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Dear Alternative Medicine Reader,

All of us here at Alternative Medicine believe America faces a national obesity crisis that affects the health and well being of millions, both nationally and internationally. Our medical editor, Mark Hyman, MD, has just written a book that sheds new light on how this epidemic has evolved and what people can to do to take back control of their health and their bodies. The book is called "UltraMetabolism: The Simple Plan for Automatic Weight Loss," and it will be available in bookstores today. We're pleased to share the following message--and special offer--from Dr. Hyman, which we feel will help you--as well as your family, and your friends--in your quest for optimum health. --The editors at Alternative Medicine magazine

From Dr. Hyman:

This is the worst crisis in the history of our nation... We are facing an epidemic of obesity and related diseases
that if not solved, will bankrupt our society.

For the first time in the history of our species, our life expectancy is going DOWN -- that means our children will
live sicker and die younger than their parents.

Unfortunately I am not being alarmist -- the facts speak for themselves:

<> 65% of Americans are overweight, up 18% since 1994...

<> 30% of us are obese, up from 36% since 1994...

<> Over 40% of us have high cholesterol...

<> 50% of Americans over 65 have high blood pressure, and 28.7% overall, a 3.7% increase from 1991.

<> Nearly 70% of people are unaware they have high blood pressure...

<> 5.1% of us have type-2 diabetes, up 104% from 1980 to 2004...

<> Over 100,000,000 Americans have metabolic syndrome, which is one step away from having type-2 diabetes...

<> 92% of Americans are deficient in one or more essential vitamins and minerals...

As startling as these statistics are, they are easy to ignore, because they don't effect our everyday lives in any
meaningul way ... or do they?

Did you know that:

<> Americans spend $117 billion annually treating obesity-linked diseases including heart disease, diabetes, dementia, cancer, arthritis and more...

<> Over $50 billion is spent annually on weight loss alone...

<> Of the $1.9 trillion spent on health care (16% of our GNP), ONLY 2% is spent on prevention...

<> Medicare and Medicaid costs are expected to skyrocket with medicaid expenditures ballooning an estimated 8.9% a year from 2002 to 2012 with Medicare jumping 6.7% a year as well...

<> And not surprisingly, health care costs have exploded by 250% from $717 billion in 1990 to $1.9 trillion in 2004...

<> Despite the U.S. leading the world in terms of the amount spent per person on health care (about $5,000) we are  nearly dead last (12 out of 13) when it comes to leading health indicators...

<> Health insurance costs have skyrocketed by over 10% a year for the last 4 years. Since 2000 cost of health
insurance has increased 59% while wages have increased only 12%.

Let me sum that up for you: we are paying through the nose for our health care and getting no return on our investment.

But the worst part about this entire crisis is that the solution is available to us RIGHT NOW...

To read more about what this solution is, go to this website:

==> http://www.ultrametabolism.com/crisis/

...unfortunately, those stakeholders in the health care industry that I mentioned earlier -- the government and food and drug industries -- are doing everything in their power to PREVENT this information from getting to you.

If this information were to get out and people suddenly had better health and lost weight, entire industries would
collapse, companies would go bankrupt, shareholders would be upset and lawsuits would be filed.

Money is a very powerful motivating factor as I am sure you already know.

But at least this is clear: What we are currently doing is NOT working to fix this crisis.

A new approach is necessary.

We need to capitalize on recent advances in science that tell us precisely how our bodies operate and to use that to form a blueprint that shows us EXACTLY how to work with our bodies naturally, instead of against them as we do now.

Remember the excitement when we deciphered the human genome a few years ago? There was a big flurry of activity and then ... silence.

Well, the fruits of that labor are finally coming to us, out of the research labs and into medical practice.

That new approach is finally here: it is the cutting-edge science of nutrigenomics -- The science of how food talks
to our genes.

And for the first time ever, this new science has been made available to the general public in a new book:

"UltraMetabolism -- The Simple Plan for Automatic Weight Loss"

Revitalized health, permanent weight loss and reinvigorated energy are finally at the fingertips of those who never have been able to find a simple solution that works -- and is healthy.

The concept is simple: by learning to work WITH the natural forces that control health and weight, and removing the factors that work AGAINST those forces and that promote disease and obesity, we can program our bodies to
automatically lose weight and become healthy.

And for 24-hours, on Tuesday, March 21st only, UltraMetabolism is available with a special set of companion
tools valued at over $300 that will come at no charge when you purchase the book from Amazon.com.

These companion tools are available ONLY when you purchase on Tuesday, March 21st.

Hundreds of people have already indicated they will take advantage of this.

But, since there is one very special component of this companion set -- one that will show you how to personalize
this program for your own body, which is the key to permanent health and keeping fit -- that will be available
only to the first 1,000 people, time is of the essence.

For technical reasons, which I'll explain more about later, only 1,000 people will be given access to the one-time
opportunity.

For details on how to acquire this companion tool set and to learn how you can help chip away at the obesity epidemic, go to the website below right now to learn more about this one-time opportunity:

==> http://www.ultrametabolism.com/crisis/

Rome wasn't built in a day and this national obesity and health crisis we are facing won't be solved overnight.

But history has taught us that regardless of how powerless we might feel in the face of a challenge, it IS possible to make a permanent change if we work together, and there is no better time than RIGHT NOW for this to start.

If we keep sweeping this problem under the carpet, turning our heads the other way, and telling ourselves that this
problem will go magically disappear, it will be too late to make a change and our society will buckle under the immense economic, financial and political pressure that will ensue.

But we CAN do something right now and there is no better place to start than with ourselves and our loved ones.

Sincerely,

Mark Hyman, MD

PS - Here's a copy of the text that appears on the back of the book if you are interested:

<> Why you actually need to eat carbs to lose weight. - Page 41

<> Why your body is designed to gain weight and what you can do to reprogram it to burn fat. - Page 3

<> How several simple tests can pinpoint what's causing your weight-loss attempts to fail and what steps you can take to conquer the problems. - Page 80

<> Why eating less and exercising more can actually make you fat. - Page 12

<> How to control your appetite and feel full without counting carbs, fat, or calories. - Page 84

<> How to turbo charge your metabolic furnace to burn extra fat while you sleep. (Do this one thing wrong and you'll
actually force your body to pile on extra fat instead.) - Page 54

<> Why one special food could be your missing link to losing weight. (And why 95% of people don't get enough.) - Page 51

To grab your copy of UltraMetabolism and secure your companion tool set, please go to this website now:

==> http://www.ultrametabolism.com/crisis/

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