Special Health Alert!
A Vitally important message for anyone who wants
a longer, healthier and disease-free life

by Mitch Axelrod

I have invested more than 2,000 hours and over $10,000 in the past three years to investigate, research, brainstorm and speak with respected experts. I've attended conferences, asked many questions and flown all over the country to find answers about the poor state of health-care in America.

Here's what I have concluded...

Responsibility for decisions, choices and results. Responsibility also for your health and well- being.

Many times we choose to make money, then make a living, and if we have any time left over, we try to make a LIFE! We have it backwards. First, you make a life. If you have a good life, you can choose to make a living in lots of different ways.

If you choose a way you enjoy, the money will certainly come.

But, as you know, there is not very much life if you don't have your health, no matter how much money you have.

Chronic illnesses take the lives of the wealthy just like they take the lives of the impoverished, and no amount of money can buy off disease once it sets in. You can prevent it! And the nice part about it is, it's really inexpensive. In fact, it costs very little money compared to what we spend on "junk" foods and medication. It's far less costly to stay well than to get sick. Being sick and staying sick is the most expensive habit we have, and the biggest business, in America. The cost of health-care (and I use that term very carefully) is crushing Americans more than any other expense we have. If it doesn't change soon, we will be financially devastated and physically too sick to fight back. It's time for a change. NOW! And that change starts with you.

If rich people could buy better health (not better doctors or medical treatment, but better health), then wouldn't it seem that wealthier people would be living longer instead dying from cancer, heart attacks and other degenerative diseases.

Americans are dying in record numbers.

Despite all the scientific advances, the medical fraternity has not been able to reverse a 50-year trend of increasing mortality (death rate) in America. In 1950, we were 7th among the 21 most developed countries in the world in mortality. Today, we are 17th!

Doctors aren't saving us. We can't rely completely on them for answers until they shift their focus from prescription (when we're sick and diseased) to prevention. Dr. Andrew Weil, in the best seller Spontaneous Healing, states firmly that, "the primary function of doctors should be to teach people how not to get sick in the first place." Hippocrates’ two most famous admonitions were: "First, Do No Harm" and "Honor the Healing Power of Nature." We must seek other answers and alternatives.

We must take care of ourselves.

Our food is devoid of the nutrients, vitamins
and trace minerals we need to sustain life.

Americans are overweight and under-nourished. Most of what we eat are "shadow" foods, empty of the necessary vitamins and minerals we need to survive, to maintain even a reasonable level of health. This is well documented. Unless there is a radical change or major shift in the way food is grown, processed and delivered, it is not likely to change for the better in our lifetime. In fact, it will probably get worse.

We stuff ourselves on empty foods, devoid of the critical nutrients we need. Our bodies continue to demand these nutrients until we get them. We crave vitamins, minerals and amino acids, NOT FOOD! WE only think it's food.

So we eat more unhealthy foods that add fat, salt and sugar, not nutrients. We feel bloated and even more sluggish because digestion is an energy-draining process. But our bodies are still hungry for the missing nutrients. Haven't you ever felt "hungry" shortly after eating a big meal? Or, you're hungry but don't know what you want?

If you could supply just the minimum RDA of essential vitamins and minerals (which is way below what we require for true health), you'd probably see your energy levels surge.

With a complete and balanced diet impossible in today's world, you must add a supplemental vitamin program. You will see illnesses diminish and degeneration reverse itself when you add back the lost and missing nutrients your body needs to survive. You can get the total combination of vitamins and minerals you need every day through a complete and balanced supplement system. You can start to experience true health. You can literally stall aging, as you replace degenerated cells with healthy cells.

You must regenerate instead of degenerate!

We must take back responsibility for our own health.

We have become complacent, lazy and in many cases, very irresponsible as a people and a nation. We have grown accustomed to someone else taking care of us, be it the government, our company or the medical community. We have given over control of our health, and in many cases, our lives, to others.

How did we come to believe that it is the physician's responsibility to heal us, the government's responsibility to care for us, our company's responsibility to provide for us, and the Department of Agriculture's responsibility to dictate our food choices?

By abdicating our responsibility in all of these areas, we have allowed agribusiness, the medical fraternity, pharmaceutical cartels and self-serving and misleading corporate advertisers to shape our thinking and beliefs and cloud our understanding.

Tens of millions of us have become junk-food and drug dependent, buying into advertising and the self-serving authority of those who sit up on high and figure out how to keep us buying their products. We often take antibiotics and medications our doctor prescribes, and get hooked on high sugar, fat and salt foods that advertisers force feed us.

We don't even ask questions any more. We follow a doctor's prescrip-tion as if we have nothing to say about it.

We are, by far, the most medicated society on the face of the planet!

Every day, millions of Americans eat nutrient depleted "food" and ingest drugs and medication that are poisoning their bodies. Is it any wonder why we are being crushed by the cost of health care?

How can we get our finances in order when nearly 20 cents of every dollar we earn goes to support the medical community and large drug companies? It is no coincidence that as they make billions of dollars, we as a nation and a people are getting sicker and poorer.

It is time to take a stand, and reclaim our birthright.

It is time to take back responsibility for our choices. There is no better place to start than with our own bodies.

We are the only nation with the words "life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness" in our chartering documents. Yet we are living shorter, more painful lives and giving up our liberties to self-proclaimed gurus who think and say they know what's better for us than we know for ourselves.

Given life and liberty by birthright, what more do we have to seek than happiness? Most people I know are simply not very happy at all. Maybe it's because they are too sick and tired to be happy! What a shame.

We must take back responsibility. We can influence our future by making healthier choices.

Prevention is the key.

Prevention is much cheaper than prescription, and healthier for the mind and body. Dr. Weil says, "Methods that take advantage of the body’s natural healing abilities are far cheaper than technological medicines, as well as safer and more effective over time." But for most of us, it is far easier to get a shot, pop a pill or take some liquid poison than it is to cut back on fat, candy, cheeseburgers and soda. We can put pressure through our buying habits, demand better quality food, and seek more natural answers to the health problems we face.

Our health is the single most important thing we own. It makes all of our other possessions immaterial and worthless to us if we are too sick to enjoy them because our health has failed.

The time is now. What will you do? After all, you hold the key to our future!

4. We are killing our children. Unknowingly, unwittingly, unintentionally. But we are killing them
just the same. We must STOP, RIGHT NOW!

Children today are sicker than ever. In New Jersey, asthma is the leading chronic illness among school-age children. Allergies are rampant. One in four children suffers from allergies or asthma.

Teen-age diabetes is on the rise- no surprise with kids eating 42 pounds of sugar each year. The big killers, heart disease, and especially childhood cancer are accelerating. Is there a pattern here? Have we even noticed?

All you have to do is look at the food they eat and their lack of exercise to see why our children are sicker than ever. They eat unhealthy food and are sedentary. Only one in three high school children today meets the minimum standard of exercising three times a week for 20 minutes as compared to 62% of kids ten years ago.

Children are hyper today. They can't slow down (the quarter pound of sugar they eat every day may have something to do with it). They are becoming incapable of peace, quiet, rest and reflection. Just like their parents. How many nights each week do you have uninterrupted, peaceful sleep? Insomnia is raging across America. Why? Maybe the pace of our lives and the (lack of) quality of our food has something to do with it.

Every time we allow our children to feed upon "junk" or "empty" food, take unnecessary medication or prescription drugs, we are allowing them to poison their bodies. If we don't replenish the lost nutrients, or add the required vitamin-mineral-antioxidant mix to their system, they won't develop their desperately needed lifelong resistance to illness and painful disease. Their immune systems will be shot before they reach age 21.

Most of what our children eat is degenerating their little bodies and accelerating disease, not building them strong and healthy, as the commercials would have you believe.

Television is the big culprit. Advertisers bombard our kids with mis-information about what will make them run fast and jump high, build strong bones and teeth, and grow tall as a white oak. They are less concerned with the health of their customers than they are of hooking them for life on sugar, fat and "couch" potatoes. What's really despicable, is that they do it subconsciously, with subliminal messages. Our kids don't stand a chance.

How many TV commercials do you see for fruits, vegetables, whole grains, organic foods, good diet choices, exercise (not info-mercials) and high quality supplements? Big food manufacturers don't sell these products. The companies that do can't afford to pay millions of dollars to inform the public through a massive ad campaign.

Our children's perceptions of what's good and nutritious about the foods they eat are being shaped and deeply imprinted by the self-serving interests of the food companies.

We must take a stand and begin to exert greater influence over the food choices and health of our children. They are silently and quietly being poisoned, needlessly, causing them and us great pain and suffering. It can and must be reversed, right now! It is our duty, not the advertisers, to shape our children's lives.

5. Vitamin-mineral-antioxidant supplements are no longer optional. They are as crucial for life as clean water, exercise and a low fat, no salt and reduced sugar diet. There is no other choice.

Antioxidants brighten our future for illness and disease prevention. You must add a complete and scientifically balanced supplement program to your daily diet to maintain real health (not absence of disease). They are less expensive, non-invasive and more effective than treating illness and disease. The good news is that half of all Americans take vitamin supplements. The bad news is that...

Most of the commercially available vitamins, minerals and
antioxidant compounds simply don't work.

Many commercially made vitamin supplements never actually get to the cell to begin with, because they dissolve in the stomach. Most of those that do get to the cell never get through the cell wall and inside.

What about your vitamins? You take one a day (or more), but do you know for sure that they are even working? Is it the right mix, balance and formulation for the cells? Do they have fillers, coatings or binders?

Like a doctor's prescription, many of us never question or ask if what we're taking is actually helping. Is it possible they are doing us more harm than good? Is it possible they are are doing you NO GOOD?

Taking vitamins that are imbalanced or that are not part of a complete nutritional system is a complete waste of your time and money, and potentially harmful and health-threatening. Worse yet, you are lulled into a false sense of security, and actually believe you are getting what you need. You must be sure.

You know that eating a candy bar every day for a sugar jolt is not really healthy, and it isn't going to give you the same friendly energy boost you would get from a low-sugar, high-carbohydrate energy bar, or high fiber drink. But do you know the contents, balance and cell-availability of the commercial vitamins you take?

We are not being told the whole story. It's not in the best interest of the drug manufacturers who are making billions of dollars selling vitamins to help you make an informed choice about quality, nor is it in their best interest to help you determine whether their product actually works. All they are responsible to tell you are the ingredients. After all, if they told you the whole truth, you simply might make another choice.

Many people say they can't afford a high quality supplement program, but that is simply not true. Everyone can.

You can easily redirect at least $1.66 every day, and probably $5 or more just by substituting a healthy nutritional and supplement program for empty foods. You can eat a little less junk, and exchange it for the essential nutrients which will immediately increase your energy and positively impact your health. You can’t afford not to.

My Final Conclusion ... It is time to make some new choices.

Our health and peace of mind depend upon it. Your health and that of your loved ones will continue to suffer and deteriorate more rapidly in the years ahead if you don't heed the tell-tale warning signs that are all around.

If you close your mind and heart to the truth, harsh as it may be, you are shutting the door to the possibility of improved health, vitality and a life relatively free from serious illness and painful degenerative disease. I close with Dr. Michael Colgan from The New Nutrition (a must read call me and I'll tell you how to get it)...

"We have depleted our soils, contaminated our water, polluted our food and our air, degraded our food supply, mistreated our bodies, and thereby have created much of the disease that now plagues our lives. America today struggles helplessly in the grip of a vast sickness industry.

Government and health agencies are powerless to protect you.
You have to learn to protect yourself.

"The overwhelming evidence, is that, by choosing to eat the right foods and nutritional supplements, and by making simple changes in your lifestyle, you can prevent and even reverse far more disease than any doctor, any hospital, any drug, or any combination of medical treatments known to man."

What path you choose to follow is up to you. I hope you choose the path to healthier living. If I've helped you in the process, I'll feel wonderful about making a meaningful contribution to your life.

My heart-felt best wishes for a longer, healthier life for you and yours.

Mitchell Axelrod

P.S. If you want to explore further or are ready to start on a tested, proven safe and scientifically balanced supplement program, I invite you to look into the one that has changed my life and the lives of tens of thousands of people. Please feel free to call me at 1-800-7-AXELROD (1-800-729-3576). This is so important, I'll even pay for your first phone call. I hope to hear from you.

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