In this episode of Boot Camp FX Television you'll get a two exercise fat burning, upper body workout utilizing bodyweight and kettlebells for resistance.

The first exercise is the "3 to 9 Hanging Leg Swing". You can either pull yourself up and perform the leg swings or hang from the bar with straight arms. You'll get more BICEP WORK if you stay UP while performing this exercise.

The next exercise is the kettlebell alternating swing.

In this Exclusive Boot Camp FX Coaching Session with the author of Mindless Eating, you will discover some simple, tiny changes you can make to LOSE WEIGHT FASTER.

Sound fantastic?

It is -- and here's why. Today Dr. Brian Wansink shares breakthrough research on some simple, easy to implement, secret weight loss tips that will help you easily lose weight faster.

Dr. Wansink is the author of "Mindless Eating" and director of the Food and Brand Lab at Cornell University.


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Curtis Ludlow:  Hello everyone.  This is Curtis Ludlow with another Boot Camp FX coaching call.  We have with us today Dr. Brian Wansink.  He is the Director of the Food and Brand Lab at Cornell University and the author of Mindless Eating: Why We Eat More Than We Think.  Today, he will be sharing with us some secret tips to help you lose weight almost effortlessly.  Dr. Wansink, thank you for taking the time to be here today.

Dr. Brian Wansink:  It's great to be with you today.

Curtis Ludlow:  Great.  Well, I know your time is limited, so let's just get straight to it.  First of all, what is mindless eating?

Dr. Brian Wansink:  Well, the typical person makes about 200 decisions a day about food.  It is not just whether you're going to have Froot Loops or Frosted Flakes for breakfast, but then it's being whether it's two-thirds of a bowl or three-quarters of a bowl or second bowl, whether you are going to use full fat milk or regular milk, those will be all the decisions you don't make throughout the day and that you don't really make - because at the end, it would be things like whether you decide not to grab that one in the break or whether you decide not to have ice cream.

What's going on with this is that our environment has a tremendous influence on nudging us one direction or the other causing us to overeat whether they eat the right amounts or they eat even less.  The good news about this is that these 200 decisions they were not even aware of making that sort of _____6:26 for a diet can also be very, very, very easily reversed to eat less mindlessly instead of mindlessly overeat.

Curtis Ludlow:  Interesting.  Well, I first came across your work reading another book and the study seems to be coming up over and over and over again.  There is Ice Cream Study and  Popcorn Study.  And the ice cream one, I just came across, and that's very interesting, about these 83 - well, maybe you can explain it.

Dr. Brian Wansink:  Well, and we've done a number of - I can say a number of Popcorn Studies.

Curtis Ludlow:  The one I came across was the 83 nutritionists or...

Dr. Brian Wansink:  Yeah, sure, sure, yeah, yeah.  In particular case what we found is that the cues signal you to eat too much it can be something as simple as the size of a bowl or the size of a spoon, what the person is doing next to you, what the lighting is in the room, and by simply adjusting these things you can end up eating a whole lot less and a whole lot more. 

The study you are referring to there is really a study we - when I was a professor at the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign and we had a big ice cream buffet reception for people when we - these are people who are nutrition professors and grad students.  And what we do is when people came in they were randomly given either a large bowl for their ice cream or just a medium-sized bowl for their ice cream. 

In either case, their bowls, you can never even fill up, because they are huge to begin with. 

And then what also happened is that it appeared as we through the line, we just switched out the ice cream scoop to a given either - so people were using 3-ounce scoop or 2-ounce scoop and what we really found is that people are tremendously influenced by these cues. 

If you have a big bowl, let's say a 24-ounce bowl it may suggest that it's normal, typical and reasonable to serve more and so people mindlessly do so. 

They end up putting on average about 50 - I think it's like about 51% more ice cream into a large bowl than a slightly smaller bowl if they are given a large bowl and a large ice cream scoop.

Curtis Ludlow:  That's for me then...

Dr. Brian Wansink:  And even experts are influenced by this.  And so, for those of us who say, "You know, I've got a lot of will power.  I don't over serve myself at meal time.  I don't have second or third ones I really need it.  I don't snack."  If your environment is somehow broad, you would mindlessly overeat.  If a person - we have lots of cool videos of this. 

A person wants to go to - even just Google my name like for YouTube and just you are going to YouTube and type in Wansink or Brian Wansink, you'll find slides dozens and dozens of these that have been shot for different documentary and things like that.  So, it's amazing. 

But the key to this reversing mindless eating is not to be mindful all the time because most of us have full time job who can't take a bite and say, "Okay, am I full yet?  We don't take another bite, am I full yet?"  No.  Some people can, but the vast majority doesn't _____10:00.

Curtis Ludlow:  Right.

Dr. Brian Wansink:  Okay.  For the most of us, it's a lot easier for us to simply change the size of a plate, change the size of a bowl, to arrange or cover to the first thing we see is the more healthy snack and that's less healthy snack.  We remove a dish and it's 6 feet away, these are mindless ways to getting small changes of your environment that nudges you into eating and nudge you into overeating.

Let me give another example.  We've done a study - well, series of studies actually that showed that if you give somebody a 10-inch dinner plate, a typical person is going to serve about 4 ounces of pasta in a pasta dinner.  If instead you give them a 12-inch dinner plate, which is a little bit bigger, 4 ounces on a 10-inch dinner plate, I mean, that this doesn't look like an appetizers work. 

So what you do, you add another ounce and typically we find that the average person serves themselves 22% more food when it's served in a 12-inch plate, even this bumps up from 10 to 12 calories or 10 to 12 inches rather.  And this is tremendous.  This is a great mindless way for a person to eat a bit less but not even realize it because in your mind, in both cases you ate what you believe was a full plate of food.

In another study we did something with the secretaries at University, give them Hershey's Kisses, candies on their desk or you give them candies that were just 6 feet away from their desk exact same number and you refill the bowl every night for a month.  And one thing we found that simply having a candy dish 6 feet away from you and leaving that typical person to eat not nine candies at night but only four candies. 

And that ends up being the difference of about 125 calories which your listeners will know can total up to about an extra 12 pounds that a person wouldn't have gained if they simply with that candy just test you 6 feet away from their desks. 

So we did this and when we ask people, "Hey, what was it, 6 feet too far to walk for a snack?" 

People say, no, no. They said 6 feet, gave a pause and say "geez, I am really that hungry?"  Finally the answer is no. 

So, I mean, the key to mindless eating, again it is not mindful eating. 

But what we're doing is determining what small changes you can make in your environment, really small, really, really small changes you can make is mindlessly eat less not even really knowing it. 

Some people might be serving off a counter instead of off the stove or off the kitchen counters instead of right at the table. 

Some people could eat something as simple as a time for a small rule that you have no more than two cold cans of soda or a beer or whatever your beverage of choice is and refrigerate at the same time. 

Doing so, I have put the limit how much you end up eating.  Just I want to drink two or something and then wait around for the third to get cold.  So there are tons and tons of these ideas you can find and - well, in my book Mindless Eating, which you can get from any library, you can get it from any book store, amazon.com and there is also a series of - a number of these you could find just surfing the web or on our website mindlesseating dot org. 

What's important to realize is that if you want to pick something, we tell people that if you are going to make too many changes to your life that comes with reversing mindless eating, they are going to backfire if you don't pick if you don't pick the ones that are most relevant for you and most likely worth. 

There is over 250 questions we have, what we call them Mindless Methods.  There are 250 changes you can make and these are just Mindless Methods you have to pick the ones that are most relevant for you because if your problems is meal binging and you start using tips that relate to snacks craving or to restaurant indulging, it's just not going to work because you have to be very specific about identifying first of all what your main problem area is that could be decked up desk for dining, the meal stuff and it could be snack raisings whatever, identify one to three small tiny daily environmental changes that you can make that will mindlessly lead you to eat a little less, okay?

Curtis Ludlow: Well, in your experience what are the top three changes that somebody could make (multiple speakers) contact?

Dr. Brian Wansink: Yeah. That would be really - that would be hard for me...

Curtis Ludlow: That's excess.

Dr. Brian Wansink: To say.  Yeah, I mean...

Curtis Ludlow: Yeah.

Dr. Brian Wansink: I know in my personal life three that made the biggest difference for me was just don't ever serve food off the table. Instead, we pre-plate all of our food in my family, and pre-plate at the counter off the stove. 

And, in studies we have done, the average male end up eating about 29% less if they do that.  The average female only end up eating about 9% to 10% less doing something like that.

Curtis Ludlow: Okay.

Dr. Brian Wansink: So again that's for all people and it's not going to be - it's not going to work for some who does not have the - for a guy, for instance, whose tendency isn't to eat seconds and thirds of something.  My wife happens to be a fresh chef.  So my predisposition is to eat seconds and thirds of everything is incredibly high.

Curtis Ludlow: Sure.

Dr. Brian Wansink: I think you know the first - so, I mean, that's why you find things that are really, really nicely tailored and that were true-off.  Now, the other things that's - people who tend to like a lot of juice or milk or, you know, wine or whatever the case is, it's not just the size of the glass that's in front of you, although it does dramatically, meaning you will pour less if it's a wine in a smaller wine glass, even if it's going to strain even really less wide glass but simply the shape of these glasses.

In our studies we found that people have a tendency to pour a whole lot more in a short wide glass .

Let's say you have short wide - you have a 20 ounce juice glass that's short and wider, 20 ounce juice glass that's tall and skinny.

You will pour a lot more into that short wide glass because what you do is you look at the height of liquid as you pour, you don't look at the width, nobody does that and as you know, we find the typical person they pour about 30% more, actually 33% more liquid in a wide glass than do tall, skinny glass of the same volume.

So, from my personal experience nothing works.  I mean, I've got - people write in and, you know, we get over 200 studies who have done different things, three changes that they make and you know, as _____18:21 axis, mentioned why? 

So the key is to find out what is their biggest Achilles heel.

Is it snacking, well, here is a bunch of things that can change.  Is it going to restaurant and really blowing it? Well, there is a bunch of things you can change there too.  The idea is to find the areas the most problematic. 

Like I had somebody a while back, we are doing a makeover for a big show and this is somebody who is convinced their biggest problem was party binging, meaning they go to whatever Super Bowl parties or whatever, they were just totally confident.  Just eat way, way too much and we know we came up with these easy solutions to get that under control given this guy's all patterns, really started saying well, how often does he have to go?  "Oh, man.  It's like three or four time a year. This is every time."  You know, I said, if it's three or four times a year, this is not your problem area.

Curtis Ludlow: Right.

Dr. Brian Wansink: This is rounding error on the year.

Curtis Ludlow: Right.

Dr. Brian Wansink: The first thing a person needs to do, again, the mindless myth helps you kind of take you through that, you can just read about that in the book too, helps you identify your major problem area, helps you figure out what are one or two or three, no more than three small tiny daily changes that you can make once in your environment that you never have to think back about you, then how to actually keep the change.  Based on those stuff we tell when we work with people like something you want to change, just aim at  changing for a month, after a month you can go right back to whatever you want to do. 

The thing is changing something, whether you use smaller plates, so I am going to use, it's like, well, I don't know that could be - I do that forever?  Most people - when people _____20:21 successfully 30 days even if they don't want to do it anymore, I should say generally they keep the change. 

And after that point, we just give them or we recommend they just find three different changes to try and those are some really separate people.  The key is nobody is going to lose 70 pounds in a month using this Mindless Eating method.  But what they do do is we find in our study that people who say they don't even to just wait at all given these changes to make still end up losing on average about 2 pounds a month. 

But the fact is this is effortless.

Curtis Ludlow: Right

Dr. Brian Wansink: And at the end of the year, people weighed 20 to 24 pounds less, maybe it's just fine.

Curtis Ludlow: Yeah, okay.  Well, this is all really fascinating.  Once again, let's - is it mindlesseating.org where people should go?

Dr. Brian Wansink:  Yes. mindlesseating.org, my name is Brian Wansink.  They can also play a bunch of things in YouTube if they want to within the Mindless Eating method there is way to tackle this and you can learn about that, you can review about that and the Book Mindless Eating: Why We Eat More Than We Think ______21:50 much at all libraries, book stores, amazon.com, et cetera.

Curtis Ludlow:  Great.  Well, ladies and gentlemen, rush over to mindlesseating.org and get your copy of Mindless Eating, the book. And Brian, thank you so much again for taking the time to tell us about your work.  I really appreciate it.

Dr. Brian Wansink: Absolutely, I like that.

Curtis Ludlow:  Okay, thank you.  Take care now.

WASHINGTON--Nutrition Facts labels on packaged foods have helped guide Americans' food choices for 15 years. But in that time, companies have cooked up a number of schemes to trick consumers about what's in--or isn't in--packaged foods.

Today, the Center for Science in the Public Interest--the group that campaigned for the 1990 law requiring nutrition labeling--exposes some of the tricks that occur on the front of the label, and unveils makeovers of the Nutrition Facts panel and ingredient lists to last for the next 15 years.

One innovation CSPI has long urged is the use of symbols on the fronts of packages to give shoppers a quick snapshot of the key nutrients. (The packaged-food industry, under pressure from the Food and Drug Administration, recently halted its own recently adopted system, Smart Choices, which allowed some junk foods like Froot Loops to use the program's logo.) The FDA recently announced that it will conduct some preliminary tests to see which front-label system helps consumers the most.

CSPI is also calling on the FDA to crack down on deceptive claims ("Strengthens your immune system," "Helps Protect Healthy Joints!" and others) and to tighten up industry-loosened definitions of "fiber" and "all natural." Companies shouldn't be able to brag about having "0 grams trans fat!" if the item contains significant amounts of saturated fat, says the group. And companies that boast that their foods are "made with whole grain" should be required to disclose how much of that grain is whole. It's often less than half, according to CSPI.

"So many packaged foods are little more than white flour, fat, sugar, salt and additives in various combinations, yet they are marketed as modern-day medical miracles, offering vague benefits for virtually every part of the body," said CSPI legal affairs director Bruce Silverglade. "The FDA has recently challenged some especially egregious health claims, such as the exaggerated cholesterol-reduction claims on Cheerios. But the agency should put a permanent stop to a wide range of other deceptive claims."

CSPI's reimagined Nutrition Facts label puts a greater emphasis on calories, and indicates when a food is high in saturated fat, trans fat, cholesterol, sodium, or added sugars ("added" means sugars that do not occur naturally in fruit and milk).

Only fiber from whole grains, beans, fruits, and vegetables, and not faux fibers such as polydextrose and maltodextrin, would be considered to be fiber on the nutrition label.

CSPI also would like to see ingredient lists presented as clearly as the Nutrition Facts panel is, as opposed to the condensed, all-caps type often used. The new Ingredient Facts panel also would separate the major ingredients from minor ones. And for foods with several forms of sugar scattered around the ingredients list, those sugars would be combined so that they would show up higher on the list of ingredients. Percentages of key ingredients would be disclosed.

"Food marketers bring their graphic design firepower to bear on the front of food packages, but then go to great lengths to make their ingredient lists almost indecipherable," said CSPI executive director Michael F. Jacobson. "The fine print shouldn't taketh what the big print giveth."

CSPI illustrates how food labels can trick consumers and shows "before" and "after" Nutrition labels in the December issue of Nutrition Action.

I've got a great article for you today courtesy of Joel Marion that will help you lose 10-15 pounds this holiday season.
 
But FIRST let me tell you about a STAR member of Boot Camp FX.
 
Monica.


 
She has lost 23 POUNDS of fat and gained 5 pounds of lean muscle.
 
How did she do it?
 
Monica said that 6-days a week she has a protein shake for breakfast, "eats clean" every three hours, has a strategic cheat day EVERY Saturday and uses some key supplements.
 
Coincidentally, someone else mentioned to me that she was frustrated with her progress.
 
This other person said she didn't eat dinner the night before, regularly doesn't eat breakfast and enjoys eating at some greasy sandwich shop - frequently.
 
Here are the lessons:
 
"STRATEGIC overeating" can help you GET LEANER while non-strategic eating gets you - whatever happens to be there.
 
Why does strategic overeating work?
 
Hormonal response.
 
If you can control your bodies hormonal response to food, you're putting yourself in a position to reach your body transformation goals.
 
Now, I didn't mention this yesterday, but my colleague Joel Marion is giving away a new bonus called the CYWT Restaurant Guide. It dissects more than 75 popular restaurants and provides you with a detailed list of meals that help you control hormonal response and burn fat while eating on the go.
 
Remember, the entire system, including all of the other bonuses is 52% off until Thursday night.
 
http://cheatyourwayslim.com
 
To explain how strategic over eating can actually help you get leaner and burn more fat, Joel asked me to share this article with you:
 
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Why "Dieting" CAN'T Work
By Joel Marion, CISSN, NSCA-CPT
 
 
"Arghhhhhhh!"
 
Ever feel this way? Or maybe a better question is:
Ever been on a diet?
 
Why is dieting so psychologically draining?
 
Well, for one, it requires change in a major area
of our lives--the way we eat--and for most of us,
change is a very uncomfortable thing.
 
Fact is, changing old habits and forming new ones
is never an easy task; however, with dieting, it
becomes exceedingly difficult given all of the
physical adaptations that occur (which we will soon discuss).
 
Consider what happens in your mind when you go on a diet.
 
Almost immediately you are faced with an array of cravings.
Just the sight or smell of food mentally adds to your
already present hunger pangs. You find yourself craving
foods that normally you have no desire to eat.
 
Every time you come in contact with an "off-limits"
food item--whether it be on a television commercial,
in a magazine, or physically right in front of
you--the battle begins.
 
Do you give into the temptation to experience immediate
pleasure, only to be swarmed by overwhelming guilt shortly
soon after? Or do you stick it out and allow the anxiety
to increase with every day?
 
It seems like a lose-lose situation--and it is.
 
And what if you're not making as much progress as you
had hoped? What if you're seemingly doing everything
right and the scale just isn't moving?
 
Feelings of frustration, discouragement, and even
depression emerge, making you even more inclined
to break your diet.
 
I mean, who wants to sacrifice without being
rewarded? At least when you bite into a chocolate
chip cookie, the taste is satisfying. But working
hard to reap no return on investment?
 
Well that, that just flat out sucks.
 
There has to be a better way--and fortunately,
there is.
 
The simple truth is this: "diets" can't work.
 
If you tried 'em and failed, you're just like
99% of the rest of the world, myself included:
normal.
 
You see, any time you restrict calories, you literally
"program" your body to fight against your every effort
to lose weight.
 
Not quite making sense?
 
Time for a little history lesson.
 
Think back for just a minute to the time in which
our ancestors roamed the earth. You know, the hunter
and gather, feast and famine type days.
 
For those individuals, survival was king, and in order
to survive, they had to do the whole "eating" thing
just like us.
 
Unfortunately, things weren't quite as easy for
this group as they are today. No supermarkets.
No drive-through meal deals. Instead, when our
primitive ancestors wanted a nice steak,
they had to go find it.
 
This inevitably meant that there were plenty of
instances in which our yester-year counterparts
went without food for days at a time. And at other
times, namely during the winter months, their
bodies were forced to get by on very little
daily food and calories.
 
And the reason why they didn't die?
There's only one--the body's natural defense
against starvation.
 
Don't get enough calories for an extended
period of time? No problem, the body simply
causes "bad" hormones, fat storage enzymes,
and hunger to all increase while "good" hormones,
metabolism, and fat burning enzymes all take a dive.
 
Enter "starvation mode".
 
Friend to our ancestors; anything but to the dieter.
 
You see, dieting, although planned, is nothing more
than a lesser degree of premeditated starvation.
 
Go on a diet--any diet--and it wont be long until
the body begins fighting for every ounce of your
body fat. You want to lose it; it wants to keep it.
And guess what? It wins every time.
 
Sad scenario, I know.
 
But what if there was some way to "trick" your body
into thinking you aren't dieting when you actually are?
 
What if you could essentially "block" the body from
entering starvation mode, keeping fat burning at
its highest point, week after week?
 
Well, you can.
 
And even better news--you can do it by strategically
"cheating" on your diet with all your favorite foods.
 
Is it apple pie that you crave? Chocolate chip
cookies (like me)? Or maybe just the freedom to order
whatever you want from your favorite restaurant's menu?
Whatever it is, believe it or not, you can actually use
those foods to help you lose fat faster.
 
But it needs to be very strategic, and with Cheat Your Way
Thin, that's exactly what I teach you how to do.
 
"So how does strategic cheating override the
starvation protection mechanism?"
 
That's a good question, and one I'm more than happy to answer.
 
You see, it takes the body about one week of calorie
restriction to substantially trigger "starvation mode"
and perpetuate the negative adaptations we discussed
previously (decreased metabolism, slowed/stalled fat loss, etc).
 
On the other hand, it takes a much shorter period of
time to reverse these trends via strategic practices
of "overfeeding" or dietary "cheating".
 
Essentially, by incorporating bursts of strategic
cheating like I teach in my program, you
can literally turn your metabolism into your fat
burning slave by ensuring you always have an internal
environment primed for burning fat--and you do it
with your favorite foods.
 
Oh, and did I mention just how HUGE that is psychologically?
 
Thinking back, I can remember when I used to "cheat"
only to quickly be overwhelmed by feelings of guilt
and failure. Never again. Now when I cheat, it's planned.
And each time I do, I walk away knowing that I just
accelerated my progress.
 
Frankly, it doesn't get much better than knowing that
you just USED your Thanksgiving Dinner AND dessert to
speed along fat loss.
 
Anxiety? Nope. When cravings arise, there is major comfort
in knowing that you'll be able to enjoy that very food
in just a few short days when your next cheat session rolls around.
 
Feelings of discouragement and decreased motivation?
Definitely with other diets, but with CYWT, you'll actually
be excited to step on the scale week after week to view the
consistent, steady progress that regular, strategic cheating yields.
 
Simply put, strategic cheating solves the dietary
dilemma by providing you with powerful metabolic
benefits and perhaps even more powerful psychological ones.
 
Finally, a diet that actually WORKS.
 
 
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Pretty convincing (and insightful) if I do say so myself!
 
If you want to cheat your way through the
holidays this year, and actually LOSE a massive amount
of body fat (while everyone else is stuck gaining it),
then be sure to pick up the full "blueprint" while it's
still less than half price:
 
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And get ready for your first BIG Cheat Day tomorrow
Thanksgiving Day!
 
To a happier, fuller, leaner you this holiday season ;)
 
Have a grateful day and a GREAT FULL DAY!
 
Curtis Joel Ludlow

Over the past few weeks I'm sure you've been hearing a ton about my friend and diet "guru" Joel Marion's holiday nutrition plan and how you can actually LOSE weight this holiday season by strategically enjoying all your favorite holiday foods.

Well, the wait is over!

The Holiday nutrition plan is now ready to go - on sale TODAY (at less than half price via THIS exclusive invitation), November 24th, 2009!

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WARNING: The less than half price sale will be live through Thursday,
but you're going to want to make sure you grab your copy *today*, and
for two reasons.

For anyone who orders today (Tuesday), and today only, you're going to get not one,
but TWO special bonuses that no one else will get:

Bonus #1: A 90-minute Q&A coaching call with Joel AND HTHB fat loss expert Vince DelMonte. Vince just used Joel's exact program to drop down to an all time low 5% body fat for an upcoming photo shoot in the Dominican (while eating WHATEVER he wanted every 5th day), and both he and Joel will be hosting a 90-minute Q&A call exclusive to those who order
today, and today ONLY.

Bonus #2: A 20-page PDF of a recent (never published) interview that author
Tom Venuto conducted with Joel, *grilling* him with his toughest questions, causing
Joel to dig deeper into the science behind the program than he ever has before,
revealing a slew of new, powerful, never-before-seen information.

It's called "The Leptin Chronicles" and if you're serious about dropping
body fat FAST this holiday season, you're going to want to get access to
this interview by acting today.

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Now, in case you've missed out on the ridiculous buzz that literally
everyone all over the internet has been talking about for the past two weeks,
Joel's program, based on 6 years of his own research, SHOWS you exactly how you
can use your favorite foods to "trick" your body into losing fat faster.

And that's NO joke.

Just click on the "research" tab at the site and you'll see that there's
enough medical research to back up this program 100 times over
(actually, it's 308 studies worth).

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And if that's not enough to convince you to act today,
he's also including a KILLER bonus for the holidays
(and this is *really* cool):

The Strategic Holiday Cheat Calendar - With this calendar,
Joel has mapped out every single day of the next 6 weeks
(from Thanksgiving through the first week of January) with
each and every holiday reserved as a Cheat Day.

And then he shows you exactly how to structure the rest of the
program around each holiday cheat to maximize fat loss more than
you ever could by "dieting" or depriving yourself.

Essentially, it's a complete blueprint for you to lose up to 21 lbs of
blubber this holiday season (while everyone else GAINS those same pounds)
without ever missing out on a single holiday meal, party, or dessert!

Oh, and did I mention that the program starts with
your first BIG Cheat Day - Thanksgiving!

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If you're ready to cheat your way through the holidays
this year while being AHEAD of the game (with the easiest, most effective,
and fun method possible) come Jan 1st, then you need to get over to the site
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Remember, both fast action bonuses are for individuals
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Have a GREAT FULL DAY and a grateful day!

Your friend,

Curtis Joel Ludlow
(714) 414-9942

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Curtis Joel Ludlow:    Hello everyone, this is Curtis Joel Ludlow with another Boot Camp FX coaching session.

    Today's guest coach is Steve Perrine.
    
    Steve is the author of The New American Diet, Editor of Children's Health Magazine and Editor at large for Men's Health Magazine.

    He says that everything we've been taught weight loss is wrong and in this coaching session. Steve will reveal the revolutionary new plan that will strip away pounds from your belly, change the way you look, feel and live.



    Steve, thank you for taking the time to chat with us.

Stephen Perrine:    Curtis, thank you very much for having me here.

Curtis:    You're welcome. Now, I know your time is limited so let's just get right into it.


     Your new book is The New American Diet: How secret "obesogens" are making us fat and the new superfoods that will flatten your belly for good. Tell me, what is The New American Diet?

Stephen:    Well, a lot of the information that we think of as is, kind of, standard dietary information. It's based on science that was done 40-50 years ago. Science has said things like salmon was a very healthy option cause it was loaded with Omega-3, and steak was a bad option for you. But the reality is that, the food that we ate has changed dramatically since all the traditional food research was done.

    So, The New American Diet looks at food as it is today and talks a lot about why certain foods that we assume are good for us are not necessarily good for us. In certain food that has been "demonized" may actually be healthier choices in some instance.

    And we're talking about, not just meats, we're talking about produce and we reveal, sort of, the information about why these foods are different than the foods that scientists studied and based their assumptions from.

Curtis:    Okay. Now you say there are "obesogens"? What are the obesogens?

Stephen:    Obesogen. The word "obesogen" was a recently coined term by researchers studying something called Endocrine Disrupting Chemicals. You probably heard a lot over the past several months over the chemicals BPA, which is the chemical found in plastic that leach into food. About 93%of American's have FBPA, detectable levels of FBPA in their bodies right now. That means, probably, you and I Curtis.

    And BPA is an estrogenic, it mimics estrogen, it blocks the action of testosterone. And you could, if you know anything about the actions of hormones, you can, kind of, see what that would mean.

    It's as though, each person is getting little, tiny doses of female hormones that undermines muscle growth and increases our body's willingness to store fat.

    So BPA and other chemicals that leach our plastic are "obesogens", they're Endocrine Disrupting Chemicals.

    Pesticides are also endocrine disruptors and the 13 most commonly used pesticides are links to Endocrine Disrupting Action. They have been classified as "obesogens". They are found on our produce, they're found in our drinking water.

    One of the things we talk about in depth is why certain foods, particularly apples, pears, peaches, strawberries, lettuce, they may be very, very healthy for you. Then Franklin said it's "an apple a day, keeps the doctor away". But then Franklin didn't have to worry about what was being sprayed on those apples.

    So when we eat a healthy food but one that may carry 13 different chemicals that cause weight gain. We have to rethink that food. So pesticides are obesogens.

    Hormones, given to these, are obesogens. The average industrially farmed cow has had 6 different hormones, 3 of them natural: testosterone, estrogen and progesterone. And 3 of them are artificial including PBA which is one of the, well actually, is the most powerful steroids used by body builders.

Curtis:    Really.

Stephen:    And we know what a large of dose of PBA does to the human body over a short period of time. No study has ever been done to say what a small dose of PBA administered to the human body over and over and over and over again, does.

    But we do know that PBA, among these other hormones, interfere with the hormonal system. They inspire weight gain, they are obesogens.

    Soy contains two naturally occurring chemicals: genistein and daidzein. These two chemicals are estrogenic and they have the same effect on our bodies as taking estrogen supplements would. Now, in its natural raw form having some edamami or some tofu that's fine but soy is now in all sorts of foods: bread, cereal, cookies.

   We're eating an enormous amount of soy all the time in the chicken that we eat, and the beef that we eat and the pork that we eat, and the fish, that is farmed, that we eat are also eating soy.

    And so because you are what you eat and you are what you eat - eats. We're not only getting soy in our diet but we're getting these chemicals through the animals that we eat which are being fed soy. None of these animals evolved to eat soy. So the soy chemicals in those animals, we're now getting when we eat them. Soy, in these refined forms, is an obesogen.

    And then also we talk about sugars, added sugars, in particular fructose which can interfere with the body's ability to process Leptin.

   Leptin is the hormone that tells you when you are full.

   So if someone who's in what we call the Hypocaloric State, meaning there are no regular basis taking in more calories than you burn. Fructose can quash Leptin response and therefore you always think you are hungry even when you are full. That inspires weight gain; fructose and other sugars are obesogens.

    So the book looks at these various ways that our foods have changed. Atlantic salmon, for example, is a great food to look at. There's no such thing as a wild Atlantic salmon, they're extinct.

Curtis:    Really.

Stephen:    The only Atlantic salmon available today is farmed Atlantic salmon, those fish are fed soy. They are lower in Omega-3 fatty acids, higher in Omega-6 fatty acids. And so the really healthy Omega-3 blast you think you're getting. You're not getting quite as much as you think you are. That healthy pink color that you see on Atlantic salmon fillet, it's not natural. Famed Atlantic salmon are white. When farmers give their salmon these soy pellets, they get to choose from a variety of colors of die that they want in those pellets, to die the salmon's flesh. So that pink flesh you're eating is actually dyed white flesh.

Curtis:    Wow! That is really gross.

Stephen:    It is really gross. 90% of the shrimp that we eat today are farmed shrimp. Farmed shrimps are grown in pits that are essentially like backyard swimming pool, they are loaded with chlorine, pesticides and other chemicals that has been linked to obesity. They are also usually treated with a chemical that prevent them from discoloring during shipment. That chemical is also an obesogen.

So there are all these chemicals being added into our food, so we wanted to see, is there any way of eating that would avoid all these chemicals. And we realized that, you know, you could still eat steaks, pork chops, ice cream, fish, pasta, really anything you crave. As long as you made sure that you've understood the sources and know how to eat them.

And so in the instance of... and I've adapted a lot of these to make grass-fed beasts. And which is very easy to find at places like All Foods or at Joes. I've even found it from time to time at Cosco. And it's also very easy to order over the internet.

Curtis:    Okay.

Stephen:    As you get together and buy a cow every six months. [] have it split up. That's really inexpensive that you can also order it over the internet from a variety of meal or whatever.

Curtis:    Okay.

Stephen:    In eating grass-fed beef, you're not only avoiding the soy, you're also avoiding the hormones and antibiotic which these animals need in order to stay alive and they're being fed a diet of corn and soy. You're getting all of the healthy Omega-3 fatty acids, CLA and the other nutrients that the animals get from... that have been going to your body.

    So you have to think of yourself as, you have to think of your food chain as not being just you and what you eat. But rather it's you and what you eat and what you ate ate and what that ate and all the things that have passed along that food chain. We kind of look at everything in that manner.

Curtis:    Interesting. This is all really fascinating. Now, one of the things that you mentioned was pasta. I found it really interesting, you mentioned that there are antioxidants in pasta.

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Stephen:    Yeah, you know, even your standard sandwich and Melina pasta does contain some whole grains and its much better to you than white bread and those whole grains do contain antioxidants that are an important and healthy part of eating. So you are getting a dose of whole grain even when you're eating bigger portions of pasta. One of the issues, of course, is that we don't really think about what a portion of pasta should be. It should be about the size of a softball.

Curtis:    Okay.

Stephen:    What about with Alfredo Sausage you get at food chain restaurant.

Curtis:    Sorry my connection cut out there. Now you mentioned ice cream and chocolate. Now, these are superfoods?

Stephen:    Yeah.

Curtis:    Is that correct? How are ice cream and chocolate superfoods?

Stephen:    Well...

Curtis:    The New American Diet superfoods.

Stephen:    Let's be specific, when we talk of ice cream, we're not talking about Chubby Hubby or anything that's named after a comedy central talk show host or something that...

    I want you to really focus on single word ice cream: Vanilla...

Curtis:    Okay.

Stephen:    ...chocolate, coffee, think for the better. I want you to focus, sort of, on the sugar content. When you start adding M&M's and marshmallows and all those other junk into ice cream, that's when it becomes really high in sugar and bad for you.

    But there are a lot of brands out there: 2 of them are Edy's and Breyer's that make excellent choices. And what we'll do is we'll take ice cream and then maybe we'll take some dark chocolate, some nuts, some fruit and throw it on top and mix it in and now you have a really, really healthy dessert that is high in calcium, high in Omega-3, maybe I'll throw some Flax seed on it. And, you know, peanut butter, natural peanut butter, not the stuff with the added sugars.

    And then, you know, as far as chocolate goes, dark chocolate, in particular, is a superfood.

Curtis:    Okay.

Stephen:    ...more than 70% cocoa content. It's high in fiber, very high in antioxidants and it also has the ability to satisfy craving quickly and efficiently. It's very hard to eat dark chocolate because it is so high in fiber, it's so high in nutrients. When we get hungry, we get hungry because our body needs nutrition. And in, you know, out there today in the market place, you could eat all of the calories you want, you'll not get very much nutrition. And so, it's no wonder that we're so hungry all the time.

    If you just focus on filling your meals with nutrients against food, you don't really have to worry that much about calories. Cause it's hard to over eat when you're focusing on nutrition.

Curtis:    Yeah. I'm also looking at [] recommending that people eat boneless, skinless chicken breasts for a long, long time and you mentioned that they contain a lot more fat than they did 30 years ago. Can you...

Stephen:    Sure, this is a great example of how we still go along with plants that is wildly outdated. So yes, 50 years ago, boneless, skinless chicken breasts was a very, very healthy option.

    Today, chicken breasts contains 223% more fats than the boneless, skinless chicken breasts that your grandfather ate. And it contains 63% less protein than the boneless, skinless chicken breast your grandfather ate. It's the same animal but it is a wildly different food. And the reason to that is the animal that your grandfather ate lived out on the backyard, poked around for grubs, ate leaves, ate grasses.

And the animal that we eat today that is commercially farmed is fed soy and corn, things that it has not evolve to eat and should the animal become sick, they're given antibiotic in order to keep them healthy, to keep them alive. And feel like the average farm with chicken is like a little feather covered Keith Richards, ingesting all this stuff, they need constant medical attention to keep them alive. So when you feed an animal junk, the animal gets fat. And when you don't let the animal around to get some exercise, the animal loses his muscle tone. And when you eat the animal, you're eating food that has more fat and less protein.

Curtis:    Well, that makes complete sense and I don't think I'm gonna be able to get that visual of Keith Richards as a chicken out of my head.

Stephen:    But again, there's no reason, why not eat a much, much healthier chicken? And you can find pasture-raised chicken which is also going to be high with omega-3 eggs. You find these in the grocery store all the time. Not because they injected the eggs with omega3. its because they fed the chicken like the chicken was meant to eat.

Curtis:    Okay.

Stephen:    So the chicken-manufactured eggs that are higher in omega3, higher in nutrients that our bodies want, just as organic milk is much higher in nutrients than regular milk. So there are all of these different reasons why eating more traditionally- raised meaning pasture- raised breast fed animals are much, much healthier for us. From getting more nutrition, getting higher levels of protein, exposure to hormones [] on our exposure to antibiotics. All of these things add up.

    And again, what's happening is that eating hamburger a day is bad, there's a little tiny [] and it goes over and over and over again. And right now, there is this, there are more than 1,000 studies being funded with the National Institute of Health looking at the health effects of these chemicals right now.

    That's how worried researchers are about this emerging field. And the Endocrine Society, which is the largest organization of endocrinologists with doctors who study hormones came out with a statement earlier this year linking the increase in these chemicals.
    
    Two days ago, the American Medical Association came out endorsing the Endocrine Society view point and urging more study in this field. So this year alone has become an enormous topic and researchers are very, very concerned. In a year, in a world where one in three children born in the last decade will be diagnosed with diabetes.

Curtis:    Wow.

Stephen:    And adults obesity is a major problem and when people say to me, alright sure, but we eat more than we used to. We watch more TV. We don't exercise. Isn't that the real reason why people are gaining weight. Well look, that plays a role absolutely, calorie gaining, calorie's out plays a role.

    But there's one sector of our population that has seen obesity rate increase 73% in the last 3 decades.

   Infants.

Curtis:    Infants?

Stephen:    So either a 4-month old today are not exercising, as much as the 4-month old that are... previous generations. Or they're climbing out of their cribs and they're hitch hiking to McDonald's or there's something else going on here.

    And that's our point, there is something else going on here. And it's endocrine disruptors. It's obesogens. We need to take it very, very seriously and start protecting ourselves and our families from them.

Curtis:    One more point that I wanted to get to before we end the interview here that's folate, you mentioned folate in the book a little bit and the importance of folate for weight loss and other things particularly for babies. Could you explain that a little bit?

Stephen:    Well, it's fascinating folate in your diet maybe the best individual measure of how healthy your diet is and Americans have stripped fully out of their diet. We've evolved from a society that, number one, ate a lot of leafy greens and number two, ate animals that ate a lot of leafy greens.

    To a society that... [pause] and this animals that subsists mostly on grain. Michael Pollan has made this point in his book but he didn't really drill down to the issue of folate.

   Studies show that people who are dieting with the highest levels of folate will lose eight and a half of times to much weight as dieters who have the lowest levels of folate. Folate is links to, not only, protecting you from depression but solely, actually increases the effectiveness of anti-depression therapies whether it's Serotonin, you know, SSRI's. Like Prozac or whether it's just plain talk therapy.

    And, you know, the most likely explanation for why folate is so powerful as a weight loss tool may have to do with this effect on the brain, it's a mood booster. It also, folate is also carried in foods that are high in fiber so the top sources romaine lettuce, arugula, swiss chard, collard greens. So when you eat more leafy greens of spinach, you're getting the weight loss benefits and you get the mood boosting benefit.

Curtis:    Wow. So you recommend the supplementation with folate or would it be better to take it out from your diet.

Stephen:    Well we always believe it's better to get it from your diet because it's one thing to isolate out folate and, you know, give it as a supplement but the fact is that we know the foods that come rich in folate also come rich in others.

Curtis:    Okay.

Stephen:    With the most important, that are really critical  for weight loss. So we know folate rich creams work. We don't if folate supplements work. So let's go with what we know and let's go what we know will help out in those link. So our recommendation is to try to eat a folate-rich plant at lunch time and at dinner time and to eat it first.

Curtis:    Okay.

Stephen:    So a small salad, a small salad or romaine lettuce. If you order pizza, order the spinach pizza or throw some spinach, order a Cesar salad or throw some spinach into your tomato sauce. I make [] and I'll fry up some [] or some swiss chard, [] put it into the sauce. Those simple things, eat a lot, just a little bit of those green, leafy vegetables.

    Try to make them organic when you can. It's usually very easy to find, organic, romaine and spinach.

    In the book we talk about the dirty dozen, which are the twelve most emphasized, twelve most pesticide-laden pieces of produce. And we'll talk about the clean fifteen which are fifteen pineapples and papayas and avocados.

    Don't spend your money on buying those organic because there's not enough pesticide residue to worry about.

Curtis:    Okay. Well this is all very interesting, where do we get the book The New American Diet?

Stephen:    The book hits bookstores in December 22 but you can get it off of Amazon right now. []


Curtis:    Well, ladies and gentlemen rush out and get a copy of Steve's new book: The New American Diet. It has some really great things in there for you and Steve, thank you so much for being here. I really appreciate it.

Stephen:    Curtis, I really appreciate the opportunity.

Curtis:    Well, that's it for tonight and thanks again.

If you are thinking about starting a fitness training program but don't want to spend money and take up space in your house with a big equipment purchase, you can easily find ways to get in a workout in and around your home or in the great outdoors. By finding items that you already own or by venturing outside, you can get "green" when you're exercising too.

Any personal trainer will tell you that you don't need a bunch of fancy equipment in order to do some fitness training and get in shape. First of all, take a look around your house - you can use canned food as weights, towels as exercise mats, a stack of books as a stair, some spare rope as a jumping rope and even a chair can help you exercise at home.  

Why not take your items outside? It's much easier to jump rope (an excellent cardio workout) when you have lots of space. For any of your fitness training, being outside is better and will make you feel better - fresh air and plenty of it will increase the workout you're getting.

When you're outside, you can take your fitness training to a whole new level. Go for a brisk walk (or even a slow one) or a run and increase your workout all the more. Even if running isn't your thing, you can still walk or hike around your local area on trails or just the side walk. Take your bike to work instead of your car or just head out on a leisurely bike ride.

It's always best to team up with someone, even a personal trainer, to stick with your fitness training plan. It helps keep you accountable for your goals and your daily routines. Another green and great idea for your fitness training is to join a team for your favorite sport, such as volley ball, tennis, soccer, basket ball or any sport that you enjoy doing.

If you really want to get serious with your fitness training plan, you might eventually need some equipment. However, that doesn't mean that you need to break the bank and buy all new equipment. Check out the Internet for used equipment or local sporting goods stores for second hand goods - many cities and towns have a "bargain finder" newspaper or portion of the daily newspaper where people can sell or give away items. However, you can make do with water jugs, a chair and a stepping stool. Your fitness plan doesn't have to include a bunch of expensive equipment.

Going "green" with your fitness training doesn't have to reduce your routine or limit your work out. A fitness trainer can help you figure out ways to increase your personal training without any equipment at all. A walk around the block, a mile long run, a hike on a favorite trail, or a bike ride through town can be just as good a work out as an hour in the gym. Do what you like to do, have some fun, and enjoy your green workout. If that doesn't workout check out our personal trainer directory.

Have you ever dreamed about escaping the stress and obligations of your daily life so you could relax in a paradise setting and just focus on yourself for once?

Have you ever thought of temporarily running away to a fat camp for adults and coming back healthier and much happier? If so, then you are probably like millions of other adults today: overstressed, overweight, and just waiting for the right opportunity to put yourself first for once.


MTV has popular TV show featuring a group of kids of varying ages who had the opportunity to do exactly that. It is set high in the Pocono Mountains of Pennsylvania at a kid's camp called Camp Pocono Trails.

The show follows some of the many campers staying the summer away from their friends and family to learn how to be active, eat correctly, and get their weight under control.

The kids followed for the summer had their best and worst moments of their weight loss adventures were exposed to millions of viewers.

Glimpses of other campers were also featured along the way, with many of them resonating on a very deep level with viewers around the world.

While this camp is designed for kids, it has all of the features that would entice a grown man or woman to drop it all and escape to a fat camp for adults.

Camp Pocono Trails campers enjoy scenic views of the lake, healthy meals catered to them, and all of the outdoor recreational adventures you could ever ask for.

From kayaking and hiking to more traditional strength training, water aerobics, and cardio workouts, the stress of everyday life was replaced by outdoor adventure every single day.

While the show was not a huge hit right off the bat, it has now become a huge inspiration for kids who need to take charge of their health as well as adults who are now looking into making their dreams come true at a fat camp for adults.

It continues to air on a regular basis on MTV and interestingly, it is not the actual weight loss that has caught the attention of millions of viewers. It is the personal stories of the campers who were brave enough to reveal some of their most raw, uncensored emotions on camera.

For instance, videos of some of the favorite campers continue to surface on YouTube and get hundreds of views, even now that almost four years have passed since the original airing of the documentary. The world seems captivated by the kids of Camp Pocono Trails.

The most positive result of the TV show has been all of the new interest in fitness camps for adults. While it is easier for kids to spend their summer vacation away at camp than it is for adults to escape their full time jobs, children, and other obligations to attend fat camp for adults, the idea of running away from it all to a beautiful remote location is extremely appealing.

For some people, attending weight loss boot camp has actually become a reality. They have put themselves first and made their life and their families much stronger as a result.

It's time for all of the fitness entrepreneurs to get their latest and greatest ideas out to the public. From the totally tame to the hilariously zany, we still fall into the trap of trying the newest thing on the market. Have you tried the Wii Fit?

Those who have one of the Wii consoles swear that it is the greatest thing since sliced bread. It is what we have all been waiting for - a true virtual reality for the entire family. As we move, so do the characters on the television. Parents and children alike are bowling, racing, playing guitar, and other games using the Wii controllers and a lot of body movement.

Well, the company went one step further and designed a Wii fitness program. Since everyone was up and moving, they decided to capitalize on it. The Wii Fit is another attachment for the Wii console that looks like a flat board. Using this board, Wii owners can perform a variety of exercises and get in shape.

Let's first examine the cost. With any exercise program, there is always a cost and if the cost seems unreasonable you'll lose people right there. The Wii Fit board costs a whopping $90 but people are willing to pay for the chance to see if it is as much fun as the other Wii games they've tried.

Good news for new exercisers: The Wii Fit board can hold up to 330 pounds. That's not saying that you weigh 330 pounds, but if you are a bigger person, you can use the Wii Fit board. Many new gadgets don't allow for weights in all ranges and that is a problem for people. If we were already slim we wouldn't need to worry about it.

The Wii Fit uses several exercises to get people in shape. One of the exercises is the Wii Fit Ski Jump. You know how the people jump on the Olympic ski runs? That is what you are doing. The board is sensitive enough to pick up your movements and track your fitness workout. With the ski jump, you are squatting in position for the jump and standing to jump.

The Wii Fit board teaches balance and that works the abs and strengthens the other core muscles. Wii Fit is not a total workout program. It does offer a workout but you will need more cardiovascular work than what is provided with the Wii. It functions as a supplement to an exercise program but not as the whole thing. How long will it last? Who knows but as long as people are playing the other Wii games, they are getting at least some activity in each day, which is never a bad thing.

In this short video Jorge Cruise and Andrew Weil talk about the "calorie myth".

Denny's Meals, With Several Days' Worth of Salt, Promote Heart Disease, Stroke, Risk of Early Death

WASHINGTON--Most Denny's meals are dangerously high in sodium, putting the restaurant chain's customers at greater risk of high blood pressure, heart attack and stroke, according to a class action lawsuit filed today by a New Jersey man with the support of the Center for Science in the Public Interest.

The lawsuit was filed in Superior Court of New Jersey in Middlesex County, and seeks to compel Denny's to disclose on menus the amount of sodium in each of its meals and to place a notice on its menus warning about high sodium levels. CSPI is working with the New Jersey firms of Galex Wolf, LLC and Williams Cuker Berezofsky.

Most Americans should consume no more than 1,500 milligrams of sodium per day, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. But at Denny's, the great majority of its meals contain more, and in some cases, several times more. Some meals at Denny's provide more than 4,000 or 5,000 mg of sodium--more than most adults should consume in three days. Diets high in sodium are a major cause of high blood pressure, which in turn is a major cause of heart disease and stroke, the first- and third-leading causes of death in the United States.

A Spicy Buffalo Chicken Melt with regular fries would have 4,120 mg of sodium; with seasoned fries instead (shown) it has 4,880 mg. Start off this meal with clam chowder and it would have 6,700 mg of sodium.

"Denny's is slowly sickening its customers," said CSPI executive director Michael F. Jacobson. "For those Americans who should be most careful about limiting their sodium, such as people middle-aged and older, African-Americans, or people with existing high blood pressure, it's dangerous to eat at Denny's. Denny's customers deserve to be warned about the considerable health risk posed by many of these meals."

The plaintiff, Nick DeBenedetto, is a 48-year-old resident of Tinton Falls, NJ, who has eaten for many years at Denny's restaurants in East Brunswick and Brick, NJ. DeBenedetto takes a prescription medication to control his high blood pressure and at home does not cook with salt or use the salt shaker. Some of his favorite Denny's items, such as Moons Over My Hammy or the Super Bird turkey sandwich, contain far more than 1,500 mg of sodium--even without soup, salad, fried onion rings, or other side dishes.

"I was astonished--I mean, literally floored--to find that these simple sandwiches have more salt than someone in my condition should have in a whole day," DeBenedetto said. "It's as if Denny's is stacking the deck against people like me. I never would have selected those items had I known."

Moons Over My Hammy, a ham, egg, and cheese sandwich, has 2,580 mg of sodium by itself--more than even a healthy young person should consume in a day. It's served with hash browns (adding 650 mg of sodium) or grits (an additional 840 mg).

The Super Bird sandwich, served with regular French fries, has 2,610 mg of sodium--more than twice what someone with high blood pressure should consume in a day.

Denny's Meat Lover's Scramble, which has two eggs with chopped bacon, diced ham, crumbled sausage, Cheddar cheese, plus two bacon strips, two sausage links, hash browns, and two pancakes has 5,690 mg sodium, or 379% of the advised daily limit.

A full meal at Denny's consisting of a bowl of clam chowder, a Spicy Buffalo Chicken Melt, and a side of seasoned fries contains an alarmingly high 6,700 mg of sodium. It's a big meal, to be sure, with about 1,700 calories. But that's more sodium than what 70 percent of Americans should consume in four and a half days.

Even many of the smaller meals advertised for children and seniors have inappropriately high sodium levels.

Many health experts consider high dietary sodium levels to be one of the nation's top health threats. Dr. Stephen Havas, adjunct professor of preventive medicine at Northwestern University's Feinberg School of Medicine, says that reducing the sodium content of packaged and restaurant foods by half would save at least 150,000 lives per year.

For some people, particularly Denny's elderly patrons, getting several days' worth of sodium in a single meal might be enough to trigger congestive heart failure.

"As a physician, I have grave concerns about the sodium levels at Denny's, and grave concerns about an elderly person or someone with hypertension eating even one such meal," Havas said. "The body can have a hard time getting rid of that much salt, potentially leading to fluid retention and accumulation in the lungs. Consuming that much sodium can have severe consequences."

Denny's describes itself as the largest full-service family restaurant in the United States, with more than 1,500 restaurants and annual sales of $2.4 billion.

"By concealing an important material fact about its products--namely, that that these foods have disease-promoting levels of sodium--Denny's is failing its responsibility to its customers and is in violation of the laws of New Jersey and several other states," said CSPI litigation director Steve Gardner.

Denny's and CSPI had been in private negotiations over sodium, but those talks ended earlier this year. Shortly thereafter, the chain made small sodium reductions in a handful of items, like cheese sauce, shrimp skewers and kids' meals, but the chain did not make the kind of broad sodium reductions or menu disclosures urged by CSPI.

CSPI's litigation department has, since its founding in 2004, sued a number of leading national food companies and has secured agreements improving food labeling, marketing, or product formulation with Anheuser Busch, Frito-Lay, Kellogg, KFC, Kraft, Sara Lee and other companies. CSPI's litigation activities helped spur the removal of artificial trans fat from restaurant food and helped return millions of dollars to consumers from makers of the dietary supplement Airborne.

The lawsuit filed today against Denny's is CSPI's first sodium-related lawsuit against a food company. Separately, CSPI has petitioned the Food and Drug Administration to regulate salt as a food additive and to restrict sodium levels in various categories of food.

Many people want to lose weight quickly and safely. However evidence shows that in order to keep the weight off permanently you should strive to lose, at most, about 1-2 pounds of fat per week.

The most common mistake that people make in their attempts to lose weight is to approach weight loss as a one time thing and not a lifestyle change.

Effective weight loss programs all do the same basic thing. They manipulate calorie intake so that calories in is less than the total number of calories expended. Most people don't know that one pound of fat equals 3,500 calories.

So to lose 1-2 pounds per week you would need to consume 500-1000 fewer calories than you currently take in - assuming that your weight has stabilized.

The other option is to increase your activity level so that calorie expenditure is increased by 500-1000 calories per day. Either one of these approaches would result in a 1-2 pound body weight reduction every single week.

Unfortunately, these are both simplistic approaches to weight loss that don't take into account other factors like bioindividuality, horomone production, and more.

But for someone who is looking to drop body weight fast, without regard to long term weight loss, this is all that you need to know.

For people who are concerned with long term and permanent weight loss it is essential to approach body transformation as a lifestyle change.

The people who are successful with weight loss make physical activity and permanent and essential part of their daily routine. They don't think of exercise as a chore. They think of it as their escape from the daily grind. It is their refuge from the hustle and bustle of everyday life.

If you are looking to lose weight, consider making physical activity and healthy eating a part of your life. You will live longer, be happier, have more confidence, and more. The list of benefits that you will experience is too numerous to list here.

It goes on and on.

So if you want to have a better outlook on life, more energy, and more - don't even think about losing weight quickly.

Think about making a permanent lifestyle change and losing weight FOREVER.