Black Friday Weekend WORKOUT!!

Ok, so it's Black Friday weekend, and that means that Thursday was THANKSGIVING.

Thanksgiving, where you are grateful for your life, and find the good in everything, right?

Also, where you eat a bunch of food just to show how grateful and abundant you truly are.

Also, where you start worrying about getting FAT during the winter, and knowing that NEW YEAR'S is right around the corner, you start making promises and "resolutions" for the New Year.

Well, a lot of people are going to be SUCKERED by the workout industry to buy the latest and greatest DVD set that costs at least $99 and promises that you'll be in shape in 30-60 days or your money back, provided you do the almost impossible workouts everyday.

Which VERY few people ever do, so of course, no refunds if you don't do the work.

And even if you do, what are you supposed to do AFTER the 30-60 days? NO, you cannot keep up that pace, and frankly- WHO WANTS TO??

It's in the industry's interest to keep you Yo-Yoing so that you buy the NEWEST thing, and keep that CHURN going, you see?

So, after being one of the SUCKERS that was being churned for my hard-earned money, I chose to find the BEST and MOST EFFICIENT workout that would work for me YEAR ROUND, and never left me starving, suffering, or needing surgery!

That's why I wrote Half-Assed Health- so that my friends and U could BREAK FREE from the Yo-Yo diets, workouts and expensive DVD sets,

Instead of all of that nonsense, I NEVER have to make new "Resolutions" about my workout or weight, and I look good naked ALL YEAR without having to disrupt my life to get it.

As I write about in the book, it's about 1/2 hour, every other day- and you'll get MAXIMUM RESULTS without it taking over your life-

Don't you have BETTER THINGS TO DO than workout and watch what you eat all the time?

Don't you want to GET A HANDLE ON THIS already?

Then STOP doing the bullsh*t, and get Half-Assed Health this weekend for FIVE DOLLARS.

You can read the entire book in one 20-minute sitting, and if you don't enjoy it, or see how it all can work in your life- I'll refund your measly five dollars!

That's right- FIVE DOLLARS, and I'll donate $1 to the Stevens-Johnson Syndrome Foundation.

Get Sexy, and Help some sick kids get better.

How's THAT for a Black Friday deal?

Get the special right here: http://www.HalfAssedHealth.com/Friends

Hurricane Sandy At Home Workout!

So, since I was stuck at home today, and couldn't make it to the gym (and went on an upstate drive this weekend, where we ate entirely too much food), I chose to work out at home. Someone asked what I was doing, so I made a quick video:




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Fat Guy Doing Triceps...

I went to the gym today, and there was this fat guy there... about 5'7, over 300 lbs.

Awesome man, let's do this. It was a nice day in NYC, and people were there wanting to look better, and I am all for the personal improvement thing.

But he was working his triceps.

Now look, I think working out is great, and as you know from reading Half Assed Health, I believe in doing it just about every other day. HOWEVER, if you're pushing three bills, working your Tris are NOT a good use of time.

MAJOR MUSCLES and BREATH-HEAVY CARDIO.

Done.

How many "SQUAT" videos do you need?

The thing that's great about writing Half Assed Health is that I feel like I started to get the REAL word out on the fitness business. I feel like I'm actually helping people without gouging them in their desperation.

Working out and getting fit doesn't have to be this crazy complicated thing, where you spend hundreds of dollars and spend hours and hours hurting yourself.

But the business side of it sucks.

You see, for me to "monetize" this correctly, then I should be shrouding it all in secrecy. I should say things like "The ONE secret they won't tell you" and things like that, and then charge people exorbitant amounts of money to tell them that secret.

But that's the exact opposite of my message.

So, I give away a ton of stuff, write free reports and charge a measly $5 for my book.

In discussing this with someone in the fitness field, he was telling me to create more video content, and create a following from that by demonstrating the different workouts, and demonstrating how to eat foods, etc.

BUT IT'S ALL BULLSHIT.

How many "How To Do A Squat" videos do we need?
Doing a search on YouTube revealed that there were 16,600 videos that would be brought up with those search terms. Really? How many do we need? Actually, iut's all just people trying to get traffic to their site so you buy whatever secret it is they have for you.

So, if that's the opposite of what I'm trying to do, I can do two things:
1- Not do it, and understand that I won't be monetizing this well
2- Do it and be a lying hypocrite.

I'll choose #1.

Tell people about Half Assed Health please!

The Trainer Dilemma

I didn't mean for this video to be so long, and I didn't mean to make it the main video on the website, but some people told me they really liked it, so I put it up:

The question is "Is your Trainer lying To You"?

If you are working out with a trainer, you might want to watch this and decide for yourself.

The Obesity Conspiracy- AGAIN!

So, today Reuters released an article that describes the CRAZY solutions that government and society have been trying to come up with to solve the Obesity Epidemic that is in our country right now.

They talk about there being less sidewalks to walk on, and how McDonald's is now offering apples and less fires in Happy Meals.

But what they are failing to recognize is that we are at a point where we have to TRY and FIGHT the marketers who sell us POISONS, and we accept it as normal.

Look, I eat ice cream, pizza, and I like drinking Rum and Cokes (I'm Cuban), but sugar is a POISON.

When you go to the supermarket, now you have to WORK at avoiding things that are actually POISONS in our bodies, make us fat, and give us DISEASE- but the problem is:

THOSE POISONS ARE PROFITABLE.

Are we supposed to be FIGHTING the supermarkets and food manufacturers? I thought their business was to give us food, and we give them money. Well, it turns out that they want the money, but only feed us poisons...

To read more about THE OBESITY CONSPIRACY, and the report I wrote on it,
Please visit:

http://www.TheObesityConspiracy.com

Look! From Dr. Mercola himself....

OBESITY CONSPIRACY: The U.S. Government Scandal that's Really Making You Fat

Posted By Dr. Mercola | May 04 2010 | 184,941 views

A decade ago, an American woman's waist, on average, was close to two inches smaller than it is today. Eighteen year olds are 15 pounds heavier than they were in the 1970s.
One reason is federal subsidies for food production. Take a look at these numbers:

• Meat/Dairy -- 73.8 percent
• Grains -- 13.2 percent
• Sugar/Oil/Starch/Alcohol -- 10.7 percent
• Nuts/Legumes -- 1.9 percent
• Vegetables/Fruits -- 0.4 percent

That’s right – just 1.9 percent for nuts and legumes and 0.4 percent for fruits and vegetables. As a result, a salad often costs you more than a Big Mac.

Sources:

  Treehugger March 15, 2010

  The New York Times April 26, 2010

 

Dr. Mercola's Comments:

This Treehugger article contains several interesting charts and graphs that are well worth taking a closer look at. But it should come as no surprise that federal subsidies for certain kinds of food will directly influence the production and subsequent consumption of that food.
As you can see in the list above, the US food subsidies are grossly skewed, creating a diet excessively high in factory-farmed meats, grains and sugars, with very little fresh fruits and vegetables or healthy fats from nuts and seeds.

The Root of the Problem

I believe many of our society’s chronic health problems could be resolved if attention was paid, at the highest levels of government, to the root problem – our agricultural subsidies.
If growers of subsidized fresh vegetables were in a clear majority, you might start to see some fine advertising campaigns promoting the consumption of those veggies…
Unfortunately, the Department of Agriculture is deeply entrenched with the agri-business, and current legislations protect the profits of these large industries at the expense of public health.
In fact, the agriculture lobby is more powerful than even the pharmaceutical industry! You don’t hear about it as often, but the ramifications of their political influence are just as hazardous to your health as that of Big Pharma.
Sadly, you also see this influence in nutrition science. It is actually not designed to help you make sound dietary choices but rather to allow food companies to make health claims to increase profits, and this is a primary reason why you cannot get sound dietary advice from your government.
Take the Food Pyramid, for example. Back in 2005, when the updated food pyramid was unveiled, nutritionist Luise Light, a former USDA insider and contributing architect of the original version of the Food Guide Pyramid, exposed how the US government bows to industry interests and plays a key role in the obesity epidemic.
As this recent New York Times article states, “Thanks to lobbying, Congress chooses to subsidize foods that we’re supposed to eat less of.”

US Government Subsidizes Fast Food

The food crops currently subsidized are corn, soy, wheat and rice. What do you end up with?
A fast food diet!
And what many fail to remember (or don’t realize) is that the farm bill has a direct impact on what your child gets fed in school, for example, and what food assistance programs will distribute to poorer households.
It’s quite clear that the farm bill creates a negative feedback loop that maintains the status quo of the standard American diet. Because by subsidizing the farming of corn and soy, the US government is also actively supporting a diet that consists of these grains in their processed form, namely high fructose corn syrup, soybean oil, and grain-fed cattle – all of which are known contributors to obesity and chronic diseases.
(In addition, let’s not forget that the vast majority of these two crops are also genetically modified, which in and of itself is a major health hazard!)
High fructose corn syrup (HFCS) is perhaps the most obvious example of how the farm bill destroys health, as opposed to promoting the production of food that is actually worthy of being called “food.”
HFCS is in TENS of THOUSANDS of food products. If it’s processed, it probably contains HFCS; oftentimes it’s one of the top three ingredients. With everything we now know about how HFCS and other sugars create obesity and chronic disease, it’s no wonder we have a health care crisis on our hands!
Our federal food policy reaches to the very core of our everyday lives; the core of our health. Unless the food policy is addressed and corrected, little progress will be made to improve the current health care crisis.
The links are clear: These food policies directly impact what and how we produce our food, which impacts disease rates, which in turn drive health care costs into the stratosphere.
The average American is now 10 pounds overweight, which translates into $250 billion in added yearly health care costs, not to mention a shorter lifespan.

Farm Bill Also Promotes Excessive Fossil Fuel Consumption

In addition to producing little else but fast food, this type of monoculture is also very dependent on fossil fuels. Because when you grow one type of crop almost exclusively, you deplete the soil, which means you have to use more fertilizer, which is made from fossil fuel.
Monocultures also invite more pests, which need to be treated with ever increasing amounts of pesticides – also made from fossil fuel.
Cheap food is actually incredibly expensive once everything is added up, including stratospheric health care costs, continued dependence on fossil fuels, and the destruction of the earth as a whole.

Opt Not to Play Along – Choose Health!

If you want to optimize your health, you simply must return to the basics of healthy food choices. And try as they may, industry lobbyists still cannot force you to buy these types of junk foods. The choice is entirely yours, and consumer demand will always win eventually, so the more people demand healthy, unadulterated foods, the more they must produce, one way or another.
I encourage you to support the small family farms in your area. You’ll receive nutritious food from a source that you can trust, and you’ll not only be supporting the health of your own family but the health of your entire community.
However, there is still much confusion about what is healthy – and in some cases, whether or not something is actually food. The easiest way to get confused and be led astray by misleading advertising is by focusing on individual ingredients or nutrients rather than the food as a whole.
In a nutshell, the easiest way back toward health is to focus on WHOLE, unadulterated foods; foods that have not been processed or altered from their original state. Food that has been grown or raised as nature intended, without the use of chemical additives, pesticides and fertilizers.
Whole, especially organic, foods contain so many nutrients that work together synergistically, making them superior to anything that contains only the active ingredient (and frequently as a synthetic version at that).
Now, if you don’t’ know what’s implied by “as nature intended,” then that should be a sign that you have gotten too disconnected from the natural world, and a refresher course in natural farming practices may be called for. (For example, corn is not, and has never been, a natural part of any cow’s diet. You will never see a cow nibbling on a corn stalk when out to pasture, no matter how much corn is growing nearby.)
Eating a diet of processed foods while popping vitamins and supplements, thinking you’re getting everything you need for health, is a reckless miscalculation that will extract its true cost in the form of chronic diseases such as diabetes, heart disease and cancer.
Remember, any amount of time and money you save today by stopping at a fast food restaurant, you’re bound to repay later when you’re too ill to lead an active life.

****Reprinted with no one's permission from MERCOLA****