This is one of my longest articles I have ever written. But, there is a reason for that. I strongly believe, that lifting heavy weights regularly and intensively is one of the, if not the best single thing you can do to improve your health, to become invincible and to stay healthy. And a lot of people either don’t believe it or don’t know about it. Yes, lifting heavy things. And if you are already not doing it, let me suggest that to at least worry you.

Lifting heavy things has more benefits for your health than anything else in the world.

Many people consider getting their daily 30 minutes of exercise as a plain cardiovascular activity. They say: I just need to get that heart pumping for 30 minutes everyday and I will stay healthy. Wrong! Very wrong! Just look at yourself. Do you manage to do 30 minutes of cardiovascular exercise everyday? If you actually are that rear individual who manages to do this, are you happy with how you look and feel? Is there still a room for improvement? I will answer that question for you. It certainly is.

While it is clearly beneficial for your health to do 30 minutes of cardiovascular exercise everyday, you could get even more health benefits from mixing it with some weight bearing exercises. Lifting heavy weights regularly is extremely beneficial for us human beings. And I can tell with a certainty, that it is much more beneficial for your health than cardiovascular exercise. While cardiovascular exercise still has it’s own important place in overall health and fitness, intensive weight lifting is more natural and beneficial for us.

Lifting heavy things or weight training is the the best thing you can do to improve your health. And that’s why I am starting from healthy to invincible program with lifting heavy things on a first place. If you want to bring your overall health and fitness to the next level and you already don’t do weight training, than you have a huge reserve here. Adding intensive weight training to your overall lifestyle religiously consistent will bring you much closer to becoming invincible.

That really makes me to realize, that my profession is actually one of the most beneficial in the world for other people. Not that I want to downgrade other professions, they all are important, but showing somebody how to lift weights properly and intensively and leading them through the incredibly beneficial for their health weight training session, however boring it seems to be for them is the best thing that they can be actually doing.

I consider myself being more important in people’s life’s than their doctors While I and another good trainers help people prevent all kinds of diseases, their doctor will use some kind of temporary band aid for their condition. So if you are not already seriously sick and you are looking for a good doctor, stop now! Find a good trainer instead, that will show you how to lift heavy weights properly. And you might not need the doctor at all.

Lifting heavy things is primal for us human beings. Long time ago, when there were not heavy duty machines to help us build our homes and help us with any other heavy activity, people used to do this stuff manually. It was heavy, hard and often times dangerous, but that made humans extremely durable, self-sufficient and independent until very old age.

Women and weight training

Both men and women benefit the same from lifting heavy weights regularly. Although it seems more natural for men to lift heavy things, woman’s body benefits the same but without becoming bulky. Women are afraid of becoming big and bulky from weight training, like men do. But, there is no reason to be afraid to become big bulky woman when you weight train. Woman’s body doesn’t produce as much testosterone as men’s body does. And hormone testosterone is responsible for substantial muscle growth from weight training.

In my experience as a trainer, I actually see women lifting much heavier weight than men do. Isn’t that crazy? Men are much weaker than women who lift weights, while fit strong women who lift very heavy weights are very small. If you are a guy who thinks that you don’t need to weight train, because you are already strong, I would challenge you to join us for lifting session with one of my tiny, strong lady’s I train. She will clearly kick your but anytime. Yes guys! Women who lift heavy weights are stronger than you guys not lifting weights. And if I were you, it would make me at least a little uncomfortable.

Lifting weights creates lean, healthy and very durable body

Lifting heavy things promotes great health. It helps build muscles, strengthen bones, it burns more calories to stay lean. Way, way more calories than cardiovascular exercise does. And many people don’t seem to be believing this. They keep working the treadmill everyday without seeing any weight loss happening. Doing cardiovascular exercise to loose fat is old school advice.

Thanks to intensive and religiously consistent weight training I manage to stay very lean. You can clearly see my abdominal muscles visible, which makes my fat percentage between 7 to 10%. I haven’t missed my weight training workout for 7 years now, with occasional weekly surfing trips when I just surf and don’t do any other exercise. You can get very tired surfing all day long.

Lifting heavy weights helps to process sugar, glucose from the blood and with that it prevents diabetes. It promotes better sleep and rest efficiency. It keeps hormonal balance in our bodies. It promotes natural creation of testosterone and growth hormones in our bodies, that are also considered as drugs of youth. But don’t try to buy them in the store, it will most likely not help you at all, if everything else is out of whack in your life. Create it naturally by lifting heavy weights regularly. And all this leads to an lean, healthy, very durable human body.

But I hate weight training.

I know some people that hate weight training. They usually say: Milan, but I don’t see myself ever doing it. My answer is always the same. Do you like brushing your teeth? I don’t think so. I hate it too. But I still do it. If you don’t want your teeth to rot and fall off, you will keep brushing them regularly. Same way, if you want to stay healthy, fit and get closer to becoming invincible, and I don’t care how much you hate it, you will get your weight training done regularly and intensively. If you don’t, than, like I said before, you are playing a Russian roulette with miss death and not doing everything you can to improve your health and fitness.

So, if you hate weight training, get over it. It’s perfectly ok to hate it. As long as you still do it. And that’s what actually makes really successful people successful and really healthy. They learned to love to do things they hate. And so can you!

If you want to be very healthy, you need to lift weights regularly.

Adding lifting weights to your weekly routine is not hard. It takes about 45 minutes on 2 nonconsecutive days per week. All you need is few heavy dumbbells, chin up bar and maybe some exercise bands. If you have a health club membership, that’s even better, since they always have exercise weight machines there and everything else you need. And they are much safer for beginners and older people than dumbbells. But having a health club membership is not necessary to get enough beneficial weight training done. I consider two best strength training exercises in the world to be push ups and pull ups, and you can do this anywhere in the nature.

Lifting heavy weights doesn’t have to be a perfectly scheduled either. If you don’t have time to do weight training because you are busy, there is a way to go around it. Just keep your dumbbells, exercise bands and pull up bar near you, whatever you are doing. And than, either you are at home cooking or you are at work writing e-mails, have short weight lifting brakes.

It will look something like this: you do few stretches to warm up, than you check your e-mail and answer few. Than you stand up and do a set of shoulder presses. First set will be 20 repetitions with lighter weight. Than you sit down back to your work station and answer another 3 e-mails and stand up again and do 15 repetitions with little bit heavier weight. Repeat it one more time, doing 11 repetitions with the heaviest load.

Once you finished 3 repetitions of shoulder presses, you move to another exercise, like for example squats with dumbbells and so on until you finish your entire weight workout while working. It saves you lots of time and it has the same effect as just focusing on weights.

I do this kind of workout quite often. Like for example on Thursday, I got up at 5:30 AM and while I was getting workout plans ready for my training day I did 3 sets of chin ups and 3 sets of dumbbell presses on ball.

The interesting thing is, that instead of my work suffering from constant interruptions, I can focus on my work much better with these heavy weight lifting breaks. I actually become very highly productive using this kind of workout/work system. I think, the reason is that my brain gets more oxygenated and endorphins floating in my blood make me feel good. You too should give it a try. And I am sure it will work similarly for you too.

The days I do my heavy weight training are Sunday’s and Wednesday’s. I usually do 3 sets for every major muscle group – legs, back, chest, arms and shoulders. I do some abs at the end, and my workout is over.

If you are a beginner, it’s probably a very good idea to read few books about weight training before you start or hire a good personal trainer for few sessions to show you the basics. And don’t just say, that you are going to do it. Do it!

I have developed some work out programs:

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But don’t let that to limit you. Develop, or let somebody develop the right program, that fits the best to you.

How heavy should the weight be?

If you are just starting, the weight you are lifting should be light. And over time it needs to be increased to the maximum you can lift in 7-20 repetitions. More repetitions you do to tire that muscle group, safer the exercise will be. But, when you become very consistent and you don’t have any injuries, don’t be afraid to increase the weight and do less repetitions with it. Simply, make it very heavy.

Don’t start lifting very heavy weights right away. It could be dangerous. As I am known of saying: you have to deserve to lift heavy weights. And how do you deserve it? By being consistent. By showing up on your scheduled weight training workouts no matter what. Otherwise, lifting heavy weights could become dangerous to your health instead of it being beneficial for it.

Weight lifting has to become a part of your life

If you want to bring your overall health to the next level, find a way to incorporate weight training to your lifestyle. Again, if you don’t, than your health will stay just average. You will be healthy for the most part if you do everything else right. But, you will not ever become invincible. And as I said before, being average swimmer or chess player is certainly ok, but having an average health is not. You don’t want average health. Average health means living in fear everyday, that something in your body will stop working right.

There is a reason why lifting heavy weights is the first step in becoming invincible. It simply is the most important and primal thing for us human beings. It helps process the energy in our body faster, it builds vital muscle mass, it keeps hormonal balance in order.

When you are lifting heavy things, you are sending a signal to your brain, that you have to keep functioning on high level, that you have to keep going, that survival of your tribe depends on all your hard work. And that makes your body functioning at it’s best and closer to becoming invincible.

Of course , nobody really depends on your weight lifting in the gym, but that’s only just another way how to trick the nature. And it doesn’t care if you are doing pull downs on the machine in the gym or lifting dumbbells in the front of the mirror. The brain and body thinks, that you are building a shelter for your tribe members to survive, so you too have to survive. And you can’t let them down. Getting sick is not an option. And you are becoming invincible.

We all know somebody who did everything right taking care of his health. He ate a good diet, exercised regularly and stayed away from toxic materials. His weight is perfect, he looks good, he seems to have a lot of energy, he is happy and feels really good. But he was recently diagnosed with cancer, or heart disease, or Alzheimer’s disease or Parkinson’s disease, or pre diabetes, or diabetes or other kind of scary life threatening disease.

I myself have few very young friends that are looking very healthy, they seem to be doing everything right but they are dying of terminal disease. What is going on? Why these people? While some genetics certainly play some role, I thing the common sense general health recommendation is flawed. Yes, your doctor will tell you to eat healthy diet, exercise for 30 minutes on most days, stay away from the sun, don’t smoke and don’t drink too much alcohol. And your doctor is right for the most part. All this advice is good. And you will probably stay healthy for life following it.

Average health advice is still dangerous to your health

The problem with this advice is, that it is average. And average is just average. The averagely healthy people will be still getting very sick. Yes, they will. And you already know some of them. And it scares us wildly.

I am not exception, I still consider my lifestyle pretty health average like lifestyles of other averagely healthy people. I do average stuff, other average healthy people do. I ate pancakes the other day. I made them myself and used much healthier ingredients, like more eggs and less flour. And I didn’t put any over sweetened crap like strawberry jam on it, but just a little bit of honey. But, this is exactly what average healthy people do. And most probably, they will stay healthy for life if they are lucky enough, including me. So, if my doctor tells me, to get my stuff in order because I am going to die in 3 years, I will know why. Those dam pancakes!

But, beside those pancakes I had 2 days ago, I am getting very close to that invincible like lifestyle. And I strongly believe, that closer you get to that kind of becoming invincible lifestyle, your chances of becoming seriously ill decrease even more.

I don’t think that average in your health is a good state to be. It’s ok to be an average skier or swimmer or to have average IQ, or be an average chess player. But in your own health, average is very, very bad place to be. Your health is the single most valuable think you have and doing everything you can to improve it is everybody’s duty number one. If it’s not, well than you are playing a Russian roulette with miss Death, where the odds are slightly on your side.

Take your doctors advice seriously, but don’t stop there

I believe, that if you take advice from your doctor seriously and then dig even deeper and bring your health protecting lifestyle to the perfection and I am going to show you how, you will become invincible.

What does it mean invincible?

It means, that you will never get cancer, heart disease, diabetes, Alzheimer’s disease, age causing dementia and you will live long and healthy life. So unless you drive your car as fast as my wife does, and climbing Mount Everest is not on your to do list, you will be certainly healthy. And I am writing this with the risk, that people who already are sick will hate me for claiming that they didn’t do something right in their health preservation. And it is true. They didn’t. And I don’t do everything right either. But that’s not the reason to get mad. We are all in fact human beings that make mistakes. Including me and you.

While I believe strongly that this is highly achievable, at the same time I am skeptical that many people will fallow this advice 100% right. I am not exception. While I don’t smoke anymore, I still fall of track occasionally. It is very challenging to do it 100 % right. But if you know how this becoming invincible lifestyle should look like, you will at least be getting closer and closer to your 100% and slowly becoming more and more invincible. Information is power, even if it feels uncomfortable.

Yes, yogurt can be bad for your health

Just couple of examples. Do you buy yogurt your doctor recommended to you as a healthy food? Your doctor will probably tell you, that fat free yogurt is healthy. And you go to the store, get your vanilla flavored yoplait yogurt that is 100% fat free but has 25 grams of sugar in it. Yes in some way it is healthy, it contains protein and calcium, but that sugar makes it average healthy food. And already right there, you put strain to your immunity system by pouring 25 grams of plain refined sugar into your body. Part of becoming invincible means not eating generally considered heathy foods that are average for your health.

Another example is about sun exposure. Average doctor advice is, that you really need to protect your skin with a lot of sunscreen with highly protective factor SPF like 50 or 100 and to spend some little time on the sun everyday. This information is also average and can be damaging. It is not completely wrong, yes you need to protect yourself from sun exposure, but you also need som unprotected smart sun exposure. Plus, your doctor will not tell you that that sunscreen with high protective SPF factor can be very toxic for your skin. And it’s more likely to cause skin cancer than sun does.

How about general advice about 30 minutes of vigorous exercise everyday to stay healthy that includes gardening, house cleaning and fast walking. Is that rally enough? Not, it is not. Not even close. Does that really mean, that as long as you are moving for 30 minutes everyday, you can sit and relax for the rest of the day? If that is what that means, and you do it that way, than you are in big trouble. You are not moving enough. And, you are not moving the right way either.

Healthy vs invincible

The question is: do you want your health to be average or exceptional? Do you want to be healthy or invincible? What would you do, if you knew, that you can become so healthy that you become invincible to any disease. And you can. There is a way to improve your average health to make it exceptional, so you become invincible. It takes a lot of work and som extra knowledge, but what else is more important to you? I will answer that question for you right now: absolutely nothing. Unless………..don’t even get me started.

Although it is very challenging to do everything right on the road to becoming invincible, and only a very small percentage of people will actually apply what they will learn here. And I am getting very close to that level.

The other day, when I went shopping and was passing the register I realized that I managed to turn my lifestyle completely around. While I still listen a metal music very loud in my car and it is certainly bad for my ears, and occasionally get some second hand smoke exposure from some of my bodies smoking not really what you would consider to be a cigarette after surfing, my diet completely changed.

My grocery cart consistent of 4 pounds of apples, 3 pounds of pears, bag of turnip leafs, kale and mustard greens, 5 jars of peanut butter, cottage cheese, raw almonds, walnuts, eggs, tofu, 5 cans of sardines, some canned herring, basked of blackberries and raspberries. No candy bar, no beer, no chips, no sandwich, no chocolate. It really amazes me, how my diet radically changed.

13 steps program for becoming invincible

I developed the 13 steps program you can apply to your daily life, that will make you jump from healthy to invincible. This is highly challenging way to live and quite frankly, only small percentage of people will get even close to following it 100% right. Are you one of them? Are you ready for the biggest challenge in your life? Will you be able to follow it, teach it to you closest ones and become invincible. If yes, get ready for the challenge that will change your life forever. It really is wort it. Your health is at stake. Become invincible!

What really causes heart attacks? Majority of very smart people will tell you immediately and they are partially right, that heart attacks are caused by eating too much of saturated fat, not exercising enough, eating cholesterol rich foods like eggs, eating trans fats, drinking too much coke and eating too many cookies.

Inflammation and heart disease

Yes, not exercising enough, eating bad diet and drinking soda are very bad for your heart and they will eventually cause the hart to fail working properly. But the main reason, why heart attacks happen is inflammation. Inflammation in our bodies creates great conditions for heart disease.

There is always certain level of inflammation in our bodies and it is ok. When your knee hurts, when your tooth hurts, when you cut yourself, fighting a flu or when you brake a bone. However our body is able to deal with this kind of inflammation just fine. The main problem is the extra inflammation we are causing to ourselves.

If this extra inflammation is the main reason why heart attacks eventually happen, and it really is, than we have to find out what creates this extra inflammation and avoid it.

4 main causes of inflammation in our body:

Poor diet – mostly sugar, refined flour, processed foods and trans fatty rich foods.
Lack of exercise
Too much stress
Toxins in environment such as mercury and pesticides

Low energy and inflammation

Do you feel tired and out of energy often? While part of it might be your overall motivation and enthusiasm, part of it is certainly inflammation in your body. Inflammation that is caused mainly by your diet and overall activity level.

I am by nature very motivated and enthusiastic person. I don’t even know what the bad mood means. I seem to be always in a good mood. Unless you pull the plug and drain the ocean, you can always, and I really mean that see me smiling and enjoying every moment of my days. But the last Saturday I didn’t get to have my fun surfing workout and I ate some crappy Indian food. And you certainly didn’t want to be around me at all this day. I was in a bad mood, with the foggy mind, tired and I was barking on everybody like a mean dog. It really made me realize, how important these two things are – physical exercise and perfect diet. They can really ruin your day, if you don’t take them seriously.

6 ways to fight extra inflammation:

1. Eat whole foods – high fiber mainly plant based diet, rich in fruits and green leafy vegetables with optimal protein consumption coming mainly from small fish like sardines, wild salmon, mackerel, anchovies, eggs, chicken, turkey, tofu and some whole dairy products like probiotic buttered unsweetened milk, white yogurt and cottage cheese.

2. Eat healthy fat – monounsaturated fats like olive oil, all kinds of nuts, avocados, omega 3 fats that mainly small fish contain. You don’t have to be afraid of saturated fat, just don’t go overboard, eating too much of it. Those naturally occurring in dairy products, and animal products if not over consumed are not inflammatory to your body. Avoid trans fats.

3. Regular exercise – mounting evidence shows that regular exercise has huge anti inflammatory effect on our body. Regular exercise strengthens your cardiovascular system, improves immunity system and reduces stress among many other benefits. That makes it a strong inflammation fighter.

4. Relax – don’t pick up many more responsibilities in your already demanding job. If it’s required, than just quit! If you can’t afford to quit, than rearrange your life, so leaving you stressful demanding job, you already hate is an option. And actively relax by hanging out a lot in nature and taking frequent breathing breaks.

5. Eat some natural probiotics for your gut – eat some probiotic rich unsweetened dairy like kefir, buttered milk, cottage cheese, yogurt. Non pasteurized Sauerkraut and some pickles are rich in probiotics too.

6. Stay away from chemicals – toxins are all around us. Try to avoid them. One of the best way to avoid toxins is not to buy new stuff like cars, houses, furniture, toys, toxic carpets and flooring or just buy everything made with natural ingredients. The new stuff out gasses toxic gasses for few years. When you get 3 year old used car, all the outgassing already happened and you don’t have to breath those toxic chemicals.

What really causes heart attack?

No, eggs don’t cause heart attacks. I eat about 20 of them per week and so should you. Egg is the power food. Not even trans fats cause heart attacks. The inflammation that happens in your arteries mainly because of processed poor diet and lack of exercise does cause heart attacks.

Excessive insulin production and sugar spikes from eating sweetened and white flour loaded foods create the highest, most dangerous inflammation in our bodies. This inflammation damages arteries where fertile condition for plugging happen. And heart attack becomes unavoidable.

When you exercise regularly and intensively you are helping your own pancreas manage these sugar spikes by improving insulin sensitivity. And that is a huge anti-inflammatory factor. Add perfect diet to it and you will become the person that is not supporting statins selling pharmaceutical companies with healthy cardiovascular system.

Toxins in your environment and stress will not have very much effect to your body inflammation if you do those two things right – exercise regularly and eat healthy unprocessed diet free of sugar and rich in vegetables and fruits. They both make your body to calm down and rest more effectively so you are not overstressed. Plus they create an environment for your body to successfully deal with these toxins. My heavily smoking grand father was the perfect example of this. But if you don’t do those two highly anti-inflammatory things right, toxins in your environment and too much stress will magnify the inflammation in your body.

So basically, if you are overweight sedentary person with poor diet, your body is on fire all the time. Inflammation is there to stay unless you change your lifestyle radically. What is causing heart attack is not really that interesting to you. Why? Because deep down you already know what is causing it. But you are not willing to give up the good stuff – the couch, chips and coke and cookies. Anyway, you will be facing some near death situation probably not that long from now. If you get out of it alive, than you might change. Good luck!

You can be the richest person in the world, who made the smartest money investment decisions, but all that riches will be worthless to you if your doctor tells you that you have 6 months left to live, because of the terminal disease.

We chase wealth, money, materialistic stuff, big houses, luxury cars, exotic vacations. And we are willing to work very hard to get these stuff. And if we don’t get them, we become unhappy and depressed.

We often think, that our health is given to us. We thing that being healthy comes naturally and automatically in our life’s. So we often choose to ignore it. Until we loose it. And than, and only than, we realize, that everything else becomes worthless to us if we can’t get our health back.

The smiling fit trash picker, that constantly moves to haul garbage bins from up and down the streets in the morning in your neighborhood is investing smarter than rich overweight executive watching stock charts, sitting on his but all day and making profitable transactions.

Often times he doesn’t know it, but he is investing in his health. He comes home exhausted from all that physical work, he sleeps well and probably  eats well too, because he knows he will have to work very hard the next day again.

His blood pressure is fine and he is most likely going to live long and healthy life. Even if his bank account is not growing at all, he is investing way smarter and better than the sophisticated investment overweight, overstressed, over sugared investment genius.

Think about your health as the best investment in the world, and it really is the best investment. It will make you put things in a little better perspective. We spent too much time obsessing about things that in larger perspective don’t matter much and too little about things that matter a lot – our health.

Why should you be interested in foods richest in vitamin D? Foods richest in vitamin D are natural source of vitamin D. And vitamin D is quite a big immunity booster. While there are a lot of vitamin D supplements, I prefer natural form and so should you.

Foods richest in vitamin D are especially important to eat in winter time when there is not that much sun outside. Sun exposure is the most natural form of vitamin D creation in our bodies. But some foods are equally effective in increasing  vitamin D levels in our blood in winter time.

Many times, you just need to close your eyes and nose and shuffle them through your neck down to the stomach. That’s how distasteful they can be for some people. But you can get used to eating them after a while and they can become very delicious.

I can’t live now without my crunchy, full of bones wild sockeye salmon can and can of sardines several times per week. And I used to hate foods like that. I really learned to enjoy them and so should you. I even took once opened can of salmon to the movies and really enjoyed it. Everybody else around was eating their popcorn and sipping their cokes.

I also consider my high immunity system of being the consequence of my highly naturally occurring vitamin D foods consumption. I don’t know to what extend vitamin D supplements are effective, but I am convinced, that real foods are much more.

By any means add supplemental vitamin D to your diet if eating cans of sardines and bony salmon seems like impossible task to accomplish. But I encourage you to go and learn to consume the real stuff as much as you can. Getting your vitamin D this way is certainly more beneficial.

Foods richest in vitamin D

Fish oil, cod liver
Herring Atlantic in olive oil
Catfish wild
Salmon, sockeye, canned, drained solids with bone
Salmon, pink, canned, drained solids with bone
Steelhead trout, boiled and canned
Halibut from Greenland
Pickled herring
Firm tofu
Sardine pacific, canned in tomato juice or waited, drained with bone
Mackerel Atlantic.

I never get sick. I basically eat sardines, herring, mackerel or salmon from the can almost every day. I basically smell like a fish which used to bother my dates, but than they got over it.  

I also hang out on the sun a lot, which means everyday a lot. I am lucky, that I live in California, work mainly outdoors and all my hobbies are sports outside like playing tennis, soccer, surfing, bicycling. Yes, sun exposure is another great source of vitamin D.

Foods richest in vitamin D are just a band aid for bleeding artery.

Foods richest in vitamin D will help you reach optimal amount of vitamin D in your body and it will make you generally healthier. But don’t expect wonders if your lifestyle is nowhere close to ideal. Ideal means, working physically enough in your day, everyday, you can also call it exercise, and eating unprocessed diet free of chemicals.

If you don’t live like this, extra vitamin D will not save you. Especially the one in a pill form. That canned herring will at least give you a healthy dose of protein, you won’t find in the pill. And if your protein is coming mainly from pizza, energy bars and buffalo wings while enjoying your 4th beer, than that vitamin D pill will not have much effect on your overall health at all.

Foods richest in vitamin D will improve your health to the certain level. Yes, they are important to your overall health, but they are only a little part of it. The goal to introducing these foods to your diet is to perfect your health even further from already good health. The good health you deserved by perfecting your overall diet and putting physical effort – exercise in your everyday life. So the goal is to not hide behind these foods as all health problem solvers, but as a doing every little maximum you can to improve your health even further. That’ all I wanted to say today. It’s stinky sardine time now!

We all want to be attractive and we always want to know how to become more attractive. We would pay anything to become more attractive than we are now. I am not different. If you possess some product or service that will make people turn around on the street to just look at me, because I look amazing, I want it. Just don’t offer me special all natural wigs. They don’t work. I already tried it.

We all can be very attractive. It takes a lot of work, but it is possible to become very attractive person. It doesn’t matter how ugly you are when you are just starting.

Many people give up on their attractiveness pursuit half way through on their roads. And they become very happy with just what they are. And that’s very unattractive.

Depak Chopra said that, the secret of attraction is to love yourself. Attractive people judge neither themselves nor others. They are open to gestures of love. They think about love, and express their love in every action.

While I absolutely agree with Depaks statement of attraction, I think he forgot to ad a physical part of ourselves – general fitness, health and energy. I am certain he mentions it somewhere later in his publication.

I agree, that being attractive doesn’t start with physical appearance. And mental qualities like kindness, intelligence and inner love are more important. And inspire of what I just wrote, they are not. And I will explain that later.

The kind, generous, intelligent, overweight, loving couch potato is not attractive.

Physical side of us is very important to add to our overall attractiveness. If your body is ill, overweight, inactive and sick, I don’t care how kind and generous you are, how much you love yourself and others, you are not attractive. Let’s not kid ourselves here. Attractive people, the ones we are getting our neck twisted when we see them on the street, look physically fit and healthy. And there is certain high energy aura around them.

Now, a lot of people will hate me for what I am about to write next. If you are generally nice person, you are kind, intelligent, loving, always helping others and you are incredibly generous and your body suffers from lack of exercise, bad diet and sedentary lifestyle, you are not only very unattractive, but also very selfish too. Yes, you are unattractive, lazy, selfish person.

Why? Simply because, if you were fitter, healthier and took better care of your body, you would be even nicer, kinder, more loving  intelligent person, that could help even more people. Why are you holding on those qualities back? I have only one answer to that. You are selfish and lazy and stuck in your - I am already a very nice person world.

We can play nice crafty games with ourselves. Like: I am nice, intelligent, kind and smart person, I love myself and I think I am doing everything right to be attractive. OK, I usually eat garbage food and enjoy couch time with legs up quite often. But, I have very likable and attractive inner qualities. How dare somebody to criticize me?

In my case, I could improve my own attractiveness by being more in service to other people. Instead of helping a friend in need the other weekend I choosed to go surfing instead and have fun. That wouldn’t be as bad if I did it occasionally, but I do it all the time. I don’t care that close friend needs my help when it’s fun surfing time and I rather choose to hang out on the beach instead. Of course, that makes me unattractive and selfish and many times downright ugly.

And I will hopefully some day try to improve that. But I don’t see it coming soon. Passing a nice day on the beach is simply too much to give up for me right now, even if that would make me more attractive overall. I am willing to pay that price. Feel free to call me if you need anything on Saturday morning. I will most likely delete your message before even hearing it. You might get my voicemail saying: Hi, you’ve reached Milan. Don’t bother me, surf’s up!

And of course, that’s very unattractive. Yes, I struggle with it and it bothers me, but I learned to live with that, the same way sick couch potato learned to live with being overweight, tired and unhealthy.

The point is, you can always become more attractive. The question is: Do you really want to? And for many people it is not worth the effort. Please, don’t become one of them. This world is already very full of unattractive people. I am going to try, to skip my surfing next time somebody needs my help, to become a right example of being the person who strives to become more attractive. Anybody want’s to join me surfing? I can be very helpful teaching you to catch your first wave   

The true attractive people. Hint: You can be one.

I know very physically fit beautiful, attractive people, that are also very generous, intelligent, smart, kind, loving, self confident and pushing themselves even further to achieve even better physical strength, endurance and overall energy that comes with it. These people are attractive. Yes, they posses those inner qualities that attractive people need to possess, but on the top of it is their incredible physical fitness, health and energy. So, if you are a nice person and people love you for your inner qualities, maybe it’s time to look at your physical side too.

Becoming more attractive.

Physical qualities matter. And they matter a lot. If they didn’t, than desperate housewives wouldn’t cheat on their husbands with their personal trainers and pool cleaning boys.

Did you hear husbands and boyfriend what I just said. It doesn’t matter how kind you are and how intelligent you are or caring. If you are not physically fit, you are not attractive. And your wife will probably dump you sooner or later. Watch out!

Of course, even if you are physically fit and you are a jerk, you are not attractive either. You are simply a fit dumb, selfish unattractive body of muscles that just stays in everybody’s way. And people will find that out sooner or later.

The most attractive people have the whole package. They look fit, they are healthy, they are self confident, intelligent and genuinely nice and kind and yes, they love themselves and they have every reason to do so.

Attractive doesn’t mean good looking. Not at all. There are so many good looking unattractive people in this world. Attractive means, that you are trying hard to be attractive, that it really matters to you. And you didn’t give up on becoming even more attractive.

It doesn’t matter how old you are. People often assume, that when they get older, they stop being attractive. This is of course not true at all. I remember asking 63 years old very attractive aerobic instructor out when I was 23 on college, because she was more attractive than the entire long legged cheerleader group in our athletic school full of barbie-like looking blonds, that were all dumb like a telephone post. She would eventually turn me down, because she had this 37 year old boyfriend than was way more attractive than I was. Later on I found out, that more guys from my class tried to ask her out, but they were also not successful.

Attractive people attract attractive people. Ugly, unattractive person doesn’t even notices attractive person. Often, he doesn’t even know, what’s attractive. That’s why you often see very unattractive couple sitting in Burger King enjoying their dinner together. They are happy together. They don’t put pressure on each other to become more attractive. They already gave up. And that’s very sad.

So, to be become more attractive, work more on being even nicer, even more loving, and yes, love yourself more, be even more generous, more self confident. But don’t forget that physical part either. You are not attractive, unless you are healthy, fit, with lots of energy to spare and I don’t care how much you love yourself and others. Get to work. Get more attractive.

I would rather die by being completely eaten by Great White Shark surfing Asilomar beach in Monterrey, than dying on some serious health issue like heart attack, that is closely related to pre diabetes or type 2 diabetes.

Why?

Because in first case, there is simply nothing I could do to prevent hungry shark to attack me. I am surfer and I love the sport. And in spite of many people freaking out about sharks and how I should pick other sport to do, I will keep surfing. Even if that means that I will become a part of a food chain some day.

But, dying of a consequence of pre diabetes and type 2 diabetes frightens me. There is simply a lot you can do to prevent the disease and cure it too. If I die of a consequence of an heart attack, because I was overweight, inactive and ate poor diet, you can go ahead and write on my thumb stone: Milan Stolicny – 1977 – 20?? LOOSER!!! I will make sure, I will mention it in my will too.

There is a lot we can do to prevent pre diabetes and cure type 2 diabetes. The sad thing is that pre diabetes and type 2 diabetes are on the rise. I don’t want to suggest to people to update their own will, because there are a lot of people out there that simply don’t know what to do. Lack of information in these case is deadly. And, I am sure that majority of these people would change if they only knew. Or at least I am trying to be optimistic about it.

Knowing what to do and applying it in fight against pre diabetes and type 2 diabetes is the key. And we can only solve this problem one overweight, over sugared, inactive person at the time. Are you one?

More about pre diabetes and type 2 diabetes and how to prevent them:

The best diet for preventing and curing Type 2 diabetes is the diet where every meal includes lean protein and fat, replacing some carbs and slowing the absorption of those remaining.

Fat makes you feel full in a way, a lean protein, such as fish, and a salad alone won’t.

The carbs you consume have to be mostly from fruits and vegetables.

Protein not used to build muscle, turns into a glucose in the body. That’s why eating some healthy fat with every meal is very important. It slows the absorption of glucose to the blood stream.

The best way to start your day? Every day? Eat eggs. Egg is the best food for diabetics.

Eat avocados, peaches, plums, cantaloupe, spinach, cucumbers, tomatoes, celery and other fruits and vegetables.

Almonds and walnuts are the best nuts for diabetics, or those who are trying to prevent it. Which is all of us. Eat nuts!

Eating all meats like turkey, chicken, steak, beef is ok for diabetics.

Eat all fish like Salmon, Halibut, Sardines, Cod and others.

Mozzarella and ricotta cheeses are the best.

Almond butter and peanut butter are great. Choose the right ones do.

Cottage cheese, humus, are great choices.

Drink only unsweetened beverages like herbal teas, water and coffee.

Drink wine in moderation.

Avocado may give eggs a run for their money as the king of anti diabetes foods.

Avocado – 22 grams of very healthy fats, 3 grams of protein and 13 grams of carbs, 10 of which are fiber.

Your carbs should come from the highest fiber sources, like dark green vegetables.

Epidemiological studies find that people who drink 6 and more cups of coffee a day, have a 50 % lower chance of developing diabetes than those who drink only a few cups a day or less.

There are people who are thin and yet metabolically unhealthy. They can have a vascular disease that’s linked to an insulin problem, not to a fat problem.

People with high blood sugar levels tend to be forgetful, anxious, aggressive, moody, tired, and unable to concentrate.

Doctors are like, “here is a pill, and another pill and another pill.” They don’t ask, “What are you eating?”

What’s scary is that our high sugar meals and increasingly stressful lives are exactly the one-two punch needed for reactive hypoglycemia to skyrocket. This trend has the potential to create a whole new class of diabetics, the outwardly fit looking, inwardly ill.

Diabetes has always been a disease of overweight, but it’s morphing into something additional now – skinny people.

Once you decide, that your heart, kidneys and limbs are worth more than hamburger buns, French fries and glazed doughnuts, you’ll do more than avoid complications. You may find yourself in best shape of your life.

Don’t think of this as the end of your best days, those are still coming your way.

My last words on pre diabetes and type 2 diabetes are: They are highly preventable with lifestyle. Exercise intensivelly regularly, eat whole natural diet low on sugar and carbohydrates.  Enough said.