Get a calendar, preferably one that indicates your particular ethnic and religious celebrations.

• Draw a large “X” over each day on which some non-healthy eating and/or drinking may be expected.

• Find a block of four weeks with no marked-out days. This is your target CDR period, and will allow for the twenty-three day protocol plus a few extra days to calm-down before going on the formal program.

• You may start on any day of the week; it does not have to begin on Monday; that’s entirely up to you.

• Remember: don’t select a time period that ends the day before Thanksgiving or any other festive (derived from the word “feast”) day.

Diabetes mellitus, or sugar diabetes, is characterized by sugar being passed in the urine. Originally, doctors would make their diagnosis by tasting, yes tasting, the urine of a patient who exhibited other symptoms of the disease. Sweetness in the urine would confirm the diagnosis.
Of course chemical methods have replaced this distasteful testing (we couldn’t resist), but the example is given to raise your awareness that what comes out of your body can give you precious insight into what’s going on inside—and what’s going in.
Some of you may find this topic indelicate, but looking at what comes out of you is a non-invasive and cost-free way to get some control over your metabolism. We’ll take each of your excrements, liquid, solid and gas in turn, and try not to belabor this any more than we have to.
Pee
Urine is the body’s way of getting rid of normal waste products, mostly nitrogen, from your metabolism. Just as a burning wood produces light and heat—the job it’s supposed to do—and leaves ash when it’s used up, so does metabolism leave byproducts. Many of these chemical compounds are toxic to your body and must be eliminated quickly.
Your kidneys are responsible for filtering your blood, and they selectively remove those chemicals harmful to you, most notably, urea11. Urea is always present in the blood and actually has some positive metabolic effect when in low concentrations. However, it gets toxic very quickly as levels rise. People with low or no kidney function require dialysis to remove urea from their blood.
The kidneys also remove the excess quantities of some needed and neutral compounds. We’ve all seen our urine change to deep yellow or orange after taking certain vitamins. You’re literally peeing away surplus quantities of otherwise needed vitamins. Those of us who love asparagus get to enjoy the wafting smell of asparagine when we pee. This non-essential amino acid is abundant in the vegetable and passes through our kidneys to our bladder, in what seems like just minutes after a meal.
Without the consumption of anything specific that might change the appearance of your urine, it should be pale yellow in a healthy individual. Urine is an excellent way to monitor your water intake.
Dehydration: When you are dehydrated, your urine will become dark yellow. Dehydration, lacking water, doesn’t have to occur only after you’ve been out in the midday sun or doing exercise. Your body is expelling water with every breath and this water has to be replaced. If you go an entire day without drinking water, your urine will darken. Please note that we’re speaking of water—not coffee or any caffeinated drink, not carbonated or sports drinks, certainly not wine, beer or booze. Many of these, certainly caffeine and alcohol,
dehydrate you by making you pee more. It may look like you’re doing fine because your urine will turn very pale as you pee away all your water without the benefit of removing toxins from your blood as urine is intended to do, but it will catch up to you quickly enough.
Over-hydration: Except for the extreme case cited earlier, there is no pathology associated with “normal” excess in drinking water for people with healthy kidneys and bladders. Drinking water throughout the day is healthy. However, should your urine remain clear most of the time, you may be washing vital, though invisible, nutrients from your body. You should make sure you are eating healthy, vitamin and mineral rich foods.
Normal hydration: Increase water intake during outdoor summer activities, before, during and after strenuous exercise, and when you’re in a dry climate. Again, your urine should remain a pale yellow most of the time.

The optimum Cleanse, Detox & Rebuild (CDR) protocol lasts only twenty-three days. It is usually required not more than once a year, but many of you have treated your bodies as toxic waste-dumps for so long that you will be well advised to work through the full program twice, six months apart, in the first year.
Before you begin any health regimen, you must be tenacious about becoming healthy. This may sound extremely simplistic, but it’s fundamental to all that follows. If you’re not prepared to devote the time to change your life for the better, then don’t begin. That is, don’t begin now. Yes—you can find the right time. Here are some things to consider.
Do not begin your program-to-health by indulging in gluttony and over indulgence. Don’t do it in October in anticipation of Thanksgiving through New Year’s binging. Remember Peace on Earth usually gives you a bigger Piece on your Thighs. Also, do not begin a month before you take that cruise-of-a-lifetime.
The best time to begin a health regimen, for most people, is early in the year as there are few eating or drinking feasts until Easter/Passover in the spring.

Note #1: My apologies to those of other traditions, but this is not meant to be a study in comparative religion.
Note #2: “Drinking” includes non-alcoholic specialties such as eggnog, diet and non-diet sodas, caffeinated drinks and a few others. We’ll get to that in a later chapter.

If you feel you must lose twenty-five pounds, the first question we’d ask you is: How do you know you must lose twenty-five pounds? Perhaps twenty would be enough to make you look and feel as you’d like—maybe it’s thirty. “Pounds” look different from one person to another and, logically, a pound looks different on a person six-foot tall person than it does on a person five-foot tall.
Let’s not forget all the internal fat you’ve accumulated around your organs, including your heart, which is far more important to eliminate than your chubby thighs. You still have a chance to find the love-of-your-life with fat thighs. You have no chance if you’re dead.
So don’t live by the numbers or by your waist size. When you begin to lose weight, you will see some difference in the way your clothes fit, to be sure, and you’ll be encouraged. You may not see as much of a difference in your clothes as you’d like, and as your scale would indicate, when using the Health-First-Weight-Loss-Second program. Don’t be discouraged. If you have engaged in some mild exercise, as discussed in a later chapter, you will be losing internal fat—the far more important fat to eliminate—before you drop to a size 2.

Rapid weight loss almost always results in rebound weight gain which, in too many cases, over-shoots your original weight and leaves you worse off—fatter—than you began. Further, toxins accumulate in the body, often in fat tissue. We’ll discuss this in much more detail later, but losing fat-weight too quickly pours these toxins into your system where they can cause sudden onset of disease. You should not lose weight any faster than your body can reasonably eliminate these toxins. Makes sense doesn’t it?

As a reminder, this is a book about health that results in weight loss, so you must strive to become healthy, not skinny. The objective is to deal with the root-cause of your fat, not with the fat. For example, how do you get rid of that annoying sound that your car engine is making? Turn the radio up real loud, right? Wrong. You deal with the root-cause of the noise, because if you don’t, you will likely have a large scale, mechanical break-down. In turn, this will require massive repairs. Or even worse, you will be forced to buy a new car before you are financially comfortable to do so, which will cause any number of other problems in your life. Get the analogy?

If you ignore the root-cause of your weight gain, and just treat the fat as a free-standing, independent issue, then you won’t be addressing the health-cause of your fat. This can ultimately lead to massive mechanical failure of your heart or other organ systems. Even with insurance, the financial burden is equally massive. Should money not be an issue for you, consider the stress on your family which can result in affecting their health. Ultimately, you could die prematurely. Look at the word “pre-maturely,” which means, before you’ve reached your full maturity and potential, and for a person to do that to him or her self is unconscionable.

The power is in the mind started operations in February 2008, above-ground organization that seeks to create hassles, confusion and feelings of good feeling. Activities are concentrated in the greater Helsinki area.

One activity is a model in New Yorkilainen group Improv Everywhere, which sums up its mission up to the chaos and joy.

We do not make policy, we do not take a position. Jokes at the expense of surrounding reality by editing and distorting it liking. We are delighted that our goal is simple or confused by random passers-by, and perhaps give him a story to tell. We do not want to humiliate or make fools of ourselves as an oasis in the other. We strive captures the rapture the Internet for distribution, without being in itself.

If you want to be involved, please register (Sign Up) Improv Everywhere Global site and join the group from Helsinki, Finland (Mieli Empowerment). In so doing, you’re our newsletter and get timely information on upcoming events.

Our website at this address will open in spring 2008.

Love at first sight – Love at first sight

Valentine’s Day we spent in small local actors romantic moment Hakaniemen Nordea. Despite the difficulties the Bank of filming something grabbed tape sides, happy Valentine’s day! We add textual report later.

To celebrate Valentine’s Day, a small group of us spent a romantic moment in Nordea Bank Hakaniemi. Videotaping in a bank Proved difficult but we managed Thurs capture a little something, happy valentines! A written report will be added later on.