The cream they use contains seven ingredients, two of which are actually dairy. They add brown sugar unless you specifically request that they don’t. Additionally you get diced apple, dried cranberries and raisins… another source of sugar. Even the oatmeal contains “natural flavor.” It contains ten (10) fewer calories than their cheeseburger or their Egg McMuffin, and even without the brown sugar added it has more calories that a McDonald’s hamburger.

Just the other day, one of my patients’ mothers told her little girl that if she behaved she would take her to McDonald’s for a reward. We had a talk. I don’t think that she will offer to reward her daughter with poison in the future.

Fast food rarely provides our body with genuine replacement parts. Please don’t feed it to your family.

When you age, you generally decrease your physical activity and metabolism. Unless caloric intake is also decreased, the end result is obesity, which in itself increases the risk to cancer, cardiovascular disease, arthritis, diabetes, etc. With reduced caloric intake, supplementation is vital in order for you to get adequate amounts of vitamins and minerals with the decreased amount of food. This becomes even more important when, according to the latest scientific literature, you can’t get the recommended daily amounts (RDAs) of many essential nutrients at normal caloric intake levels.

To address these problems, I have established a basic vitamin and mineral supplemental program that I feel offers optimal support for various age groups based on what is known about decreased metabolism and increased micro-nutrient needs. Some people with increased vitamin and mineral needs brought about by chronic illness require additional amounts of very specific nutrients added to this basic program. However, people of average health do very well on a good basic supplemental program, with emphasis on anti-oxidants (anti-aging vitamins) like Vitamin C and Vitamin E, such as that found in the Basic Self-Help Supplement Program chart.

The scientific literature is emphasizing that as we get older, we need continually increasing amounts of virtually all of the essential micronutrients. This area of research is now called anti-aging medicine. It is getting a lot of attention because so much can be done inexpensively to produce remarkable results, and you the public, are demanding it.

Every person, all the events of your life are there because you have drawn them there. What you choose to do with them is up to you.
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R Bach Illusions

I hope you post my story, I have bored all my friends with it so I might as well bore you too!

Thanks for making me well.

My story is for those wondering if the NAET system with Dr. David is for you. I have a family health history of diabetes, high blood pressure, asthma, heart disease, emphysema and yearly weight gain. I exercised, took supplements and ate right but the problems started anyway – just like the rest of my family. I took allergy and asthma medication but each year I would have to try a new drug because the old one simply stopped working. Soon I was taking 90 pills a month and carrying an inhaler. The last straw was when I had to stop having a glass of wine with my dinner. After drinking half of the glass my face would turn red, my throat would get scratchy and I would have a headache for the rest of the night.

My friend Karen told me about Dr. David and I made an appointment the next week. The treatments seemed so easy (slight pressure down the spine three times) I didn’t think it could possibly work…but it did! I knew going in that I would need a number of treatments and that the more items I cleared the more sensitive I would become to the remaining allergens…especially my cat! I was much better after the basics and started reducing my medication immediately. I was very tired after the first treatments so I only scheduled appointments when I could go home and take a nap. That was my only side effect and it didn’t happen every time.

Today I am allergy free. I have discontinued my prescriptions but I still go to the pulmonologist for my annual checkups. He tells me to keep up the good work — but he doesn’t know that I have not taken any of my medication for 9 months nor have I used my inhaler in over a year! I have saved at least $80.00 per month on those prescriptions and am not on a downward health spiral.

If you have questions about what I experienced feel free to contact me at (913) 381-3147 I love to talk about myself.

Gloria Klug

The final mystery is oneself. When one has weighed the sun in the balance, and measured the steps of the moon, and mapped out the seven heavens star by star, there remains oneself. Who can calculate the orbit of his own soul?
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Oscar Wilde

Fact: The ‘heat engine’ calorie theory was disproved over a hundred years ago even though most nutritionists and doctors today still think it’s valid. Unfortunately you are not a heat engine, burning everything like coal in a furnace. Food is not only used to produce energy, but also to reproduce you. Every two years you reproduce a new body, that’s a new liver, pancreas, brain, lungs, etc. Some organs reproduce themselves much more quickly. For instance, the digestive tract replaces itself every 10 days to 2 weeks. Food is needed to provide genuine replacement parts – muscles, enzymes, organs, antibodies, etc. – not merely the generation of energy. A fairer comparison would be to compare your body to a chemical factory. Calories are only the measure of potential energy but do not consider what that particular food may be used for by your body beside producing energy, for example as a genuine replacement part.

Fact: In April of 2003, Harvard University found people on a low carbohydrate diet could eat 25,000 more calories over a 12 week study than those on a high carbohydrate (low fat) diet with no weight gain. Astonishing perhaps, but only if you think your body is a ‘heat engine.’ So by now you are figuring me out, and hopefully coming to the obvious conclusion that all foods are not utilized by your body in the same way. Unfortunately, politics and opinion have replaced science in the fields of human health and nutrition, and doctors and nutritionists still quote the ‘calorie theory’ as if it were gospel.

Fact: Portion control is only a small player in the attempt to bring weight under control and then maintain that healthy weight. Eating the wrong foods will make you fat, tired, irritable, hungry all the time, and eventually sick. Eating the right foods allows the body to lose weight efficiently, become more energetic, have more stable moods, and contributes to regaining your health.

Fact: Almost every patient that presents in my office is addicted to carbohydrates. All carbohydrates break down to sugar, and sugar is killing more people in the industrialized world than the other two deadly white powders, cocaine and heroine combined. On the latter you die with a syringe in your arm, and on the former you die of the ravages of diabetes, heart disease and cancer. I appreciate my addicted patients because I used to be one myself. To break the addiction takes a little knowledge, a lot of desire, and an intelligent diet loaded with genuine replacement parts.

Fact: Your body must have genuine replacement parts. Genuine replacement parts are proteins, fats, vitamins, and minerals. These are considered essential. Without the right amount of each in the correct balance, we become sick and eventually die. There are no essential carbohydrates.

I told you about the importance of protein in the February 2009 Newsletter. The article was entitled Protein Is Our Most Misunderstood Food.

I told you about the importance of fat in the March 2009 Newsletter. The article was entitled The Importance Of Fat… And The Misinformation Surrounding It.

I told you about the comparative unimportance of carbohydrates in the April 2009 Newsletter in an article entitled Carbohydrates, the Third Article In A Series On Eating A Healthy Diet.

I suggest you access the above articles, copy them and put them in a notebook. If you follow these instructions you will begin to break your sugar addiction and start on a path to better health.

Since the advent of the high carbohydrate diet (also called the low fat diet), all the sugar related diseases have increased significantly, overweight is epidemic, and the food processors and food manufacturers are laughing all the way to the bank. Protein and fat are both essential, as are vitamins and minerals. There are no essential carbohydrates.

When you limit packaged and processed foods (pasta is a good example), weight control becomes less of a dilemma. Eating locally grown foods in season makes staying trim a much easier task. My nurse/receptionist has told me I need to let everyone know that I was green before green was fashionable — actually, forty years before green was fashionable, but eating smart really hasn’t changed, you just have to ignore the nonsense in the media, paid for by the same agribusiness and food producing interests that are making all of us sick. I often tell my patients, “If you see it advertized on TV, don’t eat it.”

In the next issue, I’ll talk to you about the fallacy of counting calories. That’s going to put holes in a lot of balloons.

Update: Eat Your Way Thin… Here are the four articles which are in the series.

• Part 1 – Protein Is Our Most Misunderstood Food
• Part 2 – The Importance Of Fat… And The Misinformation Surrounding It
• Part 3 – Carbohydrates
• Part 4 – Let’s Talk About Weight Loss

Update: Eat Your Way Thin… Here are the four articles which are in the series.

• Part 1 – Protein Is Our Most Misunderstood Food
• Part 2 – The Importance Of Fat… And The Misinformation Surrounding It
• Part 3 – Carbohydrates
• Part 4 – Let’s Talk About Weight Loss

A Functional Diet Explained

For years, Americans have been gaining weight because we have been told that fat isn’t good for us and we should be eating low fat diets. This erroneous advice and behavior has transformed our bodies into primary glucose-based burning metabolisms when we are actually designed to have primary fat-based burning metabolisms. A glucose-based metabolism is for sudden bursts of energy, while a fat-based burning metabolism is the preferred method by the body for the long term. Fat-based metabolisms are more efficient and healthy. All the popular diets that are effective are built on fat based metabolic principals.

Leptin is a fat hormone that tells the brain to eat and it also tells the brain when to stop eating. Leptin is responsible for fat deposition. Experiments have shown that mice with low Leptin levels are obese and hungry. A few years ago, the pharmaceutical industry was enthusiastic about producing Leptin in an attempt to help people lose weight. What they found was that obese human beings already had elevated Leptin. This sounds contradictory, but what happened is that Leptin has lost its ability to function well — this is called “Leptin Resistance.” When a person becomes Leptin resistant, it takes more and more Leptin to tell the brain it’s satisfied and that you don’t need more food. Therefore, it takes more and more food to feel satisfied. The brain, unable to appropriately respond to Leptin, frantically signals for more and more fat to be stored. Since Leptin is made by fat cells, you have to make more fat to produce enough Leptin to finally get the message across to the brain to stop being hungry and stop storing fat.

The foods that trigger Leptin resistance are exactly the foods that the Federal government has designated as the foundation of the food pyramid, such as breads, grains, cereal, pasta and starchy vegetables. These starchy foods lead to higher blood sugar levels and the inability of insulin to function properly. This is known as insulin resistance or dysinsulinism. We now find ourselves in a position whereby our bodies are aging more rapidly because high blood sugar levels are the hallmark of aging. When sugar combines with proteins in your body (glycation), it triggers chemical reactions that can promote free radicals, unstable oxygen molecules, which can damage cells. The objective of this diet is to burn fat for energy. Good fat burns Leptin. Eating fat does not make you fat or unhealthy. Not being able to burn fat does. Good fat lowers Leptin levels. Leptin resistance desensitizes your taste buds to sugar and makes you crave more sweet foods.

Sugar that isn’t burned is made into saturated fat which is resistant to burning. It is stored as fat and produces even more Leptin in response to sugar which worsens Leptin resistance. Grain fed animals produce more saturated fat than normal. If you are eating sugar (or foods that turn into sugar) and fat together, the body will burn the sugar and store the fat. A great example of this is buttered toast.

There are many different types of fats — there are fats that are good for you and fats that are bad for you.

Polyunsaturated fat is liquid at room temperature. Examples of this are vegetable oils, which contain Omega-6 fatty acids, such as soy, sesame, safflower, corn and peanut oils. Other examples are Omega-3 polyunsaturated oils such as fish oils. All unsaturated fats are unstable and easily oxidized and can easily promote free radical formation. Frying polyunsaturated oils in a pan accelerates the formation of free radicals. Asian restaurants use soy oil because it is inexpensive. Trans-fats and hydrogenated fats are particularly unhealthy and should be avoided completely.

Saturated fats are hard at room temperature. Saturated fats are found in grain fed beef, lamb and dairy products (milk, cheese, lard, etc). Coconut oil is also a saturated fat. Consider the fat in grain fed animals as second generation carbohydrates. Most of the fat stored in your body is saturated fat.

Monounsaturated fats are the Omega-9′s. Examples of these are olive oil and avocado and nuts. The Omega 9′s are part of the Mediterranean diet which is known to decrease the risk of heart disease and some cancers. I would, therefore, like you to use olive oil or avocado or canola oil.

Essential fatty acids are polyunsaturated fats that cannot be produced by the body. Examples of these are the Omega-3 unsaturated fatty acids which include DHA and EPA. DHA has been shown to decrease depression. Today’s modern diet is high in the Omega-6′s, and this throws off the balance between the Omega-6 and Omega-3 fatty acids. We used to have a ratio of 5:1 of Omega-6 to Omega-3 and today we have a ratio of 24:1 in the average American diet. Omega-3 fats help improve insulin and Leptin sensitivity. Flax does not contain EPA or DHA, but does contain alpha linoleic acid which can be converted to EPA or DHA, but many of us do not have the enzymes necessary to promote this conversion.

The objective of our diet is to restore Leptin sensitivity. Once Leptin sensitivity is restored, your cells will also become more sensitized to hormones, such as insulin, which is healthy.

The diet will be divided into essentially two different levels. Level 1 will last three weeks and will teach your metabolism to burn fat instead of sugar. During this time, you will have no starchy or sugary carbohydrates and will eat foods high in good fat and vegetables that are high in fiber. Individual supplement programs will be based upon biochemical individuality. In level 2, you will be allowed to have some of the starchy and sugary foods introduced into your diet, but will be limited based upon your sensitivity to Leptin levels.

We will emphasize the need to stick to the diet because when sugar reacts with protein in your body, it damages the protein. Sugar damaged proteins are called advanced glycation end products, a.k.a. AGES for short. These end products promote inflammation, and glycation is the major reason that diabetics tend to look older than non-diabetics. Glycation has also been linked to abnormal structure in nerve cells and can eventually lead to Alzheimer’s.

I’d like to share a few new thoughts with you about your new diet. Fats make food taste great and fats make you feel satiated. On this diet you will be allowed to have up to 4 oz. of red wine daily. We will not be looking at carbohydrates as simple vs. complex, but rather as carbohydrates containing high fiber vs. low fiber. Fiber can’t be broken down into sugar. Non fiber carbohydrates create a huge surge of Leptin and insulin. You must also eliminate or drastically reduce grain fed beef, lamb and pork for the first three weeks unless it is grass fed and grass finished (feedlots fatten up cattle before slaughter with simple carbohydrates). Almond butter and cashew butter will be fine. You may have protein shakes with your breakfast. Your major sources of protein will be meat, fish, poultry and dairy. For the first three weeks, you are allowed only foods on the “A” list. The “B” list contains foods that you can have on an occasional basis when you are at level 2. Avoid all foods on the “C” list.

I try to eat at least one serving of the Brassica family daily, and would strongly recommend that you do likewise for yourself and your family. These vegetables are low on the glycemic index and are safe for diabetics and those with hypoglycemia and insulin resistance.