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In This Issue:

It’s Your Decision to Live Life with Passion

By Tim Reynolds, MD

I started my adult life jumping out of airplanes at age 17 as a member of the US Army Airborne and then went on to Special Forces Green Beret training.  Talk about learning to live with passion.  Everything we did, we did all out.  This experience was where I learned the philosophy of work hard and play hard!  It was also where I adopted the philosophy of “physical fitness: the difference between self confidence and self doubt,” which I still believe to this day.

I have maintained this philosophy through my adult life and it has served me well.  I still love working hard and I still love playing hard.

Since becoming a physician, I have had the privilege to interact with many people and even impact their lives.  I have noticed a huge difference between those who live with passion and those who simply live from day to day and how it affects their health.  Those who face each day as an adventure and are excited about opportunities coming their way are definitely in better health.  They miss fewer work days and are happier about what they do.

Here’s an example.  In my clinic we handle many cases related to occupational  medicine and workman’s compensation.  It is interesting to watch someone with a workman’s comp injury and see how their philosophy of life affects their ability to get back to work.  Those who live their lives with passion and are happy with their lives heal their injuries more quickly and get back to full duties in a much more judicious fashion.

On the other hand, those whose life’s philosophy is “what can others do for me?” or “how little work can I do and still get paid?” tend to milk the same injury for as long as possible.  In fact, they will begin to become their disease or illness.  As they try to get more time off and prove that they are in fact injured, they start to take on the characteristics of a person with that injury even if there is no physical evidence they actually have the injury.

What can we learn from this phenomenon? The mind is a powerful tool and we need to be careful of how we feed it and where we direct it.

Our lives and our health are a reflection of our thoughts.  The way we choose to live begins with the things we choose to think about and the things we allow to enter our minds.  If we continue to fill our minds with garbage from the media, magazines, and television, our lives have very little chance of taking on the excitement, adventures and opportunities we all hope for.

However, if we take that same time and fill our minds with the opportunity to learn by taking classes, reading good books and listening to positive educational/motivational material, our lives will take on a whole different meaning.  It won’t happen right away.  At first, you may not even notice a difference.  But if you continue to listen to and read from good teachers, you will start to see your life change for the better.

Every day we are blessed with the opportunity to create the life of our dreams.  We only get one opportunity to live on this earth (as far as we know), so why not make it everything it could be?  Why not take this day to say we are tired of living the way we have in the past and then realize that the past does not equal the future?

Geese fly south in the winter because they are geese — they have no choice and it is what they are programmed to do.  We are not geese; we are humans; and we can choose to do something else.  We are the only species on earth that can make plans and set goals and realize the physical equivalent of our thoughts.

Health is a journey.  It begins with the mind.  Your particular philosophy on health and what makes for a healthy body will far outweigh anything you do at the gym.  Living a life full of passion and joy and adventure will also lead to a life of health.  So make a decision that this is the day you truly turn your life into one of adventure and romance and fun.  Live every minute and live with passion.

[Ed. Note: Tim Reynolds, M.D., is a board-certified Emergency Medicine Physician.  He is a Managing Partner of Healthcare Express and the Chief Medical Officer of Urgent Care America.  Dr. Reynolds is also a health and lifestyle expert and sought-after speaker. For more information, click here.]

Reverse Aging:

Highlights from the International Anti-Aging Show

By Jackie Silver

I was fortunate to be one of the keynote speakers at the International Anti-Aging Show in Toronto, Canada held April 3-5.   Aside from being a wonderful professional experience, I learned about some amazing new anti-aging products that you’re sure to be interested in.  Join me while I take you on a wrap-up of the show.

No-Needle Acupuncture Face Lift Using the Health Recovery Chips Kit
These cutting-edge “chips” are made from a mixture of natural properties from jade, blue sapphire and crystal bringing infra-red light, sound frequency with healing power, light wave and magnetic pole energy together in nanometer size.

The nanometer technology allows the multiple energies to interact with the body’s acupuncture points and 14 meridian channels at the molecular level to produce “stimulation” through cellular chain reaction. The chips can be used to treat other areas of the body for pain and illness as well, right at home, safely and without side effects.

Check it out here: http://shennonggroup.ca

Dermal FX Medical
This is really cutting-edge skin care. These products have a unique way of allowing topical hyaluronic acid and collagen to penetrate the skin without injections.  (Both hyaluronic acid and collagen are produced naturally in the skin and give it volume and shape.) When Dermal Fx’s specially formulated cream is applied topically onto the skin, the nano-spheres penetrate the skin and then break, releasing the stabilized hyaluronic acid.

The stabilized hyaluronic acid with the organic collagen then absorbs into the skin at a high concentration necessary to promote youthfulness and remove wrinkles. Once it has absorbed, significant volume is restored. The added volume lifts and smoothes wrinkles, lines, depressed scars and skin creases within twenty minutes.

The cream is totally painless and needle-free (unlike Restylane), fast, safe and leaves no scars or other facial injury traces. The results are comparable to injections as proven in the company’s clinical studies.

Check it out here: http://dermalfx.com

Shapes — For Your Body and Your Style
Anita Wright has a consulting business that helps women select the right clothes for their shape. She helps you decide which styles, cuts, fabrics, colors and accessories work the best for your figure type. Anita’s idea for Shapes grew out of the knowledge that most women get very frustrated shopping and usually end up with closets full of clothing they never wear. With Anita’s concept, you can discover which shape you most resemble: Apple, Pear, Rectangle or Hourglass, and shop — and dress — accordingly.

For a free sizing chart and to find out more, click here: 
http://www.therightshape.com

Go-Natural — 8 Cosmetics in ONE
You can use this silky pressed powder on your face, eyes and lips as a foundation, blush, concealer, lip color, eye shadow and much more. It’s full makeup in one minute. The creator, Michele Kish, gave me a personal demo and I was amazed at the versatility of this product with its added vitamins, minerals and antioxidants. It’s very light, but still gives coverage without settling into lines and wrinkles.

Check it out here: http://www.go-natural.net

[Ed. note: Jackie Silver is aging backwards. She shares her secrets, tips, and shortcuts on her web site, AgingBackwards.com, in her new book, Aging Backwards: Secrets to Staying Young, on the syndicated TV show, Daytime, on Clear Channel radio's Mix 100.7, as a columnist for The Tampa Tribune and as a sought-after speaker. For more information, click here.]

Healthy Recipes:

Tomato Asparagus Salad

By Laura LaValle, RD, LD

This refreshing spring-time salad is a tasty way to get a wide array of important vitamins and minerals.  This is an easy recipe to double so that a delicious serving of vegetables is always on hand.

Time to table: 15 minutes
Serves: 4

Healing Nutrient Spotlight
Good source of vitamin A, thiamin, copper, manganese
Excellent source of vitamin C, folate, vitamin B12

Ingredients*
3/4 pound fresh asparagus, trimmed and cut into 1 1/2 inch pieces
3 plum tomatoes, halved and sliced
3/4 cup chopped red onion
1/3 cup balsamic vinaigrette

*Choose organic ingredients for optimal nutrition.

Preparation
Place asparagus in a steamer basket over a saucepan filled with one inch of boiling water.  Cover and steam for 5-7 minutes or until asparagus is crisp-tender. Drain and immediately dip steamer basket into a bowl of ice water. Drain and pat dry with paper towels. In a large bowl, combine the asparagus, tomatoes and onions. Drizzle with vinaigrette and gently toss to coat. Serve with a slotted spoon.

Nutrition
165 calories, 3 g protein, 9 g carbohydrates, 14 g fat, 2 g saturated fat, 10 g monounsaturated fat, 2 g polyunsaturated fat, 5 g sugars, 3 g fiber, 797 IU vitamin A, .2 mg thiamin, .13 mg riboflavin, 1.3 mg niacin, .2 mg vitamin B6, 116 mcg folate, 4 mcg vitamin B-12, 17 mg vitamin C, 3 mg vitamin E, .2 mg copper, 1 mg iron, 23 mg magnesium,.3 mg manganese, 376 mg potassium, 57 mg sodium

[Ed. Note: Laura B. LaValle, RD, LD is presently the director of dietetics nutrition at LaValle Metabolic Institute.   Laura and her husband, Jim LaValle, R.Ph, CCN, ND have developed the powerful and life-changing Metabolic Code Diet - containing step-by-step, easy to follow recommendations for harnessing optimal metabolic energy and turning your body's chemical make up into a fat-burning furnace.  To learn more click here now.]