** Foods With Color And Your Good Health

** Dietary Information by Dr. Bob

** Smiles - Fallacies - Setting Them Straight

** Trivia

** An Ounce of Prevention is Worth a Pound of Cure - The Benefits of Smoking"

** Unblocking A Resistance To Exercise And Walking Your Way Into An Exercise Regime! By Bella Acialla

** Stress Tips by Dr. Rae Baum

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“Phytonutrients, Foods With Color And Your Good Health”
Frank Barnhill, M.D.

Everyone’s grandmother knew that colorful foods, green, red, yellow, and blue were supposed to be good for you. It’s true that your grandmother probably didn’t know why these fruits and vegetables were excellent when added to your diet, but read on and you’ll be able to explain about essential vitamins and minerals to your grandkids.

Colorful fruits and vegetables are generally low in calories, high in fiber, minerals and vitamins and contain chemicals called Phytonutrients. These chemicals are so named because they are responsible for some of the color in these foods and are considered essential nutrients for your body’s wellbeing.
These whole foods provide a more accessible and interactive form of Phytonutrients than possible with supplements alone. So, buying powders and pills that contain these nutrients is not as good as eating the “real thing”.

The US Department of Agriculture Human Nutrition Research Center has assigned scores, called oxygen radical absorbance capacity (ORAC), to allow you to determine the antioxidant power of certain foods. Antioxidants counteract chemicals called free radicals responsible for everything from aging to degenerative illnesses such as Alzheimer’s disease.

Let’s take a look at specific fruits and vegetables that contain Phytonutrients (high ORAC) and have beneficial effects on your health and wellbeing.

Blueberries
Beyond a doubt, blueberries have the highest concentration (ORAC) per ounce of any Phytonutrient containing fresh fruit. Blueberries, blackberries, and bilberries have high antioxidant levels, which have been shown to prevent macular degeneration and yield vision improvement.

Broccoli
Green foods contain magnesium, calcium, fiber, minerals and of course Phytonutrients that act as antioxidants. Both broccoli and cauliflower are considered green vegetables rich in sulforaphane, another antioxidant shown to protect us against cancer causing chemicals. Broccoli also contains an indole-based antioxidant, which probably helps treat breast and prostate cancer.

Spinach
This green vegetable can be cooked and still retain it’s high concentration of the Phytonutrient, Lutein, which has been shown to reduce macular degeneration. Spinach is also a good source of fiber and may absorb ultraviolet radiation decreasing solar damage to the inner eye.

Carrots
Orange and yellow vegetables contain carotenoids or powerful antioxidants that boost your immunity or resistance to disease. Carrots are one of the most studied foods on the face of the earth Studies have shown eating 5 large carrots a week can reduce your risk of a stroke by as much as 68
Percent.

Sweet potatoes
The orange potato contains the highest concentration of calcium, iron, copper, fiber, folic acid, and vitamins A and C of over 50 foods studied in the past ten years. Sweet potatoes contain Lutein and Lycopene, as well as the antioxidant carotenoids.

Tomatoes
Red foods generally contain Lycopene, certain cancer protective acids and are good sources of fiber. Lycopene has been shown to protect against prostate and breast cancer.

Strawberries
This sweet red fruit contains elegiac acid, which has been found to prevent digestive system tumors of the colon and esophagus.

Oranges
Oranges are rich in antioxidants called limonine and may protect you against skin cancers. Not only are oranges high in Vitamin C, but also are excellent sources of fiber. Eating the white part of the rind increases the amount of limonine you ingest. Kiwi fruit has one of the highest concentrations of vitamin C among all the available fruits.

Grapes
Red and dark grapes contain flavonoids, phenolic acids, and resveritrol, which may be beneficial in preventing cancer. Black and green teas have also been shown to contain carotenoids and flavonoids, which may decrease your risk of heart disease and cancer.

This is by no means a complete study of Phytonutrients and foods that contain chemicals beneficial to your diet and well-being. For a more in-depth look at colorful fruits and vegetables, please visit www.5aday.gov/.

Here’s to your healthy diet and long disease free life!
Dr. Frank

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As we all know, it takes 1 calorie to heat 1 gram of water 1 degree centigrade. Translated in to meaningful terms, this means that if you eat a very cold dessert (generally consisting of water in large part), the natural processes which raise the consumed dessert to body temperature during the digestive cycle literally suck the calories out of the only available source, your body fat.

For example, a dessert served and eaten at near 0 degrees (32.2 degrees F) will in a short time be raised to the normal body temperature of 37 degrees C (98.6 degrees F). For each gram of dessert eaten, that process takes approximately 37 calories as stated above. The average dessert portion is 6 ounces, or 168 grams. Therefore, by operation of thermodynamic law, 6,216 calories (1 cal./gm/degree x 37 deg. x 168 gms) are extracted from the body fat as the dessert’s temperature is normalized.

Allowing for the 1,200 latent calories in the dessert, the net calorie loss is approximately 5,000 calories.

Obviously, the more cold dessert you eat, the better off you are and the faster you will lose weight, if that is your goal.

This process works equally well when drinking very cold beer in frosted glasses. Each ounce of beer contains 16 latent calories, but extracts 1,036 calories (6,216 calories per 6 oz portion) in the temperature normalizing process. Thus the net calorie loss per ounce of beer is 1,020 calories. It doesn’t take a rocket scientist to calculate that 12,240 calories (12 oz x 1,020 cal/oz) are extracted from the body in the process of drinking a can of beer.

Frozen desserts, e.g. ice cream, are even more beneficial, since it takes 83 cal/gm to melt them (i.e. raise them to 0 degrees C) and an addition 37 cal/gm to further raise them to body temperature. The results here are really remarkable, and it beats running, hands down.

Unfortunately, for those who eat pizza as an excuse to drink beer, pizza (loaded with latent calories and served above body temperature) induces the opposite effect. But, thankfully, as the astute reader should have already reasoned, the obvious solution is to drink a lot of beer with the pizza and follow up immediately with large bowls of ice cream.

We could all be thin if we were to adhere religiously to a pizza, beer, and ice cream diet.

We all know that this is not the way to lose weight – April Fool
Dr. Bob

Diets and Donuts
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A very devout man who was very over weight decided to go on a diet. One of his main problems with eating was that he would stop for donuts every morning on the way to work. So to make things easier for himself, he changed his route to work to avoid the temptation of stopping. As the weeks went by he started losing a lot of weight and was receiving compliments from his friends and co-workers.

Then one morning without thinking, he accidently turned onto the road which would take him by the donut shop. At first he was going to turn around but then he thought to himself, "maybe the Lord is rewarding me for my efforts". So, he said a short prayer telling the Lord that if this was His true intention let there be an open parking place directly in front of the shop.

And sure enough, on the fifth time around the block there was an open spot right up front.

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A pipe burst in a doctor's house. He called a plumber. The plumber arrived, unpacked his tools, did mysterious plumber-type things for a while, and handed the doctor a bill for $600.

The doctor exclaimed, "This is ridiculous! I don't even make that much as a doctor!"

The plumber waited for him to finish and quietly said, "Neither did I when I was a doctor."
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A gentleman was having some physical problems and his doctor told him that he had to drink warm water one hour before breakfast. At the end of a week he returned and the doctor asked if he was feeling better. The man said that he actually felt worse.

"Did you drink warm water an hour before breakfast each day?"

"No," replied the man, "All I could do was about 15 minutes!"

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The hides of mature female blue sharks are more than twice as thick as those of males, probably as a protection against courtship bites.

"The Benefits of Smoking"    

This past weekend I received an email from a potential subscriber who wanted to know how to stop smoking. I wrote him back and asked "Why in the world would you want to stop?  There are many health benefits from smoking that have just been released in the new research published by the JAMA (Journal of American Medical Association) of which I am a contributing member."

These latest research findings are going to cost our government and we the taxpayers a small fortune.  It seems the federal and the state governments will have to refund all that money they won in court and return it to the tobacco companies.

Here were the findings: 1.   Long term smokers who quit required more doctor visits for eye, ear and nose infections. It seems one of the additives in the pesticides that was sprayed on the tobacco leaves is actually a bacterial inhibitor for staphylococcal infections.

2.   In one blind study 2 out of every 10 people surveyed who stop smoking were found to be more susceptible to STDs.

3.  Coughing actually strengthens and exercises the lung and heart muscle.  For those who stopped smoking there was a 40% reduction in lung capacity within the first 6 months.

With all this information in hand I've decided to go back to smoking. I have fond memories of cruising the beach in my '57 Ford convertible with a pack of cigarettes rolled up in my tee-shirt sleeve, and a lit cigarette in the other hand with ashes flying back in my face and smoke burning my eyes.  Boy did the girls think I was cool, you know they weren't looking at the car!

Those were the real good old days!  I didn't care about additives that protected me from staphylococcal infections, STD's (sexually transmitted diseases), or exercising my heart muscle.  Well, they must be right, I started coughing the first night.  Just think of all the exercise my heart's getting and now no more infections. So let's all take up the torch and start smoking.

APRIL FOOL - Enjoy good health and this ain't the way to do it!!

Live in Passion and Good Health, James Groves

These health tips can only be found in Bob Osgoodby's “Your Best Body Ever” Newsletter.

Once of the best ways to maintain a healthy body is to exercise.  For the severely overweight person, exercise can feel very overwhelming.  Just the mere thought of starting an exercise regime is unbearable.  However, the perfect exercise that helps a person get over this hurdle is by walking.  No matter how fast or how far you walk, walking works.  By first starting at a slow pace and working up to a farther distance, you~ll soon find that walking will burn calories, melt away fat, and help you stay healthier.

Whether you walk on a trail, a treadmill or a track, you get to decide how fast and far you can go. Remember though that in order to lose one pound of fat, you need to burn 3,500 more calories than you consume. The less you walk and the slower you walk, the longer it will take to burn those calories. Take your time, but push yourself whenever possible. The more you walk, the more you will feel like walking and eventually exercise will become a treat instead of a chore.

The beginner exerciser selects walking over other forms of exercise for these common reasons: -  Your pace is your decision. -  Walking is free! You can invest capital in gym membership or a home treadmill when walking outdoors is too difficult during the winter months. -  One of the easiest exercises is walking.  An increased intensity equals a better workout. -  Your blood~s circulation is improved and your heart is given a boost. -  Friends often like to have walking partners. -  When you walk fast, you breath harder. This improves your lung capacity and pumps more oxygen into your system. -  A new surrounding can be found each time you go out for a walk.  Try to take a different trail up hill or a route down hill to vary the exercise~s level of intensity.

Realistic goals help you plan to loose weight on a consistent basis.  A weight loss goal of loosing 1 to 2 pounds each week equates to mapping out a route that will burn at least 3500 calories.  If you also reduce your caloric intake, you~ll find that these two plans together make the best results toward weight loss.

Don~t worry about walking too fast at first. If you find it more comfortable, increase your distance rather than speed. This should be an enjoyable exercise regime that you can stick to. Start out walking one block if you have to. Increase the distance you walk each week. As you increase your distance, you will feel better and you will find yourself increasing your speed naturally. Walk 30 minutes to 60 minutes per day to reduce your risk of heart disease, diabetes, colon cancer, breast cancer and stroke. Once you develop a habit of walking, pump it up. Walk faster, swing your arms and find ways to move that will tax your body so you can burn more calories and finally tell that extra weight to take a walk!

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If you need to lose weight, you must be in caloric deficit. This can be accomplished by cutting down your caloric intake, or
increasing the amount of calories you burn by exercising. I recommend both. Even though a calorie is a calorie when it comes to weight loss, a calorie is not a calorie when it comes to your health. Make sure your daily diet includes several servings of fruit and vegetables and whenever possible, avoid foods that contain trans fat.

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