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Finally, the Truth about Weight Loss

Finally, the Truth about Weight Loss!

"Let food be thy medicine and let thy medicine be thy food."
Hippocrates, the Father of Medicine (460 - 377 B.C.)

If you feel you抮e fighting a 搇osing battle,?you抮e not alone. Currently, 184 Million Americans are over weight, 77 Million of those are clinically obese. Both of these figures increased 10% between 1994 and 1999 and there抯 no end in sight following the same course.

Obesity ?What抯 Causing It?

Don抰 blame yourself for lack of will power or discipline. The American food supply is largely to blame.

Your grocery store is overflowing with processed 揻oodless?foods and sugar laden 搇ifeless?drinks. The fast food industry offers you little more than 揇oses?of high fat, super sized meals containing dangerous trans fats and far more calories than your body needs.

The result? Your body抯 nutritional system has become clogged, confused and locked into fat storing mode. If you抮e like most people, you抳e tried it all but nothing seems to work.

The truth? Your body抯 own built-in survival system can render any fad diet utterly useless within a matter of hours. Now it抯 time to find out why.

The Low Fat Myth

Eating a low fat diet can help you lose weight, but that抯 only half the story. Most people trying to lower their fat intake begin shopping for products whose labels show low fat or no fat. There are fat free meals, snacks and drinks galore.

The truth? Most fat free or low fat foods are high in processed sugars, dangerous artificial sweeteners, low in fiber and contain MSG. As you eat these processed foods, the acid in your stomach dissolves them very quickly. It抯 like trying to fill a sink that has no stopper! The MSF causes insulin production so you抮e hungry an hour later. The result? You consume excess calories and your body stores them as fat.

What your body really needs are the healthy nutritional fibers found only in fruits, vegetables, nuts, grains and berries ?otherwise known as whole foods. The acid in your stomach will not completely dissolve whole food fibers. Eating them fills you up faster, keeps you full longer, unclogs your digestive system and helps balance blood sugar levels.

Good fats are not the enemy. Fat soluble vitamins like A, D, E and K, along with whole food essential fatty acids found in nuts and seeds, are healthy.

Animal fats, trans fats and partially hydrogenated oils are the ones to avoid.

The Exercise Myth

When it comes to exercise, most people trying to lose weight make a big mistake. Your body can only sustain strenuous aerobic exercise by converting blood sugar to energy. This focuses your body to stop burning fat so it can burn blood sugar ?it cannot do both at the same time.

Sellers of exercise equipment tell you 20 to 30 minutes a day is all you need. Aerobic exercise can burn fat ?but only after you have depleted your available blood sugar ?which takes 30 minutes or more. The average overweight person cannot sustain an hour of aerobic activity. Injuries are common and limit your ability to exercise for 6 to 8 weeks.

Exercise equipment sales are 揝ky Rocketing?and so is obesity ?now you can see why.

When it comes to exercise for weight loss, slow and steady wins the race. The truth? Walking and light weightlifting are the best types of exercise for healthy weight loss. They burn fat and condition your body to burn more fat.

Start with 10 minutes of walking per day and gradually work your way up to an hour. Drink plenty of water; replace junk foods with whole foods and watch the inches effortlessly melt away!

The Myth of Skipping Meals

Our bodies were designed to expend energy in order to get food. In the past, people had to grow and harvest their own food. That required a lot of physical activity. Today, food is readily available, but it doesn抰 change the fact that our bodies are actually designed this way.

When you skip a meal, your body thinks that you抮e out in the wild, and for whatever reason, food is hard to come by. This is a built-in survival mechanism that you were born with.

When your body thinks food is hard to find, it makes two, (2), changes to protect you from starving.

1. It slows your metabolism causing your body to slow down and burn less fat.

2. The meal you eat, after you skip a meal, will be stored as fat to protect you from starving.

If you skip breakfast, almost all of what you eat for lunch is converted to fat.
You think you are taking in less food but in reality
you抮e causing your body to store more fat.

The solution is to eat regularly throughout the day, but to eat the right foods. Your metabolism will increase, your stamina and endurance will increase, your appetite will decrease and your body will produce less fat, while it burns more!

Learn to 揕isten?to your body ?it knows what抯 best for you. Eat whole foods and drink water when you抮e hungry. When your stomach feels satisfied ?stop eating.

The Low Carb Myth

Processed 揻oodless?foods, sugar and artificially sweetened 搇ifeless?drinks are the problem ?not carbs. But all of the marketing hype is clouding the facts. The average American is eating 300 calories a day more than in 1985 and exercising less.

Does a low carb diet really make sense?

 Every non-profit health organization in the world says to eat more fruits and veggies, the low carb diets tell you not to.

 Low carb diets produce constipation.

 Low carb diets stress the kidneys and increase the risk of liver disorders, gout, coronary heart disease, diabetes, stroke and several types of cancer.

The Truth is Simple!

Obesity is a 揕ifestyle Disease.?Junk foods create cravings for more junk foods. MSG acts on the brain like a drug to product pleasant feelings. People are using food to make themselves feel better ?no because they抮e hungry. That抯 not what food is for.

If 揻oodless?foods and 搇ifeless?drinks are replaced with whole foods and water, your body will instantly come alive! You will begin to experience intense cravings for whole foods and water. These changes in tastes and cravings create a life style change ?the only true and permanent solution.

Restore Your Body抯 Nutritional System to
揙riginal Manufacturer抯 Specifications?br />
When your body抯 nutritional system has become clogged, confused and locked into fat storing mode, all you really need is a 搕une-up.?br />
"He, who does not know food, how can he understand disease?"
Hippocrates, the Father of Medicine (460 - 377 B.C.)

The Truth is Always Simple:

 Healthy, natural whole foods
 Nutritionally dense meals and snacks
 Eat whenever you抮e hungry
 Never skip a meal
 Drink plenty of water
 Moderate walking
 Heart healthy plant based fats
 Natural carbs that your body needs

Isn抰 it time you give nature a try?

DoctorCoffey

揟he Doctor of the future will give No Medicine, but will interest his patients in the care of the human frame, in diet, and in the cause and prevention of disease.?~ Thomas Edison

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