Diets Don’t Work - Overview

• Diets have been around since the early 1900’s.  Why so many diets and no permanent solution?

• Fad diets are good for one thing...they sell books.  Trends in dieting often MIS-lead people in to thinking that weight loss can be permanently achieved by cutting carbs.

• Diets fail because most of them contradict our basic metabolic need for a balanced supply of carbohydrates, proteins, fats, vitamins and minerals and water. 

• There is a secret to permanent weight loss.

History of Diets

Americans have been dieting since the early 1900’s, if not earlier.  However, the FAD diets of the last 40 years gives us a look at the MIS-information we have come to accept.

1967 – The Doctors Quick Weight Loss Diet
Created by Dr. Irwin Stillman, this diet is the grandfather of the LOW CARB, high protein diets. It’s focus was a diet of cottage cheese, eggs, seafood, poultry and meat.  Fruits, Vegetables and grains were virtually forbidden.  At the height of it’s popularity there were 20 million followers.

1972 – Dr. Atkins Diet Revolution
Most people aren’t aware that Dr. Atkins created this diet 33 years ago.  The basis for the diet, which hasn’t changed much since, is a LOW CARB plan that lets you eat all the fat you want as long as you stay away from carbs.  

1978 – The complete Scarsdale Diet
Another version of a LOW CARB, high protein diet.

1981 – The Cambridge Diet
This was a more restrictive LOW CARB, high protein diet, which restricted the consumption of solid foods.  The only nutrition allowed on this diet came from 2-3 protein rich liquid meals per day, totaling a mere 320 calories (by comparison 1 McDonalds Bic Mac without cheese has 576 calories….292 calories from fat by the way.).  Because of the restrictive approach and high protein diet, many people following this started having health problems ranging from upset stomach to Gall Bladder problems and sadly, 30 people died as a result.

1980’s – Optifast diet
This liquid diet suffered the backlash and bad reputation that was caused by the Cambridge Diet disaster and only proves that liquid diets are not safe. 

1990’s – LOW FAT
In the 1990’s FAT became America’s # 1 enemy.  Carbs were back IN and FATS were OUT.  The problem with cutting out FAT completely is that the human body needs fat to aid in the creation of cell membranes, hormones and vitamin D.  Additionally, by removing FAT from foods, the manufacturers needed to replace it with other substances that would make their products taste good.  So they added more SUGAR.  These foods may have been low in fat content, but the added calories from the sugars, creates an oversupply of glycogen in the body which eventually gets stored as FAT.  So while there was no FAT in the foods, the end result was weight gain from eating the foods. 

2000 – LOW CARB is back again.
You can see a trend here folks.  IN the last 40 years people have tried the LOW CARB diets, then the LIQUID deits, then the LOW FAT diets and now we are seeing a second wave of LOW CARB diets…one in particular is back and has a huge following. 

The bottom line here is that – DIETS DON’T WORK…let’s find out why.

Why Diets Fail

It is a fact that crash dieting or hopping on the latest dieting trend will result in weight loss initially, but in the long run you will gain the weight back and in most cases, you will gain more back than you originally lost.  LOW CARB diets and some other fad diets can go to extremes in the approach to losing weight which is impractical to believe that you can live that way long term and sometimes it can be harmful to your health.

Let’s take a closer look at LOW CARB diets:

• Diets that are low in carbohydrates and have high does of protein, causes the body to eliminate water weight, which strains the liver and kidneys.

• Initial weight loss on these diets is most likely ALL water and NOT FAT.

• Another side effect of LOW CARB dieting is the production of Ketones.  Ketones are a substance which will suppress your appetite (which will add to the initial loss in weight from water depletion) and can result in bad breath, gas, dizziness and can contribute to gout, kidney and heart disease. 

• Another significant problem with LOW CARB dieting is that it makes it harder to exercise because of the absence of Glycogen = FUEL.  We know that Glycogen comes from carbohydrates primarily and a LOW CARB diet with deprive your body of the much needed fuel used for basal metabolic functions as well as exercise (which by the way is the ONLY NON-surgical way to remove fat from your body). 

• LASTLY (and most important in understanding why LOW CARB diets don’t work) LOW CARB diets deprive you of the foods you love and the human body needs…breads, pastas, and fruits.  These diets are too hard for most people to stick to and learn from, so you fall off this diet GAIN ALL the weight back and look for the next diet book on the shelf. 

The SECRET to permanent Weight Loss

SO NOW WHAT?

IS THERE HOPE?

IS THERE A SOLUTION?

The answer is YES. You have to change the way you THINK about your diet and exercise routine in order to change your health and personal WELLNESS.

The Revolution Solution™ will provide you with the SECRET that the ‘healthy professionals’ (actors, models, athletes, elite rich folk) have known for many years. You will be surprised that it has nothing to do with the THOUSANDS of dollars spent on personal trainers, or personal nutritioniusts or personal chefs….it is much simpler than that AND costs MUCH MUCH LESS.

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