The Missing Link

There is one major problem with the high carbohydrate, low fat diet, recommended by many nutritionists. This is the diet that Americans have been told to follow for years, and yet we are heavier and unhealthier than ever. Something has been missing from the “healthy diet” equation, and that is healthy saturated fats. We are now discovering that not only are these fats better for us than previously thought, but our bodies need saturated fats to be healthy, function properly, and even to lose weight.

In America, since the 1930’s, our health as a nation has deteriorated rapidly. The main reasons for this are:

1) We have switched from whole grains and raw sugars, to overly processed white flour, sugar, and rice.

2) We have switched to overly processed milk and dairy, from whole raw milk products.

3) We changed our fats from healthy saturated fats to unhealthy processed vegetable oils and even more unhealthy hydrogenated fats.

4) We eat meat that is tainted with hormones, medicines, and with fish- mercury.

5) Our produce is contaminated with a frightening amount of pesticides and chemicals.


How Can We Become Healthier?

Losing weight and becoming healthier requires a lifestyle change, not a six week diet “quick fix”. The first step is to eat a balanced diet, filled with plenty of healthy foods, such as whole grains, fresh organic, and preferably raw, fruits and vegetables, and healthy saturated fat choices such as coconut oil, organic meat and free-range chicken eggs.

A healthy lifestyle also includes developing other healthy habits, such as regular exercise.

If you are like many of us, the change to a healthier lifestyle is a drastic change and looks overwhelming. That is why we have developed a simple plan to build healthy habits slowly, working on just a couple of small things at a time-- small things that will add up to a great new life. This works especially well for people who are reluctant to changing their diet and lifestyle.


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From “Why Diets Don’t Work” By Dianne Ronnow © 2005. All rights reserved.

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Freedom from Dieting

So, how can you lose weight if dieting and restricting calories don't work? There is no quick fix answer. Any healthy weight loss needs to come gradually. The goal is to give up dieting forever and get back in balance. Stop trying to lose weight. No more counting calories. Instead make a commitment to get healthier.

When you get off the diet roller coaster, you will feel better, become healthier and lose the weight for good. When the body is well fed with healthy foods, it will shed the extra fat. It doesn't have to store it anymore. And when you give the body the nutrients it needs to be healthy, you stop having all the cravings for less healthy foods.

Enjoy the freedom from counting calories. You will find yourself moving slowly and safely to your perfect body weight, and you will feel better than you ever have before, lean and full of vitality, energy and health. This means developing some new healthy eating habits, as well as other health habits such as exercise.

Try to avoid extremes, such as eating a high protein, low carbohydrate diet. Complications associated with low carbohydrate, high protein diets include ketosis, dehydration, electrolyte loss, calcium depletion, weakness (due to inadequate dietary carbohydrate), nausea (due to ketosis), gout, coronary heart disease and possibly kidney problems. Vitamin and mineral deficiencies are other problems in such unbalanced crash diet regimens.

At the other end of the spectrum, some diets are saying avoid protein and fats, but eat as much carbohydrates as you want. Too much of the wrong kind of carbohydrates, especially refined sugar and white refined flour will turn to fat in the body also. Most commercial breads, breakfast cereals, health bars, and low-fat muffins are loaded with empty, fast-release carbohydrates, causing levels of blood-sugar to rise and leading to obesity and hypoglycemia. Many doctors and nutritionists are recommending a diet high in complex carbohydrates, like whole grains, and very low saturated fats.

All of the experts agree that unprocessed complex carbohydrates such as fruit and vegetables, whole grains, potatoes, and legumes are far superior to other forms of refined carbohydrates and should play a significant role in people's eating habits. According to the American Heart Association, a healthy diet rich in fresh fruits and vegetables along with regular physical activity can help most people manage and maintain weight loss for both cardiovascular health and appearance.

Raw, fresh, uncooked fruits and vegetables are best. Cooking foods above a temperature of 118 degrees Fahrenheit destroys the enzymes that the body needs to process and digest that food. For more on enzymes and why many of us need enzyme supplementation, see our Enzyme Information page on our web site at http://enzyme-health.com.


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Why Dieting Doesn't Work

Quick fix diets usually never give long lasting results. The reason is most of the weight loss is due to loss of water. When you restrict calories, your body interprets it as impending starvation. The way the human body works, when it is under stress of starvation, it hoards the fat and burns the muscles first. The weight lost comes from water and the break down of muscles - the places we don't want to lose it from.

So, the last thing you want to do is drastically cut calories. When you do, the body will start breaking down muscle protein to produce energy for vital body functions. The body will use muscle protein as fuel, before it starts burning fat, so you end up losing more muscle mass than fat during dieting.

Breakdown of muscle protein results in large amounts of waste products, ketone-bodies, to appear in the blood. The body has to get rid off these. The ketone-bodies are filtered from blood in the kidneys to the urine. To do this, the body pulls large amounts of water with it, to flush the body out. Thus you lose weight fast. No matter how much you drink, you can't prevent this loss of water. The only way to get control of your water balance is to stop starving yourself.

When dieting, the body starts saving energy by turning some functions off and running others at a slower pace. Fat is designed to provide the body with energy and protect it from starvation. If you go below 1000 calories a day, your body will slow your metabolism down to compensate. That is why weight loss slows down dramatically after a few days on a crash diet. And a slow metabolism is exactly the opposite of what you want to lose weight.

Another reason that diets don't work is bingeing. Bingeing doesn't happen because of a lack of willpower. It is a direct result of dieting. As your body senses a restriction in calories, it goes on the alert for an impending threat to survival. As a result, it tells you to eat, which results in your bingeing on calorie and fat filled foods. The more successful you are at starving yourself, the more the body will increase it's efforts to eat more foods. Eventually the body wins because survival is our strongest instinct. Bingeing is also a result of depriving yourself of something, which psychologically makes you obsessed with what you can't have.

After the quick weight loss diet you go back to your normal eating pattern, and what happens? The body that has shut off functions in order to conserve energy is now, suddenly, fed. The cells in your body have an immediate response to the sudden abundance of food, and that is to keep on saving energy, storing up for the next famine. As your body saves energy, it also begins storing all the extra energy - as fat. So, you end up having lost fat burning lean muscle tissue and added more fat! That wasn't really what you had in mind when you started your diet.

In addition to building fat again, the body has no ketone-bodies to get rid of. Consequently, less water is secreted and your water balance is restored. As you replenish your emptied water stores you rapidly gain back the weight you lost. So, by building fat, and replenishing water, you will gain weight quickly the first few days after a diet.

And each time you diet, you are teaching your body how to deal with starvation by hoarding fat, so each round of dieting increases your overall body fat!


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Important Dieting Information

Are you frustrated with your weight problem and don't know what to do about it? Do you find that you lose weight at first, only to gain it all back later, and maybe more when you stop dieting or when you find yourself bingeing? Are you fed up with weight loss programs that don't work?

There is a good reason for that. You don't lack willpower. You are not doing anything wrong. It is just that dieting doesn’t work!


Weight Loss is a Major Business

A new study released by U.S. Department of Health and Human Resources’ Centers for Disease Control and Prevention shows that deaths due to poor diet and physical inactivity rose by 33 percent over the past decade and may soon overtake tobacco as the leading preventable cause of death. Americans need to understand that overweight and obesity are literally killing us," HHS Secretary Tommy Thompson said, calling this “an epidemic of obesity.” An estimated 129.6 million Americans, or 64 percent, are overweight or obese. Over 1.5 billion people worldwide are overweight and the numbers are increasing rapidly.

At the same time, the numbers of people who go on diets has been increasing. Americans spend more than 40 billion dollars a year on dieting and related products. It is estimated that 70% of American women are trying to lose weight at any point in time, and at least 40% continually yo-yo between weight loss and weight gain. Researchers estimate that 40-50% of high school girls are on diets. Another study found that 46% of 9-11 year olds are sometimes or very often on diets.

If so many people are dieting, then why are weight problems and obesity are among the biggest and fastest growing health problems in the western world. Surely everyone now knows that obesity increases the risks of many health problems, such as diabetes, high blood pressure, stroke and heart disease. And yet, as more and more people diet, our weight problems continue to rise.

The reason for that is that quick weight loss diets don't work! Dieting is a waste of time, energy and money. But this is a little known secret that few will tell you, because too many people are making too much money on the “lose weight quick” scams. The diet industry is raking in billions of dollars and yet almost two thirds of North Americans are still walking around overweight. The diet industry is about one thing... money! Some quick weight loss diets might work temporarily, but in the end the weight comes back, usually more than before. And often a person's health is damaged by these diets.


Facts About Dieting

* Dieting rarely works. 95% of all dieters who lose weight regain their lost weight and more within 1 to 5 years.

* Dieting can be dangerous to your health.

* Yo-yo dieting (cycles of weight gain and weight loss) has been shown to have negative effects on health including increased risk of heart disease and negative impact on metabolism.

* Dieters often miss out on important nutrients that may cause serious health problems.

* Dieting can lead to eating disorders. The obsession to be thin can lead to anorexia, bulimia, bingeing and compulsive exercising.

* Dieting impacts your mental health and restricts your brainpower, leaving you mentally unfocused.

* Dieting robs you of energy and slows your metabolism down.

* Numerous studies link chronic dieting with feelings of depression, low self-esteem and increased stress.

* Dieting increases compulsive eating. It turns us into people ruled by cravings and driven to eat even when we are not hungry. We spend our lives obsessed with food and weight.

* Dieting ends up becoming one of the causes of obesity and eating disorders.

* You are fatter after a diet than before!



From “Why Diets Don’t Work” By Dianne Ronnow © 2005. All rights reserved.


To find out why diets don't work, and for more information on dieting, download the complete Free Dieting Report "Why Diets Don't Work" at http://enzyme-health.com


Thousands of people are losing weight using coconut oil. Find out how at http://coconut-oil-diet.com



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