I had to laugh when I saw the story about the guy who refused the
body scanner and then told TSA folks, “Don’t Touch My Junk.” I heard
there was a video too, but I haven’t seen it. Don’t have the time.
This whole “crisis” about these body scanners is sort of bizarre.

We want to be safe, but we don’t want to comply with rules that
would make us safe. The same thing is true about our health. We want
to be healthy, but we don’t like doing anything about it that
requires any effort, or inconvenience.

I’m certainly no apologist for TSA, which certainly doesn’t make me
feel any safer, but it isn’t the people doing the work who make the
policy, although they bear the brunt of our wrath. Nobody I know,
who does any travel, has a nice thing to say about them, even though
they are only doing what they are told.

What should be done here, if we really want to be safe, is adopt the
airline policies of El Al, the Israeli airline. They know how to
search for troublemakers and they don’t play at it. They have a
pretty good record, too, which is no casualties for anybody flying
with them. (I’m fairly certain there have been casualties, on those
looking to be martyrs, but we won’t be reading about them.)

But it won’t happen here. We have too many crybabies and
complainers, plus professional cranks, that come out of the woodwork
whenever we need to take serious action. The mosque apologizers in
New York are a great example, willing to let the fox in the henhouse
and then complain about it, if it’s suddenly very hungry.

We’re the same way about our health. For instance, we know it’s
probably not a good idea to drink a six pack of beer a day, but some
of us do…and then wonder how they got to be 30 pounds overweight.
Some eat chips and popcorn, guzzling soda all night, watching
television and they wonder why none of their clothes fit, or why
they need to be drinking bottles of pink stuff to quell the stomach
acid.

Antacids are a huge business…whether over the counter, or
prescription, they amount to billions of dollars and all you really
need to do is stop eating stuff you shouldn’t be eating, in the
first place.

It’s because too many of us have a philosophy of “Don’t Touch My
Junk.” We don’t care about the other guy, or other people…just
“Don’t Touch MY Junk.”

But it’s “Your Junk” that’s the problem. And only you can prevent
forest fires, or strokes, heart attacks, and so on and such forth.

Get started on my Powerhouse Omega Formula. Then start working on
your junk:

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I’ll be back tomorrow with more.

With my best wishes for your optimum health,

Dr. Bill

Years ago, I used to gain about 10 pounds between Thanksgiving and
New Year’s Day. I had all manner of excuses for this, the top one
being the number of social events I had to attend, both personally
and professionally. There was always plenty of food and drink and
more where that came from.

When companies started cutting back on all the festivities, no one
was happier than I, but I still gained the weight, even though I had
many fewer parties to attend. I just ate more at the ones I did go
to. And believe me, when somebody put out a great spread, I felt
obligated to put a good dent in at least part of it.

When I decided to lose weight a couple of dozen moons back, I knew
the Holidays would be a problem.

But I solved it and actually continued to lose weight, during the
holidays.

Here’s how I look at it now.

There are really just three big days, maybe four or five, if you
want to push it. There’s Thanksgiving, Christmas, New Year’s Eve,
and possibly Christmas Eve and New Year’s Day. I consider all the
rest a festive time, but no different, in terms of diet.

To gain weight, you have to eat more calories than normal, over a
sustained period of time. Weight gain doesn’t happen in just a
couple of days. In my old life, I started overeating around
Thanksgiving and sustained it through the New Year. That’s a good
six weeks and if you’re eating extra cookies, sweets, and so on
during that period, you’re going to add some lard. Add a little
smidge of malted beverages and it gets even easier.

So, I give myself two days to indulge myself and eat whatever I
want. Those days are Thanksgiving and Christmas. For those two days,
I eat whatever I please, because I can’t celebrate with any kind of
restrictions.

But I don’t keep the celebration going. I get the extra calorie
laden food out of the house. I give it away, or I take it where it
can be used to feed anyone that’s hungry. I know a number of people
who do this and I think it’s a great idea. Many of those cook
extras, specifically to give the food away. But the key is to rid
the house of stuff you know you’ll eat…if it’s there. As one
weight loss guru says, “The easiest way not to eat cookies is not to
buy them and bring them home.” I agree. Out of site, out of mind.

Plan your holiday eating and you’ll get it about 85% right, which is
damn good for the Holidays. But don’t pass up the good stuff on your
free days. When the pumpkin pie is passed your way, have a slice,
because in the larger scheme of things, it won’t make a difference.

Another thing that helps your metabolism is to take an extra dose of
my Powerhouse Omega Formula on celebration days. Where I normally
take two in the AM and two in the PM, I take three and three. There
are no scientific studies on this, but it works for me:

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I’ll be back tomorrow with more.

With my best wishes for your optimum health,

Dr. Bill

Last week, I was chatting with some fellow doctors about diseases
(that’s what doctors do) and we were discussing some that you have
to worry about and others that you don’t (in spite of what the media
may be spitting out, in its neverending quest to keep us misinformed
about nearly everything).

In the last couple of years, we have been warned about the near
apocalyptic bird flu and then came H1N1, neither of which amounted
to a molehill. (Just in case you were wondering about what happened
to the gazillions of units of H1N1 vaccine, at a cost to the
taxpayers of $6 billion dollars, plus…it was destroyed last month
…because it only had a shelf life of 12 months.)

Those big pharmaceutical companies really know how to work the
government over. And of course, they were helped by their dimwitted
friends in the media, who write their press releases as news copy,
apparently without any investigation at all.

One disease that people should worry about, and often don’t, is gum
disease, also called periodontitis. Gum disease has been found to be
a factor in a number of much more serious health conditions.

For instance, if you have gum disease, you have a ten times greater
chance of having a heart attack and of developing diabetes. Gum
disease has been linked to everything from Alzheimer’s to pancreatic
cancer.

That’s the bad news.

The good news is that the best way to combat gum disease is by
taking omega-3 fatty acids, most readily found in fish oil:

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Gum disease is an inflammatory condition, in which the gums become
badly inflamed after bacterial colonies invade plaque deposits which
have built up beneath the gum line. It ultimately causes receding
gums and bad breath, as well as tooth and bone loss in the jaws. It
is also the source of chronic low grade inflammation, which may lead
to inflammation in other areas.

A Harvard study of 9,000 adults, over 5 years, showed that a third
of the participants in the study, who had consumed the most DHA (one
of the omega-3′s in fish oil), had a significantly lower chance of
developing gum disease than those who consumed the least.

Dr. Kenneth Murkamal, of Harvard Medical School, says “Omega 3′s
have a wide number of potentially beneficial effects on many organs.
The gums may be a new one that has not been appreciated before.”

I’ll be back tomorrow with more.

With my best wishes for your optimum health,

Dr. Bill

I didn’t read a newspaper, magazine, listen to radio, or watch
television last week, in an attempt to cleanse my brain of all the
drivel that has accumulated in there, during the past year. It was a
glorious seven days, but sooner or later, all good things come to an
end.

Today, I turned on the radio and somehow, National Public Radio came
on. I must have bumped an automatic button, because I normally never
listen to that station. I was in my car and traffic was a bit
tricky, so I couldn’t fiddle with the tuner to get what I wanted.

This is what they were discussing: It seems that the price of grain,
or grains, has gone up considerably since last year. For example,
corn is selling about a buck fifty more per bushel than at the same
time last year. Wheat is very similar and… I can feel you starting
to go to sleep. But an intrepid NPR reporter can keep any
conversation flowing, so she asked the speaker, whoever he was, “I
hear what you’re saying, Bob, but why hasn’t this been reflected in
the price of Corn Flakes?”

Now that was a “Stump the Band” question, if I ever heard one, and
actually quite funny, if you think about it for a minute. But Bob
was non plussed and patiently explained the different market
sectors, the order of harvests, storage and how long it actually
took the market to reflect the rise in price, in the supermarket.
Thankfully, for you, me and the rest of civilization, traffic
thinned out and I was finally able to change the station.

On the new station I tuned into, there was an interesting story
about an Australian man, who cheated death.

Now, we’re talking important world news and not corn flakes.

As it turns out, the Aussie who cheated death was a grafitti vandal
who tagged (painted) a power station with his identity (Wino). He
and his fellow taggers cut through two eight-foot metal fences, with
signs that said, “Danger – High Voltage”. Oh…and it was raining
…which may be what saved this fool’s life.

After leaving his “Wino” marker, the twenty-two year old decided to
urinate…on the transformer…whereupon, he was thrown for quite a
loop…after sustaining third degree burns to 40% of his body.
Police and hospital spokesmen say that the fact that his clothing
was soaked from the rain probably caused the 22,000 volts to bypass
his body.

It also blew the power station, costing hundreds of thousands of
dollars in damages and forced a local rail line to close. No charges
have been filed against the young man, because as the police say,
he’s going to be in recovery for a long time…so there is no hurry.

This is the kind of important thing you might miss, if you take a
week long break from what is going on in the world around you. It’s
certainly proof of why no one, with anything on the ball, listens to
NPR and why NPR needs tax money to stay on the air. You give people
a choice between the price of corn flakes and an Aussie relieving
himself on a super transformer, they’ll take the Aussie, 999 times
out of 1000.

Which is how it should be.

Over at the White House, the Obama folks are suffering from
disconnect and discombobulation, all brought on (no doubt) by their
failure to take my Powerhouse Omega Formula. Had they been taking my
Formula, they probably would not have been so embarrassed by the
Chinese, at the G20 Summit. Obama lectured the Chinese on finances
again, telling them not to manipulate their currency. The Chinese
then lectured Obama on the $600 billion the Fed is printing and
injecting into the economy. (Whoops…he did it again!)

I guess he thought no one was watching, or that the Chinese didn’t
understand that “stimulus” is currency manipulation. If you take my
pharmacuetical grade fish oil, harvested from the deep arctic waters
of Norway, you would never make that mistake, because your brain
would actually be working:

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I’ll be back tomorrow with more.

With my best wishes for your optimum health,

Dr. Bill

Back…way back in the early 1970′s…I met a guy who had been the
welterweight boxing champion of the world for a few years, back in
the mid 1940′s. I was in my twenties and he was in his sixties. He
was a very engaging gentleman and he challenged me to a game of
chess, which turned into several games, all of which he won.

So much for boxing damaging his brain. After that, he challenged me
to a race of two hundred yards, or so, which I lost badly. Then, it
was arm wrestling, which he won easily, and let me just say that he
was fit as a fiddle. He showed me all his photos and he knew
everybody who was anybody, once upon a time.

Looking back, some of the most striking photos were of him as a very
young man. In some of those he was 11 or 12 and he was lifting 100
pound sacks of grain, like a young Hercules. In others, he was
climbing rope in a big barn, using only his arms, which is no small
feat. That is something I’ll bet 99% of young men today could not
do.

He had a fitness routine that he did all the time, regardless of the
elements. It involved some running, some shadow boxing, lifting
different kinds of objects and carrying things. He didn’t have a
single piece of what we today would call “gym equipment.” He just
used what he had around him and quit, when he had worked up a good
sweat. At 64, he was one of the strongest people I have ever met.

A friend of mine started working out again recently, after a break
of more than twenty years. In his day, he was a pretty good athlete,
but when he started working out, he was a good 40 pounds overweight,
maybe closer to 50. His first two weeks were pretty hard on him, but
he kept at it. The only real change he made in his diet, in the
beginning, was giving up his beloved Dr. Pepper.

He lost 20 pounds in the first six weeks. But here is something very
interesting that he said. In about the fourth week of exercise, his
muscles started taking over. He was doing exercises he hadn’t done
for 20 years, but his body remembered them and just started telling
him how many to do. Then, he said…his body started telling him
some other things…like what food it wanted and what food it didn’t
want.

About seven weeks into his program, he bought a bag of sour cream
and onion potato chips, one of his favorite junk foods. About a
quarter of the way through the bag, he just stopped and threw them
away, because they had a real weird taste. He hasn’t eaten any
since.

What’s going on here is not strange. Your body is like a computer
and it keeps a record of everything you do. If you were once in very
good shape, that memory is contained in the brain. In his case, his
body is recalling the memory of what being in good shape involves
and helping him to get there. Why? Because the body wants to
function at an optimal level. If it can’t, it will adapt. But it
will also make you pay a price for that adaptation.

My Powerhouse Omega Formula will also help you get in better shape,
along with a better diet and exercise. They work hand in hand and
the sum of the parts is greater than any one, individually. Yes,
diet is good, exercise is good and fish oil is good. You’ll get some
results with each one, but you’ll achieve much greater results,
using all three at the same time:

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You can build muscle at any age and the more, the better. If we had
a rule that said everyone had to walk for 30 minutes every day, we
could empty out 20% of the people now sitting in the doctor’s
office. That would reduce health care costs substantially, but we
know that won’t happen.

I’ll be back tomorrow with more.

With my best wishes for your optimum health,

Dr. Bill