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A wise plan for 2020: Be Trim, Fit, & Healthy! 3 Keys for Weight Loss in the New Year

A wise plan for 2020: Be Trim, Fit, & Healthy! 3 Keys for Weight Loss in the New Year by Rick Tague, M.D., M.P.H. & T.M.

Is your scale “creeping” upwards? You’re not alone. Unwanted weight gain is epidemic and is often devastating to health and happiness. 80% of Americans are now overweight, with more people joining the list each year. Calories from food end up as fat (what we DON’T want), instead of energy (what we DO want). Calories have become a “bad guy”!

Look at common efforts to avoid calories, our source of energy:

  • Low-calorie snacks cost more if they have FEWER calories.
  • Dieters are obsessed with AVOIDING calories.
  • Menus and labels list calories so we can LIMIT calories.
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Are You Aging Too Fast?

What to do about aging too fast

Slow down your biological clock by protecting your “telomeres” with these powerful strategies…

Aging…. It’s happening to all of us, but did you know that most Americans are aging “too fast”? You see, researchers now know more than ever how to measure aging where it actually happens, at the level of our DNA. And for Americans, the news isn’t good. Americans are aging faster than necessary and there are things we can do about it. Let me explain….

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Getting Unstuck!

Time and again people have come to me to get “unstuck” from wrong routines that have resulted in health and weight problems that were never intended and never wanted. They literally had become “stuck” in a pattern of ongoing fatigue, weight gain, wrong foods, wrong routines, and deteriorating health! I promise… you can do better!

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Finally… A Weight Loss Plan that Works!

Dr. Tague: Finally... A Weight Loss Plan That Works!

I overheard a revealing father-to-son comment while eating out. A family of 3 was seated at the table right next to me. Sadly, both parents were overweight by 40+ pounds, as was the 20 year old son. The father, speaking wisdom, commented, “Son, be very careful to protect your health, or you will end up with problems. Look at me…”

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Healthy Habits: What you do daily determines your health eventually…

Healthy Habits: What you do daily determines your health eventually…

Originally published 11/22/14, this article has been updated and reposted due to its popularity and importance for Optimum Health.

One of four deadly diseases will likely kill everyone reading this. I call these diseases the “Deadly 4”, and they take the lives of most Americans. Yet these diseases are mostly PREVENTABLE! The “Deadly 4” Diseases are:

  1. Heart Disease
  2. Cancer
  3. Brain Disease: Stroke and Alzheimer’s
  4. Diabetes Type 2
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Malnutrition in America: Avoid the Epidemic

Malnutrition in America: Avoid the Epidemic by Rick Tague, M.D., M.P.H. & T.M.

“Malnutrition” – What comes to mind? If you are like me, it is the disturbing and painful image of the frail, fly-covered, “nothing but skin and bones”, impoverished children of Africa. After seeing the suffering, we’ve all sensed that tug on our hearts to do something. Malnutrition seems all too painful and all too unnecessary in this age of plenty.

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Fat Cells: Battleground for Unwanted Weight Gain!

Our bodies are made of cells. Muscle cells make up muscles, brain cells make up our brain, and fat cells (known as adipocytes) make up fat. And the fact is, without ABNORMAL fat cells, unwanted weight gain cannot occur! Let me explain….

Imagine if something triggered your muscle cells to enlarge and multiply to the point that your muscles doubled, tripled, and then quadrupled in size! The added bulk would be a major bother. What if our skin cells started enlarging and multiplying to the point that our skin became baggy and was dragging around on the floor while walking? How bizarre!