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FFood Lie #1: All Calories Are Created EqualWhen I walked into an eighth grade class recently,I asked them if there was a difference between 1000calories of broccoli and a 1000 calories of soda. You knowwhat I heard? A unanimous, “Duh! Yes!”The idea that, as long as we burn more calories thanwe consume, we will lose weight is simply dead wrong.The lie is that losing weight is all about energy balanceor calories in/calories out. Just eat less and exercisemore is the mantra we hear from the food industry andgovernment agencies. It’s all about moderation. How’sthat working for America?The truth is there are good and bad calories. And that’sbecause it’s more than a simple math problem.When we eat, our food interacts with our biology,which is a complex adaptive system that instantlytransforms every bite. Every bite affects your hormones,brain chemistry and metabolism. Sugar calories causefat storage and spike hunger. Protein and fat caloriespromote fat burning.What counts even more are the quality of the calories.What are high-quality calories? Whole foods – freshfoods, foods like great-grandma made. Good qualityprotein: grass-fed animal products (not factory farmed),organic eggs, chicken, small wild fish, nuts and seeds.Good carbs: vibrantly colored vegetables, the brighterthe better (you can binge on these!). Fruits like wildberries, apples and kiwis. And super foods like chia andhemp seeds. And good fats like avocado, extra virgin oliveoil, nuts and seeds, coconut butter and omega-3 fats fromfish.Food Lie #2: Don’t Lose Weight Too Fast, You’ll GainIt All BackSlow and steady is what we are told. No quick fixes.Don’t lose more than a pound a week. This is dead wrong.Studies show the opposite – that a jumpstart leads tomore weight loss over time. If you reboot your metabolismwith a quick detox from sugar, processed food and junk,you will reset your hormones and your brain chemistrymaking it much easier to sustain the changes.The key is to use a healthy, sustainable strategy forweight loss that balances your hormones and brainchemistry and doesn’t put you in a starvation response.That allows you to lose the weight and keep it off – Isee it with my patients all the time – if you see results,you feel empowered and get inspired to keep losingweight.Food Lie #3: All You Need Is WillpowerThis is one of the most insidious lies pushed on us bythe food industry and government. Their mantra is this:Eat Less, Exercise More.The implicit message in this idea is that the realreason we are all fat and sick is that we are lazy gluttons.If we just stopped stuffing our faces and got up off thecouch and moved our butt, we would lose weight. It ismoral failing, weak psychology, apathy or worse thatprevents people from moderating their food intake andexercise. This is nonsense.If you try to control your appetite with willpower,you will fail. We have short-term voluntary control andcan starve ourselves but then our bodies compensate byslowing our metabolism and dramatically increasingappetite. It is unsustainable. If I asked you to hold yourbreath for 15 minutes – no matter how bad you want tomake it happen, you’re just not designed to pull that off.When your taste buds, brain chemistry, hormonesand metabolism have been damaged by sugar andprocessed foods, willpower alone won’t do it. If you areaddicted to sugar and refined carbs you cannot whiteknuckle it for very long. You have to naturally resetyour brain chemistry and hormones so your body willautomatically self-regulate and the cravings disappearand hunger will be in balance.When your metabolism has been hijacked you need todetox from the addictive power of sugar and flour andreplace them with real, whole high quality foods. Thatwill allow your appetite and weight to automaticallyregulate without willpower.Food Lie #4: Diet Soda Is Better Than Regular SodaI call soda liquid death. And you might as well calldiet soda “new & improved liquid death,” because it mayactually be worse.In a 14-year study of more than 66,000 women,
researchers found that diet sodas actually raised the riskof diabetes more than sugar-sweetened sodas. One dietsoda increased the risk of type 2 diabetes by 33 percentand one large diet soda increased the risk by 66 percent.The truth is, diet soda slows your metabolism, makesyou hungry for sugar and carbs and packs on the bellyfat. Stay away from all artificial sweeteners, even naturalones. Just add a little real sugar to your coffee if youwant. It’s not the sugar that you add to your diet that’sthe problem. It’s the sugar that is added to your diet byfood corporations.Food Lie #5: Foods Labeled Low Fat Or Whole GrainAre Good For YouThe low-fat craze of the last 30 years has paralleled thedramatic rise in obesity and type 2 diabetes. When foodcompanies took the fat out of the products it was replacedwith sugar. And in those 30 years our sugar consumptionhas doubled. Fat actually makes you satisfied, curbs yourappetite and a review of all the research on fat and weightfound that fat does not make you fat.The latest health buzzword is “whole grain.” Foodcompanies add a few flakes of whole grain to processedfoods and try to convince us it’s healthy. A whole grainPop Tart? Really?Most cereals are 75 percent sugar, even with a little bitof whole grain added. They shouldn’t be called breakfast,they should be called dessert. And we are feeding sugarycereal to our kids for breakfast thinking we are doingsomething good for them. In fact, we are killing them.My basic rule for food: If it has ANY health claim onthe label, it’s probably bad for you.About The AuthorMARK HYMAN, MDMark Hyman, MD, is a practicing family physician, anine-time #1 New York Times bestselling author, and aninternationally recognized leader, speaker, educator, andadvocate in his field. He is the director of the ClevelandClinic Center for Functional Medicine. He is also thefounder and medical director of The UltraWellness Center,chairman of the board of the Institute for FunctionalMedicine, a medical editor of The Huffington Post, andhas been a regular medical contributor on many televisionshows including CBS This Morning, the Today Show, CNN,The View, the Katie Couric show and The Dr. Oz Show.To Learn More Visit:www.DrHyman.com
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