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CareFast Diet Shakes
Forget everything you know about Diet Shakes. CareFast® Diet Shakes are
Physician-Tested and Proven effective since 1982 in a medically supervised
dietary program. CareFast® Diet Shakes are now available to the public direct
from the Manufacturer. If you are wanting to lose weight and keep it off then
the CareFast® Diet Plan is for you.
Is there a Magic Bullet in Medical Weight Loss Programs?
There's no magic bullet for losing weight. The most effective way to lose weight
and keep it off is through lifestyle changes: Eat healthy, low-calorie foods,
watch portion sizes, and engage in regular physical activity. It's certainly no
magic pill, but it works. Keep in mind that even if you take weight-loss
supplements, you still should eat fewer calories than your body uses in order to
lose weight.
There is no quick fix,
but there is a Fix! Even if you have had weight loss surgery you must
modify your eating habits, and that alone will take time and discipline.
Modify your eating habits
When a Behavior Modification component is combined with reducing Caloric Intake
and Physical Activity, the results are far better. Behavior modification means
just what it says: changing one or more of your behavioral patterns. This may
mean choosing a protein shake with fresh fruit instead of bacon, eggs and
buttered toast for breakfast. Behavior modification also includes executing
environmental control, which may be to:
- Completely avoiding "trigger foods" which you cannot stop eating, such as
potato chips, nuts or ice cream.
- Not eating later than 2 hours before you go to bed
- Eating smaller portions more often, rather than eating one meal a day.
- Learning the caloric value of various foods
- Nutrient education
- Planning eating strategies for vacations or stressful periods in your life
- Support groups or the "buddy system"
CareFast is the best choice for Modifying Eating Habits
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MediFast (31.5g) |
OptiFast (30g) |
ProCal(27g) |
CareFast® (43g) |
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Calories |
100 |
160 |
100 |
160 |
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Fat |
1g |
3g |
1.5g |
1g |
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Cholesterol |
0mg |
0mg |
0mg |
0mg |
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Sodium |
240mg |
230mg |
200mg |
150mg |
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Potassium |
430mg |
470mg |
200mg |
680mg |
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Carbohydrates |
13g |
20g |
7g |
22g |
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Sugars |
8g |
20g |
7g |
13 |
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Protein |
14g |
14g |
15g |
15g |
Vitamin/Minerals
%RDA |
15-35% |
10-40% |
20-30% |
25-40% |
Reducing Caloric Intake with CareFast®
Effective and permanent weight loss requires a balanced combination of several
things. Reducing caloric intake while increasing caloric output, as well as
changing your behavior toward food, activities and your schedule. Caloric
intake is the amount of calories you eat and drink every day, while caloric
output is your resting metabolic rate plus any physical activity. So if you
consume more calories than you burn per day, the excess calories are stored as
fat in your body, and your weight will increase. The good news is, weight loss
has proven to be more effective when reducing caloric intake, rather than just
increasing exercise. On the other hand, jumping on the next, new low calorie
diet, may not give you the permanent weight loss and enhanced life style you are
looking for either.
Physical Activity - No short cuts here
In the 80's when computer technology was not so much for the "home user" we did
not hear about the importance of daily exercise. We were outside playing until
it got dark, that was our exercise. In the 90's with the explosion of personal
computers, email and video games this was, I believe, the beginning of child and
adult obesity. Exercise and outdoor play became virtually nonexistent. Doctors
and Health Physician would cry out the importance of 15-20 minutes exercise, 3-4
times a week; get your heart rate up to 70% MPR and hold it there for 20
minutes. Nowadays you hear the Physicians begging the public to "JUST MOVE", get
up and "MOVE" they beg.
Next to not smoking, getting regular physical activity is arguably the best
thing you can do for your health. It lowers the risk of heart disease, diabetes,
stroke, high blood pressure, osteoporosis, and certain cancers. Plus, it helps
keep weight in check, helps control stress, and gives a boost to mood. Best of
all? It doesn't take marathon training to see real health gains. A 30-minute
brisk walk on five days of the week is all most people need, says Harvard School
of Public Health Nutrition Source.
Yet two related and very practical questions remain: What is the best kind of
exercise? And how much exercise do we need each day?
Mild Intensity: If you do not currently exercise, nor have an active
lifestyle then any increase in exercise or physical activity is good for you.
Some studies show that walking briskly for even one to two hours a week (15 to
20 minutes a day) starts to decrease the chances of having a heart attack or
stroke, developing diabetes, or dying prematurely.
Moderate Intensity: Is any aerobic activity that causes a slight but
noticeable increase in breathing and heart rate. One way to gauge moderate
activity is with the "talk test" exercising hard enough to break a sweat but not
so hard you can't comfortably carry on a conversation. E.g. Dancing, Mowing the
lawn.
Vigorous Intensity: Is an aerobic activity that causes more rapid
breathing and a greater increase in heart rate, but you should still be able to
carry on a conversation—with shorter sentences. E.g. Fast running, Shoveling
snow, Chopping wood.
So again, it's up to you which form of exercise you choose, or whether you even
chose to exercise at all. Just start walking (hopefully with your spouse or
friend) and see where it goes.
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Dr. A.T.W Simeons discovered the HCG weight loss protocol over fifty years ago.
Since then Tens of thousands of people have used it and achieved miraculous and
permanent weight loss results. Stubborn fat melted away.
Shockingly, this protocol has been mocked, discredited, and hidden by medical
establishments all over the world, Now, for the first time in 50 years, Natural
Health Labs brings direct to you Dr Simeons protocol in Homeopathic form:
No syringes or needles No pharmaceutical drugs No prescriptions or physician’s
consult No blood tests No hidden narcotics such as phentermine No expensive
injectable programs No refrigeration necessary The Nature of Human Chorionic
Gonadotropin (HUE-man cor-ee-ON-ik go-NAD-o-TRO pin) HCG is never found in the
human body except during pregnancy. It is never found in the male. As often
happens in medicine, much confusion has been caused by giving HCG its name
before its true mode of action was understood. It has been explained that
gonadotrophin literally means a sex-gland directed substance or hormone, and
this is quite misleading. It dates from the early days when it was first found
that HCG is able to render infantile sex glands mature, whereby it was entirely
overlooked that it has no stimulating effect whatsoever on normally developed
and normally functioning sex-glands.
No amount of HCG is ever able to increase a normal sex function; it can only
improve an abnormal one and in the young hasten the onset of puberty. In an
indirect way via the anterior pituitary, HCG regulates menstruation and
facilitates conception, but it never virilizes a woman or feminizes a man. It
neither makes men grow breasts nor does it interfere with their virility, though
where this was deficient it may improve it. It never makes women grow a beard or
develop a gruff voice. I have stressed this point only for the sake of my lay
readers, because, it is our daily experience that when patients hear the word
hormone they immediately jump to the conclusion that this must have something to
do with the sexsphere. They are not accustomed as we are, to think thyroid,
insulin, cortisone, adrenalin etc, as hormones. The “Pregnant” Male When a male
patient hears that he is about to be put into a condition which in some respects
resembles pregnancy, he is usually shocked and horrified. The physician must
therefore carefully explain that this does not mean that he will be feminized
and that HCG in no way interferes with his sex.
The HCG Weight Loss Protocol
The HCG treatment consists of a very low calorie diet (VLCD) in combination with
HCG hormone treatments. During the 23 days treatment you regularly take a small
amount of HCG into your body. Be aware that the HCG itself does not cause weight
loss, it just modifies your eating behavior. This will make it possible to
maintain the diet. HCG helps to burn the “mobile fat”; that is the fat that is
stored around the hips, thighs, belly and upper arms. It will however leave the
so called “structural fat”, that can be found in the muscles and protects the
organs, untouched. This way the excess fat will disappear even faster, the
problem areas will be dealt with more efficiently and this way of losing weight.
The History of Fat
There was a time, not so long ago, when obesity was considered a sign of health and prosperity in man and of
beauty in women. Before that, with the possible exception of some races such as
the Hottentots, obesity was almost non-existent, as it still is in all wild
animals and most primitive races across the globe.
Today obesity is extremely common among all civilized races. Poor diets, too
large of portions, eating when we’re not hungry, lack of exercise, sitting behind
a desk or computer for hours on end... you know the drill. The Significance of
Regular Meals In pre-Neolithic times, man ate only when he was hungry and only
as much as he required to still the pangs of hunger. Moreover, much of his food
was raw and all of it was unrefined. He roasted his meat, but he did not boil
it, as he had no pots, and what little he may have grubbed from the Earth and
picked from the trees, he ate as he went along.
The whole structure of man’s omnivorous digestive tract is, like that of an ape,
rat or pig, adjusted to the continual nibbling of tidbits. It is not suited to
occasional gorging as is, for instance, the intestine of the carnivorous cat
family. Thus the institution of regular meals, particularly of food rendered
rapidly assimilable, placed a great burden on modern man’s ability to cope with
large quantities of food suddenly pouring into his system from the intestinal
tract. The institution of regular meals meant that man had to eat more than his
body required at the moment of eating so as to tide him over until the next
meal. Food rendered easily digestible suddenly flooded his body with nourishment
of which he was in no need at the moment. Somehow, somewhere this surplus had to
be stored.
Three Kinds of Fat
The first kind of fat in the human body is the structural fat which fills the
gaps between various organs, a sort of packing material.
Structural Fat
Structural fat also performs such important functions as bedding the kidneys in
soft elastic tissue, protecting the coronary arteries and keeping the skin
smooth and taut. It also provides the springy cushion of hard fat under the
bones of the feet, without which we would be unable to walk.
Normal Reserve Fat
The second type of fat is a normal reserve of fuel upon which the body can
freely draw when the nutritional income from the intestinal tract is
insufficient to meet the demand. Such normal reserves are localized all over the
body. Fat is a substance which packs the highest caloric value into the smallest
space so that normal reserves of fuel for muscular activity and the maintenance
of body temperature can be most economically stored in this form. Both these
types of fat, structural and reserve, are normal, and even if the body stocks
them to capacity this can never be called obesity. But there is a third type of
fat which is entirely abnormal. It is the accumulation of such fat, and of such
fat only, from which the overweight patient suffers.
Abnormal Fat
This abnormal fat is also a potential reserve of fuel, but unlike the normal
reserves it is not available to the body in a nutritional emergency. It is, so
to speak, locked away in a fixed deposit and is not kept in a current account,
as are the normal reserves.
When an obese patient tries to reduce by starving himself, he will first lose
his normal fat reserves. When these are exhausted he begins to burn up
structural fat, and only as a last resort will the body yield its abnormal
reserves, though by that time the patient usually feels so weak and hungry that
the diet is abandoned.
It is just for this reason that obese patients complain that when they diet they
lose the wrong fat. They feel famished and tired and their face becomes drawn
and haggard, but their belly, hips, thighs and upper arms show little
improvement. The fat they have come to detest stays on and the fat they need to
cover their bones gets less and less. Their skin wrinkles and they look old and
miserable. And that is one of the most frustrating and depressing experiences a
human being can have.
Fat on the Move In the course of one particular study something interesting
emerged. When patients were given small daily doses they seemed to lose their
ravenous appetite though they neither gained nor lost weight. Strangely enough
however, their shape did change. Though they were not restricted in diet, there
was a distinct decrease in the circumference of their hips. Remembering this, it
occurred to me that the change in shape could only be explained by a movement of
fat away from abnormal deposits on the hips, and if that were so there was just
a chance that while such fat was in transition it might be available to the body
as fuel. This was easy to find out, as in that case, fat on the move would be
able to replace food. It should then be possible to keep a “fat boy” on a
severely restricted diet without a feeling of hunger, in spite of a rapid loss
of weight.
When I tried this in typical cases of Froehlich’s syndrome, I found that as long
as such patients were given small daily doses of HCG they could comfortably go
about their usual occupations on a diet of only 500 Calories daily and lose an
average of about one pound per day. It was also perfectly evident that only
abnormal fat was being consumed, as there were no signs of any depletion of
normal fat. Their skin remained fresh and turgid, and gradually their figures
became entirely normal, nor did the daily administration of HCG appear to have
any sideeffects other than beneficial. From this point it was a small step to
try the same method in all other forms of obesity. It took a few hundred cases
to establish beyond reasonable doubt that the mechanism operates in exactly the
same way and seemingly without exception in every case of obesity. I found that,
though most patients were treated in the outpatients department, gross dietary
errors rarely occurred. On the contrary, most patients complained that the two
meals of 250 Calories each were more than they could manage, as they continually
had a feeling of just having had a large meal.
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The first basic principles of homeopathy were formulated by a brilliant doctor
by the name of Samuel Hahnemann in the late 1700’s. The term “homeopathy” is
derived from the Greek words homeo (similar) and pathos (suffering or disease).
Homeopathy is based on the idea that large doses of a substance cause a symptom,
while very small doses of that same substance will cure it. It works on the
principle of “like cures like.” (i.e. A substance that would cause symptoms in a
healthy person is used to cure those same symptoms in illness.) For example, one
remedy which might be used in a person suffering from insomnia is coffee, a
remedy made from coffee. It is difficult to explain exactly how homeopathy
works, but what we do know is that a carefully selected homeopathic remedy acts
as a trigger to the body’s own healing processes.
Are Homeopathic remedies safe?
Homeopathic remedies are a unique, potentised energy medicine, drawn from the
plant, mineral and animal worlds. They are diluted to such a degree that not one
molecule of the original substance can be detected. They work by gently boosting
the natural energy of the body, and are very safe, even for pregnant and
sensitive patients. There is no danger of addiction or toxicity.
Homeopathy can be safely used alongside most conventional medicines. If they are
so dilute, how can they work? Homeopathic remedies are made from substances
diluted thousands of times in water or alcohol. Between each dilution, the
liquid is shaken vigorously. For example, a one-to-one-hundred dilution means
that one drop of a plant extract is placed in 100 drops of water or alcohol.
After lengthy shaking, one drop of the new solution is mixed with another 100
drops of water. This mixture is shaken vigorously, and then one drop is taken
from it and added to another 100 drops of liquid, and so on. This process is
repeated as many as 30, 50, or more times. Dilutions are made up to either 1
part tincture to 10 parts water (1x) or 1 part tincture to 100 parts water (1c).
Repeated dilution results in the familiar 6x, 6c or 30c potencies that can be
bought over the counter: the 30c represents an infinitessimal part of the
original substance.
Does diluting the substance make it less potent?
With the minimum dose, or law of infinitesimals, Hahnemann believed that a
substance’s strength and effectiveness increased the more it was diluted.
Minuscule doses were prepared by repeatedly diluting the active ingredient by
factors of 10. A “6X” preparation (the X is the Roman numeral for 10) is a
1-to-10 dilution repeated six times, leaving the active ingredient as one part
per million. Essential to the process of increasing potency while decreasing the
actual amount of the active ingredient is vigorous shaking after each dilution.
Some homeopathic remedies are so dilute, no molecules of the healing substance
remain. Even with sophisticated technology now available, analytical chemists
may find it difficult or impossible to identify any active ingredient. But the
homeopathic belief is that the substance has left its imprint or a spirit-like
essence that stimulates the body to heal itself.
The reason most commonly offered today by homeopathic proponents is the remedy’s
solution has a “memory” of the original substance. What is this memory?
Homeopaths say it is electromagnetic waves of the active ingredient it once
contained. They say that vigorous shakings between each dilution make this
memory possible.
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