THE BHMD WAY TO STRESS-FREE EATING

THE BHMD WAY TO STRESS-FREE EATING

WHAT IS STRESS?
Of the ten leading causes of death in this country today, eight are in some way related to stress. Such an alarming statistic is apt to contribute to more stress. But with the BHMD you can do something about it.
The BHMD cannot make your life totally stress-free. There are other factors in your life, environmental, per¬sonal, etc., which do not touch upon the question of weight loss and diet. Two elements of stress, however, the BHMD can take out of your life. These two are associated with many of the diseases that cut down the life span. They are also responsible for overweight, as well as the "roller coaster" effect of other diets.
First there is the stress caused by the lowered self- esteem and self-confidence due to being overweight. This type of stress works on the psychological level. It keeps the dieter confined to a vicious circle. The poor self- image many overweight persons have keeps them from losing weight because of "nervous eating."
A second and very important cause of stress has to do directly with nutrition. We know that fighting your spouse is stress. Getting mad because you are stuck in
traffic is stress. Working harder than you are able to is stress. But you may not realize that eating a candy bar or Big Mac is stress.
I define stress as the non-specific response of the body, mind or emotions to any demand made upon them.
In terms of nutrition the response primarily involves the body. But we should not underestimate the emotional component. We already saw how through lowered self- esteem a person anxious to lose weight defeats his goal through "nervous eating."
Any time you ask your body to respond to something, whether it be physical or emotional, you are stressing your body. Let's see what I mean by looking at the Big Mac you just consumed.
Your unwise choice for lunch has caused stress on two levels:
1) With your burger came the sting of conscience for eating something fattening. The Big Mac cre¬ated guilt feelings. That's emotional stress.
2) By demolishing the hefty burger you pitted your body against an invasion of 1,510 mgs. of sodium, or four times your daily requirement. Counting the salt in the pickle, mustard and ketchup, you consumed with the Big Mac a total of 2,091 mgs. salt, or seven times what you need for the day.
This intake of salt puts tremendous stress on your chemical and cellular levels. Salt, like sugar, fats and additives chemically harm the body. It puts an extra strain on your heart. It is liable to cause hypertension. Salt can affect your kidneys and blood pressure in a very unpleasant way. Salt is a stressor, and any kind of stress crimps your determination to stay on the diet and lose weight fast.

Halt To Salt

Halt To Salt

The biggest dietary myth next to protein concerns salt.
Somehow, people believe they need salt. So the aver¬age person sprinkles it on his food as if he is doing his body a favor. Many athletes are still convinced that per¬spiring causes the body to need more salt—when in actual fact all the body requires is more water. Food manufacturers pour salt on their products in the belief that they are pleasing consumers. As a result the average person eats far more salt than he should, sometimes as much as 20 times more than needed.
But did you know? You do not need salt at all! In fact, if you're anything like the average American salt is prob¬ably killing you.
What you do need is sodium. A normal individual re¬quires about 400 mgs. of sodium per day. Table salt is 40% sodium. Your daily need does not exceed more than 1/20 teaspoon, and by eating almost any unsalted food you will more than meet this requirement.
In the BHMD I make a distinction: Salt is what you add to food. Sodium is what is already in the food.
If you have a "salty" tooth, the BHMD furnishes enough natural salts in its C.C.-rich menus to satisfy your tastes. You can choose from a tempting variety of gour¬met delights and exciting dishes seasoned with flavors from herbs, spices and natural condiments. Through such "salt-ernatives" you will never more reach for the shaker.
I am very serious about reducing your sodium intake for two reasons. Sodium is a retainer of water, and by cutting down on salt you will rapidly shed as much as five pounds. Your body stores this water to dilute the sodium, and with less sodium less water needs to be retained.
Secondly, sodium is a powerful stressor. If the body takes in too much sodium it can take the kidneys up to 48 hours to eliminate the excess. Overloaded with sodium, water flows from the cells into the fluid surrounding them. Then it passes into the blood, and this is what gives some overweight people a bloated look as well as a bloated feeling.
Robbed of their water the cells function less efficiently. But that is not all.
Retention of water leads to high blood pressure and its associated diseases. As the tissues are flooded your heart has to pump harder. The heart literally has to drain a waterlogged body. These pressures contribute to headaches, congestive heart failure, depression, pre¬menstrual tensions, migraine, and that most serious stress condition of all, hypertension.
In northern Japan, hypertension is a leading cause of death. The people there eat about 40,000 mgs. of salt a day! On the BHMD you reform your eating habits in order that your lost weight will stay lost. The high-protein diets with their limited variety of tastes and flavors cannot adequately reform your ingrained disposition for harmful substances. Scarsdale and Atkins perpetuate the un¬wholesome cravings for sugar and salt. Furthermore, be¬cause they contain too much fats and cholesterols and too little Complex Carbohydrates, they maximize the causes of hypertension. With 20% of Americans prone to this stressful disorder, it is a very grave shortcoming, indeed.
While you follow the BHMD your craving for salt diminishes. That is because the diet makes abundant pro¬vision for tasty combinations. It has recipes from all over the world in which the salt flavors are part of the natural ingredients

No More 'Sugar Rush'

No More 'Sugar Rush'

Simple carbohydrate such as sugar throws 50 to 100 calories into your bloodstream at one time. This "rush" causes these" simple sugars to burn up too rapidly, triggering hypo¬glycemia, which means low blood sugar. This condition
signals the brain to crave more sugars, thus stimulating appetite.
On the other hand, the unrefined Complex Carbohy¬drate, such as starch, enter the blood stream evenly. It burns up completely and in this slow process a steady, balanced and leisurely supply of sugar is fed to the blood. Consequently, it eliminates the "appetite swings" com¬monly experienced by people with high sugar intake.
Low blood sugar that results in a craving for more sugar is perhaps one of the more obnoxious effects of the high-protein diets. It is probably a factor in the dis¬appointing record of those who have tried these regimens.
It is remarkable that hypoglycemia, that is low blood sugar, is virtually absent in parts of the world where the diet consists of Complex Carbohydrates.
Though the popular high-protein diets recognize, like all diets, the harm of refined sugar, they get around the problem by something even more questionable. That is, artificial sweeteners. The BHMD frowns on the use of all chemicals and food additives. The effect such substances as saccharine appears to have on cancer incidence is too alarming for comfort.
On the BHMD you learn to like sugar in the form na¬ture intended you to have it. Coupled to your joy of quick weight loss will be the relief of bringing your appetite under control. And this wonder will come about without the dangerous side effect of artificial sugar substitutes.

Carbohydrates: Refined And Unrefined

Carbohydrates: Refined And Unrefined

So far we've focused on the "good" carbohydrate, the C.C. But in the drama of dining there is also a "villain" carbohydrate. This element is all the more treacherous because it comes in a sweet, easily digestible and tempt¬ing form. It is the refined carbohydrate.
The chief culprit of the refined carbohydrates is in that doughnut you're eating. It's sugar.
Here's how sugar goes to work: Once you have eaten the doughnut, the sugar it contains causes your blood sugar to rise sharply. Your body responds by having the pancreas pump out insulin to drive the blood sugar down. In turn, the adrenal glands go to work, attempting to stabilize the blood sugar by pouring out adrenal hor¬mones.
Thus, what started with a simple sugary doughnut has resulted in a stress reaction. Eating that doughnut has forced your body to suffer through drastic changes in blood sugar. As a result, your body is tense and you are nervous.
Of course, your body can easily deal with the stress caused by one doughnut. It can maybe even deal with 1,000 doughnuts. But assaulted by demands to handle doughnuts, sugars, fats, salts, food additives, etc., your
body will be overwhelmed and sooner or later it will givt up.
Stressing your body to deal with harmful materials wili result in a general breakdown of parts. Sugar is a refined carbohydrate that plays a big role in such stress. And that means all sugar. Whether it be brown, "raw," molasses, or in the form of honey.
We consume 128 pounds of sugar per person a year. But this astonishing amount does nothing for us. Our bodies do not benefit in the slightest. Sugar supplies neither protein, vitamins or minerals. As I tell my pa¬tients, sugar is a taker, not a giver. Sugar robs you of phosphorus, the B vitamin complex and magnesium. These important vitamins and minerals are used up in the metabolism of sugar.
The BHMD bans sugar because it makes you fat. I designed the BHMD to make you lose weight rapidly and to keep you slim for the rest of your life. But the diet is equally meant to maintain your health, to reduce stress, and make you live longer.
Sugar is the enemy of these noble aims. It is implicated in diabetes, heart disease, elevated blood cholesterol and serum triglyceride levels, mental problems, tooth decay, dermatitis, and high blood pressure.
My diet deals with the sugar issue by having you feast on a variety of starch-rich foods filled with naturally occurring sugar. Complex Carbohydrates like fruits, vegetables, grains, peas and lentils, are what nature de¬signed you to function on. The BHMD offers them in such a luscious and exotic variety that you will not want to add sugar to your daily meals.

C.C. Vs. Fats & Oils

C.C. Vs. Fats & Oils

In the BHMD fats and oils are replaced by Complex Carbohydrates. These will make you lose weight and in addition do something even more beneficial. As part of your daily diet, C.C. protects you against heart disease and cancer.
The Complex Carbohydrates keep your arteries from clogging up with fats that slow down the flow of blood. For it is one of those marvels of nature that Complex Carbohydrates have the fantastic effect of lowering blood
cholesterol. Thus, among its many other wonders, C.C. reduces the risk of coronary attacks.
A good deal of the Complex Carbohydrates that will buoy up your new diet will be consumed as fiber. The popular high-protein diets are almost criminally deficient in the all-important roughage that comes from the indigestible parts of fruits, vegetables, cereals and grains. Fiber, or "bulk," is incorporated as many delicious items in the BHMD.
And for a very good reason.
It has been shown scientifically that fiber helps increase the body's excretion of cholesterol. With the C.C.-rich fiber you are gaining greater protection against cancer of the colon and the rectum, the most prevalent forms of lethal cancer in our country.
The BHMD offers a wide and zesty assortment of snacks, meals and dishes to reduce your fat intake. For now, let's take one example: the simple potato.
Most people believe that a diet of lean meat will get your weight down better than a diet containing potatoes. But a 3'/2-OZ. porterhouse steak is 82% fat and counts 465 calories. A 3'/2-oz. baked potato, however, contains only 93 calories and is only 0.5% fat. Compare this to a hot dog (80% fat); lunch meat (84%); peanut butter (77%); or take the average cheeseburger, in which the meat is 85% fat, the cheese is 73% fat, and the sauce is 90% fat.
The proof is in the potato, as your scale will verify

Stop Killing Yourself

Stop Killing Yourself

Sometimes shock is the only thing that will bring home a point. In my practice and in my mini-clinics in Beverly
Hills I've often judged it necessary to resort to such blunt tactics to make people care. The dietary facts sometimes need to seize people by the throat and give them a good shaking to make them realize what they are doing to themselves by their overweight and destructive eating practices.
I've actually found an element of fatalism in the reck¬lessness with which we Americans eat, smoke, drink and diet.
Perhaps that's because it's now commonplace to spend the last twenty years of our lives under a cardiologist's supervision. Perhaps it's rather ordinary for someone you know to have had by-pass surgery. Perhaps we figure we're all going to get cancer sooner or later anyway. Perhaps there is an unconscious fear that the whole world is going to blow up and that we may as well begin with ourselves.
Whatever the reason may be, I've found that there is a connection between these fatalistic attitudes and the fact that the average American is fat, that he has a cholesterol level of over 230, and that he will spend the remaining two decades of his life being treated for one thing after another.
It is due to nonchalance about the way you eat and about your body that you have a one-in-three chance of dying of a heart attack by age 60. Your condition is criti¬cal enough for the time to have come that no diet can be complete without dealing with the stress factor. Stress, overweight and faulty eating practices almost ensure that you may never reach old age.
The BHMD can preserve you from this fate. It can stop the breakneck pace at which you are wrecking your health and gambling with the chances of longevity. The BHMD provides a fast and simple program to defeat our grim nutritional statistics.
If you are too heavy and do not exercise your body, the BHMD tells you which foods you should be eating to bring down your weight. If you smoke and drink alcohol, you must stop, or at least cut down to the absolute mini¬mum. The BHMD literally urges you to "take your heart for a walk." And it stipulates that you must begin by
replacing fatty and oily foods with others rich in Complex Carbohydrates.
That's because C.C. provides the best, the fastest and safest way to lose weight without the hazards of ketosis.

Hazards Of Ketosis

Hazards Of Ketosis

I would not feel so strongly about the low-carbohydrate/ high-protein diet if it were not for the bodily harm it's known to create. Among the least alarming side effects are calcium depletion, dehydration, sleeplessness, nau¬sea and fatigue.
Quite serious is the damage ketosis may cause for peo¬ple with kidney problems.
And most serious is the linkage between ketone- producing high-protein, high-fat diets and atherosclero¬sis, gout, hypoglycemia, vascular thrombosis, liver and gall bladder diseases, hypertension, cancer of the colon and breast, cardiac arrhythmias, postural hypotension and coronary heart disease.
I've purposely put the risk elements of the low- carbohydrate/high-protein diet in a row. I did mean to scare you.