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"Nevertheless, over my 25 years as a Natural Hygiene health educator, many health seekers have complained of their "skeletonlike" silhouettes and have begged me for help in gaining weight. Getting skinny can get scary, as the thriller movie Thin so graphically portrays. The weight Susan, Dr. Vetrano and I want to see health seekers gain is in the form of healthy muscle tissues and necessary fatty tissues and not in the form of just excess, morbid and unattractive fat. In the following, therefore, we bring you guidelines for getting well and for gaining weight, if needed." - Susan E. Schenck, The Live Food Factor: The Comprehensive Guide to the Ultimate Diet for Body, Mind, Spirit & Planet (Get the book.) "Most people are far more concerned with losing weight than with gaining weight. Nevertheless, over my 25 years as a Natural Hygiene health educator, many health seekers have complained of their "skeletonlike" silhouettes and have begged me for help in gaining weight. Getting skinny can get scary, as the thriller movie Thin so graphically portrays. The weight Susan, Dr. Vetrano and I want to see health seekers gain is in the form of healthy muscle tissues and necessary fatty tissues and not in the form of just excess, morbid and unattractive fat." - Susan E. Schenck, The Live Food Factor: The Comprehensive Guide to the Ultimate Diet for Body, Mind, Spirit & Planet (Get the book.)

"Humans who follow a raw and living food diet often have trouble gaining weight. Why? Because the micronutrients and the bulk of plant fiber activate the ultimate satiation hormones produced by cells in your lower digestive tract. That's right, these plant compounds activate the ultimate "I'm not hungry" hormone switch. This switch can stop a rampaging teenager at an all-you-can-eat buffet. In the Teardown phase, you learned that the more you consumed animal products from animals that ate green things, the healthier you'd get." - Dr. Steven R. Gundry, Dr. Gundry's Diet Evolution: Turn Off the Genes That Are Killing You - And Your Waistline - And Drop the Weight for Good (Get the book.)

"This is a good example of recovery in a child who was failing to thrive, was sickly, was not growing or gaining weight, and was often hospitalized for asthma, despite being treated with multiple medications. He responded very well to nutritional therapy, including the GF/CF diet, and to supplementation therapy, and environmental controls. In addition to the previously noted supplements, he began taking calcium and magnesium (because he was off dairy), as well as querciplex and a homeopathic hay fever remedy during seasonal exacerbations. He also responded well to DMAE for his focus problems." - Kenneth Bock, Healing the New Childhood Epidemics: Autism, ADHD, Asthma, and Allergies: The Groundbreaking Program for the 4-A Disorders (Get the book.)

"I thought my primary health concern was gaining weight. I began to listen to Gary's radio show. Researchers presented valid research. People spoke about their experiences in health support groups. They sounded energetic and happy as if they had created new, free lives. Many of these speakers were my age or older. Their testimonials influenced me to change my life. Now I follow a protocol on my own, one I found in a book. I use green, red and protein powders. I no longer put poison in my system from meat. Mine is a natural way of eating. I walk six to eight miles a day and use supplements." - Gary Null and Amy McDonald, The Food-Mood Connection: Nutrition-based and Environmental Approaches to Mental Health and Physical Wellbeing (Get the book.) "Symptoms of anorexia include refusal to maintain a normal weight for age and height, intense fear of gaining weight or becoming "fat," body image misperceptions, and loss of menstrual periods. Bulimia is characterized by binge eating and compensation for binges using measures such as self-induced vomiting, laxatives, and excessive exercise. While the most visible 79 Eating Disorders sufferers of these diseases have been young women, recent research—in magazines, books, television, and school programs—indicates that men, too, struggle with them." - Gary Null and Amy McDonald, The Food-Mood Connection: Nutrition-based and Environmental Approaches to Mental Health and Physical Wellbeing (Get the book.)

"Most of us have a caloric "set point" of sorts, a level of calories we can consume each day without gaining weight. We tend to gain weight by eating just slightly beyond the caloric set point week after week. For most of us, the solution is to eat enough so that we're no longer hungry, but not so much that we're full. Wansink asserts that we can Okinawans, like this 88-year-old fisherman, often remind themselves not to overeat. eat about 20 percent more or 20 percent less without really being aware of it. And that 20 percent swing is the difference between losing weight and gaining it." - Dan Buettner, The Blue Zones: Lessons for Living Longer From the People Who've Lived the Longest (Get the book.)

"We all know that lucky soul who can eat prodigious quantities of fattening food without ever gaining weight. Some populations can metabolize sugars better than others. Depending on your evolutionary heritage, you may or may not be able to digest the lactose in milk. Depending on your genetic makeup, reducing the saturated fat in your diet may or may not move your cholesterol numbers." - Michael Pollan, In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto (Get the book.)

"Anorexia nervosa is an eating disorder characterized by intense fear of gaining weight or becoming fat. In this condition body weight is less than 86% of normal for height and age." - Ann M. Coulston and Carol J. Boushey, Nutrition in the Prevention and Treatment of Disease (Get the book.) "This figure demonstrates very clearly that the reason the population is gaining weight is directly related to the increase in energy intake. Moreover, absolute fat intake never declined during the 1980s and 1990s, as can be seen in the bottom panel of Figure 6. The reason for the decline in percent calories consumed as fat is that the amount of carbohydrate consumed during this period increased (see Figure 12, later) sufficiently to cause the total energy intake to increase as illustrated in the middle panel." - Ann M. Coulston and Carol J. Boushey, Nutrition in the Prevention and Treatment of Disease (Get the book.)

"Diane made a decision years ago to spite her fastidious mother by gaining weight. She feels that her mother deprived her in every important way, preferring her sister, withholding affection, insisting on academic perfection, caring more about what the neighbors thought than about Diane's needs, striking Diane on occasion. Diane circumvented her mother's control by getting fat, and she remains fat in defiance." - Roger Gould, Shrink Yourself: Break Free from Emotional Eating Forever (Get the book.)

"If you're worried about gaining weight on a nut-rich diet, consider that several recent studies suggest that eating nuts doesn't automatically correlate to weight gain or increased BMI (body mass index). In fact, preliminary data from Sabate indicate that people on nut-rich diets seem to excrete more fat in stools, meaning less fat is absorbed into the bloodstream. Which nut is best? In my opinion, the answer is to go nutty with all types of nuts. Each has good points." - Elaine Magee, Food Synergy: Unleash Hundreds of Powerful Healing Food Combinations to Fight Disease and Live Well (Get the book.)

"If you're gaining weight and noting a general decline in your overall health, these changes probably indicate a lack of vitamin D, too. As you gain weight, your vitamin D level drops. These lower vitamin D levels in obesity are also associated with high blood pressure, poor glucose control, arthritis, and cancer. Adequate vitamin D and the calcium it helps absorb may decrease the production of fat. Increased intake of vitamin D, calcium, and magnesium in the form of low-fat dairy products enhances weight loss along with calorie restriction." - James Dowd and Diane Stafford, The Vitamin D Cure (Get the book.)

"Whenever one of my Club members is stuck on a plateau or even gaining weight, I have the person provide a food diary for two weeks, literally writing down everything that goes into his or her mouth. Several foods with hidden sugars or sweet tastes have consistently reared their ugly heads as culprits. Check out "The Dirty Dozen" (see sidebar, opposite) to see if any apply to you. If you cannot budge from a plateau after two weeks and are not being hampered by any of the Dirty Dozen, you're eating too much protein. Halve your portions and weight loss should resume." - Dr. Steven R. Gundry, Dr. Gundry's Diet Evolution: Turn Off the Genes That Are Killing You - And Your Waistline - And Drop the Weight for Good (Get the book.) "WHAT IF YOU'RE gaining weight? When you started the Teardown phase of Diet Evolution, your main purpose was to shut down the "Store Fat for Winter" genetic program by metaphorically removing the "old paint." As you shed old cells, you lay the groundwork for rebuilding your body with modern materials in the form of new cells. But don't be deceived. The "Store Fat" program is always loaded into your genetic computer. That's why you will avoid all "beige" and "white" foods and consume "brown" food in extreme moderation, if at all, in Phase 1." - Dr. Steven R. Gundry, Dr. Gundry's Diet Evolution: Turn Off the Genes That Are Killing You - And Your Waistline - And Drop the Weight for Good (Get the book.) "You can also continue to eat your modest amounts of fruit and "brown" foods if you have added them back, so long as you are not gaining weight. If you are beginning to think that I want you to plateau, you're right. In fact, plateauing is one real cornerstone of the program. If your first plateau happens in the first four weeks of the Teardown phase, keep doing what you're doing. If it hits in the fifth or sixth week, remain in this phase until weight loss resumes. There are two reasons for this strategy." - Dr. Steven R. Gundry, Dr. Gundry's Diet Evolution: Turn Off the Genes That Are Killing You - And Your Waistline - And Drop the Weight for Good (Get the book.)

"We don't have to use antibiotics anymore, and Mark is finally gaining weight. We believe this is all due to NES and Total Body Modification." CONCLUSION A New Direction in Healing IN THIS BOOK we have provided an overview of an emerging paradigm in biology and medicine—one that explores and seeks to engage the quantum processes in the body. Bioenergetics as envisioned and practiced by NES is truly an integrative approach to wellness, seeking as it does to validate the reality that we are more than matter, we are beings of energy and information as well." - Peter h. Fraser and Harry Massey, Decoding the Human Body-Field: The New Science of Information as Medicine (Get the book.)

"In the following, therefore, we bring you guidelines for getting well and for gaining weight, if needed. Please refer to the Law of Vital Accommodation detailed on page 551. When you challenge the body to accommodate itself to an added exercise routine, your body will, by natural law, lay on muscle tissue so that it can do that which you ask of it. The GetWell Weight-Gain System S Undertake a short fast to improve digestion, absorption, assimilation and elimination of nutrients." - Susan E. Schenck, The Live Food Factor: The Comprehensive Guide to the Ultimate Diet for Body, Mind, Spirit & Planet (Get the book.)

"I was gaining weight," he says, "but since I had my clothes tailor-made in Hong Kong, I'd have a suit made every trip, and didn't really notice that the old suits didn't fit." On New Year's Eve, 1987, when Anthony was fifty-eight, he and his wife, Joseanne, booked a two-day holiday package deal at a hotel, which included dinner and dancing. Although it was the sort of activity he ordinarily loved, he felt awful—tired, overheated, and weak. And he felt pressure on his chest." - Caldwell B. Esselstyn, Jr., M.D., Prevent and Reverse Heart Disease (Get the book.)

"He refers to "the sunfood triangle" and points out differing macronutrient ratios for various purposes, such as losing weight, gaining weight, detoxifying, overcoming Candida infection, enhancing mental clarity, gaining the competitive edge in athletics and enhancing spiritual clarity. He stresses that these are to be used strictly temporarily, or else an imbalance would result. For example, minimizing fats to 0% or close to it enhances both spiritual clarity and the detoxification process." - Susan E. Schenck, The Live Food Factor: The Comprehensive Guide to the Ultimate Diet for Body, Mind, Spirit & Planet (Get the book.)

"In doing so, they increase your likelihood of gaining weight and developing diabetes. Most prescription medications are inherently dangerous and must be used with extreme care. In one study, researchers calculated that more than 100,000 hospitalized patients die each year from medication errors and more than 2 million others suffer serious side effects. These numbers are shocking because everyone assumes that rigorous controls would be in place in hospitals. Another 700,000 people are hospitalized each year because of adverse reactions to prescription and over-the-counter medications." - Jack Challem, Stop Prediabetes Now: The Ultimate Plan to Lose Weight and Prevent Diabetes (Get the book.)

"It includes five weekly workout programs; a raw-food recipe section for gaining weight and building muscle; and a seasonal produce availability chart. Stephen is 6'2" and currently weighs 225 pounds (102 kilograms) eating all-raw plant foods. I have found it valuable to listen to someone who is getting the results I desire. Feeding Healthy Children The most beautiful children I have met or seen have been children raised on raw plant foods. They are alert, content, happy and eager to explore life." - David Wolfe, The Sunfood Diet Success System (Get the book.)

"And all that we did in those clinics was check the blood pressure, give the mercurial diuretic, weigh them, and give drastic warnings about not gaining weight or eating salt or they might swell up with water and have seizures and die. That's where I first encountered what I called iatrogenic starvation. They were putting women I knew to be malnourished onto starvation diets. I complained and said, "These women simply need more and better food, not starvation and all these Ql Ql Ql Ql Ql drugs." - Jonathan V. Wright, M.D. and Alan R. Gaby, M.D., Natural Medicine, Optimal Wellness: The Patient's Guide to Health and Healing (Get the book.) "Somebody else would see one of my patients and lecture her about not gaining weight and put her on a low-salt lowcalorie diet and give her amphetamines to promote weight loss. Honest to God, they were giving amphetamines to pregnant mothers! I nearly went mad and told myself, "I can't stay here another year. I have to go somewhere and do this on my own! So the next year I went across the Bay to the Contra Costa County Health Services, and I started my program in Richmond. I talked to every woman who came in thete about good nutrition on her first visit." - Jonathan V. Wright, M.D. and Alan R. Gaby, M.D., Natural Medicine, Optimal Wellness: The Patient's Guide to Health and Healing (Get the book.)

"What's more, even though they were consuming the same amount of food, the rats given allicin stopped gaining weight. Even more impressive, a third group, given allicin from the beginning of the study, gained very little weight despite eating the exact same bad diet. Even though it's a rat study, that's pretty impressive, don't you think? (And no, the take-home message from that isn't to add garlic to your fast-food diet!) Meanwhile, another recent study found that diabetic rats fed garlic oil had increased insulin sensitivity." - Jonny Bowden, Ph.D., C.N.S., The 150 Healthiest Foods on Earth: The Surprising, Unbiased Truth About What You Should Eat and Why (Get the book.)

"Have you convinced yourself that eating sugar-free or fat-free snacks will prevent you from gaining weight? If you are like most people, your eating habits have put your health at risk and you may not even be aware of it. Many people think they are eating a healthy and balanced diet, but they are not. People tend to "nibble" or "graze" on these low-quality food sources as a result of depression, boredom and, in many cases, ignorance or apathy." - Craig Pepin-Donat, The Big Fat Health and Fitness Lie (Get the book.)

"Avoid very low-calorie and yo-yo (losing and gaining weight again and again) diets. • Exercise often. • Think twice about hormone replacement therapy. It may increase your risk of gallstones. Coffee beans blast gallstones Do you wonder if drinking caffeinated coffee every day is good for you? As far as your gallbladder is concerned, the answer is yes. The Harvard Nurses' Health study, which followed 80,898 women for 20 years, found that those drinking four cups of coffee a day had gallbladder surgery about 25 percent less often than those who didn't drink coffee." - The Editors of FC&A, Unleash the Inner Healing Power of Foods (Get the book.)

"A study published in the Annals of Internal Medicine revealed that "yo-yo" dieting—repeatedly losing and gaining weight due to dieting—increases the risk of gallstones and the necessity for surgery by as much as 70 percent. Q| The recommended treatment for gallstones used to be surgical removal of the gallbladder. However, if gallstones show up on an x-ray but do not cause symptoms, there is no need for surgery. d A gallstone may slip into a bile duct, one of the structures that drain the gallbladder and the liver." - Phyllis A. Balch, CNC, Prescription for Nutritional Healing, 4th Edition: A Practical A-to-Z Reference to Drug-Free Remedies Using Vitamins, Minerals, Herbs & Food Supplements (Get the book.)

"Eat a protein product every two to three hours to keep your blood sugar levels from dropping, keep your metabolism strong, and prevent you from gaining weight. Smokers also tend to have multiple nutritional deficiencies, which can also be rectified by following a whole food diet that includes whole grains, lean meats, and fresh organic vegetables and fruits. Drink an 8 oz glass of freshly squeezed orange juice every two to three hours for the first four to five days after quitting smoking." - Marshall Editions, 1000 Cures for 200 Ailments: Integrated Alternative and Conventional Treatments for the Most Common Illnesses (Get the book.)

"Light therapy also seems to help people who are concerned about gaining weight in the winter. The carbohydrate cravings that frequently accompany SAD are associated with serotonin deficiency, a possible outgrowth of Cortisol increase. Serotonin, a neurotransmitter believed to play a role in regulating appetite, is produced during light exposure. success story SAD No More with Light Therapy DECADES AGO, Sherrie Baxter left sunny Oklahoma, her native state, for Vancouver, Washington, in the Pacific Northwest." - Herbert Ross, DC with Keri Brenner, L.Ac., Alternative Medicine Magazine's Definitive Guide to Sleep Disorders: 7 Smart Ways to Help You Get a Good Night's Rest (Get the book.)

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