Better Body Better Health

By Gary Jackson

This book is a guide to understanding the degenerative disease process and most importantly, what we can do to prevent these diseases in our lives. In addition to that of course is the all important understanding of how to lose excess weight and then maintain our proper body weight through lifestyle management and proper food choices. Gary has created a step by step guide that anyone can follow. This book includes meal plans, how to create a personalized eating program, a guide to what is in our food, and a simple exercise plan for both beginners and the experienced. With this book, you can take control of your life!

• Language: English
• Publisher: Gary Jackson
• Release date: Feb 22, 2015
• ISBN: 9781311913883

Gary Jackson

Gary Jackson is an associate professor of creative writing at the College of Charleston. He is also the author of Missing You, Metropolis, which was the winner of the 2009 Cave Canem Poetry Prize.

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Copyright © 2008 by Gary Jackson

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NOTE

Every effort has been made to ensure that the information contained in this book is complete and accurate. However, neither the publisher nor the author is engaged in rendering professional advice or service to the individual reader. The ideas, procedures and suggestions contained in this book are not intended as a substitute for consulting a medical physician. All matters regarding health require medical supervision. Whilst the author is a qualified and registered Practitioner of Alternative Medicine, the author does not represent himself as an orthodox medical doctor and neither the publisher nor the author shall be liable for any loss, injury or damage allegedly arising from the information or suggestions in this book. The opinions expressed in this book represent the personal views of the author.

Contents

Copyright

Foreword

A Note From The Author

In the Beginning

Wellness Is A Choice

A Comment On Choice

The Process of Wellness

Why We Choose Diseases

Body Fat

Understanding Homeostasis

Hormones and Fat

The Key Elements to Achieving Wellness

Emotional Wellness

What You Eat

Understanding Why pH Balance Is Important

Sugar And The Glycemic Index

Glycemic Index

Gluten / Wheat Sensitive People

Food Combining

Understanding The Dreaded Calorie

Appropriate Supplementation

Exercise

Foreword

This book is a guide to understanding the degenerative disease process and most importantly, what we can do to prevent these diseases in our lives. In addition to that of course is the all important understanding of how to lose excess weight and then maintain our proper body weight through lifestyle management and proper food choices. Gary has created a step by step guide that anyone can follow. This book includes meal plans, how to create a personalized eating program, a guide to what is in our food, and a simple exercise plan for both beginners and the experienced. With this book, you can take control of your life!

Gary has a way to take the complex and simplify it for all to understand. His years of education as a Naturopath Physician, in conjunction with his intuitive practical knowledge gained from years of experience have helped countless numbers of patients, myself and my family included. We are all grateful that he has taken the time to write this book. I know it will help many more people across the world.

Gary is never satisfied with the knowledge he has at any point in time. He continually strives to learn, to ask questions and to surround himself with others on the leading edge of medicine. With his diverse medical background he has a fuller understanding of how the body works and how it responds to our environment.

In this book, Gary presents the view that you are what you absorb. I have found through over 30 years of working with my patients on their health and more recently with my sleep apnea patients, that this is indeed the case. I have watched as the nutritional value of food has declined over the past 50 or more years. I have also seen the decline in health of the general population as fast food became a part of our way of life. Conventional Western Medicine has not had a successful impact on controlling the degenerative disease process. In fact, the population has deteriorated in general despite of the medical advances in treatment and pharmaceuticals.

Gary makes a strong point for the reasons we need to take control of our own lives and learn how to manage our lifestyles correctly. Proper dietary choices, regular exercise, and a basic understanding of our body and how it works are key elements in living a long and disease free life. This book gives you the basis to get started on taking control of your life, NOW. Take it, read it, re-read it and use it as a reference to re-start your life. I did!

Dr. Al Gerretsen, D.M.D

A Note From The Author

It’s been four years since I released my last book Nutrition the Holistic Way to Wellness and there has been a lot of procrastination over the writing of this new offering but here it is and I have to say I’m actually very pleased with the outcome.

I would like to thank those who kept pestering