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Dr. David Minkoff Gives 7 Tips to Improve Health for 2009

18 Jul

Clearwater, FL – Dr. David Minkoff (http://www.drminkoff.com), a complementary and alternative medicine healthcare practitioner, offers 7 no-cost tips for those wanting to add improved health to their list of 2009 New Years resolutions. These steps can be done on any budget.

“There are 7 no-cost resolutions one could adopt for 2009 that could help improve one’s health in the New Year. If someone did just a couple of things differently, his or her future health could be better, in fact, much better,” says Dr. David Minkoff. “And these steps can be done on any budget.

The 7 no-cost tips are:

  1. Eat only real food. Real food doesn’t come in a box, doesn’t have ingredients that you don’t recognize, and actually the only ingredient is the food itself. Broccoli is broccoli, beef is beef, an apple is an apple. Captain Crunch isn’t food and neither is a McDonald’s hamburger. Chemicals, additives, preservatives, etc. aren’t food.
  2. Exercise an hour a day; walking counts. Do it for 45 minutes, then spend 15 minutes doing body weight exercises or work with stretch cords. Do squats, push ups, pull ups, sit ups. Get strong.
  3. Get 30 minutes per day of sunshine.
  4. Make sure you poop twice a day.
  5. Get 7-9 hours of sleep every night and a short nap each afternoon.
  6. Drink plenty of pure water, half an ounce for every pound of body weight.
  7. Stay away from people who put you down, are critical of you, or who take joy in your failures.

For those wanting to take their health a step further, Dr. Minkoff suggests a check-up by a health care practitioner to test one’s vitamin D level, bone strength, inflammation in the arteries, and test for any silent diseases brewing that one may not be aware of. LifeWorks Wellness Center (www.lifeworkswellnesscenter.com) in Clearwater, Florida, has all of these tests available.

As well, taking high quality nutritional supplements to fill in missing dietary needs and supporting detoxification of toxins is always a good idea. One good source is BodyHealth.com (www.BodyHealth.com).

“These points are some basics for body health. They are not complicated. Omitting any of them could reduce one’s health. Adding them could improve health and put one’s body on the road to more trouble free service,” concludes Dr. Minkoff.

For more information visit Dr. Minkoff at http://www.drminkoff.com and sign up for his free newsletter.

Dr. David Minkoff graduated from the University of Wisconsin Medical School and worked as an attending physician in infectious disease while conducting original research on Ribaviron, a broad spectrum anti-viral agent to fight disease. He co-directed a neo-natal intensive care unit and worked in emergency medicine until 1995, when his wife became sick with an illness no physician could diagnose. Not accepting an uncertain prognosis, Dr. Minkoff went on a search to help her that led him out of emergency medicine into alternative medicine to find the answers.

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About Dr. David Minkoff, Medical Director

Dr. David Minkoff graduated from the University of Wisconsin Medical School in 1974 and was elected to the “Phi Beta Kappa” of medical schools, the prestigious Alpha Omega Alpha Honors Medical Fraternity for very high academic achievement. He then completed both a Pediatric Residency and a Fellowship in Infectious Disease at the University of California at San Diego. He worked at the University of California and Children’s Hospitals in San Diego as an attending physician in infectious disease while conducting original research on Ribaviron, a broad spectrum anti-viral agent to fight disease. He also co-directed a neo-natal intensive care unit and worked in emergency medicine. In 1992, Dr. Minkoff’s wife Sue, a Registered Nurse, became interested in nutrition and health and began to go to lectures from some of the experts in the field. At the time, Dr. Minkoff was pretty fixed in his view of traditional medicine and it took a lot of convincing to get him to come to one of these lectures. After hearing Dr. Jeffrey Bland speak, Dr. Minkoff had a eureka moment and began pursuing the alternative field with a vengeance. Based on this new knowledge Dr. Minkoff and his wife set up a small clinic in 1997 to help some friends with their medical problems. What began as an experiment blossomed into Lifeworks Wellness Center, one of the most successful clinics for complementary medicine in the United States. In the process, he gained expertise in Biological medicine, integrative oncology, heavy metal detoxification, anti-aging medicine, hormone replacement therapy, functional medicine, energy medicine, neural and prolotherapy, homeopathy, and optimum nutrition. He studied under the masters in each of these disciplines until he became an expert in his own right. Dr. Minkoff is one of the most in-demand speakers in the field and wrote an Amazon best-selling book called The Search For The Perfect Protein. The demand for the products and protocols he discovered became a catalyst for founding BodyHealth.Com, a nutrition company that now manufactures and distributes cutting-edge nutritional solutions for the many health problems of today. Dr. Minkoff writes two free online newsletters, “The Optimum Health Report” and ”The BodyHealth Fitness Newsletter”, to help others learn about optimum health and fitness. Dr. Minkoff is an avid athlete himself and has completed 43 Ironman Triathlons. To keep his fitness maximal, he lives the lifestyle he teaches to others and tries to set an example for others, so they can enjoy a life free of pain and full of energy.

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