owner, please visit the 'Business' page over at www.healthylifestyleseminar.co.uk for informaiton on how to register: we have only 10 tables available for business owners to display goods and services, and can only accept one table per industry so ACT NOW!