WEIGHT LOSS AND WEIGHT MANAGEMENT

Weight loss, achieving the weight you were meant to have by nature, is a matter of eating the way nature meant you to eat; giving your body the nourishment it needs for sound health. 

Currently, there is so much misinformation that no one knows what normal weight is, or what it should be. Tables of "normal" weight represent simple statistical averages of contemporary men and women, and are not based on standards of physiological perfection but upon the prevailing unclear. Instead of studying the healthiest and most vigorous people to determine ideal weights, we average up the underdeveloped people that exist everywhere and we accept these averages as the standard weight of society.

We want healthful and useful tissues and organs rather than mere bulk or pounds. More importance should be addressed to the kind of tissue one possesses (muscle, fat, bones etc.) than to the weight of the body as a whole. Weight is important, but it is secondary to the thing weighed.

The necessity of counting calories, the analysis of every bite of food, is abnormal and turns what should be a happy occasion into a worrisome ritual. A return to nutritional standards which supply the biological needs of the body and which discard conventional eating practices, will be a major step toward preventing illness and regaining and maintaining a high standard of health.

Prescribing a diet without taking into account the individual needs and digestive capacities of each person is a mistake. You cannot force someone to eat beyond his digestive capacity (ability to digest, absorb and assimilate) just to meet a standard calorie count. Ignoring a person's physical, physiological and mental conditions is harmful.

Dehydration And Weight

Approximately 75% of the population is dehydrated and simply does not know it. Diagnosable dehydration occurs when you lose 5% of your weight as water. However, we experience symptoms of dehydration just after losing 1% of body weight as water.

Correcting dehydration can remedy weight loss difficulties and improve organ function and energy levels. Toxins are held in suspension with water, and since water ways more than fat, weight loss can be dramatic when we are losing water as a result of reducing the body's toxic load.

How We Become Dehydrated

*Salt and alcohol consumption (ALL inorganic salts-not consumed directly from plants). They act as diuretics and cause us to lose substantial amounts of water.

*Cooking foods removes the water content in them and effectively changes the water-toxin ratio in food to favor toxins. The process of cooking too, produces toxins and increases our need for water.

*Our body produces toxic waste as a result of metabolism.

*Altitude, heat, sunshine, wind, humidity and exercise are primary factors that can cause us to lose water more rapidly than we replace it.

We are told to drink water in order to dilute the toxins we produce to a tolerable level. The medical community tells us to drink over 8 cups of water a day, actually to make up for the dehydration caused by the toxins in our food.

It does not matter if the cause of dehydration is a consumption of cooked foods, salt, toxins produced in the process of metabolism etc., it is much better to avoid this situation in the first place by consuming foods with a rich water content (raw fruits and vegetables) than to continue the cause of dehydration and drink more water.

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