FROM THE DESK OF FRANK SANTANA

We here at 7Flags Health & Fitness firmly believe our mission is to educate, inform and stimulate our members to better health. We believe wholeheartedly that health starts at home and is a family affair! The fountain head of great health is what we eat. It’s that simple! The old adage you are what you eat is more salient today than ever before. We are unfortunately immersed in an environment of toxic food that is attractive, tasteful, reasonably priced, readily available and heavily advertised. And there are powerful commercial interests that want no change in the American diet and these commercial interests spend billions obfuscating and confusing consumers on what constitutes good healthy foods and their nutritional value through their vociferous advertising directed at man, women and children. The preponderance of scientific evidence clearly suggests that a whole grain/whole food diet is the best way to have and maintain your natural weight and attain superior health throughout your life! Seventy five percent and arguably some would suggest an even higher percentage of your health or lack thereof is determined by the foods we eat! Reading and understanding food labeling and the knowing the ingredients in our foods are paramount to a healthy weight and living a healthy lifestyle. Avoiding fast foods death meals, highly processed corrupted, enriched, hydrogenated, and high in sugar, corn syrup, starches and artificially sweeten foods of any kind will assure you of optimal health. If you need a chemistry book to decipher what’s in the food, LEAVE IT ON THE STORE COUNTER!

Get real and do not delude yourself, understand that the only way to have and maintain a healthy lifestyle, a natural healthy weight throughout the rest of your life will require a “life transformation” of acquiring the right knowledge, surrounding yourself with the right people and growing intellectually where you comprehend that you are totally in control of your health or lack thereof! This exciting “life transformation” is anything but radical, radical is having you put to sleep, having your chest cracked and sawed open, having someone stick their hands in your heart cavity, stop the heart, cut open your groin and take out some piece of your vein to bypass a plugged artery congested with fatty plaque and cholesterol because of your diet! Assuming all goes as planned; they stitch you up and administer the heaviest duty pain drugs there are for days. Next you spend months if not years rehabbing, then do it over again several years later! Now that’s what we call RADICAL!!!!

Here is a recipe for a natural and sustainable healthy weight through healthy eating and nutrition!