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A short primer on how to Lose Weight — What to Eat and When to Eat
How to Balance Feeding and Fasting
Here’s a startling truth. I can make you fat. Actually, I can make anybody fat. How? I simply prescribe insulin injections. Giving people extra insulin leads inevitably to weight gain. In type 1 diabetes, when insulin levels are extremely low, patients lose weight no matter how many calories they eat. Give insulin — gain weight. No insulin — lose weight (even to the point of death). The implication is clear. Insulin causes weight gain. Knowing this is crucial, because if insulin causes weight gain, then losing weight depends upon lowering insulin. But instead, we’ve been told to focus obsessively on calories.
The standard (failed) weight loss advice is to restrict a few calories every day by reducing dietary fat and eating multiple times per day. This does not lower insulin much since dietary fat has little insulin effect and eating frequently constantly stimulates insulin secretion. This ‘caloric reduction as primary’ advice has an estimated failure rate of 99.5%. So, if you have tried calorie restrictionto lose weight and failed, understand this. You wereexpected tofail.
So here’s the situation. ‘The Man’ tells you that obesity is a caloric balance and that you should eat less and move more. ‘The Man’ tells you to eat a low fat diet, and to eat 10 times a day. This advice fails virtually everybody. When you fail, ‘The Man’ tells you it’s your own damned fault for being such a lazy assed, floppy willed person. Hisadvice was good, ‘The Man’ tells you. You were just a failure. That’s what ‘The Man’ wants you to believe.
Imagine, though we have a classroom of 100 pupils. One fails. It’s likely his fault. Maybe he played too many video games. But if 99 students fails, then it’s not a problem with the students. The problem is with the teacher. In obesity, the problem of rampant obesity means that it is very obviously not the fault of the people. The fault lies with the official dietary advice.
