Obesity: Sugar/Fat/Salt

I had a friend who was obese: she described herself with that word so I feel free to say so. She loved soda pop. She worked for a soda pop company, Cadbury. She knew how to eat right but she also loved a "treat" at the end of the day and drank a 2 liter bottle of pop every night. The problem over 20 years was that one 2 liter bottle of pop became 3 two liter bottles plus a bag of miniature Snickers.

Sugar, fat and salt are addictive. They are added to all prepared foods, restaurant food, fast food, foods in a box or can and basically anything you buy pre-made. Sugar, fat and salt assure the food companies that you will eat the product quickly, buy the product again and hopefully, become addicted thereby assuring future profits.

"He believed the chicken had been chopped and
formed much like a meat loaf, with binders added, which makes
those calories easy to swallow. Ingredients that hold moisture,
including autolyzed yeast extract, sodium phosphate, and soy protein
concentrate, further soften the food. I noticed that salt appeared eight
times on the label and that sweeteners were there five times, in the form of
corn-syrup solids, molasses, honey, brown sugar, and
sugar.
'This is highly processed?' I asked.
'Absolutely, yes. All of this has been
processed such that you can wolf it down fast.....chopped up and made
ultra-palatable....very appealing looking, very high pleasure in the food, very
high caloric density. Rules out all that stuff you have to
chew."
By eliminating the need to chew, modern food
processing techniques allow us to eat faster. 'When you're eating these
things (chicken nuggets), you've had 500,600,800,900 calories before you know it,' said the consultant."
The End of Overeating
David A. Kessler, M.D.

So how do you break the addition to sugar/fat/salt? Plan to nourish your body with a plethora of vitamins and minerals every day.

Plan - Eat at specific times 5 times per day. You will increase your metabolism and eat less. What could be more fun than making yourself eat? Eat breakfast, fruit, lunch, fruit and dinner. Eat it for 30 days whether you like it or not.

"Normal humans and normal rats regulate their
caloric intake so as to maintain their weight within close limits.
Further, they are able to select various dietary constituents so as to maintain
themselves in good health. Infants given a choice of a variety of
food-stuffs at each meal thrive better than those whose whole diet is prescribed
by a dietitian, and so do rats."
The Oxford Companion the The Mind
Richard L. Gregory

Shop - Go to the grocery store. Buy every fruit or vegetable that you can eat raw right out of the refrigerator. Create a new habit of satisfying your snack craving with raw whole foods. Don't forget the raw almonds, walnuts and pecans.

Satiate Your Appetite - Learn how to use whole food condiments to flavor your food: extra virgin olive oil, balsamic vinegar, apple cider vinegar, sea salt, white pepper, raw organic basil and dill, honey, almond butter, 100% maple syrup, Bragg's Liquid Aminos, ginger, raw garlic.

Drink Water - You are only fooling yourself if you think iced tea, sports drinks, diet Coke, Starbucks or orange juice concentrate are hydrating. They do not have the molecular structure to hydrate: caffeine is a diuretic which leaches water from the cells. Rule of thumb: drink one ounce of water for every two pounds of body weight: 120 pounds = 60 oz water.

"There is a medical breakthrough that is not
reaching the public through our medical schools or health-maintenance organizations: the discovery that chronic unintentional dehydration is the
primary cause of pain and disease in the human body, including
cancer."
Water Cures
F. Batmangehelidj, M.D.

Study Your Blood - Buy a blood type kit at Whole Foods. Buy "Eat Right For Your Bloodtype" by Dr. D'Adamo but skip the excessive animal flesh recommendations. Go to a doctor or chiropractor and ask for complete blood work analysis specifying where you have vitamin and mineral deficiencies. Buy the whole food that answers that deficiency. Eat it until you don't have the deficiency. Try this: drink carrot juice for 30 days in a row. The palms of your hands will turn orange. That is because your body cannot absorb the concentrated amounts of Vitamin A. Drink it until your skin turns normal and your body is satiated with Vitamin A.

Keep a Food Diary - I dare you to write down every single drop you put in your mouth.

Read The Ingredients - Ingredients are listed largest to smallest in volume. If the first 3 ingredients are flour, sugar and cheese, there is no nutritional value to the "food". You might as well tape it to your midsection because that is where it will lodge. Never eat anything that has more than 5 ingredients.