Let's Act Like Grownups

Let's Act Like Grownups

When we talk about diets there is no point in fooling ourselves. The Beverly Hills Medical Diet is no pacifier to still your anxieties about weight. It is no fairy tale in which a wand waves and fat drops automatically. This is what the BHMD will do:
It tells you how to lose weight rapidly. Why you lose it. And what the diet contains that makes it work.
Certain kinds of diet books get my goat. They are the ones written as if the reader is a child who needs to be coaxed to reduce. This approach is not the least irritating quality of the Scarsdale diet, in which the hazardous ketone-stimulated water loss is justified by the rationale that the dieter needs to see immediate results. This type of "evidence," so goes the claim, will encourage the die¬ter through reinforcement to persist in his regimen.
Such reasoning is hardly the approach to a successful, life-time diet. The BHMD reshapes your eating habits because it is in your pattern of food consumption that weight was gained in the first place. The BHMD adjusts your fat person's body to that of a slender person, who will stay slender permanently. The high-protein dieter who has been turned into a nervous "sprinkler" is essen¬tially still as fat as he was before. As you will learn after sampling the delicious BHMD menus, there is a differ¬ence Ipetween weight loss and fat loss.
During my medical-nutritional seminars at the Amer¬ican Institute of Health, I try to involve my patients more deeply into the question of their health. I explain that being merely the guardian of their medical data, it really doesn't belong to me. It is theirs and they are the ones who should be concerned about it. Thus they are moti¬vated to do what they know they should be doing any¬way. We are partners, I explain, but they are the senior partners in our program of nutrition and stress manage¬ment.
There are hundreds of medical tricks that would enable me to delude their trust. But I believe in treating the dieter as an adult capable of taking responsibility in his own hands.
With the same frankness I confront the apology made for ketosis. An increase of ketone bodies in the blood is said to curb appetite. I consider such panaceas unneces¬sary, especially when they are the result of the real dan¬gers posed by ketones. The BHMD has the best appetite restrainer in the world. That is the feeling of being full. The greater amount of chewing required by the C.C. diet, with the subsequent increase of saliva and gastric juices, gives the stomach a sated and satisfied feeling.
Dieting requires a certain amount of discipline. I recog¬nize that voluntary restraint is not an easy matter. With the BHMD, however, this kind of self-control is made a cinch.