...digestion
of certain dietary proteins, including casein from milk and gluten from
wheat—both foods significant sources of carbohydrates—produce
opiate-like substances and activities in cell receptors!
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Water
Weight Loss
Water:
Overdosing on water:
A sign that your body has enough water is the feeling that you are having
to force water down in order to meet a certain quota. It is important
to drink water when you are thirsty, but it isn’t necessary to
drink 8-8oz. glasses or water a day if you aren’t exercising or
sweating a lot.
See the below statements from CNN Medical Correspondent
Elizabeth Cohen, How much water do we really need? May 24, 2002 Posted:
1:07 PM EDT (1707 GMT):
“Well, if you're not sweating a lot during your show (the day),
then you probably don't need quite as much water as you think you do.
This eight eight-ounce glasses a day it turns out, after talking to
the USDA, the National Academy of Sciences, the National Institutes
of Health, people at various universities, they say, you know what,
this appears to be kind of a myth. We can't find a single study that
says that that's what people ought to do.”
"After 10 months of careful searching I have found no scientific
evidence that supports '8x8' (drinking 8, 8 ounce glasses of water daily),"
“there is no scientific evidence to back up this advice, which
has helped create a huge market for bottled water.” Dr. Heinz
Valtin of Dartmouth Medical School in New Hampshire. Reference:
No Need to Guzzle All That Water, Expert Says. Reuters Article: Fri
Aug 9, 7:40 PM ET By Maggie Fox, Health and Science Correspondent WASHINGTON.
”… the National Academy of Sciences has put together a panel
of experts to do nothing but look at how much water do we need.”(Current
study, results due in March 2003)
To replace daily losses of water, an average-sized adult with healthy
kidneys sitting in a temperate climate needs no more than one liter
[One liter is the equivalent of about four 8-ounce glasses] of fluid,
according to Jurgen Schnermann, a kidney physiologist at the National
Institutes of Health. Reference: Jurgen Schnermann,
a kidney physiologist at The National Institutes of Health, (NIH), 9000
Rockville Pike, Bethesda, Maryland 20892.
Weight Loss:
(also see Not Low-Cal)
EFAs are thought to lead to weight loss because of their ability to
stimulate thermogenesis (1). Thermogenesis is the process by which
the body can "waste" calories. A number of clinical trials
with obese patients have demonstrated that EFA supplementation is an
effective weight loss prescription (2, 3).
References:
1. Nedergaard J, Becker W, Cannon B. Effects of dietary essential fatty
acids on active thermogenin content in rat brown adipose tissue. J Nutr
113:1717-1724, 1983.
2. Mir MA, et al. The effects of evening primrose oil on erythrocyte
sodium transport and obesity. In: Horrobin DF, ed. Clinical uses of
essential fatty acids. Montreal: Eden Press, pp 53-61, 1982.
3. Garcia CM, Carter J, Chou A. Gamma linolenic acid causes weight loss
and lower blood pressure in overweight patients with family history
of obesity. Swed J Biol Med 4:8-11, 1986.
There are
2 ways to lose and/or not gain weight, either the low-calorie way or
the low-carb way.
Low-calorie
- Starvation dieting (deprives the body of essential nutrients, good
oils and natural fats)
- Gain weight easier, faster (body goes into starvation mode, gains
to protect itself)
- Weight is harder to lose (body holds on to weight to protect itself)
- Possible physical damage due to resulting ill health
- Feeling deprived may lead to sugar dependence and eating disorders
Note: Carbohydrates contain 4 calories per gram
Fats contain 9 calories per gram
Therefore, a low carb/high protein and fat diet is NOT
a low calorie diet!
Low-carbohydrate (read more on carbs
here)
- Solves nutritional deficiency (provides nutrients - essential oils
and natural fats)
- Provides body with desired fuel (natural fats/and essential protein)
- Lose weight healthily (less processed foods, more organic and natural
foods, more essential protein and natural fats, which aid the body in
regeneration and goes to body structure – not body-fat)
- Keep it off (turns your body to a fat burning machine rather than
a fat storage machine)
Low
calorie is a starvation diet:
Millions of chemical processes take place in the body daily for which
the body requires energy. In addition to the energy needed for these
complicated processes, the body needs energy for daily activities. Fuel
for energy is derived both from food and stored body fat. The minimum
daily requirement of calories is 1360 for a woman and 1750 for a man.
This is the Basal Metabolic Rate (BMR). This is only the energy required
if you were to sleep all day. In order to have enough calories for physical
activity a woman would need 2000 and a man 2500. Reducing food intake
below these levels will inevitably result in weight loss, but it is
an unhealthy way to diet. A low calorie diet will change the metabolic
rate, which causes the body to gain weight more easily. This is why
eating low-calorie is considered a starvation diet.
The reason the body puts weight on easier after eating this way is because
a low calorie diet deprives the body of important nutrients, namely
essential oils and natural fats. In other words the body thinks it’s
starving and holds on to fat for it’s own protection. Missing
these nutrients also makes the body more vulnerable to medical disorders
and disease because essential oils and natural fats provide nutrition
from the cellular level up.
A low calorie diet typically consists of a high intake of carbohydrates
and very little natural fat. Carbohydrates provide instant energy that
converts to body fat if not used immediately. Dietary fat also provides
instant energy that won’t convert to excess body fat Eating natural
fats and burning stored body fat provides 2.5 times more energy than
carbohydrate eating. The energy from natural fats is longer sustained
and won’t result in a “low” as with sugar.
The calorie theory has been proven wrong according to the major medical
textbook, Molecular Biology of the Cell.: References:
Molecular Biology of the Cell, Bruce Alberts, Dennis Bray, Julian Lewis,
Martin Raff, ke Roberts, Keith Roberts, James D. Watson, Garland
Pub, March, 1994, ISBN: 0815316194. Textbook of Medical Physiology,
Basic Medical Biochemistry: A Clinical Approach, Dawn B. Marks, Allan
D. Marks, Colleen M. Smith, Lippincott, Williams & Wilkins, August,
1996, ISBN: 068305595X, and The Essentials of Biochemistry (Essentials), Jay
M. Templin, Research & Education Assn, 1998, ISBN: 0878910735
Weight
gain and risk of Diabetes:
For every 10 pounds overweight you become, your risk of developing diabetes
doubles during any 10-year period. Reference: Botton Line, Dec. 15-1997.
Source: David Williamson, PhD, Division of Diabetes Translation, Centers
for Disease Control and Prevention (study based on 14,000 people).
Low Insulin Not Calorie Restriction Lengthens Your Life:
A lean body devoid of fat may be more significant in determining life
span than a calorie-restricted diet, according to a new study of genetically
altered mice. The mice in the study were able to eat whatever they wanted
and still stay slim because their fat tissue had been altered so it
could not respond to the hormone insulin. Insulin helps to move sugar
from the blood into the body’s cells and also helps fat cells
to store fat. Researchers altered the insulin receptor gene in the fat
cells of lab mice, and since insulin is needed to help cells store fat
the mice had less fat and were protected against obesity. The altered
mice ate 55 percent more food per gram of body weight than normal mice,
yet had 70 percent less body fat by the time they reached 3 months of
age. Moreover, the altered mice lived 18 percent longer than normal
mice, and after three years all of the normal mice had died, but one-quarter
of the altered mice were still alive. References:
Science, Bluher M, Kahn BB, Kahn CR., January 24, 2003;299:572-574
Carbs
prevent burning of body fat:
Excess carbohydrates (more than a mere 4 ounces a day) prevent the body
from burning fat, and increase stored body fat. References:
Textbook of Medical Physiology, pgs. 869, 871, 936; Basic Medical Biochemistry—A
Clinical Approach, pgs. 24, 394.
Highly-processed
carbs and obesity:
"It is the large group of carbohydrates, especially the denatured,
over-refined ones, that are the real troublemakers; they are the real
enemies of the millions of men and women who gain weight easily and
who are hard to reduce." Reference: Gayelord
Hauser's Treasury of Secrets, page 383.
Addiction to carbs:
It is a biochemical FACT that digestion of certain dietary proteins,
including casein from milk and gluten from wheat—both foods significant
sources of carbohydrates—produce opiate-like substances and activities
in cell receptors!1 These substances are called “exorphins.”
The Journal of the American Medical Association wrote of this effect
in 1982. Reference: Food Peptides - A New Class of
Hormones?" Journal of the American Medical Association No. 17,
pages 2379-2380.
Insulin
stops fat burning:
It is now known that insulin instructs the body not to burn stored fat.
So there is a compound effect from consuming excess carbohydrates: sugar
is converted into new fat and existing fat is not metabolized. Reference:
Textbook of Medical Physiology, pg. 936, Arthur C. Guyton, John E. Hall,
W B Saunders Co., January 15, 1996, ISBN: 0721659446.
Carbs
raise insulin levels:
Insulin levels will reach 10 – 25 times above normal to get rid
of the excess glucose (sugar), and continue to stay elevated even 2
to 3 hours after the time carbohydrates are eaten. (you won't burn body
fat for this length of time). Reference: Textbook
of Medical Physiology, pg. 977, Arthur C. Guyton, John E. Hall, W B
Saunders Co., January 15, 1996, ISBN: 0721659446.
