You Are What You Eat And Drink

That’s the summary of a presentation I recently gave, when
asked to condense everything I had said into as few words
as possible. It’s not quite as short as Calvin Coolidge’s
famous retort, or Churchill’s graduation speech, but it’s
the essence of health.

If you eat and drink poorly, you’ll have health problems.
If you eat and drink well…you’ll be much better off. I’m
not saying you will never have any problems, but you will
certainly be in better shape than 95% of the population.
(And these days…that’s saying something.)

What do I mean by eating and drinking well?

Let me start with drinking. It doesn’t mean that you guzzle
only the best scotch, wine and beer available. I’m not a
teetotaler, or against an occasional snort. There are times
when a good stiff drink is needed, or appropriate. But we
were never meant to imbibe on the level many indulge in.
You don’t have to look any further than the bathroom mirror
to know what I’m talking about.

In past columns, I’ve ranted and raved about excess sugar
in your diet and the harm that it causes to your health.
Nothing is converted to sugar in your body faster than
alcohol. If you’re drinking a “few” beers on a daily basis,
or a “few” glasses of wine, or a few glasses of serious
malt beverages, you’re dumping a very large excess of sugar
into your system, which turns to…fat…very quickly.

If you’re drinking this way, chances are you’re eating the
wrong way, too. When the grapes or barley hit the brain, we
want food to level out and fast food is just so damn
convenient. Pizza, tacos, burritos, burgers, fries and
shakes, usually topped off by pie, cake, candy and ice
cream…or, another round of nachos.

Here’s another short and “sweet” point: The less sugar you
eat…the less you will weigh.

When I say sugar…I want to include artificial sweeteners,
too. Artificial sweeteners can cause you to overeat,
without conscious awareness. It’s much the same as being in
a booze fog. You think you’re not eating like a starved
lion, but you are. In other words, fake sugar is no
different than real sugar, in this respect, though they
don’t have the same calories.

The long term effect of all the extra sugar is to deplete
your body and brain of real nutrients. You can eliminate
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Lose the sugar. Lose the weight.

I’ll be back tomorrow with more.

With my best wishes for your optimum health,

Dr. Bill

Stop Eating Crap And Lose The Flubber

I just finished reading an email from a guy who says he
can’t lose any weight. He was decent enough to send me a
rundown of what he’s been eating and it’s no wonder he’s
having trouble. He says he’s only eating half of what he
used to eat, but as I’ve said before, if you don’t change
what you eat, you won’t get results.

1) He’s still drinking a load of sugar. On his list is
orange juice, sweet tea and he goes to Smoothie King almost
every day. You can’t do this and lose weight.

You need to start dropping these things, one at a time,
starting with Smoothie King, which is the same thing as
opening a bag of sugar and pouring it into your mouth. You
need to make water your beverage of choice, without any
sugar. OJ is okay, as long as you limit it to about 4
ounces a day. If you can’t, you need to eliminate it.

Now I’m not a Southerner by birth, but in the number of
years I’ve lived here, now, I’ve seen a whole lot of sugar
go in the iced tea. If you want the tea, you’re going to
have to learn to add lemon and maybe some Splenda. Just
remember this: The more sugar you eat, the more health
problems you’re going to have.

2) There is a lot of packaged food on his list. Now
sometimes this just can’t be avoided, but frozen dinners
are, for the most part, just junk, with a boatload of
excess sodium and other chemicals, which isn’t good. They
also tend to be full of high fructose corn syrup and trans
fats, even though the label may say “NO TRANS FATS”. Under
a crazy deal cut by the food manufacturers and the
government, some foods that do have trans fats can actually
be labelled “NO TRANS FATS.”

3) His list is almost totally devoid of fiber. It’s not
surprising that one of his complaints is that he is
constipated a good part of the time.

4) Some of what he considers meat isn’t what you would
call high quality. Being raised in New York, I love a good
hot dog, every three months or so, not a couple of times a
week, or more. The same goes for the old baloney sandwich,
which he tops off with fried onions and mayo. (People in
Buffalo…hold your fire!)

5) He only eats a small piece of pie, with a small scoop
of ice cream.

I think you get the drift, here. What I really want to get
across here is this: If you have a bad diet…and you only
eat half as much of the stuff…without making any effort
to switch to healthier options, you may not lose any weight
at all. You could actually gain weight with this approach,
because your body won’t know just exactly what you’re up to
and it will go into defense mode, meaning it will start
storing fat.

Now on the plus side, the guy has a grill. If he bought
high quality protein and grilled it, along with some
vegetables, I think he’d start seeing some results and he
might even enjoy himself. But the bad habits have to go.

Drop the bad habits, one at a time. Nobody expects a sinner
to become a saint overnight and trying that approach only
leads to misery. Just using my number one fat loss secret
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I’ll be back tomorrow with more.

With my best wishes for your optimum health,

Dr. Bill

What Goes In Your Piehole Makes A Difference

One of the questions I often get is this: “Dr. Bill, if I
just cut back on what I’m eating, will I lose weight?”

Yes, you will. You’ll lose some weight and then… you’ll
more than likely gain it back. Then the question becomes:
“What do I do now?”

We all know deprivation diets don’t work. 96% of people
using a deprivation diet fail to lose weight. That’s good
news for Weight Watchers, Nutri-System, Jenny Craig and a
myriad of other diet plans.

The last time I counted, there were over 40 large scale
diet operations making really serious money. One of the
reasons they do so well is that people believe that if
Weight Watchers didn’t work, then Jenny Craig will. Or
Nutri System will. Or the next big thing will.

All these diets focus on one thing, called caloric
restriction. From Day 1, they focus on teaching you to eat
less and in many cases, a lot less. They give you all the
foods you like, like cheesecake, chocolate cake, cookies,
you get my drift. Now these are low fat, or no fat versions
of the real thing, usually loaded with some form of sugar.

What they calculate is that you have to have this sugar in
order to forget you’re only consuming 1200 calories a day
for women and 1500 for men. In my humble opinion, these
calorie counts are dangerously low and sooner or later,
your body is going to rebel (hence, the 96% failure rate
for such diets).

The failure usually comes with a yo-yo, meaning that you
gain the weight back and then some. What you have done is
exacerbate the problem by following bad diet advice.

What you have to do is change what goes in the old piehole,
on a regular basis. One of my biggest weaknesses was always
bread, which is a food that makes a big difference. I
include pizza in the bread category and I ate a whole lotta
pizza, over the years.

I eat pizza maybe once, every six or eight weeks, or so,
now and I order the smallest one I can get. I don’t finish
off a big pie by myself anymore, which made me a favorite
of a number of delivery drivers over the years. I still do
eat a large amount of food, though. It just happens to fall
under protein, fruits and vegetables.

Notice what isn’t included.

Bread, pastries, desserts, chips, pretzels, soda, fruit
juice, rice, french fries, pasta and any packaged foods.
That’s the stuff that makes you fat and there isn’t any way
around that.

The human body was built to run on protein, fruits and
vegetables, not french fries, donuts and slurpees.

The protein can be meat, poultry, fish, eggs…the body
sees it all the same way. There is no hierarchy of
proteins, where chicken breast is better for you than flank
steak and turkey is better than pork, or lamb. Your body
needs a good amount of protein every day and it doesn’t
care whether it came from Sammie the Salmon, or Clarence
the Cow.

Along with the protein, you need to eat a rainbow of
vegetables and fruit and the more colors, the better. If
this is what you fill up on, you can eat whenever you’re
hungry and stop when you’re full. And you will lose weight
and keep it off, even when you allow yourself the
occassional treat.

I have a friend of mine doing this right now and he eats
twice a day, lunch and dinner. In the morning, he drinks
coffee and he isn’t hungry. That’s okay, although
personally, I need breakfast. I know others that eat 3, 4,
5 or 6 times a day. It doesn’t really matter, as long as
you eat the good stuff and stop when you’re full.

In accounting, they talk about LIFO and FIFO, meaning last
in, first out and first in, first out. When you are eating
crud it’s called FINO, meaning first in, never out. It
shows up as fat.

80% of the weight loss battle is determined by what you put
in your mouth which is why I spend about that much space
talking about it here:

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I’ll be back tomorrow with more.

With my best wishes for your optimum health,

Dr. Bill

Why Not Raise Taxes On The Poor

The presumptive nominee for the Democratic Party for
President, Bill Maher…with Vice Presenditial candidate
Janeane Garafalo…oh wait…that’s 2016 and I’m getting
ahead of myself.

President B.O. gave a little lecture this afternoon, at
George Washington University, and outlined how he’s going
to take care of the economy and the looming debt crisis. He
and his advisors worked overtime on this and they came up
with a Democratic solution.

Raise taxes a bunch and cut spending a little. I have
already gone into my special closet, lit a candle and read
the tea leaves (imported from China).

This proposal is what is called in the Washingtonian
parlance, DOA, or “dead on arrival.” It might not even
arrive, since Obama advisors had trouble even stating which
baseline they were using for the pie in the sky cuts they
were promising. A few billion here, a few billion there and
pretty soon, you’re talking about real money. But the thing
that sticks in my craw is the unmistakable sense that the
President and his fellow Democrats think that the tax money
is “theirs.”

The President attacked his opponents, chiefly
Representative Paul Ryan of Wisconsin, by saying that
Republican cuts were pessimistic. This was in contrast to
the happy cuts he made at General Motors, where he screwed
the shareholders, bondholders and dealers and gave their
money to the unions. I’m certain we can expect more of
those kind of happy cuts, sure to please the likes of Paul
Krugman, the NY Times columnist, who gives marching orders
to the White House.

Krugman is an old line commie, who never met a wealthy
person he didn’t want to soak. It doesn’t matter that
Krugman himself has gotten wealthy, what with his bloated
NYT contract, the Princeton professorship and series of
“The Sky is Falling” lectures and books. It is said that
Krugman’s Sunday column made the President angry, so he
postponed some early week golf to get the economy fixed.

On CNN, after the speech, a graph showed that the upper 1%
of us, those making over $380,000 a year, pay over 40% of
all the taxes. Those who make $50,000 or less, which is
over 50% of us, pay no taxes, at all. This will still be
true when the disastrous Obamacare hits the economy…and
it will add an additional 40 million bodies to the system
that pay…zero tax.

My position is that nobody should get a free ride. When
Obama proposes that ALL the people pay taxes, then he can
raise the rates on “the rich,” who have been paying their
fair share, and more, all along.

It will never happen, because con men simply can’t play it
straight.

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I’ll be back tomorrow with more.

With my best wishes for your optimum health,

Dr. Bill

Is There Any Excuse For This

Who Says Trump Doesn’t Have A Chance

Why Would Anyone Ever Need More Than 256 Megabytes of RAM

How To Lose Weight With Williams-Sonoma

While rummaging through my house, I found an old Williams-
Sonoma catalog, which proclaimed ** WINTER SALE!** on the
cover and savings of up to 60% off, on select items.

There is also a delectable picture of a scrumptious
calzone, with steak, onions, peppers and oozing cheese,
with some ground parmesan cheese and coarse salt on the
top.

Inside the catalog is a calzone mold, which will help you
achieve the same look for your own creation, if you should
desire to make one, yourself. For the uninitiated, a
calzone is simply a pizza that has been folded over. The
calzone mold will make you a 7 inch pie, which I’m just
guessing contains somewhere around 1100 calories, most of
them carbohydrates and fat.

That’s if you don’t eat anything else, or drink nothing but
H20.

So the key to losing weight with Williams-Sonoma is to look
at the beautiful pictures and NOT buy the calzone mold.
(Sorry…you can’t lose weight by eating a huge portion of
tagliatelle with Bolognese sauce…unless of course you are
running the New York, or Boston Marathon the next morning.
Or competing in the Ironman Triathalon, in Hawaii.)

One of the keys to weight loss is portion control,
particularly when dealing with processed carbs, like pasta.
Try to keep your portion of pasta at 4 ounces, or less, and
load up on the vegetables, whether they be sauce, or salad.
The important thing to remember is that if you eat a
Maggiano’s size portion of pasta, you’ll get as big as the
restaurant (proportionally, of course).

You can eat big salads, big stir fries and plenty of fruit.
Just keep the vegetables as the star of the show and use
the meats as a condiment. I personally like big stir fries
and I keep the sugary stuffs out of the sauce, which is
another no-no. Most of the time, I also ditch the rice
(though, if you must have it, try brown rice and/or wild
rice, that have more fiber).

It’s worked wonders for me and I have never been this slim
since my early 20′s. And no one who has seen me at the
table would ever call me a grazer. I eat a good amount of
food…it’s just that what I eat is different, now…than
what I ate for years and years.

I’m also no purist. I’m never going to tell you I never
have a piece of cheesecake, or some ice cream, or even
pizza. I do. But it’s usually once a month, or a special
occassion, and I usually don’t finish what’s on the plate
(or on my wife’s plate, which I was wont to do for years.)

Through it all, I took my own formulas and they kept my
energy level high and consistent. They also helped me
reduce the aches and pains of getting older, which we can’t
avoid, no matter how we try. Between the weight loss and
the supplements I feel like I’m 40, or less.

Summer is closer than you think. Make 2011 the Year of No
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I’ll be back tomorrow with more.

With my best wishes for your optimum health,

Dr. Bill

A Simple Salad To Keep On Hand

Food temptations are always around us. Cookies, candy, pie,
cake, stuffing, casseroles, you name it…if it’s on the
table, or counter, or in the refrigerator. With all that
delicious food around, you have to be some kind of saint to
pass it all up.

One of the rules I follow is: Out of site, out of mind.

If you don’t buy it and bring it home, it won’t be sitting
in the kitchen crying for you to gobble it up.

The other rule I have is: Make only enough for one meal.

In the past, I’ve made enough food to feed a small army. So
not only did I overeat, but for days after it, too. If you
plan like that, it’s easy to put on 10 pounds of lard in 6
weeks.

So if you bring in enough food for just one celebratory
meal, you can stick with whatever program you have going.

You can also have some light foods around that are very
easy to prepare and are low in calories, but very filling.
Here’s one of my favorites and it couldn’t be easier to
make. If you eat one portion, you have consumed 46 calories
and if you eat the whole thing it’s only 186 calories,
which is about the equivalent of two apples.

Cucumber Salad

2 English cucumbers
1/4 cup rice vinegar
1 Tsp sugar
1/4 Tsp salt
2 Tbsp toasted sesame seeds

Peel the cukes. Cut in very thin slices.

Combine vinegar, sugar and salt in a small bowl. Dissolve
the sugar and salt. Add the vinegar, sugar and salt to the
cucumber slices. Toss well, to combine. Sprinkle with the
sesame seeds. Serve.

That takes all of about 5 minutes to make and you can eat
the whole thing, if you want, and it’s still less than 200
calories. You can’t beat that for a snack, or side dish.

A friend of mine likes to add sliced radishes, sliced red
onion, grated carrots and cilantro sprigs to this, then
slap it in a steak roll, as a sort of vegetarian sandwich.
I think he puts banana peppers in there, too, when he likes
it spiced up a touch. Just remember, the bread adds
calories, if you’re counting them.

I’m getting some good reports from people following my fat
loss program. Last week, Harold from Seattle reported in
11-1/2 pounds lighter and Luann from Texas is down 17
pounds! That’s very good news to hear:

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I’ll be back tomorrow with more.

With my best wishes for your optimum health,

Dr. Bill

How To End Senior Hunger

Yesterday, I watched a news segment where the former
Speaker of the House, Nancy Pelosi, stated that millions of
senior citizens would go hungry, if Republicans cut $61
billion from Obama’s budget. Oh…that’s right, that’s the
$4.7 trillion budget Obama and his fellow Democrats didn’t
submit to Congress.

While every town, municipality and state struggles with
their budget, Obama and his friends continue their unending
charade of fiscal irresponsibility. Most of these clowns
have never run a lemonade stand, much less a real business.
The President was a community organizer, for an
organization which got its money from the government and
didn’t even have to show how it spent the money. Then, he
used another community organization, the infamous ACORN, to
get elected to local and state office. Pelosi and Reid have
been Washington hacks for close to four decades.

Pelosi’s television appearance gave her a chance to show
off her new plastic surgery and $2,000 suit. Being an
advocate for the poor, starving seniors certainly has its
perks, even though I thought that job was done by AARP,
from their well appointed suites, down on 7th Street.

Harry Reid gave his usual unintelligble speech about
something, while scratching his head and ass, at the same
time. Someday, his office will provide a translator for
whatever language it is that he speaks.

The list of people that will starve, or die, has grown
exponentially in the last couple of weeks, as if a $61
billion dollar cut out of $4.7 trillion could even be felt.
Say you had $10,000 dollars cash in your pocket and a
robber pulled a gun on you and demanded 6 cents. That’s
about how much impact these budget cuts are having. But
with Democrats, it’s the principle that counts. They have
committed to giving away your money…and by God, that’s
just what they’re going to do.

This is where I come in…again. I say we solve the hunger
problem right away.

Simplicity is what I like about this plan.

Next week…we just stop feeding liberals. They can have
any other creature comfort…just no food, under any
circumstances. Their food goes to feed hungry seniors. Let
them whine and complain, twenty four hours a day. Let them
fill the airwaves with weeping and woe.

But we must stand stall, just like their old “liberal”
hero, Mao Tse Tung, who starved 30 million of his
countrymen to death. Old Mao didn’t bathe either, or brush
his teeth, so I’m thinking we should take these items from
liberals too and give them to the millions of starving
seniors. Then, when all our seniors are fat and happy, we
should take the liberals’ cars, forcing them to walk the
long distance from their comfy houses in the suburbs, to
work in the gritty urban centers.

Then…when we have them really frosted…we take away all
their electronic devices, unless they can prove they are
wind powered and leave no carbon footprint. And speaking of
giant carbon footprints, where is Fat Al, the velvet frog
of the green movement?

Just in on Twitter….Fat Al spotted eating a foie gras
burger, at Craftsteak in NY…wine to follow…

Fat Al should donate some of his backroom Google money to
feed the seniors. Word has it that he is still trying to
build a windmill big enough to light his house in
Tennessee.

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Starve a liberal/Feed a senior….2012 is coming.

I’ll be back tomorrow with more.

With my best wishes for your optimum health,

Dr. Bill