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What Causes Obesity, Diabetes and Hypertension ???

Why is two thirds of this nation overweight?

Research reveals that your body can only burn your fat stores when there is no insulin in your blood

Your WEIGHT is Very IMPORTANT for Your Overall Health

“Weight gain has been strongly associated with cardiovascular disease, diabetes, and cancer. These diseases occur at sharply higher rates in overweight individuals.” CDC

“A review of fourteen major studies found that those losing 5 to 10 percent of their starting weight lowered their total cholesterol by up to 18% and their LDL by even more. They lowered their triglycerides by 15% to 25%.” Jean Carper

 “A consistent finding in the scientific literature is that obese men have low testosterone and very high estrogen.” Life Extension

“A number of chronic diseases have inflammatory components, such as atherosclerosis, obesity, diabetes, cancer, and perhaps even Alzheimer's disease.” Victoria J. Drake, PhD  

“We need to rethink how much we need to eat. We need to take our ideal body weight seriously. If we were to do this alone we would eliminate most cases of diabetes, hypertension, hypercholesterolemia, stroke, heart disease and a significant amount of cancer from our lives and the lives of our loved ones.” Doctor Stephen Strum MD, Prostate cancer specialist

“By and large most nonhuman mammals are spared HBP, heart disease, diabetes, obesity and similar conditions collectively referred to as “the diseases of civilization”.”  Howard & Payne, Note be an animal at least in part

"Having a large waist is associated with a host of potentially serious health issues, such as heart disease, high cholesterol, Type 2 diabetes and inflammation. According to a new study, it might also be linked to something else: death.”   Having Bigger Waist Raises the Risk of Death

"By the  time fat has increased to the point of obesity it begins to cause metabolic dysfunction, including insulin resistance and HBP. and recent research indicates that the influence effects of fat cell produced adipokines may extend beyond metabolic effects to include everything from immunity to cancer and bone formation." Doctor Michael Ozner MD

"Forget counting calories or fat grams. Instead, grow new brain cells by eating the right foods, supplements, teas and spices. Seven teaspoons of spices, seven tea beverages, the ability to combine high fiber meals with green proteins. Add a hormone component and presto! A whole new way of losing weight and living." Doctor Eric Braverman MD, Note the Doctor is describing a daily diet component  

Your WEIGHT is Very IMPORTANT for Your Overall Health 

Being over 20% or so above your optimal weight is harmful for MANY aspects of your health provided of course this weight is fat not muscle.

This protocol will introduce you to some of the most important aspects of getting your weight back to ideal or thereabouts. There is no magic bullet to losing weight but IMO the dozen or so topics covered in this protocol will get you on the track.

Please read the research paragraphs and follow the links to research that interests you. KNOWLEDGE is your most important friend when it comes to health and weight. Developing an academic interest in your health will IMO pay you big dividends.

Why most Diets do not Work

When you go on a low fat diet or a low calorie diet, your body hoards its fat. It then becomes increasingly harder to lose fat. This is one reason why many diets and exercise programs don’t result in body fat loss. To lose weight you must not starve yourself. One of the most astounding things I have learned in my 70 plus years is that to lose weight I have to eat plenty of good fat.

Complicated diets or diets that focus on a single food or food category almost never work.  You soon grow sick of eating an extremely limited diet. Complications are generally not a good idea when it comes to eating. The act of putting food in your mouth is extremely simple. The only questions are what, when and how much.

What Works

IMO what you need is a few simple principals to guide your eating. You want the principals to be part of your healthy lifestyle; you want these principals to be lifetime guides. Follow these principals and you can eat thousands of good foods when ever you are hungry. In fact only eating when you are hungry works well. You are NOT on a "diet". You are eating as an informed human being who knows what and when to eat.

If you give your body good nourishing often raw food and use the techniques in this protocol your body will be happy and not pester you with hunger pains; and your body will adjust its weight to your optimal. Please note that if your body requires critical nutrients you will remain hungry and pestered no matter how many empty calories you stuff down.

Your Thyroid is Important

“Some physicians believe that most people over 40 have a subclinical thyroid deficiency that contributes to their weight gain.”   Bemben et al  

Research strongly suggests that an under active thyroid might be the number one cause of weight problems, especially among women. There are many reasons we tend to put on weight as we age. Like arthritis losing weight is a problem with many dozens of answers. You need not solve each and every problem but you must address the most important and solve or obviate most.

Rapid Weight Gain can be a Blessing

Your body has a wonderful ability to pack on thirty to fifty pounds in a few months. Many of our ancestors used to do this every fall. Without this stored energy we might not make it thru a long lean winter. Eat lots of refined carbs and your body thinks you are getting ready for a long winter. Refined carbs in white bread, flour and processed foods, require large amounts of insulin (See Insulin Protocol). When you consume good fat and protein your body will feel its okay to start burning off your fat because you have let your blood insulin levels fall to zero.

You MUST eat GOOD Food

"Food is powerful medicine. Eating more of certain foods and less of others can substantially boost the bodies ability to fight most illnesses from colds to cancer."   Doctor Keith Block MD

"It appears that obesity is not the only thing controlled by the information in our food. So are stress response, mood, behavior. memory and brain function. That is why a fresh, whole food, organic, real-food diet is the foundation of health."  Doctor Mark Hyman

“The obesity epidemic of the past century has mirrored the rise in consumption of processed, devitalized foods. Doctor Weston A. Price's non-industrialized people, however, did not have weight problems on their traditional diets.”

“Take a look at any overeater... try keeping track of what they eat in a single day. I can tell you right now that your long list will be short of healthy foods. So while they fill their bellies, they starve the rest of their bodies – leading to the kind of nutritional problems that can throw the brain out of whack. You don't need a head shrink to fix that -- you need to eat better, end of story.”   Doctor William Douglass MD

“A study noted that those who use MSG are more likely to be obese even though they have the same amount of physical activity and total caloric intake as those who don't.” UNC School of Public Health in the journal Obesity

Everything else you do will be of no avail if you eat CRAP!

Please realize eating processed "food" and being overweight often go hand in hand. It takes some doing to start to prepare most of your meals at home from scratch with raw food but trying to lose weight eating processed food is like fighting with one or both arms tied behind your back.

Your goal is to reduce the insulin in your blood to ZERO during EXERCISE

“Medium chain fatty acids (As in Cocoanut oil) are rapidly burned as energy and actually promote the burning of long chain fatty acids (As in body fat stores).”   Baba et al

“As compared to those with normal insulin levels individuals with a consistently elevated insulin level, had a 36 fold increase in the prevalence of obesity.” Bao et al 1996

“Losing weight will immediately shift your body’s response to insulin and melt away the glycosylation.” Doctor Mehmet Oz

Research reveals that your body can only burn your fat stores when there is no insulin in your blood, Your body cannot be both storing fat and burning fat: its one or the other. When you eat carbs you force your insulin into your blood stream to store fat. Eating fats and proteins require NO INSULIN.

Your goal is to reduce the insulin in your blood to ZERO; only then can your fat stores be burned. Eating a little good medium chain fatty acid like cocoanut oil with every meal or snack will supply immediate energy without using insulin. We often eat carbs for immediate energy if we substitute cocoanut oil or other medium chain fatty acid for the carbs we can generate immediate energy to exercise and burn our fat stores. So the path to weight loss is clear, if you want to burn your body fat stores, the only way to lose weight, you MUST have NO insulin in your blood stream during your workout. Let’s say you want to workout after you quit work. Have a big breakfast and lunch. After work eat some saturated fat, perhaps a couple of spoons of cocoanut oil as an energy snack. The medium chain fatty acids will give you plenty of immediate energy for your workout without using ANY insulin. There will be NO INSULIN in your bloodstream and your body will be free to burn its fat stores.

 Continuation of  Weight Loss Protocol (See Weight Loss Protocol Continuation)

This site was last updated on: 11 February 2012 02:55 PM

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