De-Bunking The Myths
Is it no wonder each succeeding generation is heavier than the next, and at an earlier age? The food we eat is filled with antibiotics, human growth hormones, pesticides, food additives, chemicals, and molds.
We live in a toxic world. We are exposed to chemical and estrogenic toxins in our environment, toxic contaminants and artificial hormones in the foods we eat, the medications we take, and the cosmetics we wear, and biotoxins and VOCs in our workplaces and our home.
Perhaps surprisingly, the buildup of fat stores has begun to play a crucial role in our survival; your brain, central nervous system and vital organs are vulnerable ‘target tissues’ for toxins. Instead, your fat stores become the place where these contaminants are stored. This is altogether different from the biological purpose of fat, which is to protect you from starvation in leaner times.
Before I explain further the importance of healthy permanent weight loss, let me start by dispelling each of the myths we discussed before:
Myth #1: Consume fewer calories than you expend, and you will magically lose weight.
The premise of a calorie-restricted diet is that by “starving” the body with fewer than 800-1200 calories per day, it will turn to the excessive, existing fat stores and utilize those for fuel. …I have to tell you, this DOES work! I have implemented this with my healthier patients and have seen the results firsthand. The kinds of calories you eat are important; you will require a special formula for suppressing your raging appetite; and, rapid weight loss needs to be physician supervised so that you can monitor for development of gallstones and other side effects.
Detoxification of your ‘waste elimination pathways,’ including organ systems and cells, and supporting a healthy gut terrain is crucial. So is hunting down parasites, viral infections, nutritional deficiencies, not to mention, emotional issues related to food, body image, and weight
Myth #2: Follow a high-carbohydrate, low fat diet and you will magically lose weight.
No other dietary advice has so singularly contributed to soaring obesity rates and be less verifiable in medical science or clinically, in the doctor’s office. The national experiment to build a diet that consists largely of grains has failed. In fact, the result has been catastrophic.
The dependence on wheat and other packaged grains (and the corresponding decrease in healthy fats) has lead to never before seen levels of heart disease, diabetes, and cancer as well as a few silent killers such as celiac disease and candida, and a host of neurotoxic illnesses from Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s to childhood ADHD and autism.
Why? The simple answer is sugar. Not only are low-fat products drenched in sugar as a method for making up for taste, but also refined carbohydrates quickly convert to sugar in the blood stream causing all manner of metabolic processes to go defunct.
The more complicated answer is that humans are not designed to ingest today’s modern, overly processed and manufactured grains. If your diet begins with cereal in the morning and continues throughout the day with breads, sandwiches and burgers,
pastas, cakes, cookies, pizza, and so on, chances are you have leaky gut.
Myth #3: Eat whatever you want, in moderation, and you will magically lose weight.
How could such a benign statement be so far from the truth?
While not so devastating in its consequence as Myth #2 to follow a high-carbohydrate and low fat diet, the proposition of Myth #3 to eat whatever you want in moderation fails to acknowledge that No! Some foods should not ever be consumed at all!
If moderation for you means that you can have soda pop once a year on your birthday, fine. But for most people, moderation means “once a day,” as in everyday, or “only when I’m stressed,” which is almost every day too. In addition to soda, there’s no place in your diet for foods that are rich in trans fats, HFCS, chemical dyes, artificial ingredients, endless amounts of packaging…..in short, junk food. A colleague of mine once stated that if you order and pay for your food in one window and drive up to the next window to pick it up, then that’s junk food.
Furthermore, the “moderation is key” approach leads to completely destructive and undermining habits that only can be remedied by ensuring you consciously choose the food that enters your mouth and nourishes your body.
Myth #4: Stop choosing to be fat and you will magically lose weight.
There is no doubt that you have to want to reclaim your weight and your health. It is an uphill battle and the odds are against you if you don’t have a good measure of personal responsibility and a supportive team. People who achieve their goals have a realistic assessment of what can be done and how quickly.
But the point is: No one chooses to be fat. In other words, it’s not a simple matter of pushing away from the table using only self-discipline. Rather, it’s a matter of regaining your health and discovering what’s been contributing to weight gain.
The message is simple. You have to understand why you are overweight. Is it because you have a parasite, an underactive thyroid, an immune problem, toxic build-up, a food sensitivity, poor gut health, or all of the above?
There is no magic or magic bullet. Instead we offer a safe, effective physician-supervised program that will not only restore you to health and help you lose the weight, but will also give you the tools of a lifetime. It is also one hundred percent drug and surgery free!
