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4 Permissions to Dramatically Change Your Health that May Make Your Doctor Hate You

Ready to make a change?  Feeling guilty about the choices you’re trying to make because it goes against everything you have heard or done the past 40 years?  Here’s 4 permissions to dramatically change your health…that May make Your Doctor Hate You.  Now go rock it.

Permission to Eat Fat

On my intake forms, I have a line of questions that ask the person if they feel better eating certain foods.  An overwhelming majority of people mark they feel better when eating higher fat foods.  But because doctors, media, and all things medical industry have villainized fat and cholesterol for 40 years, people shy away from it out of dogmatic guilt that they are harming themselves, not helping.  The reality is that we all know what has happened to diabetes, obesity, heart disease, auto-immune conditions, and dementia the last 40 years as we have removed fat.  We’re not any healthier.

If there’s something you should feel bad about eating, it should be sugar.  Sure it tastes good, gives you an instant energy boost but have you ever looked back an hour later and said, ‘I wish I just ate more cake, cookies, breakfast cereal, and whole wheat bread. I just feel so good.”  You’re chronically fatigued because you keep feeding the insulin-energy-store-overload reaction based on your high glycemic choices.

WORDS THAT MEAN SUGAR: Tango Yankee Nicole Recine RN, MSN

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What’s for Breakfast? You Missed the Point

My last post was about about breakfast, I mean dessert.  What’s the difference?  The point of it is that if you break down the ingredients in your typical breakfast, it’s nothing more than dessert consumed early in the day.  My suggestion was that maybe you should skip it.  I thought that was pretty clear but then got tons of feedback with questions about what should they eat for breakfast?

Let me be clear.  Breakfast isn’t that important.  What sparked my writing of the last post was the news of the researchers being paid in the 1960’s to shift the blame of heart disease away from sugar and onto fat.  Then one of those scientists becoming the head of the USDA’s nutritional guidelines, which happened to start the ‘fat is bad’ campaign, brain washing you the past 40 years.

I feel I need to shed some light on another myth.

Breakfast is the Most Important Meal of the Day

Where did this come from?  It came from a major publication, Good Health.  I’m sure you have seen this in the check out lanes at your favorite grocery store or drug store.

Did you know it was once edited by Dr. John Harvey Kellogg?  And in that magazine in 1917, an article written called ‘August Breakfasts’ by Lenna F. Cooper makes a passing statement that breakfast is the most important meal of the day.  I don’t know if Ms. Cooper was the first to ever say this but it becomes a catchy phrase to someone with the last name of Kellogg.  Yes, that Kellogg.

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