It is true that excessive amounts of the fat soluble vitamins A and D can cause toxicity in the body but very large amounts must be ingested before any damage is done. Vitamin A toxicity could result from a daily intake of 150 000 iu every day for one or more months, but Formula Six contains only beta Carotene which the body converts to vitamin A. Nature also employs a simple method of warning that toxic levels of vitamin A arc approaching with symptoms of morning sickness and loss of appetite. When the morning sickness symptoms have abated and the appetite and taste for foods containing vitamin A have returned the levels of vitamin A in the body have dropped right down and the toxic slate no longer exists. It would be impossible to eat enough food to provide 150 000 in unless you were eating whale or seal liver each day or you were making a concerted effort to gulp down fifteen 10 000 iu tablets of vitamin A. Both vehicles of vitamin A overdose would prove to be very expensive and chances are you would never persist with the exercise.
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Drugs can also be responsible for metabolic imbalances by creating vitamin and mineral deficiencies. Fluid tablets cause potassium to be lost from the body in urine. Antacids prevent the absorption of vitamins A and B complex. Antibiotics cause vitamin K, iron, calcium and magnesium deficiencies. The contraceptive pill gobbles up vitamins B12, B6, C, folic acid and the mineral zinc. As we already know the effects of deficiencies in these nutrients are detrimental to our bodies. Without adequate vitamin and mineral supplementation the pill can contribute significantly to metabolic weight gain, via fluid retention.
The bad news is that white bread, white flour, sugar, or any foods which contain these items, create metabolic imbalances and weight gain. The good news is that they need not do so. If you select 95 per cent of your foods from the Metabolism-Balancing Program and only 5 per cent from refined forms, while remaining on a complete vitamin and mineral formula, the effects of the junk food will be negligible. All foreign chemicals, be they drugs or food flavourings, preservatives, colourings or chemical pollutants of air and water, will try to interfere with the normally occurring chemical reactions in cells. Whenever they succeed in getting involved in these chemical reactions they alter their outcome and so disrupt the metabolism.
The Metabolism-Balancing Program has a minimum of foreign chemicals in it. The supplementary vitamins and minerals that form an integral part of the program help prevent foreign chemical intervention by latching onto (chelating) and neutralising these chemicals before they get involved.
These days we need enough vitamins and minerals left after the cells, needs have been fulfilled to protect us against foreign chemical invasion. For example, extra zinc neutralises the cadmium released from motor vehicle tyres driven along the road; vitamin C neutralises the pesticide DDT and calcium neutralises the lead from car exhaust fumes.
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Q. I don’t want to go on a diet, I’m thin enough.
A. Not all diets are weight-loss diets. The programs in this book are health-promoting programs. By optimising your health they automatically optimise your body weight and shape. If you are overweight, they bring your body weight down to normal, if you are under-weight, they will build your body weight up. If you are already at optimum weight, they leave you there, that is, providing you follow them properly.
Q. I’ve been dieting for some time. The Metabolism-Balancing Program includes more food than I’ve been having. I’ll freak if I put on weight.
A. If you need less food than is on these programs to hold yourself at your optimum weight, you are malnourished. Malnutrition produces metabolic imbalances which, in turn, cause fluid retention which manifests as weight increase. Fluid retention worsens over time if the metabolism isn’t balanced. While the metabolism is balancing itself, your weight will fluctuate up and down a bit. This is normal so don’t be concerned. When the metabolism has fully balanced, your weight will normalise, this should take only three to six weeks. Don’t get on the scales during this time.
We are what we think. If you focus on over-weight and get emotional (depressed) about it, over-weight is what you will get. If you put the scales away and focus on getting healthy and get emotional (excited) about it, optimum health is what you will get. Optimum body weight and shape is a spin-off of optimum health. To help ease your worries about putting on weight with these programs, don’t eat any nuts, limit your bread intake to two slices per day (eaten in the middle of the day) and don’t eat deep fried foods. Include nuts when your weight has normalised. If your weight doesn’t normalise on the Metabolism-Balancing Program you are retaining fluid because of Candida and/or allergies. The weight will normalise when they’re treated.
Q. I haven’t lost the weight I expected to on the Anti-Candida Program. Why haven’t I lost weight?
A. Reduce the size of your meals by 40 per cent. Over-size meals is the main reason body weight doesn’t normalise on these programs. Cut out nuts and deep fried foods until your weight normalises.
Q. If Formula Six is a concentrated food will I put on weight if I take them regularly? Do they contain many calories?
A. The calorie content of Formula Six is minuscule. It helps you lose weight by helping to raise your metabolic rate. It will never put weight on.
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As with the Metabolism-Balancing Program you can mix and match your breakfast options on this program. Amend these options to keep high and moderate amine and salicylate foods out for the first four weeks.
OPTION 1
Untoasted whole meal bread (one to three slices) made from wheat, rice, soy, millet, buckwheat or arrowroot Hour, depending on what allergies, if any, you have. Have a thin spread of butter (if you are not allergic to milk and have normal cholesterol levels) on your bread, though it is preferable to use cold pressed oil (olive oil is best unless you have a known salicylate sensitivity). Brush the oil on the bread.
Egg may be had on the bread if you are not allergic: to it and your cholesterol levels are normal. Tahini, almond, cashew or hazelnut paste of butter may be used, but no peanut butter. Peanuts grow in the soil and have mould growing on them. Canned tuna, sardine or salmon (done in brine [salt and water] only—not oil) may also be eaten. Tomato and onion may be added for flavour. Candida Killer sandwich filling may be used on the bread if desired. Consult the amine and salicylate lists at the back of the book. I have only cashew butter and soya oil for the first four weeks. After the first four weeks you may toast the bread.
OPTION 2
Any of the toppings from Option 1 on two to four brown rice cake/ wafers (the big round ones from the health store) instead of the unleavened bread or unleavened bread toast. Candida Killer sandwich filling may be used on top if desired, but only after the first four weeks, when high amines and salicylates are allowed on the program.
OPTION 3
A bowl (as big as you like) of puffed brown rice (rice bubbles) from the health store with either freshly juiced carrot juice or soya milk over the top. This tastes great with nuts and seeds added. Be careful with soymilk though. The palatable ones tend to be thickened and sweetened with malt, maltose, maltodextrose and other sugar derivatives. Check with the manufacturer, and if it contains any ingredient that ends in -os, -ose, -one, ona or -ol it’s sugared—don’t have it. Wheat bran may be added. No carrot juice and only cashew nuts for the first four weeks.
OPTION 4
A bowl of cooked millet, buckwheat or brown rice with butter melted over it (if you are not allergic to milk), though preferably cold pressed vegetable oil. Olive oil is best. Wheat bran may be added. Use soya oil until the inclusion of amines and salicylates is permitted.
OPTION 5
Raw nuts, such as almonds, cashews, brazil nuts, hazelnuts, walnuts, sunflower or sesame seeds (no peanuts—they have mould on them). Have as much as you feel you need without overdoing it. Don’t have less than 60 g (2 oz). Cashews only for the first four weeks.
OPTION 6
A fresh fruit salad (no dried fruit and not from a fast food outlet), using any variety of fresh fruit except grapes, bananas and melons (all melons). You may have any of the nuts and seeds mentioned in Option 5 over the top—60 g (2 oz). Puffed brown rice bubbles may also be put over the top. A dressing of cold pressed oil and lemon juice may be used. Apricot kernel oil goes well with fruit salad, as do sunflower, sesame and safflower oils. Wheat bran may be added. Don’t have fruit for lunch if you had it for breakfast. You may only have pears (peeled), golden delicious apples (peeled), pomegranate and cashews for the first four weeks.
OPTION 7
Stewed fresh fruit. Nuts, seeds and brown puffed rice may be added. No dried fruit. Wheat bran may be added. Remember: Some time during this twelve week program you have to be off all fruit for four weeks and all milk for six weeks. It’s preferable to go off them simultaneously, though not imperative. You may go off each one at separate times.
OPTION 8
Savoury mince (non-amine/salicylate version for first four weeks) on toast or bread or as a filling in a homemade pie or pancake or over noodles, brown rice or kasha. No toast for first four weeks.
OPTION 9
Three or four whole fresh fruits and 60-90 g (2 -3 oz) of nuts and seeds, any variety according to any allergies that may exist. No melons, grapes or bananas. You can’t have this option during your four weeks off fruit.
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This is the name given to the major metabolic imbalances caused by excess cortisone. The symptoms of Cushing’s syndrome are:
1. The removal of fat from the arms and legs, which is deposited on the upper back and shoulders (buffalo hump), the torso and the abdomen.
2. The face develops a moon shape, due to the deposition of fat and the retention of fluid.
3. The skin becomes very thin due to the dissolution of the collagen and elastin. It bruises easily and tears, giving rise to stretch marks. Sores appear in the advanced stages.
4. The muscles become thin and weak, due to dissolved collagen.
5. The bones become thin and weak, due to a lack of calcium (osteoporosis).
6. Stomach ulcers develop.
7. Resistance to infections, allergies and cancer is significantly reduced.
8. The ageing process is significantly accelerated.
The sad thing about cortisone drugs is that they only treat the symptoms of allergy, not the cause. By the time you have developed the full-blown symptoms of Cushing’s syndrome you still have your original allergies, only by this time they are usually worse. You are in a double lose situation as you have added a disease that is far more debilitating than your allergies.
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