Innholdsfortegnelse for April/May 2020 i What Doctors Don't Tell You Australia/NZ

Every year, half a million Americans undergo surgery for low back problems alone, at a cost of more than US$11 billion. For the most part, the surgeries are for herniated (or slipped) discs, where a disc tears, some of its gelatinous insides come out, and the disc starts to bulge. The other major condition landing people at the surgeon’s door is spinal stenosis, caused by slipped discs or arthritis. In this case, the spinal canal begins to narrow, pinching the spinal cord or the nerves branching off to various parts of the body, and causing pain, tingling or numbness in your arms or legs, depending where the pinch occurs on the spine. With our sedentary lives, pinched nerves affect more than 10 percent of the population, particularly those over 50.…

Meditation breaks opioid addiction spiral Mindfulness meditation—a passive awareness of the body and its surroundings—can help people overcome their addiction to opioids, the powerful painkillers. After eight weeks of meditating, people lost their need for opioids, felt less pain and regained their joy for nature and family, a shift that was recorded by EEG (electroencephalogram), which monitors brain patterns. With opioid addiction killing around a hundred Americans a day, researchers from the University of Utah say mindfulness meditation is a proven and safe way to break the addictive cycle. A type of mindfulness practice, which the researchers call MORE (Mindfulness-Oriented Recovery Enhancement), has been tested on 135 people who had been taking opioids for chronic pain. During the two-month study, the participants either meditated or took part in a therapist-led…

If depression isn’t a chemical imbalance, what is it? One theory gaining traction is that it has to do with inflammation—and it could be an inflammatory response to something in your environment or to a traumatic experience from childhood, such as parental rejection. Researchers at the University of Notre Dame in Indiana tested the theory when they assessed early childhood experiences and depression among 177 young offenders at a juvenile detention center in Russia. Many were suffering from depression, and the researchers discovered a correlation between the severity of their condition and the extent of childhood trauma, such as punishment, hostility, parents’ unjustified criticism and lack of respect.1 REFERENCES 1 Psychol Sci, 2008; 19: 62–9…

“The most infamous case of mold contamination caused 753 cases of fungal meningitis and 64 deaths. “Greenish-black foreign matter” was discovered in consignments of steroid injections, which were traced back to the processing plant” America’s top pharmacies, including CVS, Walgreens and Walmart, pulled one of their top-selling drugs from the shelves last autumn. The drug, heartburn medication Zantac, was also banned in the UK, France and Canada, while authorities in Bangladesh refused to allow shipments into the country. Existing stocks in the UK were put in quarantine. The ban followed a discovery by investigators at the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) that Zantac’s active ingredient, ranitidine, had been contaminated with NDMA (N-nitrosodimethylamine), a known cancer-causing agent (see box, page 28). A CVS statement said the store was removing the…

Jimmy Wales’ and Larry Sanger’s idea of an online encyclopedia created by the people, for the people, seemed like a brilliant idea at the time. Wikipedia’s concept of crowd-sourcing information on anything and everything, and making it accessible to everyone, was a game changer—and in many ways it continues to be so, albeit for different reasons. As Wales states on his website: “Imagine a world in which every single person on the planet is given free access to the sum of all human knowledge. That’s what we’re doing.” Fabulous stuff. Democratic information and real freedom of speech—for all of us. But ultimately these laudable ambitions depend on who has the most influence. In many scientific areas, Wikipedia has comparable accuracy to the peer-reviewed literature or the Encyclopaedia Britannica (search for…

In 2015, after years of puzzling, disabling pain and muscle weakness, Irene Phillips, an osteopath who practices in Worcester Park near London in the UK, was diagnosed with central core disease, a very rare condition related to muscular dystrophy. She was told that she would be in a wheelchair eventually, and she had handrails installed in her house and kept rollator walkers on both floors to assist her movement. That same year, however, Phillips met a practitioner named Jan Beute from Ireland who introduced her to hydrogen water and made her a machine so she could produce her own, using a powder, at home. “Now, my symptoms are totally reversed. I have no pain at all,” says Phillips. She purchased her own hydrogen device, which can deliver gas or water,…

Mainstream medicine’s answer for type 2 diabetes, as Greg Perry discovered, consists of insulin and more insulin, while treating complications like foot ulcers, kidney problems and heart disease as they arise. Nephrologist Jason Fung is a rare doctor who has questioned what all this insulin is actually doing in the diabetes picture. When a patient has consumed a lot of sugar, a lot of insulin is released to deal with it. High insulin levels cause insulin resistance in a vicious loop of high sugar, high insulin, more resistance and so on. Medicine has merely relied on injected insulin to force cells to accept more glucose in order to lower the glucose levels in the blood—without thought to the consequences. Fung asks a question doctors seldom do: “If this high glucose…

The Keto-Friendly South Beach Diet is not just low carb. It’s definitely not low fat. And it’s not a strict ketogenic diet. This new approach includes the best of the original South Beach Diet (good carbs, good fats) as well as some of the best practices of the keto diet—including low carb/high“full” fat and a longer initial phase to reverse sugar addiction and become“fat adapted.” And it incorporates additional science-backed recommendations that promote fat burning and numerous health benefits such as controlling or reversing signs of diabetes, resolution of insulin resistance, weight loss, increased energy and mental clarity. Unlike strict ketogenic diets, this plan does not require that you be in ketosis—a metabolic state where your body is burning only fat (no carbs) for fuel—to reap these benefits. The Keto-Friendly…

As society adopts ever more wireless technology, we are increasingly bathed in high intensities of electromagnetic fields (EMFs). Some EMFs are emitted by devices we own and use ourselves, but even if you refused to ever buy a cell phone or wireless router, you would still be exposed to ever-increasing amounts of EMFs, thanks to the growing number of cell towers, wireless hot spots and satellites that are used to broadcast these signals. To make matters worse, with the advent of 5G (the so-called“fifth generation”of mobile technology) that’s rolling out, your EMF exposures—and the health and environmental ramifications they bring—are about to increase exponentially. In the months ahead you will likely have access to 5G if you live in a large urban area. Unfortunately, EMF damage can manifest in myriad…

When Sally Lansdale finished her training at the British School of Osteopathy in 1984, little did she realize that one day her own body would take her past the limits of what osteopathy and chiropractic could effectively treat back then. “I always had back pain,” she says. “Most chiropractors have back problems because of our training. First you have students practicing on you, and then it’s always a bit dodgy for a while after college when you are first treating patients.” She didn’t think much about the low-grade chronic pain in her cervical and lumbar regions (neck and low back). Beyond her osteopathic practice, she had an active lifestyle that included a passion for playing tennis and horseback riding. Then, a series of accidents—a fall off a horse, a windsurfing…

Jennie had had back pain for as long as she could remember. An MRI scan showed a herniated L5 disc in her lumbar region impacting the sciatic nerve, triggering extreme sciatic nerve pain that was at times immobilizing. For a while, she managed her condition with regular osteopathy treatments and pain killers. “Eventually the pain became unbearable, and I couldn’t stand for more than 90 seconds without passing out,” she says. “I needed help to do everything.” After a month of being unable to stand or walk, two separate specialists recommended steroid nerve injections, and she was also scheduled for disc surgery. “Finally, the second injection started to work,” she says. “I was still in a lot of pain, but I was mobile. I was on a lot of pills…

Oxalic acid is an organic compound with the formula C2 H2 O4 . Its name comes from the wood sorrel pant (Oxalis) from which the compound was first scientifically isolated, and it’s a colorless crystalline solid that dissolves in water. Free-form oxalate ions, soluble oxalate salts, insoluble oxalates and mineralized calcium oxalate crystals are found in varying concentrations in many plants, including healthy foods such as leafy greens, vegetables, fruits, cocoa, nuts and seeds. When we ingest foods with oxalates, tiny oxalate crystals attach to healthy cells as well as to damaged cells or cellular debris in our body. When the cells can’t contain, dissolve or discard the attached crystal, it attracts other available oxalate particles, and the crystal structure grows. This type of pathological crystal formation in the body…

For years, Linda suffered with chronic Candida, including urinary tract infections. She felt generally unwell, and normal everyday tasks took most of her energy. Over the course of some 10 years, she consulted several physicians, but all test results were normal, and physical exams showed no evidence of inflammation. Linda then sought treatment from two naturopaths, a chiropractor and an acupuncturist. “I tried different diets, supplements and exercise. I juiced, sprouted, fermented, journaled, meditated and prayed. I tried to remove every toxic chemical and found the most nontoxic skin care products.” Her blood test for food allergies showed a few mild intolerances. She was given numerous antifungal herbs and supplements and placed on a food elimination diet and a strict Candida diet. “This worsened my symptoms until I was so…

Dr. Jean Monro, medical director of the Breakspear Hospital, is an internationally recognized specialist in environmental medicine, including such conditions as chronic fatigue syndrome, Lyme disease and multiple chemical sensitivity. She is Fellow of the American Academy of Environmental Medicine and a Board Certified US examiner. Dr. Damien Downing, whose practice specializes in allergy, environment and nutrition, is current president of the British Society for Ecological Medicine and on the editorial board of Orthomolecular Medicine News Service. Chief Medical Advisor of cancer charity Yes to Life (www.yestolife.org.uk), he is also the author of numerous books, including The Vitamin Cure for Allergies. Dr. Harald Gaier, arguably the UK’s most knowledgeable practitioner of the major alternative medical disciplines, is registered in the UK as an osteopath, homeopath, acupuncturist, naturopath and medical herbalist.…

Zoloft (sertraline) is the world’s most commonly prescribed antidepressant, with more than 37 million prescriptions written every year in the US alone—and it doesn’t work. Researchers who carried out the trial, one of the first independent studies that wasn’t funded by the drug’s manufacturer, say they were left “shocked and surprised” by the results, which revealed the drug was only slightly more effective than a placebo, or sugar pill. The discovery puts a big question mark over the whole family of SSRI (selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor) antidepressants, which were developed based on the controversial theory that depression is the result of an imbalance in serotonin, a chemical that acts as a neurotransmitter in the peripheral and central nervous system. The SSRIs were launched more than 30 years ago and are…

Before SSRI antidepressants were developed, just 100 people per million were diagnosed with depression, but this exploded to 100,000 people per million, when the drugs were launched Before SSRI antidepressants were developed, just 100 people per million were diagnosed with depression—but this exploded to 100,000 people per million, 10 percent of the population, when the drugs were launched on the back of the chemical imbalance theory of depression. In 1965, Harvard psychiatrist Joseph Schildkraut put forward the theory that depression was caused by low levels of a neurotransmitter, and two years later, other researchers singled out serotonin. If a chemical is linked to depression, then the drug industry could produce another chemical to adjust the balance, and so research into SSRIs began. But neuroscientists were doing their research, too, and…

Tens of millions of American children were given at least one dose of a polio vaccine that had been contaminated with a monkey virus between 1955 and 1963, when the contamination was discovered. By 1961, it was estimated that up to 90 percent of Americans younger than 20 years old had been given the shot. The virus—simian virus 40, from the macaque monkey—was known to cause cancer in rodents, and it was feared it might do the same in people. A German study carried out 27 years after the vaccine was withdrawn couldn’t find any link, and yet people with rare types of cancer had simian virus 40 in their tumors. Alerted to these cases, researchers from the US National Institutes of Health tracked the incidence of the rare cancers—ependymomas,…

Depending on what you eat and which bacteria are present in your gut, the bugs in your intestine, such as Escherichia coli, ferment fiber to produce gallons of hydrogen gas each day. Research has shown that that this internal hydrogen gas is actually capable of fighting oxidation and inflammation and warding off disease, just as studies are reporting manufactured hydrogen gas and water can do. Hydrogen gas-producing bacteria can suppress hepatitis inflammation in the liver, for example.1 Antibiotics can wipe out hydrogen-producing bacteria, and the absence of this internal hydrogen may explain why some people succumb to an infection and some don’t. One study found that hydrogen gas production was more than two times lower in the intestines of Parkinson’s patients than in controls.2 Numerous studies are trying to determine…

There are zero reported dangers to taking hydrogen gas—if you are just ingesting hydrogen water. At less than 4 percent concentration, hydrogen gas is not flammable. What’s more, it has no reported side-effects; it’s been used by deep sea divers for decades, it does not bind with oxygen, hemoglobin or other biological molecules, and it does not affect blood pressure. You can’t overdose on molecular hydrogen because any excess after blood saturation is simply exhaled, and blood levels of hydrogen rapidly fall after inhalation is stopped. But here’s what to look out for (problems that are largely resolved with the latest technologies): Be wary of hydrogen water bottles and systems, which have been criticized. Some use aluminum hydroxide or other metals that are released in the process, and these should…

Studies have shown that omega-3 fats like those found in oily fish have an anti-inflammatory effect. In contrast, the omega-6 fats in the polyunsaturated seed oils like corn and sunflower oil that are recommended by public health guidelines tend to fuel inflammation because of the processing they’ve undergone. They are oxidized and rendered to a rancid state that promotes the chronic low-grade inflammation underlying diabetes and other diseases. Because of their abundance in cooking oils, omega-6 oil consumption has increased dramatically. The omega-6 to omega-3 ratio of roughly 1:1 estimated in traditional diets has risen to 20:1 or higher, in parallel with astronomical rises in obesity and diabetes. Research has shown that lowering that ratio from 18:1 to 3:1 reduces this disease-causing inflammation. The goal, then, should be to consume…

To calculate net carbohydrates, subtract grams of fiber and grams of sugar alcohol (specifically erythritol) from total carbohydrates. For example, if a food item contains 14 grams of carbohydrates per serving, but 5 grams come from fiber and 4 grams come from erythritol, you would end up with 5 grams of net carbohydrates per serving. Total carbs 14 g Fiber -5 g Erythritol -4 g Net carbs 5 g Note that subtracting the total grams of sugar alcohol only applies to erythritol. When it comes to sugar alcohols other than erythritol, such as maltitol, sorbitol or xylitol, there’s not yet a standard for how these sugar alcohols are calculated, but the Diabetes Education Center at the University of California, San Francisco, suggests that half the carbs in these sugar alcohols…

Q I’m perimenopausal and suffering from horrendous hot flashes. I’ve tried all the usual advice—avoiding spicy foods, caffeine, alcohol, smoking, hot baths, etc.—but can’t seem to get them under control. I’d rather steer clear of HRT. Can you recommend any effective natural remedies? R.S., via email A Up to 80 percent of women going through natural menopause suffer from hot flashes, or flushes, and these often debilitating symptoms are reportedly the number one reason why women choose to start hormone replacement therapy (HRT). However, HRT—the standard conventional treatment for hot flashes and other menopausal symptoms—comes with major risks including heart disease, stroke, pulmonary embolism (a life-threatening blood clot in the lungs), breast cancer and dementia.1 It’s no wonder that more and more women like yourself are seeking out alternatives. Here…

The way EMFs damage your cells is by increasing oxidative stress within them, and this damaging process involves intercellular calcium. Calcium has many roles besides keeping your bones and teeth strong, including: • Cell signaling • Regulating enzyme and protein functions • Muscle contraction • Blood clotting • Nerve function • Cell growth • Learning and memory. It is calcium’s role as a biological signaling molecule that is affected by EMF exposure. A study by Martin Pall of Washington State University, first published in 2013 and updated in 2018, showed that when EMFs activated the voltage-gated calcium channels on muscle and nerve cells, after about five seconds the channels opened up and flooded the inside of the cell with an unhealthy amount of calcium ions.1 EMFs also disrupt the flow…

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Many back problems stem from compression of nerves or the spinal cord itself from herniated (slipped) discs or a narrowing (stenosis) of the spine, vertebrae or facet joints (small protrusions to the side of each disc that help with spinal movement). Commonly prescribed surgical procedures aimed at decompression include: Discectomy, where a portion of a disc is removed to relieve pressure on nerve roots Corpectomy, where the main structure of a vertebra is removed, including the discs Laminotomy or laminectomy, removal of part of the bony arches surrounding the spinal canal Osteophyte removal, or the surgical removal of bony growths Rhizotomy, the cutting or cauterizing of targeted spinal nerve roots.…

Natasha was an avid runner and a hairdresser, always on her feet. She also worked search and rescue in Canada. Her back problems started with painful sciatica when she was 32. She tried managing the pain by stretching out her back and doing exercises every day, but it just got worse. Finally she went to a back specialist who did X-rays. The diagnosis? The small sacral vertebrae in her spine just above the tailbone were badly compacted, pinching nerves. “The doctor said I was going to have to have surgery, and they would have to put blockers in to open up the spaces and that I was probably going to have to quit my job and all those kinds of things,”she says. “And I was like, ‘Excuse me?’” She was…

For 13 years, Cindy experienced chronic pelvic pain, including vulvar pain and burning. She had been diagnosed with vulvodynia—chronic pain of the vulva with (officially) “no known cause.” Initially, she was prescribed a number of drugs including an antidepressant that she says numbed her and masked the pain. She also underwent injections of a homeopathic remedy into the vulva and pelvic floor muscles to relieve the pain, which helped temporarily. Physical therapy also helped but did not get to the root cause. Cindy learned about Sally Norton through the Trying Low Oxalates Facebook group. “I would be utterly disabled, depressed, probably suicidal or dead by now, seriously, if I did not know about the role oxalate plays in my health,” she says. “I had done the low-oxalate diet for 13…

According to Sally Norton, nutritional expert, vitality coach and health consultant, there really isn’t an effective test to reliably determine whether your load of oxalates is high. Hip bone testing (which involves taking a chip out of the hip bone and analyzing the oxalate content) is highly invasive, and both it and urine tests are not especially accurate. Instead, Sally uses an inventory approach to determine how much oxalate you have been eating. This history is then combined with a detailed questionnaire on symptoms to determine whether oxalates are responsible for your condition.…

“I have been telling my patients for years there’s no such thing as mind and body. It has to be one integrated system” Hormones helped me As a subscriber, I have loved your UK magazine for years and have learned much. I just wanted to make a few comments about the hormones article in a recent issue, based on my experience using bioidentical hormone gels (estradiol/estriol and progesterone). I am almost 60 now and went through menopause in my early 50s. Hormones can be cycled so there is a ‘break’ of five or six days, like a period each month, which is what I do when taking mine. I also cycle my progesterone and only use it for the last half of the month, before I have the ‘break.’ At…

If SSRIs can’t help lift depression, what can? Depression is being seen as a multifactorial problem—and inflammation, environmental causes, trauma and nutritional deficiencies have all been cited as possible causes. This suggests that many different therapies could be used to relieve symptoms, and even reverse the problem. Lifestyle changes, including an improved diet, adopting a positive attitude, exercise and social activity, have all been used successfully. Vitamin D: Low levels have been linked to depression, and people with a deficiency are more likely to be depressed. The vitamin can help with the healthy functioning of neurotransmitters and inflammatory markers. Omega-3 fats: If depression is an inflammatory disease, the omega-3 fats could help reverse it. One analysis of 13 studies concluded that the supplements could ease major depressive disorders.1 St John’s…

Elmiron can cause permanent vision problems . . . an astonishing discovery for a drug that has been prescribed to hundreds of thousands of people ‘New opioid’ painkiller scandal looms The opioid addiction scandal may be triggering the misuse of another painkiller. Prescriptions for a class of drugs called gabapentinoids have doubled in the last few years as the opioid epidemic has been making headlines. Gabapentinoids—which include gabapentin and pregabalin—are licensed as anti-seizure and nerve pain medications, but around 95 percent of prescriptions are “off-label,” meaning that they’re given to treat other health problems, such as migraine and fibromyalgia. But nobody is tracking the safety of the drugs for these problems or how people are taking them, say researchers from the University of Michigan. The sudden increase in prescriptions has…

NDMA (N-nitrosodimethylamine)—or nitrosamineisn’t a chemical you’d willingly take. Health agencies have estimated it’s safe for humans to consume no more than 1 microgram—one millionth of a gram—each day, and we can easily do that if we eat some meat from the barbecue, for instance. But the levels of NDMA discovered in supplies of drugs have been as high as 17 times that. It’s a carcinogen, or cancer-causing agent, and a dose of less than one milligram can mutate mouse cells and make them cancerous. Anyone who takes 2 grams will be dead within days—as was demonstrated by a vindictive man in Oklahoma who poisoned the family of an ex-girlfriend by adding a vial of NDMA to a pitcher of lemonade. It used to be added to rocket fuel and is…

Drinking coffee or other forms of caffeine within four hours of bedtime didn’t affect sleep in the study. An after-dinner cigarette reduced sleep efficiency by 1.74 percent and increased waking time after initially falling asleep (WASO) by 8 minutes, while drinking alcohol reduced sleep efficiency by 0.98 percent. The ‘Z’s below represent the relative levels for each group. Bottom line: none of the above will likely lose you much sleep. Sleep duration: total time asleep during the night’s main rest period WASO, or Wake After Sleep Onset: the amount of time spent lying awake after waking from an initial sleep Sleep efficiency: the amount of time asleep while lying in bed…

Yvonne Petty, age 55, from Bright, Indiana, had been on insulin for nearly 30 years. She had hit the steering wheel full force during a car accident when she was 21 years old. “My pancreas was severed in a 90/10 split,” she says. Doctors tried to save the insulin-producing organ, but it was beyond salvage, and she also lost a kidney and her gallbladder. Unable to make sufficient amounts of her own insulin, Yvonne was labeled type 1 diabetic (similar to those with the condition of impaired insulin production, rather than those with type 2 diabetes, who suffer from overproduction of insulin resulting in insulin resistance). At age 50, Yvonne found herself suddenly feeling overweight at just 5 foot 3 inches tall and 160 pounds. She began exercising vigorously, biking…

From master trainer Andrew Griffin, director of GRIFFIT Outdoor Fitness + Pilates and creator of 28 Day BODY BLITZ. Aussie men are taking part in Pilates classes at unprecedented numbers. A study from the Australian Bureau of Statistics in 2019 showed an increase of 17% over a 12-month period in males attending group Pilates classes. Not only Aussies, but international males are using the training style to improve their performance. Former tennis world #1 – Andy Murray, 2016 World Rugby Player of the Year – Beauden Barrett, Cowboys/Maroons/Australian Rugby League legend – Jonathan Thurston, 3x World Surfing Champion – Mick Fanning, 15x Major champion - Tiger Woods and 3x NBA champion - LeBron James have all incorporated it into their training regime. Joseph Pilates developed his method in World War…

Some small cell stations will have always-on 4G LTE transmitters emitting constant RF radioation into your home at high intensities because they will be so close by. That 4G signal will geolocate your mobile and fixed devices. The 5G antenna will then send in data at high speeds when a 5G device requests it. Engineers have made it clear that to save electricity, small cell stations will send out 5G signals primarily when users’ mobile handsets request a connection, along with a much weaker but frequent reference signal looking for 5G-enabled cell phones. All 4G cell phones are programmed to prefer Wi-Fi by default when given the choice. However, when a visitor, resident or passerby with a 5G-enabled cell phone does initiate a connection to the small cell 5G antenna…

Tatsuya had been immobilized for eight months with a herniated disc, severe low back pain and sciatic pain down his left leg. When he first started experiencing the symptoms, he saw a chiropractor and an osteopathic specialist, but nothing worked. By the time he saw a back specialist, he could walk a maximum of about 55 yards (50 meters) if he used crutches. Doctors at the hospital where he was treated gave him epidural steroid nerve injections to reduce the inflammation and pain associated with nerve root compression. When the injections didn’t work, he was advised to take anti-inflammatory medication. But unfortunately, the medication caused side-effects such as irregular heartbeat, vertigo, skin sensitivity and depression.  Sally Lansdale and IDD spinal therapy seemed to be his last hope. “I did not…

Sally Norton always had an interest in doing right by her health. Even as a kindergartner, after being taught how much milk she was supposed to drink each day, she remembers running home and schooling her mother on the subject. “I was the one kid who would geek out with my mom and eat pickled herring and yogurt,”she says. “I was a great food adventurer. I ate anything and everything, and in rather large doses. I was the kid who ate three servings of goulash and then skipped ice cream to go play.” Although she was raised in a family that liked cooking from scratch and had the ethic of eating lots of fresh vegetables and salads, the modern world of food encroached when her mother began working several evenings…

Nevada suffered from asthma, allergies and eczema from birth. In her early teens, she was diagnosed with polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS), a hormonal disorder triggering prolonged menstrual periods or excess male hormone (androgen) levels. She experienced back pain, irritable bladder, joint pain, swelling and stiffness, headaches, mental fog and unexplained skin rashes. She was also diagnosed with cauda equina syndrome, a condition where the bundle of nerves below the end of the spinal cord known as the cauda equina is damaged, triggering low back pain that radiates down the leg. Nevada underwent surgery for the back condition and went on a Paleo diet, but was still ingesting a lot of high-oxalate foods. Fortunately, she ran across one of Sally Norton’s podcasts about oxalates and immediately began gradually detoxing and eliminating…

If I’d been paid a dollar every time someone has been told “Eat less” as the best way to lose weight, I’d be twice as prosperous as Croesus and half as wealthy as a president and a presidential candidate combined. The calorie myth—that there’s a direct correlation between the amount we eat and our weight—is one that won’t die, despite the mountain of evidence that has demonstrated that it is, to say the least, simplistic. It’s still the stuff of most weight-loss programs, and even looking on a major health site like WebMD, you’ll read that“one pound of fat is equal to 3,500 calories” and “by shaving 500 calories a day through dietary and exercise modifications, you can lose about a pound a week.” The basis of the approach is…