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To the Person Accusing Me of Fat Shaming..

9/27/2014

So I shared this picture of a girl who is in the middle of a weight loss program, and was accused of fat shaming her. On top of that, the person said this won't make me more credible in the fitness industry.

I want to make it abundantly clear that I would NEVER fat shame this girl or anyone else by posting their pictures. I found the picture very inspirational, and nothing more. To fat shame someone else would be to fat shame myself, because I've BEEN morbidly obese, and to this day I struggle with food addictions. I'm not too proud to admit that I have my own issues, nine years removed from the beginning of my initial weight loss journey. I've never smoked, done drugs, or drank much, but food is always going to be my mortal enemy.

If I ever post a picture of an overweight person, it's only because I found it inspirational or motivational. Obesity is a plague in this country, I'm a survivor, and I only want to help people get motivated to make their own changes; whether they train with me, buy my book, or go some completely different route. Accusing me of fat shaming is not only hurtful, it's just plain false. That is all.

Signed,
A Former Fat Guy

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IKP Essentials: Cinnamon

9/23/2014

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I use cinnamon every day to flavor my IKP Coffee (the recipe is in my new eBook), smoothies, and various other dishes. Not only does it taste great, but a slew of scientific research on cinnamon is showing that it can and should be a great addition to your low-carb or ketogenic diet.

Studies are verifying that cinnamon has an effect of 3-5% on resting blood sugar, which is equal to the amount of reduction of older forms of diabetes drugs. High resting blood sugar is what is referred to as "pre-diabetes," and is something anyone who has it should be aiming to alleviate, as the next step in the process if full blown type 2 diabetes. Another benefit of cinnamon is a statistically significant decrease in LDL (the so called "bad" cholesterol) and triglycerides, although studies have shown that how much improvement is dependent on each individual person.

Clearly you don't want to replace your diabetes drugs with cinnamon, but as part of your diet, cinnamon is a cheap, flavorful, and potentially beneficial addition to your overall regimen. Experts recommend using Ceylon cinnamon or even daily cinnamon capsules to help reduce resting blood sugar and improve your blood profile. You can purchase Ceylon cinnamon in most quality grocery stores and online. Go for the organic kind if money isn't an issue.

Tomorrow, I'll be sharing my power-food smoothie recipe that just happens to use cinnamon as a flavorful and beneficial ingredient, so be sure to check back them. Until then, keep your fat high, your protein moderate, and your carbs low. And start using some cinnamon!

Citation: Allen RW, Schwartzman E, Baker WL, Coleman CI, Phung OJ. Cinnamon use in type 2 diabetes: an updated systematic review and meta-analysis. Ann Fam Med. 2013;11(5):452-9.

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Free Chapter from The Intermittent Keto Protocol!

9/21/2014

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Chapter 1
A BRIEF HISTORY OF THE AMERICAN DIET

As an American born in the latter half of the 20th century, we hold these truths to be self-evident.   All men are created equal, they are endowed by their creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. Oh, and if they eat a high fat diet, they will inevitably get heart disease and die.

Okay, so that first part is the Declaration of Independence. The high fat diet part is what’s been passed down to us by our United States Department of Agriculture (USDA). Their new MyPlate system is supposed to be a replacement for the old food pyramid. The food pyramid, and MyPlate in a somewhat more confusing manner, recommend every American’s diet look like this on a daily basis:
·      5-11 servings of bread, cereal, rice and pasta
·      3-5 servings of vegetables
·      2-4 servings of fruit
·      2-3 servings of dairy
·      2-3 servings of meat and eggs
·      Sparing use of oils and sugars

In theory, eating this prescribed amount of food each day along with the proper amount of calories will make you thin, healthy, and live to be 100 years old. In the mid 1980’s, the president of the American Heart Association told Time Magazine that if everyone adopted this style of eating, “we will have [heart disease] conquered by the year 2000.” There’s just one problem with this, and I’m sure you can guess what it is. Ever since the adoption of this diet as the standard for which all other diets will be measured, obesity, heart disease and cancer rates have skyrocketed.

I won’t make this a huge history lesson, as that’s not what this book about. However, I want to go over a couple of key historical facts everyone should find highly curious.

Around the year 1958, a fellow by the name of Ancel Keys started to conduct what he called the “Seven Countries Study,” in which he would try to examine the association of diet and cardiovascular disease. What he found was that countries that ate the most amount of dietary fat had the highest instances of heart disease. Without much further experimentation or observation, he hypothesized that high fat equals heart disease. End of story, right? Not so fast. He left out a few big details so as to spin his theory in a positive light.

He left out the evidence that Holland and Norway ingested copious amount of fat, but had very little heart disease. He also neglected to mention Chile ingesting low fat, but having very high rates of heart disease. In other words, he only used data from countries that supported his theory, and left those key statistics from Holland, Norway, Chile and several other countries out. For his efforts, or lack thereof, Keys was put on the cover of Time Magazine and was a large influence on the American Heart Association’s effort to introduce America to a low-fat diet for the next few decades.

Twenty years later, in 1977, a U.S. Senate committee published the first dietary guidelines for reduction of heart disease in America. Those guidelines recommended a decrease in fat, cholesterol and processed sugars, but an increase in complex carbohydrates from fruits, vegetables and grains. The guidelines were mandated by a group of Keys-like scientists who used more theory than fact in making up the rules. However, the USDA, which “coincidentally” is in charge of selling grains, stamped their seal of approval on this kind of eating very quickly. Controlled studies of these guidelines yielded no evidence of beneficial effects, and this also happens to be the time period where the obesity epidemic in America started to surface followed shortly after by a huge influx of type 2 diabetes.

Three decades worth of unproven ideas and brilliant marketing later, the U.S. Surgeon General’s Office set out to write a report that would prove without a doubt dietary fat was incredibly dangerous to us as a people. The task seemed relatively simple for the project manager assigned to the task. They were to gather the evidence proving the dangers of fat, put it into one volume, and have it approved for publication. But a funny thing happened. Four project managers and ten years went by, and they weren’t able to publish that single volume. Then in 1999, the report was killed altogether. In a sentence, the subject matter “was too complicated.” It was also found that the preconceived opinions were there, but the science simply wouldn’t back up those opinions.

We are now approaching 60 years since the Seven Countries Study, and only a few facts can be positively identified. Saturated fats have the potential to raise cholesterol levels, which can clog arteries. However, a Harvard Medical School study could only prove that cutting saturated fats to a minimum may increase your chances of living longer by a few weeks. Not years. Weeks. We’ll discuss cholesterol more in later chapters, but know this. 100% proof that cholesterol from food has anything to do with heart disease has never been verified. Not once.

Another fact that came out of our adoption of a low-fat lifestyle is that since the 1970’s, the obesity rates in adults and children have more than doubled. More than two-thirds of U.S. adults are now considered overweight. About a quarter of 2-5 year olds and one-third of school age children are overweight. And while some would argue that deaths from heart disease have dramatically decreased in the past several decades, the real truth is we are just learning better ways to treat the sick. Between 1979 and 1996, medical procedures for treatment of heart disease went from 1.2 million to 5.4 million a year.

This is not the improvement in American health Ancel Keys said it would be. This is a national tragedy; one that’s costing America an estimated $190 billion (with a b) dollars a year to treat, and climbing every year. Maybe it’s time we start listening to what the scientific community aka the skeptics have to say, and stop listening to the people with the biggest mouths.

While I’m not a scientist, I’ve extensively researched what they have to say and adopted their practices, which I have put into this book. My hope is that you can use this a one-stop source for all your nutritional needs from here on out.

What do you say we get started?

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Introducing The Intermittent Keto Protocol!

9/19/2014

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I apologize I've been missing in action for so long on the blog, but it's been for a good reason! For the past 3-plus months, I've been putting all my fat-loss knowledge into a single 75-page manual called The Intermittent Keto Protocol! In it, you're going to learn about some amazing things!

EFFORTLESS FAT LOSS WITH THE CYCLICAL KETOGENIC DIET
The heart of the Intermittent Keto Protocol is centered around harnessing the power of the low-carb cyclical ketogenic diet. You will learn how eating things like bacon and butter on a daily basis turn your body into a fat burning machine whileLOWERING your risk of things such as heart disease, high blood pressure, and high cholesterol. Forget everything you think you know about low-carb dieting. If you do it correctly, it is almost safe to call it a "cure-all" for nearly everything plaguing society today. Not only will I teach you how to become fat-adpated, I have also included numerous tools to help you on your journey:

Extensive low-carb food lists
Grocery shopping guide
30 meal and side-dish ideas + links to a whole world of amazing low-carb recipes

DISEASE PREVENTION AND FAT LOSS THROUGH INTERMITTENT FASTING
What if I told you that by skipping a few meals a week, you could dramatically improve your chances of preventing things such as cancer, Alzheimer's, and several autoimmune diseases? Well, it's not science-fiction, it's intermittent fasting. The Intermittent Keto Protocol will teach you how to easily perform a few short fasts per week to not only lose fat, but to ward off disease and enact anti-aging processes through the natural process of autophagy. There is no such thing as a detox diet, but the power of intermittent fasting delivers on what those diet systems promise to do... IT ACTUALLY DETOXES YOU!

OCCASIONALLY EATING JUNK FOOD OFFERS SUPERCHARGED FAT LOSS!
Every week or two, depending on your goals, you will be allowed a strategic window where you can indulge in all the delicious foods you've been missing such as pizza, pasta, and donuts, while ENHANCING your fat burning potential, making for better workouts during the week, and just generally making you a happier person. That's right. You don't need to feel guilty about eating the foods you were missing. In fact, eating them occasionally is fully encouraged on The Intermittent Keto Protocol!

BUT WAIT.. THERE'S MORE!
I know losing fat, preventing disease, and still getting to eat your favorite foods on occasion may sound too good to be true, but it isn't. Everything provided to you in The Intermittent Keto Protocol is backed by scientific research, and on top of the already amazing benefits provided, IKP will teach you:

How low-carb dieting is superior in preserving muscle compared to low-fat diets
The proper way to (optionally) exercise on a low-carb diet. No rehashed workouts like other books give you
The mental side of weight loss, complete with a pre-made goal sheet to help get you started
An extensive scientific explanation of almost every weight loss myth you've ever been told

A nutritional program like this would easily cost you hundreds if not thousands of dollars, assuming you were able to find a dietitian willing to prescribe you something that works this well. But I'm not going to charge you thousands of dollars. For the first few months of release, The Intermittent Keto Protocol will be available for the ridiculously low price of $25.00! This deal won't last forever, so be sure to jump at the opportunity to learn how to blast fat, prevent disease, and still eat donuts. I look forward to helping you on your journey to better health!

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