Comments on: The Top Ten Diet Fallacies http://nourishedmagazine.com.au/blog/articles/the-top-ten-diet-fallacies Wisdom to thrive by Fri, 30 Jul 2010 00:33:28 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: Alana Mann http://nourishedmagazine.com.au/blog/articles/the-top-ten-diet-fallacies#comment-14119 Alana Mann Fri, 22 Aug 2008 07:53:48 +0000 http://nourishedmagazine.com.au/?p=499#comment-14119 Sympathetic dominance, has been proven to lead to disease. Adrenal exhaustion alone can cause a tidal wave of other health probelms to develop in the body. When one wakes up in the morning after a full night of restful peaceful sleep, the body would of naturally shifted in a parasympathetic state. Thus a healthy individual upon rising, after fasting for the last 8-10 hours prior to sleeping, will naturally want to refuel their system and eat a good breakfast. I am in total agreement that the average breakfast we consume today, full of unstable fats and highly processed carbohydrates is the perfect recipe for creating blood sugar crashes. Surges of insulin, followed by surges of adrenaline initially wake us up and help us get going. Yet our blood sugar levels become unstable and we crash soon after. The first thing we usually look for is another stimulant, like sugar or caffeine, which reactivates the whole insulin and adrenaline surge again, and digs a deeper hole into our adrenaline supplies. I personally eat breakfast as my largest meal of the day, and 60-80% of my caloric intake comes from organic sources of saturated fat. I eat dinner for breakfast and I have done so for the past 12 months. I have lost weight, built muscle & improved my training performance, balanced my menstrual cycle and cleared up acne that every professional I sought out assured me I would have for life. I train 6 days a week, in the earlier part of the day before 12pm. This means I'm helping my natural wake-sleep cycle regulate itself by stimulating my adrenal glands to produce their awakening hormones as they would naturally if we were living more in touch with mother nature's natural rhythm. I never train on an empty stomach, as it stimulates my system to become overly catabolic, meaning tissue destructive and fat is not the tissue the body uses to break down first. Fat stores toxins, and shifts them away from our organs. It's the last place a body under stress will want to burn fat from as we have a very strong inbuilt instinct to survive. I make sure I eat within the hour after training and I eat a good source of protein and fat, so my body will use that fat to detoxify and allow my body to burn the fat I have stored on my body. It's a pretty simple system, and I feel pretty amazing following it. I was really excited about reading your article. Unfortunately it's exactly this type of advice that is burning more people out there up, especially women. Sympathetic dominance, has been proven to lead to disease. Adrenal exhaustion alone can cause a tidal wave of other health probelms to develop in the body. When one wakes up in the morning after a full night of restful peaceful sleep, the body would of naturally shifted in a parasympathetic state. Thus a healthy individual upon rising, after fasting for the last 8-10 hours prior to sleeping, will naturally want to refuel their system and eat a good breakfast.
I am in total agreement that the average breakfast we consume today, full of unstable fats and highly processed carbohydrates is the perfect recipe for creating blood sugar crashes. Surges of insulin, followed by surges of adrenaline initially wake us up and help us get going. Yet our blood sugar levels become unstable and we crash soon after. The first thing we usually look for is another stimulant, like sugar or caffeine, which reactivates the whole insulin and adrenaline surge again, and digs a deeper hole into our adrenaline supplies.

I personally eat breakfast as my largest meal of the day, and 60-80% of my caloric intake comes from organic sources of saturated fat. I eat dinner for breakfast and I have done so for the past 12 months. I have lost weight, built muscle & improved my training performance, balanced my menstrual cycle and cleared up acne that every professional I sought out assured me I would have for life.

I train 6 days a week, in the earlier part of the day before 12pm. This means I’m helping my natural wake-sleep cycle regulate itself by stimulating my adrenal glands to produce their awakening hormones as they would naturally if we were living more in touch with mother nature’s natural rhythm. I never train on an empty stomach, as it stimulates my system to become overly catabolic, meaning tissue destructive and fat is not the tissue the body uses to break down first. Fat stores toxins, and shifts them away from our organs. It’s the last place a body under stress will want to burn fat from as we have a very strong inbuilt instinct to survive. I make sure I eat within the hour after training and I eat a good source of protein and fat, so my body will use that fat to detoxify and allow my body to burn the fat I have stored on my body. It’s a pretty simple system, and I feel pretty amazing following it.

I was really excited about reading your article. Unfortunately it’s exactly this type of advice that is burning more people out there up, especially women.

]]> By: L http://nourishedmagazine.com.au/blog/articles/the-top-ten-diet-fallacies#comment-13979 L Sun, 10 Aug 2008 14:12:25 +0000 http://nourishedmagazine.com.au/?p=499#comment-13979 You said "When you wake-up, your body is already in an intense detox mode, clearing itself from endotoxins and digestive waste of the past evening meal. During the morning hours, when digestion is fully completed (while you are on empty stomach), a primal survival mechanism, known as fight or flight reaction to stress, is triggered maximizing your body’s capacity to generate energy, be alert, resist fatigue and resist stress. This highly geared survival mode is primarily dominated by part of the autonomic nervous system known as the SNS (sympathetic nervous system). At that state, the body is in its most energy producing phase and that’s when most energy comes from fat burning. All that happens when you do not eat the typical morning meal." Now, if I am suffering from chronic stress, and elevated cortisol on a regular basis, and a really bad, unhealthy waist:hip ratio, WHY would I want to aggravate and ecourage this "fight or flight" reaction in the body? Wouldn't that be a bit counterproductive? How is someone who is already suffering stress-related obesity supposed to react to the suggestion that they should try to keep that reaction going by skipping breakfast? You said “When you wake-up, your body is already in an intense detox mode, clearing itself from endotoxins and digestive waste of the past evening meal. During the morning hours, when digestion is fully completed (while you are on empty stomach), a primal survival mechanism, known as fight or flight reaction to stress, is triggered maximizing your body’s capacity to generate energy, be alert, resist fatigue and resist stress. This highly geared survival mode is primarily dominated by part of the autonomic nervous system known as the SNS (sympathetic nervous system). At that state, the body is in its most energy producing phase and that’s when most energy comes from fat burning. All that happens when you do not eat the typical morning meal.”

Now, if I am suffering from chronic stress, and elevated cortisol on a regular basis, and a really bad, unhealthy waist:hip ratio, WHY would I want to aggravate and ecourage this “fight or flight” reaction in the body? Wouldn’t that be a bit counterproductive? How is someone who is already suffering stress-related obesity supposed to react to the suggestion that they should try to keep that reaction going by skipping breakfast?

]]> By: Karen http://nourishedmagazine.com.au/blog/articles/the-top-ten-diet-fallacies#comment-13845 Karen Sat, 02 Aug 2008 07:56:26 +0000 http://nourishedmagazine.com.au/?p=499#comment-13845 Great Article! It explains why my breakfast is always very light. I'm just not hungry for the first couple of hours after getting up. Now I understand why. I also eat late at night, and directly after dancing. Never counted calories in my life. Just ate whatever I wanted whenever I was hungry. Bad foods started causing weight gain a few years ago, but since changing to the right fats and unprocessed foods, I've never had to worry about gaining weight since. Thank you. My body feels like someone understands it now! Great Article!
It explains why my breakfast is always very light. I’m just not hungry for the first couple of hours after getting up. Now I understand why. I also eat late at night, and directly after dancing. Never counted calories in my life. Just ate whatever I wanted whenever I was hungry. Bad foods started causing weight gain a few years ago, but since changing to the right fats and unprocessed foods, I’ve never had to worry about gaining weight since.
Thank you. My body feels like someone understands it now!

]]> By: Louise http://nourishedmagazine.com.au/blog/articles/the-top-ten-diet-fallacies#comment-13810 Louise Fri, 01 Aug 2008 02:07:43 +0000 http://nourishedmagazine.com.au/?p=499#comment-13810 Wow, thank you for that brilliant run down! I've been doing the Warrior Diet for nearly three weeks and have had good results so far. It's so easy to follow, I don't even feel like I'm dieting. I've lost 1-2cms from my waist, hips, bust and thighs, yet I weigh more, so I'm definitely putting on muscle. So far, this has been the only diet (apart from starvation) that has worked for me. Wow, thank you for that brilliant run down! I’ve been doing the Warrior Diet for nearly three weeks and have had good results so far. It’s so easy to follow, I don’t even feel like I’m dieting. I’ve lost 1-2cms from my waist, hips, bust and thighs, yet I weigh more, so I’m definitely putting on muscle. So far, this has been the only diet (apart from starvation) that has worked for me.

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