Dietary Dogma, what is right?

Patrick's Drug Free Weight Management Program

"Saving and Spending" with Insulin and Glucagon

Essential elements of Weight Loss Program

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CSIRO SAYING YES TO PROTEIN DIET

Dietary Dogma, What is Right?

The saying "we are what we eat" has been around so long that it has become a cliché. But that does not make it wrong.

Post-war Western society indulged itself in an excess of refined carbohydrates and saturated fats, a trend that is now even in orthodox circles, regarded as unhealthy. The dietary advice of the last 20yrs – initially from ‘alternative’ practitioners and later taken up by the mainstream medical profession – has been to increase complex carbohydrates, and reduce fat and protein.

Current clinical experience, however, tells us this is still wrong. The standard high complex carbohydrate, low fat, low protein diet has resulted in many problems for our relatively sedentary population.

• Raised serum insulin levels causing insulin resistance, with far reaching effects on systemic physiological function, reducing health and vitality.

• Reductions in basal metabolic rate leading to weight gain.

• Increased adipose tissue growth, and reductions in lean muscle tissue.

• Accelerated biological ageing.

• Common allergies to grains and dairy foods. (due to excess amounts)

• Immune system over activation and failure.

• Record amounts of heart disease, obesity and cancer.


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Body Mind & Sport’s Weight Management Program

The program includes a protein sparing modified diet. It will provide you with virtually all the necessary amounts of protein (high quality), vitamins, minerals, trace elements, and essential fatty acids in proper balance.

Unlike most diets, which starve your body, you will not feel hungry while you are on the program. You will actually feel a new zest for life as your energy level is enhanced. With the correct balance of nutritional supplements, your body performs better, your brain clears and your memory sharpens.

Because this eating plan is nutritionally balanced, your muscle tone will improve, as you lose weight, so no sagging skin or drawn faces to worry about. You will look and feel better than you have in a long time.

You can loose between 1-3 kilos in the first week and roughly 1kilo every week there after. A weekly visit will be necessary to weigh and measure you and to monitor your individual progress.

When you have reached your ideal target weight, you will be placed on a well-balanced maintenance program. The reshaping will continue whilst you are on maintenance until your body reaches its optimum weight. As part of the maintenance, it would be advised that you go back to the main diet every six months to remove any weight that you have regained due to poor eating habits.


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"Saving and Spending" with Insulin and Glucagon

When people hear the word ‘insulin’ they think of diabetes, but insulin is the body’s saving or storage hormone. High blood sugar levels from excess carbohydrate (starches or sugar) intake cause the insulin to be released to put the body into storage mode, which in turn reduces the blood sugar levels. A large proportion of the energy in your food is sent onto your cells to be stored as fat and when insulin is unchecked fat cells grow.

Glucagon on the other hand is the body’s spending hormone. Its job is to release energy from cells including fat cells to be used as fuel for the body. In the best situation insulin and glucagon maintain a perfect balance and complement one another. So you have to ask yourself, is your current supposedly high energy carbohydrate diet filling you with energy or constantly telling your body to go into storage mode?

In our opinion the current food pyramid we see daily with 6-12 serving of carbohydrates is fine for athletes and labourers, but highly problematic for people already overweight or sedentary.


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Essential Elements of the Weight Loss Program

• Three balanced low carbohydrate and protein meals a day

• Increased water intake

• Blood sugar support

• Professional protein powder with vitamins minerals and amino acids

• 20-30 minutes aerobic exercise daily


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CSIRO SAYING YES TO LOW CARBOHYDRATE DIET

Herald Sun Melbourne Australia
Thursday 30th January 2003
High-protein diet OK
By JEN KELLY, medical reporter
TRENDY high-protein diets favoured by the Hollywood celebrity set have been given the nod by the CSIRO. Stars like Jennifer Aniston, Calista Flockhart, Lara Flynn Boyle, Cher and Robbie Williams have attributed their diet success to high-protein, low-carbohydrate diets. CSIRO researchers found a diet with moderate levels of protein and carbohydrate prompted faster weight loss than a diet high in carbohydrate and low in protein. They believe that may be because high-protein foods, like meat, are more filling and stave off hunger pangs. The study was funded by Meat and Livestock Australia. CSIRO senior research dietitian Dr Manny Noakes said until now, diet books on the subject had been based on conjecture and hearsay. "We're excited by these findings that demonstrate in a scientific manner that the high-protein, low-fat approach to weight loss certainly offers an edge to conventional diets," she said. The CSIRO study found eating 34 per cent protein and 46 per cent carbohydrate prompted faster weight loss than a diet of 17 per cent protein and 63 per cent carbohydrate. Karen Inge, a consultant dietitian with the Victorian Institute of Sport, said the diet approved by the CSIRO fitted within normal healthy guidelines. People wanting to lose weight should get 25 to 35 per cent of energy from protein, 45 to 50 per cent from carbohydrate, and the rest from fat, she said. "Forty-six per cent is not low-carbohydrate," she said. "Carbohydrate is nearly at 50 per cent, so that's moderate and it's fine." Ms Inge said it was crucial to realise many of the diets favoured by some Hollywood stars were far lower in carbohydrates than the CSIRO diet. "Most of them have not been eating bread or potatoes, no rice, no pasta, and a lot of those diets they can't maintain," she said. "What's important is having enough carbohydrate to give energy, and also for bowel health." For 12 weeks, researchers studied 100 overweight and obese women with syndrome X, also known as metabolic syndrome, insulin resistance syndrome, or beer gut syndrome.
Up to one-in-four Australians have it.

Gary Taubes is a correspondent for the journal Science and author of "Bad Science: The Short Life and Weird Times of Cold Fusion." © 2002 Gary Taubes

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