• Contents of this article also apply to obesity.
A Good Doctor Shows A Patient How To Live So The Patient Does Not Get Sick
—Old Chinese Proverb
For best results, you should read the whole article to fully understand how to implement this diet. It is essential to have the right frame of mind, to properly implement this diet and stick with it. For most people, simply reading the bullet points of what to eat and what not to eat, will not do it for them. More education and facts are required for the necessary understanding that this approach can work, does work and; is scientific.
Following this approach requires fortitude, commitment and an open mindedness. Introspection and Contemplation — are mind altering activities. These are essential components of this diet.
Whether you realize it or not, you have been inculcated, trained from birth, with ideas on how to eat; what is healthy and; how to be healthy. "Finish your plate!" Correct? You were brought up with and taught this idea. It was drummed into your head. But is it correct?
These ideas that you have been taught; these habits on how to eat; may or may not be correct. The only way to assess the correctness is by an open minded logical analysis. If it is making you sick, it can't be that good an idea. Right?
The only way to stop an incorrect idea is with logic, reason and facts that prove the idea is a fallacy, a mistaken, illogical argument.
This journey requires probity — a true intellectual open mindedness and doing a lot of thinking.
Nurture and care for yourself. Design your care to meet your specifications.
It should not be a struggle to not eat whatever.
It should be a joy to work with your body--to make your body work. It should be a joy to learn to eat from the garden of the earth, all the different herbs, spices and flavorings. Not just the sugared, manufactured, processed foods you are used to eating. Foods permeated with "flavorings"—which are often just chemicals tricking your taste buds.
People are so used to eating processed foods with chemical flavoring additives, that they have no idea what the real food tastes like!
Try it! Your first homework assignment. Taste real blueberries. Compare with a "blueberry" yogurt. Squeeze a little lemon or lime into water. Look at the color. Does it look like the lemonaide or limeaide in "juice drinks" on the shelf. Taste the difference.
Succeeding at altering your lifestyle to a custom tailored healthy lifestyle, is an accomplishment! Succeeding at this is winning in the race of life! This should not be a struggle against your body and its urges. IMHO, there definitely is such a thing as a sugar addiction. Knowingly or unknowingly, society and the food industry feeds and preys on the sugar addiction.
'Do not wait until you have Adult Onset of Type 2 Diabetes to treat Type 2 Diabetes with diet'.
Now, isn't that a novel concept?
Treat the disease
Not a vaccination. But, the actual treatment.
[Stop and think about that for a moment.]
There is a diabetic genetic make up.
Not too hard to conceive that a disease is in your genes. However, studies of twins have shown, that not everyone with the same genes gets diabetes. There is a diabetic personality. In fact, genetics has taught us, that it is often, not the genes you have, but, what you do with them that counts.
Why wait until you are sick to "Eat Right"?
Why not "Eat Right" from the start?
Then, when you have to "Eat Right"; you will already be "Eating Right". Get it?
You will live longer, healthier, and pain free; if you "Eat Right" now.
You already have the genetic foundation for the disease. The disease will bloom, if you nurture the disease. If you do not nurture the disease, the disease can not grow. Get it?
Do you want to nurture the genetic foundation into a full blown disease?
Think you do not have symptoms of diabetes now? Think again. People who get diabetes, usually have a smorgasbord of diseases and symptoms. Concomitant symptoms, symptoms that go along with the disease but, are not part of the disease. "Pre-diabetics" we will call them — people who are in a "high risk group" for contracting diabetes; will often get a variety of certain ailments. Boils, for example. Then, after years of getting these ailments, full blown diabetes sets in.
If you are a parent, know your genetics, your child's genetics, your family's genetics and; teach your children to "Eat Right" for their genetics.
Another new idea: "Eating Right Is Personal". Everyone has a different set of genes. "Eating Right" is not the same for everyone. Those with the diabetic genes have to "Eat Right" differently, from those who do not have the diabetic genes.
[Stop and think about that for a moment.]
Eating Right To Avoid Adult Onset of Type 2 Diabetes
If it is not already obvious, NO Cake, Cookies, or Candy.
Cut out or down the sugar. Especially, white sugar. More detail on this to follow.
Cut out the processed flour.
Limit your coffee to a maximum of 1 cup of coffee a day.
Eat vegetables. Eat vegetables. Eat vegetables.
Limit your starch. Your starches, grains, should be whole and complex.
Cut down on the bread!
Eat more protein. — Fried chicken and meat basted in jam do not count as protein!
Beware, sweet foods are like, but not the same as, sugar. For example, fruits, dried fruits, dates are very sugary.
Stop drinking soda, even diet soda.
Eat fenugreek or drink fenugreek tea with every meal.
• Simple? Yes.
• Simple is not easy.
Let's look at each of these individual nutritional actions in more detail.
Dealing With the Manipulation of Your Biology & The Honey Traps of the Food Industry
• Why Do They Put Candy at the Checkout?
• You Are the Target of Fattening Fast Food Establishments
Most people talk about self control when talking about diets. As if it is your fault, that you eat all this junk. Yes and … a lot of no!
Let's see what a doctor, an FDA doctor, has to say about overeating. Not only is he a doctor. But, he is also knowledgeable about the food industry. You can get his book in the library. You could probably buy it on Amazon. It is definitely worth reading. It rings true.
Your Food is Fooling You: How Your Brain is Highjacked by Fat, Sugar and Salt by Dr. David A. Kissler, formerly of the FDA
He says some interesting facts. For example:
• This is a medical fact.
• This shows up on MRI scans.
• This is true of 60% of the population.
Now, that's interesting.
Have you ever read a label for processed food?
Try to find a processed food without salt and sugar?
Now you know why you can't stop eating. The food is designed to be eaten. You really can't eat just one.
When you eat this food it makes you hungry. Get it?
That's why you eat the whole box of cookies.
That's why you feel hungry when you pass certain places and things. Like cookies on an aisle in the supermarket. Or, a particular fast food establishment.
That's why you feel hungry when looking at the ads for cookies on sale.
• The solution is to not buy cookies.
• The solution is to not walk down the isle with cookies.
• The solution is to not look at the cookie ads.
• The solution is to disassociate yourself and your children from the Cookie Monster.
There are some more details to this. Like how the sugar, by different names, is loaded into food.
- Invert Sugar
- Cane Sugar
- Beet Sugar
- High Fructose Corn Syrup
- Beet Sugar
The list goes on.
Add up the several sugars in the prepared food and it is over loaded with sugar.
The same is true of oil.
- Corn Oil
- Soy Bean Oil
- Canola Oil
- Sunflower Oil
- Butter Fat
- Cocoa Butter
In fact, the food industry often mixes in several oils for flavor. Secrets of recipe.
So, those spinach calzones that sound so healthy. Yeah, well. They sound real healthy because they have green vegetables in them. Right?
Well, not very much vegetables. Just a little green for color. The calzonne does not have the requisite 60% vegetable content that your diet should contain [according to the FDA and leading nutritionists like Dr. Bernard Jensen, R.I.P.].
The flour has oil in it. The cheese has oil and butter fat. The flour soaks up the oil from cheese. The dough is basically an oil sponge.
There's salt added into the dough. There's salt in the cheese. In fact, cheese is so high in salt, that dietitians tell people with high blood pressure, not to eat cheese. How much more salt do you really need to eat?
The flour probably has sugar added to it. Read the ingredients on the pizza in the frozen section of a supermarket. And, the processed flour breaks down into sugar very quickly.
Any combination of 2 of the 3, salt, fat/oil and sugar will light your brain up like a crackhead. There's all 3 in the calzonne! There's sugar, salt and oil — in high concentration. Your brain is lighting up like a crackhead!
Yeah. You're addicted. You want to do it again. And, again. And, again. Until you are bloated. Stuffed. — A terrible expression to use for eating. The truth about your thoughts comes out in your words. Eat to live. Do not "stuff" yourself.
Get it? I think so.
The good doctor does not consider the food companies the axis of evil. Just trying to sell product. Not that the food companies went looking and researching just how to make food addictive. They just stumbled onto this fact. Then, incorporated this information into their recipes and focus groups. So, they could sell more product.
Not the most healthy approach for the consumer.
Now that you know this, read labels. Don't buy food with all these ingredients in them. Just say no to drug like food stuffs.
Caloric Density & Overeating
Caloric Density — That sounds scientific!
Forks Over Knives -- A movie about two doctors reversing heart disease by diet. Lest you think the doctors are quacks, one of the doctors, is the doctor who developed the now famous bypass surgery.
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In Memory of My Sister Dulcie Zirkind, R.I.P. who struggled with diabetes, an eating disorder and food addiction. Friday, May 29, 2015