There are a tremendous variety of diets for weight loss,and it is very difficult for the average consumer to choose between them because it seems as though each diet has its own militia of doctors claiming that it is safe and healthy,while other doctors claim that it is detrimental to the health of the dieter. Among the most dubious weight loss diets are those which claim to provide the user with the ability to lose large amounts of weight quickly. Many of the supposed fad diets you’ll hear about will either not work at all,will work for a little while before you gain all the weight back,or will work at the expense of your health.
However,there are some genuinely sustainable,healthy diets for quick weight loss out there. It isn’t necessarily easy for most people to follow at first,because the average person has become so accustomed to the convenience foods that have made them fat. And yes,the average person is fat,so if you want to lose weight and keep it off you will have to get used to the idea that you will not be eating the same way that the people you know eat.
The key to losing weight quickly and sustainably is to follow your body’s own natural blueprint for health and nutrition. You see,while you may be only 20 or 40 or 60 years old,your body is actually several million years old. Your DNA represents a single continuous line of development and adaptation over time. Essentially,you are made of your past. And while your body is able to adapt to the modern world with an impressive degree of flexibility,the fact is that it will always perform better if you give it what it has come to expect over millions of years of evolution.
The human race evolved as a race of gatherers and scavengers. In some cases we learned to hunt,but even that took place mostly in the last 100,000 years. For a very long time our ancestors wandered around eating what they could find. Often we would follow large predators and move in on their kills when they were done. So the majority of our diet consisted of the leftover organ meats of animals,along with the odd nut,berry,or insect. Think about that diet for a moment and tell me whether you suppose it is low fat.
It is,in fact,primarily fat. And saturated fat,at that. Believe it or not,the human body is perfectly adapted to process and use saturated fats for fuels. That is why,when there are excess calories available,saturated fat is the form that you own body will choose to store them in. The primal diet was very in high fat,and very high in protein. The conspicuously absent ingredient in the diet of early humanoids was grain. We simply didn’t have it because we weren’t farmers until about 20,000 years ago. And do you know what happened to the human fossil record 20,000 years ago? It began to show the signs of what we now call metabolic disorder:obesity,diabetes,cardiovascular disease,demineralization of the hard tissues and calcification of the soft tissues. Until people began farming and eating grains,this has never happened before.
Now here’s the secret of diets for quick,lasting,healthy weight loss:eat the way people ate before agriculture. If you cut out all grains and sugars from your diet,and eat primarily fatty meats,offal meats,nuts,and berries (and insects if you can stomach them),you will rapidly lose weight. And while that’s happening,your doctor will be surprised to find that you have rapidly improved your blood lipid profile. You will have more energy,be more clear-headed,stronger,and less prone to all types of disease.