Eat Right for Your Metabolism: The Individualized Diet Plan to Balance Body Chemistry, Lose Weight, and Prevent Disease

322 Pages·2006·1.62 MB·English

by  Felicia Kliment

Eat Right
for Your
Metabolism
How the Right Foods for Your
Type Can Help You Lose Weight
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Contents
v
INTRODUCTION
PART I
Shedding New Light on Your Metabolism:
Why Nutritious Foods Are Not Always Healthy for You 1
1 There’s No Such Thing as a Standardized Diet:
Why We Should Eat According to Our Metabolic Types 3
2 Is Your Diet Causing Your Illness?
How Undigested Food Poisons the Body 21
3 Grain Eater, Meat Eater, Omnivore:
Which Are You, and Why Does It Matter? 35
4 Is Your Diet Causing Your Weight Problem?
Why a Standardized Diet Doesn’t Work 55
5 How to Lose Weight: Practical Suggestions for
Taking Off Pounds 83
PART II
Eat Right to Lose Weight and Regain Health:
Menu Plans 111
6 Lose Weight: Grain Eater 113
7 Lose Weight: Meat Eater 133
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8 Regain Health: Grain Eater 153
9 Regain Health: Meat Eater 213
PART III
Recipes 271
299
APPENDIX: CONVERTING TO METRICS
301
NOTES
307
INDEX
Introduction
There were only two hours in the day when Carol, age fifty-two,
wasn’t hungry. During those two hours she felt content, relaxed, and
full of energy. The rest of the day her hunger was out of control and
she was restless and filled with anxiety. It was as much the feeling of
being out of balance as it was her ravenous hunger that drove her to
binging. But going on an eating spree is always a two-edged sword.
While it took away Carol’s nervousness and obsessive hunger for a
time, it left her feeling stuffed and drowsy. It was because of these
swings in moods and levels of energy, not her weight problem, that
Carol sought out a consultation with me.
Considering the amount of food she put away each day, the fact
that her thyroid function was slow, and that she rarely exercised, it’s
hard to understand why Carol never became morbidly obese. Her
favorite binging food was pasta made with white flour. During an
eating spree, she’d gobble up one large plateful of spaghetti, go for sec-
onds, and wind up consuming the entire sixteen-ounce box of pasta.
Carol could never figure out where she got her ungovernable appetite
because other members of her family were small to moderate eaters.
Ann was about one hundred pounds overweight when she came
in for a consultation. She blamed her weight on the fact that she
craved meat well-marbled with fat and ate enormous amounts of it.
She had also had a life-threatening illness that contributed to her
excessive weight. Mysteriously enough, these two problems disappeared
when she moved from the United States, where she had eaten beef
from hormone-fed steers, to Mexico, where all the beef comes from
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grass-fed, hormone-free animals. She lost her insatiable appetite for
meat and switched to a vegetarian diet. She said the switch wasn’t a
conscious decision, but one that was driven by instinct.
In my private practice as a natural health consultant, I’ve met peo-
ple like Carol and Ann who couldn’t figure out their appetite
problems. In addition, I’ve treated people like Kathy, an immi-
grant from the Dominican Republic, who had an onset of
rheumatoid arthritis after she moved to the States; Narain, who
came to me for help with his alcoholism; and Albert, who after a
heart attack became a diabetic, even without a history of diabetes
in his family.
Why am I telling you this? All of the people mentioned had
unique symptoms and problems, but the root cause was always
the same: they weren’t eating right for their metabolic type, which
means the food they were eating wasn’t being properly broken
down by their digestive systems. It was their faulty digestion that
led to their appetite and health problems.
The best example is Ann, who biologically has a grain-eating
metabolism. We can see that this is true because of the change in
her cravings and her ability to satiate her appetite only when she
switched to meat from hormone-fed animals to grass-fed animals
and then to a total vegetarian diet. Her “need” for meat was gone.
She had been eating all of her life as if she had a meat-eating
metabolism, and only when she met her true biological metabolic
needs was she able to gain control of her weight and her health.
This is why I am writing this book. Eat Right for Your Metab-
olism will teach you the three types of metabolisms—the grain
eater, the meat eater, and the omnivore (meat and grain) eater—
and help you identify which one you are in order to balance your
body, lose weight, and prevent disease. The system is easy. First,
you’ll take the niacin test to discover your true metabolic type,
and then you’ll find menu plans in Part II that suit your individ-
ual needs, whether they are to lose weight, heal your health prob-
lem(s), and/or prevent disease. Delicious and easy-to-follow
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recipes for both meat eaters and grain eaters are also provided by
renowned chef Julie Tripp.
Which of the three metabolic categories you fall into
depends on whether your ancestors ate meat, grain, or both.
Those who give up the nutritional eating habits of their forebears
lose some of their natural immunity, so when the individual with
a grain-eating metabolism eats more meat than grain or the meat
eater becomes a vegetarian, digestive disorders develop. This leads
to more serious health problems, including heart disease, diabetes,
inflammation problems, autoimmune diseases, breathing disor-
ders, cancer, and obesity.
But people with digestive problems seldom see the road
ahead and realize the need to change their diets. People with
weight problems are the ones who are most likely to change their
diets. The diet or menu plan that presents a single solution, imply-
ing there is only one way to take off pounds, appeals to those who
crave food so badly that they need a diet they can believe in, like
a religious creed, to give them the discipline to stay the course.
For that reason, a standardized diet plan is the easiest weight loss
plan to stick to.
The trouble with standardized diet plans, which you will read
more about in Chapter 1, is not only that they don’t suit every-
one’s digestive metabolism, but also they go against certain dietary
rules that apply to everyone. Popular diet plans treat people as if
they are all the same, when we know everyone’s makeup is unique.
Unless the kinds and quantities of foods the individual eats match
the kinds and quantities of his or her digestive acids and enzymes,
digestion is incomplete. The undigested food turns into highly
toxic acid waste, whose inflammatory effects bring on health
problems and weight issues.
What you will also learn in this book is that neither the meat
eater nor the grain eater is restricted to eating only the foods in
their respective categories, so you don’t have to worry about giv-
ing up your favorite foods. If you are a meat eater, you can eat
some grain products, and if you are a grain eater you can eat meat
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on occasion. It’s a question of proportion.The menu plans provided
will offer guidelines for how to balance your servings. If you are
a meat eater, you should eat more of the foods that meat eaters
digest well and smaller amounts of the foods in the grain-eating
category, and vice versa.
The beauty of eating according to your metabolic type is not
only that are you eating foods that your digestive system can break
down, but you’re also supplying your body with the nutrients you
are short in, while eating less of those nutrients that you have in
excess. Just as the meat eater and the grain eater can eat the same
foods but in different proportions, so their nutritional supplement
requirements differ. Nutritional supplements for the meat eater
and grain eater are listed in my book The Acid-Alkaline Bal-
ance Diet.
The primary aim of Eat Right for Your Metabolism is to help
you find the foods that you can digest easily rather than merely
the foods that take off the most weight, because foods that aren’t
broken down properly ultimately put on weight. Only foods that
are digested well—broken down into components that can be uti-
lized by the cells—will, in the long run, keep weight off and
maintain the body in a state of health.