This was a time when diet free weight loss was normal.  It was also a time when pseudo professions would appear, not out of a university but out of suburban homes where self proclaimed experts were tinkering with pet projects. One such group created a niche market they called nutrition. They were ready to launch a diet that almost everybody would need.  You see, they had stumbled on something called cholesterol.  It was bad news for most people because early tests had shown that even slim and healthy people showed high cholesterol readings.

There was a reason for that. The tests were done incorrectly.  There should be two readings; one for the good cholesterol and one for the bad. The true reading is the difference between the two.  Instead, the readings were added together. This meant just about everyone showed a high reading.  Why? They had all grown up on a diet which had changed little for centuries.

The nutritionists had found a way to get instant credibility by simply talking up the dangers of cholesterol and offering a way to fix it. No research, in fact no science at all was ever involved in the work they did. No human trials were conducted to show that the diet had any affect whatsoever on people’s cholesterol.

This was a diet of homemade theories and pet philosophies. It was launched backed only by guesswork and wishful thinking. What was worse is that most people who followed that diet wrongly believed that the nutritionists were genuine scientists who had discovered cholesterol. They trusted they were following scientific recommendations.

It wasn’t long before we wondered; when did America get so fat? How could it have happened? It’s the old story. When you put unqualified people in charge of important matters that concern other people’s welfare, bad things are likely to happen. Not even when nutritionist’s began to speak of cholesterol as their area of expertise did anyone raise a voice of protest.

This untested information promoted as scientific fact, went on to become the dogma on which today’s nutritionist base their philosophy. So what was that diet?  Many people will still remember it as the pyramid diet. It was launched with a poster of a pyramid. It depicted the food groups according to priority. Heavy carbohydrates were at the bottom. It filled one third. Then there was fruit and vegetables, which were at least twenty percent. That meant a diet of at least fifty percent carbohydrates.

When the diet was launched the cholesterol angle caught the media’s attention and the publicity soon induced enough fear to influence thousands of perfectly normal healthy people to start dieting. Even doctors would recommend the diet when a lab result showed a high cholesterol count.

This diet laid the foundation for today’s epidemic of weight problems and obesity.  It has also caused obesity in children rates to reach alarming figures. The diet never proved to have a single positive effect on cholesterol.  To stop this madness, we must eliminate diets and return to what used to be a diet free weight loss.

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Kirsten Plotkin Author

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Nature thought of everything.  It designed us with a metabolism to control our weight.  How great is that?  But as with most of nature’s works of art, we would eventually intervene and mess it up. When something works really well you can always find people who want to improve on it. A diet free weight loss had worked really well for centuries. It was only a matter of time before somebody got the bright idea to change it.

In 1970, most people took diet free weight loss for granted. They still assumed it would always be normal.  But experimentation with anything new was in vogue and that included new foods. Pasta was introduced to the average household and a breadbasket at every meal was expected. By the late seventies, retailers got adventurous.  Butchers began to prepare their meats for better display. Bakers went even further. Bread was no longer just a loaf of bread it was a dozen different shapes and varieties from around the globe. Sugar was often introduced to add flavor.

Cereals went from porridge and cornflakes to boxes of sweets.  We got a brightly colored box of cereal with every flavor.  ‘Your kids will love it’ they said. Of course they would. It was a box of sweets.

Manufactured foods flourished. Anything produced in a factory was superior. This was a boon to the new ‘snack foods’ industry. This was food you could take anywhere and eat anytime. It was salty, and sometimes sweet. It was spicy, it was full of flavor and it was very morish.

The one word that accompanied all the manufactured foods was ‘healthy’.  You know the old saying, ‘if you have to keep repeating something it’s probably not true…and of course; it’s not true.

Do you think that our metabolism has NOT suffered some damage by having to adjust from a diet which changed little for centuries to one which is virtually the exact opposite?  When people get older their metabolism slows down, when someone’s thyroid gets damaged the metabolism suffers. When people eat food the body has difficulty processing, the metabolism suffers and diet cravings kick in.

All these new carbohydrates were more than our metabolism could cope with so it simply slowed down. That meant we began to store the fat we would normally have burned off in energy.  Our metabolism could then establish a new benchmark for what it considered our ‘normal’ weight.  By then most of us were already looking for an easy diet plan.  A diet then, as today, meant reducing calories.  It the diet continued long enough your confused brain would read the food shortage as a famine and signal your metabolism to slow down again.

Our body was never designed to process solid carbohydrates.  But famine it knows well. It will recognize it after you have dieted for a little while. It will slow you down and losing weight will be very hard. As soon as you give up, the weight will return, and so will some added bonus weight.

The author of my Own Plan, Kirsten Plotkin discovered how to get a diet free weight loss and her weight has been normal for five years. She is ready to share what she has learned.

http://kpurls.info/loseweight

Kirsten Plotkin Author

The content of this article should be read in conjunction with the 3 articles

you will find below. If you click on the links you will be taken directly to each

of the other 3 articles.

http://www.my-own-plan-blog.com/2009/12/my-personal-diet-free-weight-loss/

http://www.my-own-plan-blog.com/2009/12/is-diet-free-weight-loss-possible/

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