Most of us think if we blow-off breakfast we’ll lose weight. How would you like to lose 30 pounds within a year?
Let’s face it, losing weight isn’t easy. But keeping it off is way harder. The people that study weight dilemmas say it can be done with little effort.
Reports say that one in five people can manage to lose 10 percent of body weight and keep it off for at least a year.
In more than 4,000 of successful weight losers (30 pounds lost and kept off) that participated in the National Weight Control Registry, scientists are trying to figure out what they do differently from other people that have a problem losing weight and keeping it off.
Yep, they ate breakfast every day. Well, at least three out of four. Not bacon, ham, or sausage and eggs, but a bowl of high fiber cereal and dried and/or fresh fruit.
Understand one thing, we are not talking about the major brands that became the “enemies of the people” by their contributions to defeat the California GMO labeling bill, and who load their cereals with GMOs and sugar. We are talking about oatmeal and other whole grains.
It seems that people who eat a high fiber cereal for breakfast are more likely to have a low body mass index (BMI), which is measure of obesity.
Women, especially, are 24 percent more likely to have healthy BMI if they eat breakfast. Men who eat breakfast regularly tend to weigh less and are less likely to gain weight, as they get older.
Eating a high fiber cereal suppresses your appetite, allows you to eat less, and improves how your body handles blood sugar after a meal, because it helps food move through your small intestine faster that eating refined cereals.
Not eating refined cereals and grains triggers the body to a “fullness” hormone for two to four hours longer than it normally would when you eat crap.
It was found that whole grain breakfast eaters tend to eat less fat during the rest of the day, yet have more energy for exercise and other physical activities. Using rice milk or hemp milk and dried fruits like black currents, apricots, figs, raisins, and prunes will give you more than enough calcium and save you from ingesting
the ever-popular antibiotic, growth hormone, GMO, and pesticide-laden milk from the feed fed the cows. If you are hooked on milk, get goat’s milk. It’s closer to mother’s milk anyway. And getting more calcium is linked to a lower BMI as well.
We have learned that eating whole grains can drop diabetes risk as well. Now, we are learning that eating a bowl of whole grain cereal daily can do this also due to the enormous supply of fiber.
It has been found that people who eat a bowl of cereal seven days a week are 37 percent less likely to get diabetes. If you can do this at least two to six times a week you can still drop your risk by 24 percent.
Whole grains offer stronger protection that refined grains because, as I said, you eat less, your belly feels fuller, you become less hungry, and you wind up eating fewer calories. The good news – fiber has no calories, you can eat as much as you like, and your body needs the fiber to function at its best.
Fiber also slows down the absorption of glucose in your gut, which evens out the spikes in your insulin and blood sugar that normally manifest after eating refined carbohydrates.
What happens is that your cells become more sensitive to insulin over time as you need less of it to handle the rise in blood sugar. Since insulin resistant people are more likely to develop diabetes, improving your sensitivity can lower your risk. Also, whole grains have less effect on your blood sugar than refined grains.
When you regularly eat fiber it leads to changes in the types of bacteria living in your gut. There’s obese bacteria found in obese people and lean bacteria found in slim people. Really.
Obese bacteria makes a compound called LPS (lipopolysaccharide), which has been shown to increase weight gain, liver fat, and factors of inflammation and insulin resistance, which are connected in the development of diabetes.
A daily bowl of high fiber, unrefined cereal can help your brain health as well, because the regulating of the blood sugar will lower your risk of Alzheimer’s and other dementias.
In people with diabetes, insulin resistance, or chronically high blood sugar, the brain cells can’t get enough glucose to do their job. This leads to a fuel shortage, which can damage the blood vessels in the brain, contributing to dementia.
High blood sugar also creates damaging substances called advanced glycosylation end products and keeps your body from clearing beta-amyloid out of brain cells. The buildup of both beta-amyloid and the end products are linked to Alzheimer’s.
So, three steps to lower your risk of dementia:
1. Eat nutritious foods like whole grains that help regulate blood sugar.
2. Lose weight if you are overweight.
3. Exercise 30 minutes a day for at least five days a week.
In case you forgot, those long things that come down from your hips are called legs. If you put one in front of the other, it’s called walking. And, if you do it faster it will increase your heartbeat and burn more calories.
Basically, you can protect yourself from heart failure, coronary heart disease, and high blood pressure for less that a few bucks a week by eating a bowl of oatmeal for breakfast.
Heart disease is the number one killer in the United States. In coronary heart disease, the arteries that carry blood to your heart become clogged from plaque buildup. This is known as arthrosclerosis. As the arteries narrow, your heart can’t get enough oxygen or nutrients to work effectively.
In one study of postmenopausal women with coronary heart disease, eating 3 grams of fiber daily slowed the progression of arthrosclerosis almost as much as getting poisoned with a statin drug. Eating right gives you serious protection.
One in five 40-year-olds are at risk of developing congestive heart failure, a condition where your heart cannot pump enough blood to meet the body’s needs.
At first, you feel tired and experience shortness of breath after heavy activity. Don’t worry though; eventually light activity will exhaust you. Eating a bowl of oatmeal or some other high fiber whole grain can make you 29 percent less likely to suffer heart failure compared to those that do not due this.
You’ve heard the saying, “in one end and out the other.” What that means is what you put into your mouth make a big difference in how it comes out. Eating the right foods can ease constipation and keep you regular, with less straining.
Why? It’s not rocket science. Fiber, especially bran, softens stool, adds bulk, and moves it through the colon faster. Women with bowl disorders, who ate a high fiber breakfast every day improved their constipation and needed fewer laxatives then women who didn’t eat the cereal.
But wait, there’s more. Whole grain cereals are great sources of magnesium. The magnesium and the high fiber present a double whammy when it comes to fighting constipation. It’s also excellent to drink more water with a high fiber diet as it helps with digestion.
Bear in mind that the major cereal companies load their garbage with sugar and fat-laden yogurt, GMOs, and refined grains, which are diametrically opposed to good health.
For what it’s worth, I have a few favorite breakfasts. Oatmeal, with rice milk, bananas, blueberries, and pitted dates are yummy. A lot of times I will eat leftover quinoa or buckwheat, and steamed veggies. But my all-time favorite is a smoothie. I start with frozen organic fruits like strawberries, blueberries, mangos, bananas and cherries. I then add pitted dates, bee pollen and spirulina and cover it all with organic apple juice and blend away. Why do I use frozen fruits? It makes the smoothie cold without watering it down with ice.
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About Hesh:
I have been doing a radio show in Honolulu since 1981 called “Health Talk”. To listen to the show please go to www.kwai1080am.com on your computer at 8am Hawaii time. FYI, 8am Hawaii time is 11am on the West coast and 2pm on the East coast. To call in, the number is (808) 524-1080.
Now, American Voice Radio will be picking up my streamed show and playing it all week until the next one takes place. To listen, go to americanvoiceradio.com and click on my link at AVR 2. See you on the radio!
In 2007, I was “forced” to get a masters degree in Nutrition to stop all the doctors from calling in asking what my credentials were. Besides that, they never liked it when I asked them what their credentials were that would enable them to treat an illness without drugs or surgery.
If you go to www.healthtalkhawaii.com and click on Podcasts, there are years of shows there as well as hundreds of health related articles.
I am an activist. I am vehemently opposed to GMOs, vaccines, processed foods, MSG, aspartame, fluoridation, and everything else that the “pimps” (big pHarma, Monsanto, and the large food companies), and the “hookers” (the doctors, the government agencies, the Public Health officials, and the mainstream media) thrust upon us, the “tricks”.
At 75, I am in 3 softball leagues, racewalk, do stand-up paddling, hike, swim, do weights and cardio, and teach women’s self-defense classes based upon 20 years of Wing Chun training. I have been a vegetarian since 1975 and a vegan since 1990, have no illnesses and take no meds.
After being vaccinated with the DTP vaccine as a child, I developed asthma, which plagued me until 2008 when I learned about and started taking the organic sulfur crystals. My asthma was reversed in 3 days and has not come back.
So far, 26 cases of autism that we know about have been reversed, as has cancer, Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s, asthma, osteoarthritis, joint pain, gingivitis, and erectile dysfunction. The sulfur has increased sexual activity, eliminated toxins, heavy metals, radiation, and parasites. It speeds up athletic recovery time, increases blood circulation, reduces inflammation, increases resistance to the “flu”, reduces wrinkles, allergies, PMS, monthly period pain, migraines, nausea, and way more, because the oxygen that the sulfur releases floods and heals the cells in the body.
The sulfur, as proven by the University of Southampton in England, enables the body to produce vitamin B12 and the essential amino acids.
You can find out more about this on my website under Products.
My book, “A Sane Diet For An Insane World”, which has been published, can be viewed and purchased at www.asanediet.com. The book clearly explains why what you eat, for the most part, is designed to keep you in a state of declining health.
I have recently discovered an amazing super food – Zeal – that contains 42 amazing probiotics, anti-oxidents and more, all designed to build and strengthen the immune system. For more info about this please email me.
And now I have come across an amazing bee pollen that is so soft it melts in your mouth and has so many benefits. It is rich in vitamin B12 and all B vitamins, the 20 amino acids, proteins, minerals, beneficial fatty acids, carotenoids, bioflavenoids, antioxidants, antihistamines, enzymes, antibiotics, and natural phenylalanine, which acts as an appetite suppressant, and more.
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Just to put things in perspective, after I graduated from Weequahic High School and before going to Seton Hall University, I had a part-time job working for a butcher. I was the delivery guy and occasionally had to go to the slaughterhouse to pick up products for the store. Needless to say, I had no consciousness nor awareness, as change never came then despite the horrors I witnessed on an almost daily basis.
After graduating with a degree in accounting from Seton Hall, I eventually got married and moved to a town called Livingston. Livingston was basically a yuppie community where everyone was judged by the neighborhood they lived in and their income. To say it was a "plastic" community would be an understatement.
Livingston and the shallowness finally got to me. I told my wife I was fed up and wanted to move. She made it clear she had to be near her friends and New York City. I finally got my act together and split for Colorado.
I was living with a lady in Aspen at the end of 1974, when one day she said, " let's become vegetarians". I have no idea what possessed me to say it, but I said, "okay"! At that point I went to the freezer and took out about $100 worth of frozen, dead body parts and gave them to a welfare mother who lived behind us. Well, everything was great for about a week or so, and then the chick split with another guy.
So here I was, a vegetarian for a couple weeks, not really knowing what to do, how to cook, or basically how to prepare anything. For about a month, I was getting by on carrot sticks, celery sticks, and yogurt. Fortunately, when I went vegan in 1990, it was a simple and natural progression. Anyway, as I walked around Aspen town, I noticed a little vegetarian restaurant called, "The Little Kitchen".
Let me back up just a little bit. It was April of 1975, the snow was melting and the runoff of Ajax Mountain filled the streets full of knee-deep mud. Now, Aspen was great to ski in, but was a bummer to walk in when the snow was melting.
I was ready to call it quits and I needed a warmer place. I'll elaborate on that in a minute.
But right now, back to "The Little Kitchen". Knowing that I was going to leave Aspen and basically a new vegetarian, I needed help. So, I cruised into the restaurant and told them my plight and asked them if they would teach me how to cook. I told them in return I would wash dishes and empty their trash. They then asked me what I did for a living and I told them I was an accountant.
The owner said to me, "Let's make a deal. You do our tax return and we'll feed you as well". So for the next couple of weeks I was doing their tax return, washing their dishes, emptying the trash, and learning as much as I could.
But, like I said, the mud was getting to me. So I picked up a travel book written by a guy named Foder. The name of the book was, "Hawaii". Looking through the book I noticed that in Lahaina, on Maui, there was a little vegetarian restaurant called," Mr. Natural's". I decided right then and there that I would go to Lahaina and work at "Mr. Natural's." To make a long story short, that's exactly what happened.
So, I'm working at "Mr. Natural's" and learning everything I can about my new dietary lifestyle - it was great. Every afternoon we would close for lunch at about 1 PM and go to the Sheraton Hotel in Ka'anapali and play volleyball, while somebody stayed behind to prepare dinner.
Since I was the new guy, and didn't really know how to cook, I never thought that I would be asked to stay behind to cook dinner. Well, one afternoon, that's exactly what happened; it was my turn. That posed a problem for me because I was at the point where I finally knew how to boil water.
I was desperate, clueless and basically up the creek without a paddle. Fortunately, there was a friend of mine sitting in the gazebo at the restaurant and I asked him if he knew how to cook. He said the only thing he knew how to cook was enchiladas. He said that his enchiladas were bean-less and dairy-less. I told him that I had no idea what an enchilada was or what he was talking about, but I needed him to show me because it was my turn to do the evening meal.
Well, the guys came back from playing volleyball and I'm asked what was for dinner. I told them enchiladas; the owner wasn't thrilled. I told him that mine were bean-less and dairy-less. When he tried the enchilada he said it was incredible. Being the humble guy that I was, I smiled and said, "You expected anything less"? It apparently was so good that it was the only item on the menu that we served twice a week. In fact, after about a week, we were selling five dozen every night we had them on the menu and people would walk around Lahaina broadcasting, 'enchilada's at "Natural's" tonight'. I never had to cook anything else.
A year later the restaurant closed, and somehow I gravitated to a little health food store in Wailuku. I never told anyone I was an accountant and basically relegated myself to being the truck driver. The guys who were running the health food store had friends in similar businesses and farms on many of the islands. I told them that if they could organize and form one company they could probably lock in the State. That's when they found out I was an accountant and "Down to Earth" was born. "Down to Earth" became the largest natural food store chain in the islands, and I was their Chief Financial Officer and co-manager of their biggest store for 13 years.
In 1981, I started to do a weekly radio show to try and expose people to a vegetarian diet and get them away from killing innocent creatures. I still do that show today. I pay for my own airtime and have no sponsors to not compromise my honesty. One bit of a hassle was the fact that I was forced to get a Masters Degree in Nutrition to shut up all the MD's that would call in asking for my credentials.
My doing this radio show enabled me, through endless research, to see the corruption that existed within the big food industries, the big pharmaceutical companies, the biotech industries and the government agencies. This information, unconscionable as it is, enabled me to realize how broken our health system is. This will be covered more in depth in the Introduction and throughout the book and when you finish the book you will see this clearly and it will hopefully inspire you to make changes.
I left Down to Earth in 1989, got nationally certified as a sports injury massage therapist and started traveling the world with a bunch of guys that were making a martial arts movie. After doing that for about four years I finally made it back to Honolulu and got a job as a massage therapist at the Honolulu Club, one of Hawaii's premier fitness clubs. It was there I met the love of my life who I have been with since 1998. She made me an offer I couldn't refuse. She said," If you want to be with me you've got to stop working on naked women". So, I went back into accounting and was the Chief Financial Officer of a large construction company for many years.
Going back to my Newark days when I was an infant, I had no idea what a "chicken" or "egg" or "fish" or "pig" or "cow" was. My dietary blueprint was thrust upon me by my parents as theirs was thrust upon them by their parents. It was by the grace of God that I was able to put things in their proper perspective and improve my health and elevate my consciousness.
The road that I started walking down in 1975 has finally led me to the point of writing my book, “A Sane Diet For An Insane World”. Hopefully, the information contained herein will be enlightening, motivating, and inspiring to encourage you to make different choices. Doing what we do out of conditioning is not always the best course to follow. I am hoping that by the grace of the many friends and personalities I have encountered along my path, you will have a better perspective of what road is the best road for you to travel on, not only for your health but your consciousness as well.
Last but not least: after being vaccinated as a kid I developed asthma, which plagued me all of my life. In 2007 I got exposed to the organic sulfur crystals, which got rid of my asthma in 3 days and has not come back in over 10 years. That, being the tip of the iceberg, has helped people reverse stage 4 cancers, autism, joint pain, blood pressure problems, migraine headaches, erectile dysfunction, gingivitis, and more. Also, because of the detoxification effects by the release of oxygen that permeates and heals all the cells in the body, it removes parasites, radiation, fluoride, free radicals, and all the other crap that is thrust upon us in the environment by Big Business.
For more, please view www.healthtalkhawaii.com and www.asanediet.com.
Namaste!
