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if you don't somehow get what your body needs, your health will
deteriorate, then you'll start to get sick easily, and eventually
you'll die. But first your body will probably stimulate you to eat
too much food with too many calories and get fat.
It is not difficult to learn about the concentrated natural foods
and supplements that will give you enough of all these vital nutrients
without giving you many Calories. This makes it easy to stay on
a diet while steadily losing weight.
Fortunately, modern societies make both the information and the
foods you'll need readily and cheaply available.
For example, eating very lean beef, chicken, or fish provides
all the protein you need with very few additional Calories. About
12 oz per day is usually about the right amount of lean meat when
dieting to prevent the hunger caused by too little protein.
Safflower oil and flaxseed oil are concentrated sources of the
two essential fatty acids (EFAs). About one tablespoon of safflower
oil and one teaspoon of flaxseed oil per day provide about the
right amounts of these two EFAs to keep your body from running
low on them and triggering hunger because of this.
Vitamin and mineral supplements obviously provide no Calories
at all so you can use these to make sure your body doesn't trigger
hunger by running low on any of the vitamins or minerals. (However,
megadoses of supplements are a very bad idea because overly large
doses of some of them, particularly potassium, can quickly poison
you.)
The right amounts of the right vegetables will provide both fiber
and the small amount of dietary carbohydrate that are required
to prevent hunger due to a lack of these nutrients.
And of course, liquids, especially plain water, are absolutely
essential for your body to balance everything else. Eight to ten
glasses per day are usually about the right amount.
It takes some learning to work out what you will eat and some
thinking to fit this way of eating into your own personal situation.
For example, an office worker would need to do things very differently
than a parent caring for small children all day at home.
The main point is that when you eat the right amounts of the
right foods, You can successfully restrict calories while still
suppressing all the hunger, cravings, aches, pains, and low energy
that normally make losing weight on ordinary diets so unpleasant
and difficult.
Of course, the weight loss process still takes time, because
your body can only get rid of fat by burning it for energy, and
it can only burn so much fat in a day. But eating the right amounts
of the right things always makes the process so easy, hunger-free,
and successful that time hardly matters at all.
In my next article, we'll begin to discuss the specific nutrients
you need to manage and some techniques for actually managing them
effectively.
--Anderson A. Anonymous, M.D., Ph.D.--
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