Nutrition and Wellness for All

Body Mass Index or BMI is a numerical value representing the relation between your height and your weight. This value helps determine the ideal weight for health and wellness. Improvement in your BMI can have life-changing impact on the way you look and feel.

Get your BMI, and check against the helpful guide below for achieving the weight range that is healthiest for you. Based on your BMI results, you can start on a personalized path to healthier living through your Distributor's trusted support and our science-based nutrition products.

• 20 and below - Lean /slender
• 20~25 - Ideal weight range
• 25~30 - Overweight (25~27 could be a healthy if large-boned or heavily muscled)
• 30 and above - Very overweight /High health risk
• 40 and above - Extremely overweight /Very high risk for health complications 

A BMI of 25 or above increases your risk of high blood pressure, heart disease, stroke, diabetes, some cancers and other chronic disorders. The risk is worse when your BMI approaches 30 or higher and in fact a BMI or 30 or more has been associated with a shortened life-span. Exercise, eating healthy foods and cutting calories will help a person with a high BMI to lose weight, lower blood pressure and improve over all health.

Many peolple forget that we need to drink a lot of water every day to maintain good health. Our bodies are 70% water, and we need to re-hydrate daily to assist in the proper functioning of our bodies' systems and vital organs (including the digestive system and bowel movement). While some water come from foods, juices, and other beverages, the best source of hydration is water.

At least 8 to 10 glasses (2 to 2.5 liters) daily is recommended. This amount may increase based on many factors such as weight, amount of exercise, weather, altitude and other physical conditions. Do not drink your water need for the day all at once. Divide the consumption throughout the day.

Detox, short for detoxification, is the body's natural, ongoing process of neutralizing or eliminating toxins from the body. Toxins (anything that can potentially harm body tissue) are transformed chemically to less harmful compounds and excreted via stools or urine.

Sources of toxins include those produced in the body during normal functions, such as the ammonia produced during the breakdown of protein, and chemicals such as pesticides, household cleaners, food additives, drugs, pollution, cigarette smoke, and heavy metals like lead that enter the body when we ingest or inhale them.

Although detox is primarily thought of as a treatment for alcohol or drug dependence, the term is also used to refer to diets, herbs, and other methods of removing environmental and dietary toxins from the body for optimum health.

Good nutrition provided by our products will have detoxification effects that may come in the form of dizziness, body weakness, frequent urinating, or other discomforts. These are temporary conditions and must be viewed as a positive reaction of your body to good nutrition. The key is to continue and be consistent with the nutrition program, and allow good nutrition to have a lasting effect on your health and general wellness.

• 40% of the white rice that Asians eat as a staple food is converted to fat.
• According to the Department of Health, 70% of the leading causes of death in the Philippines are from non-communicable diseases caused by unhealthy behavior patterns, including inactivity, poor diet, and smoking.
• Consumption of fats and oil increased by 50% while there has been a substantial decline in the consumption.
• Android obesity is a major risk for heart damage and heart disease due to high cholesterol.
• The number of overweight children aged up to 10 years old more than tripled in the past 5 years
• Four of the top 10 leading causes of death in the Philppines are Heart Disease, Vascular Disease, Cancer, and Pneumonia.
• Dietary factors are associated with four of the ten leading causes of death in the USA: Heart Disease, Cancer, Stroke, and Diabetes.

Fitness - The ability to perform physical activity. You define the limits of your fitness. It could mean a one-mile walk daily or a training for an Ironman triathlon.

Health - The optimal balance of all systems of the body - the nervous, muscular, skeletal, circulatory, digestive, lymphatic, hormonal, mental, emotional and all other systems

Wellness - The condition of good physical and mental health, especially when maintained by proper diet, exercise and habits.

Sickness Industry - Products and services provided reactively to people with an existing disease, ranging from a common cold to existing cancerous tumors. These porducts and services seek to either treat the symptoms of a disease or eliminate the disease.

Wellness Industry - Products and services provided proactively to healthy people (those without an existing disease) to make them feel even healthier and look better, to slow the effects of aging, or to prevent disease from developing in the first place.

FIT people sink - FAT people float

FIT people are fat-burners - FAT people are sugar-burners

When FIT people eat sugar, they make glycogen - When FAT people eat, they make fat

FIT people have lots of fat-burning enzymes - FAT people have few fat-burning enzymes

FIT people eat more than fat people - FAT people diet and fast frequently, which lowers metabolic rate

FIT people use fat efficiently - FAT people store fat efficiently

When FIT people exercise, it is usually aerobic exercise - When FAT people exercise, it is often anaerobic exercise

FIT people "waste" energy in everday activities - FAT people "conserve" energy throughout the day

FIT people have long, lean, shapely muscles - FAT people have short, round, fatty muscles

FIT people can be overweight without being overfat - FAT people can be overfat without being overweight

Exercise decrease hunger in FIT people - Exercise triggers hunger in FAT people