Ulterior Health

The answer is yes. Here is the study from 2003.

Almonds vs complex carbohydrates in a weight reduction program.

CONCLUSION: Eating several ounces of almonds a day can improve a number of problems associated with metabolic syndrome. They even reduced diabetic medication needs.

Almonds decreased body weight, decreased fat and improved health in a number of ways. The weight loss was beyond that of the weight loss using drugs. This study was from a few years ago.

To get the best results: either eat raw or organic almonds, a minimum of several to a few dozen or more.

Many years ago I read of the Readers Digest Diet.

It consisted of eating nothing white. No milk, no sugar, no white bread, no refined pasta, and nothing that was white and refined in any way.

Well, in studying up on weight loss, this is one of the first things to get rid of.

I actually have a diet plan formulating. I am shooting for 90 lbs in six months.

It started on the first of July, 2008. How is it going so far? Today, we are down from 290 to 282.5.

How is it being done.

1) Boosting my glutathione both by diet and supplements.
2) Never skip meals.
3) Eat balance of 1/4th protein, 1/4th carbohydrates and 1/2 vegetables.
4) Replacing all foods with organic.
5) Drinking 2 spoons of cherry juice mixed in water every evening.

So even if I have a bowl of cereal and milk (I have to use up what we have then no more) I will eat two slices of bacon.

Interesting side effect. Eating less, never hungry, and the weight is dropping.

And I have not even started exercise yet.

Try it for yourself.

Good Health to you.

Is your weight challenge or disease the result of your diet? More specifically, allergies to food in your diet.

It is possible there is a pandemic of food allergies.

This is because when we eat the same food over and over, our body will no longer be able to deal with it an we become allergic.

Our allergic reaction may not be as overt as hives, a rash or other immediate signs.

When the immune system is weakened, the white blood cells will sometimes attack healthy organs. These are called auto-immune diseases.

Some of the diseases attributed to this process are…

Rheumatoid arthritis
diabetes
colitis
dermatitis
cancer
kidney diseases
lung diseases

One lady found she was allergic to certain foods she ate all the time. On totally eliminating the offending foods she was able to shed 40 pounds.

Her diet success came from eliminating the foods she ate all the time and eating a balanced diet.

So balanced diet is not limited to 1/3 protein, 1/3 carbs, 1/3 fiber. Balance also includes rotating the foods we eat on a daily basis and not eating the same foods every day.

Sounds daunting doesn’t it. It is not as hard as you think. Weight loss may be as easy as just changing your diet.

We will have some diet plans and some recipes in the future.

What if there was a different way to lose weight? A way involving no drugs, surgery, or money. What if, however, it required time? What if to see success took months and not days and weeks?

What if we even felt bad initially? But what if in time the results were astounding?

This is to propose just such a dietary change. This is not suggesting we abolish vitamins or drugs. This is proposing that a proper diet could be the first step to weight management and ultimately aging management. This is proposing that you start investing in your health.

An immune boosting diet will further help manage disease challenges people face.

To even consider such a change will require a dietary paradigm shift.

A paradigm shift is the changing the approach or underlying assumptions related to our thoughts. It means a radically different way of doing things.

Just eating health would be a radically different change in our society.

What if there was a diet that changed the way we approach weight loss. What if the underlying assumptions of weight loss were eliminated. What if weight loss was only our ulterior motive. What if our motive was better health with a side effect of weight loss.

This is what Ulterior Health is all about. The underlying ways to improve health and weight management. It requires thinking like an investor. Instead of investing money, you will invest time.

It took years to damage our body. It will take time and depending on the level of damage, it could take years to return it to health.

Changing the underlying assumptions starts with the toxins we put in our body. The most insidious type of toxins are a form called medicine.

Related to medicine is vitamins and minerals. Although good, they can never be complete as real food. As such, they can end up being toxins. Find out why in Pills: Two Types, Two Problems. This will be posted tomorrow.

One of the simplest things we can do to lose weight is so simple, you probably will not do it. As a matter of fact, it is so simple and we are so busy we will often forget it.

It does not cost any more. It requires no special foods. It will not only help you lose weight, it will possible cut your food bill (because you will eat less and enjoy food more).

What is it?

It starts with putting your fork down. Or putting your food down. Every time you take a bite, put down what ever your eating. Then chew your food. Chew it until it is not there.

Some will advocate chewing 30 times. Go ahead and count but do not limit the chewing to 30 times. Rather, chew until the food no longer will stay in your mouth. Some foods may take 50 chews to fully masticate.

Think what happens when you have water in your mouth. It is hard to hold it there and have a chewing action going on. Likewise once the food is chewed so sufficiently that you can no-longer hold it, it will go down naturally.

Food naturally has chemical reactions to when chewed. The less chewing, the less nutrients we get from the food. Evidence has shown that taking a supplement cannot always provide all the benefit of real food.

An excellent example of the way this works is the melatonin found in Montmorency Cherry Concentrate which is used to help people who cannot sleep. As a supplement, once your body recognizes the increase, it de-compensates and the pill becomes ineffective. However, when taken in as natural cherry juice, it does not seem to have the problem.

So chew your food, get the maximum nutrients, lose weight, and enjoy.