Yes you should.

You should eat when you’re hungry and eat until you’re full.

This is bound to get under the skin of many a fitness guru, who
relies on gimmicks to support precepts of questionable tenability.
Like eating six meals instead of three, restricting certain
nutrients, following purification or detox diets,
replacing meals with formulas, aligning food choices with your
blood type and so on and such forth.

All this stuff falls under regimentation, which sucks the life out
of you faster than Obama can say he won’t tax the middle class
(which we all know is a lie…and the regimentation makes it
impossible to follow for very long, because these things run
contrary to human nature).

I’ve been reading quite a few fitness blogs lately (there are now
thousands of them) and a lot of the information on some of them is
frightening. One female fitness guru logs her daily workouts and
what she eats. Only a masochist would actually follow this routine,
but she swears she is well adjusted and living large.

I beg to differ.

Two hours a day of cardio.
One hour a day of weight lifting.
Egg whites.
Protein drinks.
Vitamin water.

I could go on and on (she does), but I want to get to the heart of
this quickly.

No one…I repeat…no one…needs two hours of cardio a day…for
anything. This is not only not going to get you healthy, it’s going
to make you unhealthy. Vitamin water is total junk and although
protein drinks are okay at times, they are not food you should be
eating regularly. And most of them taste like crap. (There’s a
correlation there…things that taste like crap taste that way for a
reason…they are not really food.)

As I look over her diet, I can tell you that no well adjusted, happy
person could eat this way for very long, without blowing out their
circuits (or their brains). The amazing thing is that she has a
boatload of followers and they have long discussions about (over)
exercising and the crap they eat. The only problem is that they are
not really getting fit. What they are doing is accelerating the
aging process, in a big way. (By now, the fitness gurus are hanging
me in effigy.)

There are some basic things we need to lose weight. Here they are:
Plants and animals. That would be meat, poultry, eggs, seafood,
fruits, and vegetables. You don’t have these things in your diet,
your body will not function properly, no matter what any guru tells
you. Natural foods are delicious, they satisfy your cravings and
distinct tastes, stabilize mood and energy levels and promote health
and well being.

Pizza is not a natural food. You’d be better off not eating it. The
same goes for peach pie. Does that mean you should never eat them?
No. It means that if you eat plants and animals most of the time,
your system will easily process the junk and it won’t be anything to
worry about.

But, if you eat pizza and peach pie all the time, your body goes on
the fritz and that can take many forms, among which is inflammation,
which has to be “put out,” or it will put you out.

We don’t live in the same world our grandparents did, who were much
fitter than we are now. One of the reasons was simple. They lived
much closer to plants and animals. They didn’t swill 160 pounds of
sugar a year. Mayor Bloombrain in New York wants to outlaw salt. I
have a few words for him: “It’s the sugar, stupid!”

So you want to eat. The only question you should have is: What
plant, or animal, or combination therof, do I want? If it’s a plant
or animal, eat it. If it isn’t, don’t eat it. (Most of the time.)

Nobody dies from eating plants, or animals (most of the time). But
you can get very sick and eventually die, from eating processed
crap.

Pharmaceutical grade fish oil is for helping you restore the balance
in your genes, which will help you fit better in your jeans, if you
know what I mean.

About the Author

Dr. Bill is an orthopaedic surgeon and author. He recommends this pharmaceutical grade fish oil for more energy, reduced joint pain and increased heart health.