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maryrambin:

FOOD COMBINING

The most valuable thing I learned in the past week was the effectiveness of food combining.

It should be no surprise that the FDA doesn’t have our best interest at heart when it comes to our diets.  For instance, when they tell you a big, hearty breakfast is the best way to start the day….they’re lying.  Not sure why or who’s paying them off, but a big breakfast in fact slows you down and makes you want to crawl back into bed.

After a little research and a couple phone calls, here is what I have learned about eating properly:

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MY CONCLUSION

I don’t know about you, but this whole concept is pretty new for me.  While on the LOVE fast, I analyzed how they mapped out my meals (light juices in the morning, to green juice and smoothies during the day, a soup and small salad at night, ending with coconut mylk).  I’m not sure if I would buy into the whole “eat light during the day and save the heavy meal for later” if I hadn’t experienced the effect and felt the added energy I had.  We’ve all been taught the opposite: to eat heavy during the day so you can burn off the fat and calories before bed. WRONG! Trust me when I tell you, it makes a world of difference when you take the time to reconstruct your diet.  It’s not easy, but you’ll feel the benefits.

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**Disclaimer:  I am not by any means a health expert, but merely sharing my experience in hope that you will learn from them and assess your own diet.

If you’re not a health expert, then perhaps you should refrain from dispensing such advice about diet or criticizing the FDA — where people with an education and background in nutrition, not attention whores with poor body image, develop safe and healthy diet suggestions so that people don’t employ dangerous, unhealthy, and utterly ridiculous diet plans in order to drop several pounds quickly.

A lot of young women pay attention to what you say, and you are in a position to advocate healthy choices about diet and exercise. Instead of embracing something which many young women could truly benefit from, though, you choose to advocate fad dieting which, on the rare occasions they do work, often only have short-term effect because they are not healthful, nutritious, or filling enough to sustain someone on a long-term basis.

Honestly, non-society should be shut down for the ignorant bullshit passed off as “information.” Just thinking about how many young women out there will read this and get excited over the prospect of trying Mary Rambin’s new diet idea makes me livid. I guess if they are silly enough to think you supply real information, then maybe they deserve it, but I’ve always been of the opinion that just because people are dumb enough to buy it, it doesn’t make it okay to sell it.

“Bowel cleansing,” “LOVE diet” and “food combining”…why don’t you try a well-rounded diet and at least 30 minutes of exercise every day? You might not drop 10 lbs. in a week or have the joy of being able to commiserate/celebrate with your friends over how much you hate/love your new diet, but you will see long-term gains in health and you will probably be much more likely to see sustained weight loss for the rest of your life…not just until the next trendy diet plan based on bunk science and good marketing targeted at gullible people with low self-esteem comes along.

I’m not a food expert either, but I do NOT believe the FDA has our best interest in mind. For instance, we do not NEED milk, as they love to tell us, and we certainly do not NEED meat.  I almost always skip breakfast, but that doesn’t stop me from running 3 miles a day, attending classes, waitressing for 8 hours a pop, maintaining my 5’7 130 lb. frame, and still having energy to do my homework. Different methods work for different people…and fasts, as awful as our culture has made them sound, are widely practiced throughout the world as an effective means of cleansing the body.

Me? I’m more worried about people putting sugars, mono, poly, saturated fats in their bodies than I am about them abstaining from them.