Come to the Kirkland Health Fair Today!
What a fabulous day! It’s a sunny, summer day, the type of day that inspires us to be our best. The foundation of being our best is being the healthiest we can be – because it allows us to experience life at its fullest.
There are many different lifestyle choices you can make to improve your health, for the short and long term. Come learn about some of these choices in a casual and fun atmosphere – at the Kirkland Health Fair!
LiveWell USA will have a booth, along with many other organizations whose goal is to help you on your health journey. There are kids activities, and free showing of movies such as Food, Inc.
We are looking forward to hanging out with like-minded people. To make things even more interesting, we will have a wobble board contest, along with a fun quiz to get folks thinking about health. Participating gets you entries into the drawing for prizes!
We’re heading out the door to set up now! But before we go, here are answers to quiz questions…
What percentage of the American working population has been diagnosed with a chronic illness?
35%45%- 80%
What percentage of deaths in western nations are caused by lifestyle choices?
25%50%- 75%
We now have the first generation of children who will likely have shorter lifespans than their parents.
- True
False
The number of per person prescription medication rates…
…is staying the same over time…is decreasing every decade- …is doubling every decade
The United States spends this much PER DAY on Heart Disease.
$5,000,000$10,000,000- Over $500,000,000
Which illnesses are caused by how we eat, move, and think?
Heart DiseaseCancerObesityDiabetesOsteoporosisArthritis- All of the above, plus all known chronic diseases
What did Type II Diabetes used to be called?
Type I Diabetes- Adult-Onset Diabetes
Congenital Diabetes
LiveWell USA and the Innate Lifestyle Program helps you to:
Eat WellMove WellThink Well- All of the above
See you there!
Do you know the facts?
Tomorrow is the Kirkland Health Fair! We are looking forward to having a great time. Stop by our booth and take the following quiz – just for trying, you are entered into a drawing for cool prizes. The answers to the quiz will be posted here tomorrow. We will also have a wobble board challenge throughout the day, where you can earn more chances to win prizes.
See you there!
- LiveWell USA Team
What percentage of the American working population has been diagnosed with a chronic illness?
- 35%
- 45%
- 80%
What percentage of deaths in western nations are caused by lifestyle choices?
- 25%
- 50%
- 75%
We now have the first generation of children who will likely have shorter lifespans than their parents.
- True
- False
The number of per person prescription medication rates…
- …is staying the same over time
- …is decreasing every decade
- …is doubling every decade
The United States spends this much PER DAY on Heart Disease.
- $5,000,000
- $10,000,000
- Over $500,000,000
Which illnesses are caused by how we eat, move, and think?
- Heart Disease
- Cancer
- Obesity
- Diabetes
- Osteoporosis
- Arthritis
- All of the above, plus all known chronic diseases
What did Type II Diabetes used to be called?
- Type I Diabetes
- Adult-Onset Diabetes
- Congenital Diabetes
LiveWell USA and the Innate Lifestyle Program helps you to:
- Eat Well
- Move Well
- Think Well
- All of the above
Come see us at the Kirkland Health Fair!
Looking for a fun way to spend a summer day, and feel good while doing it? Come to the Kirkland Health Fair on July 23, 2011 for a day filled with free samples, demos, inspiration, empowerment, and priceless info.
LiveWell USA is one of over 50 exhibitors at the fair, which will also have kids’ activities, and free showings of movies such as “Food, Inc.” We will have wobble board contests (with prizes!) and other fun activities, so stop by and say hello! We are super excited to meet other people interested in health and well-being. It will be a good time!
The fair takes place a the Kirkland Parkplace Center, from 10am – 5:30pm. Joel Salatin, the farmer featured in Michael Pollan’s famous book The Omnivore’s Dilemma and the movie “Food, Inc.” will be hanging out at the fair as well. If you are interested, buy tickets to his lecture for later that evening.
Check out the fair’s website at www.kirklandhealthfair.org.
Hope to see you at our booth!
- LiveWell USA Team
Almost 80% of the working population have at least one chronic condition. 55% of workers have more than one.
Chronic illness rates have skyrocketed the last several decades, yet we are designed to live a healthy life, full of vitality.
What’s going wrong? What can we do? Come find out!
LiveWell 101 Workshop
There’s no cost, and it changes lives.
- Sat. May 14th, 10am
- Wed. May 18th, 6:30pm
- Thurs. May 19th, 6:30pm
Comprehensive Wellness Assessment
Want to know where you are on the Wellness Scale? Come find out the truth, and see your potential. There’s no cost - it’s our gift to you.
- Sat. May 21st, 9am
- Sun. May 22nd, 9am
Be not afraid of growing slowly; be afraid only of standing still.
- Chinese Proverb
We will share evidence that shows that disease and chronic illness isn’t due to bad luck, bad germs, or bad genes. You can work WITH your body to comfortably, and easily move towards true well being.
- Achieve ideal body weight and fitness
- Maximize your health and healing capacity
- Maximize your ability to prevent illness
- Maximize your energy and vitality
- Maximize your self-control and self-esteem
- Maximize your happiness and confidence
- Live a longer, healthier, happier life
Contact us to save a seat today.
- LiveWell USA Team
Start Moving, or Start Dying
Movement and exercise aren’t things that you do to lose weight or reserved for athletes and celebrities. Movement is ESSENTIAL TO LIFE – our bodies are designed to expect movement, and without it, we start to die.
Did you know that when we cease to move, our body thinks we are INJURED, and starts laying down scar tissue?
Movement creates a type of electricity for your body and brain on which it runs. Without it, our bodies have to adapt, which shows as disease and death.
Still not convinced? Consider these facts.
Documented benefits of walking briskly 30 minutes a day:
- Prevent up to 91% of cases of obesity and Type 2 diabetes
- Prevent up to 50% of all cases of heart disease
- Reduce risk of stroke by 25-30%
- Prevent up to 50% of all stroke deaths
- Reduce congestive heart disease deaths by 63%
- Reduce hospital readmission for heart failure patients by 70%
- Normalize blood pressure and reduce risk of developing high blood pressure
- Restore or maintain heart and blood vessel health
- Restore and maintain normal cholesterol and triglyceride levels
- Reduce risk of breast cancer by up to 60%
- Reduce pancreatic cancer in overweight people by 50%
- Reduce lung cancer, even in smokers, by 72%
- Reduce melanoma – aka skin cancer – by 72%
- Prevent up to 50% of colon cancer
- Reduce risk of developing, and improve outcomes of those with rheumatoid and osteoarthritis
- Prevent osteoporosis and increase new bone formation
- Increase strength, flexibility and balance
- Decrease gallbladder removal by 20% and decrease gallstones
- Improve digestion and decrease indigestion
- Improve bowel function and elimination
- Increase immune system function
- Increase macrophage (anti-tumor) activity and antioxidant levels
- Decrease all causes of mortality by 67% in the general population
- Decrease all causes of mortality by 50% in 61-81 year olds
- Prevent up to 47% of cognitive impairment, prevent up to 62% of Alzheimer’s and 52%of dementia
- Improve physical function in older adults
- Decrease chance of ever being in a nursing home
- Decrease rate of aging
- Enhance learning by 12 times
- Increase dopamine and serotonin levels
- Decrease depression by 20%, including relapses
- Increased growth and healing hormones
- Decrease stress and body breakdown hormones
- Decrease body fat, obesity, and weight gain
And these benefits are from walking – not running, not lifting weights, not doing a boot camp, not running a marathon. And 30 minutes! Not hours in the gym. 30 minutes to gain all the benefits above. Thirty minutes to a longer, better life.
Wellness: A Whole Different Strategy
I was in Portland, Oregon this weekend hearing Dr. James Chestnut give scientific evidence after evidence proving that how we move, eat, and think – our lifestyle choices – are the single biggest factor in determining whether we are sick or well, and whether or not we will develop a chronic illness.
He gave one of my favorite analogies – one that we share with our participants and those who attend our LiveWell 101 workshops – and I want to share it with you here on this blog.
Fire Department, or General Contractor?
Imagine that your body is your home. If your house is on fire, who would you call? The fire department, of course! Those brave firefighters will arrive with their axes and hoses, using their skills and expertise to break down your doors and douse your house with water and chemicals, saving your house from burning to the ground.
Would you be grateful to those courageous and selfless firefighters for saving your house? You bet.
Now, imagine that you have a life-threatening health emergency. You’d call the ambulance, and those brave paramedics, nurses, and doctors will use their skills and expertise to save your life. They will use drugs and surgery to treat your crisis, allowing you to survive and live another day.
Would you be grateful to those brilliant paramedics, nurses, and doctors for giving all they have to save your life? Yes, you’d be eternally grateful!
But the next day, when everything in your house is wet and smoke damaged, the doors and windows are broken in, and walls are crumbling, would you call the fire department again to ask them to bring you home into a state of balance? Are the expertise they have in saving your home from fire, the same skills that will make your house a home again?
No, you wouldn’t ever do that. You would employ a whole different strategy, calling on a different set of skills and expertise. You would hire renovation experts to repair smoke damage, a general contractor, perhaps painters. You’d have an entirely different approach to bringing your house back to health, and maintaining the safety of your home so that you never have another fire.
This is no different for your body. Drugs and surgery are brilliant interventions for trauma and crisis, but to bring your mind and body to a state of well-being and true health, you need a whole different approach. You need an entirely different set of skills – lifestyle skills – to make yourself whole again, and to live a life full of vitality.
Eating well, moving well, and thinking well have been proven, unequivocally, to bring the body to a state of balance and well-being. This is great news, because lifestyle choices are within our control. In other words, we are not destined to develop the same diseases as our parents or grandparents, and we are not slaves to bad luck and bad germs!
Dr. Chestnut’s new book, The Wellness & Prevention Paradigm, is a great resource for understanding why this is true and that the science is clear. We have a copy in our lending library.
For a cliff notes version, you can attend one of our LiveWell 101 workshops. We have a few coming up in May:
- Saturday, May 14th, 10am
- Wednesday, May 18th, 6:30pm
- Thursday, May 19th, 6:30pm
The workshops are held at our Kirkland office, and last about an hour and a half. They are absolutely free, and there is no obligation whatsoever. We want to share this information, because we know it changes lives. It certainly has changed ours. Contact us to save a seat!
We hope to see you there.
- LiveWell USA Team
Spring is here!
…well, almost. The first day of spring is March 20th, this Sunday. And although you can grow vegetables all year long in this part of the world, March is when things really start getting fun.
Organic vegetable gardening is great in so many ways. Here is a few, to start:
- Food grown in your own organic garden is ripe, fresh, and more delicious than store-bought produce
- Organic, fresh produce is packed full of nutrients that conventional produce lack
- You save money
- Gardening is wonderful exercise
- Kids love to experiment and eat from the garden
- Reduce trips to the grocery store
- Who needs a whole box of rosemary? If you grow your own herbs, you can snip as little as you like, right when you need it
- Watching plants grow is soothing and it allows you to appreciate nature.
- Growing your own food is rewarding – it gives you a huge sense of accomplishment
- Vegetable gardens are beautiful!
According to my favorite gardening book, The Maritime Northwest Garden Guide (produced by Seattle Tilth), you can start sow seeds for these veggies and herbs in March:
- Green onions
- Cilantro
- Fennel
- Parsley
- Arugula
- Cress
- Radishes
- Turnips
- Spinach
- Swiss Chard
- Snap Peas
- Snow Peas
- Shelling Peas
- Garbanzo Beans
- Flax
- Miner’s Lettuce
- Artichokes (late March)
- Potatoes (late March)
Wow! And there is also list of veggies and herbs you can sow under a cloche (plastic covering to keep the soil warm).
Many vegetables and herbs can be planted in pots, and do well in a small space. I encourage everyone to give it a try!
Happy Gardening,
- LiveWell USA Team
Happy Healthy Valentine’s Day
Valentine’s Day – it’s a holiday that celebrates love! So, why all the sugar, additives, and refined flours? Celebrating love doesn’t have to mean giving up health. In fact, the idea of celebrating love itself is a very healthy idea indeed! Here is a wake-up call to how much sugar we consume as a society [1]:
- In 1700, the average person consumed about 4 pounds of sugar per year.
- In 1800, the average person consumed about 18 pounds of sugar per year.
- In 1900, individual consumption had risen to 90 pounds of sugar per year.
- In 2009, more than 50 percent of all Americans consume one-half pound of sugar PER DAY—translating to a whopping 180 pounds of sugar per year!
Sugar contributes to obesity, compromised immune systems, hyperactivity, depression, anxiety, premature aging, diabetes, and many other conditions.
So let’s get back to the basics of Valentine’s Day, and spread the love! Here are some ideas:
- Write a love letter. Love letters and love notes are straight from the heart.
- Shape it. Heart-shaped cookie cutters can turn apple and turkey slices into tokens of affection.
- Spend time together. Go on a bike ride, a hike, or a romantic stroll through the park.
- Make a Valentine’s Day card or a Valentine craft. Kids are especially eager to express their creativity on Valentine’s Day. Here are some great craft ideas on Kaboose.com.
- Cook a romantic dinner. Here are some healthy Valentine’s Day menu ideas from EatingWell.com.
- Say “I love you.” Sometimes simple is better.
Remember that feeling love, whether you give or receive it, is also doing wonders for your health. That positive emotion and feeling of well-being allow our cells to thrive, and halts the stress response. That has a direct effect on your biochemistry and physiology, and ultimately, your health!
Happy and healthy Valentine’s Day to you!
- The LiveWell USA Team
[1]Johnson RJ and Gower T. (2009) The Sugar Fix: The High-Fructose Fallout That is Making You Sick and Fat, Pocket, 416 pp
