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Weight Loss - Why Do Most Conventional Diets Fail?
By Chris Mccall
Once again, the answer to this perplexing question lies in our genes. For the problem with most conventional diets is that they send our 'stone-age' genetics into diet-panic. For when our bodies do not receive 'enough' food and nutrients, a centuries-old inherited part of us automatically assumes it's the start of a long, hard winter and that the hunting isn't going to be too good, so it must hang on to its fat 'just in case'. And even worse, it actually encourages us to add to our existing fat stores as much as we can by making us feel hungry. Thankfully, as you will discover, there are all sorts of totally natural ways to avoid diet-panic by ensuring that we receive the correct balance of food and nutrients. Diets too low in calories and lacking in the vitamins, minerals and nutrients we need cause our bodies to go into stone-age, diet-sabotage mode and hold onto our food stores. This is why they DO NOT WORK. As has been mentioned earlier, the human body is a surprisingly sophisticated, ultra-efficient machine. Inside each of our brains we have a superb self-regulating mechanism called the hypothalamus, whose job it is to balance our input with our output, specifically to ensure that we receive all the fuel (or calories) that we need in order to function physically. If we receive too little fuel, the hypothalamus will relay a message via the brain to the stomach telling it to 'get hungry', since this is the quickest and most efficient way to redress the balance. Conversely, when we receive more fuel than is needed for the activities we are engaged in, an alternative message goes out to prompt the transfer of that extra energy into existing cells where it will be stored as fat reserves, 'just in case'. Brilliant - don't you think? Yes, but not perfect, because it doesn't balance the equation by either stopping our appetite when we've eaten 'enough' or by encouraging us to use up more energy through exercise when we've eaten 'too much'. Why? Because it still operates in stone-age survival mode, where food was a notoriously unreliable commodity. so when we embark upon a lose weight programme that doesn't address this tricky issue we get hungry and this 'brilliant' mechanism encourages us to store as much fat as possible because it assumes a forthcoming famine. Thus, while you may be eating less, your efficient (but in this case, somewhat treacherous) body is busy ensuring that a greater proportion of what you are eating is stored as fat and less of the fat already stored is released for energy. So, short of going to live in a cave and learning how to forage for food, what can we do to this primitive reaction? Thankfully, as we shall now discover, science has, at long last, come to our rescue with the discovery of not one, but a whole range of safe, natural nutrients and food supplements that can aid us in tricking this self-regulating mechanism of ours into working for, rather than against, us. |
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Thank you for sharing these interesting thoughts, Chris.
I agree with most of what you say, but I still firmly believe that people should take control of what they put into their grocery shopping carts.
It's like a computer, Garbage In, Gargage Out!!
Keep up the good work.
Best wishes.
Frederick
Thanks for your great information, I will check out your website and see if I can get some help. I very carefully control what I eat, and how often I eat. In fact I eat about every two hours, just some little amount to keep my blood sugar up and my diabetes A1C score down. Eating more often and less has helped, but not solved my weight problem.
I have found the answer is indeed in my jeans. I pay for gas with all the change that has accumulated in my pockets and explain to the cashier that I am interested in losing some weight. They always seem to appreciate the change and get to laugh a little too.
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