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So what is this web site all about? In 1996 at the age of 44 I suffered a mild heart attack. I had been eating a low fat diet for 7 years; mostly chicken, turkey, pork (the other white meat), and fish. I lost 25 pounds eating like that but I wasn’t healthy. I would only eat red meat (beef) about twice a year because I thought it was bad for me. I was also eating a lot of highly processed carbohydrates just because they were also low fat. I was eating low fat low cholesterol everything and yet my arteries were clogging up. All I got from the learned medical community was "cut out the red meat and eat more chicken and fish". After my heart attack the doctors gave me medicine to bring my cholesterol down, which they say was my problem, but were not able to explain why their perfect low fat low cholesterol diet wouldn’t work. They said it was my genes that gave me high cholesterol and didn’t care to find out any more about it. Jump ahead 10 years to 2006 and the start of MaximumBoomers.com. I wanted to share my findings with other Baby Boomers who are dealing with health problems and fighting but loosing the battle of the bulge. Over the past 10 years of dieting, exercising, and ongoing research, I found the answer: If you eat you must exercise, and if you exercise you must eat! Cutting out the highly processed carbohydrates, eating clean, and exercising was the only way that I was able to get back to good health. Medicine lowered my cholesterol but it didn’t make me healthy. I found out that fat and cholesterol are not the enemy; eating the right kind of fat is actually good for you, (Check out this great article on "The truth about cholesterol and fat"), and cholesterol levels naturally increase with age. So if you are reading this there is a good chance that you are a Baby Boomer around 50 ish years old and I'll bet that you are now either on cholesterol lowering meds or are watching your diet to lower cholesterol. If this is true, there is a book that you simply MUST read. It was written by my new friend Frank Cooper a Clinical Nutritionist and Medical Researcher. The new eBook is available through his web site http://www.frankcooper.com.au/22.html .I would just like to add one more idea for you to ponder. You do not have to look like one of those fitness models on TV to be healthy. Those models make a living by keeping a very low percentage of body fat, (almost impossible for normal human beings and not necessarily healthy). You can have strong muscles, strong bones, good flexibility, and still not see your abs. There is an old Indian saying (so I'm told) "It is better to aim at the Moon and hit a tree, than to aim at a tree and hit a rock". Aim high and if you only attain half of the hoped for results, you'll still be in great shape.
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