I Can't Believe It, Someone Might Have Read One Of My Books.

 This is the most frequently asked question in my Inbox. The answer is that it all starts with your diet. You can go to the gym every day but “you can’t exercise away a bad diet”. 

Speaking of bad diets, Did you see the video on Youtube from Cory Booker. I saw it yesterday. He's a Washington politician. He is a runner and runs thru the park on a regular basis. He was saying that he picked up some weight lately and thought he would lose it by running, but after a few months, he admitted that he couldn't lose the fat by running because you can't exercise away a bad diet.  He wants to challenge everyone to stop eating and drinking sugar for 2 months. He says he can't avoid all sugar because it's in everything almost everything, but he's going to stop adding sugar and will try to avoid sugary foods and drinks. I tried it once, it's not easy.

The problem that most of us have is that we think we have a good diet. If you have added weight to your body over the last 10 years, your diet is the problem. Most of us think that we can fix our diet just by eating less food. Not really. The problem is the food we are eating and not so much the quantity. When you eat fresh food the urge to keep eating will disappear.

So what does fresh eating mean? 

I found this food pyramid on the internet. This is a good example of eating fresh. This pyramid explains what you can eat every day, What you should only eat weekly, and what you should only eat once a month. You should drink water or other drinks that have no calories. The only exception is one glass of wine either before or after dinner.

I live by this pyramid every day. You can eat all you want, as long as it’s on the pyramid. You don’t have to count calories as long as you don’t cheat. Everything you see on the pyramid is healthy and will give your body nutrition. You may overeat at first, but after a few weeks your body will become accustomed to the foods and you’ll start to lose body fat.

If you notice, there is nothing processed on the pyramid. You can eat in restaurants, just stick to the pyramid. Another big difference in the foods is less meat and more fish and white meat poultry. You might think this way of eating will be expensive but after a couple of months, you’ll be saving money.

Processed foods and soft drinks and other forms of alcohol are expensive and you are not buying any of them. You don’t eat fish or poultry daily and meat only once a month. These are all expensive food items. Cheese and yogurt are everyday items so that’s where most of your protein comes from. Fruits and vegetables are 2/3 of your diet and grains are the other 3rd.

Americans are over-dosing on meat, for some unknown reason we think we have to eat meat every day, so we can take pills later in life to combat the cholesterol in our blood vessels. The high levels of cholesterol are caused by meat. Our ancestors ate mostly fish until the human population started to move inland where they couldn’t fish and had to kill animals for meat. Today we know that those people on a fish diet lived a healthier life.

The food pyramid was developed after studying the Mediterranean people and their diet. For centuries these people fished the ocean for meat and even oil to burn in lamps. Whale oil and olive oil were the first oils used, man. In the far east fishing was another source of meat and they still depend on fishing for their diet. Both these people were healthier because of their diet and lifestyle. Americans can learn from our ancestors. It’s our diet and lifestyle that cause our health problems and only we can do something about it.

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