Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 I'm working on a book called "The Food Timing Diet" that addresses some good, solid strategies for slowly burning off body fat with food timing strategies and macronutrient cycling. But even this approach is no miracle.
Some people talk about growth hormone and using HGH supplements or DHEA, and certainly those can help with the reduction of body fat by, in a sense, moderating the biological aging taking place in your body. But you're never going to have total success with fat loss unless you also engage in regular physical exercise and pursue a healthy diet. |
| This isn't what you'll hear from those selling fat loss supplements and diet pills, of course. But it's the truth as things stand today. Maybe we will see a revolutionary approach to fat loss at some point in the future (perhaps the PYY appetite control nasal spray, for example), but chances are that medical researchers will continue to be baffled by the human body's multiple, redundant calorie accumulation mechanisms that have so far made it impossible to develop a safe, effective fat loss wonder drug. |
Byron J. Richards, CCN
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 These individuals frequently run on stimulants such as diet soda, excess caffeine, and/or cigarettes. While these individuals may be thin, it is unhealthy as they are in a catabolic wasting pattern. Such individuals invariably have a variety of health complaints that are difficult to resolve because they do not have a normal metabolic energy capable of fixing their health problems. By the time they are in their fifties, they are likely to have serious bone-loss issues.
It is easy to observe by looking at the skin that there is accelerated catabolic wasting in such individuals. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 We're talking about diet of course, and we're talking about supplements. Hygiene is another category we're trying to really introduce, with the concept of advanced hygiene and preventing germs from causing disease. There's the right way to exercise and the need for getting sunlight, rest and sleep – "body therapies," as we call them. There is the area of reducing stress, reducing toxins in your environment -- in the water you drink and bathe in, the air you breathe and the things you put on your skin, your hair or that you brush your teeth with. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Veganism is gaining momentum among the informed, thinking people of the world, and you don't even have to be a pure vegan to experience the benefits of this diet. Just experiment with it and see what works for you. There's no doubt you'll find, as have millions of others, that avoiding animal products, processed foods and manufactured foods, while consuming fresh, organic produce from nature, is the surest path to health, vitality, longevity and lucidity. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 When doctors ask, "How is your diet?" the patient may say, "I've stopped eating meat, cheese, fried foods and drinking soft drinks." But most patients actually have not made those changes, and the doctors are left with a misimpression that dramatic dietary changes have very little effect on blood chemistry. It's an interesting phenomenon I've observed over the years -- when people are describing their dietary habits to doctors or nutritionists, they invent a fairy tale of healthfulness that simply isn't reflected in what they actually eat day to day. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 There are lots of great parents out there raising kids on a macrobiotic diet, a vegetarian diet or a zero-processed-foods diet. Many of those parents are home schoolers, by the way. Good job to all the parents who actually teach their children healthful eating habits! Keep up the goog work!
Unfortunately, those parents are rare. Most parents just buy whatever crap is being peddled on TV these days. And they feed their kids cancer-causing processed meats, hyperactivity-causing food additives and obesity-promoting refined sugars. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 I started to become clear that emotional counseling had to be preceded by counseling on food and diet, because if the diet was healthy and happy, the person was healthy and happy. If these people are eating unhealthy food, they're never going to change.
Mike: At what point, then, did you decide to found an institution of learning about food and health?
Joshua: For many years I followed the macrobiotic diet. I studied with Michio and Aveline Kushi. I traveled with them to Japan. I was fascinated by a diet that was also a way of life. They didn't just say, "Eat this, and avoid that. |
James F. Balch, M.D. and Mark Stengler, N.D.
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 Saturated fat was limited to 20 grams per day or less. The diet included vegetable oils that are rich in polyunsaturated fatty acids and 5 grams per day of cod liver oil. Patients were to eat fish three or more times a week and consume a normal amount of protein. Results showed that 95 percent of the people who started this regimen and had minimal disability to begin with showed very little or no progression of the disease over a thirty-year period. |
| As with almost all digestive disorders, poor diet plays a large role in the unpleasant symptoms of hiatal hernias. Anything that contributes to an overly full stomach— eating too much, or eating foods that are not easily digested—encourages the stomach's contents to back up. In many cases, food allergies make the condition worse. Stress can trigger severe gastric upset as well. Anything that traumatizes the stomach muscles, such as injury, surgery, or pregnancy, can lead to hiatal hernias, as can the general weakening of muscles most people associate with aging. |
| Researchers have stated that the Western diet contains anywhere from fourteen to twenty times more omega-6 fatty acids than omega-3s.
Dr. Ronald Rudin, an expert in essential fatty acids, estimates that over the last seventy-five years, our omega-3 fatty acid consumption has decreased by 80 percent. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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| Then it hit me: Most people think that the processed food diet -- loaded with chemicals, additives, preservatives, artificial plastic fats and milled grains that are depleted of nutrients -- is normal.
In this article, we're going to explore what's normal versus extreme when it comes to food. And on that topic, I have a very different opinion than the masses. My opinion is that "normal" means what the human body was designed to consume. What's normal is food from nature. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 By the way, my diet is currently about 50% raw foods. I make sure to eat a raw food element with every meal, and I drink at least one raw foods smoothie (blended with live sprouts that I grow myself) every day. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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| Ultimately, the consumption of hydrogenated oils and refines sugars can lead to diabetes, heart disease, arteriosclerosis, nervous system disorders, mood swings and birth defects due to malabsorption of essential fatty acids
People can't seem to grasp the abnormality of a diet that is completely incompatible with nature
People think it's normal to drink three cups of coffee a day. They think it's normal to drink soda for breakfast. People think it's normal to eat meat five days a week, or nacho chips laced with chemical excitotoxins and artificial color. But none of this is normal. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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| REPPED: Why would a person make raw foods part of their diet? There are a number of reasons, but perhaps the most important is the health benefit of eating raw foods. There is nothing healthier for the human body than the natural foods it was designed to consume. So, what was it designed for? Was it designed to consume liquid candy in the form of soft drinks, deep fried potatoes, Big Macs and Doritos? Of course not. Those things have only existed for a very short period of time, a few decades, whereas the human body has evolved over a period of at least 500,000 years. |
David Wolfe
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 Many newcomers to raw foods and The Sunfood diet tend to overeat dried fruit and nuts as a replacement for the heavier cooked foods. They are getting a strong dose of concentrated sugar and nut fat. These foods must be balanced by also overeating green-leafed vegetables, such as kale, or one will eventually be thrown off balance.
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Fatty Fruits, Nuts, Coconuts, Seeds
The Sunfood Triangle: The Center Point
(Chlorophyll : Sugars : Fat)
The least stimulating food on the human body is a low-sugar, high-water content, low-fat fruit, such as the cucumber. |
Byron J. Richards, CCN
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| However, individuals with a yo-yo diet history have trained their nervous system and leptin response into a bad habit or routine. Thus, some individuals have an ingrained negative training due either to their own experience or as a "gift" from their parents.
While such individuals know they should follow the Five Rules and exercise consistently, and in fact may even do so once they realize they should, they are more easily thrown into leptin problems resulting in weight gain. For example, they do fine until they get under stress. All of a sudden they start to eat more. |
David Wolfe
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| And an excellent way to introduce important heavy minerals and calcium into a child's diet.
Super Smoothie
1 apple 1 pear
1 small bowl of blueberries, blackberries, raspberries and strawberries. 2-3 tablespoons spirulina 2-3 tablespoons of flax seed oil
Place all contents in a blender, Add distilled water and mix until the desired consistency is reached. This is an excellent breakfast drink in the winter. The pectin in the apples and pears stimulates a bowel movement. The berries are blood builders. The spirulina adds trace minerals. |
Byron J. Richards, CCN
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| Most cows involved in our food supply do not graze on grass; therefore, there is not as much CLA in the diet as there used to be.
CLA is one of the most intensely researched nutrients in the world, and has been for the last 20 years ever since researchers at the University of Wisconsin discovered it while looking for carcinogens in cooked meat. Instead, they found a compound that seemed to stop cancer quite readily. They named this nutrient CLA. |
| An animal study showed that melatonin prevents the accumulation of stomach fat and lowers leptin, independent of the diet.411 Melatonin improves diabetes in animal studies by eliminating insulin resistance.412
It is interesting to note that scientists are demonstrating that low leptin levels in the brain, whether due to leptin resistance or the starvation metabolic pattern, are the actual cause of most hypothyroid problems. We will discuss this in detail in chapter 39. |
| Individuals who are doing everything they can with exercise, diet, sleep, and stress management have numerous nutritional supplement options available to help with a wide variety of issues as to why the scale creeps up during the day. We have provided a checklist of the 15 most common points that interfere with weight loss. A person can gradually increase nutrient support, targeted at their metabolic weak spots, until they are able to maintain a more efficient fat burning mode. These suggestions are posted on our website at www.WellnessResources.com. |
Too Profitable to CureBrent Hoadley, Ph.D.
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| Routine supplementation of the diet with antioxidants is not advised.
What is a diabetic to do when current medical thinking also states:
• High sugar foods are bad (even complex carbohydrates and high sugar fruits);
• High fat diets will clog arteries, increasing risk of heart disease;
• High protein diets, because of the peculiarity of diabetes, are to be avoided because of the wear and tear on a system with already stressed renal function.
All that is left for safe diabetic consumption is H20; and health merchants tell us that our water is polluted. |
Byron J. Richards, CCN
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| The problem with the food pyramid is that the amount of carbohydrates in this diet plan causes individuals who are heading in the direction of insulin resistance and leptin resistance to worsen, especially when they get into excess simple sugar consumption. This is because it promotes excess insulin release that in turn promotes fat storage and higher circulating insulin leading to insulin resistance and leptin resistance. Furthermore, there is no warning not to snack, an issue that really gets a person going in the wrong direction. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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| I always find it funny when people who are addicted to restaurant foods and junk foods say, "You eat such a clean diet, Mike, but I can't live without my Big Mac!" From my perspective, I'm thinking, a Big Mac tastes awful compared to the foods I'm eating on a daily basis. And many of the foods I consume are raw foods.
Raw foods: the most exciting foods in the world
People think that when I eat healthy, I'm somehow living on really boring, drab foods all the time. But they're completely wrong about that. I'm living on the most exciting foods in the world. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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| That is not a normal part of the human diet.
Taking medication is not normal either
Human beings did not evolve to consume prescription drugs either. If they had, prescription drugs would grow on bushes and trees (or the body would produce them automatically), but they don't, which is a strong indication that they're abnormal. Prescription drugs are now the fourth-leading cause of death in this country, according to the American Medical Association. Drugs that have been approved as safe by the Food and Drug Administration kill 100,000 Americans each and every year. |
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