22-01-2004, 04:06 PM
In Joan's defence, she did not state ALL overweight people overeat, she stated MOST. There is a difference.
My husband is a Naturopathic doctor and a very successful part of his practice is the weight loss program. He also claims that 99% of overweight people overeat. Again, that is MOST not ALL.
As Joan has explained, their caloric intake exceeds their caloric output. We are all metabolically different and it's important to find out what every individual's resting metabolic rate is and to eat within those confines. Excersize can raise that metabolic rate.
My husband has also had tremendous success with diabetics and he has many people where diabetes "runs in the family" and yet when they change their eating habits and weight loss occurs, their insulin levels adjust also and many countless people have gone off their insulin. He says in those cases it's not so much that they inherited the disease, it's more like they inherited their mother's cookbook.
The human body is not created to consume large amounts of meat like with the Atkin's diet. Unlike fruit and vegetables, meat takes days to digest and before we've digested and eliminated the meat, we eat more. The body needs a break every now and then to allow it to cleanse itself. What happens when we leave meat out in 100 degree temperatures for a couple of days? It putrifies. That's what happens in the human body and it's not healthy.
Remember years ago when Catholics would only eat fish on Fridays? It's really not a bad idea as it gives the body a chance to unload.
I babble and will therefore get off my soap box.
My husband is a Naturopathic doctor and a very successful part of his practice is the weight loss program. He also claims that 99% of overweight people overeat. Again, that is MOST not ALL.
As Joan has explained, their caloric intake exceeds their caloric output. We are all metabolically different and it's important to find out what every individual's resting metabolic rate is and to eat within those confines. Excersize can raise that metabolic rate.
My husband has also had tremendous success with diabetics and he has many people where diabetes "runs in the family" and yet when they change their eating habits and weight loss occurs, their insulin levels adjust also and many countless people have gone off their insulin. He says in those cases it's not so much that they inherited the disease, it's more like they inherited their mother's cookbook.
The human body is not created to consume large amounts of meat like with the Atkin's diet. Unlike fruit and vegetables, meat takes days to digest and before we've digested and eliminated the meat, we eat more. The body needs a break every now and then to allow it to cleanse itself. What happens when we leave meat out in 100 degree temperatures for a couple of days? It putrifies. That's what happens in the human body and it's not healthy.
Remember years ago when Catholics would only eat fish on Fridays? It's really not a bad idea as it gives the body a chance to unload.
I babble and will therefore get off my soap box.