Michael R. Lee B.Sc., M.D., M.C.F.P. (E.M.), D.A.B.E.M., F.A.C.E.P. Sure Results Weight Loss Inc.

Back when I was in med school there was some thought obesity may have one benefit and that was the prevention of osteoporosis – weakening of the bones. This thought was based upon the knowledge that bone density increases, strengthening the bones, when they are exposed to stresses.

It was surmised that since the impact of walking and running stresses the bones, then it only makes sense that doing any form of impact exercise carrying extra weight should only help.

Well, it turns out this is wrong too but for a number of reasons nobody even thought about until just recently when lab tests and radiological imaging became more sophisticated.

Fat cells, especially visceral fat, (the fat hidden inside our abdominal cavities) produce a substance that is now known to actively make bones thinner and weak.

In addition to that, obesity, especially visceral obesity increases the amount of fat in the bone marrow which also contributes to bone weakness.
So now we have to add Osteoporosis to the never-ending and ever-expanding list of diseases that accompany obesity which include heart disease, type ll diabetes, vascular disease, stroke and hypertension.

The medical community has numerous and varied recommendations for the treatment of Osteoporosis. The ones we all seem to agree on are Vitamin D, weight loss and exercise.

The Vitamin D one is easy. Get out in the sun exposing as much skin as you can without sun block. Work your way slowly up to 20 minutes being careful not to burn.

Twenty minutes in the sun with lots of skin exposed will give you 20,000 units of Vitamin D.

The other two remedies are not as simple. To be effective, a diet must be well planned, coached and medically supervised, especially if there are any medical or medication issues.

Some people, especially if they are carrying a great deal of extra weight, simply cannot exercise efficiently enough to contribute to their weight loss or level of fitness. A gentle stroll through the park won’t do it. We think it’s wise to lose the weight first safely and quickly and then bring up the level of exercise.

 Barbara lost 20 pounds in 6 weeks

 

I am extremely pleased with the Sure Results program. After attempting several other diet and exercise programs with minimal results, I can easily say that this was the best program I have ever done. I am down three dress sizes and twenty pounds; I feel great and am so happy with my new figure. My gallbladder discomfort and digestive problems have virtually disappeared. Headaches are a thing of the past, my energy has quadrupled and I am no longer dependant on Zantac and Tums. Now I weigh what I did when I was in my thirties and am down to a size six!

We have a 100% success rate in helping our clients lose weight. If you are struggling with this frustration we can help. Visit our web site (www.sureresults.net) and learn more about this amazing hormonally based weight loss program that is changing the lives of everyone who does it.

Michael R. Lee B.Sc., M.D., M.C.F.P. (E.M.), D.A.B.E.M., F.A.C.E.P. Sure Results Weight Loss Inc.

Back when I was in med school there was some thought obesity may have one benefit and that was the prevention of osteoporosis – weakening of the bones. This thought was based upon the knowledge that bone density increases, strengthening the bones, when they are exposed to stresses.

It was surmised that since the impact of walking and running stresses the bones, then it only makes sense that doing any form of impact exercise carrying extra weight should only help.

Well, it turns out this is wrong too but for a number of reasons nobody even thought about until just recently when lab tests and radiological imaging became more sophisticated.

Fat cells, especially visceral fat, (the fat hidden inside our abdominal cavities) produce a substance that is now known to actively make bones thinner and weak.

In addition to that, obesity, especially visceral obesity increases the amount of fat in the bone marrow which also contributes to bone weakness.
So now we have to add Osteoporosis to the never-ending and ever-expanding list of diseases that accompany obesity which include heart disease, type ll diabetes, vascular disease, stroke and hypertension.

The medical community has numerous and varied recommendations for the treatment of Osteoporosis. The ones we all seem to agree on are Vitamin D, weight loss and exercise.

The Vitamin D one is easy. Get out in the sun exposing as much skin as you can without sun block. Work your way slowly up to 20 minutes being careful not to burn.

Twenty minutes in the sun with lots of skin exposed will give you 20,000 units of Vitamin D.

The other two remedies are not as simple. To be effective, a diet must be well planned, coached and medically supervised, especially if there are any medical or medication issues.

Some people, especially if they are carrying a great deal of extra weight, simply cannot exercise efficiently enough to contribute to their weight loss or level of fitness. A gentle stroll through the park won’t do it. We think it’s wise to lose the weight first safely and quickly and then bring up the level of exercise.

 Barbara lost 20 pounds in 6 weeks

 

I am extremely pleased with the Sure Results program. After attempting several other diet and exercise programs with minimal results, I can easily say that this was the best program I have ever done. I am down three dress sizes and twenty pounds; I feel great and am so happy with my new figure. My gallbladder discomfort and digestive problems have virtually disappeared. Headaches are a thing of the past, my energy has quadrupled and I am no longer dependant on Zantac and Tums. Now I weigh what I did when I was in my thirties and am down to a size six!

We have a 100% success rate in helping our clients lose weight. If you are struggling with this frustration we can help. Visit our web site (www.sureresults.net) and learn more about this amazing hormonally based weight loss program that is changing the lives of everyone who does it.

Almost Time To Go Home

No, it’s not because I’ve been robbed, beaten, or kidnapped by the drug cartels. And it’s not because some corrupt policias tried to shake me down, because I contracted swine flu, or that beheaded bodies were left in the street outside of my hotel.

Honestly, I’m really enjoying it down here and would like to stay, regrettably I have to go back to work in New York.
So I will unfortunately be heading north to brave the cold weather.

Before I leave Mexico, though, I want to address the elephant in the room: Mexico’s infamous drug war, probably the most sensationalized, misunderstood issues played out in North American media, right between Charlie Sheen and Lindsay Lohan.

The bottom line is that two governments decided long ago that drugs are a problem and that they need to do something about it. On one hand, the Mexican government expects the US to reduce demand, and on the other hand, the US government expects Mexico to curtail supply.

There are three major problems with this logic.

Governments think they can force the reduction of something that literally grows on trees. Marijuana and cocaine are more easily grown than Ben Bernanke’s balance sheet-- they’d have better luck reducing the supply of stupidity and hypocrisy in Washington.

What most people don’t realize is that they’ve carpet-bombed half of Colombia with herbicides so nasty (thank you, Monsanto) that they make Agent Orange look like a stick of deodorant. And yet, the cartels still find plenty of land to increase their productive capacity.

Fighting a multi-decade war against plants is just a dumb idea, ranking up there with other such gems as spending our way out of recession, borrowing our way out of debt, and invading other countries to reduce hatred against America.

The second problem is that these governments actually expect to be able to suppress demand. This is nonsense.

There will always be certain personalities who will seek out the high of recreational drugs despite the consequences. Similarly, there are certain personalities who will gamble despite the losses, seek adrenaline rushes despite the risks, or eat Big Macs despite what the bathroom scale says.

To those personalities, their desires are as natural as the instinct to breathe.

There’s no great mystery in the world about the effects of recreational drugs. As dealers say, ‘drugs sell themselves’. Drug users accept the risks because they think the benefits are greater, or they’re psychologically and/or chemically addicted to the product.

This is no different than people who’ve become addicted to aspartame (Diet Coke), prescription pills, sex, booze, exercise, cigarettes, work, shopping, anger, pain, video games, junk food, etc. The chemical and psychological dependencies don’t vanish just because the government decrees it.

The third problem is that the governments even began with the false premise that recreational drugs are a problem and should be prohibited. This is intellectually dishonest: governments sanction all sorts of drug use.

The US government says, for example, that nicotine, high fructose corn syrup, partially hydrogenated soybean oil, alcohol, Viagra, aspartame, Prozac, and Yellow #5 are OK, but raw milk, Cuban cigars, marijuana, human growth hormone, and chocolate Kinder eggs are not OK.

Look, I’m not trying to be anti-alcohol or pro-Kinder egg, but the notion that government agencies should be able to choose which substances we grown adults are and are not allowed to buy and ingest is rather anachronistic. And they do a horrible job at it anyhow.

The FDA is constantly having to recall products that it had approved, frequently reversing its own GRAS (generally regarded as safe) decisions. Remember Vioxx? Stevia? Avastin? Ephedra?

The agency is filled with pencil-pushing bureaucrats who endlessly circulate position papers, dragging on the approval process for potentially life-saving drugs so that someone who’s already dying of cancer won’t have an adverse reaction.

It’s a fundamental injustice when a corrupt bureaucracy swayed by powerful lobby groups is able to decide what we can put in our own bodies, and then fails miserably at enforcing its own vacuous regulations.

The end result of this fallacy has been playing out in Mexico. Yes, there is violence and crime in Mexico related to the business of transporting and distributing recreational drugs. The violence is often portrayed in the media as ‘turf wars’ between competing cartels.

This sounds good, but it’s not really true. There are far more customers out there than the cartels can possibly supply. Fighting for demand is not the issue... it’s getting supply to the customers.

As such, cartels are either fighting it out with each other over key supply routes (which is why most of the violence is in the border towns), or they’re battling the government forces trying to interdict them.

Funny thing, Pfizer and Lily don’t shoot it out in the streets over shelf space for Viagra vs. Cialis. War is bad for business; it’s prohibition that induces armed defense of logistics hubs and production facilities.

The real scourge on Mexican society isn’t ‘turf war’ shoot outs, but the de facto police state that now exists.

In daily life, the chances of the average Mexican coming into contact with drug-related crime or violence is very low, whereas the chances of being harassed or disrupted by government paramilitaries brandishing automatic weapons in full combat gear is extremely high.

This is the fundamental issue in Mexico-- billions of dollars from the US are fueling a war on plants and human nature fuels violence and creates a police state.

The violence (mostly localized in border towns) will continue until these countries finally go broke, capitulate, and begin the embarrassing process of reexamining their policies.

Thank you all for listening.
Departing Dick

Almost Time To Go Home

No, it’s not because I’ve been robbed, beaten, or kidnapped by the drug cartels. And it’s not because some corrupt policias tried to shake me down, because I contracted swine flu, or that beheaded bodies were left in the street outside of my hotel.

Honestly, I’m really enjoying it down here and would like to stay, regrettably I have to go back to work in New York.
So I will unfortunately be heading north to brave the cold weather.

Before I leave Mexico, though, I want to address the elephant in the room: Mexico’s infamous drug war, probably the most sensationalized, misunderstood issues played out in North American media, right between Charlie Sheen and Lindsay Lohan.

The bottom line is that two governments decided long ago that drugs are a problem and that they need to do something about it. On one hand, the Mexican government expects the US to reduce demand, and on the other hand, the US government expects Mexico to curtail supply.

There are three major problems with this logic.

Governments think they can force the reduction of something that literally grows on trees. Marijuana and cocaine are more easily grown than Ben Bernanke’s balance sheet-- they’d have better luck reducing the supply of stupidity and hypocrisy in Washington.

What most people don’t realize is that they’ve carpet-bombed half of Colombia with herbicides so nasty (thank you, Monsanto) that they make Agent Orange look like a stick of deodorant. And yet, the cartels still find plenty of land to increase their productive capacity.

Fighting a multi-decade war against plants is just a dumb idea, ranking up there with other such gems as spending our way out of recession, borrowing our way out of debt, and invading other countries to reduce hatred against America.

The second problem is that these governments actually expect to be able to suppress demand. This is nonsense.

There will always be certain personalities who will seek out the high of recreational drugs despite the consequences. Similarly, there are certain personalities who will gamble despite the losses, seek adrenaline rushes despite the risks, or eat Big Macs despite what the bathroom scale says.

To those personalities, their desires are as natural as the instinct to breathe.

There’s no great mystery in the world about the effects of recreational drugs. As dealers say, ‘drugs sell themselves’. Drug users accept the risks because they think the benefits are greater, or they’re psychologically and/or chemically addicted to the product.

This is no different than people who’ve become addicted to aspartame (Diet Coke), prescription pills, sex, booze, exercise, cigarettes, work, shopping, anger, pain, video games, junk food, etc. The chemical and psychological dependencies don’t vanish just because the government decrees it.

The third problem is that the governments even began with the false premise that recreational drugs are a problem and should be prohibited. This is intellectually dishonest: governments sanction all sorts of drug use.

The US government says, for example, that nicotine, high fructose corn syrup, partially hydrogenated soybean oil, alcohol, Viagra, aspartame, Prozac, and Yellow #5 are OK, but raw milk, Cuban cigars, marijuana, human growth hormone, and chocolate Kinder eggs are not OK.

Look, I’m not trying to be anti-alcohol or pro-Kinder egg, but the notion that government agencies should be able to choose which substances we grown adults are and are not allowed to buy and ingest is rather anachronistic. And they do a horrible job at it anyhow.

The FDA is constantly having to recall products that it had approved, frequently reversing its own GRAS (generally regarded as safe) decisions. Remember Vioxx? Stevia? Avastin? Ephedra?

The agency is filled with pencil-pushing bureaucrats who endlessly circulate position papers, dragging on the approval process for potentially life-saving drugs so that someone who’s already dying of cancer won’t have an adverse reaction.

It’s a fundamental injustice when a corrupt bureaucracy swayed by powerful lobby groups is able to decide what we can put in our own bodies, and then fails miserably at enforcing its own vacuous regulations.

The end result of this fallacy has been playing out in Mexico. Yes, there is violence and crime in Mexico related to the business of transporting and distributing recreational drugs. The violence is often portrayed in the media as ‘turf wars’ between competing cartels.

This sounds good, but it’s not really true. There are far more customers out there than the cartels can possibly supply. Fighting for demand is not the issue... it’s getting supply to the customers.

As such, cartels are either fighting it out with each other over key supply routes (which is why most of the violence is in the border towns), or they’re battling the government forces trying to interdict them.

Funny thing, Pfizer and Lily don’t shoot it out in the streets over shelf space for Viagra vs. Cialis. War is bad for business; it’s prohibition that induces armed defense of logistics hubs and production facilities.

The real scourge on Mexican society isn’t ‘turf war’ shoot outs, but the de facto police state that now exists.

In daily life, the chances of the average Mexican coming into contact with drug-related crime or violence is very low, whereas the chances of being harassed or disrupted by government paramilitaries brandishing automatic weapons in full combat gear is extremely high.

This is the fundamental issue in Mexico-- billions of dollars from the US are fueling a war on plants and human nature fuels violence and creates a police state.

The violence (mostly localized in border towns) will continue until these countries finally go broke, capitulate, and begin the embarrassing process of reexamining their policies.

Thank you all for listening.
Departing Dick

Help for the Hurting

“When we see a need,” we look at ways we can practically fill those needs, said Ric Lehman, of Worship in Paradise and CompassioNet Impact. We offer numerous outreach efforts to the poor and feed hundreds each week, but we also look to help those that are simply poor in spirit, or have a hurting heart. We’ve seen many people here hurting from broken hearts and relationship issues, as well as struggling with different addictions. So in response to that, we’ve invited Don Maloney to come and address these issues.

Don Maloney has had 35 years in leading 12 step recovery programs, has spoken to audiences of 10,000, led successful companies and lived and traveled throughout the world speaking on topics such as “Overcoming Addictions,” “Failing Forward,” and “Looking for a Change?”

We have seen that one of the common denominators in those with addictions, and those with heart wounds is the lack of what he calls, “The Father’s Blessing.” So, on Sunday, March 20th, 5:00 pm at Paradise Community Center he will specifically address, “Receiving the Father’s Blessing.” His heart is to see people that have been struggling with rejection, broken relationships and addictions gain a new perspective. Gain a change of mind and soul and even healing! This special time of sharing will give you tools on how you can change your daily life through Jesus. Even if you don’t believe Jesus still changes lives today, this will be a good place to come and explore. The time will also include music from the Worship in Paradise team.

3 events for next week:
Friday night, March 18th, 5:00 pm
Cabaret Concert to benefit
Paradise Community Center
Tickets $250 pesos
Pulpito 127, Zona Romantica

Sunday night, March 20th, 6:00 pm
Special Workshop: Receiving the Father’s Blessing at Worship in Paradise
located at The Paradise Community Center Pulpito 127, Zona Romantica

Wednesday morning, March 23rd, 10:00 am Primavera Event for Women
Brunch, Music and Speaker Tickets $60 Pesos Sponsored by Stonecroft
Held at Paradise Community Center
Pulpito 127, Zona Romantica


Worship in Paradise
Paradise Community Center
Puerto Vallarta 322-129-0347

Help for the Hurting

“When we see a need,” we look at ways we can practically fill those needs, said Ric Lehman, of Worship in Paradise and CompassioNet Impact. We offer numerous outreach efforts to the poor and feed hundreds each week, but we also look to help those that are simply poor in spirit, or have a hurting heart. We’ve seen many people here hurting from broken hearts and relationship issues, as well as struggling with different addictions. So in response to that, we’ve invited Don Maloney to come and address these issues.

Don Maloney has had 35 years in leading 12 step recovery programs, has spoken to audiences of 10,000, led successful companies and lived and traveled throughout the world speaking on topics such as “Overcoming Addictions,” “Failing Forward,” and “Looking for a Change?”

We have seen that one of the common denominators in those with addictions, and those with heart wounds is the lack of what he calls, “The Father’s Blessing.” So, on Sunday, March 20th, 5:00 pm at Paradise Community Center he will specifically address, “Receiving the Father’s Blessing.” His heart is to see people that have been struggling with rejection, broken relationships and addictions gain a new perspective. Gain a change of mind and soul and even healing! This special time of sharing will give you tools on how you can change your daily life through Jesus. Even if you don’t believe Jesus still changes lives today, this will be a good place to come and explore. The time will also include music from the Worship in Paradise team.

3 events for next week:
Friday night, March 18th, 5:00 pm
Cabaret Concert to benefit
Paradise Community Center
Tickets $250 pesos
Pulpito 127, Zona Romantica

Sunday night, March 20th, 6:00 pm
Special Workshop: Receiving the Father’s Blessing at Worship in Paradise
located at The Paradise Community Center Pulpito 127, Zona Romantica

Wednesday morning, March 23rd, 10:00 am Primavera Event for Women
Brunch, Music and Speaker Tickets $60 Pesos Sponsored by Stonecroft
Held at Paradise Community Center
Pulpito 127, Zona Romantica


Worship in Paradise
Paradise Community Center
Puerto Vallarta 322-129-0347

CasaMagna Marriott Puerto Vallarta Resort

CasaMagna Marriott Puerto Vallarta Resort & SPA offers a career opportunity to young people from disadvantaged backgrounds

Puerto Vallarta, Jalisco (March 15, 2011) - CasaMagna Marriott Puerto Vallarta Resort & SPA finished successfully the training of the fourth generation of young participants of the educational program Youth Career Initiative (YCI).

The participants Victor Balderas, Alicia Navarro, Fabiola Fernandez, Juan Vejar, Fernando Morales, Selene Martinez and Dulce Martinez, had the chance to develop new interpersonal and professional skills with the objective to open a wide range of opportunities and choices for their career, thanks to the valuable support of the managers and associates of the CasaMagna Marriott Puerto Vallarta Resort & SPA

YCI is an initiative supported by the International Business Leaders Forum, a non profit organization founded by HRH The Prince of Wales, with the mission to promote economic and social development, sustained trough the leadership in the private sector.

With YCI, the hospitality industry provides valuable education and vocational skills for high school graduates from disadvantaged backgrounds. CasaMagna Marriott Puerto Vallarta provided them with an intensive educational program that combines theory and practical instruction in all the operative and functional workplace situations. The manage team of the hotel carry out the program, which includes instruction in personal finance, interpersonal skills, English language, computing skills, and personal health and wellbeing. YCI allows the young students to be in touch of the successful hospitality industry in every day situations. With YCI’s program all the young participants can increase their potential, self-esteem and will be informed to make their carrier choices more wisely.

For the Marriott hotels involved in this project: CasaMagna Marriott Puerto Vallarta Resort & SPA, the JW Marriott Hotel Mexico City, and CasaMagma Marriott Cancun, YCI is already part of their social responsibility programs, becoming an effective and active tool to help the local community and a platform for their associates to contribute actively in the professional career for upcoming generations.

In 2007 Mexico became the second country to implement this initiative in Latin America, 2 years after Brazil. YCI is a global initiative present in Latin America, Africa, Middle East, Europe, Asia and Australia. In its 15 years of operation, YCI have offered this valuable opportunity to over two thousand and five hundred (2500) young people around the world.

To celebrate the end of the YCI program in CasaMagna Marriott Puerto Vallarta Resort & SPA, the managing team organized a very special graduation ceremony, in which the graduates received their certificate from Alberto Cánovas YCI’s Operations Manager and Teresa Paredes, Director of Operations of CasaMagna Marriott Puerto Vallarta Resort & SPA. The graduates shared this important occasion with their family, hotel’s volunteers and various personalities like; Ana Noelia Zepeda García, Chief of Municipal Social Programs, whom congratulate the graduates of the YCI.