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The Health Resource Group is committed to providing access to timely and progressive health resources which can help maintain and improve personal health and wellness. In addition to the resources listed below, we have health related documents online. Remember, you should always consult with your physician or holistic health practitioner before making any significant changes to your exercise, diet, or lifestyle. The mission of the Health Resource Group is to offer techniques for age reversal and optimal wellness to achieve maximum effectiveness in life. The guidelines and suggestions offered by the Health Resource Group are intended toward this end.

Lifestyle of Wellness. Some words from Gregory Johnson on creating a lifestyle of wellness:

“Your daily fitness and wellness routine of exercise, cleansing, hydrating, tea, proper nutrition, and supplements; these should be like blinking, breathing, and your heart beat — an involuntary habit that you could do in your sleep. Simple, small, achievable, realistic practices of wellness done consistently, habitually, and routinely without fail. This is what produces health and wellness.”

Holistic Health Areas of Life Wellness. Maintaining and improving our wellness involves balancing various interdependent areas of life such as:

Videos. Below are videos and movies about health.

  • Diet for a New America – “Host John Robbins, the author of the best-selling, pulitzer prize nominated book, Diet For A New America, takes us on a journey into the great American food machine. In his early twenties, in an effort to regain his own health, John turned away from the family owned Baskin-Robbins Ice Cream business and began extensive research into nutrition and food production. After ten years of investigation and a thorough inside look at the American food production system, John has a story to tell. In simple and startling pictures, Robbins connects the dots and reveals his theories on the environmental and personal health consequences of a diet based on animal products. According to Robbins, our current American diet is a recipe for personal and environmental disaster. Diet For A New America graphically outlines the problems and presents Robbins’ vision of hope for the future–people can make a difference by educating themselves and making a choice to return to a caring and conscientious life style. (DVD, total playing time: 60 minutes.)”
  • Fast Food Nation. “If you’re still eating that fast-food burger after watching Super Size Me, you might not feel too hungry after watching Fast Food Nation, a fictionalized feature based on Eric Schlosser’s bestselling nonfiction expose. Director Richard Linklater, who cowrote the screenplay with Schlosser, guides a topnotch ensemble cast through a peek behind the veil of how that Big Mac is born. Much of the film focuses on the illegal immigrants who work in the loosely regulated meat-packing industry, and actors including the luminous Catalina Sandino Moreno (Maria Full of Grace), who plays a desperate but outraged laborer.” [ Amazon | IMDB ]
  • Food Matters – “Food Matters is a documentary film informing you on the best choices you can make for you and your family’s health. Helping you save time, money and effort. In this day and age with so many companies interested in profiting from our misfortune and ill health this film will help keep your money in your pocket and your health in your hands.”
  • Sicko. “SiCKO is more like a controlled howl of protest than a documentary. Toning down the rhetoric of past efforts–no CEOs, congressmen, or celebrities were accosted in the making of this film–Michael Moore’s latest provocation is just as heartfelt, if not more heartbreaking. As he clarifies from the outset, his subject isn’t the 45 million Americans without insurance, but those whose coverage has failed to meet their needs. He starts by speaking with patients who’ve been denied life-saving procedures, like chemotherapy, for the most spurious of reasons. Then he travels to Canada, England, and France to see if socialized medicine is as inefficient as U.S. politicians like to claim–especially those who receive funding from pharmaceutical companies. Moore finds quality care available to all, regardless as to income. He concludes with a stunt that made headlines when he assembles a group of 9/11 rescue workers suffering from a variety of afflictions. When Moore is informed that detainees at Guantánamo Bay–technically American soil–qualify for universal coverage, he and his companions travel to Cuba to get in on that action. It’s a typically grandstanding move on Moore’s part. And it proves remarkably effective when these altruistic individuals, who’ve either been denied treatment or forced to pay outrageous costs for their medication, experience a dramatically different system. Nine years in the making, SiCKO makes a persuasive case that it’s time for America to catch up with the rest of the world. –Kathleen C. Fennessy” [ Amazon | Official Website ]
  • Supersize Me. “Documentary filmmaker Morgan Spurlock makes himself a test subject in this documentary about the commercial food industry. After eating a diet of McDonald’s fast food three times a day for a month straight Spurlock proves the physical and mental effects of consuming fast food. Spurlock also provides a look at the food culture in America through it’s schools corporations and politics.” [ Amazon | IMDB | iTunes ]

Additional Resources. The general resources below expand on the above areas of health.

  • Aloe
    • George’s Aloe – “Aloe can help to maintain a healthy digestive membrane system. Consequently, the body makes adjustments that if combined with a daily regimen, can result in better overall health.”
    • Mayo Clinic – “Early evidence suggests that aloe may aid healing of mild to moderate skin burns. …There is early evidence that oral aloe may reduce the risk of developing lung cancer.”
    • Wikipedia – “Today, the gel found in the leaves is used for soothing minor burns, wounds, and various skin conditions like eczema and ringworm. The use of this herbal medicine was popularized in the 1950’s in many Western Countries. The gel’s effect is nearly immediate, plus it also applies a layer over wounds that is said to reduce the chance of any infection.”
  • Body Mass Index (BMI) Calculation
  • Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
  • Chocolate
  • Drug Awareness
    • AboveTheInfluence.com – “Our goal is to help you stay above the influence. The more aware you are of the influences around you, the better prepared you will be to stand up to the pressures that keep you down. We’re not telling you how to live your life, but are giving you another perspective and the latest facts. You need to make your own smart decisions. You might even consider this Web site an influence. We know that you’re very smart when it comes to the messages you see and hear. That’s great and you should question us, too. One way to do that is to review our sources. The numbers at the end of many of the facts are footnotes. You can click on them to find out where we got the information. We hope that this site helps you to be more aware of the influences around you, and that you carefully consider the risks when you’re faced with tough decisions.”
  • Health.com
  • HealthierUS.gov – “This Web site is part of a broad presidential agenda designed to help Americans, especially children, live longer, better, and healthier lives. The site provides credible, accurate information to help Americans choose healthier habits.”
  • Isagenix – Powerful Nutritional and Wellness Products and System. The general philosophy of Isagenix is based upon the observation that fat is the body’s defense mechanism in responding to toxins. By removing toxins, the fat will naturally be removed as well. An example of this principle can be seen when a cysts forms under the surface of the skin, or deeper in the body tissue. The cyst is a protective fatty coating around a foreign object or infected area. The body fat that many people have is like many very tiny cysts. Another cause of fat is overeating because of inadequate nutrition. By increasing nutrients in our food, we will desire less food.
  • Monosodium Glutamate MSG Health Dangers and Side Effects of Toxic Additives
  • New England Journal of Medicine
  • New York Times Health
  • Organic Chips
    • GardenOfEatin.com – “Garden of Eatin’® was founded almost 35 years ago by Al Jacobson, a visionary who was always several steps ahead of his contemporaries.” Products are made with organic grains and no Genetically Engineered Ingredients.
  • Organic Food Bars. There are a variety of organic vegetarian food bars on the market. Some bars are healthy, yet they have a very sugary and sweet taste almost like a regular candy bar, such as the GardenOfLife.com and NaturesPath.com bars. If you have a sensitivity to excessively sweet and sugary products, these might not appeal to you (but please try them first). For example, the Garden of Life Summer Berry bar has honey as the first ingredient, and then blueberries with cranberries – as if that wasn’t sweet enough, cane sugar is the next ingredient. The Nature’s Path bars contain brown rice syrup, evaporated cane syrup (listed more than once in the ingredients) and cane sugar, even though the bars have enough sweet fruits to be sweet enough. If you are looking for something less sweet with a more natural fruit and nut sweetness, you’ll want to try MacroBars by GoMacro.com and PranaBars.com.
    • BumbleBar.com – “BumbleBars are Delicious, Nutritious, Ethically Sourced, Kid Approved, Vegan Approved, Gluten Free, Organic Energy Snack Bars. … We at BumbleBar take much pride in making delicious, certified-organic, gluten-free snacks. We also care a great deal about doing the right thing for people and the planet. The People, Profit, Planet concept is one that has been growing in popularity among socially responsible businesses in the past several years. People, Profit, Planet represents the “triple bottom line” of sustainable business talk. All three concepts are intertwined — if one suffers, they all suffer.” [ More... ]
    • ClifBar.com – “Made with five or fewer 100% organic ingredients, CLIF Nectar is the simplest expression of fruit and nuts. Bursting with flavor, CLIF Nectar Organic Fruit & Nut Bars are the essence of nature.” [ Bars ]
    • GardenOfLife.com – “At Garden of Life we are dedicated to empowering extraordinary health. Our Living Foods™ Bars combine the goodness of nutritious whole foods such as organic fruit, vegetables, nuts and sprouted grains with beneficial LIVE PROBIOTICS, all sweetened with honey to create an incredibly satisfying bar that is both delicious and healthy for you. Each bar contains soluble fiber from oat beta glucan, an important ingredient for supporting a healthy heart.” [ Bars ] * Although their food bars are vegetarian, this manufacturer strongly promotes and markets to encourage meat consumption. The owner, Jordan Rubin, has a series of Eat Meat Promotional Videos.
    • MacroBars by GoMacro.com – “GoMacro realizes the importance of a healthy vegan diet and supports programs which encourage students to adopt a healthier lifestyle.  We hope our delicious MacroTreats and MacroBars will help make it easier for everyone to maintain a healthy lifestyle.” [ Bars | Ingredient Benefits | Good Carbohydrates ]
    • NaturesPath.com – “Our Goal is to be a trusted name for quality organic foods in every home – socially responsible, environmentally sustainable and financially viable. … We believe food, organically grown, is better for you and better for the environment. Organic foods contain no preservatives or additives, and are grown without synthetic pesticides, herbicides or fungicides which agribusiness typically sprays onto our food. These chemicals can then find their way into the soil, water, air and eventually our bodies. Just as eating wholesome organic food helps to make healthy bodies, organic farming helps make healthy soil and a healthy planet. Our farmland is a thin layer of living earth blanketing the planet and needs to be nurtured and renewed continually. Organic farming practices enrich the soil and improve a farm’s biodiversity, resulting in less soil erosion and more drought resistant farmland. It was Hippocrates who suggested that we let food be our medicine and medicine be our food. Nothing can replace the richness and complexity of nutrients found in a varied diet of fresh, organic whole foods, and Nature’s Path® organic breakfast cereals are a great way to get started, every day.” [ Bars ]
    • PranaBars.com – ” Enzymes, the delicate dynamos – cannot be duplicated by science, because they are the stuff of life. Enzymes break down food into basic components so that the body can absorb nutrients and eliminate waste efficiently. Your body can manufacture enzymes, but the more you use your enzyme potential, the sooner it runs out. Nearly all the enzymes naturally present in food are destroyed by processing and cooking, causing your body to deplete its own limited supply when digesting such foods. Raw, organic and unprocessed foods, rich in enzymes, restore your enzyme levels and increase health, vitality and longevity.” [ Bars ]
    • TheProBar.com – “Made from whole, organic, raw foods and 100 percent vegan, … In 2007 the company doubled its sales every month of the year. In 2008 PROBAR has won four prestigious product awards and the year is only half over. PROBAR is branching out too, Spring 2009 promises more products—not just bars, but other real, nutritious foods.”
    • ThinkProducts.com – “Our thinkOrganic™ bars are made with the highest quality organic ingredients that are simple, pure and delicious. We believe pure whole foods are potent. A study published in the Journal of Alternative and Complementary Medicine reported significantly higher nutrient values in organically grown fruits and vegetables compared to conventionally grown. We harness the power of nature to bring you a delicious source of true vitality.” [ Bars ]
  • Pregnancy
  • New York Times Health
  • American Lifestyle May Be Detrimental To Health – article by Gregory Johnson
  • RealAge
  • Resources for Life Health Related Articles
  • RevolutionHealth.com
  • SmallStep.gov – “We are bombarded every day with conflicting information about our health. It’s no wonder that many of us throw up our hands and give up. But if we want to live long and fulfilling lives, it’s essential that we learn the real facts about health, nutrition, and physical activity.”
  • WebMD.com
  • Yahoo Health

Universal Healthcare. Poor nutrition, lack of exercise, sleep deprivation, toxic food, contaminated water, unclean air, and a harmful American lifestyle are causing a health crisis in the United States that would bankrupt any universal healthcare plan. For this reason, the United States Government is now evaluating ways to promote the level of national wellness necessary so that universal healthcare can be made available. Once the people of the United States are as healthy as Canadians (and citizens of other countries with universal healthcare), then universal healthcare can be offered in the United States.

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