BY REQUEST: We’ve had such great success with people all over the country joining in our last two Isagenix 30-Day Cleansing and Fat Burning Systems with 11-Day Fast Start Cleanses (don’t worry, it’s not a bathroom cleanse if you get the drift…) that we will be leading another one beginning Friday, May 3rd!

We’ve had the following results from our GRAND MARAIS local people in the last month, without working out!

~ “Five pounds lost and looser fitting pants”
~ “NINE pounds lost and abs are starting to show!”
~”My diet Coke habit was kicked in four days” (this girl was drinking 8-10 a day!!!!)
~”I need a belt for my “Skinny jeans”. (and she’s in just into her 3rd week!).

This is the END of the crappy weather and shorts and swimsuits will be unpacked soon! Sooo…we will start again next Friday, May 3rd! Get your orders placed NOW to get your products by next week!

LOCALS: Anyone who joins us and orders our Basic System will get the month of May free at the gym!!! (Current gym members, we won’t charge you for May and non-members get the month of May FREE!).

Do you ever feel that you just can’t stop yourself from eating junk food? There is a reason why. “Food” companies (the stuff they are selling is not FOOD, hence the “) know the perfect chemical makeup of the bag of goodies that they are selling to make you want more. These chemical make-ups can be just as addictive as drugs, nicotine, etc. Actually, these “foods” are closer in chemical makeup to drugs than real, whole foods. 

This is why I cleanse:

From the Hungry for Change Website:

The Secret Engineering Of Junk Food

By J. D. Heyes

Many of us have long since known of the health dangers of junk food – foods that can most generally be described as those which contain empty calories and excessive amounts of substances known to cause harm to the body.

 

But why does junk food remain so popular? What makes tens of millions of people consume it daily, even if they are well aware of its health and dietary pitfalls? Well, part of the reason is by design – that is, the way such foods were designed to appeal to our senses. 

Think of the old Lay’s potato chip commercials; “No one can eat just one.” In many respects, that’s what junk food does: It is designed to create a sort of ‘can’t resist’ mindset, which is a) why junk food makers have thrived, even in a culture of health; and b) why so many Americans (and increasingly, citizens of other countries) are seeing epidemics of obesity, diabetes, heart disease and other medical conditions.

Digest that for a moment and consider the following examples, as laid out by Michael Moss, author of “Salt Sugar Fat: How the Food Giants Hooked Us”:

Ever wonder why so many people can’t put down a bag of Cheetos? The answer to that is simple – Cheetos were designed to be consumed by the bag/pound, not eaten slowly, over days, a few at a time. In fact, some food scientists believe the Cheeto is a modern miracle, of sorts, in terms of pure junk food. Writes Moss:

“This,” Witherly [a food scientist] said, “is one of the most marvelously constructed foods on the planet, in terms of pure pleasure.” He ticked off a dozen attributes of the Cheetos that make the brain say more. But the one he focused on most was the puff’s uncanny ability to melt in the mouth. “It’s called vanishing caloric density,” Witherly said. “If something melts down quickly, your brain thinks that there’s no calories in it…you can just keep eating it forever.”

The “cheese that goes crunch” now comes in no fewer than 17 flavors.

How Junk Food Is Deliberately Made To Be Addictive

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80% of our immune system is in our intestines which is why it is so important to keep it running at optimal level…. It is called our “second brain”, hence the expression “I had a gut feeling”, it’s a very real thing and the reason we need to keep it clean with probiotics. I always follow my gut feelings and am always on the money with it. When people feel “foggy” it’s usually because they can’t think straight with a sluggish, dirty intestine. It is really scientific, you have neurons in your gut that transmit signals to react, it isn’t a conscious reaction like when you make up your mind about something; your brain can process thoughts and put them together to form sentences, your gut does things instinctively, keeping it clean and healthy allows your instincts to show through. It can remove anxiety, stress, depression and reaction time.

I have learned a TON from reading, researching…arm yourself with knowledge. (that’s called empowering yourself).

The human body is an amazing thing! Its your temple, you are given one – there are no do-overs. Take care of it now and it will serve you and thank you for a very long time!

~Angelike Norrie

Are you ready to cleanse on a cellular level that boosts your immune system? (Oh and it is NOT a colon cleanse…)

Our mission is to motivate people to inspire themselves to become educated on health, fitness and nutrition so they will be empowered to make a difference in their life which in turn motivates others…it’s “paying it forward” on a grander scale.

I  believe the essence of our mission is captured in our logo. I worked with a designer in his spare time for the last couple of months and after numerous tweaks in color, font size, etc. we have a winner.

What does “Aging Youthful” mean to you? Aging Youthful to me means not letting your age define who you are. Your age is only the number of years you have been on this earth, not how many you have left.

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50 Signs US Health Care System is Gigantic Scam About to Collapse

A recent article lists 50 signs that the US health care system is a gigantic money making scam that is about to collapse.⁴ This list includes the following amazing statistics:

• This year the American people will spend approximately 2.8 trillion dollars on health care, and it is being projected that Americans will spend 4.5 trillion dollars on health care in 2019
• If the U.S. health care system was a country, it would be the 6th largest economy on the entire planet
• Approximately 60 percent of all personal bankruptcies in the United States are related to medical bills
• The U.S. health care industry has spent more than 5 billion dollars on lobbying our politicians in Washington D.C. since 1998
• The U.S. ambulance industry makes more money each year than the movie industry

Another factor driving this broken health care system is direct-to-consumer drug advertising. According to FiercePharma,⁵ the pharmaceutical industry spent $2.7 billion on drug ads for TV, magazines, newspapers, radio and billboards over the past 10 years.

“The world’s largest drug company, Pfizer, tops the list, spending 23 percent of that $2.7 billion on some of its best-selling drugs. In fact, as the data show, it is generally a company’s best-selling drugs that get the greatest spends, suggesting that DTC advertising remains very effective.”

Natural is Better, and Less is More

The U.S. health care system has an awful lot of room for improvement. The United States has the highest infant mortality rate among high income countries, and ranks dead last in terms of life expectancy among 17 affluent nations. You could say wanton greed is killing this nation…

If throwing money into the system isn’t the answer, then how can we improve the health of Americans? The answer is simpler than most care to admit. I don’t think anyone in the medical community disagrees with the idea that changing your lifestyle can go a long way toward “fixing” a number of chronic conditions, such as diabetes. As identified by the NIH,⁶ five life-changing factors that can do this are:

• Following a healthy diet
• Maintaining an optimal body weight
• Engaging in regular physical activity
• Not smoking
• Keeping alcohol use to no more than one drink per day for women, and two drinks per day for men

Click here for a link to the full article

Last year I was talking to a high school friend of mine, who had one of the “coolest” moms in school. She was fit, vibrant and kind of a health nut. He said that she took her certain “everyday” vitamin that she bought of the shelf of her favorite big box retailer for years, thinking she was doing the right thing. Now that she is in her 70′s, she is suffering from an autoimmune disorder that her doctors can only link to the vitamins, which had mainly synthetic ingredients. This formerly vibrant woman has slowed down some because of her age, but more so because of achy joints and this disorder that has her in pain most of the time.

GMO’s and sythetic ingredients are NOT natural. They are chemicals made in a lab that have the same properties as your truly natural vitamins, but they are not recognized by the body. In many cases, a person’s body sees this chemical and reacts to it as if it were a toxin and their immune system goes into overdrive, which after years of ingesting this “toxin” can weaken the immune system and like my friends mom, make you sick: the exact opposite of what you thought you were doing by supplementing in the first place!

Many people don’t believe supplementation can make a difference in their overall health, energy, athletic performance, etc. because they have bought this stuff that doesn’t do anything because its synthetic. Buy the products that DO come from nature, and yes they cost more, but you will notice a huge difference.

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When Susan spoke at that event, she told the audience that while she may look all glamorous up on stage in a dress shirt, skirt, blazer and heels, but her life back home in Canada is the opposite. She said she spends most of her days working in her home office, in Yoga pants, sometimes showered, sometimes not, but it didn’t matter. At the time I was living a miserable work life, in a desk job that I detested (if it wasn’t for the people I worked with I don’t think I would have survived). I had to get up every day uber-early, get dressed up to go to work (thankfully our office was very casual, nice jeans were the norm, but wore dresses a lot) do work that was uninspiring. At that event, I wrote down as a goal “LIVE MY LIFE IN YOGA PANTS”.

It’s been a year and a half since that event and I came across my notes from it recently. I smiled and got a little tear in my eye when I realized I AM now living my life in yoga pants. I took a HUGE leap of faith five months ago and left that job and clothes behind. I’ve been living in yoga pants between working myself out and teaching fitness classes five days a week. I’ve gone so far into living life in yoga pants, that last week I put on a pair of jeans to go somewhere and I took them back off because they were too uncomfortable…my Lululemon WunderUnders are my new “dress pants”.

What goes along living in more comfortable clothes, is being more comfortable with life. My life no longer depends upon the paycheck I get from my employer, it depends upon the effort that I put into my economy. No one to tell me what I have to do, when I have to do it, or how I have to do it. Damn is THAT nice. Don’t get me wrong, this life is not easy, my days now are longer than when I was working, but it is worth it. Helping others reach their potential whether it be in fitness, body image, or most importantly empowering their minds is worth every long day I have sitting at my computer or on my phone. That is my life in yoga pants…anyone want to join me?

Both Mark and I need to do more stretching, we know it, but we don’t DO it as much as we should.When I came across this article by Dr. Mercola, I just HAD to read it. Ommmmmm…

How Does Yoga Benefit Your Health

By Dr. Mercola

Your body and your health can — indeed must — change as you start implementing the correct lifestyle changes. Yoga has received some well-deserved media attention recently.

Two recent studies show that regular yoga classes can help improve atrial fibrillation¹ (irregular heartbeat) and common psychiatric disorders.²

While I believe you need to incorporate anaerobic exercise (high intensity interval training) for optimal health, there’s no doubt that yoga can be an important part of a comprehensive exercise program.

Yoga is particularly useful for promoting flexibility and core muscles, and has been proven beneficial if you suffer with back pain. As you’ll see later in this article, yoga can also help you turn your health around if you’re too overweight to engage in more strenuous types of exercise.

Ideally, you’ll want a comprehensive fitness program that includes aerobic, anaerobic, and resistance training as well, in addition to flexibility and core-building exercises like yoga.

Click here for the rest of the article

Dr. Suk Cho, Isagenix Chief Science Officer

Do you use 5-Hour Energy, Monster, Red Bull or another energy shot/drink that is loaded with synthetic caffeine, artificial ingredients and tons of sugar. How about someone you know, are you concerned about their health when drinking these products? If so, read this article from IsagenixHealth.net and contact Mary afterward for a to learn more about our healthy alternative:

Everyone needs a pick-me-up once in a while. The fast pace and constant stresses of modern society have underpinned the rising popularity of energy drinks and shots. However, to meet the insatiable demand of consumers, many companies have sacrificed corporate responsibility.

There exists a surplus of unhealthy concoctions that are used in unhealthy and even dangerous ways. All are claiming to give you the biggest boost for your buck. But most just contain excessive amounts of synthetic caffeine, artificial ingredients, sugar, and other additives. Unfortunately, this has led to a lot of media coverage about possible harmful effects of energy drinks and shots.
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In 1993, Mark crossed one of his dreams off his list: to be the first Duluth-born finisher of the Beargrease Sled Dog Marathon. After reaching that goal, he moved on to the next; running in Alaska’s 1,000-mile Iditarod. In 1995 we made the decision to go for it and started seeking sponsors, training the dogs and refinanced our house to be able to afford it. (The cost back then: $17,000). His mom said to us in the midst of preparation “why not wait until you can afford it”. The reason below is why. Was it the smartest financial decision we made, no. But it was our decision to pursue his dream. Any regrets about making that decision, NO WAY! Mark has seen a side of Denali (Mount McKinley) that very few people ever will. He and his 16 dogs ran up and over the Alaska Range. How freaking cool is that?

I’m not saying you should make totally unsound financial decisions like we did, because it did catch up with us later. We sacrificed taking winter vacations on the beach and chose to spend that time outside, in the middle of winter, sleeping on straw bales, with little sleep and no showers for a few days to a week at a time, racing a team of dogs that we raised and trained. Our choice, our time, no regrets.

Life is meant to be lived, GO LIVE IT! Time cannot be borrowed or bought and before you know it you will be running out of it.

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