Our Resident personal trainer Casper offers some diet tips:

Generally I have a pretty simple diet and the things I avoid are pretty much sugars and white flour. I also don’t eat too many heavy carbs like pasta, potatoes, corn, bread, and rice. Don’t get me wrong I love all these things (save for the rice you can keep the rice akkk) but the reason why I stay away from these things is because they all get broken down into sugar and sugar spikes your insulin levels and over time this leads to type II diabetes. Albeit the more complex the carb the slower it gets broken down but it still turns to sugar none the less. Just keep in mind the rate of diabetes has double in recent years. (I can get the statistical data if you want me to) Now you gotta ask yourself “why is that?”

Now God did not create all sugars equally, some are worse for you than others. Maltose and Lactose are great for energy and burn real slow, but in the end if you don’t use that sugar your body WILL kick out insulin and your body WILL store it as fat.

Now Fat once you have it is kinda tricky the longer you have fat stored the “harder” that fat becomes. This is why your body will burn up the newest fat first. Also this is why it is so hard to get rid of that stubborn belly fat/back fat/ leg fat / where ever fat.

One more thing I need to mention is that loosing obscene amounts of fat in a short amount of time can be dangerous. You body will also use fat to store poison (anything your body doesn’t like) Loosing TOO much fat very quickly can give hell to your liver and kidneys. Now this is not meant to discourage anyone from weightloss or giving a pass not to watch your diet, this is just me saying that picking a weightloss solution that is consistent will yield far better results and is healthier for you.

So lets get on to Dr. Day. This doctor is an accomplished surgeon who came down with breast cancer. She had a marble sized tumor and promptly had it removed. Three weeks later the cancer grew to the size of a grapefruit. Basically her peers said your gonna die and we can try cutting it out and giving chemo with drugs. Dr. Day pretty much said No, I don’t think I am gonna do that. I can understand, If I only had a week or two to live I don’t think I would want to spend it in chemotherapy either. Instead she did a drastic change in diet. She went on a raw fruit and vegetable diet.You can check it out here. (WARNING the tumor is NOT pretty so if your squeamish don’t click)

Now a little known fact is that when you cook your food your body cannot recognize it and will treat it as a threat. Like a well disciplined military unit your body will over react to threats. This is a good thing. The theory behind the raw food diet is that your body readily accepts raw foods instead of  trying to break it down like cooked food. Also contained in the raw food are the enzymes and microbes needed to help digest the food. So now that your body isn’t wasting time with food it can take care of all the other threats to your body. I have read claims by where people say they stopped getting sick all together by switching to raw foods. I can attest to some extent that I don’t get sick either. When everyone around me is sick I am still going strong.

Now I am not a practitioner of raw vegetarianism, mainly because of the great benefits that come from meat. But I am not opposed to vegetarianism either. There is a large enough body of evidence to support the great health benefits of raw foods. I do consume large amounts of uncooked foods and some of that is meat. There is something out there called a paleolithic diet which is an all raw meat diet, but thats a little extreme for me. I couldn’t eat raw chicken, too many years of brainwashing as a kid.

Are raw foods for you? Who knows but it might be worth your while to read into it. It just might be another weapon in your arsenal of fat burning and healthy living.

Good luck and You can do it!