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What's Required In Order To Qualify For The Free Meals On Medifast?

ByLindsey Price

I'm pretty direct about my belief that the free meals offered by Medifast is often the best deal. I realize that the company usually also offers money off of your order but I find that the free food makes the most sense most of the time. Sure the monetary discount is nice, but the free food is often worth more than the monies off. People often ask me how much you need to spend or how many meals you need to order in order to qualify for the free food.

The company is generally pretty consistent in their offers but they do change from time to time. Generally though, these deals are valid on a package, which means that you are looking at either a variety package or the design a menu option. You'll generally have to order four weeks worth of food (instead of the smaller two week package) and opt for VIP membership which means that they ship your next order when the last one finishes or until you cancel, of course.

You often can't use the free food offer on a la carte items or on smaller packages of boxed items. I know that the packages may seem more expensive at first glance, but if you consider the fact that a couple of weeks worth of free food is worth about $150 dollars, then it makes a lot of sense. For example, the dollars off are often around $55 - $66 dollars and don't get me wrong, that is a great deal, especially if you only have a small amount of weight to lose and so the VIP membership wouldn't make a lot of sense. But, if you're going to place more than a couple of orders, then you can see that the weeks worth of free food is actually worth more than the money off and certainly worth the effort.

So to answer the question posed, ordering a 4 week package (which typically includes around 145 meals) is typically the way to go when you want to qualify for the free meal offer. As I said, the offers do change from time to time, so you'll want to make sure that you've found the offer and are entering in any code that is required. (Any required information is usually asked for at a little box on the bottom of the page at checkout.) The process is pretty simple and you can always hit the back button if you make a mistake and start over.

Want more tips to help you understand how Medifast works and how you can save the most money on it? Lindsey is the author of the free eBook "Getting The Most Out Of Medifast," which includes coupons and discounts, a list of all of the food options, and detailed information about the diet and how it works. To get a free copy (immediate download/no information required), click here. You can also visit her diet review website to read it at http://easiest-diet.com/free-medifast-ebook/html

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What's the Deal With Gluten?

ByAna G Johnson

Gluten is what makes fresh San Francisco sourdough bread delicious, makes bagels doughy, and pastries flaky. Gluten is also the primary enemy to good health. Gluten is the storage protein of the wheat plant which stores carbon and nitrogen for the plant to use for germination. Gluten is made up of 2 main proteins: gliadins and glutenins. These gluten proteins have undergone significant genetic changes over the past 50 years due to genetic modification.

Modern Triticum aestivum (wheat) is unable to survive without human intervention, fertilization and pest control. Kind of reminds me of Jurassic Park when the scientists made the dinosaurs in the movie all lysine dependent (trying to keep them dependent on humans to live) then the dinosaurs mutated and we all know how that story ended...ooops! The point is don't screw with mother nature, she knows what she's doing.

Many scientists are finding that this genetic modification has lead to a greater amount of gluten proteins in wheat which trigger celiac disease and may be responsible for the doubling of this disease in the last 20 years, along with in increase in other autoimmune diseases such as Type 1 Diabetes, Crohn's disease, and food allergies.

Due to genetic modification, modern wheat is about 70% carbohydrate and is lower in protein than ancient wheat. The carbohydrate in wheat is 75% amylopectin and 25% amylose. Amylopectin is very efficiently digested and easily turned into sugar. The specific type of amlyopectin in wheat is amylopectin A which has been called a "super carbohydrate" as it is the most readily turned into blood sugar of all the types of amylopectin.

In a study from the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, participants were given a diet of 70% amylose or 70% amylopectin. Those on the amylopectin diet had higher glucose and insulin responses after a meal. Due to the high amylopectin content, white bread has a higher glycemic response than table sugar (according to the glycemic index). So why does this matter for health?

The reason it matters is because of insulin. High blood sugar (from amylopectin and other refined carbohydrates), leads to increased insulin, which leads to increased inflammation, and then to chronic diseases (diabetes, autoimmune diseases, heart disease, and even mental illnesses). Insulin is also a storage hormone and causes food to be stored...excess food leads to excess storage (ie FAT). The only way to get rid of fat is to allow insulin levels to decrease enough in the body so the fat can actually come OUT of the cells. So, due to its high amylopectin content, wheat elevates blood sugar leading to not only excess weight, but a whole myriad of other health problems. How is this a "safe" food again?

Gluten also has the ability to increase intestinal permeability or cause "leaky gut". Gliadin, triggers the release of zonulin, which regulates intestinal permeability. Zonulin causes holes in the intestinal wall, causing proteins to pass through undigested. The problem is that our body's immune system doesn't recognize these proteins and launches an immune response against them. The body's immune response to the entry of gluten proteins isn't always manifested as full-blown celiac disease, but can show up as thyroid disease, diabetes, joint pain, and allergies. It just depends where in the body the reaction will occur. There has been recent discussion in the medical community to call this type of immune disruption "Immune-mediated gluten intolerance".

So, to sum it up, if you are suffering from any "strange symptoms" (achy joints, digestive issues, acne mental fog, etc) or have full-blown autoimmune disease or diabetes it may benefit you to take a look at gluten and see how you feel eliminating it from your diet.

Ana Johnson, MS, RD, CDE
http://www.wholelifediets.com

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