All the people you mentioned were ingesting plant toxins. Dr. Anthony Chaffee makes a strong case that "Plants are Trying to Kill You" https://youtu.be/j1cqNDDG4aA. Since adopting his recommended plant-free way of eating (mostly meat from ruminant animals), I can eat as much as I want whenever I want and my body composition remains muscular with less than 10% body fat. Inflammation is almost gone, many of the bad changes I'd attributed to aging have reversed. The hardest part has been caffeine withdrawal - I'd been a heavy coffee user for decades and my brain had evidently up-regulated adenosine receptors in response. Avoiding weight gain is no longer a struggle. Today for my birthday I'm going out to a Brazilian steak house where look forward to eating about three pounds of delicious fatty beef and lamb, more than 24 hours after my last meal, yesterday. Since adopting the "Lion diet", I no longer feel any compulsion to eat frequently. (Currently 262 days plant-free.)
I was moderately overweight and always up a bit and down a bit within the same range. I ate for fun not for hunger and with little regard for nutritional value. Eventually as a gift to myself turning 40 I decided to do an experiment of changing my habits permanently. I looked over all the information I had on healthy nutrition and decided to institute several changes. Also I want to mention I was already very active riding a bike as my transportation and running 3-5 miles a day and I was still overweight. Changes I made -I did the following: I ate only three times a day, no second helpings, no snacks, no liquid calories, all food had to be nutritionaly dense low processed foods that I made myself, I did not eat after 7 pm. I only ate when I was physically hungry never just because it was "lunch time" or "dinner time" etc. I learned that real hunger is a very different feeling from a craving, time of day eating or habit eating. I ONLY ate foods that I really liked eating that I liked the taste of, I never ate and still DO NOT eat anything that is supposedly heathy but i think tastes awful. I also allowed myself two days of "eat anything". I never weighed myself because it was not about reaching a goal but a way of life forever. Well the changes worked and over the next months I consistently lost weight. But as I went along I made modifications as I learned more about how my body felt, energy, sleep etc. I quickly, within weeks went to only one eat anything day a week. Then a few years later I eventually ended the "eat anything days" altogether as they made me feel like crap. I also moved away from carbohydrates to increasing animal based foods. From keto to carnivore. I Have had different levels of workouts and activities. I am an active physical person and this is for fun and has no impact on my weight... I can go days without working out without impact on my size and be very active without impact. As I age the way I move has changed. I allow for healing more. Getting older being a woman sleep can be a problem and it was for me until I made a sleep routine that has lead me to easily fall asleep and stay asleep . 7 hours is the standard for me to feel good. As of now it is 13 years later and I have kept all the weight off. I eat all my food, which is animal based only, in the morning when I get up over a couple hour window. I still only eat food when I am hungry and food I really really like eating. I drink only water. It is like putting gas in your car and driving along for the rest of the day. this works great for me. I sleep best not having a lot of food digesting (like putting logs on a fire when you actually want to douse it for the night). I wake up hungry and everything I eat I make, is satisfying and full of nutrition. I am 53 years old 5 foot 3 and a size 2 (when I was larger I was a size 11). I sleep well and do not have the joint pain I used to experience years ago. I am on no meds. so I would say make an experiment of what you think you can live with permanently and give it a try ..then modify as you go along. Lastly I want to add that as you make permanent changes you need to add in new activities hobbies to take the place of your recreational eating. Perhaps find something that reinforces your health/physical goals. For me I loved thrift stores and enjoyed clothes shopping for very little money. so it became a game to find the cutest thing for literally a dollar or two. This also reinforced/ rewarded my weightloss. My husband and I also went to live music concerts several times a week to dance and dance for hours (we especially enjoyed one 80s cover band) This also reinforced/ rewarded my weightloss. And of course these hobbies and activities will change over time as you do. I wrote all this because I thought it might help someone like me.
At the moment, I have 8 kilos excess weight, and I try to minimize grains and sugar and have 3 meals a day. But it is hard, maybe bc I am a nursing mum and often I end up having a fourth meal just before bed(( so my dieting is not very successful((
I accidentally stumbled into a carnivore low carb diet that I pushed toward more ketosis with healthy fats, lower carbs, intermittant and longer fasting (due to info from many: Gundry, Fung, Attia, Perlmutter, Bredesen, Phinney & Volek, Morell, Rheaume-Bleue, Mutzel, Peltz, Bozwell, and more). As for the diet part, as Lustig says, feed the gut, protect the liver, but in addition push for satiation (carnivore), fat adaption (healthy fats like beef, butter, salmon, cream, ...) also 1) some insulin from low glycemic fruits and vegs to rebuild via stems after autophagy, 2) feed and maintain your microbiome (Perlmutter, Gundry, Davis), 3) don't fear mineral dense salts, healthy fats, hunger, cold (DiNicolantonio, Morell, Mutzel, Bikman, Hof, ...), and 4) change your behavior to boost metabolism (like a Navy SEAL with exercise, cold, muscle: Mutzel, Sinicki, Bickman, Fung, Palmer, Lyon, ...). You can do this!
Have an incredibly difficult metabolism, been overweight since childhood despite fairly healthy diet and lots of exercise.
Only two things work for me:
1. Always being hungry, never ever eating until I’m full.
2. Regular fasting days every week, at least two, but three is more effective in order to lose weight. Intermittent fasting on eating days. Then I can be full when I eat.
I went from 215 lbs to 155 lbs, where I am right now, doing ketogenic dieting. I personally have no doubt that insulin is the culprit. Eat foods that don't dump insulin, and you will lose weight. As for the Japanese counterintuitive fact, I suggest they and Europeans have a different evolutionary past with fruits and grains that somehow resulted in very different carbohydrate metabolism. Some of us, even some entire ethnic groups, are designed to suck down carbs when available and store them as fat for the leaner periods. Put those bodies in the modern food environment, and you get what we have now. It takes a long time, and it's not easy, but if you stick it out you can fully adapt to running on fat. I still run about 40 miles a week, in full blown ketosis constantly. That took a lot of work, and I don't think it's even necessary. I just like to run, for mood purposes. I just offer it as evidence that you don't need carbs to be active and energetic. Your body can make all the glucose you need. In addition, I believe if you keep insulin low, your cancer risk and risk for other diseases plummets. Nothing is guaranteed, and I respect fortune and chance and my own mortality. But this game is about playing the odds.
Obesity is an interesting phenomenon. I'm 74, so I was a kid in the 1950s and a teen in the 1960s. I just didn't know or see obese people back then, not like now. People could be a little overweight, but never severely obese. So something has to be different in recent years. As a woman, I've always been moderately tall and slim, but after 45-50 I suddenly put on weight more easily even though my diet hadn't really changed. Hormones probably.
I was raised by an Adele Davis-reading, healthy home cooking mom (grew up on a farm), and growing up we really never had cokes, chips, cookies etc. in the house. Goodies were special occasion only. After 50 I ended up about 30 pounds too heavy and what worked for me was the basic Atkins diet, which is basically meats, natural fats, olive oil, butter, leafy veggies. No fruits, no sugars, no dairy until the excess fat is gone. For the first time, I lost all cravings, hunger was severely muted, and I lost weight steadily. All my life I had trouble with dairy products so I'd always minimized dairy entirely and that wasn't hard to give up. Grains were another matter, and I eventually found out I had the celiac gene and was at the very least gluten sensitive if not celiac, which is an autoimmune condition and has to be addressed via your diet. Eliminating gluten grains as well as corn helped immensely, and really helped with weight loss too. Long story short, I've kept up a basic low carb/moderate protein/moderate fat diet for about 20 years now and wouldn't/couldn't eat any other way because I feel so great eating this way. I'm back to my "normal" weight of my younger days. I don't take any meds, and my health is great. I firmly believe that at the very least, most people would benefit from eating very minimal sugar, cut out the gluten grains, and eliminate the bad oils and Omega 6 fats that so many Americans overload on due to eating so much processed food. Swear off the processed foods. If a food is in a package and has more than one ingredient, it's a no. Eating fresh, not packaged foods is a huge benefit both for weight and overall health and this will eventually lead to a healthy and functioning immune system.
I'm always surprised by how many overweight and unhealthy people out there have virtually no idea how to eat in a healthy way. My sister-in-law is at least 100 lbs overweight and her knees and ankles hurt, she feels horrible all the time, and has a hard time walking. Her diet is horrendous and she just doesn't get it. When I explained to her how I eat and how easy it is to lose weight that way, her response was "But I can't give up bread." Case closed.
I have lived in Hong Kong for over a decade and can assure you that in the past many people also gorged on meat. Maybe if we go all the way back to the 1800’s we will find the population didn’t have much meat from land animals but mainly lived off fish.
No such thing as "autoimmune", the body is trying to kill infected human cells, but failing for one reason or another. Lyme, for example, can destroy the VitD receptor. Other bugs make proteins that block the VitD receptor. Bug = bacteria, parasite, virus -- all bugs to me.
Olmesartan activates the VitD receptor, then antibiotics can help the body kill the bugs.
Immunopathology - killing the human infected human cells causes pain and discomfort. So we go slow.
There's seldom just one bug. One bug might weaken the immune system allowing the next one in, which further weakens the immune system. Originally, the MP cycled 3 different antibiotics, single and in combination to cover the field. Most folks found one or two of the antibiotics to be notably more effective. Until we got to ivermectin & fenbendazole which seem to be extremely broad spectrum killers.
On the multiple bug thing, you might read the book "Bitten" which tells of W.Burgdorfer's work for DOD in creating ticks carrying multiple bacteria/viral vectors so as to create problems that Doctors could not diagnose.
I've a few theories. Firstly, when I was growing up, we ate three times a day, not six. We didn't have a plethora of snacks in the cupboard. Who is going to overeat apples, carrot sticks or packs of raisins? We had soda and chips in the cupboard, two or three times a year. Likewise, commercial cookies were a rarity. We walked to school, and we rode our bikes everywhere. Basically, I think it comes down to calories in vs. burned, and the number of addictive snacks and sedentary lifestyles are through the roof. I am at a good weight, as I count calories (roughly) and I'm active. If I let myself eat without regard for either, I'd be fat (and that I really don't enjoy being full or sedentary, helps).
I have done a few diets. Weightwatchers was a good system. Later, I did SCD (very low carbs). Did it for 6 months, but missed crunchies something fierce. Felt great,. And now, I have simply changed my life for good. More exercise, less food. Long walks every day. Small weekly fasts. Low on sugar and starch. No fuss. Other than that. I eat what I love. :-) I am within a few pounds of my youthful weight. It works.
Why were monks fat? They overate. They were known for being addicted to yummy food... (Some orders.)
Your overview is fascinating. Here is another idea for you to ponder. Does it have to do with unresolved emotional feelings, conflicts and traumas? It is the idea that this is where all disease and illnesses are spawned from . . . and it is not helped by modern food, chemicals and the pollution that surrounds us just about everywhere we walk. This is a passage from Jaques Martel and his book "The Complete Dictionary of Ailments and Diseases." There are many proponents of this idea. The late Louise Hay, Deb Shapiro and Christian Fléche to name a few. It's linage goes back to German New Medicine and Dr. RG Hamer. It would certainly explain how obesity is still with us today!
Weight (excess) - Martel
The excess fat that my body puts between my inner being and my outer surroundings indicates that I unconsciously seek and want to isolate myself, either through my communication with the outer world or because there is an imprisoned emotion or feeling ‘isolated’ in me that I don’t want to see. Through my obesity, I am seeking a form of protection that I continually accumulate in my inner thoughts. There is a gulf between me and the outer world. I want so much to love and approach the people I love, but I am so afraid! I thus camouflage my insecurities of being exposed or vulnerable, and thereby I want to avoid being hurt either by remarks, criticism or uncomfortable situations, notably those regarding my sexuality (I may only have been frightened, or something may also have occurred physically), and if I am a woman, it may take the form of putting on weight in the thighs and hips, as though to ‘protect’ myself from an assault on the genital organs, whereas if I am a man I tend to have a well-rounded belly so that my genital organs will be less visible. It may also be any situation, even non-sexual, where I feel under attack. I can also interpret my excess weight as an indication of the fact that I want to possess everything. I entertain emotions such as selfishness and feelings that I refuse to let go of. I cling to the past. This can also be an imbalance, a way of revolting against my entourage, a reaction to gestures or situations that I no longer want to see or remember. Earthly nourishment also represents emotional nourishment. I will thus eat excessively to fill an inner void, the impression that I was abandoned, or to compensate for the solitude or the isolation I am experiencing. I remain unconsciously in a relation of dependence, with a need for the other. I want to hide the shame and the aggressiveness I feel about a situation. Sometimes I prefer to run away and disappear in order to no longer suffer. I detest the ‘imponderables’ in my life as well as all the things that are imposed on me. However, I feel the need to impose myself, to assert myself or scare the others, who will then be more likely to go away and leave me in peace. I may experience great insecurities on an emotional as well as on a physical, and unconsciously, I need to accumulate in order to avoid any ‘shortages’ or unmet needs that arise. I want to ‘have everything, just in case’. This lack of something may have been experienced in my childhood and may be connected to my mother, who was my direct link to nourishment and survival (breast feeding). If a baby is overweight, the mother has been feeding it a lot. It may developed a reflex of permanent demand, as though it could never be satiated. The mother has a desire, however unconscious, to remain in fusion with her baby, who will have difficulty later on in detaching itself from its mother. Obesity often develops after a feat emotional shock or a major loss, when the void experienced become very hard to handle. I experience a great feeling of abandonment, an inner void. I often guilty over the departure or loss of a loved one. This abandonment may be experienced in relation to a person, but also to something non-physical such as the business that I had to abandon, that I had to give up for personal reasons. I had to abdicate, and that broke my heart ❤️. I had to abandon a project that was dear to me (to have a child for example), and I may consider myself as cowardly or as a loser. I also have the impression of losing control over a situation or a person. I am no longer connected to matter. I have the impression that I ‘carry no weight’ in certain situations. I am seeking a goal in my life, and I want to accomplish ‘something good’. I have difficulty in taking my place by using my words and my gestures. I therefore do it by taking up more space with my physical body. I also depreciate myself regarding my physical appearance: in my eyes, a small ‘imperfection’ or a few pounds gained will take on enormous proportions, and I then can’t appreciate nor see my own physical qualities or attractiveness. Because I focus all my attention on what is ‘awkward’, my body reacts by adding more weight to show me how hard I am on myself and how self-exercising or dieting will never be enough to lose weight, because I must first become consciously Aware of the real source of my excess weight, which results from a situation of abandonment. Whether I am a child or an adult, I become conscious of my self-rejection. I may have the impression of feeling limited with respect to different aspects of my life or to things I wish to achieve. This feeling of limitation makes my body expand and absorb a weight surplus. If I am a person who accumulates thoughts, emotions or things, my body also will ‘accumulate’, but in the form of fat. I must ask myself what benefits I derive from the fact of being overweight. What are the activities that I can thus avoid because they frighten me? Who are the persons from whom I remain distant? Do I have the impression that I have less control or less power in certain areas of my life, and do I fee lit is just as well this way, because it means that I have less responsibilities and I can personally invest myself less? Another very important point to bear in mind is this: What danger threatens me if I reach my ideal weight? For example, a woman who, once she has lost some weight, will be more attractive in men’s eyes and will be placed in situations where she will frequently have to say no to their advances. She may thus feel in danger of losing her freedom and her space, she will have to learn to assert herself, which can prove very difficult in certain cases. The fact of being attractive may also call up the ‘nice body, but nothing in the head’ stereotype, hence the fear of not being found intelligent. Therefore, if my brain has detected a danger linked to weight loss and having a good figure, as soon as my body is in a situation where it is about to call upon its reserves of fat, an alarm signal will go off to neutralize this need. I may feel a significant lowering of energy, because all of my body’s efforts are deployed in order to keep my weight stable or even to increase it if necessary. My body resists, just as I do in certain situations of my life. Weight is often related to the notion of strength. An overweight person is commonly called a ‘stout person’ or a ‘large sized’ person. Do I have the impression that I must be stout in order to survive or succeed in life? Must I be more physically imposing in order to be able to impose myself in my relations and make ‘predators’ flee? Is it my way of acting so that people will see me and easily spot me, because otherwise I would go unnoticed? Do I act as a ‘counter-weight’ in a situation that appears unfavorable for one of the parties? Or maybe I ‘don’t carry any weight’ in a certain situation. If the reason for my overweight is due to a ‘slow metabolism’, my insecurity is making me overly prudent, which prevents me from taking action.
I accept ↓❤️to express my emotions, to recognize my value and all my possibilities. I now know that all the voids that I have the impression of experiencing in my life may be filled with Love and positive feeling toward myself. By accepting ↓❤️ myself and others, with the Love I surround myself with, I become free of this sadness and this need for protection.
Me thinks the monks "broke bread" too often! I went Keto in January of 2021 to lose the excess fat I had (I ended up losing 40lbs and have gained back 15lbs as I was too scrawny). For me, I found that drastically reducing my carb intake (to 20 net carbs a day) has helped immensely. I never thought I could get skinny eating fat (and protein). I was (and am) hell-bent on preventing Type II diabetes, which I think I was leaning towards. I certainly have a carb addiction but by eating this way the cravings have miraculously stopped. To each their own.
All the people you mentioned were ingesting plant toxins. Dr. Anthony Chaffee makes a strong case that "Plants are Trying to Kill You" https://youtu.be/j1cqNDDG4aA. Since adopting his recommended plant-free way of eating (mostly meat from ruminant animals), I can eat as much as I want whenever I want and my body composition remains muscular with less than 10% body fat. Inflammation is almost gone, many of the bad changes I'd attributed to aging have reversed. The hardest part has been caffeine withdrawal - I'd been a heavy coffee user for decades and my brain had evidently up-regulated adenosine receptors in response. Avoiding weight gain is no longer a struggle. Today for my birthday I'm going out to a Brazilian steak house where look forward to eating about three pounds of delicious fatty beef and lamb, more than 24 hours after my last meal, yesterday. Since adopting the "Lion diet", I no longer feel any compulsion to eat frequently. (Currently 262 days plant-free.)
Hey, Igor and all the latecomers, here is a very interesting article from The Blaze. I think this covers what I mean pretty well.
https://www.theblaze.com/return/why-are-americans-so-fat-a-radical-group-of-online-scientists-has-a-theory?utm_source=theblaze-breaking&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=20240404Trending-WhyFat&utm_term=ACTIVE%20LIST%20-%20TheBlaze%20Breaking%20News&tpcc=email-breaking
Hey, Igor and all the latecomers, here is a very interesting article from The Blaze. I think this covers what I mean pretty well.
https://www.theblaze.com/return/why-are-americans-so-fat-a-radical-group-of-online-scientists-has-a-theory?utm_source=theblaze-breaking&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=20240404Trending-WhyFat&utm_term=ACTIVE%20LIST%20-%20TheBlaze%20Breaking%20News&tpcc=email-breaking
I was moderately overweight and always up a bit and down a bit within the same range. I ate for fun not for hunger and with little regard for nutritional value. Eventually as a gift to myself turning 40 I decided to do an experiment of changing my habits permanently. I looked over all the information I had on healthy nutrition and decided to institute several changes. Also I want to mention I was already very active riding a bike as my transportation and running 3-5 miles a day and I was still overweight. Changes I made -I did the following: I ate only three times a day, no second helpings, no snacks, no liquid calories, all food had to be nutritionaly dense low processed foods that I made myself, I did not eat after 7 pm. I only ate when I was physically hungry never just because it was "lunch time" or "dinner time" etc. I learned that real hunger is a very different feeling from a craving, time of day eating or habit eating. I ONLY ate foods that I really liked eating that I liked the taste of, I never ate and still DO NOT eat anything that is supposedly heathy but i think tastes awful. I also allowed myself two days of "eat anything". I never weighed myself because it was not about reaching a goal but a way of life forever. Well the changes worked and over the next months I consistently lost weight. But as I went along I made modifications as I learned more about how my body felt, energy, sleep etc. I quickly, within weeks went to only one eat anything day a week. Then a few years later I eventually ended the "eat anything days" altogether as they made me feel like crap. I also moved away from carbohydrates to increasing animal based foods. From keto to carnivore. I Have had different levels of workouts and activities. I am an active physical person and this is for fun and has no impact on my weight... I can go days without working out without impact on my size and be very active without impact. As I age the way I move has changed. I allow for healing more. Getting older being a woman sleep can be a problem and it was for me until I made a sleep routine that has lead me to easily fall asleep and stay asleep . 7 hours is the standard for me to feel good. As of now it is 13 years later and I have kept all the weight off. I eat all my food, which is animal based only, in the morning when I get up over a couple hour window. I still only eat food when I am hungry and food I really really like eating. I drink only water. It is like putting gas in your car and driving along for the rest of the day. this works great for me. I sleep best not having a lot of food digesting (like putting logs on a fire when you actually want to douse it for the night). I wake up hungry and everything I eat I make, is satisfying and full of nutrition. I am 53 years old 5 foot 3 and a size 2 (when I was larger I was a size 11). I sleep well and do not have the joint pain I used to experience years ago. I am on no meds. so I would say make an experiment of what you think you can live with permanently and give it a try ..then modify as you go along. Lastly I want to add that as you make permanent changes you need to add in new activities hobbies to take the place of your recreational eating. Perhaps find something that reinforces your health/physical goals. For me I loved thrift stores and enjoyed clothes shopping for very little money. so it became a game to find the cutest thing for literally a dollar or two. This also reinforced/ rewarded my weightloss. My husband and I also went to live music concerts several times a week to dance and dance for hours (we especially enjoyed one 80s cover band) This also reinforced/ rewarded my weightloss. And of course these hobbies and activities will change over time as you do. I wrote all this because I thought it might help someone like me.
At the moment, I have 8 kilos excess weight, and I try to minimize grains and sugar and have 3 meals a day. But it is hard, maybe bc I am a nursing mum and often I end up having a fourth meal just before bed(( so my dieting is not very successful((
I accidentally stumbled into a carnivore low carb diet that I pushed toward more ketosis with healthy fats, lower carbs, intermittant and longer fasting (due to info from many: Gundry, Fung, Attia, Perlmutter, Bredesen, Phinney & Volek, Morell, Rheaume-Bleue, Mutzel, Peltz, Bozwell, and more). As for the diet part, as Lustig says, feed the gut, protect the liver, but in addition push for satiation (carnivore), fat adaption (healthy fats like beef, butter, salmon, cream, ...) also 1) some insulin from low glycemic fruits and vegs to rebuild via stems after autophagy, 2) feed and maintain your microbiome (Perlmutter, Gundry, Davis), 3) don't fear mineral dense salts, healthy fats, hunger, cold (DiNicolantonio, Morell, Mutzel, Bikman, Hof, ...), and 4) change your behavior to boost metabolism (like a Navy SEAL with exercise, cold, muscle: Mutzel, Sinicki, Bickman, Fung, Palmer, Lyon, ...). You can do this!
Have an incredibly difficult metabolism, been overweight since childhood despite fairly healthy diet and lots of exercise.
Only two things work for me:
1. Always being hungry, never ever eating until I’m full.
2. Regular fasting days every week, at least two, but three is more effective in order to lose weight. Intermittent fasting on eating days. Then I can be full when I eat.
I went from 215 lbs to 155 lbs, where I am right now, doing ketogenic dieting. I personally have no doubt that insulin is the culprit. Eat foods that don't dump insulin, and you will lose weight. As for the Japanese counterintuitive fact, I suggest they and Europeans have a different evolutionary past with fruits and grains that somehow resulted in very different carbohydrate metabolism. Some of us, even some entire ethnic groups, are designed to suck down carbs when available and store them as fat for the leaner periods. Put those bodies in the modern food environment, and you get what we have now. It takes a long time, and it's not easy, but if you stick it out you can fully adapt to running on fat. I still run about 40 miles a week, in full blown ketosis constantly. That took a lot of work, and I don't think it's even necessary. I just like to run, for mood purposes. I just offer it as evidence that you don't need carbs to be active and energetic. Your body can make all the glucose you need. In addition, I believe if you keep insulin low, your cancer risk and risk for other diseases plummets. Nothing is guaranteed, and I respect fortune and chance and my own mortality. But this game is about playing the odds.
Obesity is an interesting phenomenon. I'm 74, so I was a kid in the 1950s and a teen in the 1960s. I just didn't know or see obese people back then, not like now. People could be a little overweight, but never severely obese. So something has to be different in recent years. As a woman, I've always been moderately tall and slim, but after 45-50 I suddenly put on weight more easily even though my diet hadn't really changed. Hormones probably.
I was raised by an Adele Davis-reading, healthy home cooking mom (grew up on a farm), and growing up we really never had cokes, chips, cookies etc. in the house. Goodies were special occasion only. After 50 I ended up about 30 pounds too heavy and what worked for me was the basic Atkins diet, which is basically meats, natural fats, olive oil, butter, leafy veggies. No fruits, no sugars, no dairy until the excess fat is gone. For the first time, I lost all cravings, hunger was severely muted, and I lost weight steadily. All my life I had trouble with dairy products so I'd always minimized dairy entirely and that wasn't hard to give up. Grains were another matter, and I eventually found out I had the celiac gene and was at the very least gluten sensitive if not celiac, which is an autoimmune condition and has to be addressed via your diet. Eliminating gluten grains as well as corn helped immensely, and really helped with weight loss too. Long story short, I've kept up a basic low carb/moderate protein/moderate fat diet for about 20 years now and wouldn't/couldn't eat any other way because I feel so great eating this way. I'm back to my "normal" weight of my younger days. I don't take any meds, and my health is great. I firmly believe that at the very least, most people would benefit from eating very minimal sugar, cut out the gluten grains, and eliminate the bad oils and Omega 6 fats that so many Americans overload on due to eating so much processed food. Swear off the processed foods. If a food is in a package and has more than one ingredient, it's a no. Eating fresh, not packaged foods is a huge benefit both for weight and overall health and this will eventually lead to a healthy and functioning immune system.
I'm always surprised by how many overweight and unhealthy people out there have virtually no idea how to eat in a healthy way. My sister-in-law is at least 100 lbs overweight and her knees and ankles hurt, she feels horrible all the time, and has a hard time walking. Her diet is horrendous and she just doesn't get it. When I explained to her how I eat and how easy it is to lose weight that way, her response was "But I can't give up bread." Case closed.
I have lived in Hong Kong for over a decade and can assure you that in the past many people also gorged on meat. Maybe if we go all the way back to the 1800’s we will find the population didn’t have much meat from land animals but mainly lived off fish.
Start here: https://mpkb.org/
No such thing as "autoimmune", the body is trying to kill infected human cells, but failing for one reason or another. Lyme, for example, can destroy the VitD receptor. Other bugs make proteins that block the VitD receptor. Bug = bacteria, parasite, virus -- all bugs to me.
Olmesartan activates the VitD receptor, then antibiotics can help the body kill the bugs.
Immunopathology - killing the human infected human cells causes pain and discomfort. So we go slow.
There's seldom just one bug. One bug might weaken the immune system allowing the next one in, which further weakens the immune system. Originally, the MP cycled 3 different antibiotics, single and in combination to cover the field. Most folks found one or two of the antibiotics to be notably more effective. Until we got to ivermectin & fenbendazole which seem to be extremely broad spectrum killers.
On the multiple bug thing, you might read the book "Bitten" which tells of W.Burgdorfer's work for DOD in creating ticks carrying multiple bacteria/viral vectors so as to create problems that Doctors could not diagnose.
I've a few theories. Firstly, when I was growing up, we ate three times a day, not six. We didn't have a plethora of snacks in the cupboard. Who is going to overeat apples, carrot sticks or packs of raisins? We had soda and chips in the cupboard, two or three times a year. Likewise, commercial cookies were a rarity. We walked to school, and we rode our bikes everywhere. Basically, I think it comes down to calories in vs. burned, and the number of addictive snacks and sedentary lifestyles are through the roof. I am at a good weight, as I count calories (roughly) and I'm active. If I let myself eat without regard for either, I'd be fat (and that I really don't enjoy being full or sedentary, helps).
Diet advice from corporations is dangerously fattening and killing us.
There is also an unnatural way of life.
When you get sick, there is treatment with toxic pharmaceutical concoctions and RIP.
I have done a few diets. Weightwatchers was a good system. Later, I did SCD (very low carbs). Did it for 6 months, but missed crunchies something fierce. Felt great,. And now, I have simply changed my life for good. More exercise, less food. Long walks every day. Small weekly fasts. Low on sugar and starch. No fuss. Other than that. I eat what I love. :-) I am within a few pounds of my youthful weight. It works.
Why were monks fat? They overate. They were known for being addicted to yummy food... (Some orders.)
Your overview is fascinating. Here is another idea for you to ponder. Does it have to do with unresolved emotional feelings, conflicts and traumas? It is the idea that this is where all disease and illnesses are spawned from . . . and it is not helped by modern food, chemicals and the pollution that surrounds us just about everywhere we walk. This is a passage from Jaques Martel and his book "The Complete Dictionary of Ailments and Diseases." There are many proponents of this idea. The late Louise Hay, Deb Shapiro and Christian Fléche to name a few. It's linage goes back to German New Medicine and Dr. RG Hamer. It would certainly explain how obesity is still with us today!
Weight (excess) - Martel
The excess fat that my body puts between my inner being and my outer surroundings indicates that I unconsciously seek and want to isolate myself, either through my communication with the outer world or because there is an imprisoned emotion or feeling ‘isolated’ in me that I don’t want to see. Through my obesity, I am seeking a form of protection that I continually accumulate in my inner thoughts. There is a gulf between me and the outer world. I want so much to love and approach the people I love, but I am so afraid! I thus camouflage my insecurities of being exposed or vulnerable, and thereby I want to avoid being hurt either by remarks, criticism or uncomfortable situations, notably those regarding my sexuality (I may only have been frightened, or something may also have occurred physically), and if I am a woman, it may take the form of putting on weight in the thighs and hips, as though to ‘protect’ myself from an assault on the genital organs, whereas if I am a man I tend to have a well-rounded belly so that my genital organs will be less visible. It may also be any situation, even non-sexual, where I feel under attack. I can also interpret my excess weight as an indication of the fact that I want to possess everything. I entertain emotions such as selfishness and feelings that I refuse to let go of. I cling to the past. This can also be an imbalance, a way of revolting against my entourage, a reaction to gestures or situations that I no longer want to see or remember. Earthly nourishment also represents emotional nourishment. I will thus eat excessively to fill an inner void, the impression that I was abandoned, or to compensate for the solitude or the isolation I am experiencing. I remain unconsciously in a relation of dependence, with a need for the other. I want to hide the shame and the aggressiveness I feel about a situation. Sometimes I prefer to run away and disappear in order to no longer suffer. I detest the ‘imponderables’ in my life as well as all the things that are imposed on me. However, I feel the need to impose myself, to assert myself or scare the others, who will then be more likely to go away and leave me in peace. I may experience great insecurities on an emotional as well as on a physical, and unconsciously, I need to accumulate in order to avoid any ‘shortages’ or unmet needs that arise. I want to ‘have everything, just in case’. This lack of something may have been experienced in my childhood and may be connected to my mother, who was my direct link to nourishment and survival (breast feeding). If a baby is overweight, the mother has been feeding it a lot. It may developed a reflex of permanent demand, as though it could never be satiated. The mother has a desire, however unconscious, to remain in fusion with her baby, who will have difficulty later on in detaching itself from its mother. Obesity often develops after a feat emotional shock or a major loss, when the void experienced become very hard to handle. I experience a great feeling of abandonment, an inner void. I often guilty over the departure or loss of a loved one. This abandonment may be experienced in relation to a person, but also to something non-physical such as the business that I had to abandon, that I had to give up for personal reasons. I had to abdicate, and that broke my heart ❤️. I had to abandon a project that was dear to me (to have a child for example), and I may consider myself as cowardly or as a loser. I also have the impression of losing control over a situation or a person. I am no longer connected to matter. I have the impression that I ‘carry no weight’ in certain situations. I am seeking a goal in my life, and I want to accomplish ‘something good’. I have difficulty in taking my place by using my words and my gestures. I therefore do it by taking up more space with my physical body. I also depreciate myself regarding my physical appearance: in my eyes, a small ‘imperfection’ or a few pounds gained will take on enormous proportions, and I then can’t appreciate nor see my own physical qualities or attractiveness. Because I focus all my attention on what is ‘awkward’, my body reacts by adding more weight to show me how hard I am on myself and how self-exercising or dieting will never be enough to lose weight, because I must first become consciously Aware of the real source of my excess weight, which results from a situation of abandonment. Whether I am a child or an adult, I become conscious of my self-rejection. I may have the impression of feeling limited with respect to different aspects of my life or to things I wish to achieve. This feeling of limitation makes my body expand and absorb a weight surplus. If I am a person who accumulates thoughts, emotions or things, my body also will ‘accumulate’, but in the form of fat. I must ask myself what benefits I derive from the fact of being overweight. What are the activities that I can thus avoid because they frighten me? Who are the persons from whom I remain distant? Do I have the impression that I have less control or less power in certain areas of my life, and do I fee lit is just as well this way, because it means that I have less responsibilities and I can personally invest myself less? Another very important point to bear in mind is this: What danger threatens me if I reach my ideal weight? For example, a woman who, once she has lost some weight, will be more attractive in men’s eyes and will be placed in situations where she will frequently have to say no to their advances. She may thus feel in danger of losing her freedom and her space, she will have to learn to assert herself, which can prove very difficult in certain cases. The fact of being attractive may also call up the ‘nice body, but nothing in the head’ stereotype, hence the fear of not being found intelligent. Therefore, if my brain has detected a danger linked to weight loss and having a good figure, as soon as my body is in a situation where it is about to call upon its reserves of fat, an alarm signal will go off to neutralize this need. I may feel a significant lowering of energy, because all of my body’s efforts are deployed in order to keep my weight stable or even to increase it if necessary. My body resists, just as I do in certain situations of my life. Weight is often related to the notion of strength. An overweight person is commonly called a ‘stout person’ or a ‘large sized’ person. Do I have the impression that I must be stout in order to survive or succeed in life? Must I be more physically imposing in order to be able to impose myself in my relations and make ‘predators’ flee? Is it my way of acting so that people will see me and easily spot me, because otherwise I would go unnoticed? Do I act as a ‘counter-weight’ in a situation that appears unfavorable for one of the parties? Or maybe I ‘don’t carry any weight’ in a certain situation. If the reason for my overweight is due to a ‘slow metabolism’, my insecurity is making me overly prudent, which prevents me from taking action.
I accept ↓❤️to express my emotions, to recognize my value and all my possibilities. I now know that all the voids that I have the impression of experiencing in my life may be filled with Love and positive feeling toward myself. By accepting ↓❤️ myself and others, with the Love I surround myself with, I become free of this sadness and this need for protection.
Me thinks the monks "broke bread" too often! I went Keto in January of 2021 to lose the excess fat I had (I ended up losing 40lbs and have gained back 15lbs as I was too scrawny). For me, I found that drastically reducing my carb intake (to 20 net carbs a day) has helped immensely. I never thought I could get skinny eating fat (and protein). I was (and am) hell-bent on preventing Type II diabetes, which I think I was leaning towards. I certainly have a carb addiction but by eating this way the cravings have miraculously stopped. To each their own.