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FirstLine© Therapy
Program
FirstLine©
Therapy is a therapeutic lifestyle program designed to address chronic disease,
weight concerns, and poor blood sugar metabolism. A therapeutic lifestyle
means living your life in a way that improves your health. It means making
choices every day that will enhance your health, enabling you to achieve a full,
healthy life.
A therapeutic lifestyle is possible for everyone, but to
achieve it you need to know which choices are good for you and which ones are
not. This program will provide you with the knowledge you need to make healthy
lifestyle choices each day of your life.
Many chronic health problems are from poor lifestyle choices.
Consider the following:
91% of type 2 diabetes cases could be prevented by the
adoption of healthy habits and choices.
The National Institute of Health recommends lifestyle
changes as the most important and cost-effective way to lower
cholesterol.
Lifestyle changes are now recommended in the treatment of
the major chronic diseases in our society: i.e. heart disease, stroke,
diabetes, cancer, arthritis....
Lifestyle changes are also the key to reducing or
eliminating many symptoms that are not classified as disease: i.e. fatigue,
hormone imbalance, stress-related symptoms, and others.
The therapeutic lifestyle is based on the premise that many
of the chronic diseases of aging—hypertension, cardiovascular disease,
diabetes—are not inevitable outcomes of the aging process. Instead, these
diseases are largely preventable simply by making sound lifestyle choices.
Things that many people view as signs of aging, such as low energy, poor memory,
low libido, chronic pain, weight gain, are not signs of aging at all. They are
signs of illness!
Changing Body Composition
Body composition is a measure of the amount of body mass represented in the
ratio of fat to lean body mass. Altered body composition usually results from
increased fat deposition and /or loss of muscle mass.
A muscle is the body’s biologically active tissue and needs
far greater amount of caloric fuel to maintain itself compared to fat. So a high
ratio of muscle to fat increases your metabolism, meaning you burn more calories
naturally each day. Furthermore, muscle is the source of proteins, which are
responsible for the vitality of your whole body—loss of muscle=loss of protein
stores=loss of function. In illness, muscle is the major source of protein for
functions such as antibody production, wound healing, and white blood cell
production. So if you have muscle loss, you have less protein stores to draw on
when ill. So there is more to losing weight than just losing extra fat. Muscle
mass must be maintained or increased. Muscle is needed to burn calories and
necessary for overall health!
You will benefit in many ways with this program. You will
have more energy, better sleep, less body fat, more strength, healthier skin and
hair, fewer aches and pains and renewed vigor and vitality .
There are five fundamentals of this program.
They are:
1. Knowledge: A healthy lifestyle is all about
processing the knowledge to make informed decisions that impact your health
every day.
2. Balanced Eating: Balanced
eating habits have a direct influence on excess insulin production, body
composition, and disease prevention.
3. Regular exercise: A
regular program of aerobic, strength training, and flexibility exercises has
been shown to reverse insulin resistance, increase vitality and reduce risk of
disease.
4. Appropriate Nutritional
supplementation: incorporating a foundational nutrition program with
targeted nutrients is essential.
5. Stress Management: For
optimum health regular stress management programs help keep insulin and other
hormone levels balanced, improving vitality.
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