Simple Effective Weight Loss

"The threshold theory defines the 'overweight' problem so clearly that almost anyone will find the answer obvious. So we give ourselves very little credit for seeing it."

BW: It sounds like what you are saying is that obesity is the expression of a certain type of malnutrition in a modern society.

AAA: Saying it that way is about 80% correct. It's not all the way correct, but you're much closer than people who are looking for ways to readjust a machine.

You can refine your view further by realizing that in popular usage the word "malnutrition" is not a well-defined term. It normally calls up images of emaciated children in third-world countries. Obviously, fat people are not in that category.

And in fact most fat people are not malnourished in any absolute sense. They are in fact eating enough food to get at least the minimum amounts of the non-energy nutrients they must have - although often it's only just barely the minimum.

What is more often happening is that the foods they tend to eat are providing relatively small amounts of some of these non-caloric nutrients together with large amounts of calories.

So their bodies force them to eat a high enough quantity of these foods to get the minimum amounts of the nutrients they must have to be healthy -- but this then automatically gives them the maximum numbers of calories.

A situation like that is guaranteed to make anyone at all get fat. There are a lot of ramifications to this simple concept that explain a lot of the apparent contradictions in the research.

The remedy is to reverse this ratio by deliberately eating concentrated natural foods and supplements that have larger amounts of the non-caloric nutrients but smaller amounts of calories. This is the way to be able to lose the fat. But please note that simple-minded "low-fat" or "low-calorie" eating is simply not good enough--nor is taking "megadoses" of this or that nutrient.

This is all easy to say, and fortunately it's also easy to do after you've learned how, but to do it you need a considerable amount of information about the concentrated natural foods and supplements that have the things you need without the calories you obviously don't need.

I wrote TMD to give people that information.