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Here is what you need to know.  Dr. Peter J. D'Adamo, a naturopathic physician, created the Blood Type Diet in 1996. His theory is an attempt to try and explain why no diet seems to work for everyone. To learn more from the horses mouth go to his website at www.dadamo.com with 1,500 references on blood type research.

In Eat Right For Your Blood Type: The Individualized Diet Solution to Staying Healthy, Living Longer and Achieving Your Ideal Weight, he writes that our blood types originated in prehistoric times. Type O came from people who were hunter/gatherers and had acidic stomachs for digesting meat. Type A originated between 25,000 and 15,000 B.C. in farmers who had a lower stomach acid level for digesting grains and legumes. Type B originated between 10,000 and 15,000 B.C in nomads who ate the meat and dairy of cattle, goats, and sheep. Type AB was an amalgam of A and B.

He further indicates that modern people benefit greatly from eating the foods according to their blood types. Here is how his breakdown works.

• Dairy is healthful for Type B's but not Type A or O. 
• Red meat should be eaten by Type O's but not by Type A's.
• Caffeine is good for Type A's and AB's, but not for Type O's. (This diet plan has met with some resistance from Type O vegetarians and Type A meat eaters in particular)
• Some foods outside their blood type might prove to be beneficial in improving their strength and cholesterol levels. The ideal diet, D'Adamo notes, includes herbs and regular exercise, based on blood type.
  
• Types A and AB do better with yoga, brisk walking or swimming, Types O and B benefit from vigorous exercise.
  
• He concludes that yoga is useful for all four types, but types O and B should combine it with more high-intensity exercise such as aerobics, martial arts, cycling or jogging. 

there are always critics and this is no exception.  They argue that there is no scientific evidence that supports D'Adamo's claims. They also point out that there has never been a controlled/double blind study published  on blood type diets nor has there been a study subject to peer review, which is the litmus test for all science. Critics claim that D'Adamo's theory is based solely on his institution and anecdotal stories, with very little supporting data.

This theory does have its roots in the study of lectins, proteins found on the surface of certain foods that can cause various molecules and some types of cells to stick together. He suggested that lectin proteins are similar enough to one type of blood antigen to cause the antigens of another blood type to produce antibodies to attack and agglutinate (glue together), clumping the blood. D'Adamo claims that this contributes to irritable bowel syndrome, cirrhosis of the liver, and kidney failure depending on the food protein and the blood type.

Most people do not eat according to their blood type and, according to D'Adamo, are eating the wrong foods for weight loss and total health. If his theory was correct, however, practically everyone would experience a build up of agglutinated red cells after meals and quickly get clogging in the heart, lungs, kidneys, brain, eyes, and other essential organs. If D'Amano is correct then these organs would be damaged beyond repair, resulting in death in millions of people. Pathologists and other medical scientists have never reported this happening in humans.

So as always I issue a word of caution when considering this diet.  This does not mean that Blood Type dieting is total crap, it simply means that there is a lot more to learn about it before critics will buy-in and theory becomes fact.

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Boot Camps are one of THE most searched fitness topics on Google, Yahoo, and Bing.  The Boot Camp style fitness workout is becoming crazy popular in part because people are getting really fit doing them.  But is a fitness Boot Camp for you?

First you need to know more about fitness Boot Camps.  Most Boot Camps are not like military Boot Camps where there is an instructor who yells, screams and cusses.  In every case that I know of, in fact, the instructor is a full time personal trainer who teaches Boot Camp on the side.

Second, Boot Camps are hard, but doable.  Similar to the military fitness Boot Camps are designed to push you to your limit, but not beyond your limit.  This is the reason that you either love it or hate it.  You love it because you are getting awesome results or you hate it because you simply do not like pushing that hard.

Third, everyone can do it.  These camps are designed to get you in shape, not for the already in shape.  That does not mean that everyone is equal but in almost every case the Boot Camp is designed to allow for different fitness levels.  The instructor should teach you ways to modify most exercises so that if you are less fit you will still be able to participate.  But remember that the point of the Boot Camp is to push you hard, so if the instructor thinks that you are capable of more then it is likely that you will be told to modify to a more difficult technique.

Finally, fitness Boot Camps are fun (kinda).  Getting more fit is a physically uncomfortable process, and can be emotionally uncomfortable too!  Doing this process as part of a group can be just what you need because you will see that you are not the only one who is struggling or falls flat on your face.

Maybe a fitness Boot Camp is too intense for you, but maybe it is exactly what you need to get you to finally get more out of yourself.  Give it a shot, because really what do you have to lose?

There are some fantastic Boot Camps in most markets, especially here in my home market, Boise.  So get online and find out what is available in your area.  And because fitness Boot Camps are not right for everyone most companies will offer you are Free Trial to just check it out before you buy.

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Let's start this off with one of the absolute best quotes out there by Jim Rhon.
"We must all suffer from one of two pains; the pain of discipline or the pain of regret. The difference is that discipline weighs ounces and lasts a moment while regret weighs tons and lasts a lifetime!"

The time has come where we all try to improve ourselves, tackle our demons and come out stronger and better on the other side.  You may want to lose some weight this new year, maybe quit smoking, possibly this is the year that you will get your finances in line.  Whatever the goal the new year is a time to get a fresh start towards your goals.  It is like a new beginning.  But did you know that only 8% of people stick to their new year's resolution?  That is horrible.  If you were in Vegas that would be about the worst bet that you could make!

Don't fret, because there are some things that you can do to help be part of the 8% rather than the 92%.  Follow these steps and you will be happily surprised with how much easier it is to accomplish your goals and how much more motivated you will stay.

1. Choose only 1 thing.  Changing only 1 aspect of your life is hard enough because the fact is that it will likely radiate into many more aspects of your life.  Just choose that 1 thing that is most important to you, and leave your other goals for another time.  Don't try to solve all of your issues overnight, that is guaranteeing failure on all fronts.
2. Make it quantifiable and specific.  Numbers make all of the difference.  If you said something vague like, "I want to lose weight this year" then tomorrow you could drink no fluids, lose 5 pounds and by the 3rd of January you can stop working towards your weight loss goal.  Instead try "I will lose 25 pounds of body fat by July1st".  This gives you a quantifiable goal within a specific time line, much better.
   
3. Make it public.  Guess what, you aren't perfect and everyone knows it already, so don't shy away from telling others that you are trying to improve yourself.  By telling others you will increase your accountability because others will establish expectations.  I know that this is a scary proposition, but do you really want to accomplish this goal or not?!?!?
4. Put it up.  You need to make 10 LARGE PRINT COPIES and put them up all over the place, especially in places that have a negative effect on your goal.  For example, if you are trying to lose weight then putting one of your copies right in front of your face on the fridge is a good idea.  At least this way you are remembering and making a conscious decision to give yourself a moment of weakness, rather then just forgetting.
5. Get support.  For every life changing decision out there there are companies that are specifically designed to help that goal become a reality.  For example, if you want to lose weight BR Specialists is a fitness company specifically designed for weight loss (if you want to try us out for free then follow this link for a free fitness training and weight loss trial). Don't try to do it on your own, because if it were easy then you would already have accomplished it!
   
6. Make a plan.  In fact, make a VERY specific plan.  It is a fact that the more specific that your plan is the more successful that you will be (unless your plan does not fit the goal!).  For example, for weight loss you may do:  I will lose 25 pounds of body fat by July 1, I will eat six 250 calories meals per day, I will write down everything that I eat, I will lift weights every Monday, Wednesday and Friday for 20 minutes, I will do cardio every Monday, Wednesday and Friday for 40 minutes, I will lose 2 pounds per week until I exceed my goal, I will meet with BR Specialists once per week to keep my on track.  When I have a bad day I will call BR Specialists the next day to discuss.
   
7. Plan on being weak.  I have trained over 2,000 clients trying to lose weight and MAYBE 8% of them did not have moments of despair, frustration and a desire to quit.  And even with my support some of them have even managed to quit in spite of being well supported.  In boils down to the fact that life is hard and changing your life is REALLY hard.  Plan on having moments of weakness so that when they arise you are ready to deal with them rather than quit because of them.

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If you follow this blog then you will already know much of what is coming, but today is about being brutally honest.  If you are hoping that I am going to confirm that what you are doing is right then stop reading now because it is far more likely that you are going to feel like I chewed you out!

1. Write it down - People don't like to write stuff down even though that we all know that adds accountability and precision to our program.  Well I don't like paying my bills but if I don't then I will lose my house and car!  Often in life we have to do things that we don't like to get what we really want.  So stop making up excuses or trying to justify why you don't think that you have to write it down.  Write down everything at you eat, INCLUDING CALORIES, and everything that you do for exercise.  Then everyday try to improve on the previous day.
2. Cancel Cable.  TV is the worst thing that ever happened to our health.  Everyone spends a massive amount of hours in front of the TV every week.  It you just 10% of that time and re-applied it to getting healthy you would start losing weight today.  I know that as soon as you read this that 3/4 of you will immediately blow this off as unnecessary, and that is why that 3/4 is not really serious about getting healthy.  Stop wishing that you were fit and start deserving fitness, and your actions are what will dictate the difference.
3. Hire a Trainer.  You can't afford it, right?  You already know what you are doing, right?  You can do it on your own, right?  WRONG, WRONG and WRONG!  Getting in shape sucks.  It is hard mentally and physically.  It will challenge you to your very core.  A Trainer will not only give you the science that you need, and regardless of what you think you really need to learn what they know, and they will keep you on track when you are trying to quit (and everyone tries).  So stop being a tight ass and make a small investment in something that will last a lifetime!
4. Get Tech.  There are so many awesome tools available to you to help you get healthy that it is ridiculous that people aren't using them.  At the very least set the alarm on your cell phone to go off every 3 hours as a reminder to eat so that you get your 6 meals in everyday, weekends included.
5. Stop Boozing.  Alcohol is about the worst thing that you can put into your body if you are trying to lose weight.  You say that you are really serious about losing weight, so stop drinking.  Not even a drop.  It is absolute sabotage for weight loss and there is no wiggle room on this.
6. Stop Weighing.  Weight loss is a process and there are good days, great days and set-backs.  You don't need to ride that emotional roller coaster.  Set a time and day that you weigh every week or 2 weeks and stick to it.  That is the only real way to get a consistent mark of your progress.
7. Get Up.  Get up early in the morning and accomplish something.  Get up off of the couch (the cable is disconnected now so there is no reason to be on the couch anyways!).  Everyday people tell me how busy that they are but as soon as the things in their life that burn time are gone all of the sudden there is plenty of time for everything and then some.  Get up and get going.
8. Get educated.  There is no excuse for not knowing this stuff inside and out.  Now that the TV is off you have plenty of time to read some really good health and fitness books.  I am happy to recommend them, just submit a query and I will email you a list as long as your forearm of awesome fitness resources.
9. Get focuses.  It is too easy to get distracted when you aren't focused.  Heck, it is easy to get distracted when you are focused.  Choose a goal and a time line, tell everyone that you know about your goals and time line, and then go get it.  Don't let fear of failure dictate your behavior!
10. Get planning.  A goal without a plan is just a wish, and you aren't going to wish yourself fit.  Get a very precise black and white plan on how your are going to achieve your goal.  I wake up at this time.  I prepare my food this day.  I exercise at this time.  I do this workout routine.  I see my Trainer these days.  I tell everyone who tries to talk me out of my plan to "kiss my ass!"

I know that this is not your typical all positive article, but sometimes what you need more than anything is a slap in the face, and today happened to be face slapping day!  So get to it.

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It is one of the most common statement that those of us who help people lose weight and get healthy for a living hear! "I eat pretty well but I just can't lose weight." or "I exercise all of the time but I just can't lose weight."  Next comes the justifications and support that have been cooked up by the client as to why, because they truly believe that they are doing everything right, and it is just their body that has an issue.  "I have a slow metabolism." or "I am pretty sure that I have a thyroid issue."

So here comes the real truth, so take a seat.  It is not your metabolism, and it is not your thyroid, it is your actions that have allowed you to gain weight.  It is not your efforts that are at fault, which is why people don't like to hear this, it is your science.  People generally know just enough to feel confident in their decisions but not enough to understand why it isn't working.

So let's explore what this means.  We all can agree that the body is essentially a machine that has a computer that runs it and parts that move and respond to signals.  If your machine, let's make it a 2005 Ford Mustang in this case, needs new fuel injectors for it to run properly and you go over to the local auto parts store and ask them for the best fuel injectors in the place without specifying the make and model of the car they will most likely bring you a really nice/good box of injectors that will not get your car to work right.  Food is the same within your body.  No matter how "good" you think that you are eating if the food isn't "right" for the goals that you are trying to accomplish then you are wasting your efforts and not getting the results that you want.

Same metaphor now, but for exercise.  Let's say that you want to drive your Mustang at maximum horsepower, and Ford tells you that maximum horsepower is achieved between 3000 and 4000 RPM, and yet you insist on driving at 3500 RPM because some random commercial on TV or the internet told you so, then you know now that you are not getting the most out of your engine.  When it comes to exercise your body is the exact same.  There is a certain volume and intensity where you are getting the most out of your body, and if you aren't exercising at that level then you are deluding yourself about exercise in general.

The tough part is going from doing "pretty good" to "correct".  Here is my advice.  Wherever you live there is someone in your town who solves these issues for a living.  Not some other guy/gal at the gym but a true professional who has spent their life finding and solving these issues.  Seek them out and pay them for their services.  Do this and the small investment that you make financially will give you a ten fold return on your energy spent trying to lose weight.

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Did you know that calcium has binding properties?  What that means is that calcium can bind with other molecules changing their chemical and molecular makeup.  It can make/turn them into a form of the same molecule that the human body can no longer metabolize or use.  Dairy contains one of those minerals, calcium.

Calcium molecules can bind with fat molecules and turn them into a soapy molecule that is unusable by the body and will pass right through the digestive system.  Calcuim binds only with dietary fat, not fat that is alrObviously, this will only work to a certain degree but it has been proven that eating excess calcium can help you burn up to 6 additional pounds of fat per year, and who wouldn't want to lose an extra 6 pounds without any extra work!?!

Keep in mind that the calcium will bind with the fat in milk so if you want it to bond with other dietary fats then you need to take in low fat or skim dairy...

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Wouldn't it be great if everything that you know about food and weight loss were correct?!  Then all that you would have to do to be healthy would be to follow through on that knowledge.  Sadly, I talk to people everyday who are truly trying to improve their health and it is just not happening for them.  Often, these same people are the ones who have all but given up on trying because it seems so hard.

The first thing that you need to understand and buy into to make the switch to a healthier you is that you most likely do not know enough to make that switch right now.  You can make an effort and have some improvement, but likely will just not get that good of a return on your time and energy invested.  It is not your fault but it is a fact.  Every company in the world has a marketing department whose job is to convince you that their product will be or is the best choice for you.  How are you supposed to be able to sift through all of the bell and know the truth?

So, you have people like me who dedicate their professional life to answering these sorts of questions and then getting this information into the hand of the interested.  I would love to be able to tell you that all veggies are good for you, but in many cases the negatives out weigh the benefits.

Foods are regulated by the FDA and Organic farmers are further regulated by the USDA to ensure that the veggies meet an even higher standard.  Here is what they say:

Organic farming may NEVER use the following as they have been show as likely causes of neurotoxicity, disruption of the endocrine system, carcinogenicity, immune system suppression, Parkinson's Disease, infertility in men and miscarriages in women.

• Pesticides
• Synthetic Fertilizers
• Sewage sludge
• Genetically modified organisms
• Ionizing radiation

Tests show that due to the nature of the fruit and vegetable some retain higher percentages of the toxins that we use to try and protect our food crops.  Here are the top 12 worst offenders.

• Peaches
• Apples
• Sweet bell peppers
• Celery
• Nectarines
• Strawberries
• Cherries
• Lettuce
• Grapes (imported)
• Pears
• Spinach
• Potatoes

In contrast here are the fruits and vegetables least likely to retain those toxins.

• Broccoli
• Eggplant
• Cabbage
• Banana
• Kiwi
• Asparagus
• Sweet peas (frozen)
• Mango
• Pineapple
• Sweet corn (frozen)
• Avocado
• Onion

Obviously, now you know that when you have the choice between organic and non-organic produce that you need to choose organic.  Sometimes you don't have a choice so in that case you should try to stick to the least likely food items to retain those toxins.  Remember that things that are toxic to germs, bacteria, insects and rodents are likely poison to you as well, it is just that you mass allows you to metabolize them in low doses much more easily, but many of them have an accumulation effect and can/will cause major health concerns. So make sure that you are using your brain when you are trying to get healthy so that you are really having the positive impact that you want.

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I absolutely love to learn new things.  I subscribe to a newsletter that gives me awesome info everyday that I am absolutely addicted to.  Today's newsletter contained some info about food that I already knew, but hadn't considered writing about before.  If is about the marketing and propaganda that our food producers use to blind us to the facts about our food. 

First I want to point out that any marketing campaign is always going to show you only its best side, so I don't blame food companies for avoiding full disclosure all of the time.  It is always up to us as consumers to some extent to do our homework.  And now in the age of computers we can find pretty much any information that we want with a few clicks of the keyboard.  Heck, when I market my personal training and weight loss program I don't talk about how freak'n hard it is to lose weight, I talk about how awesome the results are.  That is marketing 101.

So what are these big lies that we need to clarify today.

1. Industrial food is cheap/inexpensive.
2. Industrial food is efficient.
3. Industrial food is healthy.

To clarify why these are not necessarily true lets go through them one at a time.

1. Industrial food is cheap.  Let me use a, example of how things are not always as cheap as they appear.  Let's pretend that you go on craigslist and find 10 cars that appear to be the same, and one of them is a lot cheaper than the others, so you go buy it.  Come to find out this car still has a lien on it from a previous owner that you have to pay off before you own it! Crap.  Then you find out that this car won't pass emissions and you need to rebuild the whole exhaust system.  And finally you discover that the air bags does not work!  Now that car was the most expensive of the lot.

That is what happens A LOT with big food companies.  You may buy something off of the shelf at a discounted rate, but guess what, we pay billions upon billions of dollars to these companies in subsidies already.  That means that you, with your taxes, have already paid some for that same food.  The same is true for lots of industries, Big oil being the most prominent. 

Then on we pay again!  Lots of these companies (not all of them) do not do as good of job protecting the environment as they could and should.  They produce millions of tons of waste that is toxic for our environment.  Once again your tax dollars support trying to hold them accountable.

Finally, you must know that often your foods are filled with hormones, antibiotics and preservatives that are catastrophic for your health.  Once again you will pay for this through your persistent medical bills.

2. Industrial food is efficient.  It is true that large corporate feed lots and factories produce HUGE numbers of food animals, and I think that this is beyond dispute.  And it is certainly arguable that without this sort of efficient food production it would be more difficult to survive as a country of over 300,000,000 million people.  But what is the cost of this lifestyle?

The cost is your health.  For any animal to survive in these sorts of conditions we must essentially keep them medicated at all times to keep disease from running rampant.  In addition, the quality of the product is greatly diminished because inactivity in animals causes muscular degeneration.  So how do we get these animals to grow lots of muscles without doing anything?  Easy, we pump them full of hormones!  Some of those hormones stay in the muscle and then you eat it!

3. Industrial food is healthy.  I am a HUGE advocate of healthy eating and getting a well balance diet, which would generally include all of these food sources.  Balance eating is part of a healthy lifestyle.  But let me once again use my car analogy to clarify.

What if now, after your nightmare purchase of that car is over.  Now it is time for general maintenance like an oil change.  We all know that changing the oil is essential to keep your car in good health.  You go out and spend your hard earned money on what you heard was really good oil.  But after a while you discover that the oil that you were buying had sand in it and was destroying your engine.  Not enough sand to bring your car to a stop today, but over time.  Would you keep buying that oil?

Food is the exact same thing.  We try to eat pretty healthy most of the time, limiting the foods that we know are bad for us like deep fried fast foods.  But wouldn't you know it, lots of the foods that we thought were healthy are doing damage too!

CRAP! - So where does this leave us?  I am not a 'chicken little', I am a realist.  You could go crazy trying to discover what is in everything that you eat.  Don't.  Here is the easiest way to approach food.

• Avoid as many preservatives as possible.  Preservatives are bad for you, so buy foods with a short expiration date!
• Avoid foods with any sort of hydrogenated oils.  These are in tons of food but are so bad for you that states are starting to make them illegal!
• Buy organic.  Slightly more expensive off of the shelf but you will know that chemicals were used to the minimum in the food production.
• Make meals.  Prepackaged meals are convenient but can really be bad for you.  Plan ahead just enough so that you can know what is in your food.  Take care of yourself and your family.

I know that this stuff can be overwhelming, but don't fret.  Just a little education can make a big difference when it comes to food.

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