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Four simple steps to healthy weight loss and improved health!

step one

reduce insulin / increase glucagon

If you are overweight -you have too much insulin and not enough glucagon.

Learn more about insulin and glucagon.

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step two

stop all processed foods

When you eat food prepared by someone else two things usually happen. One, you pay for their efforts to prepare what you are eating and two you have no control over what they put in your food and how they prepare it (typically with incomplete foods, added sweeteners and chemical preservatives). Not that you won't eat that occasional processed or "cooked for you" meal, but the bulk of your meals should be cooked in your kitchen with ingredients (organic only if you live in America) you have purchased from a reputable grocer or coop.

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step three

stop all sugar and animal products

There was a time when I used to think that sugar was just "harmless hollow calories." Even diet guru Dr. Dean Ornish stated in one of his earlier books that there was no relationship between sugar and coronary disease. Well, I was wrong and so was Dr. Ornish. Having nearly gone to the "great outpatient clinic in the sky" based on that false belief, I can guarantee you that sugar is probably the most dangerous of all that we eat.

The linear relationship between cancer and heart disease and ingestion of animal products has been well demonstrated for years now by "The China Study" by Dr. T. Colin Campbell.

for more on this ...

step four

controlling hunger "I'm starving ..."

Well, you are not really starving. How often do we say that? Today whenever we go more that three or four hours without eating we actually think that we are starving. The actual biochemistry of starvation differs with that notion quite a bit.

for more on this ...

If you follow the above you will gain control of your weight and significantly reduce your risk for serious disease. You can do these steps in any order and or any number of them. Accomplishing even just one of these will improve your health and weight control and doing all four of them will make you as slim and healthy as you can be. Believe me ... no one cares more about your health than you do.

But what about exercise?

"I thought that you were overweight because you don't exercise?"

I am in the 32nd year of a daily running streak. What I have learned is that you can run everyday and still gain weight. In fact, you can train for the Ironman (Kona, Hawaii) and put on weight as I did in 1985. I ran the 1984 Ironman at 135 pounds and did the 1985 Ironman weighing 145 pounds. Exercise for your immune system and especially your mental health. Don't exercise to lose weight. It may work initially, but your body soon adapts to the increased work load and voila -you've put the weight you lost back on and then some.

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