About Cake

Here's more of the secret to lasting weight loss.

You can't have your cake and eat it too.

What I mean by that is that you need to make a permanent change in what you eat so that you have permanent weight loss. You can't have everything you want. If you could, you may just self-destruct. (See Hollywood.)

I just read a story about a couple that has been struggling with weight loss for many years. The husband was up to 500 pounds. How did he get that heavy? He ate out for all his meals. That was his biggest mistake. You can't be healthy on a restaurant and fast food diet. There is MSG everywhere in the fast food and restaurant industry. MSG causes obesity. The food also has too many calories for the amount of nutrition. When you're starved for nutrition, It's going to be pretty difficult to control your hunger. 

So, this guy lost weight, then gained it back, up and down for years because he was using the wrong method. He counted calories. His wife got a gastric bypass. I'd never recommend getting that done. The ones that are successful long term are the ones that permanently change their diet. If you're trying to justify a gastric bypass as the motivation, or a boost, or a reason to switch to a healthy diet, you're doing it for the wrong reason because a gastric bypass doesn't make you eat healthy foods. Gastric surgery isn't a magic bullet. 

Health and proper weight is not about portion control or the number of calories consumed per day. Although this gentleman is a great example of losing weight this way. But he also showed that this diet takes much more work than choosing healthy foods. In fact, the healthier you eat, the more volume it takes to get the calories you need. Now this isn't a rule, but more of a trend because vegetables in general are very low in calorie density. But remember that you need more than just vegetables.

Physical health is like spiritual health. You can't just choose one commandment to obey that will gain your salvation. You have to obey all of them, or at least try to. Nobody's perfect. But there's definitely a difference between those that try to do their best, and those who just seek for pleasure.

Avoid Harmful Substances

 
Before I create a post about what you should eat, let me start out with some things to avoid. If I happen to list something you don't agree with, please do your own research. I'm not saying you'll definitely come to the same conclusion. You may even find material to back up your claim. But remember that many people consider these substances dangerous. Even so, some people still like to live dangerously.

Avoid harmful substances such as:

 

Tobacco

This one shouldn't need any explanation as to why it is harmful. The tobacco manufacturers deliberately add chemicals to make cigarettes more addictive. If you need help quitting, then consider the 14 and out program. Basically, you switch to organic tobacco (no added chemicals to enhance addiction) and that makes it much easier to quit in 14 days.

Drugs

There isn't much difference between a drug and a poison. Poisons work by inhibiting certain necessary enzyme reactions in the body. Drugs work by inhibiting certain targeted enzyme reactions in the body. The main difference is the dose, and which enzyme reaction is targeted. They both work by interfering with the body's natural processes. 

 

If you are taking drugs daily, consider that you are not addressing the cause of the symptoms, and that you will not be healed by a substance that is designed to work against your body.

Coffee and Tea

Before you come to their defence and cite a scientific study like the one that says people who drink more coffee have a lower risk of diabetes, you need to realize that studies like these are advertising campaigns designed to distract from the other harmful effects. For example, a hypothetical study says you get a certain health benefit from, say, raspberry tea. Wouldn't you then be able to conclude that you would get better health benefits from eating whole, raw raspberries?

If you wanted to avoid or treat diabetes, is drinking coffee the way? Obviously not. You avoid diabetes by a healthy diet. You can cure diabetes with a ridiculously strict diet. Did you know you can cure diabetes in 30 days? The diabetes industry doesn't want you to know that. They may lose customers.

 

Bleached Flour 

Alloxan is a chemical by-product from the bleaching process that causes type 1 diabetes. Why would you bleach your food? Isn't white flour white enough already? Do we really need bleach-white bread? As if stripping the bran and germ wasn't nutritionally dumb enough, now we bleach what's left? This is one of the dumbest things we do to our food. 

Artificial Sweeteners, Artificial Flavors, Artificial Colors

Artificial means man-made. I may have a skewed attitude towards this, but I don't think any man-made chemicals come close to the safety and nutrition of natural grown food. To me, artificial means "it's not food".

 

Artificial sweeteners have been proven dangerous many times. Yet we keep coming up with new ones. It's only a matter of time before we get enough evidence to label them as dangerous. If you need to add sweeteners, then you're missing out on the entire subtle medley of taste the way God created it. 

Artificial flavors is an interesting topic to research. If I see this on an ingredients label, what it says to me is this. This food tastes like garbage by itself, so we added chemicals to make it taste better.

Artificial colors are made from coal tar. Most coal tar colors have been banned, but the FDA still allows several varieties. Some of the remaining "safe" colors have been proven to cause behavioral problems in children.

 

MSG 

This includes anything hydrolyzed or autolyzed. It's also labeled as yeast extract, natural flavor, or any protein isolate. MSG is present in anything that also contains disodium inosinate and/or disodium guanylate because these two chemicals' only purpose is to enhance the flavor action of MSG. 

 

MSG works by stimulating the nerves on your tongue. It turns up the volume, so to speak, because this amino acid is a part of the chemical process of nerve stimulation. It's not the monosodium part that's the problem. It's the glutamate part. 

 

Glutamine is an amino acid that does not occur isolated in nature. It is always part of a larger protein structure. When broken down to an individual amino acid, it is absorbed into the body much quicker. Blood levels of glutamine can go 20x higher than normal. With this much concentration, nerves all over the body can be stimulated, sometimes over-stimulated to death. 

 

MSG can cause migraines, digestive issues, and heart problems. For me, MSG makes my heart slow down, beat unusually hard, and skip beats. It's especially noticeable when I'm trying to rest. I found what MSG does to me only because I avoided it for a while and then had some food with it and had a reaction. Being the scientifically curious person that I am, I repeated the test two more times and had the MSG reaction two more times again. So now I avoid anything with MSG. I read somewhere that ibuprofen is the antidote to MSG.

 

Another major problem with MSG is that it stimulates the appetite and causes obesity. Researchers know this, and when they want to study obesity in rats, first they have to find a way to make them huge. This doesn't happen in nature. But they found a way to make rats fat. They're called MSG treated rats. 

 

If you look, you'll find MSG (or hidden names for it) in many processed foods that aren't sweet. To me, it's no wonder there's an obesity epidemic. Aspartame and MSG are almost everywhere in processed foods. (The side-effects of aspartame and MSG are almost identical.)

Mercury, Fluoride, Lead, Arsenic

Many harmful substances are accumulative toxins. So-called safe levels of exposure may not be safe in the long term. Safe levels only take into account the effect of that single substance, and ignore the effects of multiple toxins present at the same time. So it's best to avoid any and all toxic substances.

 

Avoid mercury dental fillings. They are called silver amalgam to distract you from the fact that they contain about 50% mercury. The mercury keeps leeching out as long as it is in your mouth. 

 

Avoid living with five miles of a coal-fired powerplant. Most mercury pollution is from these powerplants. The mercury compounds rain down mostly within five miles of the source. 

 

Fluoride is not a nutrient. It is an enzyme inhibitor. It accumulates in the bones, making them brittle. Fluoridated water has been advertised as good for teeth, but the evidence is not convincing. Studies have shown that fluoride in water does much more harm than good. Fluoridated water even lowers IQ. It was used to control prisoners in concentration camps because it pacifies them.

The fluoride added to the water supply is actually industrial waste from smokestack scrubbers. This is often laced with other pollutants such as arsenic and lead. Naturally occurring fluoride in water is calcium fluoride. Calcium is the antidote to fluoride poisoning. But the fluoride compound most commonly added to water is hexafluorosilicic acid. The logical leap to go from CaF to SF6 makes about as much sense as saying food has carbon and nitrogen, so let's add cyanide and call it food. 

Preservatives

I've often heard the joke people tell that they won't need to be enbalmed because they are so full of preservatives already. I've never thought that was very funny. It's kind of sad, actually. If preservatives were re-named to what they really were, I'm guessing they wouldn't sell as many. Mold killer, antibiotics, and fungicide don't sound like appetizing things to put in food, but they are preservatives too. 

 

Basically, many preservatives are poisons, and some have been shown to cause cancer. Specifically, sodium nitrate (or nitrite) turns into nitrosamine compounds, which cause cancer. Nitrosamines are very useful in studying cancer in lab rats. You can get different nitrosamine compounds that cause cancer in the target organ. For example, if the researcher wants to study lung cancer in lab rats, he injects the rat with the proper nitrosamine compound, and the rat gets lung cancer. Most processed meats contain sodium nitrite (or nitrate). But since the food industry found that they can reduce the amount that converts to nitrosamines by adding vitamin C, the FDA still allows this preservative to be used.

This was only a partial list. There are other things to avoid. But the principle is to avoid anything harmful. It's difficult to avoid harmful substances if you don't know they are harmful. That's why I'm trying to spread the word.