1. What is the most important factor in PREVENTING coronary heart
disease and achieving good vascular/circulatory health throughout your
lifetime?
1. How much you exercise
2. Your genetic make up
3. Following the dietary food guidelines of the USDA
4. Maintaining a total level of Cholesterol at or below 150 mg/dl through
proper food nutrition
2. What is the most important factor in PREVENTING obesity and diabetes
throughout your lifetime?
1. Aerobic and strength exercise three times a week
2. Your inherited family genetics
3. Following the dietary food guidelines of the USDA
4. The foods you consume
3. The U.S. has five percent of the world’s population, however
it has how much of the world’s percentage of coronary heart disease,
obesity, cancers and diabetes?
1. 10%
2. 25%
3. 50%
4. 35%
4. Every society that has adopted the “Western American Diet”
or as sometimes called the “Diet of Affluence” has seen
a corresponding:
1. Decrease in morbidity and mortality
2. Increase in energy, vitality and overall health
3. Increase in coronary heart disease, obesity, cancers and diabetes
4. Increase in protein consumption which has led to higher aptitude
test scores
5. There is a “Health Epidemic” in America because:
1. We are immersed in an environment of toxic food that is attractive,
tasteful, reasonably priced, and heavily advertised.
2. We are immersed in an environment of toxic food that is attractive,
tasteful, reasonably priced, and heavily advertised.
3. We live sedentary lives wasting our time watching hours of TV and
generally have become a population of spectators, contrary to our evolutionary
ancestral genetic inheritance designing our bodies to walk five to ten
miles per day.
4. We abdicate our parental responsibilities in teaching our children
proper healthy nutrition and the importance of physical activity.
5. 1.), 2.), 3.), and 4.).
6. The U.S. health care system costs approximately a TRILLION dollars
a year, that’s $6666.66 per every man, women and child in the
nation every year and this amount is growing and the health care system
spending is primarily designed to treat the symptoms and manifestations
of preventable diseases such as coronary heart disease, diabetes, cancers
and health issues related to obesity and two thirds of this spending
occurs in the last years of the lives of our oldest population because:
1.Our medical doctors receive less than three hours of training/education
in preventive
health care during their medical schooling and are compensated to treat
and not prevent
disease.
2. Almost ALL of the medical training of medical professionals is directed
toward mechanical
treatment and prescription of drugs to alleviate the symptoms of mostly
preventable
diseases.
3. There are powerful, well financed commercial interests that want
no change to the current medical system and lobby consistently to assure
there is no change in the status quo.
4. The institutionalized commercial self interests that finance research
studies designed to confirm the efficacy of their products and control
the flow of information intentionally
designed to obfuscate and confuse the “masses” and the dereliction
and complicity of
media interests.
5. 1.), 2.), 3.), 4.).
7.Most of our medical industry institutions for the past half century
or more have been spending billions of research dollars on finding a
cure or vaccine to particular diseases and/or in finding a “magic
bullet” through genetic manipulation to avoid the onset of a particular
disease completely ignoring prevention of the onset of disease or unwilling
to accept the preponderance of independent research proofing that the
“CURE” for coronary heart disease, cancers, diabetes and
obesity lies in preventive care through foods we consume and proper
physical activity.
1. True
2. False
8. In Duke University’s landmark study, affectionately called
SMILE (Standard Medical Intervention and Long Term Exercise) exercise was proven as effective
in treating depression as medication.
1. True
2. False
9. Aerobic and strength exercises cause the brain to release hormones such as dopamine, serotonin, norepinephrine. Exercise works immediately to fend off the state of anxiety, fear and stress experienced in abundance in our modern world.
1. True
2. False
10. Your genetic makeup is the largest determining factor of whether you will develop coronary heart disease, cancers, diabetes, auto immune diseases and whether you will be obese.
1. True
2. False
11. To keep joints pliable and delay the effects of aging people should:
1. Eat more processed foods
2. Take more supplements
3. Do more strength weight training
4. Aerobic exercise
12. What protein was found to consistently and strongly promote all stages of the cancer process in laboratory mice experiments?
1. Soy
2. Wheat
3. Casein
4. Whey
13. Which of the following statements are true?
1. Dietary change can enable diabetic patients to go off their medication.
2. Heart Disease can be prevented and reversed with diet alone.
3. Breast cancer is related to levels of hormones in the blood which are determined by what we eat.
4. Antioxidants, found in fruits and vegetables, are linked to better mental performance in old age. Antioxidants, found in fruits and vegetables, are linked to better mental performance in old age.
5. Kidney stones can be prevented by diet alone.
6. Antioxidants, found in fruits and vegetables, are linked to better mental performance in old age.
7. Type 1 diabetes, one of the most devastating diseases that can befall a child, is convincingly linked to infant feeding practices.
8. All of the above.
14. Purchasing and consuming daily vitamin and mineral supplements should be an important part of any health plan because:
1. You have been duped into believing that the “reductionism” theory that one ingredient can make a difference in your health.
2. Your health club highly recommends the use of supplements which they prescribe at inflated prices.
3. Even though there has never been ONE independent credible study confirming the merits of taking supplements, you have cash to spare on this nonsense.
4. You DO NOT need to take vitamin or mineral supplements if you eat a healthy diet with lots of whole grains, fruits and vegetables.
15. The elephant, horse and other large animals consume less than 5% protein in their daily diet; they all have very strong bones and are very muscular. How much daily protein is necessary for humans?
1. Minimum of 20%
2. Minimum of 15%
3. The more protein the better
4. Less than 5%
16. Obesity doubles the probability of developing dementia, diabetes gives you 65% higher risk of developing dementia and those with heart disease are at far greater risk of developing Alzheimer’s and those with high cholesterol have a 43% greater risk of developing dementia..
True
False
17. What is the most enduring crucial life habit we must teach our offspring?
1. How to sit on the couch or desk and eat large amounts of processed junk foods and piss (throw) away the entire day watching some mindless TV programming or playing on the computer.
To go to watch other people participate in sports and/or other physical activity while we stuff ourselves with pizza, hot dogs and ice cream!
3. Teach your children how to read good books for intellectual development, to properly understand proper nutrition and read food labels for the right ingredients inside, select foods at the grocery store, proper eating habits and as a means of health insurance against the ravages of chronic preventable disease such as coronary heart, diabetes, autoimmune diseases and cancers and to exercise and stay physically active to deal with stress, anxiety and fear caused by our “modern” living!
4. To follow the dietary and health recommendations of the USDA (United States Department of Agriculture), AMA (American Medical Association), American Cancer Association, American Heart Association and an assortment of other notable national institutional entities entrusted with guiding our society in optimizing our health.
18. What of the following is most radical?
1. Having you so heavily anesthetized with very powerful drugs for about 4 to 8 hours that you do not feel your chest sawed and cracked open and having someone stick their hands inside your chest cavity and stop your heart long enough to bypass a preventable and reversible clogged artery with another vein or artery from your groin and then squeeze your chest back together and stitch you up like the Thanksgiving Turkey. Then waking up several hours after the surgery with more tubes in your body than you can feel or see and with excruciating pain throughout the thoracic area. Did we tell you, you can die during this procedure?
2. Having someone stick an instrument through your groin area into an artery and expand a balloon and/or place a stent to temporarily open up a preventable and reversible clog in your artery. Did we tell you, you can die during this procedure?
3. Having any kind of medical mechanical procedure as a first line of defense against any preventable and reversible chronic disease.
4. Having your toes, foot or leg chopped off because you could not control or change your terrible learned eating habits and now you have developed a form of preventable diabetes.
5. Change your diet to what credible science proofs to be the “cure” for preventing coronary heart disease, diabetes, cancers and auto immune diseases and exercise regularly through a personal trainer.
6. 1.) 2.), 3.), 4.)
19. What percent of the population exercises regularly (four to five times per week) on their own?
1. 15%
2. 10%
3. 3%
4. 20%
20. How can you be assured of learning proper nutritional meal habits and of maintaining a regular exercise program?
1. Join a health facility and workout with my best friend.
2. Follow the recommendations of the USDA for foods and exercise.
3. Read the latest books on scientific research based nutrition found on www.7Flags.com , invest into a 7Flags health facility membership for you and your family, hire a 7Flags personal trainer for a year to keep you on a prescribed schedule, teach you and your family proper nutritional habits and proper exercise techniques.
4. Buy exercise equipment for my home and follow the USDA guidelines for eating.
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