Mike
Carruthers:
One
of the best ways to control your weight is to burn more calories.
Andrew Packard M.D.:
10% of the calories that you burn each day are on the
work of digestion.
Dr. Andrew Packard,
author of The
Packard Weight Health Plan, says that you can increase that
so that even more than 10% of the calories you eat you'll burn
up just from digesting them.
So if you learn
to chew your food carefully, sit with your feet on the floor,
don't go to bed within two hours of eating, use proteins for
breakfast that require more energy to burn, you will actually
be able to burn the calories just from the work of eating.
Dr. Packard is
very concerned about people going on high protein diets.
A strict protein
and fat diet is not a healthy one. Now it may be in terms of
just losing some weight, but it's not about weight loss, this
is about weight health. If you eat a lot of protein and fat
and not much roughage, not much fiber, you have a very high
increased incidence of colon cancer and gastric disorders.
And in order
to sustain good weight health, you must exercise.
Any diet book
that talks about weight loss without a physical activity plan
is irresponsible. And the simplest, easiest physical activity
is a walk. Thirty to thirty-five minutes a day, five days a
week and it is a rare patient who does not incorporate this
into their lives that does not just love it.
You can link
to Dr. Packard's
website from ours somethingyoushouldknow.net
I'm Mike Carruthers and that's Something You Should Know.
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