41-yr old eliminated sugar and grains in 30days and gained his health back by Dr Mercola.
41-yr old eliminated sugar and grains in 30days and gained his health back by Dr Mercola
The persistent myth that dietary fat causes obesity and promotes heart disease has undoubtedly ruined the health of millions of people. It’s difficult to know just how many people have succumbed to chronic poor health from following conventional low-fat, high-carb recommendations, but I’m sure the number is significant.
In the featured documentary, Cereal Killers, 41-year-old Donal O’Neill turns the American food pyramid upside-down—eliminating sugars and grains, and dramatically boosting his fat intake. In so doing, he improves his health to the point of reducing his hereditary risk factors for heart disease to nil.
Watching people’s reactions to his diet brings home just how brainwashed we’ve all become when it comes to dietary fat. Most fear it. Yet they will consume sugar in amounts that virtually guarantee they’ll suffer all the devastating health consequences they’re trying to prevent by avoiding fat, and then some!
Fat versus Carbs—What Really Makes You Pack on the Pounds?
The fact is, you’ve been thoroughly misled when it comes to conventional dietary advice. Most dietary guidelines have been massively distorted, manipulated, and influenced by the very industries responsible for the obesity epidemic in the first place—the sugar and processed food industries.
Shunning the evidence, many doctors, nutritionists, and government health officials will still tell you to keep your saturated fat below 10 percent, while keeping the bulk of your diet, about 60 percent, as carbs.1 This is madness, as it’s the converse of a diet that will lead to optimal health.
A recent Time Magazine2 article highlighted a report by the Environmental Working Group (EWG), which showed that many breakfast cereals contain more than 50 percent sugar by weight! Cereals marketed specifically to children are among the worst offenders. Kellogg’s Honey Smacks and Mom’s Best Cereals Honey-Ful Wheat topped the list with 56 percent sugar by weight.
Even diabetes organizations promote carbohydrates as a major component of a healthy diet—even though grains break down to sugar in your body, and sugar promotes insulin resistance, which is the root cause of type 2 diabetes in the first place.
As noted in the film: “If we could get all diabetics to eat a high-fat, high-protein, low-carbohydrate diet, we would cut the insulin requirement so dramatically that it’s been estimated that six pharmaceutical companies would go out of business tomorrow.” Contrary to popular belief, you do not get fat from eating fat. You get fat from eating too much sugar and grains.
Refined carbohydrates promote chronic inflammation in your body, elevate low-density LDL cholesterol, and ultimately lead to insulin and leptin resistance. Insulin and leptin resistance, in turn, is at the heart of obesity and most chronic disease, including diabetes, heart disease, cancer, and Alzheimer’s—all the top killers in the US.
Don’t Fear the Fat
In the film, O’Neill switches over to a diet where 70 percent of his calories come from healthy fat—most of it in the form of macadamia nuts (my personal favorite)—and the remaining 30 percent of his caloric intake is divvied up between protein and fibrous fruits and vegetables. Over the course of 28 days, O’Neill:
- Loses weight and body fat
- Increases his lean muscle mass
- Feels more energetic and improves his athletic performance
- Increases his resting metabolic rate
- Improves his blood pressure, cholesterol, and other measurements to the point that he no longer has any risk factors for heart disease, which he’s genetically predisposed for
Of particular importance here is that O’Neill’s total cholesterol and LDL levels went up, which initially caused significant concern. However, once they tested the LDL particle numbers, the results showed that his LDL particles were the largest species known, and he had virtually no small LDL particles at all.
This is phenomenal, as it’s the small, dense LDL particles that cause inflammation. Large particles do not. Also, the markers for inflammation were virtually nonexistent, showing that he has no inflammation in his body at all. All in all, his one-month long high-fat, no-carb diet experiment proved that:
- Eating fat helps you lose fat
- Eating saturated fat decreases your risk factors for heart disease
- Regardless of your genetic predisposition your diet is, ultimately, the determining factor
I would also add that his results show the benefits of a high-fat, low-carb diet for athletes, many of whom are still convinced that this type of diet will make them heavy and sluggish. On the contrary, O’Neill breaks his own athletic record during his experiment, and refers to his renewed sense of vigor as feeling like a “spring lamb.”
This high and sustained energy is a hallmark of ketogenesis, where your body is burning fat rather than sugar as its primary fuel. When your body burns fat, you don’t experience the energy crashes associated with carbs.
Saturated Fat and Cholesterol Are Both Necessary for Optimal Health
Contrary to popular belief, saturated fats from animal and vegetable sources provide a number of important health benefits, and your body requires them for the proper function of your:
Cell membranes Heart Bones (to assimilate calcium) Liver Lungs Hormones Immune system Satiety (reducing hunger) Genetic regulation
Cholesterol—another wrongly vilified dietary component—also carries out essential functions within your cell membranes, and is critical for proper brain function and production of steroid hormones, including your sex hormones. Vitamin D is also synthesized from a close relative of cholesterol: 7-dehydrocholesterol.
Your body is composed of trillions of cells that need to interact with one another. Cholesterol is one of the molecules that allow for these interactions to take place. For example, cholesterol is the precursor to bile acids, so without sufficient amounts of cholesterol, your digestive system can be adversely affected. It’s also critical for synapse formation in your brain, i.e. the connections between your neurons, which allow you to think, learn new things, and form memories. In fact, there’s reason to believe that low-fat diets and/or cholesterol-lowering drugs may cause or contribute to Alzheimer’s disease.3
Replacing Refined Carbs with Healthy Fat—The Answer to Most of Your Health Concerns
Underlying most chronic diseases, including obesity, type 2 diabetes, heart disease, and cancer are inflammation and insulin/leptin resistance. When you eat carbohydrates, your blood sugar, insulin, and leptin will all temporarily rise, and these spikes are very pro-inflammatory. Where you have inflammation, disease and dysfunction follows. An excellent editorial in the journal Open Heart4 reviews the cardiometabolic consequences of replacing saturated fats with carbohydrates, which includes the following:
Shift to overall atherogenic lipid profile (lower HDL, increased triglycerides, and increased ApoB/ApoA-1 ratio) Increased risk of coronary heart disease, cardiovascular events, and death from heart disease and increased overall mortality (all causes) Increased thrombogenic markers Increased oxidized LDL Increased inflammation Reduced HDL Impaired glucose tolerance, higher body fat, weight gain, obesity, and diabetes Increased small, high-density LDL particles Increased risk for cancer
The answer, then, lies in avoiding these inflammatory spikes in blood sugar, insulin and leptin, and reversing insulin and leptin resistance. To do this, you need to:
- Avoid refined sugar, processed fructose, and grains. This means avoiding processed foods, as they are chockfull of these ingredients, along with other chemicals that can wreak metabolic havoc
- Eat a healthful diet of whole foods, ideally organic, and replace the grain carbs you cut out with:
- Moderate amounts of high-quality protein from organic, grass-fed or pastured animals (this is to ensure you’re not getting the antibiotics, genetically engineered organisms, and altered nutritional fat profile associated with factory farmed animals)
- High amounts of high-quality healthful fat as you want (saturated and monounsaturated). Many health experts now believe that if you are insulin or leptin resistant, as 85 percent of the US population is, you likely need anywhere from 50 to 85 percent of your daily calories in the form of healthful fats for optimal health. Good sources include coconut and coconut oil, avocados, butter, nuts (particularly macadamia), and animal fats. Avoid all trans fats and processed vegetable oils (such as canola and soy oil). Also take a high-quality source of animal-based omega-3 fat, such as krill oil.
- As many vegetables as you can muster. Juicing your vegetables is a good way to boost your vegetable intake
Another “add-on” suggestion is to start intermittent fasting, which will radically improve your ability to burn fat as your primary fuel. This too will help restore optimal insulin and leptin signaling.
What’s the Deal with Protein?
Dr. Rosedale, who was one of my primary mentors on the importance of insulin and leptin, was one of the first professionals to advocate both a low-carb and moderate protein (and therefore high-fat) diet. This was contrary to most low-carb advocates who were, and still are, very accepting of using protein as a replacement for the carbs.
The problem is that, along with grains, most Americans tend to eat far too much protein. While your body certainly has a protein requirement, there’s evidence suggesting that eating more protein than your body needs could end up fueling cancer growth.
Dr. Rosedale advises limiting your protein to one gram of protein per kilogram of lean body mass (or 0.5 grams per pound of lean body weight). For most people, this means cutting protein down to about 35-75 grams per day. Pregnant women and those working out extensively need about 25 percent more. I believe this theory is worthy of consideration. The key though is to add healthy fat to replace the carb and protein calories you’re cutting out of your diet. Again, sources of healthy fat include:
Olives and olive oil Coconuts and coconut oil Butter made from raw grass-fed organic milk Organic raw nuts, especially macadamia nuts and pecans, which are very high in fat and low in protein Organic pastured egg yolks and pastured meats Avocados
Your Health Is Within Your Control
Groundbreaking research by the likes of Dr. Robert Lustig and Dr. Richard Johnson (author of the books, The Sugar Fix and The Fat Switch) clearly identifies the root cause of obesity, diabetes, heart disease, and numerous other chronic diseases, and it’s not fat. It’s refined sugar—particularly fructose—consumed in excessive amounts. Their research, and that of others, provides us with a clear solution to our current predicament. In short, if you want to normalize your weight and protect your health, you need to address your insulin and leptin resistance, which is the result of eating a diet too high in sugars and grains.
For a comprehensive guide, see my free optimized nutrition plan. Generally speaking though, you’ll want to focus your diet on whole, ideally organic, unprocessed or minimally processed foods. For the best nutrition and health benefits, you’ll also want to eat a good portion of your food raw.
Sugar is highly addictive, and if you’re like most people, you’re no stranger to carb cravings. Just know that once your body gets used to burning fat instead of sugar as its primary fuel, those cravings will vanish. Many cereals and other grain products would not be quite as harmful if they didn’t also contain so much added sugar. Even many organic brands contain excessive amounts. This is unfortunate, since many (Americans in particular) are really indoctrinated to eat cereal for breakfast. I’ve been working on a low-sugar cereal line for some time now, to provide a healthier alternative for those who really don’t want to give up their breakfast cereal. I hope to have it ready sometime this summer.
Last but not least, for those of you still concerned about your cholesterol levels, know that 75 percent of your cholesterol is produced by your liver, which is influenced by your insulin levels. Therefore, if you optimize your insulin level, you will automatically optimize your cholesterol, thereby reducing your risk of both diabetes and heart disease.
Also, remember that even if a high-fat, low-carb diet was to raise your total cholesterol and LDL, it doesn’t automatically mean that your diet is increasing your risk factors for heart disease. As O’Neill did in this film, you need to test your LDL particle number. Large-sized particles are good, while the smaller, denser particles can penetrate the lining of your arteries and stimulate the plaque formation associated with heart disease. The former does NOT increase your heart disease risk, while the latter one will. To learn more about LDL particle numbers and how to test them, please see my previous interview with Chris Kresser, L.Ac., which goes into this in some detail.
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A master persuader knows enough about his/her client. Put yourself in PEAK state with good plan for the day, good or worse.
Know who you are calling to and be certain who you are talking to.
- Anticipate possible needs, wants,values or hurts that they have. Could you help me? Can you tell me about your neighbor? More rapport when you know more about the client, work with referrals. What do you like about this person? Share the compliment. Give them a reputation to live up to. Ask what in the product can benefit them?
- Make sure you know your own product, as many advantages and benefits. Find out key useful ideas to close the sale.
- Know your competition. Never knock the competition in front of the client.
- Know all potential objections. Be effective in your delivery. Believe in what you are talking about. Be in PEAK state.
- Expect the best and prepare for the worse.
- Create a demand.
When presenting to clients or prospects, maintain eye contact, connect and become their best friend and create interest.
Probe for problems and magnify their pain/hurt. What are the deepest needs or wants that we want to match with our prospect/client?
Did we get their interest to enroll them?
Effectively motivate by creating conviction by finding emotional reasons to buy and test close.
Are they ready to buy? If not, add conviction.
Compel means to make them feel compelled by making the preparation real, converting objections into commitment and make it easy for them to buy. Objections start the process of reciprocation.
Be a marketer, create a demand before getting in the situation.
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It only take three market loses to wipe out your investment that 401k flops in this category.
Inflation and taxes can cut your assets/savings that is far better to be taxed on the seed and not the harvest. We pay our income taxes already, so the remaining should be saved under an IUL so that the harvest will be tax free.
The erosive effects of taxation greatly affects our savings. For high net income clients and middle class, there is a way to fund your retirement without being eaten by taxes.
A 10k pre-tax contribution in 401k amounts to $50k in taxes (at 62% and $28k at 35%) after 30 years. Netting you only $30k in your pocket.
So avoid market losses at all costs, use an indexing investment strategy, tax free via an IUL, with participation up to 13% and 0% participation when the market is negative (current 25-yr weighted return is at 8%). You can access 90% of your money, complete liquidity when you need it. An IUL never runs out: a Muni Bond runs out in 8yrs, a 401k/IRA runs out in 13 yrs, and a mutual fund runs out in 9 yrs. If you are not so healthy, use a surrogate like your child or spouse.
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Do you need a financial planner?
Do you need a financial planner?
Good leaders know when to delegate, and when to seek expert opinions. So as the leader of your personal finances, you shouldn’t be afraid to consult a financial planner–when appropriate.
Here are ten scenarios to help you determine when it makes sense to hire a professional to provide investment and financial advice. Planners typically charge a flat fee of $100 to $500 an hour for their advice. If they also manage your money, they’ll typically charge you a percentage of assets, around 1% to 2%, less for larger accounts.
A planner’s job is to solve tax or investment problems, help you deal with your estate and coach you toward long-term goals. If you simply want to get more organized, download a software program such as Quicken. Or try an online money tracking Web site such as Mint.com.
A planner may not be able to help you achieve a 13% annualized return, which is what it would take to reach your objective without any additional savings. That’s awfully ambitious. But good, ethical planners will help you to set realistic expectations (they can’t guarantee results). You’ll fill out a questionnaire before your first meeting, which should be free and informal. Part of the survey will discuss your investment style and your expectations.
Perhaps all you need is a sit down with your father’s favorite to assert your individual wishes and customize your portfolio. But if you are looking for a fresh perspective, you may find a consultation with a new adviser worthwhile, even at a cost of $500 to $1,000. You can then decide which adviser is right for you.
At least not as a first step. Save the $1,000 you might have spent on a planner to hear advice you probably know already: Leaving your money on the sidelines is the surest way to lose in the long run. Arrange for a fixed sum to go into your retirement plan every month. Your HR department can help you take care of this in no time at all. If you feel clueless about HOW to invest that money, however, you may find it helpful to get advice — and, perhaps, some reassurance — form a planner.
A good planner can improve a haphazard portfolio by analyzing its risks and returns, its redundancies and unnecessary investments, and the fees and taxes you’re paying. You can pay for ongoing service, or you might get a one-time-only “X-ray,” or portfolio analysis, for a few hundred dollars.
Just be sure to seek someone who specializes in “holistic” financial planning or “life planning.” You don’t want someone who only knows bonds and tax planning but nothing about what you want to do.
Planners are not economists, and they rarely endorse unbalanced investment strategies. Be honest with yourself: If you want to move most of your assets into real estate or other hard assets, you’ll probably need more advice than any financial planner can provide. Just remember, you can lose money in this stuff just as easily as you can in stocks and bonds.
Planners will tell you that many of the situations they deal with result from family problems, whether it’s divorce, failure of a family-owned business, jealous relatives or a bunch of other things. To set up appropriate trusts or investment accounts and keep the peace, you need guidance — a sensitive adviser or team of advisers will be worth the money.
Learn some lessons — about you, about investing — on your own first. You can find free guidance from your employer, your 401(k) plan sponsor, perhaps a local investors’ organization, or trusted media source such as Kiplinger’s Personal Finance magazine and Kiplinger.com. Still feeling unsure? A consultation with a good planner could provide the sounding board and encouragement you need.
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