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Eat more, exercise less

 

To heal the underlying disorder that leads to excess fat accumulation and related complications, which are essentially created by a mismatch between metabolic rate and appetite/hunger, it requires ample food intake and the avoidance of excessive physical exercise.  Hunger and excessive exercise both raise systemic levels of the hormone cortisol while lowering active circulating thyroid hormones, the predominant root causes of the fat accumulation phenomenon – as well as the full spectrum of illness. 

T.L. "Peter" Cleave said it best, in his 1974 breakthrough book, The Saccharine Disease, when he stated that:

“…the countering of excess consumption, arising from the eating of refined carbohydrates by the taking of unwanted exercise is considered a perfect example of two wrongs not making a right, even though the extra exercise is well known to reduce the consequences of such overconsumption.”    

 

Saturated fat is the healthiest type of fat

 

Saturated fat, because of its chemical structure, is least likely to do free radical damage inside the body, and it simultaneously provides a higher level of satiety and metabolic stimulation – especially when the type of saturated fats are medium chain triglycerides.  The belief that saturated fat is harmful is based on a painfully outdated and erroneous risk profile for heart disease – total serum cholesterol levels.  Saturated fat consumption has never been shown to cause heart disease or any other degenerative condition.  By raising two types of beneficial cholesterol, saturated fat is actually favorable to overall cholesterol profiles.  Not that your cholesterol levels mean all that much.  As an indicator of heart disease risk, it is pitiful in comparison to diagnostic tests as simple as waist circumference, blood pressure, and basal body temperature.     

 

For treating obesity, the best diet is a high calorie diet

 

Obesity is not the cause of poor health, but the result.  Reviewing all the literature, it seems that the problem is not eating too much and exercising too little, but having a constellation of health problems typical of starvation - such as reduced body temperature, increased fat storage, reduced fat burning, increased appetite, and decreased energy.  This is most likely due to resistance to the hormone leptin, which is in command of all these actions in the body. Overfeeding, while removing the primary triggers of leptin resistance - fructose and polyunsaturated fat, is the best strategy to begin combatting the root problem.  

Saturated fat is the best fat for reducing heart disease risk

 

Heart disease is caused, at the core, by inflammation.  Replacing polyunsaturated fat in the diet with as much monounsaturated and saturated fat as possible lowers inflammation on many fronts - reduced omega 6 levels in body tissue and reduced oxidation from heat-sensitive polyunsaturated fats being the primary two reasons.  In fact, going low enough in polyunsaturated fat, both omega 6 and omega 3, causes a replacement fatty acid called Mead Acid to be produced, which causes the body to respond to threats such as pathogens, allergens, or oxidative stress (the triggers of artery-damaging inflammation) with far less inflammatory collateral damage. 

 

For a type 2 diabetic, the first approach should be overfeeding with plenty of high-glycemic carbohydrate in the diet

 

Many cases of Type 2 diabetes are caused by insulin resistance. Most think that insulin resistance is a result of spiking insulin levels again and again with high-glycemic carbohdyrates to the point where cells become resistant to insulin. This theory is completely wrong. In fact, high-carbohydrate diets are the most effective diets for dropping insulin and blood sugar levels in a short amount of time. Overfeeding in particular can cause a huge drop in insulin resistance and drop blood sugar and fasting insulin levels in type 2's that still produce sufficient insulin.      

 

Spend more time in the sun, without sunscreen

 

Sunlight doesn’t cause skin cancer – an unhealthy state within the body that causes skin to be unable to protect itself causes skin cancer, and spending time in the sun without sunscreen, allowing natural vitamin D synthesis, decreases the chances of virtually every other health condition.  Vitamin D is the most important and deficient vitamin in modern man.  Sunscreen also has never been able to effectively prevent skin cancer, and its widespread use, along with increased awareness of skin cancer and ultraviolet rays, has paralleled a massive increase in the disease. 

 

A diet low in fiber is superior to a diet high in fiber

 

Fiber has no link to health whatsoever, it is not an essential component of any human diet as many native diets has proven without question, and even though increased fiber intake is recommended for treating and preventing gastrointestinal disorders, doing so is often ineffective, causes greater distress, and may even have a causal relationship with the very disorders it is thought to cure and prevent.  Fiber is neither good nor bad.  Eating refined carbohydrates with fiber removed however, is always a risky endeavor.    

  

Heredity has much to do with our health problems, but has absolutely nothing to do with genes 

 

Genes are thought of as set in stone, something we are stuck with, that have been passed down for generations and will continue down the line – our lot in life.  What we inherit has much more to do with the cumulative effects of the lifestyle and environment of prior generations than actual genetic material and can be drastically modified.  In other words, everyone in your family may be fat, have crooked teeth, and be diabetic – proof of inherited tendencies, but can be completely overturned because it is not a result of genetic programming.   

 

Germs do not cause disease, poor health does

 

The best way to prevent acute and systemic infection is not to avoid pathogens, but to eat a very nutritious diet free of processed foods, and eat and live in a way that maximizes the stability of body chemistry.  This includes going to sleep at regular times, getting plenty of sleep, not overexerting yourself, keeping stress to reasonable levels, staying well-hydrated, and largely avoiding caffeine, alcohol, sugars, and other immune-suppressors.  In fact, good sanitation is more closely linked with the propensity to develop illness than is poor sanitation.  It is more likely that the greater the number of germs you are exposed to while in a healthy, balanced state, the healthier and stronger your immune system will be.     

 

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