smaller, and girls began to notice him. As an added bonus, his powers of concentration improved, and his grades went up. He began to enjoy life again—thanks to the healing powers of coconut oil and nutrient-dense foods.
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Some diets offer only the USRDAs (or even lesser quantities) of vital nutrients. And often, on these plans, your nutrient sources are mainly synthetic vitamins. Such substances do not provide optimal nourishment since your body is less able to absorb them than the nutrients in real foods. As a result, you can only stay on those diets for a short while before your body’s demands for nourishment overcome your willpower. But the nutrient-dense foods in our food plans will amp up your intake of real, readily absorbed nutrients, and help you break out of that vicious cycle.
As with Douglas, your cells may be starving for nutrients, and you may not know it!
Chapters 2 and 3 have shown you the truth about fats: why saturated fats actually are good for you, and why low-fat eating is not the great health benefit it’s been cracked up to be. In the next chapter, we’ll introduce you to our nutritional philosophy of consuming wholesome traditional foods for weight loss and explain exactly why a diet that includes healthy fats (especially coconut oil) will help you lose weight in a far more health-supportive and efffective way than today’s popular low-fat diets. Then we’ll compare the Eat Fat, Lose Fat program with other diets that are widely popular today.
Chapter Four
Our Nutritional Approach to Weight Loss
Science has progressed a great deal in the past century, but human beings remain basically the same. Your nutritional needs are really no different from those of the people Weston Price met in the Outer Hebrides, the Andes, Africa, Australia, or New Zealand in the 1930s and 1940s, and those people were eating the same way as did their ancestors over thousands of years.
The Eat Fat, Lose Fat diet takes into account the basic nutritional needs of the human organism, needs that modern food technologies usually fail to meet. These technologies produce foods that not only lack a full complement of nutrients but often contain harmful substances produced by industrial processing. On our diet, by contrast, you will be meeting your body’s basic needs by consuming wholesome foods, prepared with methods that make all the nutrients more available.
There’s another reason why Eat Fat, Lose Fat is better aligned with our natural life forces than many other diet plans. Because we emphasize organic fruits and vegetables and organic and grass-fed meat and dairy products, we are contributing to the health of the earth and the balance of our planet’s resources. This method of agriculture honors and feeds the soil, the land and the earth itself, rather than despoiling the land with harsh chemicals and treating living animals without any care or respect. This form of agriculture and animal husbandry is called “sustainable,” because it gives back to the land what is taken out and does not disrupt the environment.
Think about it! Although there are many causes of obesity, including genetics, a sedentary lifestyle, and overconsumption of processed foods, on the very simplest level the condition of overweight represents an imbalanced relationship between you and nature. Eating natural, sustainable foods, as you will learn to do on this diet, restores this native mutual interdependence, which is why this kind of diet, in and of itself, is healing—not only for overweight but for other health conditions as well.
Breaking the Boom-and-Bust Diet Cycle
The nutritional abundance we so fortunately enjoy today in the West, day in and day out, is an anomaly. In contrast to our plethora of food choices, most people who’ve lived on this earth (including the majority today) have gone through periods when food was scarce. In response, humans developed underlying patterns of energy use and fat storage. Even in this
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Some diets offer only the USRDAs (or even lesser quantities) of vital nutrients. And often, on these plans, your nutrient sources are mainly synthetic vitamins. Such substances do not provide optimal nourishment since your body is less able to absorb them than the nutrients in real foods. As a result, you can only stay on those diets for a short while before your body’s demands for nourishment overcome your willpower. But the nutrient-dense foods in our food plans will amp up your intake of real, readily absorbed nutrients, and help you break out of that vicious cycle.
As with Douglas, your cells may be starving for nutrients, and you may not know it!
Chapters 2 and 3 have shown you the truth about fats: why saturated fats actually are good for you, and why low-fat eating is not the great health benefit it’s been cracked up to be. In the next chapter, we’ll introduce you to our nutritional philosophy of consuming wholesome traditional foods for weight loss and explain exactly why a diet that includes healthy fats (especially coconut oil) will help you lose weight in a far more health-supportive and efffective way than today’s popular low-fat diets. Then we’ll compare the Eat Fat, Lose Fat program with other diets that are widely popular today.
Chapter Four
Our Nutritional Approach to Weight Loss
Science has progressed a great deal in the past century, but human beings remain basically the same. Your nutritional needs are really no different from those of the people Weston Price met in the Outer Hebrides, the Andes, Africa, Australia, or New Zealand in the 1930s and 1940s, and those people were eating the same way as did their ancestors over thousands of years.
The Eat Fat, Lose Fat diet takes into account the basic nutritional needs of the human organism, needs that modern food technologies usually fail to meet. These technologies produce foods that not only lack a full complement of nutrients but often contain harmful substances produced by industrial processing. On our diet, by contrast, you will be meeting your body’s basic needs by consuming wholesome foods, prepared with methods that make all the nutrients more available.
There’s another reason why Eat Fat, Lose Fat is better aligned with our natural life forces than many other diet plans. Because we emphasize organic fruits and vegetables and organic and grass-fed meat and dairy products, we are contributing to the health of the earth and the balance of our planet’s resources. This method of agriculture honors and feeds the soil, the land and the earth itself, rather than despoiling the land with harsh chemicals and treating living animals without any care or respect. This form of agriculture and animal husbandry is called “sustainable,” because it gives back to the land what is taken out and does not disrupt the environment.
Think about it! Although there are many causes of obesity, including genetics, a sedentary lifestyle, and overconsumption of processed foods, on the very simplest level the condition of overweight represents an imbalanced relationship between you and nature. Eating natural, sustainable foods, as you will learn to do on this diet, restores this native mutual interdependence, which is why this kind of diet, in and of itself, is healing—not only for overweight but for other health conditions as well.
Breaking the Boom-and-Bust Diet Cycle
The nutritional abundance we so fortunately enjoy today in the West, day in and day out, is an anomaly. In contrast to our plethora of food choices, most people who’ve lived on this earth (including the majority today) have gone through periods when food was scarce. In response, humans developed underlying patterns of energy use and fat storage. Even in this
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