Nothing can be done about your age, so don’t worry about it. You simply are the age you are, and yes, your metabolism slows down accordingly. But all is not lost. You can rev up your metabolism in spite of your age, no matter what age you are. Here’s what to do beyond eating the low-dieting way.

Avoid Overeating

Low-dieting weight loss only works to the extent that you don’t overeat. When you overeat, your body’s insulin levels become elevated and your body starts storing fat. Read the rest of this entry »

Think of insulin as a highly beneficial hormone. It literally keeps you alive. But again, too much of a good thing—in this case, insulin—is damaging. You want to have enough insulin in your body to keep you thin and healthy and not so much that you fall prey to its dire health consequences. Read the rest of this entry »

Traditionally, holidays have always represented an opportunity to go crazy—those special occasions when all of our excuses are allowed, when everybody is blowing it. No one is watching. But that’s the old diet consciousness that says holidays are the last supper.

There is no need for your, as a Conscious Combiner, to eat yourself under the table, because there’s nothing on that table that you can’t have tomorrow. Read the rest of this entry »

Birthdays Party

Birthdays are really let-loose days because it’s your day and nobody else’s. Even those who harp about our fat will take us out, pile it high, and egg us on. Well, this year, you have something to celebrate—being a “born-again skinny.”

To reinforce my own life choice of being a skinny, because that 170-pound whale that I once was is always lurking, I choose to make my birthday one of the most austere days of my year. Almost like a day of worship and reverence for myself, my health, and my skinny being. Read the rest of this entry »

Oriental Restaurants

The worst part of an oriental meal is the MSG (monosodium glutamate). It causes some people to experience what is known as the Chinese restaurant syndrome—that empty feeling after a Chinese meal, a nagging headache, and a large percent of the bloating that follows your meal. Designed to perk up your taste buds, it can also muddle your brain and confound your nervous system. It reacts negatively against your chemical balance. Read the rest of this entry »

Open Carb. Now it gets really easy. American restaurants always have a variety of vegetables, potatoes, bread, salads, and desserts.

Open Protein. A big choice of unadulterated meats, fowl, and fish. Just make sure you eat right along with everyone else, and if you want three different items, you might want to select all of them or two of them from among the entrees. Read the rest of this entry »

Fat-free dairy products products, the second main component of the polish foods group, are a fabulous source of nutrients — calcium, potassium, phosphates, protein and many other vital vitamins and minerals. All too often these days, though, these important foods are left out of the diet. It’s very common to hear people — even doctors — claim that ‘milk is only for baby cows, not for humans’, or ‘dairy products are mucus-forming and cause sinusitis’.

I disagree with these sentiments entirely: read on, and you will soon see why. Read the rest of this entry »

Into this category falls the flesh of any living animal — meat, chicken, fish and shellfish. Or, as the late Linda McCartney, an ardent vegetarian, once put it, ‘anything with a face’.

I have not complicated matters by including eggsand legumesin this food group, although these certainly do contain protein. Once again, bear in mind that these classifications are specifically tailored to the diet.

Proteins are the building blocks of muscles. There should always be small amounts of proteins in your bloodstream, because your muscles may need them in order to build themselves up if the need so arises. I number among my patients a variety of very active sports people, all of whom wish to build up their bodies and increase their muscle mass. They worry that this diet doesn’t provide enough protein for body building and bulking. Read the rest of this entry »

Let me give you the bad news first: like red meat, chicken contains significant amounts of fat. The chicken skin is almost entirely composed of fat, and there is also fat hidden inside the flesh of the wing, the drumstick, the thigh and the neck. The only part of the chicken that is acceptable on the X Diet is the breast.

This may come as a surprise to ‘career dieters’, but even without its skin, a deboned chicken breast contains two teaspoons of fat. Read the rest of this entry »

Fish is a dichotomy, because broadly speaking there are two main categories of fish: fatty fish and non-fatty fish.

Fatty fish

I can almost hear you yelling, Tut fatty fish are supposed to be good for your heart!’ Yes, this much is true. Research has shown that the two main types of oils contained in fatty fish can lower cholesterol levels, protect you against heart disease and i_mprove blood fluidity. However, the idea that something is ‘healthy is, once again, disease-specific. The consumption of fish oils should certainly be encouraged in cholesterol patients who are lean, not over-fat. However, if you are over-fat and have high cholesterol levels, all types of fatty fish should be eliminated from the diet. Read the rest of this entry »