The American diet is a disaster. It's the cause of many diseases. In this keynote speech, Ken Leebow provides the knowledge to assist in moving away from the Western diet.

1. Health is Our Greatest Wealth Eat More, Weigh Less, and Be Healthier “ At age 47, my doctor told me I had the back of an 85-year-old. Now at 55, I am active and am happy to wear my 26-year- old’s hand-me downs.” – 30 pound weight loss “ With the amount of physical work I've done over the last two months (Christmas Decorating Business), I would not have been able to physically complete the work.” – 36 pound weight loss “ My blood pressure is normal my cholesterol is normal...All my physical markers are so good. I recently reapplied for a change in my life insurance and my premium was cut in half due to my better health condition. My wife is loving the change.....I DON"T SNORE ANYMORE! ....and I have loads of energy.” – 37 pound weight loss By: Ken Leebow (www.Leebow.com – 404-550-7911)

2. Health is Our Greatest Wealth “ At age 47, my doctor told me I had the back of an 85-year-old. Now at 55, I am active and am happy to wear my 26-year- old’s hand-me downs.” – 30 pound weight loss “ With the amount of physical work I've done over the last two months (Christmas Decorating Business), I would not have been able to physically complete the work.” – 36 pound weight loss “ My blood pressure is normal my cholesterol is normal...All my physical markers are so good. I recently reapplied for a change in my life insurance and my premium was cut in half due to my better health condition. My wife is loving the change.....I DON"T SNORE ANYMORE! ....and I have loads of energy.” – 37 pound weight loss Eat More, Weigh Less, and Be Healthier

4. Let food be thy medicine and let thy medicine be food. – Hippocrates

5. What an extraordinary achievement for a civilization to develop the one diet that reliably makes its people sick. – Michael Pollan

6. Diet Camps Vegan Paleo

10. It’s solely and exclusively about calories in and calories out. - Dr. David Katz The first part of this book will present the evidence against the calories in/calories out hypothesis. – Gary Taubes What if It’s All Been a Big Fat Lie? New York Times – July 7, 2002

15. Every extra pound you carry adds up to 3 pounds of pressure on your knee joints when you walk, and 10 pounds when you run. Genes load the gun, but lifestyle pulls the trigger. – Dr. Caldwell Esselstyn

16. Our bodies have a remarkable ability to begin healing themselves if we simply stop doing what’s causing the problem. - Dr. Dean Ornish

19. The American diet is a catastrophe. We don’t have a health care crisis. We have a food crisis.

21. PartiallyHydrogenated.com The consumption of trans fats increases the risk of coronary heart disease.

25. Check out the lucky customers who bought Gigi's Cupcakes Marietta, GA 50,000th cupcake!! About 1,000 cupcakes per day

30. Some have compared the effort of trying to eat healthy in modern society with trying to be a recovered alcoholic in a town with a bar on every block. - Duke Diet Center

31. Unconscious Consumption

32. Eat Less, Exercise More

35. Source: McDonald’s – http://nutrition.mcdonalds.com/nutritionexchange/nutritionfacts.pdf

37. Commercial Interruption Taste & Flavor

38. Taste & Flavor

39. Joan Gussow People don’t love nutrients. Nobody says: “I love vitamin C.” But they do say: “I love a fresh orange.” People have feelings about food. They don’t have any feelings about nutrients.

40. Exercise is better than any drug or anything else we have for aging. There’s no downside. If this were a drug, it would be the safest, most effective drug in the universe. - Dr. James O. Hill Hate Busy

41. Facebook users upload record 750M photos over New Year’s weekend

42. Good habits are as addictive as bad habits, and a lot more rewarding. – Harvey MacKay Diet drives the weight loss and exercise maintains it. http://quotes.feedyourheaddiet.com

43. The human body, and particularly the liver, never evolved to handle the kind of fructose load we get in modern diets.

47. “ What’s with the small plate? Such a tiny plate? It’s what my grandmother used to eat from.”

51. Coffee House Bagel – 300 – 360 Calories

52. Eating a bagel and eating a cup of sugar may taste different, but metabolically they are no different. - Dr. David Ludwig

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57. USDA: Eggs’ Cholesterol Lower Than Thought, Vitamin D Higher Eggs aren’t the dietary demons they’re cracked up to be

58. February 10, 2011 STUDY: Stop eating breakfast! Should you believe the latest science?http://ow.ly/3T529 People who skip breakfast are 4.5 times more likely to be obese, says study http://bit.ly/fRhqAk

59. It’s a confusing message. For years we've been fed the line that eating fat would make us fat and lead to chronic illnesses . “Dietary fat used to be public enemy No. 1,” says Dr. Edward Saltzman, associate professor of nutrition and medicine at Tufts University. “ Now a growing and convincing body of science is pointing the finger at carbs , especially those containing refined flour and sugar.” Source: Los Angeles Times – December 20, 2010

60. As a population, we cut dietary fat in a rather dysfunctional way, and we grew even fatter. – Dr. David L. Katz

62. Calories: 200 vs. 190 – 5% Less Sodium: 85 vs.285 – 300% More Sugar: 2 vs. 4 – 100% More

65. Dateline: August 3, 2010 Truly, no one nutrient is the magic bullet for weight loss. – Saint Joseph’s Newsletter Dateline: August 4, 2010 The two nutrients that do the trick better than anything else are ______ and ______. – Joy Bauer

68. Research, Research, Research Eat More Fiber, Live Longer, Large, Government Study Shows The average American eats only about 15 grams of fiber each day. Source: The study, appearing in February 2011 Archives of Internal Medicine, included more than 388,000 adults, ages 50 to 71, who participated in a diet and health study conducted by the National Institutes of Health and AARP

71. Five Ingredient Fix – Claire Robinson

75. Diet Camps Vegan Paleo

77. Wild, Grass Fed, Organic

86. 2,300 Milligrams of Salt?

88. Protein A recent study published in the Journal of the American College of Nutrition found that when people ate two eggs for breakfast , they took in more than 400 fewer calories over the next 24 hours than when they ate bagels .

89. Genes load the gun, but lifestyle pulls the trigger. – Dr. Caldwell Esselstyn Circle of Disease Fast Food Junk Food Processed Food Sugar, Soda, Candy Minimal Exercise Vegan Paleo

90. “ I can't die, it would ruin my reputation.”

91. Stop eating crap. Exercise six days a week. – Younger Next Year Eat Food, Not Too Much , Mostly Plants – In Defense of Food – Michael Pollan Eat Less , Move More, and Eat Lots of Fruit and Vegetables What to Eat – Marion Nestle

92. Genes load the gun, but lifestyle pulls the trigger. – Dr. Caldwell Esselstyn Circle of Disease Fast Food Junk Food Processed Food Sugar, Soda, Candy Minimal Exercise Vegan Paleo

93. Good habits are as addictive as bad habits, and a lot more rewarding. – Harvey MacKay

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