The new diet will seem awkward, uncomfortable, and you will have tremendous urges to go back to eat what you have eaten for 50 years, and back to following the same routine you have done for 50 years.
You like the rest of us, are creatures of habit. The change in food is dramatic.
Actually, you have only tastes that detect sweet and sour, salt and bitter. All the rest of your food choice or preference is "habit".
The longer you have been doing something the harder it is to make a change. A habit is like an addiction, in fact is the same thing. You go thru severe withdrawal symptoms when you have to stop doing something you have always done.
The change will seem it just does not "feel right" and will be impossible and you will find any excuse to to go back to the old habit of doing or eating what you always ate, or did etc. etc.
In other words, you are like the alcoholic that can not go by a liquor store. You know it is doing you in, but you can not control your "habit" of doing what is pleasurable and you have always done.
You know it is killing you but no matter what, you want to keep doing what feels good, what you have always done and no one is going to stop you.
Except you.So understand, overcoming long established "habit" is very hard to change.
Here however we are dealing with a habit that is more than that, sugar is addictive, some won't believe that, until they get down to doing it, then will find every excuse not to stop, in fact many cannot on their own quit sugar right off...if ever.
So for those who won't believe they are addicted, and can quit any time you want, we go along with it and refer to it as having trouble stopping a long term habit.
You will find out about the addiction when it comes to quitting sugar 100% and you are in charge of the menu.
A lot of people cannot come up with the will power to make changes, and like the smoker that knows it is killing him...just keeps puffing away, with statements like "you have to die of something" etc.
No one can change your addicted life style habit but you, (and many cannot do it)
Or six months down the road, they will not pass up a birthday cake and ice cream and they are back off the wagon on a sugar binge.
Until you begin again there is "no sugar problem".
No one can change your life style habit but you, and we are the first to admit to you it is not easy,
Sure, you want to keep right on eating Krispy Creme doughnuts, 3 pops a day, and potatoes chips while watching TV.
The average person now eats over 155 pounds of sugar a year. Some as much as 300 pounds. At the turn of the century it was under 20 pounds a year. You can get along just fine (much better in fact) without all these things you need to cut out.... Your eating them is "habit",
Many diabetics search desperately and find some way to excuse themselves from taking responsibility.
If you can not get yourself to do what is necessary to make these changes and do not take personal charge of your diabetes and make the drastic changes................
We can not help you no matter how much we try or want to help you.
You can go for the easy option, keep doing what you have always done, have your doctor load you up with a medication crutch that treats only the symptoms and allow you to appear to get away with your "habit" for a while longer, but the disease progresses, requiring more and more medication at an accelerating deterioration. change potatoes chips to potato chips.
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30 years ago a medical publication ran figures on iron
content and made a typo of two digits off in the iron content listing for
Spinach. They immediately sent out press releases etc in that they had a
serious typo error in the spinach iron content listing.
Never the less media picked it up from the book and ran
it as news that spinach was a great source of iron when in fact spinach
had almost no iron content at all.
Other media picked it up from those articles and it went
on for over 20 years.....that spinach was a great source of iron in your
diet. In fact we have even seen some recent articles sourcing spinach as a
good source of iron.
Once one of these myths get started, the media blows it
up and carries it on becoming a self perpetuating myth.
The basic low fat lie, comes from a very carefully
controlled accepted study by one individual that was not reported in its
entirety and gave the impression that low fat (which the study person was
promoting) (a book) was the success ingredient in lowering the fat
condition of some severe obesity people.
Unreported by the press was the study carefully
pre-selected some highly motivated obese people, had counseling weeks
before the test and study even started and sorted out people that would
stay on for a year with these severe restrictions and actions the general
public would never tolerate.
The only reported part of the study was they were put on
this low fat diet and after a year had some amazing results.
Unreported was these people were on a two hours a day
carefully orchestrated exercise program, went to group support sessions
twice a week and many programs on their mental state on a regular basis.
All of the extra help they received and time devoted would not have been
tolerated for a year by the general public.
In fact, critics of the study say that with all of the
extensive therapy and exercise, likely the same result would have been
obtained with a normal "fat" level diet.
Yet this study was picked up and started the basis of
the low fat fad which has no solid basis and is a big part of the obese
epidemic, causing the very problem the media reports over and over as the
solution.
Very Likely....Check it yourself... all the fat people
you know are "eating low fat products". All the skinny people
you know are eating full fat products.
The low fat products have additional sugar added to
compensate for low fat, and also add high fructose corn syrup (both go
directly to making body fat) plus artificial sweeteners, all of which do
not shut down your appetite causing you to continue to eat.
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In South America, years ago, they used no fat for
prisoners they wanted to kill. Protein and other diet essentials supplied
as usual. In six months, unwanted prisoners were dead.
The Inuit Indians call it dying of rabbit disease. No
fat in the diet.
A recent study of essential elements absorbed from a
vegetable salad prove interesting. Essentially, the result was with a no
fat salad dressing none of the primary benefits of the salad showed up in
your blood stream. With a low fat dressing, about half the expected veggie
benefits showed in the blood stream and with a full fat dressing 100%
showed up.
The conclusion of the study was to obtain the benefits
you needed to eat a full fat dressing with the salad.
This type of information receives little publicity,
since the low fat marketing has taken over.
For you, ....Eating the correct balancing saturated fats
with Omega 3 fats in proportion (they compete) to make fats not a problem
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