Diets That Work - Giving You the Fat Facts to Tackle Obesity

TRICK AND TREAT. Coined by the author Barry Groves, it's a play on words, based on the children's practice of dressing up for Halloween and calling on houses to solicit gifts (and hopefully no tricks!). But where trick or treat gives you a choice, the way the 'health industry' works does not. TRICK AND TREAT looks at the way the health industry's strategy TRICKs us into making ourselves unwell, so that they can then TREAT us for the illnesses their advice has caused.

Trick and Treat exposes the lie that is 'healthy eating' and discovers diets that work, based on the diets of our hunter-gatherer ancestors. Anyone can achieve optimal weight and optimal health given the right information. The trouble is we are fed the wrong dietary and lifestyle advice on a daily basis - it's little wonder our health is failing and we are getting fatter in the process. We can no longer ignore the frightening increase in disease and obesity in our society, to the point at which it is now running at epidemic levels. It is time to wake up and ask ourselves what is really behind this shocking trend so we can begin to take action to reverse it.

Below is a selection of reading that has helped me find the answers to these difficult questions and enlightened me as to where I have been going wrong with my health. Armed with the right information I have been able to put my health back on the right track, overcoming Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, a debilitating illness that has plagued me for the best part of 20 years, and restoring my vitality levels. I hope that by pointing you in the right direction, I can do the same for you.

TRICK AND TREAT - how 'healthy eating' is making us ill
by Barry Groves

Trick and Treat - How healthy eating is making us
ill

Eat less fat, we are told. Eat less red meat.
Eat less salt. Eat more fruit and veg (at least five portions a day).
Eat a high fibre diet. Reduce your cholesterol levels.
Reduce your sun exposure. Do more exercise.

Who benefits from all this advice?
Who is profiting from our overweight and over-ill society?

If we are eating healthier, then why are we spending more and more on healthcare with little or no benefit? more

The Paleo Diet - Lose Weight and Get Healthy by Eating the Foods You Were Designed to Eat
by Loren Cordain, Ph.D.

The Paleo Diet - Lose weight and get healthy by
eating the foods you were meant to eat

We have evolved over millions of years, during which time our diet has remained largely the same. Until around 10,000 years ago that is – a tiny blip in our timeframe. At that point a major revolution in agriculture heralded a radical change in our diets with many new foods introduced that were completely alien to our systems.

The general message is that we are eating foods that we are not evolved to eat and that is contributing to many of the health problems we see in our society today such as obesity, low vitality levels, allergies and so on. The most radical changes have happened in the last 150 years or so where the industrial revolution and improved farming methods have altered the way in which our food is processed... more