Farewell Hydroxycut

Hello Friends!

It was great to hear from those of you who called or sent an email after the last newsletter! Please keep in touch! This week’s post is about OTC diet pills. Please let me know if you have any questions or comments so that I can share them with everyone!

There have been many stories in the news this last week about
over-the-counter (OTC) diet pills.

Just last week, the FDA issued an advisory detailing 23 reports about consumers having experienced liver-related problems and one death from the use of Hydroxycut products. Iovate Health Sciences USA, Inc. of Blasdell, New York and Ontario, Canada the manufacturer of Hydroxycut announced on the same day that it is voluntarily recalling Hydroxycut branded products sold in the United States.

In December, the FDA issued a warning regarding 28 weight loss products that contained undeclared pharmaceutical (prescription drug) ingredients sometimes in amounts far greater that the amount approved in legitimate Rx drugs. In January the FDA added 41 more products to the list!

Please follow the link to the list of products and make sure you and your family are not taking any of them!

I have never recommended OTC diet pills for many reasons:
* They don’t work by themselves
* They contain stimulants often in amounts that cause side effects
* They usually contain ingredients in “proprietary” amounts - meaning they won’t say how much you get per dose
* They always state that they work best when following a sensible diet and exercise program (You’ll lose weight by following such a program without the pills!)
* You’ll always gain back what you’ve lost when you stop taking them

What I Do Recommend

1. Cleanse Your Body… Start with a detoxifying cleanse to get rid of
toxins and wipe the slate clean!
2. Exercise Daily… Plan to walk 30 minutes every day. This can be as
simple as parking a 15 minute walk away from where you work and walking to work in the morning and back to your car after work. Walk with your husband, walk with a friend or walk your dog(s), just do it!
3. Drink Plenty of Water… I recommend at least 1/2 your body weight each day, so if you weigh 150lbs you should drink 75oz of water daily. I add a small amount of 100% grape juice to my water to make it easier to drink.
4. Eat More Frequently… I know it sounds like this will add weight but trust me it won’t! Just eat small frequent meals and healthy snacks but stop before you feel full. You will feel satisfied a few minutes after you stop. Then eat again when you feel hungry.
5. Stay Away From White Foods… White bread, white sugar, white rice, salt and potatoes. These foods will KILL your diet!
6. Limit Alcohol Consumption… Reports show some benefit from moderate (one drink per day for the ladies, two for men) alcohol consumption but it will really stop or slow weight loss!
7. Go Shopping and Plan Ahead… This is crucial! Make sure you have
enough healthy food and snacks with you so that you are not tempted to grab a bag of chips or stop at a fast food drive-thru!

Take Action

Read the Purification Guide to learn more about the detox that I
recommend and call or email me if you have questions or comments.

To Your Good Health!

Marc

Direct Ordering

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Please click on Products for the latest on ordering!

To Your Good Health!

Marc

Ordering Products

Over the next few weeks we will be adding links to a few distributors specializing in products sold only to doctors. In the past most of our products came from one of these distributors, however, no single distributor provides products from every manufacturer.

In order to purchase these products, you must first establish a relationship with a doctor or consultant such as me.

Please stay tuned and check back often as I fine tune this site to be able to offer you the widest range of professional products available online.

To Your Good Health!

Welcome to the new home of the Natural Health Center!

Those of you, who know me, know that I am committed to achieving and maintaining health through diet, exercise, lifestyle changes, supplements and homeopathy. This is not easy for most of you and it requires belief, commitment and trust.

The prevailing medical model in the US is for us to wait until we become ill, see a doctor and take whatever drugs the doctor prescribes to treat our symptoms. Most people never question how they came to be ill or what might be done to bring them back to health. Instead we blindly do what the doctor tells us to do. This keeps the doctors busy and makes the drug company’s rich but most of the time it does not make us healthy.

What we need to do instead is to first take responsibility for our own health. We need to be proactive. We need to exercise regularly even if walking is the most you can do. We need to continually ask ourselves if we are eating the right foods, drinking the right beverages, taking the right supplements.

Most of us will not become perfectly compliant or healthy overnight. These lifestyle modifications are extremely difficult and take time but small changes made over a long period of time will make a big difference in our health and longevity.

As a practicing pharmacist, I see too many people taking far too many drugs. Customers come to me all day long and ask “What can I take for _______?”. They want a quick fix, not a solution. I try to give them sound advice meant to help them understand what caused the problem, how to treat the symptoms for the short term, but also how make changes to avoid the same problem from occurring in the future.

My goal for this website is to provide education to you, my friends, to help you understand how the body works, what it needs to achieve and maintain optimal health and vitality. Over time I plan to write articles, interview experts and to do whatever else it takes to help you achieve your goals.

For now, in order to provide for my family, I’ll have to keep my job as a pharmacist with a national chain but my goal is to help enough of you to be able to afford to leave that job within the next 2 years and devote full time to helping you. That would make me truly happy.

Please come back to my site regularly, subscribe to the RSS feed, tell your friends and family and let me know what you would like to see, hear and learn by leaving comments about articles and responding to my questions.

Until next time, To Your Good Health!

Marc