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Former Fat Guy Newsletter
Health * Fitness * Regeneration * Empowerment
Weight Management Strategies by Rob Cooper
Issue 4 16th November 2004
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CONTENTS:
1: Quick Intro...
2: Why Switch to a Living Foods Diet
3: The Truth about Low Carb Diets
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1: Quick Intro:
Hello, all.. Last month I said I was going to write an
article about the effects of alcohol on your diet and
exercise program. I got quite distracted so it'll
have to wait for a bit.
I did finish my exercise boot camp program.
results:
* gained 12 pounds (almost all water)
* resting heart rate dropped from 60 to 48 bpm
* crunches increased from 96 to 120 in 2 mins
* dips increased from 60 to 88 in 2 min
* pushups increased from 26 to 40 in 2 min
I've kept running 3x a week since the end of the
program and I'm feeling very good about it.
also, I said I'd let you know about any pics I post
from my West Coast Trail hiking trip. The first 5
days of pics and journal are posted at
http://westcoasttrail.formerfatguy.com/
As you can tell from the last couple of newsletters
along with this one, that I'm very big on promoting
a natural food diet... living foods.. etc. I have
been eating Sunrider whole foods for over 14 years
now and find that it's simply the best solution to
health, mental health, stress reduction and just
being your best. Our bodies run on living foods
and they should be primary in your diet.
Until Next time,
Eat Well, Be Well,
Namaste
Rob Cooper
mailto:rob@formerfatguy.com
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2.Why Switch to a Living Foods Diet
Living foods are the key to our health and longevity.
They allow our bodies to perform as they were meant
to. Our bodies have evolved over a four million year
period. For 3,950,000 of those years we ate only raw,
living foods. It is only recently that we have begun
eating cooked food. When we look at other mammals in
nature, we do not see any significant incidence of the
diseases that have become pervasive in humans. No
cancer, heart disease, strokes or diabetes.
Before discussing why Living Foods are so critical to
our health, lets examine what cooking does to food.
The first thing that is lost when you cook something
is its' water content. Our bodies are between 60% and
70% water. Vegetables and fruits are loaded with
water, and it is structured water that better
facilitates our biological processes. Cooking
denatures the proteins in our food, rendering them
harder to digest and utilize.
Cooking destroys 50 percent of the protein in our
food. Between 50 and 80 percent of the vitamins and
minerals are also destroyed. Pesticides break down
into more toxic compounds, which are more easily
assimilated into our bodies. Oxygen is lost and free
radicals are produced.
Most importantly, enzymes are destroyed when food is
heated above 118 degrees. Enzymes are the catalysts of
every chemical reaction in our bodies. Without them,
there can be no cellular division, immune system
functioning, energy production nor brain activity. No
vitamins or hormones can do their work without
enzymes. There are two different types of enzymes in
our bodies, metabolic enzymes and digestive enzymes.
We produce over 100,000 different enzymes, each doing
a unique task.
Interestingly, every food contains exactly the perfect
mix of digestive enzymes to break it down completely.
These are called food enzymes. Nature in its never-
ending perfection sees that all food whether flesh,
fruit or vegetable, decomposes and returns to the
earth from which it came. But cooking our food above
118 degrees destroys its enzymes, leaving our bodies
to generate the enzymes necessary to digest it.
There are two main problems with this enzyme
destruction. First, our bodies cannot produce enzymes
in the perfect mix to metabolize our food as
completely as the food enzymes nature creates. This
results in partially digested fats, proteins and
starches that will clog up our body's intestinal tract
and arteries. The Eskimos are a remarkable example of
this. Eskimo means, "one who eats raw." While living
for centuries on a diet that consisted primarily of
whale or seal blubber, Eskimos developed no arterial
sclerosis. They had almost no heart disease or stroke,
and no high blood pressure. Established nutritional
doctrine would predict a high incidence of these
ailments, but even raw blubber will digest itself
completely if it is not cooked and its enzymes are not
destroyed. But once you heat even the finest olive oil
above 118 degrees, you will not be able to digest it
completely. It will clog you up.
More importantly, it has been demonstrated that our
bodies produce a finite lifetime supply of enzymes.
Every cooked meal we eat causes enzyme production that
draws on our finite reserve. A living food meal does
not cause this drain.
This can help us understand why an 85 year old has
only 1/30 the enzyme activity level of an 18 year old.
Aging is really nothing more than running out of
enzymes. Cells stop dividing, our immune system fails
to handle challenges it managed easily when we were
younger. Our enzyme reserve is depleted over a
lifetime of eating cooked food. In 1930, Dr. Paul
Kouchakoff found that when we eat cooked food, our
bodies attack it with leukocytes, the white blood
cells that are the cornerstone of our immune system.
These cells bring enzymes to the cooked food in an
attempt to break it down and get rid of it. Our bodies
actually treat cooked food as a foreign invader. No
leukocytes are produced when living food is eaten. It
is a tremendous burden on our body to produce
digestive enzymes and leukocytes. It takes ten
metabolic enzymes to make one digestive enzyme. The
pancreas of humans and our domesticated animals is
twice the size as a percentage of body weight, as
mammals in nature. This is a direct result of the
overwork we place on it to create digestive enzymes.
It's no wonder we feel so tired after eating a cooked
meal. We actually burn close to half of the calories
we consume in a cooked meal just to digest it!
In nature, all mammals live eight to ten times their
maturation age. Humans, and our domesticated pets and
farm animals that eat cooked, processed food only live
four times our maturation age. In the famous Pottinger
cat study, it was demonstrated that cooked food diets
result in shorter life spans, congenital abnormalities
and eventually, loss of reproductive capability. In
lab experiments, mice fed a living food diet live
fifty percent longer than mice fed cooked food.
It is amazing to see how all animals in nature
maximize their enzyme reserve. If you give a squirrel
a raw nut, it will not eat it, but always will bury
it. It will only dig it up when the nut has sprouted.
They have found sensors in squirrels' noses that can
identify a sprouted nut. Raw, unsprouted nuts have
enzyme inhibitors that prevent the nuts' food enzymes
from digesting it. Only when it sprouts are these
inhibitors deactivated.
When our bodies eat the living foods they were meant
to, our entire bio-terrain operates in optimal health.
All of our cells, organs and systems are able to do
the jobs they are capable of in perfect balance. A
healthy bio-terrain requires proper enzyme capacity,
acid-base balance and a healthy digestive tract. These
can be achieved through a living foods diet. With a
healthy bio-terrain, our bodies manage all health
challenges quite effectively. This is why we rarely
see disease in mammals living in nature. It is what we
put into our bodies that prevent them from doing what
they are capable of. Cooked food destroys our bio-
terrain. Living foods support a healthy bio-terrain.
A living food diet leads to a longer, more energetic
life. Think of how you feel after a Thanksgiving
feast. The burden of digesting a cooked food meal
drains our energy. This does not happen with living
foods and the extra energy allows the body to focus
its resources on cleansing and rebuilding. Less sleep
is needed and it is more restful. Only when we eat
food that our bodies evolved eating, we will produce
the right balance of hormones and brain
neurotransmitters.
Rob's Note: The Sunrider whole foods that I recommend
are living foods. The basic Sunrider program
incorporates a blend of over 100 organic system
specific whole foods into your diet. You don't have
to know anything about health, diet or anatomy. When
you eat the Sunrider foods, your body takes care of
the rest.
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3: The Truth About Low Carb Dieting
Author: Gary Matthews
Every day you walk down the street it is becoming more
and more apparent that the average person is becoming
larger and this trend has escalated over recent years.
Why are they getting fatter? Here are some reasons ...
* Less incidental activity
* Automated and computerized lifestyle
* Longer working hours and less leisure
* Increased consumption of processed foods
* Our food servings are larger than ever
Being overweight, or obese, has now moved from a
social nuisance and domestic embarrassment to an
official disease. The American Heart Association has
announced obesity is a major risk for heart disease.
Obesity itself has become a major and dangerous
epidemic. More than 70% of US adults are overweight
and that figure is rapidly increasing.
What do most people do to rid their body of unwanted
fat? They diet! Dieting is now a trillion dollar
industry and just about every month a new diet is
announced. If you do have weight problems how do you
find a diet that is safe, effective and sustainable?
What you do is try to find a diet that includes a
variety of foods that you can live with comfortably.
You have to take a long-term view and include plenty
of exercise. A good diet is one that supplies all of
the essential vitamins and minerals, and is not high
in fat or protein.
Research on people who have successfully lost a lot of
weight and kept it off long term, shows that the vast
majority succeeded by consuming a low fat diet high in
fiber coupled with strength training and
cardiovascular activity.
Be wary of diets that...
* Ban a specific food group
* Promise a quick fix
* Replace a balanced meal with a drink or a snack bar
* Make recommendations based on single studies
* Make recommendations to help sell a single product
Excess weight does not appear overnight and nor will
it disappear overnight! In fact the faster you lose
weight, the more likely you are to pile the pounds
back on. Seek out a program that will help you
maintain long term body fat losses by providing
attainable solutions such as a program that promotes
lifestyle changes, healthy eating and regular
exercise.
Regular exercise is important (i.e. strength training)
as it burns fat, boosts your metabolism and also
increases your energy levels. Dietary changes can lead
to initial weight loss, but this is only for the short
term.
Exercise is essential for maintaining weight loss for
the long term.
read more from the article on my web site at:
http://www.formerfatguy.com/articles/low-carb-truth.asp
Gary goes on to talk about carbohydrates, proteins and
fats and why low carb diets are just wrong...
"LOW CARBOHYDRATE DIETING IS SIMPLY WRONG.
Why is this? Just as a car runs better on a certain
fuel, so does the human body. Unfortunately the latest
low-carbohydrate fad diets are not the fuel mix the
human body was designed to run on.
Carbohydrates contain 4 calories per gram, whereas
fats contain 9 calories per gram. For weight loss, the
priority is to decrease total calorie intake. Reducing
the amount of fat in the diet will make the biggest
difference in reducing total daily calorie intake and
hence weight loss. "
read the whole article here:
http://www.formerfatguy.com/articles/low-carb-truth.asp
Gary does a good job of explaining calorie intake vs
calorie expenditure. It's a philosophy I have
followed for years and even more so in the past few
months. If my exercise output has increased, my
calories increase as well, but when the activity level
has declined, so does my intake..
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Quit Drinking Coffee and Tea...
For those eliminating or wanting to eliminate coffee
or tea from your diet, I recommend a whole food
beverage offered by Sunrider called Calli. Shao-lin
temple priests ate this formula of whole food herbs
as a salad for it's ability to improve mental clarity
and improved concentration.
Now available in a concentrated whole food beverage,
Calli is alkaline in nature and has less caffeine than
a carrot.
Calli can aid digestion and by it's alkaline nature,
less impurities are likely to be absorbed or retained
from normal digestion.
http://www.formerfatguy.com/sample-packs.asp
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Health
Some people don't do well simply because they don't
feel well.
Some people take better care of their pets than they
do themselves. Their animals can run like the wind and
they can barely make it up a flight of stairs.
Make sure the outside of you is a good reflection of
the inside of you.
Treat your body like a temple, not a woodshed. The
mind and body work together. Your body needs to be a
good support system for the mind and spirit. If you
take good care of it, your body can take you wherever
you want to go, with the power and strength and energy
and vitality you will need to get there.
Take good care of your body. It's the only place you
have to live.
- Jim Rohn
http://www.formerfatguy.com/jimrohn/
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