Last night, Rachel and I were watching a movie called Forks over Knives. Perhaps,
you've seen it. It's a documentary based on the idea that if you focus on your
nutrition (the fork), you can avoid the knife (medical treatment).
It was a pretty infromative documentary, even though Rachel and I fell asleep.
Seriously, it's how we watch movies these days. The kids FINALLY get to bed,
we sit down to watch 30 minutes, then wake up at 2 or 3 am.
Aside from the documentary, it's important to realize that our culture of food is
very bad in the United States. Even eating food that you think contributes to a
healthy lifestyle most likely isn't what you think, unless you've already been vigilant
and have done your homework.
Until this upcoming UBC program, we've focused on eating foods that promoted
weight loss and muscle mass development. It wasn't until my father-in-law was
diagnosed with glioblastoma multiforma (brain tumor), then my mother with
adenocarcinoma (lung cancer) that we realized something is seriously screwed up.
Both my father-in-law and mother are healthy, active, fit, and non-smokers. So
what gives?? Well, that's what our quest has been to discover. As it turns out,
many people before us have already figured a lot of stuff out. Consequently,
nothing is going to change unless we take matters into our own hands.
We can no longer trust that just because it's sold in the grocery store it's going to
be good for us. This email is not the place to explain how most of our beef, chicken,
salmon that we buy in the store contributes to ALL sorts of health issues. Just
think about it... should there be any surprise that eating meat from an animal that
is sick because it's being fed corn, or being pumped with antibiotics is making us
sick too.
Or shouldn't there be a concern that the company that manufactures the most
powerful weed killer known as Round Up, which has been banned in several
countries, is also one of the biggest seed producers for soy, sugar beets, corn, and
cotton.
This company, called Monsanto, genetically modified THEIR seeds to resist THEIR
Round Up. Farmers simply plant the seed, then spray the crops with Round Up.
Everything, but the crop, dies. Nevermind the herbicide that is on the consumable
crop, or the "super weeds" now created, or the ground water that becomes
contaminated.
Nevermind the fact that Americans consume, on average, 147 pounds of sugar a
year, and largely not even realizing it.
Nevermind the fact that 43% of Americans will get cancer, and 1 and 4 Americans
will die from it.
Nevermind the fact that 1500 Americans died today from cancer.
Nevermind the fact that 43 children in America, today, will learn that they have cancer.
Grocery stores, government agencies, or the FDA are not going to look out for us.
For, Rachel and I, and all the instructors of our fitness programs, we have a new vigor
for creating momentum in the United States.
Our mission isn't to push for a cure for anything. It's to remove Americans from the
horrid statistics above. We feel we've already done that with several hundred people
that have already done the UBC through an intense fitness curriculum and nutritional
program.
Part of our new goal is help our UBC students take their health to a whole new level.
Not only do we want our students to one day look all hot and sexy again, but we want
them to live free of disease. In addition to that, we want them to pass this onto their kids,
and so on.
Our next Ultimate Body Challenge begins Monday, Sept. 12th at 6 pm. For more
details- http://www.bodiesinmotionidaho.com/body_challenge.html
Cheers!
Duncan Richardson
Vice President of Motioneering
Bodies in Motion
Ph: 208.381.0587
Web: www.BodiesInMotionIdaho.com
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