Becoming fat doesnʼt come from eating fat, becoming fat comes from an inability to burn fat, which is direct evidence of a metabolic-hormonal disorder now known to come from following an agrarian nutritional approach. This agrarian nutritional approach also seems the prime suspect behind the chronic lifestyle diseases including cardiovascular disease, cancer, diabetes and dementia.

1. Science Reverses Conventional Nutritional Wisdom
If you carry excess visceral body fat, even just as love-handles or muffin-topping,
then the odds are very high that you suffer from a metabolic-hormonal disorder.
This metabolic-hormonal disorder starts with a physiological defect in fat use and
storage, a metabolic disorder. Itʼs not a psychological disorder. Self-control and
motivation arenʼt the issue. You think and dream about food because youʼre hungry and
you feel as if youʼre starving to death and youʼre right. You are starving to death at the
cellular level.
What if, contrary to conventional nutritional wisdom, the type of the calories we eat is
more important than the amount of calories we eat? Specifically, what if certain calories
trigger a hormonal response to store fat instead of burn it? That this metabolic, or fat-
storage-instead-of-fat-usage, disorder seems the culprit is exactly what current medical
science now suggests.
What if overeating and sedentary behavior do not cause weight gain and instead
hormonally driven weight gain triggers overeating and sedentary behavior? After all,
energy stored can no longer be used as fuel, so you go hungry at a cellular level.
Please consider the significance of this distinction because this reversal of conventional
nutritional wisdom is exactly what current medical science now indicates.
Becoming fat doesnʼt come from eating fat, becoming fat comes from an inability to
burn fat, which is direct evidence of a metabolic-hormonal disorder now known to come
from following an agrarian nutritional approach. This agrarian nutritional approach also
seems the prime suspect behind the chronic lifestyle diseases including cardiovascular
disease, cancer, diabetes and dementia.
Other early signs and symptoms of the chronic lifestyle diseases also stemming from
following the agrarian nutritional approach may include fatigue after meals, feeling
constantly anxious or stressed out, having problems falling or staying asleep and no
change in how your body looks, no matter how much you exercise.
Current medical science suggests our human genome has not significantly changed
in 2.6 million years. This includes the entire Homo genus, not just our contemporary
Homo sapiens species. We still have stone age bodies, including our brains, even
though we live in the information age.
For over 2.6 million years humans thrived on a nutritional approach that was
abandoned only 10 thousand years ago with the invention of agriculture, slavery,
civilization, conquering armies and empires. Evolutionary biologists, forensic
archeologists and medical anthropologists believe this change is responsible for an
average height loss of six inches per person, an additional seven dental cavities each
when previously there were none and never before seen bone malformations.
These counter-survival signs and symptoms have only intensified as our
dependence upon processed agrarian products increases. For example, people have
lost an average of 10% of their brain mass in just the past 100 years.
This agrarian nutritional approach also creates distorted biochemically induced
misperceptions. For example, many people have already learned that rational
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2. discussion seems impossible with someone experiencing low blood sugar. This was
never the case before sugar, and starches easily converted to sugar in the body, were
produced agriculturally, processed and added to the human diet.
Phytotoxins, excitotoxins, protease inhibitors and opioids, plant produced poisons,
are known to create food addictions, depression and lethargy to complicate
accompanying vitamin and mineral deficiencies. Every vitamin deficiency was first
discovered in a population dependent upon processed agrarian foods. For over 2.6
million years we did just fine without any need for vitamin and mineral supplementation.
Two morphine-like compounds, casomorphin and gluteomorphin, from dairy and
wheat respectively, are critical to our understanding of the power of foods. Food
addiction is a very real thing and these opioids play a huge role. These sedating
compounds are also the single biggest element of post-meal drowsiness. There are no
healthy addictions and food is no exception.
Basically, the new agrarian foods arriving with slavery and civilization, sugar and
wheat being two of the first, interferes with your ability to think straight and further
makes you easier to control because, in large part, you always feel dependent upon
sources of addictive foods and the remedies to the malnutrition and new diseases they
cause. Remember, we evolved and thrived for over 2.6 million years without medical
intervention.
Our key hormone, leptin, was only first discovered in 1995. Leptin rules the
endocrine system with insulin firmly second in command and the adrenal hormones,
adrenaline and cortisol next, controlling the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis.
Surges of leptin and insulin not only increase sympathetic over-arousal of the bodyʼs
systems, they also increase anxiety and amplify the actions of stress hormones,
producing chronic anxiety or sleeping trouble.
The more you eat the agrarian nutritional approach, especially from inferior sources,
the better your body gets at converting protein to sugar, even if that protein is part of
your own muscle and bones. So when you wake up in the middle of the night needing to
snack on something, that may forestall your body working on muscle wasting and
osteoporosis.
When someone acts on the advice to eat a snack every two hours what do you think
happens when they fall asleep? Since many fall asleep due to an ingestion of
casomorphin and gluteomorphin, perhaps in the form of milk and cookies before
bedtime, they might wake up in a few hours feeling driven to eat again. If they donʼt
wake up, then their bodies go ahead and convert lean muscle and bone protein into
sugar.
Unsurprisingly, this agrarian nutritional approach also appears to be behind candida
albicans overgrowth, leaky gut syndrome and celiac disease among a very long list of
other modern diseases. Surprisingly, that post-reproductive years spare tire around the
middle is not natural to aging, itʼs only natural to the metabolic-hormonal disorder
responsible for at least $0.75 out of every dollar now spent on health care.
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3. In studies of pregnant women with metabolic-hormonal disorder mothers may pass
this on to their unborn children in the form of enlarged pancreases and exaggerated
insulin responses to processed agrarian foods because the underlying situation includes
leptin and insulin resistance. This is not genetic but epigenetic, changing the expression
of genetics with a dysfunctional nutritional approach.
There is no conceivable medical intervention, neither pharmacology or surgery,
capable of reversing this agrarian nutritional approach metabolic-hormonal disorder.
Either make the necessary lifestyle and nutritional changes or continue down the path
towards cardiovascular disease, hypertension, stroke, cancer, diabetes, dementia,
autoimmune disease and more while simultaneously diminishing both the quantity and
quality of your life.
Liz OʼGarvey and Jay Greathouse live in Kula, Maui where they solve lifestyle and
nutritional problems around the world for those with metabolic-hormonal disorders.
Being over 50 years old themselves Liz and Jay solve the new problems often
associated with aging and help their clients improve the 7 longevity markers shared by
present day centenarians.
Liz and Jay uniquely customize and individualize personal support of all actions that
lower health care costs, increase productivity and reverse or reduce the risk of chronic
lifestyle diseases including autoimmune, neurodegenerative and cardiovascular
diseases along with hypertension, stroke, cancer and the twin epidemics of obesity and
diabetes to save the human species from extinction by malnutrition.
Liz and Jay are known as lifestyle coaches, nutritional counselors, educators,
writers, researchers, editors, speakers, filmmakers, screenwriters
Interests include: improving the personal quality and quantity of life
Special studies include; nutritional anthropology, evolutionary biology, endocrinology,
epigenetics, human longevity, neuroplasticity
Their telephone number is 808-208-5604.
more reading:
What if It's All Been a Big Fat Lie? by Gary Taubes
Published: July 07, 2002, The New York Times
Good Calories, Bad Calories by Gary Taubes
Published: 2007, Knopf
Primal Body, Primal Mind by Nora T. Gedgaudas
Published: May 27, 2011, Healing Arts Press
F as in Fat: How Obesity Threatens Americaʼs Future 2013 by Jeffrey Levi, et al
Published: August 2013, Trust for Americaʼs Health and the Robert Wood Johnson
Foundation
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