Kirsten Plotkin answers:

There is one thing you need to realize:  Nobody but you and those who love you, have any reason to help you lose weight for good.  They want you to lose weight for awhile, it proves their know how and good faith.  but to stay in business and continue to make money on diets,  they need you to put the weight back on again.  Whether they believe their own nonsense – or not, the fact is; diets don’t work.  They can’t your body won’t let them.  To learn the reason, read the answer to the question above.

Kirsten Plotkin answers:

The bad news is, whether they are free weight loss programs or paid;  the end result will be the same.  The weight you lose on a diet will always return.  That’s the way your body works.  It’s called Nature!   What you need is to learn what your body wants you to do about your weight.  It doesn’t want the fat anymore than you do.   I have 2 free videos you should watch.  It will help you understand your body and what you need to do to lose weight for good.  Just follow the link below.

The Carbohydrate Addicts Manual!

 

Kirsten Plotkin answers:

They are selling you weight loss programs.  Would you buy weight loss programs from people who are fat?  They probably already know that diets don’t work.   They are either between diets, or they never had a weight problem to begin with.  All you need to know is that whatever weight loss programs they recommend, it will be a diet and diets don’t work for very long.  Do yourself and your body a big favor: Watch these two free videos and discover the only way to lose weight for good – and it doesn’t even require you to diet.

Kirsten Plotkin answers:

For twenty years I used all the weight loss programs that came on the market.  I always lost weight and the weight always came back.  I finally set out to discover why.   What I learned shocked me.  It enabled me to lose weight for good.  I haven’t had a weight problem for eight years.  The method I used was easier and more amazing than any of the weight loss programs I had struggled with for twenty years.   Today, not only am I slim and happy, my body is happy.  it keeps my metabolism happy while it makes sure the weight will never return.  If you want to learn more check out the 2 free videos you can access on the link below.

The Carbohydrate Addicts Manual!

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Quote: “We need to diet to lose weight‘  Wrong!   In fact, it’s diets and dieting that make us fat.  Our body can’t tell the difference between a diet and a famine.  When we diet we signal to our body that we are in a famine.  The body slows down  our metabolism and prepares to store fat.  As soon as the diet is over it will waste no time recovering every ounce of fat you have managed to lose, no matter how long it takes.   With each diet it will always add  extra fat to protect you against the next famine.  That’s why, each time you diet you end up fatter than when you began.

Here is another quote: “Eating fat is what makes us fat”  Wrong!  Fat is a necessary, healthy food group.  The fat that sticks to our ribs, tummy hips and thighs is called body fat.  It get that name because it is fat that only you body can produce.  It comes from the carbohydrates you eat, but don’t burn up in energy.  Every carbohydrate you eat is converted to glucose.  Glucose is liquid sugar. Don’t expect to find any nutrients in that!  But  it happens to be your body’s preferred fuel.  Given today’s lifestyle, It takes very little fuel to provide for the necessary daily energy.  That’s why everybody is getting fat!

We can’t blame either obese people, or their obesity for getting fat!   Why?  So called experts, including government departments, encourage carbohydrates as healthy and necessary.  The priority here  is not to protect the population from an insidious addiction.   The priority is to protect industries like cereal, snack food and diet food manufacturers. Even grain growers.  These are valuable contributors to government campaign funds.  it’s all about priorities!

kbp-admin answers:

Obesity is not a popular subject.  It is the kind of subject that demands unpopular actions.  Unpopular not to the people who suffer from obesity, but to the people who profit from it.  Obesity is caused by an addiction that is downplayed and literally sugar coated to keep any probing lights from shining on it.  We are talking about a carbohydrate addiction that is ruining lives and severely threatens the next generation.  These are the kind of facts that make the people who profit from the addiction, shift uncomfortably in their chair and look the other way.

We saw it all before, in the 80′s.  After more than thirty years, debating “is it an addiction – or not”?  We finally had the big court case.  A few people were humiliated and kicked out of the industry.   But look at the industry now!  Right back to business as usual, preparing a whole new generation of tobacco addicts.

Nobody is prepared to accept the consequences of admitting that carbohydrate addiction is not a quirky lifestyle or a cute obsession with sugar.  It is real and it is deadly.  Today, carbohydrates have become the most common, in fact,  the number one addiction that already affects more than 60% of the population.  It is the cause of a well recorded obesity epidemic.  it causes morbid obesity and type2 diabetes.  Both diseases were unheard of till carbohydrate addiction began.  It has become responsible for the biggest ever increase in heart disease, colon and bowel cancer.  These are just the fatal diseases caused by carbohydrates.

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General, Common Opinions on Obesity

A recent Kaiser Permanente (2003) study notes that bias against  obesity is one of the last “acceptable” areas of discrimination. The obese and overweight are routinely caricatured and ridiculed in popular culture, and face personal discrimination.

Popular opinions of obesity are overwhelmingly negative. Common opinions about obesity include:

The obese are “unattractive” or “repulsive.”
The obese are unpleasant, rude or stupid.
The obese could lose weight if they only tried harder.
The obese lack willpower, are lazy or lack self-control.
The overweight and obese are to blame for their condition.
In many cases, it’s still seen as acceptable to make sweeping generalizations about people based on their weight. These negative opinions of obesity affect the overweight and obese in many different ways.

Facts about Obesity and Workplace Discrimination

Multiple studies have suggested that obesity affects success in all areas of the workplace. After analyzing the results of 29 unemployment discrimination cases, the Western Michigan University Department (1999) found that:

Employers tended to rate obese job candidates lower than other candidates.
Employment decisions were likely to discriminate based on weight
Mildly obese women’s wages were 5.9 percent lower than women of standard weight
Morbidly obese women’s wages were 24.1 percent lower than women of standard weight
Some research participants considered the obese less desirable employees than ex-felons.

 

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One in three or 58 million American adults aged 20 through 74 are overweight. According to data from the Third National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES III), the number of overweight Americans increased from 25 to 33 percent between 1980 and 1991.

By a similar definition, more than one in five children and adolescents aged 6 through 17 are also overweight. Even using a more rigorous definition recommended for youths, 11 percent of children and adolescents are overweight, up from approximately 5 percent in the 1960s and 70s.

Overweight and obesity  are a known risk factor for type2 diabetes, heart disease, high blood pressure, gallbladder disease, arthritis, breathing problems, and some forms of cancer.

Doctors and scientists generally agree that men with more than 25 percent body fat and women with more than 30 percent body fat are obese.

When a man’s BMI is over 27.8, or woman’s exceeds 27.3, that person is considered overweight. The degree of obesity associated with a particular BMI ranges from mild obesity at a BMI near 27, moderate obesity at 30, severe obesity at 35, to very severe obesity at 40 or greater.

An estimated 41 percent of the population has a BMI greater than 25.

The percentage of dietary fat American adults eat.
34 percent

The percentage of saturated fat American adults eat.
12 percent

The number of extra calories a person must eat to gain a pound or burn to lose a pound.
3,500 calories

The percentage of adult American women trying to lose weight at any given time.
33 to 40 percent

The percentage of adult American men trying to lose weight at any given time.
20 to 24 percent

The average number of calories a person burns eating.
.023 kcal per minute/per kilogram of body weight 7

The annual number of deaths attributable to poor diet and inactivity.
300,000 deaths

Nearly 80 percent of patients with NIDDM are obese.9 Much of the estimated $11.3 billion dollars spent each year to diagnose, treat, and manage NIDDM, including treatment for diabetic ketoacidosis, diabetic coma, diabetic eye disease, and diabetic kidney disease, stems from obesity.

Gallbladder disease
The incidence of symptomatic gallstones soars as a person’s body mass index (BMI) goes beyond 29.10 Nearly $2.4 billion dollars or 30 percent of the total amount spent annually on gallbladder disease and gallbladder surgery are related to obesity.

Heart disease
Nearly 70 percent of the diagnosed cases of cardiovascular disease are related to obesity.

Obesity
Obesity accounts for $22.2 billion, or 19 percent, of the total cost of heart disease.

High blood pressure
Obesity more than doubles one’s chances of developing high blood pressure, which affects approximately 26 percent of obese American men and women. The annual cost of obesity-related high blood pressure is close to $1.5 billion dollars

Breast and colon cancer
Almost half of breast cancer cases are diagnosed among obese women; an estimated 42 percent of colon cancer cases are diagnosed among obese individuals. Obesity-related breast cancer and colon cancer account for 2.5 percent of the total costs of cancer, or $1.9 billion dollars, annually.

Americans spend an additional $33 billion dollars annually on weight-reduction products and services, including diet foods, products, and programs.

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kbp-admin answers:

Eat a breakfast of bacon and eggs just as people did before we all began to get fat on cereal and other empty carbs.  If you eat a sandwich for lunch, make the filling with any lunch meat or hard cheese and make sure it’s the main feature.  Make the bread no more than 10% of the filling.  For dinner have 2 serves of meat or fish and one serve of green vegetables or salad add liberal mayo or other dressing.  Forget calories, don’t eat snack foods and if you need fruit, make sure it is berries.

kbp-admin answers:

You will lose weight if you follow the meal plan I set out in the answer above, you will lose all your excess weight.  When you reach your normal weight,  your body will simply stop shedding the weight.

kbp-admin answers:

I’ll assume you don’t just want to lose weight, you want to lose weight for good?  Believe it or not, it’s really not that difficult.  But it is counter-intuitive and therefore a little difficult to get used to.  If you read previous post you’ll learn how to do it.  If you want a better understanding of why that method works,  when diets will not, you’ll find a couple of free videos by clicking here.

kbp-admin answers:

The best advice I can give you, to lose weight,  is to read all the previous answers on this page.  When you study, keep a full bottle of water nearby.  Drink as much of it as you can and make sure you get plenty of sleep.  Avoid all drinks except water and don’t eat anything that comes in a wrapper, a bag, a box or any other kind of packaging.  Avoid any food that may have been chemically treated.  As for exercise, walk intermittently, even if is inside the house.

The advice given on this page comes from the book

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kbp-admin answers:

Sugar and yeast are both carbohydrates.  People, who do not have medical credentials may try to tell you that a protein diet is a bad thing.  But it happens to be the diet you should follow.  So when people try to tell you how bad a protein diet is.  Just remember, to tell them this.  Human beings developed and thrived on a protein diet.  When natural carbs foods were found in nature, they were included in the diet for variety.  However, human beings survived an Ice Age, countless harsh winters and who knows how many famines.  They did so without carbohydrates.

Since the traditional diet  protein diet was suddenly abandoned forty years ago, people have tried to force their metabolism and digestive system to adapt to carbohydrates.  Particularly factory produced and processed foods that are not even real food.   Trust me, if you can stick to a protein diet, your health will be streets ahead of anyone elses.   But remember this.  No carbohydrate contains a protein or, vice versa.  And no carbohydrate is essential to your health.   The only purpose for carbohydrates are to be converted to glucose and used for fuel.  You body can equally well convert protein into glucose.  So there you have it.  You don’t need carbohydrates, but a few natural growing carbs like greens, berries avocado and nuts can dress up your protein diet. There are just 3 types of foods that matter: protein, natural growing carbohydrates and fats.   If you stick to those you can’t go wrong.

kbp-admin answers:

You are not saying why you need a diet.  I will presume you have a weight problem.  If so, I have some bad news for you.  The food that makes you fat is not the fat you eat.  It’s the carbohydrates, particularly processed carbohydrates you eat.  Carbohydrates are highly addictive.  That’s why they’re so hard to ignore.  They make you fat and they make you unhealthy.  Eventually they turn you into an addict.  If you insists on being a vegan stick to carbohydrates that grow naturally in nature.  The human body has had time to involve and has learned to incorporate those foods.  Under no circumstances eat anything that comes in a package, a box, a wrapper a carton or any other form of packaging.

Avoid anything made from flour, especially white flour.  That also includes sugar.

kbp-admin answers:

I believe the right diet, rather than the right exercise, is key to you health, welfare and a long life.  The right diet consists of the foods   our body has evolved to process. That is protein, a reasonable amount of fat, along with a small portion of natural, unprocessed carbohydrates.  Till forty years ago most people still followed the traditional diet.  Since evolution takes centuries, not a few decades, It’s safe to assume that the best diet is the one grandma recommended.  Grandma knew only one diet, the natural traditional diet. If you search Google, you’ll find lots of articles on strength training or power lifting.  But you won’t have the proper strength, or be in the right condition, to do extreme exercise.  Not unless you first learn to eat the right food.

kbp-admin answers:

To be honest, I have eaten very few carbohydrates for the past eight years.  I never eat bread, pasta, rice, lentils, root vegetables or anything that can be bought in a box, a wrapper, a package, a carton or anything marked food that comes from a factory or a processing plants.  As to fruit.  I stick to berries.  I should add; I have never felt healthier.   I have eliminated pre-diabetic symptoms and my body is slim and fit.   I live by my own Carbohydrate Addicts Manual.  At age 70, what else is there?

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kbp-admin answers:

Because fruits and vegetables are high in carbohydrates.

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All fruits and vegetables are 100%  carbohydrate foods.  We often refer to good carbohydrates as opposed to bad carbohydrates.  The difference is between the natural carbohydrates,  human beings have evolved with through the centuries.  And the human-made,  manufactured carbohydrates, that have spread and multiplied over the past several decades.

Good carbohydrates!

Raw and lightly steamed vegetables,

Legumes, beans, nuts, seeds, mushrooms and avocados

Berries

Natural, processed bran

 

Bad carbohydrates

•Sodas,
•Candies,
•All pastries,
•Jams and jellies,
•Fruit juices and drinks,
•Refined grains, like white rice,
•Bread and pasta with refined flour,
•Most pudding, custards and other sweets,
•Cakes, cookies and any sweet bakery products.

Anything that’s rolled out of a factory or proccessing plant.  Whether low carb, low fat, or ‘light’.  Don’t even touch it!

kbp-admin answers:

So long as you don’t have an addiction to carbohydrate foods,  a little treat now and then won’t cause you any harm!

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Healthy  carbohydrates:

Avocados, mushrooms, nuts,  berries, and green vegetables

Healthy  Protein:

All protein is healthy. It includes meat, Poultry, fish, seafood and eggs

Healthy  fat:

Butter, oil and fatty fish like salmon

ETA:  Healthy carbohydrates are those that have minimal impact on your blood glucose levels. A slice of whole grain bread has the same impact on your glucose levels as a chocolate bar. Peanut M&Ms have less effect on your blood sugar than bread. White bread is even worse.

There are no such thing as unhealthy proteins and there is no such thing as essential carbohydrates.  Human beings  evolved and thrived for centuries. Often without any carbohydrates, particularly through harsh winters and famines.

There is nothing unhealthy about natural fats.  Unhealthy fats are those that are packaged and marked ‘low fat‘ or ‘light’.  These have been chemically altered, they are dangerous and should be avoided at all cost.

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kbp-admin answers:

I hope you’re not serious.  People with morbid obesity are not eating for pleasure anymore than smokers go through 3 packs a day because they love cigarettes.  They do it because they are addicted.  They are not in control of their actions.  They don’t need advice or threats.  They need people who can help them understand their addiction and teach them how to cure it.

kbp-admin answers:

I totally agree with you!

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Don’t over-complicate things.  The diet industry, and that includes cereal, diet food and snack food manufacturers, have an agenda.  That agenda does not include the first law of thermodynamics, or any other scientific theory or premise.  The industry is in business to manufacture and distribute as many carbohydrate products as their in-house chemists can conjure up.   They are in it for the money.

They put a lot of effort into gathering pseudo science that can suggest carbohydrates are good for people.  Particularly carbohydrates that have gone through a process that renders them sterile and gives them a shelf life -often for months.  The industry supports an army of self elected experts – like nutritionist.  Nutritionists use the pseudo-science to give themselves credibility and self importance.  Their education does not provide them with a science or medical degree.

Are we talking about the kind of food that evolved with the  human body  over countless centuries?  Of course not!  These are not foods, they are manufactured products.  They have no place inside the human body.   It may as well be food from another planet.  The internal human system does not adapt.  It evolves.  Evolution takes a really long time. Think in terms of centuries!

kbp-admin answers:

People with morbid obesity live in a society that dare not acknowledge that the food people cannot stop eating , is food that the human body was not designed to digest. They have become carbohydrate addicts and the world around them goes to great length to avoid official recognition and an allocation of blame.  Morbid obesity and type2 diabetes are human creations.  These diseases did not exist forty years ago.  Today we have massive, multi-national corporations that exist and profit solely on the manufacture of carbohydrate products.  The grain growers depend on it and governments always protect the grain growers.   People with morbid obesity are what governments like to call collateral damage.  Perhaps that’s why they get the free stuff!

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kbp-admin answers:

Carbohydrates are addictive.  Particularly manufactured and processed carbohydrates.  That means they make you hungry.  To learn about low carbohydrates, read the answer to the previous question.

kbp-admin answers:

I recommend you read my answer to the first question on this page.  There are some things you need to learn.  A low carbs diet  will not help you lose weight if you are already addicted to carbohydrates.  All it will do is eventually make you fatter!

kbp-admin answers:

Our diet consists of 3 main elements.  Protein, carbohydrates and fat.   Proteins are essential to human life.  Carbohydrates are the main source for fuel that provides us with energy. Fats are a necessary addition to  healthy  food.  It is false to say that some foods have more carbohydrates than others.  The fact is, a food is either a protein or a carbohydrate.  The only time the two are mixed is if you add thickening to your sauce, breadcrumbs to your meat or fish, or similar.  There is literally a mountain of misinformation on the internet.  Much of it originates from the food manufacturing industry, who depend on carbohydrate addiction to continue to prosper and grow.  To learn more, read the answer to the first, and other question on this page.

kbp-admin answers:

You are wrong about water melon.  They contain a high volume of sugar.  Sugar is the most deadly of all carbohydrates.   Except for berries, all fruit contains excessive amounts of sugar and should be used with caution. An apple a day is as much as any body needs.   Carbohydrates have only one role in our diet.  They give us a source for fuel.  They do not provide a ‘health‘ value and they are not essential to human life.  Human beings have spent long periods in the past without any carbohydrates.  For example; during famines and harsh winters.  At those times the body will switch to using protein for fuel.  Do not get taken in by the massive amount of self serving, misinformation and false claims that flood the internet.  It emanates from the proccessed food industry.  Our body does not NEED carbohydrates.  But small amounts of natural growing plant food and vegetables are ok as long as you are not yet addicted to carbohydrates.

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Carbohydrate Addiction, are you a victim? 

 

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