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Alternative Health Author Dr. Van Loan

Elimination of all fasts accelerates obesity.

At first glance many people think obese people just lack discipline and eat too much, or they just eat too much fatty food.  Quite the opposite is true; the right kind of food is the most important consideration.  Consumption of the wrong foods only increases the appetite and obsession for “more food”.

There is a hidden hunger when the right nutrients are not consumed.  The right fatty foods are not only good for you but they will increase metabolism of fats into energy and reduce appetite.

The essential omega fatty acids are found in numerous studies to reduce fat accumulation.  Likewise certain fats like the fat hormone leptin, lipase fat enzymes and the cellular fat shuttle, L-carnitine, are absolutely essential for fat metabolism and good energy production.

Without the needed fat metabolites the fats do not get broken down and utilized as energy.  They just become stored into fat beds and this will propel obesity.

Good researchers can argue that up to 70% of your energy should come from fats.  The problem is fats must be broken down and changed into energy.  Without the metabolism and breakdown, the fats become a detrimental accumulation of fat beds in your body.

The (bad) trans fats tend to thwart the function of good fats.  Research demonstrates that the essential omega 3 fatty acids are disarmed by too much trans fat.  Most diets are loaded with trans fats because hydrogenation of vegetable oils and the trans fat laced, prepared foods oversupply us. Deep frying and man’s adulteration cause this hydrogenation.  The trans fats preserve shelf life and are resistant to breakdown…on the shelf or in your body.

What omega 3’s can do is greatly reduce triglyceride fatty acids and chronic inflammation.  The metabolism of triglycerides changes them from fat storage hazards and drivers of degenerative diseases into useful energy.

Another factor of the “right food” which drives obesity is a lack of enzymes and nutrients. They are found in whole raw food. I will cite an example of a chicken farmer who “accidentally” found this out.

Genuine hunger, albeit hidden hunger, can be drawn from a true story about a flock of chickens. A chicken farmer was fascinated by the idea of producing healthier chickens. He knew that sprouted grains were healthier because of vitamins and enzymes that were released when the seeds started to grow.

Raw seeds are complete warehouses of everything needed for a new plant.  They just need to be unlocked.  Most of the enzymes, minerals and nutrients needed for new life are released by sprouting the seeds.

He thought feeding the flock of chickens sprouted grains would cost more;  but he was not prepared for the astonishing results he got. The final results were astounding.

He normally would have finished in the spring with fryers which averaged 5 pounds and had a fat strip in the meat. After he fed the chickens only sprouted grains, he found they were eating less, pooped less manure, and gained an average of eight and a half pounds. (Three and a half pounds more but with less body fat.) And finally (he carefully documented this) he found the chickens ate 25% less food. The hidden hunger was satisfied with less food.  Meat (muscle tissue) was added instead of fat.

The lesson to be learned from this is if you do not have, and have not access to, all the nutrients the body needs, a hidden hunger can develop. Just adding more food does not do it. The most plausible explanation for this experiment with the chicken was, when given the missing enzymes, vitamins and nutrients needed, it satisfied hidden hunger.  This reduced fat and the chickens were healthier…Denis Van Loan D.D.S.