Are you overweight? Do you suffer with low energy,
digestive problems, allergies, low blood sugar, poor
concentration, mood swings, hormonal imbalances, high
blood pressure, or other chronic ailments? Have you
tried lots of diets with limited success? Are you
confused by all the contradictory advice of nutrition
experts? If your answer is "yes" to any of these
questions, here's what you need to know: the real secret
of health and fitness is customized nutrition.
Today's diet books are virtually all based on a
standardized or mass market approach to health and
nutrition. In other words, they offer single,
one-size-fits-all dietary solutions. But this approach
has proven to be very limited -- it's the reason diets
don't work for most people.
Nutrition's best kept secret is simply this: what works
for one person may have no effect on another person, and
may make a third person worse. Here's another way of
describing this same principle: any food or nutrient can
have virtually opposite biochemical influences in
different people.
In other words, the very same foods that will keep you
energized, healthy and slim can cause someone else to be
overweight, fatigued and unhealthy! Why? Simply because
your metabolism is very unique!
In the same way that your outward appearance is
different than everyone else's, and no two people have
the same fingerprints, we are all very different
internally as well -- on a biochemical or metabolic
level. This means your dietary needs are highly
individualized.
The Metabolic Typing Diet is the first book
ever to provide simple, practical methods for
identifying a diet that is tailored to your body
chemistry, and yours alone.
You begin with an innovative new self-test
(questionnaire) that enables you to identify your
"metabolic type." From there you move on to other quick
and easy techniques
which allow you to zero in on the precise foods and
combinations of foods that will optimize your ability to
achieve your ideal weight and enjoy robust good health.
This is the definitive book on "metabolic typing,"
widely regarded as the "next wave" in nutritional
science. Unlike other one-dimensional dietary approaches
that attempt to differentiate people on the basis of
single, fixed variables such as blood type or body type,
metabolic typing is a comprehensive, dynamic system that
encompasses a whole range of biochemical or metabolic
variables.
The Metabolic Typing Diet not only gives you the ability
to pinpoint your dietary needs with great precision, it
also allows you to modify your diet as your needs change
over time. For many different reasons -- including
stress, illness, physical exertion, aging, dietary
habits and environmental influences -- your metabolism
is subject to shifts and changes.
Fortunately, metabolic typing is a technology that
anyone can use to modify their diet as their metabolic
needs change over time. That's why The Metabolic Typing
Diet is a "must read." It provides the tools you can use
for a lifetime to tailor your diet to your own special
needs.
Authors Bill Wolcott and Trish Fahey present this very
advanced approach to customized nutrition in remarkably
simple, user-friendly terms
Whether you're seeking to
optimize or maintain your health, there's simply no
substitute for eating according to your metabolic type.
Discovering your metabolic type is the critical first
step in moving to a much higher plateau of
self-awareness, and in turn enjoying a life full of
vibrant health and fitness, free of the nagging ailments
that burden so many people in modern society.
The Metabolic Typing Diet provides a whole series of
simple tools that you can use to identify a diet that is
tailored to your body chemistry, and yours alone.
To begin with, you respond to multiple-choice questions
in a "metabolic survey" or "metabolic profile." This
innovative self-test is comprised of 65 questions and
takes approximately 30 minutes to complete.
The metabolic survey immediately enables you to identify
your "basic" or "general" metabolic type category. These
three basic metabolic type categories are:
The Protein Type
The Carbo Type
The Mixed Type
Each of these general metabolic type categories
corresponds to a specific diet. But keep in mind that
your general category is simply a starting point.
Once you've identified your metabolic type and the basic
diet that's right for you, you can then use a variety of
simple techniques and self-tests that will enable you to
fine-tune or customize your diet to your own highly
individualized needs.
After all, there's a tremendous amount of biological and
biochemical diversity among people, so there are far
more than three metabolic types. You may be in the same
general category as someone else, yet your dietary needs
could be distinctly different.
Here's an example:
You and a friend might both be Protein Types, which
means you don't function well on vegetarian-oriented
diets or on meals and snacks centered mainly around
carbohydrates.
But even though you both need to emphasize protein and
restrict carbohydrates to a certain extent, your friend
might require heavier proteins on a more consistent
basis throughout the day, and be significantly less able
to tolerate carbohydrates (sugars and starches) than
you.
In addition, your metabolic type is not something that's
carved in stone. Although you were born with a specific
set of dietary requirements dictated by your genetic
heritage (your "genetic type"), your needs can shift for
any number of reasons, including illness, stress, aging,
sports activities, or nutrient deficiencies or excesses.
Your "functional type" refers to the way your metabolism
is functioning today, or what your dietary needs are at
the moment. But a month or six months or a year down the
road, your needs could potentially shift, maybe back
toward your actual genetic type.
Where metabolism is concerned, everything is highly
individualized and everything is constantly in flux.
That's why testing your metabolic type and fine-tuning
your diet are techniques you'll want to employ on an
ongoing, intermittent basis.
Have you ever noticed that Americans are among the
fattest people in the world? And yet weight problems and
obesity are rare occurrences in many places --
especially among people who live in "isolated" or
"primitive" (non-industrialized) cultures?
One primary reason for this is that people who live in
remote cultures, far apart from the industrial
mainstream, generally don't indulge in modern eating
habits. Instead they typically adhere to their "native"
diets, which means they eat the very same kinds of
whole, natural foods that their ancestors depended upon
for sustenance and survival. In other words, they stick
to the foods that they are genetically designed to
handle.
If you're seeking to lose weight or maintain your ideal
weight, the essential first step is to eat a
metabolically appropriate diet. No other single factor
will exert more influence on your ability to manage your
weight effectively.
Of course there are certain kinds of generic things that
anyone can do to minimize their weight -- including
exercise to burn calories, exercise designed to build
lean muscle mass and thereby increase the metabolic
rate, keeping insulin levels in check ( insulin is a
hormone that increases fat storage ) by balancing the
blood sugar, etc.
But unless you're eating according to your metabolic
type, you'll struggle with excess weight. Why? Because
following a diet that's wrong for you will disrupt your
cellular oxidation. In other words, your cells will not
have the ability to efficiently convert nutrients into
the energy they need to conduct life-sustaining
metabolic activities.
Your cells are the workhorses of your body; they're like
miniature chemical factories.
They take raw material in and process that raw material
into a vitally important end product -- energy. But your
cells cannot accept just any raw materials; they're
genetically programmed to require a specific type of
nutritional input.
So, whenever you consume calories in a form your cells
can't use, or in a form that's not ideal for them, your
cells simply can't do a good job of burning the
calories, or converting the food and nutrients you eat
into energy. And whenever calories cannot get burned or
oxidized as "body fuel," they get stored as fat instead.
This is the reason why some people stay slim and
energized on various kinds of high-protein, high-fat
diets while other people feel sluggish and gain weight
by eating this way. Conversely, some people are able to
stay trim and fit on low-protein, low-fat,
high-carbohydrate diets, while these same diets cause
others to pack on the pounds and be chronically
fatigued.
Everyone is different, and everyone needs to identify
the specific foods and food combinations that are best
for their own unique body chemistry. Fortunately, The
Metabolic Typing Diet is a breakthrough book that
provides you with all the tools and information you need
to identify a diet that's precisely right for you.
To give you a clearer understanding of just how
important it is to eat according to your metabolic type,
and what kinds of things can go wrong if don't feed your
body what it needs, consider the following examples:
1)Jack is a "Protein Type," which means he needs to eat
a diet based on significant quantities of protein and
fat. He definitely needs to eat protein at every meal
and snack, and to limit his overall consumption of
carbohydrates (such as grains, fruits and vegetables) to
roughly 30% of each meal.
However, if Jack ignores his requirement for a high
proportion of protein and fat at each meal, and instead
eats liberally of carbohydrates whenever he feels like
it, here's what is likely to happen:
* his body will compensate by breaking down muscle
tissue for protein
* his adrenal and thyroid glands won't function properly
* the parasympathetic branch of his autonomic nervous
system will be strengthened
* the above occurrences will cause his metabolic rate to
drop
* his body will produce excess insulin, a hormone which
directs the body to store fat, as opposed to burning fat
for energy
* fat storage will be increased because his cells will
be unable to carry on normal and efficient oxidative
processes
2)Susan is a "Carbo Type," which means that
carbohydrates should comprise roughly 60% of each of her
meals and snacks, with proteins and fats comprising the
remaining 40% of each meal and snack. Unlike Jack, who
as a Protein Type really needs to eat protein at ever
meal, Susan can sometimes eat carbohydrates alone
without suffering any ill effects. However, most Carbo
Types do well by including protein at every meal. But
they need lighter, leaner, lower-fat proteins than
Protein Types. However, if Susan disregards this
approach and eats excessive amounts of protein and fat,
and inadequate amounts of carbohydrates, here's what
will happen:
* due to a shortage of glucose, her body will tear down
( "catabolize" ) its own muscle tissue in order to
obtain this desperately needed fuel
* her adrenal and thyroid glands will not be able to
function properly
* the above occurrences will cause her to gain weight by
decreasing her metabolic rate
* fat storage will be increased because her cells will
be unable to carry on normal and efficient oxidative
processes
