Toxic Hunger: Overfed, Yet Malnourished with Dr Joel Fuhrman

Last week I interviewed Dr. Joel Fuhrman, Toxic Hunger: Overfed, Yet Malnourished: Here’s an excerpt of what he talked about:

In his last 20 years He discovered something new in the field of nutritional science that explains that the amount of food you desire and your desire to eat and overeat is dependent on the type of nutrients and nutritional quality of what you eat.

It’s not just how much you eat. When you diet and your micro-nutrient needs aren’t properly met, you build up more toxic waste products in your tissues, like free radicals and advanced glycation end products and lipofuscin.

In other words, we build up toxins. When we enter the catabolic phase when digestion is over and in the resting and breakdown phase, we don’t feel well because we’re detoxifying as if we stopped taking cocaine, heroin, coffee or cigarettes. We feel shaky, weak and headachy. We feel mental confusion and fatigue. We’re tired and have stomach cramps. We’re irritable and try to eat food again.

People have potato chips and M&M’s. They have a soda or drink. They have a snack, bagel, or cookie. They have to keep eating all the time.

They never spend time in a catabolic phase because the minute they stop digesting food their body gives them the signal to eat again because that’s when we detoxify. They build up so much metabolic waste products.

He had so many diabetic patients and have actually produced a study. The abstract was just published in a medical journal late last month. It showed nine out of 10 patients with diabetes and following his approach didn’t control their diabetes better; nine out of 10 actually got rid of diabetes.

They became non-diabetic. Of course, the one out of 10 who didn’t get rid of it had a tremendous improvement in their diabetes. They still had diabetes.

We’re defining diabetes as having a fasting glucose above 120. If you can be back below 100 with no need for medications, then you’re non-diabetic.

The questions is, can these type 2 diabetics get healthy enough and thin enough, fit enough and well nourished enough to become non-diabetic? he is saying that if we never invented medications, people would be a lot better off, because then doctors would be forced to tell them to start exercising, eating better, taking off weight, and eating more vegetables.

Instead, we have pills to give people. He call these pills ‘permission slips’, not prescription pads. They’re permission pads. Essentially, the medications give people permission to continue to follow the same dietary habits that caused the problem to begin with.

Inevitably, their condition continues to advance and get worse with each passing day. Inevitably, they drop dead prematurely.

Joel Fuhrman M.D. is a board–certified family physician who specializes in preventing and reversing disease through nutritional and natural methods. His private practice is located in Flemington, New Jersey.

He is the author of Eat To Live: The Revolutionary Plan for Fast and Sustained Weight Loss, which was published by Little, Brown & Company in 2003 and has gone through eleven printings in hardcover and six printings in paperback.

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