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IT’S NOT HOW MUCH YOU EAT, IT’S WHAT!
What if everything you ever learned about weight loss was wrong? What if losing
weight has nothing to do with calories— counting them or cutting them out by
sheer willpower? What if, in fact, most health professionals have been giving
you the wrong advice—advice that has been making you fat and sick?
Could it be we have had it all wrong? Yes! There has been one fatal flaw in our
thinking that the amount of calories we eat is more significant to weight
management than the quality of those calories. It’s true that, in a vacuum, all
calories are the same. A thousand calories of soda and a thousand calories of
broccoli burned in a laboratory will release the same amount of energy. But all
bets are off when you actually consume the soda or the broccoli. These foods
trigger very different biochemical responses in the body—different hormones,
neurotransmitters and immune messengers. The same amount of calories has a
profoundly different effect on the body. Eating a high-carb, low-fat diet slows
down your metabolism. If you restrict your calories, you will end up triggering
very ancient biological adaptions that protect us from starvation. You will slow
your metabolism and get a lot hungrier. Don’t worry about how much you eat,
because you will never be able to control that. Rather, focus on what you eat—
the quality of the food and the composition (high in fiber, good quality protein
and fat, low in starch and sugar). When you do, you won’t be hungry and your
body will shift from fat storage mode to fat burning mode. And, you will prevent
most chronic disease—including heart disease, type 2 diabetes, cancer and
dementia.
MY EXCLUSIVE APPROACH
My 10–Day Detox Diet program and companion cookbook will show you what
food to eat, the proper portion sizes to enjoy and the important lifestyle
practices to incorporate into your daily routine so you melt away the fat and
restore health to your whole body, mind and spirit. I use the science and
principles of Functional Medicine, which is the future of medicine–available
now. It seeks to identify and address the root causes of disease, and views the
body as one integrated system, not a collection of independent organs divided
up by medical specialties. It treats the whole system, not just the symptoms.
Through my Functional Medicine training, I was taught to treat the patient, not
the disease. By shifting the traditional disease-centered practice of medicine to