Other Problems With the High-Carbohydrate Diet

The High-Carbohydrate Diet is Associated with All Kinds of Bad Effects

The high-carbohydrate diet that’s in vogue today doesn’t represent a balanced diet.

Dr. Jan Karlsson, one of the original developers of the carbohydrate-loading regimen so popular among current-day athletes, has argued vehemently against a high-carbohydrate diet as a regular, everyday regimen.

He claims that such a diet is only acceptable for two or, at most, four days within the framework of the carbohydrate and muscle glycogen loading program.

Of course, if the body was fat-adapted, there would be no need to ever do glycogen loading, but this point has been thoroughly missed by everyone.

The carbohydrate-enriched diet leading to muscle glycogen loading has been widely accepted since the late 1960’s as an important way to prepare for endurance sports and training.

The dietary program, however, was to be applied only occasionally. Unfortunately, it was developed into a long-term treatment program and was used, not only by elite cross-country skiers and long-distance runners, but also by professional athletes in many different sports.

Even International Organizations such as the International Olympic Committee Medical Commission Recommended the Use of the High-Carbohydrate Diet for Athletes

Dr. Karlsson has stated that such long-term dietary regimens are synonymous with malnutrition. It has been shown that the intake of lipophilic (fat-loving) nutrients such as vitamin E is linearly related to fat intake.

Other risks are associated with such an extreme high-carbohydrate diet if followed for a long time. In fact, this dietary regimen means that individuals may actually sacrifice their own structural lipids (fats) for energy needs.

Vitamin Q and vitamin E are significant factors for the health of white blood cells; they’re the cells that are richest in antioxidants and, consequently, enhance the immune system. Significant immune system suppression is a possible result of low dietary intake of fats and the consequent use of one’s own fat stores as an energy source.

Athletes, with an extremely high intake of carbohydrates and, hence, subsequent impaired intake of lipid-based or lipophilic nutrients, have been in a situation referred to as the Carbohydrate Syndrome or the Carbohydrate Trap.

It seems reasonable to assume that this condition might:

•  reduce free radical elimination and lead to damage in muscles
•  increase cell injury
• inhibit the body’s inflammation and healing process in response to injury and infection
• hard-training athletes, who follow a high-carbohydrate diet, will suffer from overuse injuries due to a decreased ability to repair and rebuild damaged tissues
• vegetarians and others who consume a low-fat diet are also at serious risk for the same type of damage

People Who Have Extreme Energy Needs, such as Athletes and Those Involved in Manual Labor, Must be Very Careful About the Sources of  Their Daily Food Intake

If foods rich in carbohydrates come to serve as their primary source of energy, their risk of suffering from an insufficient supply of nutrients will increase.

Fats contain many of the essential nutrients we need each day to maintain our health. As I have proposed for many years, the low-fat diet is dangerous.

Sports medicine authorities have just recently recognized the existence of the Carbohydrate Trap or fat-phobia. The Carbohydrate Trap represents a stage of malnutrition imposed by unprofessional advisors and followed by unwitting, unknowledgeable clients.

This is one of the major difficulties in nutrition today: the emphasis on the low-fat diet in contrast to a diet that maintains an adequate fat intake.

How long will it take until our medical and scientific “experts” recognize the folly of their recommendation of low-fat eating?

Drinking Alcohol Provides Many Health Benefits

Release of Recent Study Says Even One Drink Per Day Increases Cancer “Risk” for Women

The Temperance movement has historical roots more than 200 years old. From that grew the Movement for Prohibition.

Those movements and the war against drinking continue unabated today. The following items form the basis for the anti-drinking attitude:

1. All drinking is risk taking
2. The suggested daily drinking limits make sense and are based on sound scientific research
3. Alcohol abuse can be lowered by reducing all drinking
4. Alcohol is correctly grouped with street drugs

These assumptions are drilled into our heads with the same fervor as reading, writin’, and ‘rithmetic.

There’s no reason for the powers of modern society and culture — education, medicine, politics, think tanks, the media, foundations, the government, or religion — to challenge these entrenched beliefs.

The Proof that Moderate Alcohol Consumption Provides Health Benefits is Overwhelming

The French Paradox is a good example that refutes the conclusions of the newly released study. In fact, during World War II, the French government made sure that a bottle of wine was available, daily, for the citizens, and two bottles for the soldiers!

Hundreds and hundread of studies show that people who drink alcohol (spirits, wine, or beer) are healthier than those who do not drink AND those who drink to excess.

So, What’s the Story Behind the Alcohol, Women, and Cancer Connection Defined in the New Study?

First, the purpose of all this research is to confirm existing beliefs. And grant-giving for research goes only to those who support the current dogma. As I say all the time, in our society beliefs TRUMP facts.

How does all this play out in the science that supports alcohol and cancer, fat/cholesterol and heart disease, and an endless number of studies that fear monger based on human habits of eating and lifestyle?

Most studies manipulate the research to get the result they’re looking for. They use methods that obscure the facts and lead to clouded thinking. They manipulate statistical analyses to meet their ends. And you suffer.

Statistics: You’ve heard the statement, there are lies, damn lies, and statistics.

ALL modern day studies use a statistical method called relative risk analysis. This way researchers can confuse everyone (doctors and the population) equally.

How does this work? Let’s say there are two groups of 1,000 people and the researchers find how many in each group get cancer.

OK, so in the alcohol abstainers group, 1 per 1,000 gets some form of cancer. In the drinking group, 2 per 1,000 come down with cancer.

Expressed as it should be, the rate of cancer occurrence is 0.1% in the abstainers and 0.2% in the drinkers.

Scary? No, I don’t think anyone would give up their drinking based on that.

Since, there’s nothing there, why bother reporting rates: let’s make sure no one can understand what these numbers mean so let’s compare only the 1 vs. the 2, forget about the fact that 1,000 people were in each group.

See the ruse? Two is 100% greater than one, so you now have a 100% increase in the ”risk” of getting cancer by drinking.

The Washington Post writes in its headline covering the breaking news, “A Drink a Day Raises Women’s Risk of Cancer, Study Indicates.” The Post is clueless and buys into it just as everyone else. Then it spreads out into the evening news and makes it to the talk shows.

Women, now terrified, quit drinking. Well, we already saw that people who drink are healthier than those who don’t. Not a good move to stop drinking.

How Much Drink Should  We Consume Each Day?

The medical Establishment and government health agencies have agreed on the one-fits-all mandate of 1 drink per day for women and 2 for men. This recommendation is not based on scientific findings but on meeting the needs of the agenda they have.

Benefits arise from the consumption of 1 to 2 drinks per day. But, research shows that drinking well more than this has significant health advantages, even up to more than a bottle of wine per day!

Don’t let yourself be scared away from healthy habits such as drinking, eating red meat, and eating eggs.

Dr. Richard Doll stated, “People should be treated as adults and told the facts. Instead of facts, Americans are treated like children and fed generous doses of anti-drinking spin.”

Alcohol consumption is one of my key anti-aging strategies that I describe in my book, There is No Fountain of Youth, But Here’s How You Can Live 10, 20, Even 30 Years Longer.

Is Fat Really the Health Hazard Everyone Thinks It Is?

Absolutely Not!

How did this happen? It’s a comedy of errors:

• in 1953 Dr. Ancel Keys published a paper indicting fat as the cause of heart disease
• that led to the diet-heart hypothesis so ingrained in everyone’s mind today
• but, it only took two years after 1953 for real scientists to show that Keys’s research was flawed
• he had plotted results for fat intake in only seven out of twenty two countries that were available
• when the others were added, there was no relationship

No matter, the medical Establishment, the government, the drug industry, and the food companies jumped on the band-wagon and the great steam-rolling of the American peoples’ minds was fully flowered.

The American Heart Association did not grant any money to research that opposed the diet-heart hypothesis. Fat was soon lumped with cholesterol and the search for the real cause of heart disease was over.

In 1985, the National Institutes of Health held a Consensus Conference declaring the hazards of fat and cholesterol. No opponents were invited — and there were plenty.

Meat and eggs were singled out even though research showed that there was no risk from eating these foods — then or today. In fact, enlightened people today applaud eggs, although red meat isn’t yet a poster child.

All of this, of course, led to the medical and goverment recommendations to follow a low-fat diet:

• back in the late 70’s there was still a lot of resistance to this idea even among medical people
• there was simply no research on what would happen if the population adopted the low-fat regimen
• there is plenty today, such as the obesity and diabetes epidemics, but the idea and belief that fat and cholesterol are bad for our health are so entrenched that there’s no room for the actual facts
• the $725 million diet study titled the Women’s Health Initiative showed no reduction in heart-disease or stroke in 20,000 women who followed a so-called heart-healthy diet for 8 years

What is happening today is that more research is moving us in the right direction. But, because of the glut of 50 years of brainwashing and the deeply entrenched false beliefs, these new facts are having a hard time finding the light of day. Researchers generally do not do exhaustive research. The result is a study design that is flawed from the git-go.

Since fat has been so admonished and carbohydrates, including grains, fruits, and vegetables, have been elevated to God-like status, it’s difficult to sift through the studies.

Cholestesterol: we need a poll. What percent of people believe it’s related to heart disease? What percent don’t? My money says less than 5% don’t think it’s bad. How many people have not heard the word cholesterol? I don’t think any.

Glycated Proteins. Heard of Them? Nah, I Never Run into Anyone Who has Heard of Them

In 1987, Dr. Anthony Cerami published the Glycation Theory of Disease. That’s now 22 years ago and no one has heard about it. Your doctor knows nothing about it — ask him or her.

Glycation occurs when glucose, blood sugar (from digested carbohydrates) whacks up against your body’s proteins — including your DNA and RNA. You actually get glued together. And cholesterol actually tries to plug the damage in the blood vessels caused by the glycation process.

So, be forewarned. As you follow the health recommendations that spew out from EVERY source to reduce your fat and cholesterol and eat more carbohydrates (including grains, fruits, and vegetables), you’re planning your own disease and early death watch.

And it’s all supported by the medical Establishment, the government, the drug companies, lay “health experts,” and a vast network of uninformed groups and individuals.

Why Weight Loss Remains So Confusing

Do We Question So-Called “Authority” — or Do We Just Let It Go?

The nightly news reported on the new weight loss study released yesterday in the New England Journal of Medicine.

The study was the brainchild of two of the pre-eminent medical institutions in the world: the Harvard School of Public Health and the Pennington Biomedical Research Center at LSU.

Seventeen names represented the authorship of the article. The purpose of this multi-year study was to establish if diet composition — how much protein, fat, or carbohydrate in the diet — would impact weight loss.

The researchers validated the well-known fact that calories dictate what happens to body weight over the long haul. Although there were four different dietary combos of the three major food types, the results showed that diet composition was not a factor in weight loss.

There were problems with this study:

• participants lost weight during the first six months and then began to regain weight during the next eighteen months
• this result parallels 50 years of weight loss research showing that people never lose weight at the pre-trial predicted rate
• people do not stick to a weight loss regimen in which calories are reduced — they can’t and I’ll tell you why in a moment

The researchers concluded “that diets that are successful in causing weight loss can emphasize a range of fat, protein, and carbohydrate compositions.” It’s important to emphasize that the range of carbohydrate intake was between 35%-65% of the day’s total calories.

Few People Have the Experience and Backgroud to Make the Following Analysis

Here’s the important point that these researchers do not know: for carbohydrates to contribute to weight loss, the daily composition of the carb intake must be at or lower than 25% of the day’s total calorie intake.

What’s the real result of this study?

Just more confusion.

So, the breaking news covered by all the media is now that diet composition does not matter in weight loss — a totally false conclusion!

We just fall deeper into the quicksand. Here’s what else our research elite just don’t get:

• the reason subjects started regaining is because they could no longer stick to a calorie-reduced diet
• Why? Because they were hungry
• the body rapidly converts carbs to body fat and this process is brisk when carb intake exceeds 25% of calories
• the blood then clears of fuel and ravenous hunger sets in
• the body wants to go back to its original weight
• at 24 months, the average loss among the 4 groups was about 8 pounds — that stinks — 2 years for a lousy 8 pounds
• and, I’ll bet in another year that most will be back to where they started or heavier

We’ve seen the same problem with researchers who study a low carb diet. They simply have no practical experience in it and follow the fatally flawed Atkins’s version. In this study, they did not follow a true low-carb diet, again, because they have no practical experience in knowing what that actually is.

Yet, these researchers, coming from trusted centers, will have the last say and the country will now believe that diet composition makes no impact on weight loss.

Yes, calories do count, but if one cannot stay on a calorie-reduced diet, he has no chance of succeeding in weight loss and certainly if he did lose some, in maintaining the loss. To succeed in calorie-reduced diets, carbs must be dropped to at least 25% of total daily calorie intake, and better yet to below 15%.

What’s the Major Cause of Weight Loss Failure?

It’s Confusion

Even with all the competing weight loss plans and methods, people simply don’t know what to do to succeed.

HOW is that possible, surely these methods, the endless number of them, must work?

No, they really don’t because at the base of it, they’re just plans.

They don’t teach you HOW your body works; they don’t provide a roadmap.

I’m Going to Teach You How Your Body Works

So You Can Permanently Succeed With Weight Loss and Control

Look, I’m no different than anyone else. I grew up in 1950’s America and I got fat in 1950’s America. I was so embarrassed by being fat and getting stretch marks across my chest muscle’s skin that I never took my T-shirt off when I was a lifeguard.

I spent decades trying to solve the issue of what to do about controlling my body.

I even suffered through the process of getting a PhD in physiology and biochemistry at the Temple University School of Medicine in Philadelphia.

There really weren’t any answers there, but what I learned gave me the power to put the answers together. I researched endlessly and I learned all the intricacies, all the steps.

There really was no textbook of weight loss. Sure, there’re plenty of books but none ever summed it all up, put in all the steps, it was just piece meal.

There are, of course, all the books and programs in what I call the “Marketplace.”

But, that’s marketing — an attempt to get their hand in your wallet.

They don’t care if you succeed, it’ll just be more money for them when you fail.

Has Anyone Ever Taught You How Weight Loss Actually Works?

The answer is NO, or you wouldn’t be overweight. If you knew HOW to do it, then you’d only be fat if you didn’t do what you had to do. If that’s the case, then you shoulder the responsibility.

I ask people all the time, “How does weight control work, what are the rules you need to know?”

It’s very interesting that no one has ever been able to answer the question correctly.

Oh, they come up with all kinds of answers but they’re never correct.

There’s Only One Way to Lose Weight

WOW!

What do I mean by that? You mean to say the answer is simple?

“You mean it’s not complicated, not some overwhelming, complex set of problems that I have to deal with?”

As I describe on this site and in my writing, there’s only ONE way to lose and control weight and that’s to balance the calories you eat with the calories you burn.

But Weight Watchers says not to pay attention to calories and Nutri-System says to use the “scientific” Glycemic Index and eat the “good carbs” and stay away from the “bad carbs.” And someone else says to do this and that — blah, blah, blah.

It’s not true.

Well, you just learned something about all these plans and you just learned about all the other plans that are out there too. It’s all hogwash. If they don’t talk about calories as the only way to lose weight, then they’re wrong.

If you follow plans and don’t learn HOW to do it, you’ll never succeed.

It’s all about controlling calories. That’s it — Nature’s Law, the Law of Thermodynamics.

Guys, this is not my idea, it’s your body’s IDEA. I’m not making this up.

Think about it. There are Laws in Nature, like gravity. You jump up in the air and you’ll come down. How many times out of a 100?

100.

Why You Continue to Get Snookered

Since you don’t know HOW to lose and control your weight, the marketers continue to feed on your lack of knowledge. Unfortunately, you’re not armed with the knowledge-base needed to weed through the claims

Lets look at some of the leading Internet ads:

• Top 5 Weight Loss Pills (the pills don’t work)
• Lose 30 Pounds in 30 Days (how could anyone fall for that?)
• Quick Weight Loss (the quickest way is to eat nothing, can’t go any faster than that)
• Lose Weight Fast Now (and I’ll teach you how to fly)
• 30 Pounds in 3 Weeks — No Diet (the only way this might happen is if you starve yourself and even if you do, you won’t lose weight that fast, it’s not possible)

This is just a portion of the nonsense you hear about weight loss.

Now, if you go the medical route (they know it’s about calories), they’ll try to convince you to go low-fat. But, that won’t work either. In my books, I’ll teach you the basics you need to know to get around all of this misinformation.

I’ve taught you the FACTS about Calorie Balance. I’ve taught you that there’s only ONE WAY to lose weight. No one is different, NO ONE is ABOVE the LAW.

Now, that being said, there are many things that get in your way in following the LAW.

For example, look at the diet composition — the type of food you eat.

I can tell you without reservation the best choice is low-carbohydrate. I’ll give you more details on another page.

Look at Some of the Amazing Facts I’m Going to Teach You in My Books

• The Energy Balance Equation: the most important issue you need to know
• Understanding Metabolic Rate and How It Can’t Be Changed (selling you on the idea that you can change your metabolic rate is one of the main scams used today)
• How Weight Loss Affects Body Composition (this section teaches how to optimize fat loss and minimize muscle loss)
• The Effect of Dieting on Metabolism
• How to Use Biology Rather Than Willpower to Beat the Odds Against You
• What Adjustments You Have to Make While You’re Losing Weight
• The Power of Eating the Right Type of Food
• Carbohydrate-to-Fat Conversion
• Why Low-Fat Diets Don’t Work
• The Complete Scoop on the Low-Carb Diet and How You Can Use It to Your Advantage
• Why the Atkins’s Low-Carb Diet is Fatally Flawed
• Dietary Control of Appetite and Hunger
• How the Body “Burns” Food Calories
• The Cholesterol Myths
• The Importance of Physical Activity
• Description of the Exercise Prescription
• How Much Physical Activity Do We Need to Lose Weight and Maintain the Loss
• Putting the Program Together and Dr. Ellis’s 100/100 Plan
• The Science Underlying Dr. Ellis’s Weight Loss Program
• Focusing on the Major Issue Related to Weight Loss

My Plan is Not Really My Plan — It’s the Body’s Plan

Yes, that’s right, it’s the BODY’S PLAN. Since weight loss is dictated by one thing and one thing only, and it’s been that way since day one, this is pretty simple to do. I just gathered all of the information needed about HOW to apply it that was spread all over the place.

This isn’t marketing, this isn’t another IDEA or BELIEF system, it’s the SCIENCE of weight control.

This is the first time ever that everything you need to know about weight loss has been compiled in one place. It took decades to gather and analyze the thousands of research papers that’ve been published over the years.

I also had to overcome all the marketing and false ideas to arrive at the needed conclusions.

Make no mistake, this is a competitive arena and big bucks are thrown at weight loss. If I didn’t think I had something unique, something that no one had ever done before, I wouldn’t have entered this brutally difficult market. I can’t play with the big boys.

Free yourself and make the small investment in my books, they’re a complete source of information on weight loss and control, diet information for health and sports performance, training, and anti-aging.

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