Let ’ s Make America Thin Again

No, no political commentary here, just insights into health regardless of whether you are conservative or liberal or somewhere in-between. But we are indeed doing it on the Wheat Belly and Undoctored lifestyles: Making America Thin Again—MATA—and getting people to lose weight, often considerable amounts of 30, 50, 70, 130 pounds, by essentially REJECTING conventional dietary advice. What conventional pieces of dietary advice are we rejecting in order to achieve this? Here are a few: Limit fat and calories—No way. This is a path to misery. It works in the short-term, fails in the long-run and, of course, does not reverse situations such as iodine deficiency or disruptions in bowel flora that also influence weight. Move more, eat less—Likewise, this doesn’t work. It can work in the short-term, especially if you started very sedentary and consumed lots of junk carbs and sugars. Just look at the people on the Biggest Loser TV show: huge weight loss over several weeks by slashing calories and engaging in extreme exercise . . . only to regain most of the weight while continuing to exercise and restrict calories. Why? Because metabolic rate drops by about 23% (about 500 kcal/day), meaning that your body has been fooled into thinking that you are starving and thereby tries to conserve energy by turning down your rate of energy burn. Oddly, while this phenomenon has been recorded at 30 weeks after the program, it persists even after 6 years. The majority...
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