1. ALMONDS - I’m nuts about nuts and almonds as far as nuts are concerned are hard to beat. They carry the most nutritional bang for your buck when compared to any other nut.
2. QUINOA - This humble seed hails from the Andes. Once considered the “gold of the Incas" quinoa is rich in protein, yes protein, magnesium, manganese and copper. This single grain can aid cardiovascular health as well as calm down muscle spasms and migraines while detoxifying the body as a powerful antioxidant. In all my talks on nutrition I give quinoa honourable mention. Make quinoa your go to “grain”.

When we laugh our bodies release a cocktail of hormones & chemicals that have astonishing positive effects on the systems running our bodies. Stress is reduced, blood pressure drops, depression is lifted, your immune system is boosted & more. Western science is just starting to discover the great effects of laughter. It is currently being used in some progressive cancer treatment centers but clearly not enough in everyday America. Laughter is the best pill on the planet! Mixing laughter with living is one reason the rest of the world has a much better health picture than Americans.

The laughter movement started with Dr. Madan Kataria in India in 1995 and now there are over 2000 laughter clubs all over the world. Who would have thought that happiness could bread healthfulness? This is another case where we don’t need science to prove the obvious.

So here’s the skinny! If you want to lose weight fast, decrease your cancer risk, oxygenate your whole body, build a strong heart and increase your lung capacity CARDIO is key. The American Heart Association recommends we have 45 minutes of cardio a day. Well that might not be realistic or even necessary. There is a method called HIGH INTENSITY INTERVAL TRAINING (HIIT) that has been used by tri-athletes, runners, actors and pro-athletes for years to improve lung capacity and stimulate muscle growth quickly and effectively.

It involves doing rapid spurts or intervals during a workout like running or cycling and it burns fat, makes you sweat and ups the adrenalin to keep you feeling great for hours after your workout! The Swedish call this “Fartlek” which means speed play. They run ALL OUT in short bursts as little or as long as they like during a jog or run. Some play games like racing between light posts or my favorite during a great song!

The focus of conventional medicine is to treat patients only after symptoms of ill health appear.  The treatment involves ridding the body of those presented symptoms, and once the symptoms disappear the patient is deemed healthy once again.

The two major killers of our time, cancer and heart disease live and grow in the body for many years before any symptoms appear.  Cancer generally takes seven to fifteen years to grow, and heart disease usually takes twenty to thirty years to develop in the body before symptoms sound an alarm.