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<span style="color: #008080;"> <strong>Health Specialist $100</strong></span></h3>
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<h5><strong>Place your bets re: Case Study below....<span style="color: #993366;">Malcolm &amp; Me vs The Machine</span>.</strong></h5>
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<h3><span style="color: #993366;">So who’s who?</span></h3>
<span style="color: #993366;"><strong>The Health Specialist (Me)</strong></span>

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<span style="color: #000000;">While I help, assist and coach many to run 4kms through to 42km, including all shapes, <a style="color: #000000;" href="http://balancehealthprograms.com.au/wp-content/uploads/IMG_68851.jpg"><img class="  wp-image-2154 alignright" src="http://balancehealthprograms.com.au/wp-content/uploads/IMG_68851-200x300.jpg" alt="IMG_6885[1]" width="171" height="257" /></a>sizes and interests, I also help, assist and lead many towards their ideal weight and shape for life, with, I must concede, the latter being a seemingly far harder battle to win.</span>

<span style="color: #000000;">My approach to weight management is somewhat uninspiring, unattractive, and some would say just plain boring. Now, while my approach is unequivocally successful, and by that I mean, without any shadow of a doubt, it works and holds strong for life, it is once again, unsexy and dwarfed by my marketing inspired opposition.</span>

In fact, so sound is my formula (towards weight loss/management), it’s essentially impossible to fail. Actually, correction, it’s not my formula but natures’, but, who ever created it, it’s simple, offers no tricks, and, as I said, is fool proof.

The formula goes something like this;

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<blockquote><span style="color: #993366;"><strong>Hypothetical</strong> </span>– <span style="color: #008080;">let’s say there’s a huge table featuring every real food on the planet – carbs, <a style="color: #008080;" href="http://balancehealthprograms.com.au/wp-content/uploads/foodddgof.jpg"><img class="  wp-image-2851 alignright" src="http://balancehealthprograms.com.au/wp-content/uploads/foodddgof.jpg" alt="foodddgof" width="183" height="197" /></a>fats, protein and we’ll even throw in a little alcohol. There’s herbs, spices, and even the most basic human assisted foods like milk, butter, oats, (so yes, a little gluten) etc. It’s one big-arse table.</span></blockquote>
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There’s not one modified food intervened or designed by humans (as in presenting in a wrapper, box, plastic container, tin, can, or bag etc) – so therefore, there’s zero additives including faux flavours, colours, aroma’s or preservatives. Basically everything on this hypothetical table will more or less ‘go off’ becoming inedible varying between 4-10 days, if left uncovered, refrigerated, or frozen etc.

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Now, here are the rules; knock yourself out and eat whatever you want, as much as you <a href="http://balancehealthprograms.com.au/wp-content/uploads/fooofff.jpg"><img class="  wp-image-2850 alignright" src="http://balancehealthprograms.com.au/wp-content/uploads/fooofff.jpg" alt="fooofff" width="280" height="210" /></a>want, and when you want. Cut up, mix up, heat, chill whatever you want. Don’t worry about calories, weight, or what macro-nutrient family food comes from. Feel free to change what you eat from day to day, just simply be guided by how you feel – BUT – eat only from the table.

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Eat until you feel you’re full – it will be something like; stop eating now mate, you’re done. Now, eat next when you feel you need to eat – it will be something like; I’m hungry, I feel like eating! This is serious cutting edge stuff I know!!!
Again, simply select what you feel is right (or more likely, and innately, you need).

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<blockquote><span style="color: #993366;"><strong>NOTE</strong></span> – <span style="color: #008080;">if it’s summer, I reckon you might favour vitamin-rich and rehydrating fruits like watermelon. If its winter, and you’re low on sun time or battling a few bugs, you’ll likely be drawn towards fish or eggs (vit D) and some form of green leaf (vit C) – without anyone even telling you to select those foods.</span></blockquote>
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So in essence the real foods you select from the table will naturally self regulate your <a href="http://balancehealthprograms.com.au/wp-content/uploads/jjbjbb.jpg"><img class=" size-medium wp-image-2849 alignright" src="http://balancehealthprograms.com.au/wp-content/uploads/jjbjbb-300x101.jpg" alt="jjbjbb" width="300" height="101" /></a>volume, regularly, and food you select for your next meal. From vitamins, minerals, macronutrients, toxins, and most certainly flavours and aromas, all these goodies play a ‘natural’ role in your ongoing appetite.

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<blockquote><span style="color: #008080;"><strong>The result of this self regulating system; you’ll live at your ideal weight and health.</strong></span></blockquote>
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Basically in 10 -15 weeks time, whether you exercise or not (but I hope you do), and whether you’re a 170kgs Clydesdale or a Thoroughbred with 4% body fat, you’ll end up at what you’re meant to be – your best weight for life. It is unlikely this is 170kgs.

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If you practice this approach for say 10-15 weeks (not 10-15 days), it would also be likely you’d form (culinary) habits for life – and thus, maintaining your (optimum) health as you age.

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So, while all this seems simple enough, the food tastes great, and I’m even cool if you throw <a href="http://balancehealthprograms.com.au/wp-content/uploads/hnhmhmhmhm.jpg"><img class="  wp-image-2847 alignright" src="http://balancehealthprograms.com.au/wp-content/uploads/hnhmhmhmhm-300x169.jpg" alt="hnhmhmhmhm" width="268" height="151" /></a>on the table, alcohol (beer &amp; wine), coffee, and a little (dark) chocolate, WHY then am I seemingly a punters nightmare at $100? I mean, I know you’ll have to shop a little more frequently, spend a little extra time preparing and forward planning, but if you eat off the (hypothetical) table, I’m guaranteeing lifelong success.

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Well, here’s the reason, my formidable opposition……
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<h5><span style="color: #993366;"><strong>The Raging Machine (The Industrial Diet)</strong></span></h5>
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Based on my 27 years in the health game, 99 times out of 100 when someone is carrying <a href="http://balancehealthprograms.com.au/wp-content/uploads/mhmjmj.jpg"><img class="  wp-image-2845 alignright" src="http://balancehealthprograms.com.au/wp-content/uploads/mhmjmj-275x300.jpg" alt="mhmjmj" width="169" height="184" /></a>unwanted weight, it is a direct result of food choices. It’s usually as simple as that. While exercise and movement play a role, as with genetics (including one’s perception of stress), and occasionally metabolic related illness (eg thyroid conditions), all in all, weight gain it is largely through poor, or (more commonly) misguided food choices.

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<blockquote><span style="color: #008080;">And as I’ve said repeatedly, my experience suggests repeated insulin spiking (the hormone responsible for blood sugar balance), seems to be the major contributor for fat gain. </span>

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Foods that contribute most heavily to repeated and excessive insulin spikes are generally processed in nature. Processed meaning, food sources where humans have heavily intervened. And, while (some) modified food is now stripped of more obvious insulin spikers (courtesy of media hype), sugar being the most obvious, as a result, modified foods now harbours other manufactured agents that trick our brain and metabolism. This can leave many with the same ill-health effect – or maybe worse.

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<blockquote><span style="color: #008080;">*What I’m saying, something labelled ‘sugar free’, yet loaded with a stack of #’s, doesn’t make of OK, better, or healthy. </span></blockquote>
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<span style="color: #993366;"><strong>Modified food</strong></span> is commonly designed to; taste good, leaving you wanting more, leaving you <a href="http://balancehealthprograms.com.au/wp-content/uploads/nhhhmhm.jpg"><img class="  wp-image-2848 alignright" src="http://balancehealthprograms.com.au/wp-content/uploads/nhhhmhm-225x300.jpg" alt="nhhhmhm" width="177" height="236" /></a>satisfied for a short time only, be accessible, be affordable, and often claim that it really is good for us!

Armed with mega bucks, the raging machine with persuasive marketing, advertising and promotion leaves it almost impossible for many to avoid the foods that make them sick – and fat. From repeated messages on multiple platforms, and hitting and manipulating all 5 human senses, it seems the Health Specialist has next to no chance against this unbackable $1.01 favourite – The Raging Machine and its trump player, The Industrial Diet.

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<em><strong><span style="color: #993366;">The system is a remarkably simple one</span>.</strong></em> When someone is tired or perhaps a little stressed, the machine seemingly pops up out of nowhere, suggesting there’s an easy way to feel good. ‘All natural’ is a classic slogan coupled with the colours red (promoting hunger) and yellow (happy). Then throw in a catchy 3 chord jingle, make it available (everywhere), affordable, and be certain it’s supported by a mascot or a former athlete.

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Those unfortunate to be more vulnerable to weight gain really are a marketer’s dream, with misleading messages confusing and then convincing many.

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Now, once convinced this man-made modified food option truly is the way to go, it’s time to eat. Believing it is ‘healthier’ (than real food), will make you lean, happy, and best of all, it’s so damn easy, making it even more appealing.

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(Much) modified food is designed to; taste good, have you eating more, buying more, and <a href="http://balancehealthprograms.com.au/wp-content/uploads/v-v.jpg"><img class=" size-medium wp-image-2843 alignright" src="http://balancehealthprograms.com.au/wp-content/uploads/v-v-300x129.jpg" alt="v  v" width="300" height="129" /></a>can’t live without! And, while sugar is a player, is would seem it’s the less (media) fancied additives, could be causing all the problems.

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<blockquote><span style="color: #008080;">I’ve also found modified food seems to snow ball into other modified food. I suspect this, 1) sounds a bit drug-like, and 2) may have something to do with the tricks food additives plays on our brain. Mimicking flavour, aromas and colours seem to confuse the brain into believing what it really needs, how much it needs, and when it needs it.</span></blockquote>
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Finally, as way of observation, I’m certain modified foods amplify lifestyle stress, and the decisions made when stressed.

As you can see, the Health Specialist is seriously up against it - deluxe. It’s as if I’m running into a 20 knot wind, down by 30 points, with 3 injured players.

<strong><span style="color: #993366;">PART 2 (next week) - Case Study – THE ‘BIG’ GAME – RAGE AGAINST THE MACHINE!</span></strong>

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