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The Body For The Ages Wellness Philosophy stresses “eating more, not less” for weight loss or weight maintenance. How can we eat more and still lose weight? By eating smart. When we pay close attention to where our calories come from, we are better able to control our caloric intake.
For example, fats have twice the calories of proteins. So if we are filling up on fats, we’re getting, well fat. If we’re filling up on protein, we can eat twice as much, with the same caloric intake. It seems simple, and it is! The real trick is to remember it, and apply it in our daily diets. For more info on The Body For The Ages system of Delectable Basic Nutrition, visit www.bodyfortheages.com. Here’s more from Pax Beale, regarding proteins vs. fats:
PROTEIN FOR WEIGHT LOSS
There is no shortcut to weight loss other than consuming fewer calories than you use or burn in your daily activities. This law of science applies whether you are a sedentary person, an active bodybuilder, or someone who exercises moderately. The key is to burn more calories than you consume, and the perfect protein profile containing soy helps, as we’ll explain momentarily. So does using the right strategy in balancing your consumption from the three food categories, i.e., fat, protein and carbohydrates.
Obviously, in eating a volume of food to feel full or satisfied, a high protein diet as opposed to a high fat diet will get you feeling full sooner with less calories consumed. By now, you know protein has less than 50 percent the calories of fat – per gram, per pound, or whatever measure you choose. So remember that if you get nine calories per gram of fatcompared to only four calories per gram of protein, it’s obvious you’ll get more than twice the calories per volume of food when you consume fat versus protein. Fat becomes your ticket to obesity, protein your path to becoming a lean machine.
Build up your body’s muscle, and you will become a better fat-burning machine with a greater chance of meeting yourweight-loss goals. The mere presence of muscle makes the body a better fat burner.
We all require a certain amount of food to feel full. The body demands it. The additional protein and also complex carbs you consume, as opposed to fat, will not only get you into that state faster, but at less than half the calories. The net effect can be a weight loss.
Lastly, our patented protein formulas contain soy, and there are studies showing that soy protein isolate in particular may inherently assist people in losing body fat. I’ve never scientifically done studies on that claim as I have on other claims. However, when you consider that soy may help reduce nitrogen loss (nitrogen is mandatory for muscle-building), you can see why this could be a factor in the weight-loss picture.
You ladies get an added bonus and should be ecstatic because the lab tests involving soy protein on female lab animals reflected an actual weight loss. Maybe you want to look like a champion bodybuilder, maybe you don’t. Your weight lossdestination should involve your wanting to get muscle definition, increase muscle size and decrease fat, all those things that make you feel and look really good, besides having a healthy heart. Not only is your workout important, but so is your total weight-loss program, including your scientific nutritional supplement regimen. Don’t waste a good workout.
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It’s easy to slip-up, when it comes to maintaining a healthy weight.
Pax Beale, founder of the Body For The Ages Philosophy, says, “Failure isn’t trying and failing. Failure is when you don’t try again, afterwards.”
To find out more about the Body For The Ages lifestyle, go here: www.bodyfortheages.org
Here are some tips from Medicine.net to avoid (or compensate for) nutrition slip-ups:
Practice Awareness:
- Be conscious of what you eat and how much, says Karmeen Kulkarni, MS,RD, BC-ADM, CDE, president of health care and education for the American Diabetes Association. Allow yourself some special treats, but have moderate servings. When there’s a lot of food available, try an appetizer-sized helping of each dish instead of dishing up a full serving.
- “…Be realistic,” says Schmid, noting that social get-togethers are not the best time to think about weight loss. She recommends trying to maintain weight instead of lose it, during times when extra treats are around.
- “Allow [some treats] for the special days, but then get back into your healthy routine the next day.”
- Always look for opportunities to move, says Bryant. For example, take a brisk walk whenever you get a few minutes; stand up and move around while you’re on the phone call; and walk to a co-worker’s desk instead of emailing him or her.
Until next time, wishing you health and happiness!
-Melissa Chandler, Body For The Ages Blogger
Weight-resistance training is the only way to truly sculpt our bodies. Cardio (such as jogging) is great for staying in shape, but when it comes to staying in shape and taking charge of the way our bodies look, weight-resistance training is the greater payoff.
Especially as we get older, we need to maintain muscle tone, which is essential for such basic things as holding our abdomens and backs in place. If we lose too much muscle tone, we may suffer in big ways, down the road.
EMedicineHealth.com has some good points about why we need weight-resistance training more than ever:
“The benefits of resistance exercise are well documented, and ongoing research continues to prove that it’s an important activity for Americans to be engaged in. Long ago in hunter-gatherer societies, humans’ muscles got a workout by building shelter, hunting, farming, and all the other manual chores necessary to live. Today, however, we have engineered inactivity into our lives with labor-saving devices to the extent that our muscles rarely need to be pushed very hard. We don’t rake leaves or cut grass or shovel snow by hand; we don’t climb stairs or even walk in airports (people movers do it for us!); we don’t wash our clothes or our dishes or even push a vacuum by hand (Have you seen the robotic vacuum Roomba?), and we spend more and more time in front of our computers and televisions than we do outdoors raking leaves, playing touch football, baseball, soccer, hiking, or participating in any other recreational activities. Research shows that physical inactivity is the second leading preventable cause of death in the United States, and it’s literally killing us.”
Read more: http://www.emedicinehealth.com/strength_training/page3_em.htm#resistance
Body For The Ages is here to help you take charge of your health, and meet your wellness, fitness, and anti-aging goals.Check out our San Francisco Health Center at 1801 Bush Street. It may be just the place you need, to escape from daily stresses, and dedicate a bit of your day to better health, and a better future!
More info here:
http://www.bodyfortheages.com/bfta-health-center.php
Until next time, enjoy good health!
-Melissa Chandler, Body For The Ages Blogger
A bit of trivia:
Who eats more: lean people or overweight people?
The answer may surprise you.
In his book, Body For The Ages: From Heart Surgery to Bodybuilding Champion, Pax reveals a study that showed, on a per-capita basis, the average lean person actually eats more than the average overweight person!
Doesn’t make sense? Well, maybe it does, when you think about it.
Lean people, on average, have simply discovered how to eat and exercise in a way that balances their metabolism to prevent weight gain. Add to this fact that most overweight people exercise less than lean people, and it all adds up.
We all know that exercising is one of the main factors when it comes to maintaining a healthy weight, but we sometimes tend to forget that exercise gives us a license to enjoy eating without depriving ourselves.
Find out more about the logic (and fun!) of exercise and enjoying delectable eating habits, in Pax’s book, available here:http://www.bodyfortheages.com/book.php
Also, for some other little-known secrets about staying thin that just may surprise you, check out this AARP article:http://www.aarpmagazine.org/health/stay_thin.html
Until next time, enjoy good health!
Melissa Chandler
Body For The Ages Blogger
Exercise takes time. Not only the amount of time spent engaging in the exercise itself, but preparation as well, and even the energy spent on mentally drumming up the motivation to set aside that time!
When it comes to having a healthy heart (the foremost mission of the Body For The Ages Online Wellness Program), how many minutes per day do we really need to be spending on exercise? The answer brings both good and bad news:
According to an intensive study done at the Institute of Medicine, we should be exercising for about an hour every day, for optimal heart health.
Reports Richard N. Fogoros, M.D. for About.com, “
“This [Institute of Medicine] report is a comprehensive synthesis of what is known and unknown today about optimizing our caloric intake (carbohydrates, fat, protein, etc.) and our output (physical activity) in order to maintain an advisableweight, a favorable body composition (i.e., proportion of muscle to fat), and cardiovascular health.” Read more here: http://heartdisease.about.com/cs/exercise/a/enoughexercise.htm
Are they kidding? Who has that kind of time? (Those are the first questions that come to mind, for many of us.)
But if we’re being honest? Well, most of us have that kind of time…at some part of the day. It’s a matter of priority andmotivation, no? Maybe the answer to the struggle of setting aside an hour a day is having a place that nourishes this time we’re choosing to dedicate to our health – a place that’s a haven for an hour well spent. A place with no distractions.
Body For The Ages Health Center, located in a historical landmark San Francisco building in Pacific Heights is just this kind of haven. My membership brings the peace of mind that comes with knowing that the hour I’m committing to my healthyheart is an hour cradled in one of San Francisco’s most serene, sophisticated, and soothing centers for health andwellness.
Best of all, Body For The Ages Health Center offers free tours and brief assessments for those who may be interested in making it their workout location. Learn more here: http://www.bodyfortheages.com/bfta-health-center.php
And if you’re leaving this page with a bad taste in your mouth from that one-hour exercise mandate, cheer up. If you simply can’t set aside that kind of time, here’s some very good news from Dr. Fogoros:
“More than 40 studies in the scientific literature document that cardiac risk can be reduced by 30 - 50% by regular, moderate exercise - exercise averaging far less than one hour per day. Indeed, on September 5, the very day the Institute of Medicine report was released, yet another major article appeared in the New England Journal of Medicineshowing that, among 73,743 women followed for a number of years, those who reported walking at least 2.5 hours a week (roughly 20 minutes a day) reduced their cardiovascular risk by 30%. Women who exercised more than this reduced their risk even more, but the point is that 20 minutes a day was enough to gain a substantial improvement in cardiac risk. This study is consistent with a large body of medical literature.”
That’s it for now. Maybe I’ll see you soon at the Body For The Ages Health Center!
-Melissa
Body For The Ages Blogger
While most of us mean well when it comes to eating a good breakfast, it’s often easier said than done. Tight schedules, kids, and even exercise can end up taking priority over the most important meal of the day. Add a vegetarian diet to the mix, and finding the perfect combination of protein and carbohydrates your body needs, is even more of a challenging task.
Morning is the time when your body needs a major kickstart, and if you deny your body the nutrients it needs to begin the day, you’ll experience significantly lower energy, decreased mental function, and most likely your mood will suffer as well.
We’ve all heard the above advice time and again, but let’s take a look at what we can do about making it as simple as possible to follow.
CNN.com’s diet and fitness expert, Dr. Melina Jampolis has a tasty tip:
“I sometimes find that my patients get hungry if they eat oatmeal alone so I recommend making it with a little extra water and adding a scoop of protein powder to protein fortify the oatmeal. I prefer whey protein but other types ofprotein work well, too. If you want to boost the healthy value even more, add a tablespoon or two of chopped nuts for extra nutrients, fiber and heart healthy monounsaturated fat.” Read more at: www.cnn.com/2009/HEALTH/expert.q.a/12/18/nutritious.breakfast.jampolis/index.html
Protein powders, like Body For The Ages’ CardioSoy (check it out here: http://www.bodyfortheages.com/cardio-soy.php)can be perfectly partnered with your morning carbs, to bring you the complete set of nutrients your body needs. (Many people assume that a banana alone is a healthy breakfast, but a banana is only half of what you need. A banana is a burst of carbs, good for short-term energy, but your body needs protein combined with the carbs, especially early on in the day. This brings you the all the nutrition you need, and also insures that you’ll be satisfied until your next meal, and won’t be tempted to snack.
For added protection in your wellness and fitness pursuits, check out the Pyruvate that allowed Body For The Agesfounder Pax Beale to beat his heart disease and live to become a Bay Area wellness guru:http://www.bodyfortheages.com/cardio-makeover.php
CardioSoy’s ease and convenience is especially helpful to vegetarians, who often have to spend extra time finding ways to satisfy their body’s protein requirements. However, it’s also essential for those who are putting in more training hours than usual during the week. If you’re too lax about your protein intake, or find that you’ve let yourself become distracted from delivering your body the protein it needs, you’ll see the direct effects of this deficiency: Low energy, muscleweakness, and even shortness of breath.
Body For The Ages’ CardioSoy can be used as a spread over pancakes and toast, blended into a shake, or stirred into a pudding-like consistency. It’s not the only way for you to fulfill your body’s daily protein requirements, but without a doubt, it’s a quick, healthy, easy, and delicious way!
The holiday season proves to be a challenging chapter of the year. With over booked schedules, non-stop holiday parties, and pastries at every turn, it’s no wonder people are stressed out and gaining weight!
According to a study published in the US National Library of Medicine, the average weight gained during the holidayseason by Americans is 1lb. Not so bad. However, it is a pound that you will never loose! After thirty five years of indulging in the holiday junk food-a-thon, it’s no wonder the mid-section tends to grow! A second study published a year later showed that obese people gain on average 5lbs! So how do we enjoy the festivities and keep the weight down?
According to an article posted on WebMD, the food choices we make are connected to our emotional state. Our emotional state has a huge influence on what kind of food we decide to eat and how much. If a person is exercising daily and feeling strong, he/she is less likely to over eat. Regular exercise keeps the stress down and the weight off!
Review additional suggestions at WebMD about keeping healthy during the holiday seasons here: WebMD
Balance is the key to a healthy lifestyle and healthy eating habits. At Body for the Ages, we believe in our onlineWellness Program which delivers the support and encouragement you need in order to create a healthy balance in your life! The online Wellness Program offers an individually tailored plan to each unique person. Pax Beale, founder of Body for the Ages, believes that with proper nutrition, exercise and supplementation, each person has the potential to live their genetic lifespan!
To read more about the Body for the Ages online Wellness program, go to: www.bodyfortheages.org.
Be Well!!
Donnamarie Alesia
Body For the Ages Blogger
After a stressful day, most of us just want to relax, and getting exercise may be the last thing on our list of priorities. However, research is increasingly proving that exercise is just what we need to significantly decrease daily stress and anxiety.
From a Mayo Clinic staff study, “Exercise helps prevent and improve a number of health problems, including high blood pressure, diabetes and arthritis. Research on anxiety, depression and exercise shows that the psychological and physical benefits of exercise can also help reduce anxiety and improve mood.”
How does it work? In a variety of ways:
Chemical: Exercise releases “feel good” chemicals in your brain. You may have heard of the “runner’s high”. Well, it’s not just a ploy to get you to exercise! Physical activity releases endorphins, which deliver a mood lift to your body and mind.
Healthy Choices: Beyond chemical stimulation, exercise most often makes you feel good about your choices. When you’re confident that you’re improving your health, you’ll increase your overall confidence.
Distraction: Exercise can be an opportunity to step away from the worries of the day, and spend time by yourself, focusing on your body, and letting stress take a back seat for a while. That’s a daily prescription we could all use!
Read more of what the Mayo Clinic has to say regarding exercise and anxiety here:
http://www.mayoclinic.com/health/depression-and-exercise/MH00043
And go here to read about how the Body For The Ages Online Wellness Program can deliver an exercise, health, andwellness program tailored to your specific needs:
www.BodyForTheAgesNonprofit.org
-Melissa Chandler, Body For The Ages Blogger
Eating Your Way to a Lower Blood Pressure
Dr. Maoshing Ni (Dr. Mao), a Yahoo.com health expert for alternative medicine has tips for what to eat (and what not to eat), when it comes to maintaining a healthy blood pressure level.
It just may turn out that your favorite foods are working wonders for your health and wellness, in more ways than you realize.
Dr. Mao’s cuisine recommendations include fish, cucumbers, and olive oil, for their valuable effects on your circulatory andheart health.
Foods that may raise your blood pressure include salt, refined sugar, and alcohol. Though it’s okay to enjoy these items in moderation, it’s smart to get in the habit of substituting with spices, honey, and plenty of hydrating beverages, such as sparkling water.
Read more of Dr. Mao’s insights here: http://health.yahoo.com/experts/drmao/19535/10-best-and-worst-foods-for-blood-pressure/
Enjoy your favorites, and try some new recipes, but keep in mind that eating healthy is one of the surest paths to increased health and wellness.
As a Member of the Body For The Ages Online Wellness Program, you’ll receive a personalized nutrition plan, based on your unique lifestyle preferences and dietary needs.
Learn more about your personalized Online Wellness Program here:
www.BodyForTheAgesNonprofit.org
Melissa Chandler Body For The Ages Blogger
Turning Back the Clock
If you’ve reached middle age and your health habits are less than desirable, don’t give up hope. Making a change at this stage of life will yield significant results, and set you on your way to an improved quality of life now, and in your senior years.
Dr. Dana King, a University of South Carolina professor of medicine, is part of a research team whose findings indicate that changing lifelong unhealthy habits in middle age may yield you a longer life.
“It’s not too late,” says Dr. King. “If you make [healthy] changes now, it has a tremendous impact.”
Dr. King and his team colleagues looked at four healthy habits in over 16,000 people between 45 and 64 years of age. Here are the categories they evaluated: eating five or more servings of fruits and vegetables a day, 2.5 hours or more ofexercise per week, a healthy weight level, and not smoking.
Dr. King’s research team found that the people who adhered to the four healthy habits were “40 percent less likely to die and 35 percent less likely to suffer heart problems than those who did not adopt the beneficial habits.”
Read more about the findings here: http://abcnews.go.com/Health/Healthday/story?id=5314059&page=1
Body For The Ages is committed to helping you make the health changes necessary for you to enjoy a vastly improvedquality of life for years to come.
By becoming a Body For The Ages Member, and participating in the Body For The Ages Online Wellness Program, you’ll be assigned your own personal coach via the web. Your personal coach will create a wellness program tailored to your specific needs, and walk you through workouts, nutrition, supplements, and most of all, be a knowledgeable and dependable motivating force, as you reclaim your health.
Visit http://www.bodyfortheages.org/, for details on our Wellness Program, and how to become a Team Body For The Ages Member. Join now. Body For The Ages is here to help you turn back the clock.
Melissa Chandler
Have you been meaning to drop those extra pounds?
Whatever your reason, be it aesthetics, athleticism, or heart health, health problem prevention, there’s never been a better time to do it than now.
According to a National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey, two thirds of adults in the United States are overweight, and about one third are obese. http://win.niddk.nih.gov/statistics/
Extra weight plays a contributing factor in numerous health problems. A report recently released from our nation’s capital states that more than 100,000 cases of cancer each year are caused by excess body fat. Read more here:http://www.cnn.com/2009/HEALTH/11/05/obesity.cancer.link/index.html
Weight Loss is not easy, and it takes commitment. But we all know that commitment will pay off, when we see that we’re increasing our extra energy and self-esteem, along with decreasing our health concerns.
Your time is valuable, and the Body For The Ages Online Wellness Program will show you how to make it count, with funworkouts, wellness tips and anti-aging tips, valuable advice from our very own Panel of Experts, and an online personal trainer available for guidance 365 days a year.
Are you ready to commit to your health and happiness? It’s the best investment you’ll ever make.
Go to www.BodyForTheAgesNonprofit.org, get your four free gifts, and become part of the Body For The Ages Team.
Melissa Chandler Body For The Ages Blogger
Are you self-conscious about going to the gym?
Check out this quote from the Apria Healthcare website:
“In today’s weight room, you’re as likely to see a grandmother working her glutes as a quarterback working his quads, now that resistance exercise is recognized as vital to building strong muscles and bones.”
Read more here: http://www.apria.com/channels/1,2748,94-193,00.html
Pax’s Prescription Method of Training will show you how weight-resistance training will not only strengthen your muscles, but your heart as well.
Pax didn’t just treat his heart disease – he reversed it. Now his passion is to show others how to do the same. Why? Because it’s completely unnecessary that 50% of people die from Heart Disease or heart related illnesses. Body For The Ages seeks to eliminate this insidious statistic.
Read Pax’s story at www.BodyForTheAges.com. He’s living proof that you can take control of your health, beat heart risks, and have fun in the process.
Until Next Time,
Melissa Chandler Body For The Ages Blogger
Hey there Folks,
This is pretty helpful for anyone looking for some background information on the practice of anti-aging and exceeding the average human lifespan: Wiki - Anti-Aging.
We at BODY FOR THE AGES place an emphasis on anti-aging through preventative and rehabilitative Heart Health. We do this utilizing a more holistic / fitness regiment [concentrating on Heart Health and fighting Heart Disease], as opposed to some of the more scientific perspectives that are discussed in this Wiki page.
However we do implement the power of Pyruvate and Protein supplementation, found as a portion of our Online Wellness Program, you may visit us there to learn more about our Nonprofit mission or for direct access visit us at our retail Online Store now offering a 2 for 1 special on Pyruvate and 2 for 1Protein !! Visit and learn how Pyruvate can help you prevent Heart Risks.
until next time,
Team Body For the Ages
Hello Wellness Nuts -
I recently came accross an article that powerfully endorses what we’re doing here at Body For the Ages Nonprofit to fightHeart Disease with our Online Wellness Program.
This article featured on Worldhealth.net, discusses the beneficial factors in total body physiology that one can achieve through exercise / fitness.
Although the article grasps the general notion around our program, it still only scratches the surface of our specific regiment. Our Nonprofit’s founder, Pax Beale, defeated Heart Disease through a combined commitment to Delectable Nutrition, the Benefits of our patented Pyruvate, and Weight Resistance Training.
Weight Resistence training differs from other forms of aerobic or cardio exercise due to its impact on blood-pressure; in conjunction with the supplementation of Pyruvate (believed by researchers to have strong benefits for the Heart), aids the creation of a sysnergistic rehabilitation for the cardio-vascular system and better positions one to live to their Maximum Genetic Lifespan!
To learn more about Pax’s story view the video below and visit us at Body For the Ages Nonprofit!
YOUTUBE VIDEO - Pax Beale: Heart Expert
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Category: Uncategorized — Carini @ 1:13 pm
We’d like to know if you have tried out our CardioSoy Protein Powder, and what feedback you can give us. We have 2 flavors: Vanilla Ecstasy & Chocolate Decadence for shakes, pancake syrup, or a pudding consistency. Rated #1 in taste in scientific-double-blind tests!
Which one do you prefer?
Body for the Ages CardioSoy Protein scientifically combines soy with other proteins and select amino acids to yield a World Health Organization score over 25% higher than whey, and incredibly, even higher than mother’s milk!
Category: Uncategorized — michelle @ 5:30 pm
We already have government healthcare for the poor, and the elderly through Medicaid and Medicare… and it’s putting the hospitals with the greatest number of older and ultra-low income patients out of business, because the government only reimburses cost. Automatically, this means private insurance and Blue Cross patients must be overcharged, in order for the hospitals to survive. (Note: Blue Cross is now known as Anthem.)
America had better wake up, because private insurance and Blue Cross patients are overcharged, paying for the elderly and low income Medicare and Medicaid patients.
I owned two acute hospitals, and filed for Medicare and Medicaid reimbursement from the government for a third of a century. Bottom line is that a hospital without a substantial number of private insurance and Blue Cross patients must short-change quality of care, or go bankrupt, because of the burden of reimbursement at cost for Medicare and Medicaid hospital patients. You must make a profit to survive, and the government is not letting hospitals do that. It is unfair to compensate for this by overcharging the private insurance and Blue Cross patients.
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Category: Uncategorized — michelle @ 5:07 pm
A potential solution to the problem of hospitals receiving low medicare reimbursement in low income areas would be fundraising. Here again they are at a disadvantage, due to the fact they have fewer wealthy people as a source for fund raising. Thus the low income hospital loses two ways: First, they have fewer private patients in order to make a profit, and fund raising opportunities are less because of the population they serve.
Bottom line, the private patient has to be overcharged in order to create a decent profit.
With universal health care, which Obama favors, there will be no more private patients. Therefore, who is left to “screw”, in order to make universal health care an economic success.
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Category: Uncategorized — michelle @ 4:42 pmSome thoughts on non-profits
We have to assume all corporations, including non-profit corporations, have to make a profit to survive…but the Government for medicare and medicade only reimburse hospitals at cost. That means all profit comes from Blue Cross and private insurance patients. If the hospital is located in a poor district they would have fewer private patients and more government patients. Therefore, hospitals in low income areas find it more difficult to survive and a shortage of funds can impact their quality of care.
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By Michelle Roads
The following may shock you. Some of the big non-profits that are household names, make a lot of noise and do very little. Many are just fund raising machines.
Yes, there is some merit to creating public awareness to certain medical problems. But creating awareness as opposed to doing something about problems and implementing a solution, are two different things.
Many have staggering overheads to create fund raising. Thus, your donated dollar will be spent for such costs, in order to perpetuate more fund raising rather than to show the public how to solve a problem. Some of the biggest non-profits, names purposely not mentioned, but logic tells you who they are, are classic examples. In donating your dollar, you want to feel it goes to an entity that actually implements programs.
Great non-profits are Big Brothers/Sisters and AA. Proudly I include Body For The Ages Non Profit –we don’t just talk the talk, we walk the walk. Our targets are to build a body of your dreams, guaranteed weight loss and heart health…all with the mission to live your life to its maximum genetic lifespan.
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A recent article in the New York Times (http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/12/health/12heart.html?bl&ex=1227070800&en=0fd3c2f76367617a&ei=5087%0A) got me thinking. We target the 40-60 crowd here at Body for the Ages. Are we focusing on the wrong group? Don’t children need the help more?
The thing is, we teach our children through our example. If we let it be OK for us to be dangerously overweight, we demonstrate to our children that it’s OK for them too. If we constantly reach for the cookie over the celery, we tell our children it is OK for them too. If we spend every afternoon on the couch, we tell our children that’s OK for them too.
If we die early from heart disease, is that one lesson enough to undo all the others? Maybe. But why bet a child’s life on it?
The great thing about our example is that it works in all directions. If we turn around ourselves, we show our kids that they can do. That’s one of the great things about Pax, he shows that you can come back from nearly being dead to become National Bodybuilding Champion. It’s one of the great things about the President-Elect, he shows that any child can grow up to be president.
And that’s what you got to be for your kids. You got to be the example that anybody can get fit. That anybody can achieve the body of their dreams, and reduce their heart risks in the process.
And we will help you do it. Join us here.
Here is a secret you may not want to know about. You obviously can accelerate muscle growth through the use of anabolic steroids, human growth hormone, insulin, or a combination thereof. So far, that’s good if you aren’t afraid of drugs, and the fear of the gendarmes arresting you.
However, the secret that you should know about to offset more rapid muscle growth, is that men’s testicles shrink up and become non-functional, while the individual is taking the anabolic steroid. Usually the testicles will become active again, but after cessation from anabolic steroids, there is a window of time before your natural body’s ability to produce semen and generate erections. The reason is that the body will become reliant on the anabolic steroid to produce semen, and the male’s testicles got lazy and became inactive.
I will share some negative secrets with you women. Yes, the drugs I referenced will reduce fat and increase muscle mass, and shape your body moderately or to the extreme. An anabolic steroid is synthetic testosterone, or male hormone. So, you women should think twice before using an anabolic steroid. Here is a real Insider Pro Secret: you women will suddenly get a lowered voice, like a male. A little more aggravating, but not quite so obvious to the world at large, you will get hair on your nipples, and your clitoris will become oversized.
So, there are some positive secrets, and some negative secrets.
“Pax, why isn’t the scientific Body For The Ages Online Wellness “type” Program common knowledge?”
That is a question I hear all the time.
It’s simple. No one has created a program based on a synergistic effect, like the Body For The Ages Online WellnessProgram: bringing together cardiology, exercise physiology, kinesiology, nutrition, pharmacology, and a programmedtotal commitment type of effort based on psychology…and delivered collectively and concurrently under one “umbrella” for the good of the patient.
The Body For The Ages Online Wellness Program relies on a synergistic affect: Best described as 1+1=3.
I’ve been in the medical profession for a third of a century, and I’ve never (not once) seen or heard of a meeting, where all these disciplines were brought together under one roof to collectively (and Synergistically) coordinate a wellnessprogram for patients, Never!
The Body For The Ages Wellness Program reverses that non-functional professional format of only “my profession, or no profession”, which yields sub-par healthcare.
You see our health care is not a dysfunctional system. It’s worse. It’s a non-system.
I used to think that I was quite fit, afterall I am a great gardener, played tennis for 40 years and could beat just about anybdy at the Club, in doubles! Also I used to snack on doughnuts and other bad foods just to feel better, and the pounds crept on. But now, after becoming a member of Body For The Ages and having the awesome inspiration Pax Beale and using his method of Weight Resistance Training I no longer snack mindlessly on ‘comfort’ foods and really know now what great fitness and real weight loss feel like. It feels great! I workout regularly, eat well and have taken off 26 lbs. Since this is the only body I am going to have I have decided to love it and the fact my friends tell me how great I look helps.
So living well is the best revenge at any age and I am 82. I have always had a gym to work out in , but now. I have the most important ingredient - Motivation! Make the commitment!!
Weight training is more art than science. Aerobics is no more than putting one foot in front of the other to make certain you don’t fall on your face. To ensure maximum exposure to the art of building a body of your dreams, change trainers periodically. No one trainer has all the knowledge of the sport’s infinite number of techniques.
Having been active in the field of medicine for a third of a century, I can tell you the art of weight training is not commonly known to medical professionals. To exacerbate the problem, most know not, that they know not.
If you are rehabilitating from a medical condition or physical injury, consider the following. You are not interested so much in how a muscle works, but how to work the muscle. At BackPax (”peaceful backs” in Latin) Medical Center, the medically-oriented back rehabilitation clinic I founded, we gave up on physical therapists and instead hired registered nurses and nurse practitioners. Not only were these nurse professionals more open to creative ideas about rehabilitation, they were generally more involved in their own back health and general fitness programs.
The nursing profession couldn’t be better represented by anyone other than my colleague, best friend, tower of power, and wife, Sophie “Super Soph” Taggart…Ms. America, Ms. World and Ms. Universe. I think if you looked up “commitment” in the dictionary you would see her picture. Yeah, I’m biased, but the credentials and the body warrants it. Actually, “Super Soph” is a step above the level of a registered nurse, as she is a registered nurse practitioner. The latter in many cases can prescribe drugs and diagnose medical problems, just like a licensed medical doctor, while the more common registered nurse does not have those options.
The typical physical therapists’ inherent deficiency, besides not knowing the art of the game, was that they wanted to control you, rather than train you. This is a sensitive area with me. When I scanned client results at BackPax I found, without exception, that individuals who were allowed to take responsibility for their own rehabilitation garnered infinitely superior results.
For some inexplicable reason, in my vast travels from one gym to another throughout the world, rarely do I see registered physical therapists as members, but the gyms always seem to be loaded with registered nurses and nurse practitioners
Some credentialed exercise physiologists and kinesiologists in licensed medical environments are quite knowledgeable about rehabilitation through weight-resistance training, but currently their work in this field is not routinely reimbursed by insurance companies. They are frequently regulated to monitoring treadmill stress tests, while weight-resistance training authority reverts back to the ill trained physical therapist. Nevertheless, given the option, I would choose an exercise physiologist or a kinesiologist with weight-resistance training experience over a physical therapist or medical doctor any day.
The best personal trainers are those that are independent business professionals (not employed) in the gyms, and the best personal coaches are likewise independent contractors in fitness-oriented health centers, not the hospitals. Period. End of report. Many personal trainers are not even college graduates, but a lot of them are so dedicated they have taken any one of a host of available educational weight-resistance training programs and become certified trainers. A registered physical therapist degree or a medical shingle hung on an office wall does not represent a person qualified to teach the art of weight-resistance training. I can’t say it with enough emphasis: If you are a stabilized heart rehab patient, and are allowed to exercise, get out of the hospital rehab center as fast as you are medically able. (Note: I emphasize only if you are a stabilized heart patient).
Find yourself, a personal trainer, or personal coach, and turn your rehabilitation into a fun wellness lifestyle…and yes, even an anti-aging lifestyle. Stop feeling sorry for yourself. Don’t think you are going to find a medical professional who will solve your rehab problem, once you have stabilized from surgery. Don’t think the solution is only a prescription for a drug. Don’t think of every breath as your last. Ultimately, we all have a last breath. Move on. Get yourself a personal trainer, or preferably the more broad-based, multi-faceted personal coach, who knows the art even better than the science of weight-resistance training, and who will coach and encourage you. Understand results are your responsibility and involve your practicing the Total Commitment Motivational, Wellness Philosophy, then you will experience a real anti-aging, rejuvenating lifestyle.
After reading about the post debate polls, I found a link to this article describing ways for people to reduce their health care costs.
Not only do I find some of the suggestions disturbing (splitting your medication in half!?!), they miss one of the most important things one can do to reduce their healthcare costs: improve your fitness.
Pax has developed a program to help you reduce your heart risks, and lose weight. Both obesity and heart problems can lead to expensive doctor visits and medication. It helps you by providing a specific method of training, a nutrition system, and inspiration.
So if you really want to reduce your healthcare costs, build the body of your dreams, and have fun doing it, check outbodyfortheages.org.
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