Nearly all diet programs suffer from the same problem. They assume everyone can do well on the same program and this couldn’t be further from the truth. Popular diets like Atkins, South Beach and The Zone all have this downfall in common. For each person that does well on one of these diets, there’s another that does horribly.

The Intelligence of Evolution

Before advances in technology made it easy to travel the world, native cultures were dependent on the food sources that were immediately available to them. If you lived in the Arctic region, this meant a diet of nearly all protein and fat from marine mammals. Conversely, fruit and vegetables would be most abundant for natives of the Tropics. Over millions of years, these people evolved to thrive on the foods that were most accessible.

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Television commercials can be downright deceptive and literally bad for your health. Enormous amounts of money are spent on ad campaigns with one purpose in mind – getting you to spend money. Serious effort is put forth to make these ads connect with you emotionally, and in many cases, the connection is harming you.

I rarely watch television, but as a big tennis fan, I’ve been watching the Australian Open. The deceptive marketing power behind the commercials I’ve been seeing is sickening. In just the past week, I’ve seen repeats of three misleading drug commercials for the same product – Bayer Aspirin.

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Modern society has come to accept a pretty dismal state of health as being normal. Complaints like fatigue, pain, insomnia, anxiety, irritability, and indigestion are considered a typical part of each day. More serious issues such as asthma, arthritis, attention deficit disorder, and depression are common as well. Even major life threatening diseases such as heart disease and cancer have become prevalent. In fact, heart disease and cancer barely existed less than a century ago and are now the two leading causes of death in America.

These problems don’t happen by chance. They’re merely symptoms of underlying malfunction. The unfortunate truth is that many people have spent their entire lives promoting this malfunction and don’t even know it. While they think they’re doing well, they’re really missing out on a much better quality of life. By comparison to today’s standards, it’s very easy to consider yourself in excellent health and many of us have fallen into this trap.

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Are you letting your health deteriorate as you chase symptoms, or are you improving it by getting to the root cause? A shockingly large percentage of people are taking more than one prescription drug, and the ones who aren’t are frequently relying on over the counter medications. The result is a compromised level of health that slowly but surely gets worse and worse.

Are You Just Hiding the Problem?

Typically, when someone isn’t feeling their best, they identify one or more specific symptoms and do what they can to eliminate them. A common example is taking an over the counter pain reliever such as acetaminophen or ibuprofen. The more serious cases involve medications for blood pressure and cholesterol.

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