The Poisoning of America
The
Truth Behind Obesity In Our Country
Gerald Kein
Without a doubt weight-loss seems
to be one of the most difficult problems we face as hypnotists. There is no
question that the population in the United States and other industrialized
countries are becoming more obese every year. Unfortunately, in my opinion, the
nutritionists and physicians are focusing their efforts in the wrong area. The
food pyramid which has been recommended for so many years has been nothing but
a big, fat lie. The reality of why we, as a society, are getting heavier is
obvious and yet ignored. Let me give you a personal example.
On July 21, 1988, during a hypnosis session with a client, I suffered a severe heart attack which led to coronary bypass surgery. For the purpose of this article, the lifestyle that caused this attack is unimportant. The lifestyle that caused my second heart surgery in 1995 is critically important. Between 1988 and 1995 my physician placed me on a "Heart Smart” eating program. He not only instructed me to eat based on the food pyramid but also to eliminate 95% of my fat intake.
Trust me on this one, a heart attack is powerful motivation to follow
your physician's instructions. And I did! I cut back my fat intake to just about zero. I ate grains, vegetables,
fruits and whatever else I was told was good for me. I also concentrated on portion
control. I
exercised according to a plan given to me by my physician. I was absolutely
dedicated to this program. I truly wanted to live. The result of all this hard
work and dedication
was that I continued to get fat. My blood lipids were horrible. My triglycerides were over
800. My cholesterol was over to 275. It
got so bad, in 1995 I once again, had to undergo triple bypass
surgery. I could not understand
what I was doing wrong.
Once more I was watching my diet, running on my treadmill, ingesting very
small amounts of
fat and using skim
milk on my "healthy” cereal. I
continued to get
heavier and heavier. Finally, in December 2002, the straw that broke my camel's back happened. I was getting dressed after
my morning shower
and happen to look sideways at myself in the mirror and I was shocked! My stomach had grown so big it was beginning to
fold over itself. I knew if I didn't find the answer to this condition I would be on the fast track to my final heart attack. I decided to take a few days off work in order to see if I could find the answer. I knew all the standard recommended
practices for weight-loss
were either impractical
or, frankly, just
didn't work for me.
There had to be another way.
Many of you saw me at the last convention and were startled by the amount of weight I had lost. I went from 190 pounds down to 155. This translated to a 35 pound reduction over a period of about seven months. I have continued to lose weight and should be at my goal weight of 150 in about another two to three months. I feel great, healthy and alive. I achieved this without any deprivation, starvation or even any exercise. The major downside is I have to buy an entire new wardrobe!
Let me tell you how I achieved such wonderful results and how hypnotists can incorporate this knowledge into their weight control sessions. It became obvious to me that several things had led, not only to my overweight condition, but to the growing obesity problem in this country. My research showed me that many minorities suffer a disproportionate amount of obesity. I also noticed that the youth of our nation are becoming heavier at younger ages than ever before.
Here's my opinion of what happened to us. Prior to World War II, families would sit down and eat together for least two of the three meals a day. Mom made us eat our vegetables and made many wonderful home cook meals. In between meals, children were running and jumping, riding bicycles, climbing trees and walking great distances just as a matter of routine. Commercially prepared foods were pretty much nonexistent, except for Campbell Soup and a few canned vegetables. Our lifestyle burned up all the calories and fat that was ingested daily. Everything was in balance and harmony. Obesity was not a significant problem. Heart attack diagnosis was minimal and we were a much healthier society. Diabetes was statistically a non-problem.
After the Second World War, everything changed. Commercial food processors developed new prepackaged products at a frightening rate of speed. TV dinners, frozen food of all kinds, frozen pies filled the freezers in our stores. As years went by, it became harder and harder to discover anyone who knew how to cook a real vitamin filled meal.
Then came the advent of the computer. Instead of going out to run, play and jump
after school our children sit on the couch playing video games or watching TV.
We rapidly became a nation of fat, lazy, sedate, over eating, sugar addicted
and motionless robots.
The Real Poison = SUGAR!!!
Poison,
The medical definition: "Any substance applied to the body,
ingested or developed within the body, which causes or may cause disease.
Physically: Any substance which inhibits the activity of a catalyst which is a
minor substance, chemical or enzyme that activates a reaction.
Dr.
William Coda Martin classified refined sugar as a poison because it has been
depleted of its life forces, vitamins and minerals. “What is left consists of
pure, refined carbohydrates. The body cannot utilize this refined starch and
carbohydrate unless the depleted proteins, vitamins and minerals are present.
Nature supplies these elements in each plant in quantities sufficient to metabolize
the carbohydrate in that particular plant. There is no excess for other added
carbohydrates. Incomplete carbohydrate metabolism results in the formation of
'toxic metabolite'; such as, pyretic acid and abnormal sugars containing five
carbon atoms. Pyretic acid accumulates in the brain and nervous system and the
abnormal sugars in the red blood cells. These toxic metabolites interfere with
the respiration of the cells. They cannot get sufficient oxygen to survive and
function normally. In time, some of the cells die. This interferes with the
function of a part of the body and is the beginning of degenerative
disease. Refined sugar is lethal when ingested by humans because it provides only that which nutritionists describe as "empty" or "naked" calories. It lacks the natural minerals which are present in the sugar beet or cane. In addition, sugar is worse than nothing because it drains and leaches the body of precious vitamins and minerals through the demand its digestion, detoxification and elimination make upon one's entire system.” Quote from “Sugar Blues”.
Processed Sugar…..The word itself should send tremors of
fear throughout all of your mind and body!
It is the most absolute, non-nutritious, life draining, fat producing,
disease creating, teeth rotting chemical ever developed my man. It has no nutritional value at all. It meets
all criteria in the definition of poison.
Sugar is more addictive than cigarettes, morphine, heroin, oxiconten or
any other narcotic. It has not only penetrated all levels of our society but
most of the world.
Sugar has been packaged in just about everything we buy at
the grocery store, the fast food restaurant, our schools and what we eat in our
homes. Sugar growers and food producers, knowing how bad it is to our health,
have tried to disguise it by giving it different names; such as, dextrose,
fructose, corn syrup, barley malt, black strap molasses, brown rice sugar,
dextrin, dextrose, disaccharide, galactose, glucose, glycerin, hexitol,
lactose, maltodextrin, maltose, microcrystalline, natural sweeteners,
polydextrose, raisin juice, sorghum, sucanet, sucrose and too many other names
to continue. Call it what you want….it all meets the definition of poison and
has addicted our world. The more of it
we eat…the sicker, fatter and more stupid we become!
This is really amazing….We now know that 10 to 25% ,
depending on the brand, of cigarettes consists of sugar. Smokers are not
addicted to nicotine…They are addicted to sugar! Every hypnosis stop smoking program should strongly address this
addiction much more than any small nicotine component.
Man Made Carbohydrates
The Secret Disguised Sugar
The word carbohydrate is nothing more than a word to define
sugar in all its many additional and miscellaneous forms. The natural carbohydrates in food are not
inherently bad in moderation. The man made carbohydrates found in processed
food are deadly to us. In addition, we
have been told that eating fat causes us to become fat. Nothing could be further from the truth. Fat
is the perfect fuel for our bodies. The so called carbohydrate laden food
pyramid, which is recommended by physicians, is what causes us to become fat
and sick! Once in our bodies, man made carbohydrates pass quickly through the
stomach into the small intestine turn to sugar, processed into excess fat and
stored in our bodies. When we ingest fat, it is rapidly converted by the
stomach into the pure fuel we need to efficiently burn for good health.
Hello….testing 1…2…physicians and nutritionists need to read
the data and studies now available.
Stop poisoning people with the deadly “Food Pyramid!” Get yourself re-educated and become the true
healers you want to be.
Because man made and processed carbohydrate foods are
relatively cheap, economically disadvantaged people made them the major part of
their diet and these people get heavier and sicker…. pasta, bread, potatoes, white rice and etc. With all the
medical and nutritional data now available it is impossible to understand how
the old food pyramid can still be said to be the way to eat by these purported
authorities. If, as a people, we really
desire to become healthy all we have to do is three simple things.
- Eliminate processed sugar from our diet.
- Practice portion control.
- Move our bodies (just a little).
That’s
it…..There is no deep dark secret…..It is that simple.
I went from 190 to 155 pounds. My blood lipids became better
than perfect. Cholesterol from 275 to 105…Triglycerides from 800 to 110….bad
LDL from 235 to 22. All of these changes took only two weeks merely by stopping
eating processed sugar. Nothing more
required. I didn’t exercise….I didn’t
move my body very much. As my appetite
diminished, I discovered eating very little caused me to feel stuffed.
Yes, in order to give up sugar, one must eliminate all
processed food, pasta, white rice, potatoes and other starches. One must look
for the hidden sugars in everything we eat.
You must become a knowledgeable label reader. Many individuals will say things like “I could never give up
pasta.” Or, “I can’t live without potatoes.”
To those individuals I say you indeed have choices in what you eat and
the quality of your health. You can chose to live to eat or chose to eat to
live. I chose the latter. Like me, you will live or die based on the
choices you make. Ask yourself; Is a
mashed potato with gravy or a bowl of pasta worth a lifetime of injecting
yourself with insulin, becoming obese, suffering low self-esteem or a heart
attack?
How Sugar Hurts Us And
Causes Obesity
The ways in which sugar hurts us is horrific. Let me
list just a few wonderful benefits we receive by becoming a sugar addict.
1.
Diabetes…Sugar is the leading cause of
diabetes today. Take sugar out of most diabetics diet and all symptoms
disappear or medication can be drastically reduced. I was a type 2 diabetic and
now I take no medication and all symptoms are gone.
2.
Obesity…Sugar addicts rapidly become very
heavy in life. When you eat glucose
(sugar) in great quanities it can not be prosessed fast enough by the liver so
it is converted into fat and initially stored in the buttocks, waist and
stomach area. Then it gets stored in
the artery walls and causes hardening of the arteries. Eliminate sugar and
loose weight and open arteries.
3.
Excessive fatigue…Eliminate sugar and you will feel
younger and more energetic than you have in many years.
4.
Mental illness… Back in the late 1800’s Dr. Tinera
discovered that if you remove sugar from the diet many so called mental
illnesses just seem to disappear. Also, sugar seems to be the leading cause of
schizophrenia. Dr. John Tinera and many
others since, have stated that no
one again, no one should ever undergo any type of psychotherapy
without first having a five hour blood glucose test!! He has shown that many mental and physical illnesses are cured by
the elimination of sugar from the patients diet. Once more, eliminate sugar and
feel better physically and mentally.
5.
Heart disease….Sugar stores itself in the arteries
and eventually causes blockages.
Blockages lead to death. About a
year ago, I was told I had several non-operable blockages of two arteries in
the rear of my heart. I was diagnosed
at great risk of sudden cardiac death. I eliminated sugar, took three
tablespoons of apple cider vinegar daily.
A year later, my arteries are clean and unblocked. The physicians just
can’t seem to figure that one out.
I could continue with many more diseases and the
effects that sugar causes but I think you get the point. Processed sugar is your deadly enemy! Another interesting thought, back in the
late 1800’s it was discovered that rich sugar processors who ate lots of their
product got fat, diabetes, became ill with a variety of diseases and died
early. The poor slaves who cut the
sugar cane and chewed on the stalk never got diabetes or any other sugar
related illness. There are many good
vitamins and minerals in the un-processed sugar cane that are eliminated in the
processing procedure.
Hypnosis and Weight
Control
Now, understanding how most people become fat and
unhealthy, I would like to suggest that every hypnotist set out to accomplish
several goals for the client while conducting weight control sessions.
1.
Educate
the client as to how sugar will make them obese and ill.
2.
Eliminate
any need the client has to punish himself.
3.
Re-create
powerful feelings of self-worth and self-esteem within the client.
4.
Regress
to discover who needs to be forgiven by the client.
5.
Have
the client forgive self for all previous mistakes and misjudgments.
6.
Give
suggestions concerning the evils of sugar.
7.
Give
suggestions on how eliminating sugar from their lives will increase greatly
their appearance and quality of life.
8.
Do
chair therapy between client and a bowl of sugar.
9.
Do
chair therapy with a sugar grower/producer.
10.
Do
chair therapy with the sugar loving side of the client.
11.
Do
direct suggestion using a sugar elimination script, combined with massive
compounding.
12.
Give
a powerful final summation. Follow with an instant, disguised, post-emergence
combined with a compounding waking hypnosis direct suggestion interview.
As I learned through extensive research and
self-practice, loosing weight is very
simple in theory and slightly more difficult in practice. Sugar is a very strong addiction. It may be the most powerful addiction that
the majority of our society faces. In
order to succeed, there must be an absolute readiness for change. Two things create readiness for change..pain
and suffering. When there has been
enough pain…enough suffering…then and only then will the required motivation to
succeed exist. When the doctor told me
to get my affairs in order, it instantly created my readiness for change.
Finally, without a doubt, sugar is one of the great
evils in our world. It is destroying
our youth, creating unheard of obesity and disease. With all sincerity, if I
were the President of the United States, I would declare, through executive
decree, that our country is suffering a national health emergency. I would
declare the manufacture, sale, distribution or possession of processed sugar a
first degree felony with penalties similar to any other capital case.
Would this
ever happen? Of course not. The sugar processors have very deep pockets
and people have a very strong sweet tooth. It’s a business, it’s nothing
personal, they do not care about the public health. They just care about making money. So, the fat will continue to
get fatter while saying, “I could never give up my pasta.” The ill will become more ill, while saying “Life
without a potato..No way!” or “I’m a desert addict. I could never give up my
sweets.” The rate of heart disease,
diabetes, mental illness, will continue to grow. All this while the “licensed” gurus continue to say don’t eat
fat….eat sugar (man made carbohydrates.)
And it’s all un-necessary. Today we have at least
two artificial sweeteners, splenda and stevia, that can take the place of sugar
completely without any negative consequences.
We have the facts….We have our choices. We could still eat sweets and
stay healthy.
Finally, if I have tweaked your interest about sugar
I very strongly recommend you read the book titled, “Sugar Blues”. You can get it at Amazon for about $10. After reading this book I know you, like me,
will become very upset about how politicians, physicians and sugar processors
have been allowed to continue poisoning you, me and our children. It’s time
now. It’s time now to take back control
of our health instead of letting sugar control, fatten and slowly kill us. Or to quote that famous American J.
Worthington Foulfellow, (My dad made up that name.) “Somebody Should Do Something!”
Hummm…..I guess someday I will tell you how I really
feel about sugar! J
