90 Day Live Longer Feel Younger Plan
Dr. Oz’s 90 Day Live Longer, Feel Younger Plan
As seen on Oprah
Did you catch the “90 Day Live Longer, Feel Younger Plan on Oprah’s show yesterday? Well, if you didn’t, let me recap it for you.
I will tell you first of all; this is no new discovery. It doesn’t require you to load up on supplements, buy anyone’s special products, or count any points or calories. It’s the same thing I and many other fitness professionals have been telling you for years. The take home; eat foods in their most natural state. If you are about to put something in your mouth doesn’t swim, fly, grow on a tree or in the soil, you shouldn’t eat it.
Dr. Oz and Dr. Roizen go to the house of a woman that drinks 4-6 packs of soda a day and eats a diet full of fast food, high sugar and fat. She is so tired that she sometimes sleeps 18 hours in a day. The better part of her day she sits in a recliner and watches TV. She is too tired to do anything else. Her chronological age was 42 years old. When they factored in her lifestyle, her real age was 57 years old and she looked every year of it.
Dr. Oz and Dr. Roizen came up with 5 foods that you should not eat. That means check the labels of the food you are about to buy. If the first 5 ingredients listed on a label are any of the 5 that we are about to take a look at, do not buy it. It’s junk, poison to your body, and it’s slowly killing you!
Sugar-When you eat or drink sugar, Dr. Oz says the sudden energy surge your body experiences is followed by an insulin surge that rapidly drops the blood sugar level—so two hours later, you feel famished and tired. To keep an even keel, Dr. Oz says to replace simple carbohydrates with complex ones (such as fruit) so the absorption is more controlled and you experience long-term satiety. "Sugar is supposed to be eaten, of course," says Dr. Oz, "but it should come together with fat or some element like fiber—as you would find in fruit—so you can absorb it a bit more slowly."
High fructose corn syrup-Although they taste sweet, Dr. Oz says food products that contain high fructose corn syrup should be avoided. Dr. Oz says the body processes the sugar in high-fructose corn syrup differently than it does old-fashioned cane or beet sugar, which in turn alters your body's natural ability to regulate appetite. "It blocks the ability of a chemical called leptin, which is the way your fat tells your brain it's there," says Dr. Oz. "It's not so much the 150 calories in the soda pop—it's the fact at that same meal you will normally consume an extra hundred calories of food than you would have."
Enriched wheat flour (white flour)-Contrary to what its name suggests, Dr. Oz says enriched flour is actually poor in nutrition because most of the grain's nutrients are destroyed in the refining process. "The reason they enrich it is because they already stripped out anything that was worth a darn in it, and they add a little bit back so it doesn't look so bad," says Dr. Oz. Instead, he says to look for whole grains and whole grain flours. "It has its kernels, it has its B vitamins—all the things you want to be in there," says Dr. Oz.
Saturated fat-Found mainly in animal products, Dr. Oz says to avoid saturated fats that are solid at room temperature, like lard. "You can actually use this kind of material for furniture polish—lots of fun things—but don't put it in you," he says.
Hydrogenated oil-To increase their shelf life, Dr. Oz says certain oils are hydrogenated. This process turns the oil into a solid at room temperature, but it also makes the oil unhealthy. "This stuff is great because it doesn't go bad, but it's very bad for you," says Dr. Oz. Avoid food products that contain hydrogenated oil, often labeled as "trans fats."
Under “high fructose corn syrup” you see a chemical called Leptin. I wasn’t familiar with that chemical and when Oprah said that it’s the chemical that tells you when you are full, you don’t need anymore; the proverbial light bulb went on.
Have you ever started eating something sweet, not even realizing how much you have eaten, and then feel sick because of all the sugar? I’ll admit it; I have. What follows next? That feeling that once again, that you got out of control, you failed at your diet (again) and then you give up. You get that hopeless feeling.
I’m sure you like a happy ending to a story and so do I. The woman in the story went on the “90 Day Live Longer, Feel Younger Plan” by Dr. Oz and Dr. Roizen and eliminated the 5 items above. She added moderate exercise (weight training, yoga and cardio), drank plenty of water. She ate a diet rich in anti-oxidants (fruits and vegetables), and she added healthy oils (olive oil, grape seed, canola) and the best part of all, she lost 35 pounds. When she came out on the stage you would never think it was the same woman. She was energetic, beautiful, full of energy and looked years younger.
Phyllis Stewart is the author of God’s Temple-40 Days to Total Transformation and This is It. She spent almost 3 years in Iraq serving the troops by managing sports, fitness and recreation facilities and programs. Since returning to the states she is fitness coaching online and by phone and resides in Vienna, Virginia. For more information about Phyllis or her services please visit www.expectsuccesspt.com or email her at phyllis@expectsuccesspt.com.