In our experience with the Factor4 regimen of power amino acids®, the first sign that the body is losing fat occurs when the clothes fit better. However, because loss of body fat is initially offset by increase in muscle tissue, there is normally little change in scale weight during the first several weeks. Once the increase in muscle tissue is complete, a process that takes approximately one month depending on body type, the second sign that the body is losing fat occurs when scale weight begins to decrease. At this point, it is just a matter of commitment and time for subjects to achieve their weight loss goals.

THE IMPORTANCE OF BODY TYPE

Depending on body type, the capacity to rebuild the body with power amino acids® can take as little as one week (for those who have higher metabolic rates and higher activity levels) or as long as 1 month (for those who have lower metabolic rates and lower activity levels). Once a state of anabolic, supercharged health has been established with power amino acids, people begin to lose weight according to the table below:

In the beginning, subjects must show dedication, commitment, and patience. The rewards from persistence will be significant weight loss without intense exercise routines or strict dietary regimens and sustained weight control throughout life.W

Benefit 1: Power Nutrition and Supercharged Health

Factor4 Weight Control® stimulated anabolic pathways (“constructive” processes) that lead to weight loss and sustained weight control. At the same time, it inhibited catabolic pathways (“destructive” processes) that lead to chronic degenerative disease and accelerated aging. The great majority of participants reported significant weight loss as well as improvements in metabolic health parameters throughout the body. Overall, they felt younger and healthier and experienced an improved quality of life.

Benefit 2: Appetite Suppression

Participants immediately noticed that Factor4 Weight Control® suppressed appetite, abolishing food cravings, hunger pangs, and famished states that led to eating binges. In place of cravings, they reported feelings of “comfort, satisfaction, and well-being” within minutes of consuming the Factor4 regimen. Many subjects were surprised at how quickly their “sweet tooth” and “fat tooth” disappeared. These changes in desire and taste diminished their cravings for snacks and meals loaded with refined sugars and high-density carbohydrates.

Benefit 3: Increased Energy

Within several weeks of starting the Factor4 program, subjects noticed that they had developed more “pep, energy, activity, stamina, and endurance.” Many were surprised at their increased performance in daily work, household chores, exercise routines, and athletic performance. Increased body energy and strength implied that significant changes had occurred in metabolic pathways throughout the body. Changes in body metabolism also increased muscle tissue and decreased body fat. Since muscle tissue is the most important organ for burning off body fat, these two processes appear to work together to reset body weight and energy metabolism.

Benefit 4: Loss of Body Fat

Up to 96% of individuals who followed the program lost weight while taking the Factor4 regimen of power amino acids® and other essential nutrients. Highly motivated subjects lost up to 1 pound every 2 days. A number of subjects lost 40, 50 and 60 pounds. Since weight loss was the primary benefit participants were seeking, the program achieved the measurable outcomes that subjects sought.

• are complementary to other diet plans because it rebuilds the body with power amino acids, the essential ingredients for supercharged health
• correct the “protein deficiency syndrome” that leads to overweight disorders and obesity in the first place
• suppress appetite blocking food cravings, hunger pangs, famished states, and eating binges
• inhibit the desire for refined sugars and starch-rich foods that increase appetite and provide “empty calories” to the body
• improve metabolic health in the 8 major health systems of the body
• revitalize youthfulness with pep, energy, activity, stamina, endurance, and performance
• increase anti-aging health with improved “quality of life,” including greater feelings of comfort, satisfaction, and well-being
• provide supercharged protein health, converting many of the catabolic reactions of aging to the anabolic processes of youth
• reset metabolic pathways from fat storage to fat burning
• use natural processes to rebalance the caloric equation and achieve weight loss health

DIETING IN AMERICA

According to MarketData, a market research company in Tampa, Florida, 72 million people, or approximately one quarter of the population, are normally engaged in dieting in the U.S. at any given time. Forty-four million (62%) are women and 28 million (38%) are men. In 2007, the diet industry was estimated at $58.7 billion.

Although diets to stimulate weight loss have been popular for centuries, they are less effective than generally believed for two main reasons:

• Popular diets drain the body of essential nutrients.
• Popular diets break down muscle tissue and body health through catabolic (destructive) reactions.

The bottom line is that all popular diets have undesirable side effects, among which is the loss of essential nutrients, including vitamins, minerals, micronutrients, and positive-charged proteins from the body.

THE SECRET TO SUCCESSFUL WEIGHT CONTROL

The secret to successfully controlling body weight and living a healthier life may be adding something to—rather than subtracting something from—the daily diet. As described here, the addition of Power Amino Acids® to the diet corrects the age- and diet-related deficiencies in amino acids, positive-charged proteins, and metabolic pathways that lead to poor nutritional health, overweight disorders, chronic degenerative disease, and accelerated aging. Here begins the story of Factor4 Weight Control®.

We formulated Factor4 Weight Control® with power amino acids®, vitamins, minerals and micronutrients to reset the metabolic pathways that control appetite and burn fat. Whether measured at 3 months, 6 months or 12 months, Factor4 Weight Control® outperforms the four popular diets, including the Atkins diet, the Ornish diet, the Zone diet or the National Guidelines diet. In the table below the results are presented after 12 months on each diet.

Note that Factor4 Weight Control® more than tripled the weight loss observed with the Atkins diet and showed more that 5-times greater weight loss than that observed with the other three diets.

CONCLUSIONS

• The dietary changes recommended here for limiting the intake of dietary carbohydrate, including refined sugars, and increasing anabolic health with Factor4 Weight Control®, containing power amino acids®, combine to provide four power levels of a low fat/carb diet that may be adjusted to the individual needs of people for losing varying amounts of excess weight without resorting to catabolic diets that lead to extreme hunger.

• This approach allows us to avoid the limitations of both the high fat/protein diets promoted by Dr. Atkins and other physicians (rebound obesity as carbohydrate intake increases) and the low fat/protein diets promoted by public health policy (starvation hunger that leads to rebound obesity).

• The result is a revolutionary breakthrough in control of body weight as well as the Metabolic Syndrome that is associated with the chronic degenerative diseases that lead to accelerated aging and early death.

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Because metabolic activity slows down during the aging process it is necessary to continue to take Factor4 Weight Control® on a daily basis in a maintenance regimen consisting of twice daily power shakes or smoothies to maintain the positive benefits that may be enjoyed with this regimen.

With this regimen, you should be able to maintain Metabolic Health 4 Life!

Thousands of people are turning back the “hands of time” with Factor4 Weight Control® and achieving revitalized youth and anti-aging health!

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18-Month Commitment

By 18 months you should show greater cumulative effects of Factor4 Weight Control® on body weight, muscular strength, metabolic health, youth revitalization and anti-aging health. These changes should include:

• Further reductions in central fat depots that reduce the girth of the mid-section.

• A number of changes should be recognized in metabolic health, revitalized youth and anti-aging health.

• Have you reviewed the 4 power levels of commitment to Factor4 Weight Control® that lead to weight loss health? Have you selected the power level that meets your current weight loss goals?

2-Year Commitment

By 24 months you should show greater cumulative effects of Factor4 Weight Control® on body weight, muscular strength, metabolic health, youth revitalization and anti-aging health. These effects should include:

• Further reductions should now be recognized in central fat depots that reduce the girth of the mid-section.

• A number of changes should now be recognized in metabolic health, revitalized youth and anti-aging health.

• Review the expected improvements in the eight (8) major health systems of the body and note your improvements relative to the beginning of the Factor4 Wellness Program.

• Have you reviewed the 4 power levels of commitment to Factor4 Weight Control® that lead to weight loss health? Have you selected the power level that meets your current weight loss goals?

3-Year Commitment

By 36 months you should continue to show cumulative effects of Factor4 Weight Control® on body weight, muscular strength, metabolic health, youth revitalization and anti-aging health.

3-Month Commitment

By three months you should show significant changes in body definition and weight reduction if you are overweight.

• How much better do your clothes fit now?

• Has your body weight begun to decrease on the gravimetric scale if you are overweight or stabilize if your weight is under control?

• Have you carefully reviewed the 4 power levels of commitment to Factor4 Weight Control® that lead to weight loss health? Have you selected the power level that meets your current weight loss goals?

• Have you been able to enjoy other positive benefits of Factor4 Weight Control® in the eight (8) major health systems of the body?

6-Month Commitment

By 6 months you should show greater control and/or reductions in body weight and you should now begin to recognize the numerous additional benefits of Factor4 Weight Control® on metabolic health, revitalized youth and anti-aging health.

• Has your body firmed up and lost weight, initially in the extremities and later in the mid-section?

• How much weight have you lost?

• Have you reviewed the 4 power levels of commitment to Factor4 Weight Control® that lead to weight loss health? Have you selected the power level that meets your current weight loss goals?

• Do you appreciate the feelings of “comfort, satisfaction and well-being” within minutes after drinking Factor4 power shakes and smoothies?

• Are you sleeping better at night?

• Are your nails and hair growing stronger and longer, quicker and thicker?

• Has your “functional age” been reduced turning back the “hands of time”?

• Are your blood chemistries, including cholesterol, triglycerides and sugar moving toward normal?

• Are you recognizing better health in the eight (8) major health systems of the body?

• Do you have more pep, energy, activity, stamina and endurance.

• Is your natural desire for sporting activities or exercise routines been increased?

12-Month Commitment

By 12 months you should show greater control and/or reductions in body weight and additional benefits of Factor4 Weight Control® on metabolic health, which converts the catabolic processes of aging to the anabolic processes of youth. These changes should include:

• Cumulative effects of Factor4 Weight Control® on body weight, muscular strength, metabolic health, youth revitalization and anti-aging health.

• Significant reductions should now be recognized in central fat depots that reduce the girth of the mid-section.

• Have you reviewed the 4 power levels of commitment to Factor4 Weight Control® that lead to weight loss health? Have you selected the power level that meets your current weight loss goals?

PHASES OF COMMITMENT TO THE FACTOR WELLNESS PROGRAM

According to the concept that life is a process of continual growth, it is important to define the sequential phases of commitment to Factor4 Weight Control® that may lead to a full realization of the optimal benefits of Power Amino Acids® and other essential nutrients. These phases may be described as follows:

7-Day Commitment

The first 7 days are critical to the Factor4 Wellness Program. Here are the critical questions you would like to answer during this first week:

• Do you like the flavor and consistency of Factor4 Weight Control®?

• Have you reviewed the recipes for Factor4 power shakes and smoothies and tried several of these delicious drinks?

• Do you have a shaker cup or bottle blender that can make Factor4 power shakes in less than a minute?

30-Day Commitment

The first 30 days are critical for establishing a daily regimen which utilizes Factor4 Weight Control® for effective weight control or reduction.

• Have you worked out a convenient routine that allows you to take Factor4 shakes twice daily or more frequently if necessary?

• Have you experienced more pep, energy, activity, stamina and endurance?

• Have you experienced appetite suppression that can abolish food cravings, hunger attacks, famished states and eating binges. Appetite suppression may be recognized through feelings of comfort, satisfaction and well-being.

• Do Factor4 power shakes remove your “sweet tooth”?

• Have you carefully reviewed the 4 power levels of commitment to Factor4 Weight Control® that lead to weight loss health or sustained weight control? Have you selected the power level that meets your current weight loss goals?

• Do your clothes fit better indicating an initial loss in body fat?

• Have you experienced an increase in muscle strength, which indicates an increase in anabolic health?

• Have you maintained a weight-loss diary whereby you record the compositions and times of meals and Factor4 power shakes and smoothies that you consume throughout the day? If your weight is normal, this exercise is not necessary.

Life is a process of continual growth and the #1 priority in life is GOOD HEALTH.  In order to stay healthy, it is important to develop a positive attitude about what you want to accomplish.  The Factor4 Wellness Program is designed to follow a monthly schedule with four weekly themes as shown below.

Theme #1:  Better Choices for a Better Life

The theme in the first week of each month is “better choices for a better life.”  In this week the Factor4 Wellness Program provides timely messages that show us how Factor4 Weight Control®, containing Power Amino Acids®, can work together with better choices to achieve improved lifestyles that lead to better health.

Theme #2:  Body Weight and Energy Health

The theme in the second week of each month is “body weight and energy health.”  The Factor4 Wellness Program provides timely messages that show us how Factor4 Weight Control®, containing Power Amino Acids®, works to stimulate weight loss and improve core body health.

Theme #3:  Metabolic Health

The theme in the third week of each month is “Metabolic Health.”  The Factor4 Wellness Program provides timely messages that show us how Factor4 Weight Control®, containing Power Amino Acids®, maintains metabolic health and thereby avoids chronic degenerative diseases and early aging.

Theme #4:  Revitalized Youth and Anti-aging Health

The theme in the fourth week of each month is “Revitalized Youth and Anti-Aging Health.”  The Factor4 Wellness Program provides timely messages that show us how Factor4 Weight Control®, containing Power Amino Acids®, can revitalize youth and stimulate anti-aging health at the same time.

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