HCG is Easy!

I have been doing the HCG diet for 26 days now and I've lost 20 pounds! Amazing! I thought I would have a hard time considering you're only allowed to eat 500 calories per day and that's from a very specific list of foods. Well, it was difficult the first 3 -4 days, but my body was withdrawing from sugars and caffeine and all of the toxic foods that I had gotten used to. Once I got through that and got into a rhythm, I have found the diet to be quite easy actually.

I keep celery and apples around for snacks in case I get hungry but for the most part, I am not hungry and I don't have too many cravings (chocolate once in a while) and I have been able to get past most of those cravings.

I want to encourage you to try the HCG diet if you have stubborn weight to lose and nothing has seemed to be working. That's the boat I was in. I had lost some weight but was at a place where I just didn't seem to be able to improve any further. HCG has been very effective!

--Cari

Simple Facts with Dr. John

What would happen if we never took the trash out of the house? Would you be able to live amongst the garbage piling up over the course of a week? A month? How about a whole year? In our current era, we live in a world of pollution, pesticides in our non-organic foods, synthetic chemicals in our water supply, and even our bodies’ own waste, all of which pile up like garbage in our personal “homes”, our physical bodies. If we don't take out the garbage then we have to live amongst it. Imagine a house filled with garbage. What kind of disgusting, rotting things would you find over a year? Now imagine our bodies housing the same rotting materials. WAKE UP! This is exactly what is happening. Disease doesn't just happen, it's created.

Learn about safe effective ways to clean up the garbage during our April Lecture series. (This series will be repeated again in August.)

by Dr. John Wendt

Organic Food Facts

The biggest study ever into organic food – a four-year EU funded project called the Quality Low Input Food (QLIF) project – found that organic food is FAR more nutritious than ordinary produce, and can help improve your health and longevity. You're likely to hear more about this again, once they publish their findings in full, which is expected to occur by the end of this year.

Of the 43 different fruit and vegetable categories in the Guide to Pesticides, the following twelve foods had the lowest pesticide load when conventionally grown. Consequently, they are the safest conventionally grown crops to consume:

• Broccoli
• Eggplant
• Cabbage
• Banana
• Kiwi
• Asparagus
• Sweet peas (frozen)
• Mango
• Pineapple
• Sweet corn (frozen)
• Avocado
• Onion

This is where the EWG study of pesticide residue on produce really helps. Of the 43 different fruit and vegetable categories tested, these 12 fruits and vegetables had the highest pesticide load, making them the most important to buy or grow organic:

• Peaches
• Apples
• Sweet bell peppers
• Celery
• Nectarines
• Strawberries
• Cherries
• Lettuce
• Grapes (imported)
• Pears
• Spinach
• Potatoes

Conventionally-grown strawberries, in particular, were found to be highly toxic due to a poisonous blend of pesticides in a previous 2007 EU study as well.

But be VERY careful as the list above is for fruits and vegetables. Non-organic meats have far higher concentrations of pesticides than all of the fruits and vegetables. And the highest concentration of pesticides is actually in non-organic butter.

For example, this study found that:

• Organic fruit and vegetables contain up to 40 percent more antioxidants
• Organic produce had higher levels of beneficial minerals like iron and zinc
• Milk from organic herds contained up to 90 percent more antioxidants

by Dr. John Wendt