The Significance of Your NF&L Stats

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The Significance of Your NF&L Stats- Ability to Maintain One’s Health by Tracking Nutrition, Fitness, and Lifestyle in the Game that Counts

Keeping track of your NF&L (Nutrition, Fitness, and Lifestyle) stats is more important now to you than ever before during this COVID-19 Pandemic. The NF&L is more of an offensive approach to giving you the ability to protect yourself and survive this pandemic. Masks, hand washing, social distancing, and avoiding large indoor gatherings are defensive measures.

The conventional wisdom in football was that defenses won games and championships, but Coach Nick Saban has changed the paradigm philosophy to include an offense component. The 2021 National Championship between Ohio State and Alabama changed the defensive approach to how football games are actually won and lost. In the semi-final game against Notre Dame, I still can’t get out of my head how Najee Harris, running back for Alabama, hurdled over the six-foot-one Nick McCloud, corner back for Notre Dame, and then ran for 53- yards.

  

Having a great offense against the COVID-19 Virus is having a fortified functional immune system based on your Nutrition, Fitness, and Lifestyle. This is how we can take a page out of Coach Nick Saban’s play book and develop an offense approach by improving our Nutrition plan, followed by Fitness program and Lifestyle changes.

 

Wearing masks, washing hands, social distancing that also include avoiding large indoor gatherings are defensive measures that we can follow and that are important. I know that there is some debate over the effectiveness of a mask that it can’t filter out the COVID-19 Virus, due to its 0.125 microns in size of this virus and the N-95 mask only filtering out down to 0.300 microns.

But the interesting fact about the COVID-19 virus is that it doesn’t travel by itself very well. It needs a vehicle or chauffeur to attach itself to, like droplets or aerosol that has microns larger than 0.300 microns. I view masks like hardhats that I wore as a layer of protection in transmission line of work, before I retired. Shown below, I’m standing in the middle of the H-Frame Structure on the Double-Channel Crossarm. The hardhat is a layer of safety.

Improving Your NF&L Health Stats

Nutrition Component of the NF&L

I’ve improved my nutrition component by developing what became the ASCOT (Amino acid Soluble Caloric Optimized Technique)-DIET that turns the body into a calorie-burning juggernaut. This is due to the high protein and high fiber diet that metabolizes food at a higher rate so that the body can convert it directly into energy more readily. The ASCOT reduces the intake of sugars and the hidden sugars, which are starches. Starch can contribute to just as much weight gain as sugar can. In the featured image, I’m 63- years old, and after seven years of being on the ASCOT- DIET Plan, that I developed, I lost 52- pounds within 9- months of starting ASCOT-DIET and have kept the weight off.

Just a like information about fat cell in our bodies, they provide an ACE-2 receptors for the COVID-19 to attach to and suppress your immune system.

The biggest advantage of the ASCOT-DIET is it allows the person to be able to use simple data from nutrition labels to determine foods they can eat that will allow them to lose weight, not in months, but in weeks. I lost 35- pounds and 4.75- inches within 4- weeks, and that was during the month of December of 2014. Not only did I lower my weight, but I was also able to lower my other numbers, as well, like blood pressure reading (112/63 Pulse 63), Blood Glucose 10 points below what is a normal level. I don’t take any medication of any kind.

Fitness Component of the NF&L

Nutrition accounts for 80 percent of your health stats, but fitness is just as important, especially as a person ages, for maintaining one’s strength, stamina, flexibility, and toning is essential. A fitness program doesn’t have to be elaborate, extensive, or expensive to be effective. I have a simple fitness program that has allowed me to stay in shape, as shown below, even at age 63. The equipment that I use is shown in my Home Gym photograph.

There is one stat that isn’t usually associated with one’s nutrition and fitness and that is healthy looking skin. Nutrition that is high in protein and fiber with a fitness regimen are better than using the best anti-aging cream on the market. There is one supplement that I take that also contributes to healthy skin, that is Brewer Yeast, in tablet form. A healthy complexion was one benefit that I wasn’t counting on, but glad it was a health benefit especially with sweating it out in my gym. Both my Nutrition Plan and Fitness Program are included in my download below:

QATR-704- ASCOT Diet- How I Achieved My Health/Fitness Objective of Losing 52 Lbs.

This Download also includes a bonus package that includes 3- of my fitness training videos (covering all my exercise elements) and 5- of my golf training videos in addition to my ASCOT-DIET PLAN. There not a better Nutrition, Fitness, and Training package out on the market that provides results, especial golf training videos.

My golf training videos allows a golfer to take their instinctive muscle memory developed in the batter’s box and go to the tee box with the same degree of confidence. I don’t know too many batters in the batter’s box that have the same issues that golfer’s has on the tee box.

        

Lifestyle of the NF&L

My grandmother and granddad were sticklers on four things while I was growing up, that included skincare, eyes, teeth, and hair. Every time that I went outside, I had to wear a hat, sunglasses, and sunscreen. I have carried on the tradition throughout my life even now. My grandmother was particularly interested in protecting the delicate skin around the eyes, where aging is a factor. That was the reason for sunglasses.

Their next point of emphasis was my teeth, when even as a kid, I had to floss twice a day and brush three times a day. My grandmother’s contention was that there were four areas that draw people’s attention, not necessarily in this order- a person’s eyes, skin, teeth, and hair.

Of these four points of interest, a person’s teeth are probably the most critical for the appearance and for one’s confidence. My grandmother was a stickler for flossing and brushing techniques, we had a close friend of the family that was a Dentist:

Brushing Techniques:

1. Floss in between each tooth in an isolating motion, getting the inside edge of each tooth and at the gum line.
2. Rinse with a plaque-fighting mouthwash. (Important, in early stages of plaque consists of 80% water then quickly hardens into deposits called tartar. Only a professional cleaning can remove tartar. This is why it is critical to rinse with a plaque-fighting mouthwash and brush after each meal.  
3. Use a small amount of water to lubricate the brush and use a pea-size amount of toothpaste. Fluoride is critical for children and teens.
4. Brush with a 45° angle to the gums in a gentle circular motion.
5. Brush the outside and inside the tooth surfaces in a larger, circular motion.
6. Brush for at least 2- minutes.
7. Brush tongue to remove bacteria.
8. Rinse with cool water.   

I have switched to an electric toothbrush that provides both circular and back and forth motion. I gauge how well I brush, based on how long it takes the dental technician to clean my teeth. If the cleaning is relatively short with little scrapping, I knew I did my job correctly. I personally dislike scrapping.   

Other lifestyle changes that are beneficial are:

• Using proper bending techniques, so never bend at the waist, but at the hips.
• Use seat belts.
• Get an adequate amount of sleep. The amount is based on the person (between 6-to-8 hours).
• Get at least 30- minutes of exercise, at least 3 times per week.
• Pick up a sport that isn’t a high impact sport, like golf or tennis. Competition is a great social benefit.
• Pick up a second trade, like welding, carpentry, art, sewing, or mechanic.
• Read at least three books a year.
• Drink adequate amount of water. A good habit to get into is carrying a bottle of water around throughout the day.
• Meditate, even if that is in the morning with a cup of coffee.
• Eat from a low weight factor nutrition diet.
• Start a 401(k) or IRA plan as early as possible. If your employers match a certain percentage, that is a huge multiplier.

Focus on the events in your life that you have direct control over. Just remember, 80 percent of what people worry about doesn’t occur.

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