Jacquelyn Johnston, M. Ed. Diabesity Coach
Obesity so often heralds diabetes that when you speak of one, you might as well speak of the other. This is why the word “Diabesity” was coined in the ‘Nineties.
Did you hear about the research out of Europe today? Being overweight could become the leading cause of cancer in women in Western countries in the not-too-distant future. As if the current diabesity epidemic weren’t enough, we have the unsavoury thought of cancer being yet another routine accompaniment to diabetes.
Want the stats?
As far back as 2002, 35 out of every 1000 cancers could be attributed to obesity. Only 6 years on, in 2008, the number had climbed to 62 out of every 1000. If you go to the free downloadable report to the right of this blog you will get an idea why.
Whether it’s cancer or arthritis, kidney disease, early Alzheimer’s or knee issues, we know that diabesity loves company.
Do your knees hurt when you go down stairs? Do you get out of breath easily, even if you’re not running? You probably need to lose twenty pounds fairly soon. You might say you haven’t been diagnosed. With all the information available on the Net today you will surely have heard of metabolic syndrome, formerly called Syndrome X. That is an indicator that full-blown diabetes could be lurking in the shadows, ready to pounce.
There is so much in the news about H1N1 these days. It’s been hyped in the media more than the more glaring, real epidemic of obesity in the G8 countries, and indeed worldwide. They’ve got a lot of people scared out of their wits, when the real scare is staring us in the face every day—just take a trip down to the local mall and you’ll see what I mean.
I was behind an obviously obese man in the lineup at the local corner store a couple of days ago. He would have been a lot more comfortable (not to mention safer) if he had shed twenty pounds. What was he buying? Three packs of cigarettes. In the process of paying for them he dropped a quarter, which lodged itself between his shoes. He looked down but couldn’t see it, as is often the case of obese people who can’t see their toes. When I told him where it was he stepped aside and I picked it up for him.
As he left the store he reminded me of that ad you see on TV where a self-propelled gurney doggedly shadows a guy in and out of buildings, down the street and through the traffic.
And that, my friends, is the real epidemic facing us today. For some, they have to be in that gurney, hooked up to drips and awaiting an emergency operation before they take action. Please don’t be one of them. Call me if you want to know what to do.
Cheers,
Jacquelyn
September 29, 2009
Weight, Diabesity and Executives
He sat next to me at a conference last week. “Do you think I’ve got diabetes?” Then, lowering hos voice, “The doctor says I have to lose 50 pounds—er—to begin with, that is”.
“Sean”, says I , “I don’t know. Your doctor does the diagnosing”. When you’ve got all your tests done, listen carefully to what your doctor says, then bring me the printout and we’ll see.” Sean wanted to know if this might be a death sentence.
After all, at 46 he had just been promoted to senior vice-president of his company, and he’d need to do some travelling, more presenting, and much socializing, The many dinners also meant many drinks, and as he had “no time to exercise in the morning” and couldn’t fit it in anytime except occasionally on weekends, he didn’t see how he could possibly lost that weight.
“Sean”, says I , “if you think you can’t, you’re right. And if you think you can, you’re right too. How important is this to you? What do you think could happen to you six months, a year down the road, if you don’t start losing some weight now?"
He worked on the delectable poached salmon almondine as he thought. Maybe golf would do it. Maybe if he played twice a week…
“Look, Sean, why don’t you go home and think about it, get your test results, discuss it with your wife, then decide if you want me to work with you on it?”
Sean already knew from his last tests that his cholesterol was high. He had high blood pressure, was frequently tired, had several aches and pains in his joints, and an impressive muffin-top. His wife had had to get him a whole new set of belts.
How was he going to handle his new responsibilities? Did he know what was inside that expanded midriff? Dinner time was hardly the optimal place to discuss it.
Sean had many indicators of metabolic syndrome, a cluster of disorders that included many of the symptoms he exhibited.
Sean would need to get the first 20 pounds off as soon as possible for his own sake, and he would need to lose the next 20 if he wanted to make “President” any time in the near future. I suggested he give me a call that week to book the free 30-minute consultation offered on my website. He agreed.
Go ahead an book one for yourself.
Cheers,
Jacquelyn
Jacquelyn Johnston M.Ed.
Professional Health Coach and Educator,
Solutions and Support for Optimal Health
Whether you need to lose those pesky 20 pounds,
work on prevention or regain health, I can help.
Call me. 604.276.8673
www.LifestyleForLongevity.com
www.LoseTwentyPoundsNow.com
Richmond, B.C. Canada
mail to:jj@lifestyleforlongevity.com
Tel. 604.276.8673 Fax. 604.276.8675
“Sean”, says I , “I don’t know. Your doctor does the diagnosing”. When you’ve got all your tests done, listen carefully to what your doctor says, then bring me the printout and we’ll see.” Sean wanted to know if this might be a death sentence.
After all, at 46 he had just been promoted to senior vice-president of his company, and he’d need to do some travelling, more presenting, and much socializing, The many dinners also meant many drinks, and as he had “no time to exercise in the morning” and couldn’t fit it in anytime except occasionally on weekends, he didn’t see how he could possibly lost that weight.
“Sean”, says I , “if you think you can’t, you’re right. And if you think you can, you’re right too. How important is this to you? What do you think could happen to you six months, a year down the road, if you don’t start losing some weight now?"
He worked on the delectable poached salmon almondine as he thought. Maybe golf would do it. Maybe if he played twice a week…
“Look, Sean, why don’t you go home and think about it, get your test results, discuss it with your wife, then decide if you want me to work with you on it?”
Sean already knew from his last tests that his cholesterol was high. He had high blood pressure, was frequently tired, had several aches and pains in his joints, and an impressive muffin-top. His wife had had to get him a whole new set of belts.
How was he going to handle his new responsibilities? Did he know what was inside that expanded midriff? Dinner time was hardly the optimal place to discuss it.
Sean had many indicators of metabolic syndrome, a cluster of disorders that included many of the symptoms he exhibited.
Sean would need to get the first 20 pounds off as soon as possible for his own sake, and he would need to lose the next 20 if he wanted to make “President” any time in the near future. I suggested he give me a call that week to book the free 30-minute consultation offered on my website. He agreed.
Go ahead an book one for yourself.
Cheers,
Jacquelyn
Jacquelyn Johnston M.Ed.
Professional Health Coach and Educator,
Solutions and Support for Optimal Health
Whether you need to lose those pesky 20 pounds,
work on prevention or regain health, I can help.
Call me. 604.276.8673
www.LifestyleForLongevity.com
www.LoseTwentyPoundsNow.com
Richmond, B.C. Canada
mail to:jj@lifestyleforlongevity.com
Tel. 604.276.8673 Fax. 604.276.8675
September 24, 2009
Fat Cats
There they were, sitting on the sunny porch both of them, one resplendent in golden stripes, and the other ebony with white socks, the picture of contentment and feline disdain. When Tiger condescended to walk across the room his ample paunch nearly brushed the floor. I laughed when Oreo made three attempts to jump onto the sofa.
That was at Marty and Jen’s house in Downtown Vancouver, near the beach on English Bay, just a year ago. Both rulers of the house were in their 12th year, having adopted their humans when they were kittens. I mean when the mega-cats were kittens.
I went in to feed them for three weeks when Marty and Jen were on a South American cruise last year. Both furballs (and I don’t mean Marty and Jen) liked to be brushed, and rewarded me with purrs as loud as a lawn mower. Closed-eyed purrs from the depths of their 17-pound corporations.
Long story short…
Last week, Tiger emigrated to Kitty Heaven, way before his time, and Oreo has been at the animal hospital for 4 days now, with the same kidney problem that claimed Tiger’s life.
Long story even shorter, neither Marty nor Jen could figure out how their resident purring machines could get so fat. After all, they had fed them a scientific diet since they were kittens. They found out when Tiger went to heaven. The two cats were the darlings of the neighbourhood, and, unlike condo cats, roamed whenever they wished.
Naturally, the every neighbor thought it their divine right to improve the girth of the two felines, and so they grew wider and wider. That made them want to move less, and since they were such fun to have around they weren’t made to exercise all that much.
They paid for that with their kidneys.
They could have looked after their humans for many more years.
Diabesity creeps up on you just like that too. Eat anything that comes your way, become a couch potato, don’t give much thought to your future, and poof! There goes your future.
You wouldn’t want to discover one day that your pancreas isn’t functioning, that you have plaque in your arteries, that your cholesterol is off the charts, that you have back pain, plus arthritis in your knees, would you? Or that your chances of getting early Altzheimers is doubled, that nerve damage might claim your right foot? Need I go on?
Call me before it’s too late. I can help.
Jacquelyn
Jacquelyn Johnston M.Ed.
Professional Health Coach and Educator,
Solutions and Support for Optimal Health
Whether you need to lose those pesky 20 pounds,
work on prevention or regain health, I can help.
Call me. 604.276.8673
www.LifestyleForLongevity.com
www.LoseTwentyPoundsNow.com
Richmond, B.C. Canada
mail to:jj@lifestyleforlongevity.com
Tel. 604.276.8673 Fax. 604.276.8675
That was at Marty and Jen’s house in Downtown Vancouver, near the beach on English Bay, just a year ago. Both rulers of the house were in their 12th year, having adopted their humans when they were kittens. I mean when the mega-cats were kittens.
I went in to feed them for three weeks when Marty and Jen were on a South American cruise last year. Both furballs (and I don’t mean Marty and Jen) liked to be brushed, and rewarded me with purrs as loud as a lawn mower. Closed-eyed purrs from the depths of their 17-pound corporations.
Long story short…
Last week, Tiger emigrated to Kitty Heaven, way before his time, and Oreo has been at the animal hospital for 4 days now, with the same kidney problem that claimed Tiger’s life.
Long story even shorter, neither Marty nor Jen could figure out how their resident purring machines could get so fat. After all, they had fed them a scientific diet since they were kittens. They found out when Tiger went to heaven. The two cats were the darlings of the neighbourhood, and, unlike condo cats, roamed whenever they wished.
Naturally, the every neighbor thought it their divine right to improve the girth of the two felines, and so they grew wider and wider. That made them want to move less, and since they were such fun to have around they weren’t made to exercise all that much.
They paid for that with their kidneys.
They could have looked after their humans for many more years.
Diabesity creeps up on you just like that too. Eat anything that comes your way, become a couch potato, don’t give much thought to your future, and poof! There goes your future.
You wouldn’t want to discover one day that your pancreas isn’t functioning, that you have plaque in your arteries, that your cholesterol is off the charts, that you have back pain, plus arthritis in your knees, would you? Or that your chances of getting early Altzheimers is doubled, that nerve damage might claim your right foot? Need I go on?
Call me before it’s too late. I can help.
Jacquelyn
Jacquelyn Johnston M.Ed.
Professional Health Coach and Educator,
Solutions and Support for Optimal Health
Whether you need to lose those pesky 20 pounds,
work on prevention or regain health, I can help.
Call me. 604.276.8673
www.LifestyleForLongevity.com
www.LoseTwentyPoundsNow.com
Richmond, B.C. Canada
mail to:jj@lifestyleforlongevity.com
Tel. 604.276.8673 Fax. 604.276.8675
September 23, 2009
Hurtling Down the Diabesity Slope
She was getting out of the car next to mine at the supermarket parking lot today, all 5-foot nothing of her. She couldn’t have been a day over 35, and not a pound less than 180.
It was a laborious task, as she placed one foot painfully on the ground, then swung her body out, placing the other foot on the ground. Next, she bounced several times in an effort to stand upright. It was obvious where the heaving had come from — her cankles (no defined ankle so that it appears that the calves are directly joined to the feet)— protesting the extra weight they had to carry.
As she had parked nose in and I, tail in, only one of us could get out at a time. So I stayed in my car till she had swiveled herself to an upright position. Once there, she flashed me a beautiful smile, and proceeded to limp heavily into the store.
As I wheeled my cart around the store I met up with the rest of the family. I had been so focused on her getting out of the car I hadn’t noticed the kids who had got out the other side and zipped into the store before their Mom.
When our carts crossed near the soft drink displays she asked her 9-year-old daughter what she would like to drink in school. Sure enough, the young lady picked a few bottles of pink liquid whose labels Mom had not read (or known to read). The child must have weighed at least 100 pounds.
Mom was looking for her elder child, who, unbeknownst to her, was leaning against the ice-cream fridge, licking a spoon from some apple goo they had handed him at the free tasting booth. I was afraid the glass might give, engulfing the lad in a cascade of glass and ice cream. I didn’t even dare guess at his weight.
Diabesity has hit the younger generation. No longer the curse of middle age alone, it has extended itself to the nation’s young, under-exercised and over-burgered demographic. All three of them were at least on their way to full-blown Type 2 Diabetes. The boxes and cans already in Mom’s cart would send them hurtling down the path to heart disease. Wish I could have helped. What would it have taken to open Mom’s eyes? Their very lives were in danger.
But then, many adults wait until they’re on a gurney to make a decision to do something differently. Wonder why?
If you know, do share your views. Sign up to the right and write away!
Jacquelyn
Jacquelyn Johnston M.Ed.
Professional Health Coach and Educator,
Solutions and Support for Optimal Health
Whether you need to lose those pesky 20 pounds,
work on prevention or regain health, I can help.
Call me. 604.276.8673
www.LifestyleForLongevity.com
www.LoseTwentyPoundsNow.com
Richmond, B.C. Canada
mail to:jj@lifestyleforlongevity.com
Tel. 604.276.8673 Fax. 604.276.8675
It was a laborious task, as she placed one foot painfully on the ground, then swung her body out, placing the other foot on the ground. Next, she bounced several times in an effort to stand upright. It was obvious where the heaving had come from — her cankles (no defined ankle so that it appears that the calves are directly joined to the feet)— protesting the extra weight they had to carry.
As she had parked nose in and I, tail in, only one of us could get out at a time. So I stayed in my car till she had swiveled herself to an upright position. Once there, she flashed me a beautiful smile, and proceeded to limp heavily into the store.
As I wheeled my cart around the store I met up with the rest of the family. I had been so focused on her getting out of the car I hadn’t noticed the kids who had got out the other side and zipped into the store before their Mom.
When our carts crossed near the soft drink displays she asked her 9-year-old daughter what she would like to drink in school. Sure enough, the young lady picked a few bottles of pink liquid whose labels Mom had not read (or known to read). The child must have weighed at least 100 pounds.
Mom was looking for her elder child, who, unbeknownst to her, was leaning against the ice-cream fridge, licking a spoon from some apple goo they had handed him at the free tasting booth. I was afraid the glass might give, engulfing the lad in a cascade of glass and ice cream. I didn’t even dare guess at his weight.
Diabesity has hit the younger generation. No longer the curse of middle age alone, it has extended itself to the nation’s young, under-exercised and over-burgered demographic. All three of them were at least on their way to full-blown Type 2 Diabetes. The boxes and cans already in Mom’s cart would send them hurtling down the path to heart disease. Wish I could have helped. What would it have taken to open Mom’s eyes? Their very lives were in danger.
But then, many adults wait until they’re on a gurney to make a decision to do something differently. Wonder why?
If you know, do share your views. Sign up to the right and write away!
Jacquelyn
Jacquelyn Johnston M.Ed.
Professional Health Coach and Educator,
Solutions and Support for Optimal Health
Whether you need to lose those pesky 20 pounds,
work on prevention or regain health, I can help.
Call me. 604.276.8673
www.LifestyleForLongevity.com
www.LoseTwentyPoundsNow.com
Richmond, B.C. Canada
mail to:jj@lifestyleforlongevity.com
Tel. 604.276.8673 Fax. 604.276.8675
September 22, 2009
Cowboy’s Diabesity
Did you watch Dr. Oz’s show today? For those who couldn’t make it, a cowboy who had signed up for help agreed to be a vegan for 28 days. Dr. Oz offered Rocco a whole buffet of foods he could eat, and on trying the first item Rocco declared it “good!”
Quite a change from his usual T-bone steaks and fries.
Actually, his vital stats were there for all to see, Rocco had a severe case of diabesity. His blood sugar was 172. (Those of you with diabesity can compare these stats with your own.) His hemoglobin (red blood cells) were at a 9, when it should have been a 6. His waist measurement was 49 inches, his weight 265 pounds, and he had the telltale beach-ball abs.
Rocco explained that he hadn’t taken much notice of his health till he started getting back pains and knee pains. His weight was interfering with his riding, and indeed all the care he had to give his horses. Not surprisingly the horses were feeling it too.
What everybody noticed was that Rocco was an awfully good sport. He agreed to everything Dr. Oz suggested, even to substituting mega-steaks and burgers with a vegan diet. Dr. Oz promised to assign him a cardiologist, as Rocco was in the 97th percentile of people with diabesity, meaning he was at the highest risk level.
Dr. Oz asked him to hold 2 ramekins of pure fat while he held a third. That was the amount of fat Rocco was carrying around; the plaque in his heart was alarming, judging from the diagram projected on the screen.
All America was watching, Dr. Oz said, and everyone who could identify with Rocco was encouraged to follow in his footsteps.
If any of you have been doing what Rocco was—ignoring the Diabesity elephant in the room, you might like to follow his progress on the Tuesday show. Dr. Oz will be coaching him along and reporting on Rocco’s progress throughout the 28-day challenge. Anyone, not just diabesitics, can go on that diet. If you read my blog yesterday you’ll see a parallel with what Dr. Oz said. He was extremely concerned about Rocco.
I’m sure our cowboy friend will be true to his word— “After all, I signed up for it!”, and I’m sure we’ll see a much trimmer, far healthier Rocco in 28 days. Dr. Oz assured him his diabesity could be reversed. As can yours. Need details? Call me.
Jacquelyn
Jacquelyn Johnston M.Ed.
Professional Health Coach and Educator,
Solutions and Support for Optimal Health
Whether you need to lose those pesky 20 pounds,
work on prevention or regain health, I can help.
Call me. 604.276.8673
www.LifestyleForLongevity.com
www.LoseTwentyPoundsNow.com
Richmond, B.C. Canada
mail to:jj@lifestyleforlongevity.com
Tel. 604.276.8673 Fax. 604.276.8675
Quite a change from his usual T-bone steaks and fries.
Actually, his vital stats were there for all to see, Rocco had a severe case of diabesity. His blood sugar was 172. (Those of you with diabesity can compare these stats with your own.) His hemoglobin (red blood cells) were at a 9, when it should have been a 6. His waist measurement was 49 inches, his weight 265 pounds, and he had the telltale beach-ball abs.
Rocco explained that he hadn’t taken much notice of his health till he started getting back pains and knee pains. His weight was interfering with his riding, and indeed all the care he had to give his horses. Not surprisingly the horses were feeling it too.
What everybody noticed was that Rocco was an awfully good sport. He agreed to everything Dr. Oz suggested, even to substituting mega-steaks and burgers with a vegan diet. Dr. Oz promised to assign him a cardiologist, as Rocco was in the 97th percentile of people with diabesity, meaning he was at the highest risk level.
Dr. Oz asked him to hold 2 ramekins of pure fat while he held a third. That was the amount of fat Rocco was carrying around; the plaque in his heart was alarming, judging from the diagram projected on the screen.
All America was watching, Dr. Oz said, and everyone who could identify with Rocco was encouraged to follow in his footsteps.
If any of you have been doing what Rocco was—ignoring the Diabesity elephant in the room, you might like to follow his progress on the Tuesday show. Dr. Oz will be coaching him along and reporting on Rocco’s progress throughout the 28-day challenge. Anyone, not just diabesitics, can go on that diet. If you read my blog yesterday you’ll see a parallel with what Dr. Oz said. He was extremely concerned about Rocco.
I’m sure our cowboy friend will be true to his word— “After all, I signed up for it!”, and I’m sure we’ll see a much trimmer, far healthier Rocco in 28 days. Dr. Oz assured him his diabesity could be reversed. As can yours. Need details? Call me.
Jacquelyn
Jacquelyn Johnston M.Ed.
Professional Health Coach and Educator,
Solutions and Support for Optimal Health
Whether you need to lose those pesky 20 pounds,
work on prevention or regain health, I can help.
Call me. 604.276.8673
www.LifestyleForLongevity.com
www.LoseTwentyPoundsNow.com
Richmond, B.C. Canada
mail to:jj@lifestyleforlongevity.com
Tel. 604.276.8673 Fax. 604.276.8675
Diabesity and Sacred Dining!
My accountant invited me to an amazing event at a Buddhist Temple on Sunday. He and his wife had been planting an A-shaped (don’t ask me why) garden there for months, just in time for it to be in full bloom for the temple’s 10th anniversary celebrations. Dignitaries were there by the dozen, our local Member of Parliament delivering the keynote address, and the Police were there both to keep an eye on the hundreds of attendees and to enjoy the festivities.
After the prayer parade and the speeches, we were treated to a scrumptious—and balanced—boxed lunch, tastefully presented: no pun intended. Vegetarian, as you might expect. On the box was a label: “Vegetarian For Your Health” (Sic). I looked around at the garden shrine where you plucked a numbered fortune ball out of the urn: devout Buddhists were on their knees, paying homage to the Goddess of Mercy—not one overweight person among them.
Then, in the giant courtyard for the speeches, I and looked around. Not one overweight person in sight—oh except some of the policemen, several of the local dignitaries, and an American Buddhist clad in bright yellow regalia. In-ter-es-ting!
There was a warm fruit drink to go with lunch; it had the faintest hint of natural sweetness, but wasn’t like anything like the corn-syrup-laced stuff you’d get out of a juice box. The servers, about 50 all told, were inexorably slim. I doubt diabesity would have dared rear its pudgy head in that assembly. The message was beginning to scream at me.
All the Buddhist nuns and monks were slim. And it’s not as if they didn’t believe in good food. The fare was scrumptious. After you had done justice to your generous lunch box (Vegetarian for Your Health) the hosts ushered you to the 2 soup kitchens for the most amazing, gourmet noodle and mushroom soup. Nothing to fuel diabesity there!
A brocade-clad girls’ chamber orchestra performed the most exquisite Chinese music. Their svelte elegance was equaled only by their musical precision. Following that, a young men’s choir regaled the throngs with musical interludes to die for, then a vivacious mixed choir of adults and teens, all of whom were slim. No diabesity there!
Now, thought I, there has to be something to having food that was clearly alkaline. On the brilliantly sunny day, I imagine most people who weren’t at the temple were barbecuing highly acidic foods and weighing themselves down with stodgy desserts. Nothing like the feather-light pineapple desserts we found in our healthy lunch boxes. Now, I’m not a vegetarian, but I would gladly have inhaled that meal any day of the week. (Only I wouldn’t have known how to make it).
Could there have been a hint there for the rest of us? A little whisper in our ears as to what the body really likes? Might “Vegetarian for Your Health” be a good way to go once or twice a week? You be the judge. Call me if you want to know what my fortune was.
To your health!
Jacquelyn
Jacquelyn Johnston M.Ed.
Professional Health Coach and Educator,
Solutions and Support for Optimal Health
Richmond, B.C. Canada
www.LifestyleForLongevity.com
www.LoseTwentyPoundsNow.com
Tel. 604.276.8673 Fax. 604.276.8675
After the prayer parade and the speeches, we were treated to a scrumptious—and balanced—boxed lunch, tastefully presented: no pun intended. Vegetarian, as you might expect. On the box was a label: “Vegetarian For Your Health” (Sic). I looked around at the garden shrine where you plucked a numbered fortune ball out of the urn: devout Buddhists were on their knees, paying homage to the Goddess of Mercy—not one overweight person among them.
Then, in the giant courtyard for the speeches, I and looked around. Not one overweight person in sight—oh except some of the policemen, several of the local dignitaries, and an American Buddhist clad in bright yellow regalia. In-ter-es-ting!
There was a warm fruit drink to go with lunch; it had the faintest hint of natural sweetness, but wasn’t like anything like the corn-syrup-laced stuff you’d get out of a juice box. The servers, about 50 all told, were inexorably slim. I doubt diabesity would have dared rear its pudgy head in that assembly. The message was beginning to scream at me.
All the Buddhist nuns and monks were slim. And it’s not as if they didn’t believe in good food. The fare was scrumptious. After you had done justice to your generous lunch box (Vegetarian for Your Health) the hosts ushered you to the 2 soup kitchens for the most amazing, gourmet noodle and mushroom soup. Nothing to fuel diabesity there!
A brocade-clad girls’ chamber orchestra performed the most exquisite Chinese music. Their svelte elegance was equaled only by their musical precision. Following that, a young men’s choir regaled the throngs with musical interludes to die for, then a vivacious mixed choir of adults and teens, all of whom were slim. No diabesity there!
Now, thought I, there has to be something to having food that was clearly alkaline. On the brilliantly sunny day, I imagine most people who weren’t at the temple were barbecuing highly acidic foods and weighing themselves down with stodgy desserts. Nothing like the feather-light pineapple desserts we found in our healthy lunch boxes. Now, I’m not a vegetarian, but I would gladly have inhaled that meal any day of the week. (Only I wouldn’t have known how to make it).
Could there have been a hint there for the rest of us? A little whisper in our ears as to what the body really likes? Might “Vegetarian for Your Health” be a good way to go once or twice a week? You be the judge. Call me if you want to know what my fortune was.
To your health!
Jacquelyn
Jacquelyn Johnston M.Ed.
Professional Health Coach and Educator,
Solutions and Support for Optimal Health
Richmond, B.C. Canada
www.LifestyleForLongevity.com
www.LoseTwentyPoundsNow.com
Tel. 604.276.8673 Fax. 604.276.8675
September 20, 2009
Diabesity—Just Move It!
You’ll never guess what they did a study on in London, England. I recently came across a study on ticket-collectors on London double-decker buses. It showed how those who ran up and down the stairs during the workday got less osteoporosis than the bus drivers did. Hmmm. Could there be a message there for people with diabesity?
The recommendation there was to do something, no matter what. Move the muscles or they’ll fall asleep. Vegging out in front of the TV will make them wither away. When you exercise you keep telling your brain to expect better circulation. Your brain then does what it’s told and gets you give it more of the same. It’s that simple.
However, the opposite is also true. Take Sandi, for example. She says that when she gets home from work she is too tired to exercise. Besides, says she, she’ll never shed those 70-odd pounds her doctor recommended. Now that’s quite a theory.
So she doesn't, and the pounds keep piling on.
Now, Sandi, says I, how about this. Let’s forget the 70 pounds and shoot for 7. I also explained how the too-tired-to-exercise bit could well have been connected to having eaten dead, processed food all day and a lot of slouching. “But I don’t slouch!”
I gave her the slouch test. “OK, OK, I slouch.” Also, Sandi my dear, one of the problems with diabesity is that the weight takes away your motivation to exercise. And one of the best ways to get motivated is to walk with a buddy.
Sandi also said it would help to have a walking buddy, but she had no one to walk with. It so happened that her 13-year-old son overheard her side of the phone conversation, an insisted on getting on the phone with me. Hi, my name’s Jordan, and I’ll walk with Mom. How many times do we have to go round the house? “Two” says I. “Fine, says Jordan, I and Mom will do three! Deal?” “Deal!” Unexpected deals are always welcome!
“And no stopping, OK?” I got Sandi to agree. From Jordan: “No problem”.
Three weeks later Sandi reported that they were now doing five laps round the house, even though the days were getting shorter. They were also catching some spectacular sunsets. She had lost 5 pounds. (I have to say we also revised her brown-bag contents, and got an agreement to drink water only).
How did that happen? For details, call me. You can get a free 30-minute consultation if your obesity is twinned with diabetes—if you haven’t been diagnosed it’s possibly just a matter of time. Call.
You’ll get there. We’ll do it together.
Jacquelyn
Jacquelyn Johnston M.Ed.
Professional Health Coach and Educator,
Solutions and Support for Optimal Health
Richmond, B.C. Canada
www.LifestyleForLongevity.com
www.LoseTwentyPoundsNow.com
Tel. 604.276.8673 Fax. 604.276.8675
The recommendation there was to do something, no matter what. Move the muscles or they’ll fall asleep. Vegging out in front of the TV will make them wither away. When you exercise you keep telling your brain to expect better circulation. Your brain then does what it’s told and gets you give it more of the same. It’s that simple.
However, the opposite is also true. Take Sandi, for example. She says that when she gets home from work she is too tired to exercise. Besides, says she, she’ll never shed those 70-odd pounds her doctor recommended. Now that’s quite a theory.
So she doesn't, and the pounds keep piling on.
Now, Sandi, says I, how about this. Let’s forget the 70 pounds and shoot for 7. I also explained how the too-tired-to-exercise bit could well have been connected to having eaten dead, processed food all day and a lot of slouching. “But I don’t slouch!”
I gave her the slouch test. “OK, OK, I slouch.” Also, Sandi my dear, one of the problems with diabesity is that the weight takes away your motivation to exercise. And one of the best ways to get motivated is to walk with a buddy.
Sandi also said it would help to have a walking buddy, but she had no one to walk with. It so happened that her 13-year-old son overheard her side of the phone conversation, an insisted on getting on the phone with me. Hi, my name’s Jordan, and I’ll walk with Mom. How many times do we have to go round the house? “Two” says I. “Fine, says Jordan, I and Mom will do three! Deal?” “Deal!” Unexpected deals are always welcome!
“And no stopping, OK?” I got Sandi to agree. From Jordan: “No problem”.
Three weeks later Sandi reported that they were now doing five laps round the house, even though the days were getting shorter. They were also catching some spectacular sunsets. She had lost 5 pounds. (I have to say we also revised her brown-bag contents, and got an agreement to drink water only).
How did that happen? For details, call me. You can get a free 30-minute consultation if your obesity is twinned with diabetes—if you haven’t been diagnosed it’s possibly just a matter of time. Call.
You’ll get there. We’ll do it together.
Jacquelyn
Jacquelyn Johnston M.Ed.
Professional Health Coach and Educator,
Solutions and Support for Optimal Health
Richmond, B.C. Canada
www.LifestyleForLongevity.com
www.LoseTwentyPoundsNow.com
Tel. 604.276.8673 Fax. 604.276.8675
September 18, 2009
Diabesity, H1N1 and the Right Terrain
Have you gone and bought yourself some of those masks? Not much use, I’m afraid, unless you’re looking after someone who’s sick and might cough all over you. Or for a short while if you’ve got a cough and have to go into a grocery store. They only work for 20 minutes or so, and you can contaminate yourself just by taking them off with hands that haven’t been sanitized.
So where do you go from there? No masks, you say, and an inadequately tested vaccine which contains preservatives we haven’t heard anyone declare safe, do I wait around to die?
Of course not. You don’t wait around, and unless it’s your curtain call, you won’t die. You do what my friend Lettie did. You get a month’s worth of foods that last. What foods? E-mail me for details.
Then you do the really important thing and make your body as strong as it can be. No, you don’t go out and get a pair of boxing gloves. You work on strengthening the terrain. One of the best ways to do this is the same thing you would do if I were working with you on your diabesity problem.
Now, let’s go back to the basics and look at the facts. I work with people who want solutions for diabesity, which is the combo of diabetes and obesity. To my friend Rick I say: here’s how the domino effect works for people whose muffin-top hangs over their belt.
Get rid of 5 pounds, you do your heart a favour. Your lungs will do the air-exchange more easily, your liver will cleanse the toxins from your blood, your pancreas will struggle a little less, and you will be less stressed. When you are less stressed you will generate fewer toxins and neutralize the ones you breathe in more easily. When your body has fewer toxins and more oxygen your immune system gets stronger.
OK, so now you’ve got a stronger immune system. Enter the H1N1 virus. You have more oxygen in your blood. Germs and viruses cannot exist in a highly oxygenated terrain. You are able to fend off the viral attack more easily. “Got it!” Lester says, as the light bulb lights up. How do I lose the next 5 pounds?
Check out a few facts on my website, where you can download a free report, then call me for a free consultation.
Stay virus-free!
Jacquelyn
So where do you go from there? No masks, you say, and an inadequately tested vaccine which contains preservatives we haven’t heard anyone declare safe, do I wait around to die?
Of course not. You don’t wait around, and unless it’s your curtain call, you won’t die. You do what my friend Lettie did. You get a month’s worth of foods that last. What foods? E-mail me for details.
Then you do the really important thing and make your body as strong as it can be. No, you don’t go out and get a pair of boxing gloves. You work on strengthening the terrain. One of the best ways to do this is the same thing you would do if I were working with you on your diabesity problem.
Now, let’s go back to the basics and look at the facts. I work with people who want solutions for diabesity, which is the combo of diabetes and obesity. To my friend Rick I say: here’s how the domino effect works for people whose muffin-top hangs over their belt.
Get rid of 5 pounds, you do your heart a favour. Your lungs will do the air-exchange more easily, your liver will cleanse the toxins from your blood, your pancreas will struggle a little less, and you will be less stressed. When you are less stressed you will generate fewer toxins and neutralize the ones you breathe in more easily. When your body has fewer toxins and more oxygen your immune system gets stronger.
OK, so now you’ve got a stronger immune system. Enter the H1N1 virus. You have more oxygen in your blood. Germs and viruses cannot exist in a highly oxygenated terrain. You are able to fend off the viral attack more easily. “Got it!” Lester says, as the light bulb lights up. How do I lose the next 5 pounds?
Check out a few facts on my website, where you can download a free report, then call me for a free consultation.
Stay virus-free!
Jacquelyn
September 16, 2009
H1NI Scares At School and Work
You’d have to be blind to miss it. The local papers are full of it. The National papers are full of it. The media goes on about it. Mass inoculation! My friend Rhys, a single father calls me and asks do I think it’s even safe to let his kids be in school this fall: will they risk catching the Swine ‘Flu? Frances, manager of a food depot wants to know if her employees should take any special precautionary measures.
Goodness! If you go with what’s being said in print and on TV you might as well prepare to go into lockdown, stocking up right now with canned food, all kinds of emergency rations, bottled water, and boxes of anything you can pull off the supermarket shelves. Oh yes, snatch those masks off the local pharmacy shelves, fill your medicine cabinets, give every member of the family a bottle of sanitizer, and start quaking.
Hold it, folks! Where is all this panic-inducing hype about the impending worldwide Black Death getting us? Is the swine ‘flu is no worse than the regular ‘flu that comes round every year.
So far, we don’t know the vaccine that’s being ordered by the millions is even right for the strain of flu that is apparently going to hit us. It hasn’t been conclusively tested. I for one will not be the next guinea pig. I would need to know that there were no toxic preservatives such as mercury, that the live bugs in the vaccines aren’t going to multiply out of control inside me once injected, as has happened before in mass campaigns.
There’s plenty of documentation around, both in print and on screen, that there have been serious outbreaks in many countries as a result of mass vaccination: just google Polio and see what happened after the mass vaccination with the polio vaccine.
Perhaps a more helpful approach to health would be to heed the current epidemic—that of diabesity, the combo of diabetes and obesity. People with weight and diabesity issues combined have a much higher risk of heart attacks, kidney disease, high cholesterol (the bad kind), and myriads of other conditions. It’s the biggest epidemic in North America today, and indeed in all the industrialized countries.
If you have diabesity you have a much greater chance of being felled by the ‘flu bug, or any virus, for that matter. We would do better to look at the school lunches our kids are sent off with, or the lunches people eat in one workday. That’s where the urgency needs to be, because there are solutions. To read more about some of them go to www.lifestyleforlongevity.com
See you there!
Jacquelyn
Jacquelyn Johnston M.Ed.
Professional Health Coach and Educator,
Solutions and Support for Optimal Health
www.LifestyleForLongevity.com
www.LoseTwentyPoundsNow.com
Richmond, B.C. CanadaPoundsNow.com
mail to:jj@lifestyleforlongevity.com
Tel. 604.276.8673 Fax. 604.276.8675
Goodness! If you go with what’s being said in print and on TV you might as well prepare to go into lockdown, stocking up right now with canned food, all kinds of emergency rations, bottled water, and boxes of anything you can pull off the supermarket shelves. Oh yes, snatch those masks off the local pharmacy shelves, fill your medicine cabinets, give every member of the family a bottle of sanitizer, and start quaking.
Hold it, folks! Where is all this panic-inducing hype about the impending worldwide Black Death getting us? Is the swine ‘flu is no worse than the regular ‘flu that comes round every year.
So far, we don’t know the vaccine that’s being ordered by the millions is even right for the strain of flu that is apparently going to hit us. It hasn’t been conclusively tested. I for one will not be the next guinea pig. I would need to know that there were no toxic preservatives such as mercury, that the live bugs in the vaccines aren’t going to multiply out of control inside me once injected, as has happened before in mass campaigns.
There’s plenty of documentation around, both in print and on screen, that there have been serious outbreaks in many countries as a result of mass vaccination: just google Polio and see what happened after the mass vaccination with the polio vaccine.
Perhaps a more helpful approach to health would be to heed the current epidemic—that of diabesity, the combo of diabetes and obesity. People with weight and diabesity issues combined have a much higher risk of heart attacks, kidney disease, high cholesterol (the bad kind), and myriads of other conditions. It’s the biggest epidemic in North America today, and indeed in all the industrialized countries.
If you have diabesity you have a much greater chance of being felled by the ‘flu bug, or any virus, for that matter. We would do better to look at the school lunches our kids are sent off with, or the lunches people eat in one workday. That’s where the urgency needs to be, because there are solutions. To read more about some of them go to www.lifestyleforlongevity.com
See you there!
Jacquelyn
Jacquelyn Johnston M.Ed.
Professional Health Coach and Educator,
Solutions and Support for Optimal Health
www.LifestyleForLongevity.com
www.LoseTwentyPoundsNow.com
Richmond, B.C. CanadaPoundsNow.com
mail to:jj@lifestyleforlongevity.com
Tel. 604.276.8673 Fax. 604.276.8675
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