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Weight Loss Mind Strategy

Connirae Andreas PhD, an internationally known trainer and researcher in NLP, coauthor of the marvelous book Heart Of The Mind, gives a very simple technique, which I have tried, taught others, and found to be valuable.

She calls it the Naturally-Slender Eating Strategy! We all do different things in our minds, when we think about work, love, pleasure and eating. These structured sequences of thought are what NLP practitioners call mind “strategies”. Connirae points out that people who are slim, eat well and stay healthy must be doing something different when they think about food.

Since she is a naturally slim person, she asked herself “What goes on in my mind when I start to think about food?” Her answer goes something like this:

1. I check how my stomach feels now.
2. I ask myself “What would feel good in my stomach?”
3. I imagine a portion of food: a sandwich, a bowl of soup, etc.
4. I visualize eating this food and get the feeling of how this amount of food will feel in my stomach over time, if I eat it now and it stays in my system for some hours to come.
5. If I like this feeling better than the feeling of not eating at all, I keep this food item as a possibility.
6. She repeats this for several food options and then, when she has enough choices, she finally picks the one that she knows will feel best over time.
7. She feels good after eating that food because she spent a lot of thought making sure she would!

That’s a “no guilt” strategy, as you can readily see. Unfortunately, for most obese people, their mental strategy is rather like this:

1. I think about food.
2. I realize I feel hungry
3. I like pizza pie
4. I’ll eat pizza pie, probably a second helping because I really LIKE pizza pie.
5. I give no thought for how this will make me feel over time.
6. I eat the food and maybe another helping.
7. About half an hour after eating, I start to feel yuck in my stomach
8. I start wishing I hadn’t eaten that. I tell myself to feel guilty.
9. Soon I start thinking about food all over again and fall into the same dumb strategy, even though it doesn’t work.

Contrast this last with Connirae’s own food strategy and you’ll soon realize why she’s slim and you are maybe not!

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Making Omega-3 Oils Carcinogenic?

I wonder why they keep testing to see if omega-3 fatty acids are healthy for us. Can anyone enlighten me? It’s been a done deal since ever I was a budding physician. If you couldn’t wait for the “modern” science, there is always the simple demographic, that eskimos historically never died of heart disease or stroke. Their diet was hugely fat based, including plenty of fish sources (DHA and eicosapentanoic acid). Case closed.

Well, they did another study, just to be sure! (we’ll come to the real reason in a moment).

Basically, researchers at the Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA, found those subjects with the highest levels of omega-3 polyunsaturated fatty acids (PUFA) had the lowest levels of mortality [April 2, 2013 issue of the Annals of Internal Medicine].

All-cause mortality fell by 27%, with most of the benefit due to a reduction in cardiovascular death. The rate of arrhythmic death, in particular, fell by nearly one-half. This translated into an average of about 2.2 extra years of life, just from this one nutritional intervention.

Such cardiovascular-outcome effects are consistent with abundant evidence from laboratory and clinical studies that omega-3 intake may benefit heart rate, blood pressure, myocardial contractile function and electrical stability, and endothelial, autonomic, and hemostatic function, write the study's authors, led by Dr Dariush Mozaffarian. Bit of a mouthful, but you get the point.

Here’s what the average quack… sorry, doctor, will miss out on:

docosahexaenoicacid (DHA) gave more benefit than eicosapentaenoic acid (EPA); but both together had the greatest effect of all (I could have told them that, from 40 years of clinical practice).

So, why were they doing this? Well… I had a peep under the hood and our Dr Mozaffarian is paid by GlaxoSmithKline, who just happen to produce a brand of mixed EPA/DHA supplements (Lovaza)! I’m not suggesting he was bribed or there is anything suspect; just that these things should be up front, not hidden in the small print, as it were.

And just last year, the FDA approved the synthetic EPA-only preparation Vascepa (Amarin), which contains ethyl eicosapentaenoic acid.

From the usual goings on, we understand that they have added an ethyl bit, to make a natural fish-oil into something patentable. It’s crazy.

But it would be mad to consider taking these synthetic substitutes for something that Nature does so well (The local river or a fish merchant has ALL you need!)

But be warned: they added a methyl bit to testosterone years ago, to make it patentable (methyltestosterone). But that resulted in it becoming cancerous and deadly. Ever since then, testosterone supplements have been looked on as carcinogenic by stupid, uninformed medical workers.

Ethylated omega-3s should be looked upon as carcinogenic, until proved safe (about 30 years from now!)

Four Fundamentals Of Disease

Here's something I scribbled for the Diet Wise Academy (re-opening early next week, in a very sleek and improved format!)

Here’s an instructive graphic (see below), to give you some insight into the basic disease mechanisms.

It can be fairly stated that any sickness (or any negative health condition) springs from four origins or four breakdown “paths”.

There can be genetic factors. We understand these better today and realize, from epigenetics, that nobody is necessarily stuck with bad genes. DNA varies and is dynamic. RNA, far from being the silent messenger, is actually capable of switching DNA on and off (causatively). These are shocking “new” truths that medical science is struggling to integrate in its mechanistic model.

Even muscular dystrophy and other conditions can be switched off, using epigenetic skills, such as you will be learning in Diet Wise Academy. Genetically-based diseases can include things like Down’s syndrome (mongolism), Huntington’s Chorea, hemophilia and Duchenne muscular dystrophy.

Degenerative diseases will be fairly obvious. These are caused by the “wear and tear” effect on the body as it ages, largely due to inflammation and oxidative damage. Such diseases include osteo-arthritis, Alzheimer’s disease and some cancers.

Then there are deficiency diseases, caused by lack of some mineral or vitamin. In full-blown form, these tend to be very precise, such as scurvy, pellagra or beri-beri. But many undetected sub-clinical forms exist today, because our bodies are under such overload and need more nutritional support.

Environmental Overload

Finally, we come to what is, surprisingly, the largest class of diseases by far: those due to environmental factors. When you stop to think that viruses, bacteria and parasites are among these external triggers of disease, you will readily see it’s a very large class of problems.

Environmental factors include allergies, toxins, microbes, fatigue and overload. Also in there would be stress and other psychological negatives (such as abuse and neglect), home and family, world tension and financial cares, then you see how big a factor the environment is in the formation of disease.

Yet medical science continues to view a sick person as someone “busted”, who can’t cope and will never regain health.

In the reverse, it means that this aspect of disease gives us the more openings and opportunities to bring about remarkable recoveries than any other.

It’s Multi-Factorial

Finally, though it may be stating the obvious, it needs emphasizing that all disease has more than one of these elements at work: for example someone with a toxic overload may be able to cope if they have the “right” genes and be made sick by the same level of exposure, if their genes are not so good.
This plurality is reflected in the simple diagram, which shows areas of overlap.

o, for example, an illness can have an infectious origin but it would not be serious, unless the immune system was compromised by a lack of adequate nutrients. I think I have made this clear; I hope so.

The Cascade Effect

This is another good place to remind readers of my “cascade” model of disease. There is no one single “cause” of an illness. Even TB does not cause tuberculosis on its own; there has to be pre-disposing factors. Classically, that’s malnutrition but I saw a study once where lost love was a factor too—just as the Victorian novelists told it!

The truth is, there have to be a lot of prior failures in the body’s defences, before any disease process can establish itself. Disease only sets in when the defence mechanisms are finally overwhelmed. That’s why you’ll often hear me say that the day you get your first symptom is not the beginning of the disease; it’s the END of a long breakdown process. It’s a cascade of events.

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