New Book Offers How to Change Your Lifestyle to Live the Life You Deserve

Debi Waldeck continues her informative and fascinating "In the Beginning...there was wellness" series with this second volume, Forever Young and Vibrant, and it is just as interesting and useful as the first volume.




After telling her personal story in the first book of her and her children's health issues, Debi uses this second book to talk less about the biology and nutritional needs of our bodies and more about how we can reach optimal health by changing our lifestyle and what we can do to improve the process of giving our bodies what they actually need.



In "Forever Young and Vibrant," Debi Waldeck discusses the current lifestyle of Americans, particularly poor nutritional practices, that are leading to cancer, migraine headaches, stomach complaints, and other ailments. Debi offers practical advice and information from cutting edge research on whether to supplement our diets with additional vitamins-the recommended daily allowances are far lower than what would give us desired wellness in her opinion. She discusses fats, trans-fats, radical agents, the importance of our pH balance, how our body creates insulin, and why we must love our livers. The information provided goes far beyond simple dieting and nutrition to make us understand how our bodies work in relation to what we eat. In some respects, the research on the effects of our current nutrition is frightening, but by following Debi Waldeck's advice, we can improve our diets, strengthen our immune systems, and enjoy a healthier lifestyle.



I can't imagine any reader will not take away something of value from this book. I learned enormous amounts of information about diet. I had already heard about the value of understanding the body's pH, but Waldeck goes into great detail about how to stabilize pH values and what foods create acid or alkaline responses in our bodies. After years of suffering from stomach complaints, I found the chapter on pH alone is worth ten times the book's cover price. Anyone with a family history of diabetes, cancer or even obesity will find information here that can improve if not prolong or even save his or her life.



As with all the books in this series, Debi also includes several practical tips for the reader in her "Laughter, Lifestyle or Leverage Principles." These principles are summaries in one sentence of what to remember from her discussion. A few of my favorites include:



Lifestyle Principle #21

Eat 75% foods that are alkaline and only 25% that are acid forming-unless you supplement heavily with minerals and greens



Laughter Principle #27

Motivation comes when the pain of your current situation is greater than the pain of changing it



Laughter Principle #28

Laughter and progress come easier when you trust yourself



Leverage Principle #1

100% of the money you have depends on how you think about money, rather than on your education, your family or your luck



These are just a few examples from this second volume, but all the principles in all the books contain wonderful advice.



Debi Waldeck also ends each chapter of each book with the "Debi's Dialogue" section-a section that was inspired by her never-ending quest for answers to her questions. In this section she provides answers to some of her questions while also asking new ones. Here is one of my favorites examples of "Debi's Dialogue" from the second book:



Why do we resist change?

As Marianne Williamson said, "We are afraid of our own power."

Why?

Because change gives you an opportunity to know yourself and people are afraid to see themselves.

Why?

Because people see themselves through the eyes of all who have come before and judged them. People do not look at themselves through God's eyes. If they did, they would stare all day long.

Why?

Because people do not know God. Very few people know God.

How can we come to know God?

You start to know God when you learn to love yourself. To know God means you choose to love yourself exactly the way you are now-male, female, black, white, yellow, red, fat, skinny, ugly, pretty. The problem is that people seek man's approval before and above God's approval.

Why?

Because people have no faith. Faith is the opposite of fear. People are in fear and the cycle begins again.

Okay, everyone knows that faith is not fear. We know what it isn't, so what is faith?



Finally, in all three books, including this volume, Debi Waldeck includes a concise glossary of every term she uses in that individual book. In "Forever Young and Vibrant," the glossary includes terms ranging from Fructo-oligosaccharides to Methionine to Serotonin. If you don't know what these terms mean, you need to. This book will help you achieve the wellness that should have always been yours. Remember that knowledge is power. This book will be your start to knowing legitimately, rather than using some fad diet, how to improve your health for the long run.



In this review, I can only just begin to summarize the many valuable discussions provided in "Forever Young and Vibrant" in the "In the Beginning...there was wellness" series. Grab your copy today-it's like an instruction manual to live your life by so you can start to feel as good as you have always deserved-as good as God intended from the beginning for you to feel.



Tyler R. Tichelaar holds a Bachelor's and Master's Degree from Northern Michigan University and a Ph.D. from Western Michigan University. His family's long relationship with Upper Michigan and his avid interest in genealogy inspired Dr. Tichelaar to write his Marquette Trilogy: Iron Pioneers, The Queen City, and Superior Heritage. Dr. Tichelaar is also a professional book reviewer and editor. For more information about Tyler R. Tichelaar, his writing, and his author services, visit:

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Advantages of Walking

Ask any doctor for easiest and fastest route into exercise for the beginner and they'll more than likely recommend walking. There are a great deal of advantages associated with this form of exercise and if your just starting out or even too overweight for other more strenuous fitness activities then walking is the obvious answer.




It's not enough however to simply go out walking in a relaxed fashion. You need to really stride and move your arms to create a fast paced walk, as though you were in hurry to get somewhere. This is important as to gain the maximum amount of benefit you need to increase your heart rate up to a point where you will begin to burn fat. This heart rate zone is a calculation arrived at by taking into consideration your sex, height and weight.



Walking is obviously free however there a two very important investments you should consider to really gain the most benefit from your new fitness regime. We have already spoken about heart rate and you should seriously consider buying a heart rate monitor watch. This will be an invaluable training aid and will provide you with your heart rate plus other useful information such as distance traveled, calories burned and time. You can keep a fitness diary with the information each day and track your progress.



Secondly you'll need good quality walking or running shoes and yes there is a difference! You certainly don't have to buy the most expensive pair in the store, it's much more important that the shoes you buy are well fitted to your feet and will provide the necessary support.



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What the heck is Osteopenia!!??

So, I just found out last week, after having a DEXA bone density scan, that I have Osteopenia in my spine. What the heck!!!! I was also told that my hip bones are not as dense as they should be, but I'm still in the "normal zone" in that area; however my leg bones are close to the Osteopenia border.

The definition of Osteopenia is decreased bone density caused by greater bone resorption than bone creation. Yikes! It sounds like my body has been eating up my bones! Okay, never in a million years did I expect that I might be in danger of or even close to being diagnosed with Osteopenia! I'm not yet positive that I know what it means since I haven't met with my doctor following the scan. But, I have been doing a little research on the web about it, and it seems that it's not an end-of-the-world diagnosis, thank God, and there are things that we can do to improve and even reverse it. Whew!! That's a big relief to me! But having Osteopenia does put a person at a higher risk of developing Osteoporosis, and that is not a good thing.

So my first step is to bone up (no pun intended) on the weight resistance training, add more calcium and vitamin D to my diet, and eat lots and lots of fresh fruits and vegetables. From what I've read, it is also helpful to maintain an alkaline PH in the body. I'm doing some more investigating on that subject and would love to hear comments and suggestions. Thanks!