Part One: The Principles
In Part One of The Hershberg Diet, Dr.Hershberg eloquently explains the fascinating science and medicine that form the basis of her unique diet plan. It is a quick and easy read written intentionally for everyone to understand. Here are a few of the interesting concepts and facts that you will learn in Part One:
The "4th macronutrient": Do you know what it is?
Most people (physicians, nutritionists, and dieticians included) only recognize three macronutrients:
- Protein
- Fat
- Carbohydrates (carbs)
This is why almost all of the popular diets are either low fat, low carb, or vegetarian (low protein), or some combination of the three. This is also why most diets don't work. No one can restrict an entire macronutrient category for life and this has been shown time and time again. It's not fair, it's not sustainable, and it does not make sense. Humans were designed and created to eat all three macronutrients - protein, carbs, and fat. But most importantly, humans were designed to eat the 4th macronutrient; yet this critically important component of food has been completely ignored.
On The Hershberg Diet, you will eat all three macronutrients, protein, carbs, and fat; and most importantly, you will learn to eat the 4th macronutrient. This is the way to achieve sustainable weight loss.
Dr.Hershberg's identification of the "4th macronutrient" will change the way that you view food, eating, and nutritional labels forever. To lose weight comfortably and quickly, you must learn how to determine which foods are highest in the "4th macronutrient;" these foods are the absolute best for weight loss - it's a mathematical fact that is proven in the first chapter of the book.
"Hotty" Foods: "Hotty"/Not "Hotty" - you must learn how to decide.
"Hotty" foods are so named because they are thermogenic ("thermo" = heat, "genic" = to create); eating them activates the body's internal furnace causing the body to burn calories and thus release heat. Eating "hotty" foods helps to gently stimulate fat burning hormones and thus facilitates the weight loss process. Eat "Hotty" foods -> Burn calories -> Lose weight as a result of eating.
The Hormonal Effect: Are your hormones helping you or hurting you?
Whether you've been doing it for a few years or your entire life, there's no denying that over-consuming and improperly combining foods that spike blood sugar and insulin wreaks havoc on the hormonal and metabolic environment in your body. The wrong hormonal environment can put you behind the eight ball when it comes to achieving your health and weight loss goals. On The Hershberg Diet, you will be provided with tips and strategies to help you learn how to train your body to better handle insulin and thus create a hormonal environment more suited for weight loss.
Fancy Marketing Tricks: Are they making you fat?
Consider the following ad for Bacardi White Rum:
Bacardi White: Zero sugar, Zero carbs, 66 calories.
Sounds great, doesn't it? It practically sounds like a diet drink. But how on earth can this be true? Alcoholic spirits such as rum do not contain fat or protein. If the ad is true then, then this would mean that Bacardi White Rum does not contain fat, protein, nor carbs! So, let me ask you this - what makes up the 66 calories?
The answer is alcohol. Huh? Let's think for a minute.
Alcohol is a nothing more than carbs (sugar) that have been fermented. So in fact, Bacardi DOES contain carbs and sugar; it's just we have a different word for it now; it's called alcohol. Even worse, fermented carbs (alcohol) have even more calories than regular carbs! The ad is brilliant - it takes advantage of semantics and confuses people into thinking that they're making a healthier choice. It's smart advertising but will it help you lose weight, no!!
After reading Part One of The Hershberg Diet, you will understand the true science and medicine behind a healthy and sustainable weight loss plan.
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