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MARCH APRIL 2004 -OMNI PRESENCE JOURNAL - PAGE 4
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PERMANENT
WEIGHT LOSS
By Dr. John Kalb D.C. |
Many people have been able to lose weight only to gain it right back. Not only is this frustrating and hard on one’s self-esteem, but it produces a net loss of muscle mass, making future weight loss that much more difficult. The solution is to confront the source of the problem, which in most cases is an addiction to carbohydrates. If you are among the 64% of the U.S. population who are overweight (or even more importantly, if you are among the 30% who are clinically obese), then ask yourself this question: “What are my favorite comfort foods?” In the vast majority of cases these foods are sweets and empty starches, that is, carbohydrates such as chips, cookies, cakes, ice cream, pastries, pasta, breads, etc. A common but destructive syndrome is to develop an allergy/addiction to your very own comfort foods. In this case you crave these foods and feel worse when not eating them, and better when you do eat them, even though they may be the cause of many chronic symptoms and health problems.
After many years of observation and research, I have come to the conclusion that in most cases, successful, permanent weight loss involves radically altering the metabolism to eliminate the craving, dependence and addiction to carbohydrates. The body must be converted from a fat storage machine to a fat burning machine. This is done by eating a specific diet involving low levels of carbohydrate consumption, mainly from vegetables and some fruits combined with “clean” protein and targeted nutritional supplementation. “Clean” protein includes: (1) organic vegetable sources like soy, nuts and seeds; (2) wild fish (non-farmed); and (3) free range antibiotic free chicken or turkey (fowl) and to a lesser extent, red meat.
If you are within 10-15 pounds of your ideal weight, then this may be accomplished on your own through a “zone” type diet and by moderately increasing your aerobic or cardio exercise. If you need to lose more than 15 pounds, then I recommend working with a professional who has experience with carbohydrate-reduced diets. I have discovered a highly successful version of the Atkins diet called Ultra LiteTM. I provide it to my patients and I have found it to be safe and effective, avoiding the pitfalls of Atkins. It is relatively new to this country but is the largest and most successful program of its type in Australia. As far as excess weight is concerned, Australia is the third leading country in the world after the U.S. and England. Ultra Lite has several advantages over other programs offered in this country. It is only provided by health professionals, is reasonably priced and offers a brilliant maintenance plan.
Obviously when it comes to weight loss, there are potentially important emotional issues that need to be addressed as well. Often this can be accomplished through utilizing the Wellness Process which I have developed to identify and neutralize any hidden resistance and self-sabotage. This will help you break through and control any food addictions and eat in a way that supports your health and ideal body weight. By the way, if you do go off excess carbohydrates cold turkey, then you may experience withdrawal symptoms for the first few days. This can show up as irritability, headache and/or fatigue. Eating a good portion of clean protein at each meal can minimize this (including breakfast) as can increasing green vegetables, especially Steamed Greens!
For more information onUltra Lite, navigate your web browser to www.ultralite.info, call my office at 541-488-3001 or visit my website at www.DrKalb.com.
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RESEARCH SHOWS GLOBAL WARMING MEANS an ICE AGE FOR EUROPE in a DECADE !
By Whitley Strieber |
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In Major Media Finally Gets It, we wrote about Fortune Magazine's report on the Pentagon's concerns that global warming could cause weather changes that lead to war. Now the Soldiers for the Truth website reports on what the Pentagon actually said. They report that "Pentagon planner Andrew Marshall, who heads up the DoD Office of Net Assessment…last year ordered up a long-range forecast of how a rapid onset of global warming could affect the security of the United States and its allies. The study, written by analysts Peter Schwartz and Doug Randall, provides a dire scenario of potential catastrophic impacts from global warming on the natural resources, political and economic systems and day-to-day life not only of the United States but the entire world.
"Here are some of the things that might happen by 2020: At first the changes are easily mistaken for normal weather variation allowing skeptics to dismiss them as a 'blip' of little importance and leaving policymakers and the public paralyzed with uncertainty. But by 2020 there is little doubt that something drastic is happening. The average temperature has fallen by up to five degrees Fahrenheit in some regions of North America and Asia and up to six degrees in parts of Europe…Massive droughts have begun in key agricultural regions. The average annual rainfall has dropped by nearly 30% in northern Europe, and its climate has become more like Siberia's.
"Violent storms are increasingly common as the [Gulf Stream current] becomes wobbly on its way to collapse. A particularly severe storm causes the ocean to break through levees in the Netherlands, making coastal cities such as the Hague unlivable. In California, the delta island levees in the Sacramento River area are breached, disrupting the aqueduct system transporting water from north to south. Mega-droughts afflict the U. S., especially in the southern states, along with winds that are 15 percent stronger on average than they are now, causing widespread dust storms and soil loss.
"The U. S. is better positioned to cope than most nations, however, thanks to its diverse growing climates, wealth, technology, and abundant resources. That has a downside, though: It magnifies the haves-vs.-have-nots gap and fosters bellicose finger-pointing at America."Turning inward, the U. S. effectively seeks to build a fortress around itself to preserve resources. Borders are strengthened to hold back starving immigrants from Mexico, South America, and the Caribbean islands waves of boat people pose especially grim problems. Tension between the U. S. and Mexico rises as the U. S. reneges on a 1944 treaty that guarantees water flow from the Colorado River into Mexico. America is forced to meet its rising energy demand with options that are costly both economically and politically, including nuclear power and onerous Middle Eastern contracts. Yet it survives without catastrophic losses.
"Europe, hardest hit by its temperature drop, struggles to deal with immigrants from Scandinavia seeking warmer climes to the south. Southern Europe is beleaguered by refugees from hard-hit countries in Africa and elsewhere. But Western Europe's wealth helps buffer it from catastrophe. Continued on OPJ Page 5.
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