Hey there healthnuts! :)
Just wanted to pipe up here that I have been on a diet for only about two weeks and have lost 8 pounds.
When I say diet, what I really mean is more like 'way of eating" vs. some system of tricking the body into losing weight.
In my opinion, the author of this diet, and MD named Joel Fuhrman, has come upon the natural diet for man. He bases his book on about 2,000 studies and observations about how the human body is constructed. Example: our teeth are not carnivorous. So why are we making meat our main course? Our digestive tract and acid levels in the stomach are not conducive to heavy meat eating. Could this be why meat, eaten in large quantities, tends to get stuck and putrefy rather than convert to energy?
The book should be read before the diet is started. It really helps to understand why you're eating differently and has given me the foundation of strength to stick with it despite others eating foods my taste buds used to crave.
Here are some benefits I have noticed though:
- Hardly any cravings for bad food at all.
- Blood sugar is totally stable. I can go for hours without eating and not feel like a madman
- Losing about a pound a day, a little less now that the first easier pounds are gone
- My taste for foods and appreciation for the taste of simple things like plain lettuce has heightened greatly
- TONS of energy all day long
- My adrenal stress seems to be a thing of the past
- Stopped having adrenal headaches
- Skin seems softer/smoother
That's the short list. I just feel healther.
And by the way, this is not just about weight loss. The author points out that here in the West we have diseases that other cultures just don't have. The big killers are all pretty much coming from what we are eating, not some other mysterious cause.
If you want to get the book from Amazon, there is a link to it on the book section of my blog here. Eat To Live by Joel Fuhrman.
To your health!
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