Blueprint: The Fast and Easy Way to Better Health Without Drugs or Diets by Russ Marchewka - HTML preview

WHY DIETS FAIL

(1) Diets at their core are designed to deprive our bodies of calories. Conventional

thinking says that over-eating, or too many calories are what makes us fat and/or un-

healthy in the first place. We just addressed the root causes of being unhealthy and

overweight, so already you can begin to see that just cutting calories is not the solution.

Your body is a giant battery and has fat stores in it. When you deprive it of the food en-

ergy it needs, yes, it will begin to burn fat for energy. The fat is converted to glucose

(blood sugars) and then burned as the energy you need. However, this is a short-term

fix. The second you cheat or break your diet (eat more calories) your body reacts by

storing even more fat. You have confused it into thinking that you may starve yourself

again and so the reaction is to put on even more weight to prepare for this possibility.

You have probably heard this referred to as the “yo-yo effect.”

That brings us to the next reason diets fail. They are temporary! No “diet” I have ever

heard of can last forever. Additionally, we are hard wired to want variety. Boredom is a

real human emotion and it relates to our food as well. Unless we grew up eating a very

limited diet, and have never deviated from it, our senses desire variety. Given that, in

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any calorie cutting diet, there is not enough variety to keep us from cheating. Even if

you have enough will power to make it to your “weight loss goal” most people go back to

eating that diet, tasty with variety (and unhealthy foods) and just put the weight back on

for the previously talked about reasons.

If you are always worried about what you can and can’t eat, that makes the diet harder

to stick to. Education is the key to any kind of progress in life. That’s why this book is

going to make it simple to know what you should and shouldn’t eat, and make it easy to

have those foods around at all times!

I would like to take a moment to address nutrition education. This is often why many

other “diet” plans fail. The participant is none the wiser to how their body works. They

are just following a specific plan of caloric deficiency with no idea how it’s actually affect-

ing them inside. You may have heard or read horror stories of people going vegetarian

or vegan and getting really sick or their teeth falling out etc... Some of these stories

may be true, BUT the fact is that you don’t get sick and your teeth certainly don’t fall out

if you are getting the proper nutrients.

With other diets, you’re hungry, your breath stinks, you get constipated etc... The

Winter Wellness Diet is different because it addresses all of your body’s nutrient needs.

This allows your body to detoxify, repair and have tons of energy in the long run.

Diets in the conventional sense are expensive. Buying specific food, drinks and supple-

ments at the start often has a big impact on a budget. I did a review of the new Zone 1-

2-3 diet last year and products ran upwards of $700 per month! That’s in addition to the

regular food you buy at the store (or farmer’s market if you’re going green). $700 is

either enough to keep most people away from dieting, cause them to quit sooner, or get

really mad when they “yo-yo” back to their original weight or more and feel like they

wasted their money.

Now, I can honestly say that I have never experienced this feeling because of my

weight, but depression can be a big deterrent to starting a diet. (25) First of all on a

physiological level, if your body is deprived of the correct nutrients, depression can be a

predictable result. (22) There are many nutrition therapies for depression as it has been

found that many causes of depression come from hormonal imbalances in the body.

Basically, the brain doesn’t get enough nutrients to operate properly and ends up not

producing the correct hormones in the correct amounts. (3) CBS reported on this in

2004 and nutrition therapy for depression gets more popular every year.

Depression can absolutely be a huge obstacle. Maybe you think that if people find out

you’re on a diet they will judge you. Well, I’ve got news for you, if you are unhealthy,

overweight or both people are judging you anyway. But I say, WHO CARES! Even if

the world thinks there is no way you’ll succeed with this diet, this time, all you have to do

is prove them wrong once. Am I right? You’re not making this choice to lose weight or

get healthy for anyone else but yourself. Let’s do this, you and I, together.

WHY THE “WINTER” WELLNESS DIET (WWD)?

Let’s get away from philosophy and talk some tactics for a minute. Traditionally, winter

time is when we stay inside with the heater, fireplace, lot’s of blankets, cats on our lap,

and any other warm situation you can think of. Even though I live in Orange County,

California I still get cold in the winter, it’s all relative. Chicago residents I am sure will

beg to differ and yes, you have a point. Keep in mind you can’t use the cold to fire up

your metabolism if you get frost bite.

I am introducing a whole new idea for a diet based on one of the oldest traditional North

American cultures, the Inuit eskimos. This is not the Inuit diet though. That is a diet fad

that some people follow eating high fat, high protein “Inuit style” food because Inuits are

generally regarded as long-lived and disease free. However, there are many shortfalls

to this diet and many obstacles that people don’t even think about.

The Inuits eat a lot of their diet raw. They eat raw livers and other organs along with

drinking seal blood. You know why they do this? To get the proper nutrients so they

can stay alive. Vitamin C which is an important part of the WWD is generally hard to

come by with the Inuit diet. Without fresh fruits and vegetables, Vitamin C is only avail-

able by eating the raw organs of freshly killed animals and drinking their blood. Feel like

doing that? Yea, me neither. (4) Plus, the Inuits don’t actually live for any amazing

amount of time. Average life expectancy ranges from 60-80 years which is nothing spe-

cial.

Ok, but why bring up the Inuit diet? Here’s the deal. They live in the Arctic. It’s cold up

there and they need to stay warm. Humans (mammals) are warm-blooded and there-

fore we have to stay at or around 98.7 degrees or we will have some serious issues.

When it’s hot, we sweat to cool down. When it’s cold, we burn extra calories that are

converted to heat energy to warm us up. This is the premise for the WWD. The Inuit

eat upwards of 6000 calories per day in the Winter! Yes, that’s how many calories it can

take to keep them warm enough to avoid hypothermia. Keep in mind that they also

wear furs, coats, and have some modern heating amenities. So no, you won’t be trying

to freeze yourself.

The only way to consume 6000 calories a day is to eat a LOT of fat. Since the tradition-

al Inuit diet is rich in protein and fat, some of the protein and most of the fat is converted

to glucose in the liver for energy because your cells use the glucose as energy. Let’s

take a second very briefly to talk about how the body converts food to energy. This is a

brief lesson, although important, it is not a lesson in molecular biology.

ATP (adenosine triphosphate) is the primary energy that our cells burn for fuel. Mito-

chondria in the cells generally take glucose (blood sugar) to make this fuel our cells

need to operate. However, when we run low on glucose, our body uses two other

sources to make ATP. Protein can be converted by the liver into glucose. This happens

when we consume more protein than our body needs to use OR when we really need

glucose and our body takes protein from our muscles and converts it. The second way

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is that our body converts our fat stores and converts them into glycerol and other fatty

acids which the mitochondria can convert into ATP. I know the science of it isn’t all that

fun to read about, but it’s important to understand when considering “diets” and how

they work.

Many fad diets out there suggest that you cut out the carbs and just eat protein. The

reasoning behind this is that your liver can convert the extra protein to glucose (as ex-

plained above) to power your cells. In addition when the protein runs out, then your

body will burn fat for the same process. This is called glucogenesis and it is a survival

mechanism, not a means for everyday functioning.

What an awesome scenario right? I mean if you’re trying to lose weight, by eating a

really high protein diet you can burn off your fat. WRONG. See the problem is that

meat and fat don’t have the vitamins and minerals that your body truly needs. Burning

protein and fat for energy is a short sighted idea for losing weight. It has nothing to do

with getting healthy, AND as previously stated the second you go off the diet, your body

will most likely “yo-yo” back. Taking vitamins and other supplements don’t solve the

problem as I will explain later in the micro-nutrients section.

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