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- Herausgeber: Südwest
- Kategorie: Lebensstil
- Sprache: Englisch
- Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2011
metabolic balance®
metabolic balance® has proven to be one of the most successful nutritional and diet programs in recent years. A recent independent scientific study confirms that metabolic balance® not only leads to effective long-term weight loss, but also improves general blood count and overall health. The program is based on a nutritional plan that is devised for each individual according to his blood count and other personal data. This compact guide is a comprehensible, easy-to-understand introduction to the metabolic balance® program. The book explains complex issues in detail and offers concrete, practical instructions on how to use the metabolic balance® program.
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Table of Contents
METABOLIC BALANCE®is not a diet!
Are you struggling with your weight? Are you skipping meals and cutting calories? Are you watching everything you eat? Are you eating a low-fat or low-calorie diet? Do you sometimes feel tired and no longer quite able to keep up with the pace of modern life? Do you often have cravings for sweets, for alcohol, or for nicotine? These are all signs that your metabolism is no longer in balance.
Overweight and especially obesity are modern-day epidemics. They can lead to elevated blood pressure, increased levels of fats in the bloodstream, and diabetes. Those changes are summarized in the term metabolic syndrome and inevitably result in circulatory disturbances that can lead to heart attack or stroke. For many years, these abnormalities in the blood vessels have ranked as the leading causes of death in industrialized nations.
SEARCHING FOR CAUSES
In February 2010, researchers from Lund University in Sweden presented their findings from a survey study at an international congress in Copenhagen. In the survey, one-third of the respondents stated they were increasingly worried about today’s food supply. Seventy percent said a nutritional plan designed specifically for them would improve their quality of life.
EATING WELL AND EATING PROPERLY
During recent years, a number of different diets have been devised to solve this problem. The Greek word diet means way of life. Thus, it is not limited to nutrition alone but instead implies changes related to exercise and mental and social equilibrium. The English word diet has negative connotations because it implies such notions as avoidance, strict discipline, and tasteless food. Diets can help only in the short run, since most of them cannot be maintained over a longer period of time. During these brief dietary adjustments, people feel worse, because the food is not as appetizing and because great willpower is required. Dieters often feel hungry—even if that feeling is associated with a positive sense of doing the right and proper thing during this period. However, such positive feelings are only transient, because the dieter soon starts to break the diet and fall right back into old eating habits. What ends up happening is a perpetual pendulum swinging between phases of clear conscience but feeling lousy and phases of guilty conscience but enjoyment of food. What’s missing in all of this is a middle ground, where there is a state of equilibrium.
METABOLIC BALANCE®PROVIDES EQUILIBRIUM
metabolic balance® provides a balanced way of eating that places the participant in a truly stable and balanced middle ground, thereby preventing the yo-yo effect. The effectiveness of the method is attested to by several hundreds of thousands of individuals who have participated in the program and successfully lost weight during recent years. I owe them a special debt of gratitude, for they have given me the energy and motivation to continue improving the metabolic balance® method so that it will work even more successfully.
Dr. Wolf Funfack
EXERCISE ANDdiet long ago
Our ancestors who were still living as hunters and gatherers covered 15 to 20 miles every day on foot. We aren’t speaking here about casual strolls, for they sped along quite briskly. Either they were running after something to eat, or they were running from something that wanted to eat them. In both cases, they were physically very active and remained so throughout their lives.
After dinner, rest a while; after dinner, walk a mile! Our ancestors had already walked that mile before their dinner, and they had used up in advance every calorie they ate as they ran through the forests. The ratio between calories used and calories ingested was reasonably balanced. If it was out of kilter, it was more likely because they used more calories than they were able to take in. The average person in the Western world these days covers about 550 to 660 yards daily and of course hardly needs to consume additional calories in order to secure daily meals. Typically, a person sits at a computer and orders the next freezer-full of food from the “table-set-yourself. com” company, which brings supplies right to the house and, if the buyer is especially fortunate, even sorts them neatly in the buyer’s freezer. Long ago, the foods consumed by our hunter-gatherer ancestors were purely natural products—100% organic even without the USDA Organic seal, and a certification of a kind we can only dream about. In today’s supermarket, we typically find only industrially processed foods and meals prepared in advance. Whether there are truly natural products behind all the different organic certificates is not easy for consumers to determine, and in addition, they must pay quite a bit extra for these allegedly special organic foods.
OUR ANCESTORS’ DIET
From prehistoric bone artifacts we can now be certain that the diet back then consisted of 60 to 70% animal protein. This is also confirmed by studies of native peoples nowadays who still nourish themselves by being hunters and gatherers. They too live on 60 to 70% animal protein. This distribution of basic nutrients is similar in all regions regardless of their distance from the equator. Likewise, the difference in the proportion of carbohydrates consumed by peoples living in the Northern Hemisphere compared with their southern neighbors living near the equator is much smaller than one might imagine!
Protein-rich foods include eggs, milk, yogurt, and cheese.
