Flyer #70 Lifetime Health Diet #4

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The “Dr. Cohen” or “Soda Cracker Diet”

= This diet claims to determine from your blood test exactly how much

Protein v/s how much Vegetable and Fruit you should be eating. Boys “o” Mister! I almost didn’t look into this

diet. Was it for real or was it

just another con job? The only

reason I finally decided to investigate it was that my friends who’d done the

program looked so young after completing it. They now had this natural youthful look

that was screamingly obvious even though there was no exercise being

recommended. Furthermore, they

weren’t gaining much of the weight back after completing this program. I just had to look it over. The main ideas behind its workability

are:

1.

Animal Protein in the form of meat and

dairy should be taken in the right QUANTITY AND BALANCE

with Vegetables and some Fruit.

Excellent data!

2.

If you wish to lose weight, you need to

cut back on the quantity of

what you’re taking in. This is

also very true.

3.

Even though a person might be somewhat

hungry for the first few days of the program, there is enough food taken in to

supply nutrition while starting the weight loss.

4.

Human Growth Hormone (HGH) will actually

cause a person to look, feel,

and actually BE physically younger.

5.

HGH from the Pituitary helps with Thyroid

function and brings about a correction in metabolism so that permanent weight

loss can occur. This has been

proven true in many medical circles throughout the World and has even been

confirmed in intravenous tests where the only change for a test case was the

addition of HGH to that person’s regimen.

 

The main things wrong

with the diet are:

1.

Even though one can get useful data from

a Blood Test, they are somewhat limited as a diagnostic tool. Remember the Acidosis condition

previously discussed? Your body

will go an awful long way to keep your blood normal. However, this Blood Test is the “clincher” that ensures you “pays your money”

for this program that you buy on-line over the Internet because, “everyone is different and has a

different program”.

Sorry, but this just doesn’t cut it with me. This part of his program is pure gimmick.

2.

I had quite a bit of trouble collecting

enough different Cohen programs from friends of mine who were on his regimen

since they are “loyal”, “ethical” people who didn’t want to give away what

someone had supposedly worked so hard for. They actually believed Cohen when he said that you couldn’t

use another person’s program. Each

one was sold as being unique and based on the Blood Test. Nice trick! However, by being persistent, I finally managed to collect

enough individual programs to get a true idea of what was actually going

on. When people received their

specialized, individual program on-line from his organization, it was all

measured in “GRAMS!” Joe might get 115 Grams

of Meat and 112 Grams of Vegetable for lunch whereas Suzy might get 120 Grams

of Meat and 117 Grams of Vegetable for that same lunch. This is where the gimmick of this

diet comes into play.

You can take three meals a day and divide them into Grams of Animal

Protein, Grams

of Vegetables and a specific number of Fruit. If you then specify which meats to use and how many Grams of each, which

vegetables to use and how many Grams of each, and how many of what Fruit, you can

create any number of combinations so that they all APPEAR

TO BE DIFFERENT!!! The bottom line is you’re actually

looking at eating approximately 4 ounces of Animal Source Protein,

and 4 ounces of Vegetables per meal, plus 3

pieces of Fruit per day. And that’s it in its true simplicity! At least ya gotta admire the marketing

strategy of this plan.

3.

Cohen actually recommends several cups of

coffee a day, plus the use of artificial sweeteners that have been proven to

contribute to Cancer and a few other real “no no’s”.

4.

Additionally, he pays no attention to a

great many other issues such as Enzymes, pH, and completely disregards the

entire debate on “Organic” v/s “Commercial” just to name a few. It’s fairly obvious he’s basing his

entire protocol on a few very simple, but basic truths.

5.

The Soda Cracker had me fooled completely and for

the longest time I simply ignored it as just being part of the gimmick. Where my attention was finally drawn

towards it as perhaps having some actual legitimacy, was when a couple of

people told me they actually slept better with

the Soda Cracker than when they left it out of the regimen. Huh??? Wait a minute here!!!

There’s absolutely NO NUTRITION in a Soda Cracker! None! Zip! Welllllll

after digging through a few of the excellent reference works I always have to

hand, whaddya know, white flour as well as whole wheat flour is one of the few

catalysts for the assimilation of L-Arginine which is the main amino acid

(protein) for feeding and stimulating the pituitary gland, and thus generating

the “natural” production of HGH - Human Growth Hormone. HGH is the main ingredient that

actually keeps an adult looking and feeling young.

 

My final determination of

Cohen’s diet is that it does work, but has the Blood Test Gimmick and needs

some true, “health conscious” upgrades.

At this point, one thing I knew for sure was that, Cohen and all the

others did not have the complete picture, but had in their own way contributed

some pieces to the overall puzzle.

 

The problem in dealing with all of

these diets is the truths

they actually do contain in them. The truths are the things that hook us and make believers

out of us. You can catch a fish if

you make him believe that what you’re offering him is some scrumptious piece of

real food. There has to be some TRUTH

or “promise of truth”, or that fish just ain’ta gonna take the bait.

 

Diets have to work to

some degree or people forget all about them overnight. All of these diets previously mentioned

have had some staying power, and it is therefore easy to see that they had more

truth in them than the ones which were quickly forgotten.

 

My wife Valorie and I

were a little over weight, so we made up our minds to be our own guinea pigs on

this. We decided to use some of

the ideas in the Cohen, Fit for Life, and The Zone diets as a jumping off point

and started with the concept of “Quantity” as our

basic stable datum. Since we began (five months ago) Valorie

and I have both lost 35 pounds,

and everyone who runs into us lately swears we both look ten years younger. We paid no attention

to whether or not there was any difference between 115 Grams or 110 Grams

(there truly isn’t that much of a weight difference) and generally just

sloppily kept our portions to approximately 4 ounces of each food group. Instead of Soda Crackers, we used a

“Sprouted Grain Whole Wheat Bagel” (might as well get some nutrition while

stimulating the pituitary), and we stopped using dairy as part of the program

so as not to stimulate the production of mucus. We didn’t limit the kind of veggies and ate those we wanted

to. On top of all this we added a

Cleansing Program (did this before we started), extra vitamins, and kept it

100% Organic.

 

On Part Four of this

series, I’ll be publishing our entire diet including our observations of what cheating

did to it. And yes! We did cheat a little over the Holiday

season. J

 

However, I can’t

emphasize strongly enough the concept of “Responsibility”, and the fact that

YOU are the one who is fully responsible for YOU. There isn’t any magic pill that’s gonna make you slim and

foxy like Brad Pitt or J-Lo. There

isn’t any Super-Duper-Fix-It-All-One-Shot-Cure. You’re just gonna have to roll your sleeves up and “Git ‘er

Done”. It’s time to face the

music, the pounds and the ill health.

There’s not going to be anyone else doing this for you, and it will take

some real work and some real confront.

 

 

Yours in Knowledge,

Health and Freedom,

Doc

 

 

 

 

The 

Lifetime  Health  Diet

(Part

Three – Section Two)