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Lesson Two in Ten 15 Minute Topics.

5/ Don't Start a New Diet

Excess Sugar and Carbohydrates Can be Toxic
Killing You Slowly

Accepting Gradual Loss of Health

Too often bad health is considered "normal" in our society. We accept being over weight. We accept declining strength, and we accept the loss of walking and running ability. If you were healthy, you wouldn't let yourself fade away with no resistance.

It's common for people to put on weight as they age. Common, but bad for us, and not normal. If you add just 500gm to your weight every year, from the age of 50, what will you'll weigh at 80? An extra 15kg makes you obese. To do that all you need to do is eat one extra mouthful every day. You see what a fine line we tread. And also perhaps, that our weight issues are not usually very badly out of control.

The Problem is in the Society - In our Lifestyle

In theory you can get fat over time by eating one extra mouthful a day. Of course that's not what happens, but it does indicate that small changes can accumulate over time. In theory it should be EASY to stop that, but look around you. Most people become unhealthy.

The issue is bigger than changing your diet and exercising more. It's about understanding that exposure advertising and propaganda, attending popular social events, the way we go shopping for food, common things embedded in our society that YOU cannot change, create the long term health decline that's so common in our society.

So what do you do? Start by rethinking what foods you buy, and what foods you prepare for your most usual meals at home.

A Gold Standard Diet? - Is there one?

I always thought that the gold standard for diet was a vegetarian diet. That's wrong. Modern dietary science doesn't give any support for the vegetarian diet. You might have personal reason for wanting to be a vegetarian. It can be done, but it's hard work, and you might struggle to be healthy.

The mixed diet recommended by the Dietary Guidelines for Americans, might be considered a healthy diet. It's a easy diet to eat. It's a high energy diet. However, over time, because our body adapts to the lifestyle we choose, most people in advanced societies develop an intolerance to carbohydrate. Over this diet can become a problem. Stronger than that, the Women's Health Initiative proves that this low-fat high-carbohydrate diet is NOT a healthy diet, that study published in 2006.

Low Carbohydrate Diets

Low carbohydrate high-fat diets, are an alternative diet to help your body cope with developed carbohydrate intolerance.

Lots of people struggle to understand what carbohydrates are. They don't usually look like sugar. Bread, pasta, potatoes, corn, rice, biscuits, fruit and anything made with flour is largely carbohydrate. Root vegetables and many other common foods, cereal and milk, fruit juice and energy bars, scroggin, soft drinks and beer, are all loaded with carbohydrate.

When eaten, sugars, including fructose and lactose, are quickly absorbed. Other carbohydrates, starches, differ from sugar in that they are arranged in long chemical chains which enzymes quickly turn into glucose in the blood. Glucose in the blood is tightly controlled, it's dangerous in excess.

These donuts contain a massive amount of energy (glucose) compared with the tiny amount that is supposed to be constant in your bloodstream (4-5gm). An iced donut has 10 times as much, and people eat more than one. That amount is toxic, and the body has a mechanism to remove the toxicity, the hormone called insulin.

Modern Society Makes Almost Everyone Sick.

People notice that they have become metabolically unhealthy 20 years after the damage began to accumulate. Then they decide it's too late, they think that trying to change things is useless.
Not so, with new thinking, six weeks can change your life.

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