I wonder if the two pilots flying Northwest Airlines Flight 188 had a feeling in the back of their minds that said, “Isn’t there something I’m supposed to be doing right now, but I can’t remember what it is?”

After all, their flight was scheduled to land in Minneapolis, but both pilots were so busy on their laptops that they overshot their destination by 150 miles.

How pathetic is that?  You would think the pilots would have been paying attention to minor details like:

* The fact that they were flying at 35,000 feet and were responsible for the safety of 144 passengers on board.

* Flight control had been trying to contact the pilots for over an hour

* People were trying to call the pilots on their cell phones

* The pilot’s instrumentation in the cock pit showed that they had veered off course

* The time on their watch would suggest they were late for something they were supposed to do…land the plane in Minneapolis and hour ago.

This was such a debacle that the White House was being briefed and F-16 military fighter jets were ready to take off…because the flight was off course, off schedule, and out of contact.

This is definitely an “Are You Kidding Me” moment.  But we’ve all seen this story before by countless individuals.  Think about it.  How many people do you know who set goals, talk about their dreams, and plan out their objectives for a better life only to become distracted?  They’ve veered from their flight plan and find themselves off course and off their schedule.

Does this sound familiar to you?  Because all of us have had a time when we find ourselves a long way from the plans we made and the goals we set.

I think it’s a great idea to make plans and goals to improve your life.   But remember, there is a good chance that circumstances will cause you to veer from your plan.  And when that happens, don’t stress out about it.  Just make the decision to get back on course.

Dr. Jason Gerard DC

I get lots of different health news and information sent to me and an article by a heart surgeon caught my attention.  I’ve kept the article in its entirety and I recommend you take a few minutes to read it.  It’s very informative.  The article discusses the myths and dangers of the “low fat” diet.

Enjoy!

Heart Surgeon Says Low Fat Is A Big Fat Lie

By Dwight Lundell MD

What you are about to read requires an open mind. You have to look at facts instead of massive advertising and failed, faulty theories. Are you ready?

Fact: From 1900 to 1980, obesity rates in the US remained stable at 14% to 15% of the population.  Since 1980, however, obesity rates have skyrocketed. Today, nearly 66% of the population is overweight or obese. This spike is directly linked to the US Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) creation of the food pyramid, advocating 11 daily servings of grains and cereals.  This is not a coincidence.

For most of my 25 year career and 5,000 heart surgeries, I accepted low-fat dieting theories.  I also believed the theory that dietary cholesterol was a primary cause of heart disease. But as heart disease continued to soar, year after year, my doubts began to haunt me.

I treated thousands of patients after they became ill.  The question that haunted me was what was causing heart disease, obesity and diabetes in the first place?  As I examined the data, it was clear that these conditions spiked in the 1980s and continued to climb.

Study after study has demonstrated the negative effects of consuming a grain-based, low-fat, high-sugar diet.  On the other hand, there is no credible evidence to suggest that a low-fat diet equals lower incidences of heart disease and obesity.  In fact, all the evidence proves otherwise. The low-fat and cholesterol theories are based on incomplete science.

“We are what we eat” is a slogan that is often repeated. But it is not quite accurate.  Instead of focusing on what we put inside our bodies, we should focus on how our bodies metabolize the foods we put there. And how we metabolize low-fat, high-sugar and grain-based foods is clearly reflected in obesity and heart disease statistics.

Fact: 65% of the nation is overweight or obese.  More people develop heart disease today than ever before at an earlier age.  Every 34 seconds a person in this country loses their life to a heart attack.  That’s 2,500 a day.

The National Institutes of Health, the National Cholesterol Education Program, the American Heart Association, the US Department of Agriculture and a host of other medical organizations continue to promote a low-fat diet and statin medications to reduce cholesterol.

These organizations are wrong, but to admit it threatens their bottom line. You don’t have time to wait for government, the medical community and food manufacturers to admit their mistake. And you can stop blaming yourself for excess pounds and ill-health, if you have faithfully followed their mistaken regime. Your life and health happens now and it’s in your control.

The cholesterol and low-fat theories are firmly planted in our consciousness. From the advice of our physicians, to the TV ads for statin drugs, to the grocery store aisles packed with low-fat foods… these faulty theories are reinforced at every turn. Their powerful marketing may be persuasive, but it is not scientific fact.

Here’s the first step that will go a long way to improving your health.  Return to the diet of your grandparents, before governments and food manufacturers declared war on fat and real food to fit faulty theories.  Your grandparents were not afraid to drink real milk and eat eggs, butter and red meat.

I am not advocating these foods in large quantities. But their elimination, in favor of low-fat, high-sugar, grain-based foods has resulted in inflammation and staggering rates of obesity.

Packaged low-fat foods created for shelf life – not human life – never touched your grandparents’ plates.  Hydrogenated omega-6 vegetable oils and margarine were not even invented.  For your grandparents, sugar was a treat reserved for special occasions. Today, it has become a daily staple.

The drug companies have done a magnificent job convincing us that we cannot get well without medication. This is not true. Your body is a tremendous, self-healing organism.  When you consume real food and essential nutrients, it will respond and flourish.

Low-fat packaged foods, filled with sugar and omega-6 oils, strongly contribute to inflammation. This is the true cause of heart disease, diabetes and a host of other diseases.  There is no better time than right now to understand how the faulty cholesterol theory created an epidemic of inflammation and what you can do about it.  You only have one heart. Keeping it healthy is not nearly as difficult as you might think.

Note: Dr. Dwight Lundell is the past Chief of Staff and Chief of Surgery at Banner Heart Hospital, Mesa, AZ.  He is the founder of Healthy Humans Foundation and Chief Medical Advisor for Asantae. In 2003, Dr. Lundell made the most difficult decision of his 25 year surgical career.  As traditional medicine continued to chase the cholesterol theory of heart disease, Dr. Lundell closed his surgical practice. He then devoted the rest of his life to speaking the truth that inflammation causes heart disease. By lowering inflammation, heart disease has a cure.

Dr. Lundell is the author of the world-wide bestselling book, The Great Cholesterol Lie. This book is a revealing look at heart disease and the faulty theories of low-fat diets and cholesterol.  He also reveals his clinically-tested recommendations for lowering inflammation that can prevent and reverse heart disease. For more information, go to the website www.thecholesterollie.com

I hope you enjoyed the article.  If you have any questions, feel free to email me!

Sincerely,

Dr. Jason Gerard, DC

All I Want Is:  1.  To have less headaches this coming year!

                      2.  To loose fifteen lbs. and have more energy!

                      3.  Low back pain vanished!

                      4.  Get my children off their asthma/ allergy/ ADHD meds!

                      5.  Blood pressure finally under control naturally!

Understand:

To be truly well requires four things to be working optimally and ALL at the same time.

                       1.  Eating well = 80% naturally derived food and 20% man-made food in you diet

                       2.  Moving more = 25 minutes/day aerobically working out and 25 min/day doing some 

                            form of resistance exercise at least 4-5 times/week

                       3. Thinking well = 15 minutes/day reading something truly positive/inspiring to you

                       4. Functioning better = Getting your spine checked 1x/week and commiting 10 min/day

                           to spinal and/or postural exercises

Now That’s What Xmas Should Be All About!!!

The drug companies and media attempt to sell us on the idea that it’s all bad luck or genetics. But if you really examine that idea, does it make any real sense?  For example, why has type II diabetes increased by a WHOPPING 90% in just the last decade alone?  Bad genes?  In ten years?  What about the billions of dollars we put into cancer research every year, yet one out of every three people in the US today above 60 years of age has been diagnosed with it? Are we really closer to a cure?  Do I even have to mention heart disease?  A wise person once said to me, the quality of one’s life is defined by the quality of questions one asks.  Maybe we’re as a society asking the wrong questions?  Think about that for a second.

I propose to you to ask this life altering question instead.  Instead of “Why is our health in so much trouble”, how about asking, “What do I need to do to live a healthy life”?  Amazing that when you ask a better question, the possibilties are endless.  So now that you have asked a better question, here’s your answer.

Five keys to transforming your health…

1.  You need to average 6-7 hours of UNINTERRUPTED sleep

2.  You MUST get your heart beating at 60% of its maximum for 15 minutes, 4 days/week MINIMUM

3.  You need to cleanse your body at least 4 times/year and eat half of your food organically

4.  You need 10 minutes/day to close your eyes without ANY distractions to clear your mind

5.  You MUST maintain and optimize the system that controls everything, the nervous system