Attention: Assignment Desk, Lifestyle/Health Editors

For Immediate Release
Wednesday, June 30, 2004

INDEPENDENT STUDY RESULTS PROVE THAT TRUESTAR HEALTH PLAN CAN PREVENT & SOLVE CHILDHOOD OBESITY EPIDEMIC IN CANADA

FIVE FAMILIES LOSE 19 LBS ON AVERAGE IN ONLY 12 WEEKS

TORONTO, ON: Five Canadian families who had been selected to lose weight as a family to tackle the childhood obesity problem in their families, have lost weight and adopted a new healthy lifestyle for life with the Truestar Health plan. Each family has lost an average of 19 lbs. with one family losing as much as 34 lbs. over the course of 12 weeks.

“With childhood obesity escalating rapidly, the team at Truestar Health decided to take action,” says Truestar Health expert Dr. Joey Shulman. “The decision to include the entire family unit was made because it is our belief that health changes are more likely to be adopted when practiced in a fun way by the entire family. The diet is very simple: it has low-carb, high protein and no sugar. The five aspects of the Truestar Plan were introduced to each family which included meal plans, personalized exercise programs, specific vitamin recommendations, sleep programs and attitude plans such as goal setting and motivational stories for kids.”

To appropriately address individual needs, the Truestar team, which includes naturopathic doctors, nutritionists, dieticians, exercise experts and life coaches, met with the families in person once a week and had daily check-in phone calls.

Independent research at Yale University suggests that many people with health conditions increase their risk of developing diabetes and heart disease at an early age. A combination of health ills, known as metabolic syndrome, is more common among children and adolescents than previously thought and increases with the level of obesity.

Consider the Canadian statistics: 35% of boys and 29% of girls are overweight in Canada; 17% of boys and 15% of girls are obese in Canada; 20% of childhood diabetes cases are now type 2 diabetes (adult-onset diabetes); 42% to 63% of obese school-aged children in Canada will become obese adults.

Since January 2004, Truestar Health has increased its membership to over 3,500 across Canada. Membership is only $12.95 (Cdn.) per month for the Synergistic Personal Training System ™ — a total health system for adults and children. Truestar is the world’s most comprehensive online health and personal guidance system.
For more information, visit www.truestarhealth.com.