Excerpts from the new e-book by Drs. Frank Aieta and Diane Hayden E
very year millions of books on diet and weight loss are sold in this country alone yet the statis- tics focusing on obesity and being overweight
in America are extremely startling. According to the Center of Disease Control’s website, 69% of Americans over the age of 20 are overweight or obese. Over 20% of the younger population is either overweight or obese and this rate has more than doubled from the early 80’s until now. Being overweight or obese increases your risk of 35 major diseases including diabetes, heart disease, stroke, arthritis, sleep apnea and cancer. Obvi- ously the information in these books is not getting to root cause of the obesity epidemic. As a naturopathic physician, I focus on diet and weight loss with virtually every patient that I see and have been able to uncover the multi-factorial reasons that people gain weight and have a hard time losing it. Over the past year, Dr. Diane Hayden and I have paired up to finally put into print a book that will aid the reader to finally take their health into their own hands and achieve their goal of optimal health and weight loss. “Te Weight Loss Puzzle Finally Solved!” is now available in a download- able e-book format. I’m excited to share with you all a little sneak peak from some of the chapters that I wrote, right now!
A Naturopathic Physician’s Perspective
Over the past 13 years that I’ve been in private practice as a licensed naturopathic physician, numerous male and female patients have come through my door with the same exact complaint, “Doctor, no matter what I do I simply can’t lose weight and keep it off.” Tey tell me that they’ve tried countless fad diets and exercise plans with minimal initial success and the eventual re- gaining of the lost weight with an additional 5 pounds to boot. With so much conflicting information on diet out there, it’s easy to become very confused. Our own gov- ernment considers a diet that is centered on a low-fat
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paradigm to be a healthy one. For more than 50 years this is what we have been persistently taught despite the overwhelming evidence to the contrary. More recently with the popularity and success of the Paleo diet, more people are becoming educated about the importance of the quality of food we ingest (organic, grass fed, non-GMO), the importance of good quality fats in our diet, and the elimination of carbohydrate and refined foods that have really made their way into the standard American diet.
What you will learn in this book most importantly is the fact that dietary fat is not, and never has been the culprit in why we get fat! Te real contributors are al- lergenic and inflammatory foods, nutrient deficiencies, hormonal and neurotransmitter imbalances, inad- equate exercise, lack of sleep and much more. Tis may seem like a lot of variables to address but our goal with this book is to give the reader a very concise step-wise plan to keep the pounds off while regaining health and vigor. In order to be truly successful at losing weight and achieving optimal health, we need to look past the notion that weight gain is solely due to too many calories taken in opposed to what is burned. As many of you know, if that were the case then exercising more and eating less would work for everyone! Since every patient is a unique individual with a different genetic makeup then it makes complete sense that for a diet and lifestyle plan to be successful it needs to be in- dividualized. Tis book will attempt to individualize your diet, lifestyle and nutritional supplement plan for
you. Inflammation and Weight Loss
Inflammation can occur in the body when you are carrying excess body fat. Inflammation is a normal process in the body that occurs when we are dealing
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