Fit for Life
by Harvey Diamond, Marilyn Diamond
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Author: Harvey Diamond, Marilyn DiamondIntroduction: Kay S. Lawerence
Edition: Mass Market Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 1987-02-01
ISBN: 0446300152
Number of pages: 316
Publisher: Warner Books, Inc.
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Book Review: Fit For Life is not a diet as much as it is a program for "living health"
Summary: 5 Stars
When I was around 13, I bought and read Suzanne Somers' book, "Suzanne Somers' Eat Great, Lose Weight", and figured this could be a good weight loss method, and this was when I really bought into the whole science behind proper food combining. So I took Suzanne's advice and tried her methods, with good results. So I had proved to myself that it works, you see I've had ulcers in my stomach since I was a child, and this was because of how I treated my body. Combining my foods had worsened this x100, so the method of proper food combining had been a Godsend. However, I was not always successful, due to my issues with overeating(and strong desire to combine for pleasure reasons). Fast foward, and at this point I'm 14, and my mother said she wasn't going to keep watching me do this, she told me I need to either stick to it or quit, so despite her lack of belief in me, I went 2 years without even a grain of sugar, I combined properly(for the most part) the whole time, and never slipped once.
Fit For Life, authored by Harvey and Marylin Diamond, is based upon proper eating habits. More than likely everyone you know, and everyone I know, combines their foods not only because this is custom, but also because it's what their doctors recommend. Here in Canada we have the "Canada Food Guide", and on it there is a graph that features all of the basic food groups that they claim everyone needs to partake in for optimal health. They say you should eat a lot of dairy products for calcium, when, if you look at the allergy rates, you are safer getting your calcium from vegetables and high quality supplements. That and these days, our foods are so depleted in nutrients that we, at least in my personal opinion, need to take supplements to fill the gap.
I've had a lot of doctors in my lifetime, and most of them have similar opinions, and none of them agree with Fit For Life. However, do not think that eating this way is the only possible way of being a healthy person. I know of many healthy people who do combine their foods. That said, you can be healther than those people if you do combine your foods properly. Proper food combination is a very simple science, anyone can pick up the book and learn exactly what to do, no sweat. Here is a small list of the main parts of the program I adhere to.
1. Eat acids and starches at separate meals. Acids neutralize the alkaline required for starch digestion. You don't want indigestion, and you certainly don't want the food to ferment in your stomach.
2. Eat proteins and carbohydrates at separate meals. Proteins require acid for digestion.
3. Eat only one kind of protein at a meal.
4. Eat fruits and proteins at separate meals.
5. Do not consume cooked fruits or juices. It's straight acid, the fruit is dead, it's one of the worst things you could do to your body.
6. Eat only fruit until noon.
This is essentially the part of the science that I adhere to, there are some heavier requirements that I just can't handle. Like not putting melon with my other fruits, melon combines with almost no other foods, but I make it an acception. I also make the acception of putting say, butter with meats and poultry, this is an issue of two different acids. It is important, and I may try to incorporate this for the future.
But essentially, doing this program, and provided I do not over do the flesh and fat consumption, my ulcers always, without fail, shrink and do not bother me. I don't take antacids, I don't need that stuff, and you shouldn't either! We're the only species on earth that has to run to the medicine cabinet in desperate pain after every meal. Now why is that? I believe it's a number of things. Firstly, it's overloading your system, not just combining, but overeating, because you can combine properly but overeat to the point where yes you will be sick. You do not want to overload your body with meat on a constant basis, small portions make a world of difference. Personally I eat fruit in the morning and daytime, and then have either a flesh or carb meal for supper. And that's it. This way, I keep my calories down, and I don't overload my body during the daytime, because eating fruit alone all day requires such little processing in the system, it's a cleanser. I cannot stress enough the fact that fruit is the most important and essential food you could possibly put into your body. It's not flesh products, and it's not even vegetables(although these are extremely important), it's fruit. It's apples, it's oranges, it's grapes and kiwi's, and melons, and cherries. And I'm not talking about cooked juice, that dead weight, I'm talking about real fresh fruits that contain water that is even more important than the water that comes out of your purified supply.
For every philosophy, for every science, there is a skeptic, there is a critic. Let me tell you, I was one of the biggest critics of this way of eating, do you know why? Because I was ignorant, I shot my mouth off before even reading about it. Yes it may sound like quackery to anyone who has never heard of it, but I don't ask you to believe me, just take two weeks of your valuable time and life and devote it to the principles of proper food combining, and prove it to yourself.
My one recommendation is that you ease yourself into this, do not think you can do it all at once, I learned that lesson the hard way. The other thing is that, while Fit For Life advocates vegetarianism as the best choice for optimal bodily health, it also says God bless you if you go the opposite route. I know for myself, I want to eat meat and poultry, so I do. And Fit For Life doesn't tell me I'm not allowed or that I can't be healthy this way, because it's all about moderation within the basic guidelines. If you do go vegetarian, just know that not eating meat does not mean you'll be healthy, because I know some very sickly vegetarians. They consume so much crap every day, pop, chips, candy, that's junk. Eat fruits and vegetables, you can live off of that, and you'd be the healther person for it.
Fit For Life is a book worth owning, it isn't expensive, and it contains priceless information about a great way of eating, a way of eating that promotes optimal bodily function and "living health". This book is a straight dose of common sense, and absolutely everyone I know of who has used the program has done well on it. It is informative and well written, there is personality injected into every chapter, and you should go out and spend $10 on this and Fit For Life II, the sequel to Fit For Life, for next level "living health" options and information.
Simply put, there isn't a book I'd recommend more.
Summary of Fit for Life
Nutrition specialists Harvey and Marilyn Diamond prove that it's not only what we eat, but also when and how that keep us trim and healthy. America's #1 health and diet book."It is not only what you eat that makes the difference, but also of extreme importance is when you eat it and in what combinations," say Harvey and Marilyn Diamond, authors of this classic bestseller. Their program results in eating balanced, nutritious, high-fiber foods, making dieting "unnecessary and as obsolete as sealing wax."
The Diamonds explain that body functions have a daily cycle: noon to 8 p.m.-- appropriation (eating and digestion); 8 p.m. to 4 a.m.--assimilation (absorption and use); 4 a.m. to noon--elimination (of body wastes and food debris). Fit for Life aims to return you to a lifestyle based on your natural body cycles. That means 70 percent of your diet should be "high-water-content foods"--fruits and vegetables--which facilitate all body functions. Consume nothing but fruit or fruit juice until noon, then eat salad and vegetables with every meal for the rest of the day.
Two-thirds of the book is explanation and discussion; one-third is menu plans and recipes. You won't be hungry, your food choices will be healthy, and you'll lose weight without dieting. --Joan Price
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