It is common belief that excess cholesterol that forms in the arteries is a precursor to heart disease and yes the two can co-exist towards the latter stages of the disease but it is Dr Batmanghelidj, author of “Your Body’s Many Cries For Water” that excessive cholesterol build up is the result of a state of chronic dehydration in the body.

No before you shrug off this idea we first need to discuss cholesterols role in the body.

Cholesterol is also responsible for the production of hormones in the body and every cell has a cholesterol outer membrane. So important is cholesterol to the human us that we in fact make 75% of the cholesterol found in the body.

It’s only when things go wrong in the human body that cholesterol becomes labelled the ‘Devil’ and is branded evil. So lets take a closer look into why this happens.

Every time we eat water is shunted to the stomach to help digest the foods we eat. In a dehydrated state the body does not have enough water to go around and so water is pulled out of the cells to aid in digestion.

When this happens cholesterol comes to the rescue and starts to act as ‘clay’ to prevent the water being pulled out of the cells. Think of it as a Band-Aid to stop a leak.

Cholesterol also only tens to collect at the junctions of arteries, this is because of the amount of pressure flowing through them and the turbulence causes damage to the arterial structures. Again, cholesterol comes to the rescue to coat these arterial junctions to prevent the pressure from causing irreversible damage.

Now, if you think back to part 6 of Hydrate or Die, where I talked about high blood pressure being the result of dehydration, this increase in blood pressure is going to cause damage to the arteries if cholesterol doesn’t step in to protect them.

Going back to eating and digestion: Acid reflux or heart burn is a sign of dehydration and that the acid levels have risen during digestion and that there is not enough water to keep the body within its ‘safe working zone.’ Taking an antacid is not curing the acid indigestion you are feeling, it’s mealy suppressing the symptoms. Dehydration is the cause, eliminate the cause and you ‘cure’ the symptoms!

In fact, antacids were clinically proven ineffective by a Swedish study in 1986. In fact antacids can sometimes worsen the pain by causing your stomach to produce more acid through a condition known as acid rebound.

Antacids also change the pH levels in your gut and can potentially cause an imbalance of the friendly bacteria which can put you at risk of infection.

So, to keep your cholesterol at “safe” levels be sure to keep well hydrated by drinking half your bodyweight in ounces of water, be sure to add a small pinch of sea salt to enable your body to absorb the water more efficiently. Also ensure to eat a diet full of natural foods and stay away from processed foods, alcohol, caffeine and refraine from smoking.

Marc Kent

Author: Commando Fitness Blueprint

The vessels of the human body a

Have developed to cope with a shortage of water and a fluctuation of blood volume in and around the tissues.

These vessels can be thought of like a series of water pipes that branch out to different areas of the body with valves at every junction.

These valves open and close to shuttle blood to areas of most need.

For instance when we eat, the body directs more blood to the stomach to facilitate digestion and to shuttle nutrients to the cells.

While the body is in ‘digestion mode’ blood volume is reduced to other areas such as the muscles and that is why we tend to feel less active right after a meal.

Once digestion is complete, the valves open and blood is allowed to flow to all areas of the body.

However during times of water shortage the body begins to prioritise it’s water supply to keep organs of importance ‘alive’. The brain, heart and lungs take priority. Then the digestive system, followed by the muscles and joints.

When we don’t drink enough water the body essentially starts to close the valves to these ‘less important’ areas to prevent ‘air locks’

The cells in these less important areas begin to suffer from the effects dehydration.

The shortage of water has to be made up somehow, either by ingesting more or by taking it from another area. Essentially the body is robbing Peter to pay Paul.

Blood pressure then begins to rise due to all the valves to areas deemed lees important being closed and to help shunt all this blood to the areas the body deems to be of great importance.

The body will continue this rationing until we become very ill and eventually die. That is unless we switch on the true cause of most of the bodies illnesses, a servere state of dehydrarion. Remember, modern medication simply suppresses.

Hypertension should first be treated with a gradual increase of daily water intake up to the 1 litre for every 50lb of body weight with medication being a last resort. In fact some modern methods of treating hypertension is to prescribe diuretics to the patient. This is absurd!

Diuretics work by increasing the amount of sodium and fluid that you pass out through urination. So putting in diuretics into an already dehydrated body from too much caffeine, poor nutrition and a later of water in the first place and things are only going to get worse.

Side effects from diuretics range from gout and impotence.

• Arrhythmia
• Extreme tiredness or weakness.
• Muscle cramps or weakness.
• Dizziness, lightheadedness.
• Blurred vision, confusion, headache, increased perspiration (sweating), and restlessness.
• Dehydration.
• Constipation
• Fever, sore throat, cough, ringing in the ears, unusual bleeding or bruising rapid and excessive weight loss.
• Skin rash.
• Loss of appetite, nausea, vomiting, or muscle cramps.
• Gout.
• Impotence.

The problem with medication is that once you are on it and begin to develop side effects you end up getting prescribed something to combat that. It seems silly and very around the houses when drinking half your body weight in ounces of water will prevent the problem from ever existing in the first place!!

The reason why you are retaining water in the first place is because you are dehydrated and you are not getting enough. The body holds on to the water to keep the delicate balance inside the body. It’s like stocking up in times of a draught.

And so the question is, why do we get prescribed prescription medications when nature provides.

Is it because the big pharmaceutical companies influence most of the studies that say their drugs work? Either that or the fact you can’t put a patent on water!

Just a thought

Marc Kent

Author: Commando Fitness Blueprint

Depression is said to exist when the brain finds it difficult to cope with a stressful emotional state as well as cope with other attention-demanding activities at the same time.

This situation can become so all-consuming that the person becomes incapacitated by it, and in the long run such a stressful drain on the brain can lead to different physical and mental manifestations which are labelled by doctors according to that individuals outward behaviour patterns.

Some form of ‘depression’ is said to be a natural phenomenon and plays a vital part in developing a persons character and in coping with these different feelings of negativity helps to develop our ‘inner metal.’

Depression is almost always a passing feeling if love, care and empathy are available to push the individual towards a resolution of the negative thoughts.

It’s unfortunate, but not all individuals can cope with these inner feelings of negativity and are often prescribed medications to help them cope with the depression.

These chemicals can be quite dangerous and lead to other issues further along the road. Depression as such isn’t a deficiency of Prozac but rather a state that can dome about through dehydration.

When you understand the pathology that is associated with ‘social-stresses’ such as fear, anxiety, insecurity and persistent emotional problems. The resulting onset of depression can be traced back dehydration and a water deficiency in the brain.

I’ll explain: The brain uses water to produce hydro-electricity to provide energy for all the functions of the brain. With a deficiency of an adequate water supply the level of energy produced by the water drive of these hydro-electric pumps is decreased and many of the brains functions that are dependant on this go down.

This inadequacy of brain function is recognised as depression and this depressive state caused by dehydration can lead to chronic fatigue syndrome. If we return the body back to optimal levels of hydration then the brain will be able to function more efficiently therefore improving the symptoms of chronic fatigue considerably.

When the body becomes dehydrated the physiological responses that occur are the same as what happen when coping with stressful situations.

Therefore dehydration causes stress and stress causes further dehydration!

When you have an argument with your spouse, a disagreement at work or through ‘things not going your way’  you can feel stressed. These are ‘stresses’ that you recognise. But the body can also become stressed for other reasons.

Imagine your body as the most stressful person you know, the slightest little thing tips them over the edge. Your body is like the person.

So when you don’t drink water, your body becomes stressed.

When you have poor nutritional habits, your body becomes stressed.

When you don’t sleep properly, your body becomes stressed.

When you drink alcohol, your body becomes stressed.

All these stresses add up and your body reacts in the same way by assuming a crisis situation and goes into a ‘fight or flight’ stance.

When this survival mechanism kicks in the body dumps a ton of hormones into the blood stream to ready the body to fight or run for its life.

One of the hormones released is cortisol. Cortisol is know as the ‘stress’ hormone.

Cortisol along with cortisone are responsible for the ‘remobilisation’ of energy stores in a crisis situation as well as suppressing the immune system, thus reducing inflammation and pain at sites of injury.

During evolution this ‘stress response’ secured the survival of the human race but it would seen that the body doesn’t recognise the new social situation that modern man now lives in, at least on a biological level.

Normally the ‘fight or flight’ response would be a short term response to the perceived emergency situation and the body would return to normal once the danger had passed. But if the body remains stressed through dehydration, poor nutrition, alcohol, smoking, lack of sleep etc. then cortisone and cortisol levels will remain elevated and the body will continue to feed off itself breaking down muscles tissue and damaging bone.

So by removing the ‘stress’ will help the body to return back to it’s ‘normal’ operating mode and in effect help to relieve depression.

Start by cleaning up your diet by removing all nutritional stresses and increasing your water intake. Once the body is back in balance you will notice you are more able to cope with stress and will be less likely to develop depression and chronic fatigue.

Marc Kent

Author: Commando Fitness Blueprint

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Today I would like to talk about how a lack of water can lead to migraine headaches.

Migraine headaches can be brought about by dehydration caused by the following situations: excess bedding that will prevent the body from properly maintaining its temperature while you’re sleeping, alcoholic beverages which will initiate cellular dehydration as well as interfere with your bodies hormones leading to fat gain. Migraines can also be brought on by dietary and allergic triggers, which will increase histamine production.

According to Dr Batmanghelidj in his brilliant book “Your Body’s Many Cries For Water” a migraine seems to be an indicator of critical body temperature regulation at times of “heat stress.” Dehydration plays a major role in the onset of migraine headaches

Prevention is always better than cure! Therefore preventing yourself from becoming dehydrated will ‘cure’ your migraine headaches.

So to prevent migraines caused by dehydration we then need to recognise when the body is likely to become dehydrated as well as recognise the signs of dehydration.

Under normal circumstances there are many factors affecting the bodies need for water including respiration, perspiration and digestion including the bodies ‘residual’ hydration levels in the first place.

Our bodies’ need for water will increase under circumstances such as:

• An increase in climate temperature.
• Living at higher altitudes.
• During physical activity.
• Illness such as vomiting and diarrhoea.
• If you have a cold or flu.
• If you have any chronic diseases such as diabetes, kidney disease, alcoholism, cystic fibrosis or any adrenal disorder
• If you are taking medications.
• If you are drinking beverages containing caffeine or alcohol.
• Time spent in air conditioned buildings and long flights.

So it makes sense to increase your water intake during the above circumstances.

For instance if you’re on a long flight you should drink water during the flight and stay away from caffeinated or alcoholic beverages. You should also get up to stretch and walk about the cabin (if possible) to prevent blood pooling in the legs and to prevent blood clots from forming.

Also if you recognise any of the following symptoms you may be dehydrated:

• Excessive thirst.
• Dry mouth & lips
• Fatigue.
• Low blood pressure
• Muscle weakness.
• Headaches.
• Dizziness.
• Blue lips.
• Less frequent or decreased urination.
• Confusion.
• Increased heart rate.
• Increased respiration.
• Sunken, dry eyes.
• Painful Kidneys.
• Dry skin
• Skin that doesn’t snap back when pinched and released.

Children can also show further signs, such as:

• An absence of tears when crying.
• Irritability.
• Lethargy
• Fever.

If any of the above signs and symptoms of dehydration go unchecked long enough a cascade of reactions begin to happen in the body altering the chemical make up inside us all, leading to a whole host of preventable illnesses and diseases.

For instance losing as little as 1%-2% of your body weight in water is the beginning of dehydration and you may not even feel any symptoms.

Losing 3%-5% can seriously affect your concentration, reaction times and judgement. Driving while 3-5% dehydrated has the same effects as driving while under the influence of alcohol. So if you are going on a long journey, be sure to drink plenty of water and take frequent stops to stretch and get some fresh air.

Losing 9%-15% of your body’s water weight is severe dehydration and is life threatening.

One of the simplest way to check if your dehydrated or not is by checking your urine when your go to the toilet. Dark coloured urine signals a dehydrated state. Ideally your urine should be light straw coloured or clear.

If you have dark urine then you should start to increase your water intake to 1 litre per 50lb of bodyweight. You should also be aware that when you are dehydrated you should avoid all fluids containing caffeine and alcohol.

You should also drink more water after you exercise to replace all the fluids you lose through sweat. In effect the water you drink during exercise doesn’t count towards your daily fluid intake.

Which reminds me, time for a glass of fresh water,

Marc Kent

Author: Commando Fitness Blueprint

From low back and neck pain, angina, headaches, depression, high blood pressure, high cholesterol, weight gain, asthma, allergies and diabetes.

And not forgetting that 95% of cancers are caused by poor nutrition, and as nutrition begins with water keeping your body properly hydrated will go a long way to you living a fit, healthy, long disease free life.

Now with water playing such a big part of “life” without it we will simply die, it makes sense that a lack of it can cause us trouble. In Hydrate or Die part two, I spoke about how pain was a signal of localised dehydration.

With this in mind, a lack of water and a state of dehydration can lead to low back pain.

This is because the spinal joints, the intervertebral joints and their disc structures, are reliant on water for theirdifferent“hydraulic” properties of the water stored in the discs core.

Water not only acts as a lubricant for the contact surfaces of the spine but also acts to support the compression weight of the upper body through the water store in the intervertebral discs.

In fact 75% of the upper body’s weight is supported by the water stored in the discs core. The other 25% is supported by the fibrous materials around the disc. Water acts as a lubricating agent as well as is “shock absorber” which bears the force produced by weight on the joint or the tension produced by the muscles acting on the joint.

As adequate hydration is needed to keep the intervertebral discs at their “optimum hight” a lack of water in these discs is going to lead to low back pain as the disc themselves become dehydrated. When this happens the discs wont be able to support the bodies weight as efficiently but not only that, because the bones of the spine are now closer together you are much more likely to suffer from wear and tear to the bones and degenerative bone diseases. Being overweight will make matters worse!

So, before you start popping pills to get rid of your back pain, try increasing your water intake first. If you’re are the 1 litre per 50lb of bodyweight then and still suffering, the next step would be to get a Kinetic Chain Specialist to assess your posture for contributing factors that may be pulling your body out of alignment. The Kinetic Chain Specialist can then design a corrective exercise and nutrition strategy that can help alleviate the problem.

Correcting bad posture will not only help alleviate your back pain but it will also help prevent neck pain. As all Kinetic Chain Specialists know, the body is only as strong as it’s weakest link a weak area in one part of the body will also cause problems elsewhere. So if you are suffering from low back pain, through something known as the “Lovett Brother Relationship” which describes the skeletal reciprocity between paired bones of the cranium, pelvis and spine. This happens because the body is trying to keep a balanced vertical position against gravity. To do this bones at opposite ends of the spine will move in equal and opposite directions to maintain a centre of gravity.

This basically means that if your sacrum is out of alignment then the occiput bone at the base of the scull will be out of alignment.

If L5 is out of kilta then C5 will move in an equal but opposite direction. This is going to lead to pain, with pain comes a down regulation of the muscles through involved through a process called arthrokinetic inhibition. When this happens you will start to develop pain in other joints as you develop faulty movement patterns caused.

Back pain is one of the biggest problems in the Western World and most of it can be eliminated through correct hydration and a corrective exercise, nutrition, and stretching program.

You can also keep your back pain away by paying attention to your posture. Think the typical “Royal Marines” posture: chest out, shoulders pulled back and down. Also setting your workstation up to your individual height will help as well.

So next time your back starts giving you gyp and before you reach for the pain killers make sure you hydration levels are up to where they should be and you may find, all other things being equal your back pain goes away.

Marc Kent

Author: Commando Fitness Blueprint

Every weekend I spend a little time planning my week ahead and I always ensure that I book my training sessions into my diary. By doing this I always know I’m going to be able to fit my training into my life and I don’t end up missing a session because life got in the way.

Try planning your diary in advance and schedule time in to exercise. This exercise doesn’t have to be an hour long either. As I’m so busy at the moment I’ve designed my training program around doing two 20-minute sessions on Monday, Wednesday and Friday. These are my resistance training days where I training my whole body using weights.

On Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday I do two 10 minutes per day, these are my conditioning workouts and I use things like kettlebells, battling ropes, medicine balls often in a circuit.

But you don’t even have to do this. Try and find 2, 3 or 4 ten-minute slots in your day where you can squeeze in some exercise. The bonus of exercising in little 10-minute bursts is that you are revving up your metabolism 2-4 times per day instead of the “traditional” once per day.  And trying to find 2-4 ten-minute slots per day can be easier than finding a 1-hour chunk of time.

Another bonus of short workouts is that you don’t even need to go to the gym. Using body weight exercises such as squats, press ups, burpees, towel rows, lunges and mountain climbers you can build some brilliant fat burning workouts.

In fact give these two 10 minute workouts a go:

Workout A:

Prisoner Squats x 10

Press Ups x 10

Burpees x 5

Do the above three exercises as a circuit with no rest between exercises. This is one round. Do as many rounds as possible in 10 minutes. Record how you do and then try to beat it the next time you do the workout.

Workout B:

Reverse Lunge x 2

Towel Row x 2

Mountain Climbers x 2

Do 2 reps of each exercise as a circuit with no rest between each exercise. Repeat the circuit but this time do 4 reps of each. Continue adding 2 reps every time you start the circuit. Keep going for ten minutes.

So that’s training shorted, what about nutrition. Last week I touched on a typical days food for my so today I thought I’d actually share with you exactly what I had to eat yesterday:

Breakfast:

Vegetable Omelette

4 eggs

1 Tomato

1 mushroom

1 red pepper

Lunch:

Chicken & Bacon Salad with a Watermelon Shake

1 chicken breast

2 slice lean bacon

Sliced yellow peppers

Olives

Lettuce

Tomato

Cucumber

Spring Onion

Dinner:

Lemon & Thyme Chicken

1 Chicken Breast seasoned with lemon & thyme

Baby new potato’s (boiled)

Mixed salad.

As you can see, EATing Smart doesn’t have to be bland or boring. In fact eating like this is very colourful compared with bland, stodgy and colourless processed foods.

Ok so not all processed food is colourless, it’s just the colours you find in processed foods have been artificially added to make it look better and then they add in loads of artificial flavours and MSG to make it taste better.

EATing Smart is how Mother Nature intended us to eat and by switching over to a more natural way of eating you will not only feel better but you will look better to.

EATing Smart is easy when you know how and to help get you started I’ve compiled a EAT Smart cookbook that contains 101 EAT Smart compliant recipes. If you’d like to grab a copy, please head o over to the website by clicking this link: EAT Smart Cookbook

Have a great week,

Marc Kent

Author: Commando Fitness Blueprint

If you remember back to Hydrate or Die part one I mentioned that dehydration caused a whole host of ailments from:

• Low back pain
• Neck pain
• Angina
• Headaches
• Depression
• High blood pressure
• Pain
• High cholesterol
• Weight gain
• Asthma
• Allergies
• Diabetes

Today I wanted to concentrate on why dehydration causes pain and what you should do to help eliminate it.

Pain that cannot be determined as coming from injury or an infection should be considered a cry for water from your body.  The sensation of pain comes from local changes around the nerves that are responsible for monitoring the acid/alkaline balance in the body.  This mechanism is designed to safeguard the body against the build up excess acid from movement & metabolic processes that could eat into and burn the cells of the body and cause damage.

When you don’t drink enough water the body is unable to wash away the excess acid. When this happens the nerves send signals to the brain to inform of the increase in the acid levels.

Up to a certain point the body deals with this without you knowing but beyond a certain threshold your body will break this silence and make the conscious mind aware of the situation. If you then fail to increase your water intake the body will keep increasing the intensity of pain until movement and mobility of the effected area this happens to prevent an additional build up of acid and toxins caused by movement.

Because we have become so disassociated from our bodies most people fail to recognise this pain for what it is – a sophisticated, localised thirst signal and a cry for water and instead resort to popping pills made from toxic chemicals, which merely mask the damage that is being done. Drinking plenty of water will usually eliminate the condition but when the problem is left unchecked for an extended period of time and the pain becomes more and more intense doctors usually resort to prescribing drugs or putting someone under the knife for a condition which could have been resolved by eliminating toxic foods and drinking a lot more water.

The pains associated with dehydration are many and include dyspeptic pain which can range from simple heart burn to gastro-oesophageal reflux, nausea and vomiting. Most people take antacids for these when water is the missing ingredient!

Other pains associated with dehydration are rheumatoid arthritis pain, angina pain, low back pain, leg pain on walking, migraine and hangover headaches, colitis pain and false appendicitis pain!

As you can see, there are lots of common “pain” signals that are the bodies subtle way of telling you it is thirsty. But instead of listening to what our bodies are telling us most people pop down the antacids, antihistamines or other pain killing medications.

If we were to take a more proactive approach to our health and fitness these painful conditions could be alleviated or even eliminated altogether. For the above mentioned symptoms try increasing your water intake for two days to at least 2.5 litres per day before you resort to taking analgesics or other pain killing medications. If these symptoms are not “treated” with an optimal level of hydration they could cause permanent damage to the body and can eventually become an irreversible disease and these diseases can spiral all the way to obesity, diabetes and cancer!

And according to the Columbia University School of Public Health, 95% of cancer is caused by poor nutrition and bad environment.

Just think, we can prevent one of the biggest killers by changing our approach to nutrition and EATing Smart, eliminating as many man made chemicals from our lives and making fresh water the centre point in which everything else revolves around.

I’ll be back in a few more days with part 3 of “Hydrate or Die” where I’ll be talking about low back and neck pain.

Until then, keep drinking at least 1 litre of water per 50lb of bodyweight.

Train Hard, EAT Smart!

Marc Kent

Author: Commando Fitness Blueprint

www.CommandoFitnessBlueprint.com

Long-term dehydration can lead to a whole host of problems ranging from:

• Low back pain
• Neck pain
• Angina
• Headaches
• Depression
• High blood pressure
• Pain
• High cholesterol
• Weight gain
• Asthma
• Allergies
• Diabetes

Over the coming weeks I’m going to shed some light on why water is so important to life and why increasing your daily intake will go a long way to a fitter, healthier lifestyle as well as preventing and in some cases “curing” some of the aliments and diseases listed above.

My goal at the end of this series of articles is to highlight the link between chronic dehydration and disease emergence and provide you with enough information to make changes to your nutrition and hydration plan to help prevent many of the “dehydration diseases” so common today, and if a totally irreversible problem hasn’t developed, this information can cure them!

Water, The Basics

Scientists believe that all life came from water and that includes the evolution of the human species. These primitive life forms depended on water for everything. As early life forms started to venture away from water and onto land, water was still a vital part of their survival and therefore they didn’t wander too far. Over time life started to venture further on land and developed an intricate and complex water rationing system to allow long periods of survival away from water.

And this holds true for the primitive mammals that eventually evolved into modern man. Now despite this evolution, fresh clean water is still essential to our survival and to go just 24 hours without water will have a serious impact on your health. In fact we cannot survive more than a couple of days without a constant top up of fresh clean H2O.

During evolution primitive man didn’t always have access to clean water on a daily basis like we do now and so the body developed a complex water management system to ensure our survival.

Since every system in the human body is reliant on a constant level of optimal hydration in times of shortage the body would ration water to protect the vital organs, and this system is quite savage in nature. The bodies main priority in any water shortage is protection of the brain. The brain is only 1/50th of the bodies total weight but receives 18-20% of the bodies blood supply and so the body will pull water away from other areas to ensure the brain gets an adequate supply of blood and water.

One of the biggest downfalls of modern society is thinking that drinking tea, coffee, colas, alcohol and any other manufactured drinks is a suitable substitute for fresh clean water. The body needs fresh clean water to function and to not provide it on a regular basis can cause the body to become stressed and if left unchecked for prolonged periods of time can lead to a catastrophic failure of bodily systems resulting in disease and death!

It’s true these drinks are “dissolved” in water but they contain things that actually rid the body of its vital water supply as well as vital vitamins and minerals.  And due to either caffeine or the added chemicals to make these beverages taste nice people are developing a preference for these drinks rather than drinking “boring” water. Even young children are brought up on sugar-loaded drinks instead of water. Is it any wonder that more and more children are overweight and developing adult diseases such as adult on-set diabetes and obesity?

With the food industry getting ever more influential by spending billions to brain wash us in to thinking low fat, calorie free, fat free, foods are good for us. If it’s not the marketing machine that’s sucking us in to their lies it’s the sneaky tricks of adding heaps of sugar or MSG disguised in it’s many pseudonyms. We are becoming addicted to this junk because we are never quenching our bodies basic needs and that is to provide it with plain fresh water daily, instead we choose not to drink water because we think the body can get the fluids from all the processed commercial junk out there.

To compound issues, many medical practitioners are unaware of just how important water is to the many chemical reactions that happen every minute of every hour of the day. Chronic dehydration will lead to the loss of function of many of the body systems. This is a basic mistake and one that has prevented modern medicine from moving forwards. Instead doctors are lead by the multi billion dollar pharmaceutical to prescribe drugs that merely mask the symptoms of disease. They do not cure disease. Again, if we look to the start of this article many of these diseases are caused by chronic dehydration and poor nutrition doctors are failing to check patients nutritional and hydration habits before they prescribe drugs. Adding chemicals to an already stressed body is only going to compound the issue until the patient is taking more than one type of medication which brings on more problems. Eventually the patient dies of a “labelled” disease which could have been prevented if the route cause of the problem was sought.

There needs to be a complete U-turn and paradigm shift with modern medicine, doctors and scientists should spend more money on preventing disease happening in the first place and this starts with the most basic of education. Correct nutrition following the EAT Smart principles and an optimal hydration plan should be filtered down to everyone. Parents especially need to be informed of the dangers of poor hydration for their children. It should also form a part of the education of these school children. Painting a proper picture of the dangers of poor hydration should help.

In closing this article I recommend that you increase your daily water intake to one litre for every 50lb of body weight to start and to remove all other beverages.

Again, this is the first article in a series that I plan on doing on the importance of proper hydration. Your feed back during these is very much appreciated.

Until then,

Train Hard, Eat Smart,

Marc Kent

Author: www.CommandoFitnessBlueprint.com

Author: Total Body Breakthroughs

The results are in, we’ve just finished our 30 Day Fat Loss Challenge and with an average weight loss of 8lb and an average inch loss of 12 inches the program is a complete success. Baring in mind that they are the averages.

Maximum weight loss was 15.4lb by Jason. That’s over a stone in weight in 30 days.

Maximum inch loss was 15 inches by Jenny, closely followed by Suse who lost 14 inches. Again in just 30 days.

SO to that end, we have decided to run the challenge again. So if you think you have what it takes and are interested in losing over a stone in 15 inches then get in touch with me ASAP.

Please read the following before you apply.

Regards,

Marc

We are looking for 12 people who are serious about losing up to 14lb in the next 30 days for FREE. Seriously, Marc Kent Health & Fitness are challenging you to take up our 21 Fat Loss Challenge to help you kick start your health, fitness and fat loss. All for FREE.

Well with a few catches, as follows:

• You must be willing to commit to following the EAT Smart Nutrition program for 21 days, no if’s or but’s!
• You must be willing to submit a food diary every week
• You must give 100% in every training session, whiners will be dissmissed from the challenge!
• You must commit to attending at least 3 of the 12:00pm or 7:15pm lunch time boot camp classes per week for the 21 days.
• You must be willing to undertake a at home training program at least 2 times per week.
• You must be willing to submit before and after photo’s and offer a testimonial of the results you received during the 21 days.
• You must be willing to keep an online daily diary logging your results and experience.

Again, this 21 day challenge is FREE but you do have to stick to our rules. Failure to do so will result in dismissal from the challenge.

You see we take our business or getting awesome fat loss results seriously and we don’t want anyone to waste our time. Basically, if you’re not willing to put the effort in above then you’re not ready for this program.

So if you think you have what it takes let us know ASAP as the challenge starts on 5th September 2011 at my Personal Training studio in Roundswell, and we need to interview you to see if your serious enough and to have you enrolled before the start date.

NB: There is a non-refundable induction fee of £30 to enter the challenge

Please comment below with why we should accept you and we will get in touch.