What Works for Losing Weight?

Losing Weight, Weight Loss, & Reducing Pounds:
It’s the Same Thing by Any Name
by Vic Shayne, PhD

For years and years there has been a heated debate over the theory of weight loss. There have been proponents of the no-fat diets, the no-carbohydrate diet and the vegetarian diet. Of recent, there has been the emergence of the blood-type weight loss diet, the toxic fat weight loss and the Neanderthal diet. Looking at all of these systems can make you forget about the whole thing and run out for Twinkies. But before giving up, consider some facts instead of the theories.

Weight Control Adjunctive Schedule*

• GTF Complex, 6 tablets a day
• BFood Complex: 6 tablets a day
• CellPower: 6 tablets a day
• GreenNutrients: 4-6 tablets a day

There are many nutrients within foods that help the body deal with weight balance and blood sugar balance. These include minerals (See GreenNutrients), the vitamin B complex (See BFood Complex , and the GTF, (glucose tolerance factor). Some foods help speed up the metabolism by creating more cellular energy (See EnergyFood), but DON’T BE FOOLED into thinking that supplements alone will lead to weight loss. This is not possible unless the supplements are harmful chemicals; then you would have to deal with the harmful side effects (such supplements include Mahuang as well as a number of drugs).

The fact is that the human body gains weight for a number of different reasons. And because we are all individuals, your reason for weight gain may be complete different from your sister’s or your father’s or your neighbor’s. This is part of the confusion. You don’t know who to listen to.

Here are some variables that influence weight gain and weight loss among individuals:
• Metabolism (how efficiently a person burns calories)
• Degree of physical activity
• Body type
• Cultural habits
• Psychological makeup
• Daily diet (the types of foods you eat most of the time)
• Attitudes about food and eating
• Age
• Gender
• Efficiency and health of the glands and organs
• Lifestyle habits (drinking, smoking, travel, etc.)
• Degree of toxicity
• Drug usage (legal and illegal)

The second fact is that of biochemistry and physiology; it’s in the way the human body functions. The fact is that eating fat DOES NOT cause weight gain. Instead, eating carbohydrates are blamed for most weight gain. Carbohydrates are sugars, whether complex as in a potato, or simple as in table sugar. Carbohydrates, when you eat them, are used by the body for energy. However, if you don’t use up all the carbohydrates, then the unused carbs are STORED for future use.

How are unused carbohydrates stored? As fat. Some carbs are stored in the muscles and the liver, but if you eat lots of carbs — more than you can use — then the most of them are stored as fat. The end result is that you gain weight.

Bottom line fact: If you want to lose weight, forget all those complicated ideas, theories and marketing hype. Instead, just stop eating carbohydrates except those found in vegetables.

The next fact is that of Energy. Again, we’re looking at science and not theory. Calories are units of energy in foods. If you “burn up” (use) more calories than you are eating in your diet, then you will lose weight. If you eat more calories than your body can use, then you may gain weight.

The big problem with this last statement is that people can easily get the WRONG IDEA about calories. They can easily fall into a trap of eating bad, nutrient-depleted, processed foods and think that they will be healthy by losing weight this way. But this is wrong; bad food creates sickness, even if you lose weight eating it.

The BEST diet consists of:
• Organic, good-quality food
• Very low carbohydrate consumption
• Exercise program to go along with the diet
• Changing attitudes about food: food should be a source of nutrition and nothing else comes first
• Detoxification

Regarding detoxification, the last on the list above… Elson Haas, MD, wrote a good book on this subject called The False Fat Diet: The Revolutionary 21-Day Program for Losing the Weight You Think Is Fat. The principle of this book is that when our bodies are filled with toxins (poisons) from artificial ingredients, pollution, etc., then these toxins are stored in our fat cells. Our bodies hold onto the fat because they don’t want to release the poisons into our systems. The solution is to Detox, or, in other words, to go on a program of detoxifying your body of these harmful substances so that you can be healthier and lose the fat that is being stored.

* Adjunctive Nutritional Schedules are not meant to treat or cure disease, but rather to offer the body a variety of food nutrients that can be used for health support.