UltraMetabolism - The Simple Plan for Automatic Weight Loss

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UltraMetabolism - The Simple Plan for Automatic Weight Loss

Copyright 2006 Mark Hyman MD

What's the greatest threat facing our civilization? (No,

it's not the Islamic jihad.) It's obesity. Due to its

attendant health and economic costs, scientists predict

that obesity alone will topple economic and social

structures, induce a wide range of dire diseases, and

drastically cut short Americans' life spans.

These are more than another set of statistics -- they

predict things that can and will affect you, your family,

your health, and your pocketbook. If you are among the two

thirds of adult Americans struggling to escape escalating

weight gain, (or even if you're teetering on the edge with

ten persistent pounds you can't seem to lose), as a

physician, I recommend that you take action to lose weight

and protect your future health.

And I have good news for you. I've developed a simple plan

to help you lose weight automatically based on a new

scientific breakthrough.

Despite the abysmal failure of conventional medical

approaches, this plan is different because it's based on

recent, groundbreaking scientific research, research that I

predict will totally revolutionize weight loss and change

the landscape of medicine as we know it.

Many of the answers to our weight and health problems are

buried in thousands of research papers. With the aid of a

number of very brilliant thinkers and scientists, I've

gathered and synthesized the greatest advances in medical

science over the last 20 years -- advances that usually

take decades to get incorporated into medical practice.

Translated into a simple program that has brought easy,

sustainable weight loss to thousands of people, you can

access them today.

In the recent past, many pundits theorized that

society-wide weight gain was due to our genes. In a sense,

they were right, but genes only tell half the story. We

share the same genes as our hunter- gatherer forebears who

foraged in the woods and hunted wild game 20,000 years ago.

What's changed is the environment within which our genes

operate.

Up until modern times, man's natural environment supplied

the foods we were genetically programmed to eat. But with

the advent of industrialized agriculture and food

production, we began eating mass-produced and processed

foods that genetically program us to add pounds.

Here's how:

Food is information -- not just calories -- and food

information speaks to our genes, turning some genes ON and

other genes OFF. That's why it's genes, not calories, that

count.

Until recently, scientists believed that the critical

mechanism for weight loss was caloric intake and

expenditure -- you eat little and exercise hard to lose

each pound. But that's hard to do and harder to maintain,

recent scientific studies reveal (and no doubt not

surprising to anyone who has tried repeatedly and

unsuccessfully to lose weight).

Using the caloric mechanism for weight loss is a bit like

manually cranking a lever to open your garage door

inch-by-inch and then having to hold the door open.

Wouldn't you rather push the button that activates the

circuitry to open your garage door automatically?

To do that for weight loss, you have to access the master

biological mechanisms controlling weight loss and weight

gain. Using those mechanisms opens the door to automatic

weight loss. The recent scientific discoveries I've

assembled decode the instruction manual of our basic

biology. At last, we can control the master mechanisms: our

genes themselves.

The new genetic science (called Functional Medicine)

teaches that our genes interact intimately with our

environment. Every bite of food we eat, every thought we

think, every stress we experience, or toxin we inhale

carries a specific message to our genes, turning them on

(or off), and telling them how to behave.

As a result, our genes are programmed moment-by-moment to

actively create either weight loss or weight gain.

Scientists have tracked exactly how all the different foods

trigger the messages sent to your genes. With that

knowledge, you can give your body the foods that work in

your favor -- and avoid ones that don't.

For instance, for decades, people were warned to avoid fats

at all costs, but now we know that the type of fat you eat

is more important than the amount of fat you eat. The new

science traces the biological impact of good fats, like the

omega-3 fatty acids (contained in fish, fish oils, certain

nuts and many other foods) and bad fats like the trans-fats

contained in many processed foods.

What researchers found is that good fats turn on your

body's fat burning genes and bad fats turn off the fat

burning genes. When you consume EPA or DHA, both omega-3

fatty acids, they access a metabolic gateway called the

PPAR receptor, to activate genes that increase your

metabolism, help you burn fat, and assist you in processing

bodily glucose more effectively so that foods won't get

stored as fat.

It's as if the EPA and DHA opens up an extra lane on your

hormonal superhighway, making for a smooth and easy route

towards slimness and health. That's why, for automatic

weight loss, I recommend adding EPA and DHA (both found in

fish oil) to your diet, beginning today. On the other hand,

unhealthy transfats (such as found in many processed and

fast foods) act as a metabolic roadblock to weight loss,

and if you eat them, you may find yourself crawling along

at a snail's pace, going nowhere.

These are just two of the hundreds of ways that you'll

learn to awaken the fat-burning code hidden in your DNA. In

my new book, UltraMetabolism, due out in March, 2006,

you'll discover a wide range of foods that tell your genes

to shed pounds, while learning to avoid the many other

foods that tell your genes to pack on the pounds. Eating

the foods right for your genes allows you to literally

program your body to lose weight automatically, even as you

sleep!

And that is the key: be simply learning to eat the foods

that ignite your body's fat burning engines, and avoiding

the foods that snuff out these engines, you finally begin

the process of working WITH your body, instead of against

it -- something that all fad diets fail to do, which is why

they all fail in the long-run.

But, because UltraMetabolism teaches a simple plan to

harness your body's own powerful fat burning forces -- ones

that have evolved over millions of years -- you are

actually programming your body to lose weight,

automatically.

Why struggle and suffer with ineffective diets when you can

actually teach your body to be slim and healthy? With the

simple two-step plan I've developed, you can program your

body to lose weight automatically. In the first step, you

eliminate all of the bad foods that slow your metabolism,

make you feel lethargic and lead to disease; in the second

step, you add the good foods that crank up your metabolism,

boost your energy and revitalize your health.

Twenty-first century weight loss is easier than you've ever

dreamed. And it's something that I am confident about

since I've treated over 2,000 patients, many of whom have

experienced the very same automatic weight loss that I've

described here.

My message to you is simple: If you want to fit into your

jeans, you have to learn to fit into your genes!

About the Author:

Mark Hyman, M.D. is a NY Times bestselling author,

lecturer, and practicing physician. Discover how you can

program your body to automatically lose weight by grabbing

an exclusive sneak preview of UltraMetabolism at

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