(ARA) – “Sustainability” is the current favorite buzz word of the environmental movement. But what if you applied the concept of sustainability to your weight-loss and health-improvement efforts?

The results would be life-altering, predicts Joe Dillon, an inspirational speaker and fitness expert who has coached Fortune 500 CEOs, billionaires, health care professionals, record-holding athletes, and the U.S Navy and Marine Corps. At 63 years old with just 7 percent body fat, Dillon walks his talk.

“Health and fitness are attainable at any age, no matter how busy you are,” says Sandy Terrien, Dillon’s business partner and a nationally recognized speaker and certified personal trainer and fitness consultant.

“Improving our health – and in direct correlation, our lives – is a prime objective for many of us,” Dillon says. “Occasional diets and sporadic exercise, fads or ignoring the problem, won’t get the job done. What’s needed is a whole-life approach.”

If you’re considering taking steps to alter your health and change your life, evaluate any fitness plan on the following points, Dillon advises:

Sustainability

“There’s no quick fix,” Dillon says. “We live and teach a sustainable lifestyle.” That means your fitness and nutritional plan should not only be something you can live with, but should benefit and involve those around you as well. “There’s no value in a regimen you can’t follow or that leaves your loved ones behind. Your lifestyle change should also work to make your world a better, healthier place for you and your loved ones.”

Safety

Is your fitness plan safe for your current level of health and your lifestyle? “As the Greek physician Hippocrates said, ‘First do no harm,’ ” Dillon notes. A truly healthy lifestyle is one that is safe. Fad diets, overly aggressive exercise plans and supplements of questionable value are unsafe tactics ultimately doomed to failure.

Scientific

Is your new plan based on consensus science and the most current research available? Programs like The Joe Dillon Difference, that are based on empirical research and proven science, provide maximum opportunity for success and also allow flexibility to evolve as new information becomes available. Apply empirical principles to your own progress, as well with an annual blood test and physical to measure and substantiate your results.

Simplicity

“We all have busy lives,” Terrien says. “We believe a healthy lifestyle should be simple and practical enough to work in the real world.” Complicated systems and unrealistic goals make it harder to achieve life-changing results.

Responsibility

While support groups associated with some diet and lifestyle plans can have value, ultimately the self-improvement buck stops with you and you alone, Dillon says. “Your health is your choice. Actions, like the food you put in your mouth, have consequences.” Your health improvement plan should emphasize personal responsibility.

To learn more about Joe Dillon and his empowering weight-loss and health-improvement techniques, visit www.TheJoeDillonDifference.com. On Dillon’s Web site, you’ll find a wealth of information on how to successfully take control of your health, weight and life, as well as an online store of supplements and tools. Members also have access to Dillon’s acclaimed video coaching series through the Web site.

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