This may seem like a ludicrous question. Everybody knows diets never work permanently right? It’s true, but the book My Own Plan by Kirsten Plotkin has some very different things to tell you about food and diets. The book is an eye opening challenge to everything we wrongly believe are scientifically proven facts about diets and nutrition.
We are urged daily to follow a diet based on complex carbohydrates, fruit and vegetables, some proteins and a small amounts of reduced fat, (whatever that is). This is not the diet on which we evolved and thrived for centuries, which made us the lean, healthy human beings we were till just thirty to forty years ago.
In the course of forty years, it has become widely accepted that to be healthy, people must follow a healthy diet, prescribed by literately thousands of self proclaimed ‘diet experts’. Nowhere in our past history was it ever suggested that a ‘diet’ was necessary for good health. Our body was already created to control our weight with the types of food evolution prescribe.
If you examine the contrast of body shapes between the people who were young forty years ago, to the people who are young today, you can be excused for saying; the only advancement which can be attributed to the diet industry since then, is a fast growing epidemic of obesity and type2 diabetes.
Today, our health is not a testament to what is referred to as a ‘healthy diet’. It’s a testament to our amazing resilience to withstand the damage of foods which nature never intended us to eat.
In the past, most people knew instinctively what foods to eat. Their instincts must have worked, because people didn’t tend to put on weight. They didn’t suffer food cravings. They rarely became obese, and when they did, it was usually due to a medical condition like an under active thyroid or Diabetes. No one had even heard of Type 2 Diabetes.
Then along came the cereal manufacturers, followed by Nutritionists, Dieticians, and Diet Food Manufacturers. Here was a new pseudo science, dressed in a cloak of legitimacy, but without a shred of genuine scientific research to back it up.
We would not feed our animals on a diet of complex carbohydrates, breakfast cereals, low fat snack foods, and vast amounts of fruit and vegetables. If we did, we would see our pets become fat, listless and unhappy. They could even die. Yet, we seem to advocate this as a healthy diet for human beings.
Too many vested interests control the foods we eat today. We need to take responsibility for our own choices and stop listening to those who preach what is clearly in their own interest. We can no longer afford yet another guru diet, which is not based on genuine science, offers not a shred of genuine research, or statistics on human trials. Let’s make no mistake here; to these ‘‘experts’, we ARE the Research.
Sometimes we need to remind ourselves where we come from. Different mammals may have different digestive systems, but we cannot stand in the face of nature and decide to change the system already decreed for the human body. Not without consequences.
Wherever we see human intervention to nature, we see trouble. A good intention, even when genuine, is no proof of anything except good intentions. Nutritionists and Dieticians seem to genuinely believe they have made a valuable contribution to the health and welfare of the world. Since this is a bold claim, based not on science, but on optimism, it is appropriate to take a good look around and get the measure of the average person you pass in the street today. Then ask yourself; where is the evidence? If those claims were true, weight problems would have, at least, diminished by now. Instead, we are faced with an official epidemic of obesity.
It’s time to accept that weight problems do not rest with the dieter, the problem is the diet.
Today, more than sixty percent of the population is classified as overweight. Many are already obese and many more will follow. For those who slide into obesity, there’s just a short step to what we call type2 Diabetes. This is yet another phenomenon no one had heard of forty years ago. We need to discard the latest so called ‘healthy balanced diet’, the newest in a forty year old tradition of carefully constructed and ultimately discredited diets.
We need to get back to basics. We need to re-learn the right foods because we seem to have forgotten what they are. This book answers three very important questions. Why it is so hard to lose weight? Why, when we repeatedly diet, does it become ever more difficult to lose weight? And why, when we finally lose some weight, can we never get a permanent weight loss?
The book, My Own Plan, will prove to you, the cause of most weight problems as well as non-medical obesity. It will prove that no matter how bad your weight has become, you can change it and if you follow My Own Plan, you CAN get a permanent weight loss without dieting. You will never have to count calories again.
Goldcoast Australia