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Resilient Plants for a Healthy Society

The healthiest foods are the hardiest foods.

Think back to your days in P.E. class. There was a team game, and each captain was picking teams.

Who got picked first?

It was usually the strongest, fastest, most agile, and most socially popular student.

He is resilient, he is an asset, and his power contributes to your wellbeing.

Partnerships with resilient forms of life makes you stronger as a person.

Every day, we have the choice of what things we want on our team. In fact, our team is responsible for our entire livelihood.

Food is probably the second most important aspect of our humanity — the first is our genetics. Our genes encode the information that controls how our bodies respond to the stressors of life.

Wild Cabbage

Resilient plants, like Cabbage and Kale, have the ability to protect our DNA from damage.

Cabbage can handle all sorts of weather

Of course, the resiliency of cabbage in the real world seems to be directly related to how resilient cabbage makes us.

Is it any wonder that cabbage is one of the most widely consumed vegetables on the entire planet? Humans have cultivated cabbage before history — Greeks, Romans, Chinese, and everyone else who values a healthy colon!

Lets pause and compare cabbage to a less resilient food.

While cabbage has a plethora of healing properties, other foods like fast-food hamburgers do more damage than good.

Cabbage

  • Contains significant vitamins
  • Contains significant minerals
  • Live enzymes when raw
  • High in antioxidants that protect cells from free radicals and oxidation
  • Phytonutrients such as indoles that have proven cancer-protection
  • High fiber for colon health

Fast Food Hamburger

If they don't eat grass, they need chemicals in their grains to grow big.

  • Insignificant vitamins
  • Some minerals, such as iron
  • High in saturated fat, very low in the good polyunsaturated fats
  • Cooked in oxidized oils, therefore produces free radicals that may cause DNA damage (unless you ate a big serving of cabbage!)
  • Low fiber
  • The bun is full of carbohydrates, which cause an insulin spike
  • Starchy carbs + unhealthy fat will produce an even greater insulin spike, blood sugar at dangerous levels.
  • Uses body’s limited storage of enzymes for digestion

Fast Food Hamburgers are WEAK!

The cows are loaded with drugs like antibiotics, otherwise they probably wouldn’t even survive.

I don’t want to eat a weak food. Resilience is key.

Cabbage is the cure.

….And so are broccoli and oranges, kale and tomatoes, beans and brown rice, avocado and spices, herbs and lovin‘.

Partner up with the good, the strong, and the healing.

It will make you feel good, strong, and healthy.

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Revealing the Secrets of Weight-Loss Food

Weight loss foods have the most authentic character.

A congruency within the body. Thats how we know the apple is so healthful.

Did you hear? She's dating Johnny Appleseed now.

The apple is but one character in the massive undertaking of digestion.

To truly benefit, you need to know the secrets behind Weight Loss Food so that you know it when you see it.

Weight Loss Foods…

  • are Fresh.
  • high in at least one of the following:
    1. fiber,
    2. protein (essential amino acids),
    3. unsaturated fats (essential fatty acids), or
    4. vital nutrients from fruits and vegetables.
  • consists of one ingredient: itself. (or part of a team of weight loss foods)
  • are consumed at optimal periods during the day

If it comes from a restaurant, has more than six months shelf life, or contains processed sugar, it’s probably not a weight loss food.

I challenge you

Eating healthy is not as easy as going to drive-thru’s five days a week.

Take responsibility for your food. Make it at home and earn the sense that life is more valuable from here. It feels good every time.

All you need is a cooler lunch box (the boxes designed to hold a six-pack are great), some reusable containers, and a gel ice pack.

What are you waiting for? Go eat some Weight Loss Food and say goodbye to belly!

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Raw Ingredients: The Food for Energized Fitness

Nutrients, you make me so.

If I were to compare life to having a vehicle, then a healthy vehicle will have battery power, gasoline, a competent driver, a reliable mechanic, and the blue avatar guy on my side.

In other words, nutrients are not just for energy. Nutrients are the power, but also the fuel, the nourishment, and support system for the entire body.

The key is Nutrient Density

$11 for healthy energy, nutrients, nice abs

The only reason healthy foods are “healthy” is because they contain a dense amount or variety of nutrients that can be used by the body in so many known and unknown ways.

Science is still behind when it comes to healthy eating — people ate healthier before modern scientific advances. We still don’t know exactly how many compounds in basic fruit and vegetables interact within the body. Nature got it right the first time.

Plan meals, make $$ MILLIONS $$!!!

Simple math here.

By not eating out constantly, I save $70 per week. That is about $3,300 per year. This $3,300 well invested in 2010 could triple by half a decade’s time. I’m no economist, but more value in my portfolio seems like a good thing.

But the real reason you make millions of dollars is that you save on medical costs down the line. While I am in no way qualified to make this statement: people who eat restaurant food every day are more likely to be struck by both chronic and acute disease. Medical bills can destroy families.

By eating healthy now, you save millions in medical costs and premiums.

Energized Fitness requires a variety of whole foods

Pears, grapefruits, peppers, lentils, onions, cabbage you name it. It was NEVER just about the calories. The value — the nutrient density — in food is far more important than the caloric amount.

Whole foods equal healthy metabolism. Period.

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Ellison Fitness to BURN Excess Weight and Get Ripped for ’20-TEN!

New Years Resolutions raise a certain feeling.

There was a lot of food during the holidays. I felt like I could hold myself back, but once the warm freshly baked smell penetrated my senses… there was no going back. Let’s face it, when the food is even more plentiful than the eating team, feasting becomes festive.

STEP 1) Create realistic goals

I don’t care if you want to lose 30 pounds, it’s not going to happen until you get real with yourself.

My Realistic Goal: Eat very clean for the next 26 out of 30 days (1 relax day per week), enjoy a plethora of healthy home cooked meals, and BURN OFF PURE FAT STORES.

STEP 2) It isn’t about what you can’t eat, but that which you CAN eat.

Too many people focus on what they shouldn’t eat instead of  viking raiding the river of what you CAN eat. There are a lot of good foods out there!

My Eating Plan: Consume the following foods within a 30 day time period:

  • Seven apples
  • Two giant servings of Kale
  • Broccoli for three days
  • One salmon, prepared for a king.
  • Raw Sauerkraut OR Kim Chi for 15 out of 30 days
  • Fresh Kefir probiotic drink for 15 out of 30 days
  • Whey Protein after workouts
  • Leverage the power of spices to create my own lentil soup recipe
  • Two grapefruits
  • Quinoa 7 out of 30 days.
  • Seven cucumbers
  • Walnuts or almonds on 15 out of 30 days.
  • Be flexible, quality produce goes on sale regularly

STEP 3) Get Movin’

Even if exercise didn’t burn fat, and even if exercise didn’t boost metabolism, I would still do it for the mental health benefits. Exercise has been proven to help your body adapt to stress, reduce risk of depression, and keep you motivated to eat healthy.

Now we just have to get up and out.

My Workout:

Fitness Regime.

  1. Monday: Warm up with 10 minute treadmill, then Full Body Workout
  2. Thursday: Warm up with 10 minute dynamic drills, then Lower body workout, and flexibility
  3. Friday: Warm up with 10 minute treadmill, then Upper body workout, and flexibility

Wildcard: Add an additional FOUR days of cardio workouts, anytime in the next 30 days.

STEP 4) Track Progress, Adapt and Move Forward

Damn, I just ate a bucket of wild gooseberries with coconut ice cream and a bottle of gin. Can I forgive myself?

YES!

Recognize that we can’t be perfect. However, the ways in which we respond to “failures” can bring us closer to our goals than ever before.

Then, continue to hold yourself accountable by tracking progress.

My Method of Tracking Progress:

  • Take full body pictures in two week intervals in order to track progress.
  • Weigh myself at same time as pictures.

Assess: How much weigh did I lose? More importantly, am I preserving muscle and how much pure fat did I burn?

STEP 5) Mission Accomplished

I learn a new lesson every time I work on goals like this. More importantly, I create healthy habits that are valuable — so valuable that people pay me for my time.

Health is all about Lifestyle

Even though revenue can be generated from fitness expertise, my motivation is purely intrinsic. That is, I am driven from the inside. This is an indispensable trait that can be cultivated through mind-body connection and whole foods.

Prepare yourselves for the after-pictures. There will be abdominals.

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Beware the Skin Tag: Diet may Heal and Prevent Skin Tags

Skin Tags are benign skin growths that look like a piece of hanging skin.

As my customer handed me $40 cash at the register, I noticed his hands were plastered with little skin tags. Upon closer inspection of his face and his wife’s face, it became clear that the hands were not the only areas affected.

skintagsssSkin Tags resemble little moles hanging out from the surface and can occur in anybody. Typically, people get more skin tags as they age, but from talking to customers, it seems that the actual state of health will greatly affect the occurrence of skin tags.

Are skin tags an external “marker” for internal health?

Several months ago, a gentlemen visited the store looking for products to kill parasites and candida. Within the past year, he had been struck by a serious parasite and hospitalized. Doctors pumped him full of powerful drugs and antibacterials in an effort to destroy the parasites.

In only a few months, his weight exploded by 50 pounds and his health deteriorated. Interestingly, he also gained many dozens of skin tags over his face and body during this period. Could there be a link?

How do we prevent Skin Tags?

We know that people with Type II Diabetes are more at risk for acquiring Skin Tags, and we also believe that blood sugar levels relate to diabetes. So it seems that sugar is one of the main causes of skin conditions like acne and Skin Tags. The first step to preventing Skin Tags is cutting out sugar in the diet. You can do it!

Next, we need to improve the fatty acid balance in the body. In particular, decrease saturated fat from animal oils and increase unsaturated fat from fish oils. For example, replace fast food with a homemade meal of baked salmon with vegetables.

Aside from eating a balanced diet with fruits and vegetables, the final ingredient in Skin Tag prevention should have to do with the balance of internal flora AKA Gut Health. According to the research, beneficial bacteria known as Probiotics improve both the immune system and digestion. Consuming fermented foods such as Yogurt, Kefir, and Kimchi can vastly improve the digestive and immune systems. If these foods are not available, then a Probiotic Supplement may help restore healthy internal flora.

All inclusive SuperFood formula with herbs, detox, probiotics, and more. A personal favorite!

All inclusive SuperFood formula with herbs, detox, probiotics, and more. A personal favorite!

Destroying current Skin Tags

The doctors would use nitrogen and chemicals to freeze those suckers off, but without improving diet, they will probably just come right back.

The first step is to fix your diet. Following a diet change, there are many suggested natural remedies for skin tags. Some people suggest using Apple Cider Vinegar, Grapefruit Seed Extract, Oil of Oregano, and other natural supplements. I have not tested these methods and cannot assure that they work, but I do believe in the healing powers of herbs so it may be possible.

Skin Tags are a vital signal.

If you start noticing more skin tags, consider how the rest of your body is doing. How is your digestion? Are you lacking energy? What is different now?

Realize that healthy nutrition is the only pathway to peak performance. Skin Tags may be your body telling you it’s time to get a tune up with healthy foods and natural remedies.

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No skin tags baby! Let’s be real though, this is obviously photo shopped!

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