Is your low-carb diet slowly destroying your body?

If you've read my first blog, you know that I used to be the Associate Publisher for Dr. Robert Atkins' monthly newsletter. I was an avid follower of the Atkins diet for about 30 years - until I got older and found that the diet didn't work for me anymore. I started gaining weight when I turned 52, which was also the year I started writing for the Atkins newsletter. Before then, I was at the same weight I had attained in the ninth grade, when I reached my current height and development. Something was amiss, but I didn't know what. Now I know that 30 years of eating an animal-based high-protein diet probably didn't contribute to my long-term health and may have been responsible for my eventual weight gain.

Eat a diet low in carbs while creating a healthy body
Over the past 30 years, there have been a number of diets competing with the Atkins plan, but they all had one thing in common: lots of animal protein. My "beef" with animal protein isn't a PETA thing (I fully support hunting). It's a health thing.

Eating loads of meat every day for decades can contribute to serious health issues, including atherosclerosis (hardening of the arteries), high cholesterol, a fatty liver, gallbladder dysfunction, memory problems and male impotence. Fortunately, the pH Miracle eating plan can reverse these health problems without causing weight gain (in fact, you'll probably lose weight). While the inventors of the diet, Dr. Robert O. Young and Shelley Redford Young, don't heavily promote the diet as low in carbs, they do cover the issue in their books. All the foods you eat on the plan are low in carbs. So, eating less carbs according to the pH Miracle plan is a great way to be healthy and thin.

The pH Miracle is aptly named, because it brings about a miraculous change in your body at a highly accelerated pace. While you will probably lose weight on other meat-based low-carb diets, none of them will build up muscle and good health. The pH Miracle diet does!

It eliminates all sweet fruits (fructose is just as liable as table sugar to cause blood-sugar problems) and all grains, just like most other low-carb diets. Any type of flour, including whole wheat, spelt and quinoa, can generate blood sugar levels that are too high. The foods recommended on the pH Miracle diet have low glycemic (sugar) levels. Instead of eating apples, you'll eat grapefruit. Instead of eating prepared salad dressings, you'll make your own out of delicious oils and spices. Instead of eating breads loaded with preservatives and made of processed grains, you'll eat breads made from the sprouts of familiar grains. The combinations of foods on the pH Miracle diet are endless, and they'll help give you a healthy, sound body and mind.

How to get started on the pH Miracle diet
I've written a number of blogs about this wonderful diet. While I've written mostly about the alkalinity of the diet and how it eliminates acid reflux, it also helps you lose weight without compromising your health if you decide to follow it. Here are the links:

Is acid reflux destroying your immune system?
Burp! How to prevent & stop GERD
More food tips to halt acid reflux
Acidic foods can stop acid reflux and GERD
Avoid doctors to stay healthy & alive!
Do you drink a gallon of water every day?
Is your GERD a symptom of a MUCH bigger problem?

The following books will help you get started. Two of the books are by Dr. Robert O. Young and Shelley Redford Young. The two cookbooks (Back to the House of Health) are written only by Shelley.

If you want to eat the perfect low-carb diet, then get these books!




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"Let food be thy medicine and
medicine be thy food" - Hippocrates