Eating By Design

When you hear about Vitamins A, B, C, D, E and so on, you can start to become very confused! You hear that Selenium is good, Vitamin E is good, Vitamin C is good, Vitamin A is good, but you will drive yourself crazy if you start trying to chase around these individual nutrients--and it's also not very effective. Vitamins, by design, are in nutrient communion. This means that when vitamins were originally made into a food, they were designed in the right combination of vitamins and minerals. When the carrot was made, it originally contained something called beta-carotene, which is an antioxidant that's good for fighting cancer. However, if you put beta-carotene in pill form, it's actually toxic and causes cancer! The nutrient communion in the carrot helps your body take in the beta-carotene and then convert it into a cancer-fighting agent.

The best place to get vitamins and minerals is from fruits, vegetables, and whole grains--real solid Food By Design. However, supplementation is important because it is unlikely that you will always eat well enough to get all the nutrients that you need. A supplement should be just that -- a supplement to the Food By Design you eat each day--not a replacement for Food By Design. When you hear a Nutritionist say that vitamins and minerals are good for you, they're talking about getting these from real food, not about isolating Vitamin A and taking it every day. That could cause toxicity in your body. You need Vitamins A, B, C, and D, but if, for instance, you take lots of Vitamin D, it actually minimizes the impact of Vitamins A, B, and C. Your body needs all of these vitamins and minerals in balance, and the best balance comes from Food By Design.

Another point to understand is that foods alone do not heal your body. The body was designed to be healthy, but when you interfere with that design by not getting good nutrition or by eating damaging foods, you can stop the healing process. By improving your nutrition and giving your body the raw materials it needs to heal, and by reducing the foods that are damaging your system, you allow the body to function according to its original design.

EAT LIKE AN ELEPHANT - LOOK LIKE A GAZELLE

CARBOHYDRATE DAILY GUIDE
High carbs in the morning, high to moderate carbs in the middle of the morning, more moderate carbs at lunch, moderate to low carbs in the late afternoon, and low to zero carbs at night.

PROTEIN DAILY GUIDE
Low protein in the morning, low to moderate protein in the middle of the morning, more moderate protein at midday, and moderate to high or high protein in the evening.

FAT DAILY GUIDE
Low fat in the morning, low to moderate fat in the middle of the morning, more moderate fat at midday, and moderate to high fat in the evening.

If you follow this guide for balancing whatever foods you eat, even if you still eat Food By Man, you'll see big changes in your body.

Dr. Lerner had a patient who initially came to his office as a young man in his forties. his patient had many aches and pains, and several illnesses and health issues - including diabetes -- and he was taking a lot of medications. This patient went to every one of Dr. Lerner's nutrition classes for one year, and he followed this Daily Food Guide to balancing foods. This patient never actually changed the foods he ate, but he followed this guide to the letter. In one year, this patient lost eighty pounds, and he does not take a single medication or have a single disease. He was finally eating the way he was designed to, even though he was not necessarily eating only the foods he was designed to eat. Remember, this plan is an Un-Diet.  Regular diets don't work. Diet is "die" with a "T" at the end!

Diets are painful, so you won't stick with one for long. The Un-Diet works for all diseases, all goals, and all conditions.

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