What do you mean “Step Out”?

One participant from one of Australian Weightloss’s last challenges is heading to Europe for a great adventure around October this year, and has set her goal to lose over 25kgs before she departs. She is on-track and is about to register in her second weightloss challenge so she stays on-track!

Why is this SO IMPORTANT to her? Because she want to enjoy her trip to the fullest, and be able to walk wherever she wants to, and be the person at the front of the group showing the way; not the one at the back having to be given a hand. At age 72 years she is still very young at heart, and sadly lost her husband and best friend a couple of years back so she has been adjusting to a new way of life.

The support from the community weightloss challenge is great and … so much different to a lot of other activities she is invited to.

Many of the social activities she has been going to involve FOOD!

Last week she went to five lunches with friends, and thank goodness she is able to apply a lot of what she has learnt at the last challenge, to ensure she makes healthy choices and avoids the “killer” foods.

Who do you know that may be interested in joining a Community Weightloss Chellenge? Many of the challenges also have FREE Fit Clubs that operate in conjunction with them. More support, more FUN and amazing value!

CLICK HERE for details from Australian Weightloss.

But, that begs the question straight off the plate as to who ACTUALLY has a healthy balanced diet today?

And WHY do we have an EPIDEMIC of preventable disease in our modern, developed world? Once you have read economist Paul Zane Pilzer’s book “The Wellness Revolution” you understand that food TODAY is not what it was fifty or 100 years ago.

As a personal wellness coach with Herbalife International I have done hundreds of FREE Body Analysis and rarely find a person who actually eats well. With ALL the dietary information and ‘good advice’ on the internet and in the marketplace today telling us how IMPORTANT breakfast is … YOU WOULD THINK everyone would have breakfast, but yet they don’t.

“I don’t have TIME.”

“I don’t feel like eating until later.”

“I hate cereal, and can’t stomach eggs first thing.”

I believe it was quality assurance guru Edwards Demming who said, “People don’t work, systems work.” or something to that effect. As a qualified risk manager and engineer I know exactly what he means. We are simply not designed to do what we know is BEST for us unless it is made very very EASY.

In one Melbourne community my team of wellness coaches did 85 FULL Body Analysis over two weekends to find that:

• 70% were dehydrated
• over 70% were ‘over fat’ or obese
• 90% had low physical rating (from sedentary jobs & inactivity)
• almost 100% did NOT eat a balanced diet
• around 90% had LOW bone weight.

Herbalife International is now 32 years old, and with sales of $5.4 billion in over 80 countries last year is making an AMAZING difference in people’s lives.

Their core products are patented Cellular Nutrition, scientifically designed to:

1. cleanse the ‘villi’ that line your intestine so your body can absorb the nutrition form ALL your food.
2. provide the finest micro nutrition that is absorbed down to a cellular level, so your body
3. reproduces healthy new cells through the process of cell or cellular regeneration.

Choice correctly states that many people may be wasting some money purchasing multi-vitamins that are not providing adequate levels of essential vitamins and minerals. There are also trace elements, amino acids, essential fats plus herbs and botanicals that are necessary for optimum health. Few people get these unless they supplement their diet.

On Herbalife’s Formula1 Pure Food the percentages of your daily requirement are shown, making is EASY to understand. When an adult is consuming Herbalife’s Formula1 and Formula2 Multi-vitamin complex regularly they are feeding their body what heir body needs in balance and at the optimum levels.

Now, aged 60 years I have personally used the Herbalife’s Cellular Nutrition and targeted products for forteen years and my Basal Metabolic Rate registers as low as 16 or 17 years.

My father has similarly used the same products for the same time and at age eighty seven his BMA was 49yrs. You can DOWNLOAD his story here … I’m sure he won’t mind.

So, who needs HERBALIFE?

Again the answer seems obviously EVERYONE. 

The best part is, Herbalife is FOOD … the best food you can put into your body.

Ask me how you can safeguard your health using the Herbalife products and ENJOY one balanced nutritious meal a day for less than the price of a coffee and a don-nut.

Herbalife is the best health insurance on the market TODAY.

“The New Wellness Revolution explains why the majority of opportunities in wellness still await the individual entrepreneur or health professional, and how new management techniques and forms of business organization (like direct selling and franchising) can allow such individuals even better technology than if they were part of a large corporation.”

While big companies like Walmart and McDonald’s are doing their part, the majority of sales are expected to be made by individual entrepreneurs and practitioners, especially through the growth of direct selling or network marketing companies. These NEW wellness opportunities are here now and everyone can benefit, personally and professionally.

Even retail outlets and restaurants are playing their part and there is collaboration between many existing retail outlets and practitioners now starting to see the opportunities for better cash-flow and long term wealth by partnering with direct selling organisations.

Another major aspect to the increasing growth of Wellness Opportunities is how rapidly they are being taken up throughout Asia, especially in countries such as Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore, Taiwan and India.

Especially India is seeing a massive acceleration and growth in NEW wellness opportunities.

Whichever country you live in the opportunities are there for you to get involved and start making a difference to the lives of those around you.

Timing is everything, so they say however the good news is the wellness opportunities are here to stay.

So what is changing, and how does making sense again make more money too?

The way most people see change is in new electronic products such as flat screen TV’s and iPads and in medical procedures but the same change is occurring at an accelerating rate throughout many industries, throughout most countries and now throughout their economies.

The best part is … it has many benefits for the vast majority of us as we shift towards making sense.

Sure, there has also been lots of chaos, and sadly sometimes the loss of innocent lives but the future that is rapidly heading our way has many benefits.

Take Iceland as an example. A very small democratic country of some 330,000 people who, a handful of years ago were faced with financial ruin and bankruptcy. Much of the economic wows of a number of European countries has been splashed around the media for years now, but few of us understand what actually happened?

What lead to such a rapid decline in people’s lives, especially in Europe where good practice has been established over hundreds of years. The “good practice” part is certainly up for discussion. What happened that had men and women who worked hard all their lives only to find that their governments have effectively ruined their financial futures?

In Iceland fishermen became financial brokers and invested heavily in a sky-rocketing real estate boom and left the industry that, while it involved hard work, feed thousands of people and added enormous value.

Now, greener and leaner cars are in demand (makes sense), their currency was devalued (makes sense), the fraudulent bankers have been held accountable with some serving goal terms (what they deserve) and evidently there is full employment.

I don’t feel that the problem is solved yet. The context is still economic growth and a favorable view on rising housing prices (makes no sense) and so the little bit of making sense, of returning to value added industry including fishing is at least giving respite while the Icelanders deal with the ‘shake up’.

Imagine if they could see the need for total reform, and accept a new context of abundance which now exists.

Just as very few of us see the acceleration of change, very few can yet see that there is now abundance on Earth, and the shackles of past economic theories and regulations ought to collapse with the banking industry.

Sounds like a lot but it is amazing how easy it is to build up to 200 or so a day.

You don’t need to do them all at once, and make sure you are drinking lots of water to stay hydrated.

What I do is 60 to 100 after my morning yoga and stretching, then I fit in another 40 or 60 late morning, before lunch. Lunch is also a delicious high protein nutritional shake so I’m dropping a few kilos too. That helps.

Here’s the link if you want to join … https://www.facebook.com/events/233762270046700/

Remember to take responsibility for your health and wellbeing too. If you do have a pre-existing back condition or something that may be inflamed by situps get some advice first. Having said that I also recall my physio who is a doctor to one of the league teams recommended I strengthen my ‘core’ a few years ago to help prevent back problems in the future and that’s what I have been doing.

This ABS Crunch Challenge is just a great way to peel off those few extra kilos that aren’t needed, and actually contribute to a higher than necessary visceral fat (dangerous fat, especially for men) and at the same time strengthen my core.

I strongly recommend including the high protein nutritional shakes, two or three times a day if you want to  drop a few kilos too.

Have fun …

I used to say “It’s not that important, a few kilos … ” but I know that it is INCREDIBLY IMPORTANT.

A 40% INCREASE in Heart Disease is forecast in the next decade, and one in three (1 : 3) people who suffer a heart attack DO NOT GET A SECOND CHANCE!

This “EXTRA FAT” is termed viseral fat …

Visceral fat,  lies out of reach, deep within the abdominal cavity, where it pads the spaces between our abdominal organs. Visceral fat has been linked to metabolic disturbances and increased risk for cardiovascular disease and type 2 diabetes. In women, it is also associated with breast cancer and the need for gallbladder surgery.  — Harvard Medical School, Feb 2007

Someone, like myself who is in the “healthy, or even very healthy weight range” for their age can have a high and alarming viseral fat level … and the chances are YOUR DOCTOR WILL NOT TELL YOU.

So what can you do?

1. First thing is FIND OUT WHAT YOUR VISCERAL FAT LEVEL IS – If you are in Australia, Australian Weightloss do FREE full body analysis (you may pay up to $70.00 at your doctor).  It is painless, and takes less than 30 minutes. Check in your country and see what is available. Many Herbalife Independent distributors offer this free service.
2. Then what you can DO TO REDUCE IT – Remember that the majority of people in the developed world are chronically dehydrated and do not have the correct balance of vitamins and minerals, amino acids, proteins and trace elements in the food they eat each day. In todays modern world we all need to supplement our diets to be healthy.Fit to Walk and Talk can help you put together a ‘balanced nutritional’ plan to start reducing your viseral fat levels. Often this will involve a balance of animal and vegetable proteins, usually more than you currently are eating.
3. Get started on your Belly Buster Program – Having a coach will make a BIG DIFFERENCE to you achieving your desired results, or if you are confident you can follow an easy step by step plan you could try the “Belly Buster Program” from Australian Weightloss. You will also get support from one of their consultants. (Important: Password = “accelerator”)

If you need any help and support please contact me as I am on the journey myself and started two days ago. I am using the “Belly Buster Program” to achieve results quickly.

How naive am I … it’s greed, greed, greed!

It certainly isn’t reserved for politicians either as another article spoke of mass sackings at Qantas, OneSteel and Westpac while there were massive profits declared by BHP Billiton as the mining industry continues it’s sale into the growing Asian market. Is that the same Asian market that is also contributing enormously to local and global pollution? Yes it is and it is driven by greed, greed, greed and more greed.

Buckminster Fuller is considered by many as one of the most important human beings of the twentieth century. Fuller referred to this characteristic as one of “un-evidend selfishness”. This is where a person or a company appears to be doing the ‘right thing’ and being a generous or good person however the reality is they are really only interested in getting the best result for themselves … and “stuff the rest”.

The video clip above shows a small part of John Lennon and Yoko Ono’s “Bed Peace” event in Montreal, Canada in 1969, at the same time as technology (ever accelerating change) reached a point for the first time in our human evolution where we could now provide for everyone on Earth at an unprecedented high standard of living … such that there was now no need to compete. What does it take to create a future that actually works, for everyone?

In fact competition is now detrimental to the ongoing survival and success of humanity.

A recent blog on 10billionbillionaires.org titled “How Far ‘Off-Track’ Are We … ?” looks at whether there are any leaders out there willing to declare the sort of future they are committed to creating.

Or are they just reacting to the situations as they occur and as they worsen around them?

Imagine a future (not that far away) where everyone is enjoying living there lives fully. A time when we all are able to live the lifestyle of billionaires and pursue challenges that we see need fixing. One issue that makes this future difficult for the majority to understand and comprehend is that still the vast majority of people do not understand science and technology.

However, there is a delightful way to breakthrough that challenge. It is called nature … and so I recommend you stop what you are doing and go out and sit in nature, in a park or by the beach or in a forest.

Did you know that a Humpback whale calf drinks around 400 litres of milk a day, and the mother whale does not eat for around six months losing one third of it’s size during the journey back to the feeding grounds? Who was the designer of this incredible ‘machine’?

That the trillions of phytoplankton that bloom each year, or the hundreds of millions of herring that migrate to the same area each year and lay billions of eggs that will feed nature’s cycle of lif ein almost perfect harmony … who designed all of this?  

I’m very clear that we are in good hands, and we have the know how and the resources to create an amazingly prosperous future for all humankind as soon as we say so … and as soon as we let go of any need for greed, greed or even the slightest amount of greed!

There is nothing wrong with making mistakes … in fact it is one of the best way to learn, but when we keep making the same mistakes, getting the same result and are not making effective corrections then I would ask the question “what is stopping us making changes?”

What is stopping us making the necessary changes?

We live in ‘engineered environments or domains’, whether you are on land, in or on the water or in the sky, there are serious and sometimes lethal outcomes if you do not comply with the design principles of that environment.

I believe a case could now be put for gross negligence if the responsible parties do not engineer for ‘known’ hazards or risks.

We are living in the ‘twenty first century’, decades after we successfully designed a vehicle to send humans out into space and bring them back to earth safely, which we did very successfully.

It is astounding and almost unbelievable that we have not invested a similar interest in saving thousands of ordinary people’s lives. Only idiots or the ignorant would expect that speed cameras could prevent accidents or save people’s lives.

As a past chairperson of the Road Safety subcommittee of the Risk Engineering Branch of the Institution of Engineers Australia it was obvious to me that no one was looking at the road system as a “whole system”.

Rather there are separate departments or elements looking after one component each of the system, rather than looking at the ‘system’ as a whole.

Fifteen years ago I addressed an Institution of Engineers Australia meeting of road and transport engineers and opened my address by saying “We have designed a transport system that kills 2000 people a year and seriously injures thousands more.” Many of the audience squirmed a little in their seats but that is the situation today and it shouldn’t be.

Australian race car driver Mark Weber recently crashed his Formula1 race car at 300kph and walked away, because of the design integrity of the vehicle he was in and the surrounding environment or roadway and crash barriers. One death on a race track costs a lot of money when you consider the bad PR, the inquiry and the necessary modifications to prevent it happening again.

Enormous improvements have been made over recent years by the automotive designers and their companies, however I propose the road system itself is decades away from being at an acceptable level.

Less than 5 mins from landing to driving away.

During my term as Chairman of the Road Safety sub-committee for the Risk Engineering Branch, Institution of Engineers Australia I chaired a public forum on “Future Travel” with speakers from the road authorities, car manufacturers and even an aircraft designer who proposed flying cars (now being registered in the United States) as a viable, and preferable solution to road transport.

Perhaps he was right.

There were also many innovative ‘systems’ shown, including one that Mitsubishi Motors were trialling that prevented a car from going off the road, and another that as soon as the car detected the driver was losing attention the car applied the brakes and pulled over.

Sounds a bit ‘far fetched’? It isn’t actually because we’ve had the technology for years now and the cost of installing the required computerized control systems is getting even less everyday! Back 15 years ago a motor industry representative at the public forum in Melbourne said that the use of computerized control systems to prevent accidents is the most cost effective solution to reducing road accidents.

The savings in lives saved and property damage are massive.

The lag time between something being possible and then being accepted under our current competitive context (our economies often determine what we are willing to allow, rather than how preferable the option is) can be many years …  and some viable solutions have evidently been ‘moth balled’ or put on the shelf.

That is where R Buckminster Fuller was able to produce ‘break through design’ after break through design.

Take his Dimaxion House for instance which the US Government commissioned him to build after the second world war to help with the housing shortage and help to provide alternative employment for those employed in the war effort.

The house was designed so that it was hurricane proofed, flood proofed and intruder proofed, and 3600 orders came in overnight when it was first advertised, but its development was stopped by economic ‘bullying’ from two powerful unions, the plumbers and gas fitters union and electrical trades union who refused to connect the ‘mass produced’ fully shop assembled houses unless they could remove all the plumbing and electrical wiring and re-install it.

The completed houses were being helicopter delivered to the residential block of land, with a central service core and foundation poured that then only required connection. The cost of one of these houses was about the same as an average motor vehicle and was fully recyclable. The year was 1946.

Are we actually learning anything, or is greed and selfishness still controlling the options you have and costing thousands and thousands of lives?

Then  there is the Dimaxion omni-vehicle built in 1933 that Buckminster Fuller intended would eventually travel on land, sea and in the air. Three proto-types were built to test the ground taxi-ing capabilities.

Although the omni-vehicle didn’t go into commercial production many lessons were learned from it. However it was still termed a “failure” because it didn’t make money.

Given that a value of around $2million is put on a human life (loss of productive life) try estimating the losses from the current road transport system with thousands of lives lost and massive property damage occurring each year in the developed world and many times that in developing countries like India.

What options do we have?

First understand that it is possible to have a road system that serves all road users and does not unnecessarily take lives.

Secondly, we must design a road transport system that has zero deaths. It will require a NEW way of thinking but the financial benefits alone are staggeringly ENORMOUS.

Thirdly we must be prepared to accept that it is a TRANSPORT System we are designing and not an etertainment system. For entertainment get yourself a Playstation or some other ‘virtual’ game. No one and absolutely no one will be allowed to threaten the life of another person using our New Transport System.

All of this is highly feasible and desirable and could be implemented within a ten year design period. Are you willing to have a future with (close to) zero fatalities and road trauma?

I’m currently enjoying my 60th year on planet Earth, but have a basal metabolic age of 18yrs, due very much to my low body fat of 15.5%, regular exercise (I walk and do yoga almost every day) and my hydration is pretty good @ 55.5% … but should still be higher.

It is so EASY and enjoyable to be well … plus the benefits of maintaining a healthy weight are enormous!

One of my doctor friends said that the worst term many doctors use when diagnosing a patient is “... for a person your age.” Sure, age will have measurable affects on the way we perform but often doctors compare you to the ‘norm’ for your age, rather than what you could be like if you knew how easy it was to be well.

Now you can put the best fuel in! (click here)

A recent US report states that the average American family spends around $12oo a month on health insurance. Not every one can afford $1200 a month and so 50 million American’s have no health insurance and so limited access to health care. In Australia we have a very similar situation developing. These people who miss out are often the very people who need health care the most.

Overweight and obesity = Heart Disease

Everyone knows PREVENTION costs far less than the cure … and yet the cost of fresh foods, fruit and vegetables and local fish and meat that we are told we should be eating is rising sharply. The cost of low nutrition foods, fast foods and empty calorie foods seem to be a lot less but of course they cost you in the long run.

So WHY are an increasing number of people all ’round the world having difficulty controlling their weight, and maintaining their health … the two go hand in hand, with over 120 preventable diseases now being directly connected to overweight and obesity?

“Whenever there is pain in society there is usually huge profits being made.” — businessman and entrepreneur Robert Kiyosaki

Wow … surely people wouldn’t want to make a profit on someone’s pain would they?

Well yes they would, and it seems to be happening more and more as technology, the internet and media leverage makes it less and less expensive to get your message out to the masses.

One of the early reports I read on the state of world health was the WHO Report in 1997 titled “Conquering suffering, enriching humanity”. You may ask yourself … “so why hasn’t this happened?”

A company’s primary interest is in making a PROFIT, that’s why.

Extract from WHO Report in 1997 titled "Conquering suffering, enriching humanity"

There is an EASY solution if you do want to be well.

Find a company like I did that profits from YOU BEING WELL.

Makes sense doesn’t it … instead of a company (like pharmaceutical / drug companies) that profits from you being sick, or unwell! It is a matter of chosing which ‘stream’ you will follow … the ill-health / sickness stream (very expensive, painful and with no bright future) or the wellness stream (very affordable, saves you money, vital and has a really bright future in store for you).

The wellness company that I found is HERBALIFE INTERNATIONAL …

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They are a leading nutrition company and the world’s No1 weightloss company.

See it is so simple when you understand what your complex machine (the human body) does … it creates 20billion new cells every day to replace those that die, and the quality of these new cells (our future health) very much depends on the quality of the FUEL we feed them. It isn’t rocket science, but it is sure is reassuring to know that the best scientists in the human nutrition industry spend their time creating the fuel for my body.

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Last night I had a full body scan done. Ever heard of them?

It tells you  just about everything you can think of that is about your body … your height and your weight you usually know but these get ‘plugged in’ to the machine I was standing on. Then I waited a few seconds while a tiny electric current passes around my body, I just love TECHNOLOGY and how easily and quickly it does it’s job.

Then I’m told to “step off the machine” and the operator starts recording MY RESULTS, including my METABOLIC AGE, or how old my body appears to be.

Aging and health care are certainly two of the BIGGEST concerns to individuals and governments alike.

Individuals generally want to stay feeling as young as they can, for as long as they can and governments are having to find more and more money for aged care and hospitals. Part of the problem is that the majority of people simply don’t know how to stay healthy and vital.

If they actually knew HOW SIMPLY IT ACTUALLY IS they would scream!

One of the worst things that can happen as we age is to contract a debilitating disease or to suffer a serious injury, especially if you live in a country such as Australia or the United States with expensive health care. Many people just cannot afford to get sick in these countries, but a rapidly increasing number of people are getting sick.

At a recent medical seminar I attended one doctor described how scientists had now linked 120 preventable diseases to being overweight or obese … and they are finding more and more.

One of my mentors always said, “If something seems complicated people are probably making huge profits.”

Health and ill-health seems complicated … but is it really?

People all  over the world are in enormous pain because too much FOCUS is being placed on the problem of ill-health, and not enough attention is being given to maintaining excellent health … which as I said earlier is so so SIMPLE, and inexpensive to boot!

I’m one of millions of examples all around the world of ordinary people enjoying amazing health.

So here is what I got when I stepped off the machine …

1. Body fat @ 13.9% which is very very good.
2. Hydration @ 55.9% also good but my goal is up around 60%.
3. Muscle mass @ 76.4kgs again very good … I exercise regularly.
4. Bone mass @ 3.9kgs is excellent and yes, I do use the best calcium supplements available in case I’m not getting enough Ca in my food.
5. Visceral fat @ 9 is not as good as it will be as I still have around 6kgs to drop.
6. My Basal Metabolic AGE @ ???? … 18

Wow, I was surprised that it was this low. Yes, I am a health and weightloss coach myself but I do ‘enjoy life’ (food, wine, chocolate especially) a bit more than I feel I sometimes should and at AGE 59 that’s a 41 year gap!

So what do I do that is so EASY and that if you knew how easy you would probably scream?

Two things …

First is that I have exercised almost every day of my life, especially exercising first thing in the morning to boost my metabolism and help maintain my body-weight BUT this is only 20% responsible for good health.

The other 80% is due to the nutrition, the fuel that you feed your body to allow it to reproduce HEALTHY NEW CELLS everyday. Twenty billion new cells every day … if you don’t feed your body all that well then it will reproduce the best it can, not as healthy as it could have been. Do that over a period of time and you start suffering from ‘premature aging’ and you become susceptible to many preventable diseases.

The only reason people do not use a balanced nutrition program is they don’t understand the basics of how their body works and what it needs on a daily basis.

Some people have been told it is expensive to take nutrition on a regular basis … that’s not my experience. It’s expensive not to incorporate supplementation into you diet.

In fact you can save money doing it wisely. Click here for more information.

If you know of anyone wanting to improve their health, get more energy and feel vital during their busy days make sure you give them our contact details.  An obligation free 30 minute wellness evaluation can quickly put someone on the EASY ROAD to enjoy amazing health.