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Fast, easy, bite-sized ideas for healthy living.

Insurance:  a form of risk management primarily used to hedge against the risk of a contingent, uncertain loss.

Risk…uncertainty…loss.  All words that can make us squirm in our seats and lose sleep at night.  What if, when it came to your own personal health, you understood your risks, felt certain about your future, and held no worry about potential loss?  I’m telling you the possibility of this kind of life exists if you believe it does.

“You don’t get what you want, you get what you believe”

-Oprah Winfrey 

The healthiest people in the world create an environment of health.  In studying longevity research,Dan Buettner identified the habits of the world’s healthiest people.  They reached the age of 100 at ten times greater rates than most of the United States, while suffering a mere fraction the rate of heart disease and cancer as the rest of the world.  Read more.  Specifically, the nine lifestyle habits they adopt are:

1.     1.  Move naturally.

2.     2.  Know your purpose in life.

3.     3.  Downshift (i.e., slow down).

4.     4.  Eat only until you’re 80% full.

5.     5.  Eat a plant-based diet.

6.     6.  Drink red wine.

7.     7.  Belong to a healthy social network.

8.     8.  Have a belief system.

9.     9.  Put your family first.

Adopt the best and most proven health insurance in the world.  Remove your risk.  Stop worrying.  You have permission to be healthy.

The Carnivore's Guide to Cleansing

  The Carnivore's Guide to Cleansing

 

Congratulations to you dedicated cleansers out there who committed to give up (insert food group here...meat, dairy, gluten, caffeine, alcohol, sugar) in order to gain more energy, better focus, and spiritual insights while releasing toxins, food addictions, as well as that bulging muffin top.  I lost count of the number of conversations I have had whereby a sweet, well-intentioned wife contemplated a viable strategy to get her husband to join her in "eating clean".  If none of the aforementioned benefits are effective, I wanted to pass along some good sales strategies.  See below.

1.       Tell him that cleansing the body is just like cleaning his car engine.  When the engine is dirty, it uses more gas per mile.  When your body is clogged with toxins, it is running inefficiently.  A clean digestive system needs less food to maintain the same level of activity.  (Note:  you may actually SAVE MONEY at the grocery store because you'll be eating less food.)

2.       Former Chiefs tight-end, Tony Gonzalez, would NOT have risked a five-year contract and millions on the line in order to optimize his health and performance when he began a plant-based diet four years ago.  (We know your husband probably isn't playing at the NFL level, but he is...in his own mind.  Cleansing can help him relive those glory days in his fast-pitch softball league, the church basketball team, or even his Xbox 360 NCAA Football game.)

3.       He Can Bring Sexy Back!  Check out our news clip and watch for Conveniently Natural Chef "Dancing Bobby"...who used to be an uncoordinated, rhythm-less white guy relegated to the corner during family weddings while everyone else did the Electric Slide with ease.  After cleaning up his diet, he brings the funk to the dance floor and rocks some serious flair in our kitchen.  Yes, of course, the "Sprinkler" and "Running Man" will never go out of style, but just think what a stud he could be at that next high school reunion...


 If you missed our news clip, click here to view online!

The Perfect Diet

The Perfect Diet

  

People often ask me how I became a "vegan".  My standard response is that I just really started listening body and woke up one day eating mostly plants.  Is this the perfect diet for everyone?  I don't know, but I know it works great for me and I think it would benefit all people to eat mostly plants if nothing else.  That being said, I have conducted a very unofficial, unscientific study into who the healthiest people on earth are/were and what they eat.  What I have found is very interesting and in many cases surprising.

Succotash Dish

 

Many contemporary researchers and scientists today believe that our ancestors who were hunter-gatherers had the healthiest lifestyle.  In a nutshell, hunter-gatherers were nomadic foragers of food, eating wholesome natural food (because that was all that was available).  What has come to light in recent years is the variety of food eaten by hunter-gatherers.  In fact, the diet varied so widely by geography that most researchers cannot answer the question, "What is the perfect diet for human beings to eat to live long, healthy lives?"  The correct answer it seems is that it depends.  When faced with my own health challenges I sought the "correct" answer from books, CDs, seminars, researchers, doctors, etc for years.  In other words, I looked everywhere OUTSIDE myself.  After becoming intensely frustrated following others' advice explicitly to no avail, I finally started listening to my body.  In very short order, I got my answer.  What is your body telling you?