Chapter1HIGHENERGY

You Can Feel Better

Is this you? You frequently feel tired, and feeling tired always seems to happen at the wrong time. When there's a movie you want to see, or a party you want to go to or some work you have to get done, that's just when it seems to crop up. People may think you are antisocial, or lazy.

You wonder where your joie de vivre went, or why you don't feel as good as you know you should. You just don't feel as great as you think you might.

Perhaps you go to work every day tired, easily exhausted. You may not have mentioned it to your doctor or others because you have accepted it as a part of life.
But you don’t have to be tired. What you eat and what you do can affect your energy level. People may be tired, depressed, looking years older than their age, but with key changes they in a few weeks can be energetic, youthful and buoyant.

You too can have something better. You do not have to be tired. With the right food, the right nutritional supplements, an exercise program and other help you likely can have more energy than you can remember having for years.

This book will explore the latest information on what we know about the causes of fatigue and what we can do about it, and will provide a full in-depth comprehensive program for more energy.

EVEN IF YOU THINK YOU FEEL PERFECTLY FINE, YOU MIGHT FEEL EVEN BETTER ON THIS ENERGY PROGRAM. Unless you feel fantastically well, there is probably room for improvement.

This book is designed so you can find a High Energy Diet that is just right for you. You can customize it so it will fit your particular life and tastes, keep you at the weight you want to be, give you the nutrition your body needs, and keep you full of energy and feeling your best. And chances are you will feel so much better that it will become a lifetime eating pattern, a feel-great lifestyle, not a plan that you go off once you have solved your weight or energy problem.

THE HIGH ENERGY PLAN. This book will show you how you can develop your own personal program that will provide you with the wonderful advantages of more energy, less fatigue, less depression, and that may even correct some other troublesome symptoms that you may have been bothered by.

TOO MANY OF US HAVE SYMPTOMS THAT WE THINK ARE NORMAL. If we're a little tired we believe it's because we're not as young as we used to be, or we work too hard, or we're under so much stress or have so many problems.

And so we take the symptoms for granted.

SOMETIMES WE'RE NOT EVEN AWARE THAT THEY EXISTED UNTIL THEY GO AWAY. And then we begin to realize that something really was causing us to be more tired than we needed to be, or more depressed than we needed to be.

If you read this book and follow the program, it is very likely you will have feelings of well-being, both physical and emotional, that will make you realize in retrospect that before going on the program you really weren't operating at your best.

THERE MAY BE MANY SIGNS THAT YOU HAVE A PROBLEM. Perhaps you feel tired all the time, too listless to do any of the things you want to. Or, perhaps you're only tired some of the time, with spells of fatigue or irritability that come on at certain times of the day.

Perhaps you have periods of depression that just don't seem to go away.

Or, you may feel as though you're getting old, even though your logic tells you that you're really not.

But if you are like most people, the symptom that you are most likely to experience is that of just not feeling right. You feel tired and weak. You have the blahs. These things all are saying the same thing -- that your body is not working perfectly.

IT'S NOT JUST YOUR NERVES. If you felt that way, you may have consulted a doctor. But you may have been told, "I'm sorry but I don't find anything wrong. It must be your nerves.”

But most likely it's not in your head, but in your body. You can probably remember some time when you were at the peak of health and felt vibrant, alive. That's how you should feel all the time. This book will help you get there with diet, vitamin and mineral formulas, herb prescriptions from Chinese Traditional Medicine, a program of exercises, special advice on how to recognize symptoms that could be clinical depression, even the latest information on how the amount of sunlight can affect your energy., .

FIRST THE PLAN HELPS YOU WITH A FATIGUE-FIGHTING DIET.

There is no one sure-fire diet that can work for everybody, and anyone who makes such a claim is oversimplifying. The diet portion of this plan will help you find the best fuel formula for your body. Choosing how much protein, fat, and carbohydrates you will eat is like designing the fuel formula best for your car for smooth running, and the vitamins and minerals you add make the utilization of that fuel even better.

SYMPTOMS SO OFTEN IMPROVE WHEN THE DIET CHANGES. When people change their diets, over and over again they tell of their symptoms being improved.

Of course fatigue and depression can be caused also by things other than diet, but in an astounding number of cases, when people’s diets are changed, they soon notice a difference in the way they feel.

The goal of this book is to tell you what you can do to make you feel your very best.

THIS BOOK WILL TELL YOU THINGS THAT WILL MAKE YOU FEEL SO MUCH BETTER YOU WILL KNOW THAT AN IMPROVEMENT IS TAKING PLACE WITHIN YOUR BODY. It will help you understand your metabolism and will tell you why your present eating pattern may be the enemy causing your fatigue and how a new diet could lead to higher energy.

You will learn how to evaluate your own fatigue and depression or other symptoms, how to uncover hidden causes for them, how to take your own case history, how to find your own best diet, and just as important, how to work with your own doctor. You will see the evidence that the sugar in your diet may be more dangerous than you realized, and that vitamin and mineral and herbal supplements can often be used to control symptoms that you used to take medications for. The book will tell you how to do your own diet experiment to learn which type of diet is best for you, and how to follow it for high energy. There will be special advice on proper diets for children, for women at menopause, or for those on birth control pills, and for both people who have trouble losing weight or gaining it.

BUT THIS IS NOT JUST A DIET, BUT AN ENTIRE ENERGY PLAN.

No matter what you weigh now or want to weigh, it will tell you what to do to gain more energy. You will learn what kinds of foods can often cause fatigue, and what alternatives will work instead to counteract fatigue.

You will learn how to get these hidden hazards out of your life.

THE HIGH ENERGY PLAN INCLUDES A TARGETED VITAMIN PLAN. At present the official recommended daily allowances for vitamins and minerals issued by the FDA are too low for many people. A surprising number of people have borderline deficiencies that lead to losses of energy and vitality, or have unknown defects of metabolism that can be treated with supplements of specific vitamins and herbs. This book will tell you about vitamins and minerals and herbs that can often counteract fatigue.

WHEN YOU GO TO A DOCTOR HOW MANY PHYSICIANS EVER ASK YOU ANYTHING ABOUT YOUR DIET OR EXERCISE OR HOW MUCH ENERGY YOU HAVE? Think about the last time you had a medical checkup. Did your doctor ask you about what foods you eat? or how much of your diet consisted of candy and cake or alcohol or junk food?

How much can be changed by changes in diet! More physicians need to look at nutritional causes to their patients’ problems.

Indeed you are what you eat, and often changed in what you eat can solve fatigue and other problems.

IMAGINARY HEALTH. The lack of knowledge about nutrition is appalling. Years ago Dr. Willis A. Gortner, former professor of biochemistry at Cornell University and director of the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Human Nutrition Division in Maryland, said at a science writers' seminar that many is the time that patients go to a physician with symptoms and are told that they are not really sick but that they have an imaginary sickness. The real problem said Gortner is just the opposite. Many of us have "imaginary health." "We think we're well when we're not...because we have never really known what it feels like to be superhealthy! We suffer from nutritional deficiencies that we don't even know about. We think the way we feel is natural, or that we're just getting a little older, and it isn't true."

Dr. Gortner calls nutrition "internal environmental protection," and maintains that if nutrition problems could be recognized at an early stage, we might be able not only to counteract common fatigue and depression, but even to prevent or delay symptoms of obesity, anemia, heart disease, diabetes, and other health problems.

This book will provide you with the guidelines to enable you to find what is best for you. As you follow the recommendations you should begin to experience the benefits of the changes in just a few weeks. This, more than all the words in this book, will convince you that the program works.

YOU DON’T HAVE TO BE TIRED. This book will show you the steps to take so that you can test the High Energy Plan yourself to see how it makes you feel, how it can give you new energy and make you feel better.