This is an excerpt from my Elimination Diet. You Need To Hear This Today!
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(This section wasn’t in the first couple of editions of the elimination diet.)
Not because it wasn’t important, it is. It’s vitally important.
I kept it from the first editions because, to be honest, I was worried about how my readers would feel about what I had to say.
That they’d stop reading.
That they’d quit the diet before they even started it out of some knee-jerk reaction to my words.
I guess I chickened out.
But now that I’ve had over 42,000 people successfully use the diet I feel I’m ready to say what’s on my mind.
Here it is.
Ready?
If you’re fatter than you should be, if your skin is poorer, your hair more brittle, your energy is lower, your mood lower, your blood pressure higher, your muscles weaker, your bones more brittle or your immune system poorer then…
…It’s YOUR Fault!
I’m not judging you, I’m merely stating a fact, so don’t overreact and quit reading. If you do, you’ll miss why it’s your fault and, more importantly, what you can do about it.
Look, here’s the truth about health.
The truth that hardly anyone out there seems to want to address or talk about, but the one that can and will make all the difference to both the quality AND quantity of your life… if you act upon it.
The truth is, your health is YOUR responsibility.
It’s not the government’s job to keep you healthy.
The government is merely a large ‘for profit’ company of sorts that does what it can to ensure that the profit and loss accounts of a nation remain balanced.
Even if a government could tell you exactly what, when and how much to eat (which they can’t even agree on), you know you’d cry ‘nanny state’ or whinge, whine and moan about freedom of choice and ignore what you were told anyway, right?
You know you would!
Don’t believe me?
How many of the current government nutrition guidelines are you following right now?
See, what I mean?
It’s not the medical community’s job to keep you healthy.
As much as doctors are widely regarded as health experts, the truth is that most of them know very little at all about health. Doctors are, in fact, experts in illness and disease.
When you’re already sick or badly injured a doctor may well be the best person to go to but in terms of maintaining or improving health they know very little indeed. For example, a recent study paper showed that 75% medical schools surveyed failed to reach their quota of 25 hours of nutrition education during the entire 4 year course.
We’re talking about doctors here!
Most of them have not had a single week of nutrition education during their entire educational and professional careers. And if their nutritional education is lacking, their knowledge exercise and fitness is practically non-existent.
Still think it’s your doctors’ job to keep you healthy?
It’s not the media’s job to keep you healthy.
As obvious as that statement is, there are still far, far too many people who get their ‘health’ advice from magazines, daytime TV shows and celebrity watching through the media.
They reason (I guess) that if it’s on TV or in the papers it must be true yet, if it were then it wouldn’t change from week to week would it?
You wouldn’t follow high protein one week and macrobiotic the next just because some Hollywood celebrity was reported to be following it would you?
Yeah, right!
Look, the media are about one thing and one thing only; selling their stories to magazines, radio or TV. It’s not about what’s the best, what’s the safest or even what’s the fastest.
They’re about one thing above all. News. But news doesn’t make you healthy does it?
Nor does following a dietary regime simply because someone from a movie is doing it (Besides, they neglected to tell you about the 2 hours a day with their trainer, the 1 hour a day of yoga, biking for 45 minutes, their afternoon massage and their sauna and steam that they were doing alongside their ‘miracle’ cookie diet!).
It’s not the food producers’ job to keep you healthy.
The food producers aren’t interested in keeping you healthy. They’re interested in keeping you spending!
Who do you think it was that created all the e-numbers, long worded ingredients you can’t pronounce, additives and addictives to your food in the first place?
Who do you think it was that spent BILLIONS each and every year to practically hypnotize you into eating it?
Who stands to lose out if you stop buying denatured, additive enhanced, nutrient poor foods?
So not only isn’t it their job to ensure you have clean, good, wholesome food, it’s not even in their best interests to do so!
See, that’s what I mean about it being your fault because it’s clearly not theirs!
But maybe the word ‘fault’ is a little to strong. Maybe I should have just said ‘responsibility’.
Yeah, that’s more like it.
YOU are responsible for your health. No-one else.
YOU are the only person who can do anything at all about making and keeping yourself healthy across the course of your life and when you’re not it’s because you’ve handed over responsibility to someone else.
Don’t pretend you didn’t know this…
Let’s not kid ourselves any longer.
When it comes to what you’re eating on a day to day basis, you know exactly what’s right and what’s wrong don’t you?
You know, for instance that including plenty of fresh fruit and vegetables into your diet every day is a step in the right direction, right?
Sure you do, there’s not a single person on the planet, kids included, that doesn’t know this yet for some reason it’s a conveniently forgotten truth when it comes to shopping for groceries.
You know also (even if you’re vegan or vegetarian) that a diet that includes fresh meat, fish and poultry is superior in quality that has been allowed to roam free and graze on grass and grain is healthier than animals that are farmed intensively, injected with antibiotics and steroids and fed on animal remains and ‘slops’, yet you still buy the awful stuff ‘because it’s cheaper’.
You’ve known all along that a bunch of food additives that make your drinks and candies fluorescent blue and ‘taste funny’ aren’t good for you haven’t you?
Yet you still buy them for yourself and your kids ‘because they like them’.
You also know that a diet high in sugar is bad for you don’t you? You’ve both seen ad felt its effects in both yourself and others and have often commented that you ‘really should cut down’ but, for some reason, you never really get around to it.
And you’ve certainly known for some time that there are certain things, certain foods and drinks that when you take them just make you feel YUK!
Yet you, like most other people, continue to eat them and drink them because you say you like them when, in truth, you’re addicted to them… and you know that too!
So, you see, its not that you don’t know what to do. You do, and you have all along.
The trouble is, you don’t do what you know.
Worse, you don’t do what you know and you make all kinds of excuses about why you can’t or why it wouldn’t work for you even if you did.
The truth is, if you did what you know you need to do, what your instincts have told you many times that you need to do then you’d see results.
But you’re not… so you don’t.
Time to stop pretending!
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Have YOUR Say!
What do you think about what’s been said here?
Is it right on or way off… and why?
C’mon, I’m a big boy. I can take it : )
Dax Moy
The UK’s Leading
Personal Trainer
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Way to go! Finally somebody is saying it like it is! That’s what has me scratching my head over the entire healthcare debate. The government is NOT responsible for my health. And, frankly, no matter what kind of healthcare junk they pass, they never will be. And medical doctors do NOT know what’s best for me. Neither do the pharmaceutical companies. If they had their way, we’d all be on statin drugs to drive our cholesterol lower than God ever intended it to be – even the children! People have got to stop looking at the government to “bail them out” with their health and start taking some responsibility for their own lives. Like you said … we all know what to do. We’ve got to start doing it.
I agree with you. Right now in the US we have a huge debate going on about health care and forcing the government to take over the system or not. The major causes of sickness/disease in this country are obesity (caused by poor diet and lack of exercise) and abuse of tobacco. Eating a diet high in processed, non-nutritive foods, sitting for hours in front of a TV or video game console, and not getting outside are choices that most people are making for themselves – (and then the liberals are expecting other taxpayers to foot their medical bills). I say “most” not “all” because there are children being brought up in these unhealthy environments who really don’t have a say-so about what gets put on their plate. A lifestyle of poor diet and inactivity is being modeled for them and they need to be educated them on proper body care. Instead, our school cafeteria for the most part offer lousy selections so that the kids on the free or low-cost lunch programs have no choice but to eat crap. Many schools no longer have a physical education program worsening the situation.
Aside from children who have no choice because of their environment, adults are making these choices. They are choosing to be “too busy” to take care of themselves, too lazy to get outside and take a walk, and too ready to place the blame on any one or everyone else for their poor health.
I agree, as parents we’re taking our children’s health in our hands with every choice we make about what they eat. More education is required all round in order to ensure the health of our kids once they reach adulthood.
Saying yes to all the (excuse me) crap foods that are on the supermarket shelves is the same as saying no to keeping our kids healthy.
Dax
Spend your dollars at the grocery, not the doctor! Whole foods rule.
We have a pharmacy in our fridge, a pharmacy in ourfood cupboard and another pharmacy yet outside in nature…
… but the healthcare professionals and the healthcare industry won’t let us know about it
not good for their wallets 
I would not reduce the entire healthcare debate anywhere in the world to that issue (it is much larger than just that), but it’s true that part of keeping healthcare costs down for society as well as part of being healthier and happier ourselves lies in getting better food and more exercise and doing wha’ts right to our own health – a lot of it starts just there
And no one can do what’s right for us in our own place if we don’t do it ourselves
Dax you know I love you and, even though I completely agree with your post, there is something missing at the end.
But let me be clear about something first. Our health, our relationships, our financial situation and ultimately our life, are OUR responsibility. No one else’s. If someone doesn’t like their life or some aspect of it, they really have no one else to blame for it. Every choice they made, or didn’t make, has led them where they are today.
But what happens when people DO make changes to their diet and lifestyle, but do not get the results they should? It happens all the time and my files are full of these people – men and women who are lunging, squatting and deadlifting in the gym, following a pristine diet, but aren’t getting any results.
In fact, “experts” send me their clients when they can’t get results with their clients. I say this not to brag (I’m actually quite humbled by it), but it proves that fat loss is more than just diet and exercise. These are people I would turn to for cutting-edge diet and exercise information.
Here is the main point that is completely missing in the diet and exercise industry: One’s physiology dictates how well diet and exercise will work for them. Put another way, diet and exercise will only work to the degree that your body allows it to.
You’re a car guy, so let me ask – what happens when you take a high performance vehicle and put low octane gas in it. Will it still run? Yes, but not to its performance potential.
Similarly, you can put someone on a diet and exercise program and they might lose a little weight, but not as much as they could if their body was working properly. And by body I mean hormones, blood sugar, oxygen, gut function, etc.
If someone isn’t dieting and exercising well, I don’t want to talk with them about their fat loss troubles. They need to take responsibility, stop making excuses, create a plan and get to it.
But once they do that and they are not getting results, which again I see ALL the time, it’s time to look deeper into their physiology and what is stopping them from losing weight. This is when I say it’s not their fault.
I’ll finish by giving you an example. You have kids so you can appreciate this. Let’s say you bought a plant for your house. Everyone knows it needs sunshine and water to grow, so you do that, but in a couple weeks it starts dying. So you give it a little more sunshine and water, and it still continues to die. Then one day you wake up and you see your son spraying Windex on it, thinking he’s watering it for you. Was that your fault? No. But it IS your responsibility.
Everyone knows that diet and exercise are necessary for fat loss. But sometimes there are unseen factors that stop those tools from working. It’s not our fault, but it is our responsibility.
I hope you and those you love are well, Dax. You make the world a better place just by being here. (Even if your blog misses a couple points.
Dr. Bryan Walsh
http://www.fatisNOTyourfault.com
Hey Bryan
You’re 100% right. It DOES miss a couple of points…’cos I’ve not gotten to them yet
Like you, I use physiological and endocrinological screening with my clients to make sure that they are able to actually absorb and utilise the foods they eat. It’s very possible for people to eat a perfectly well balanced and nutritional meal yet get little if any benefit from it, as you know already.
Similarly, overall calorie consumption is a red herring too (but I’ll get to that in a future post).
Cellular physiology, as you correctly state, dictates what will be assimilated and what will be rejected but, and this is important, optimal physiology works in an optimal environment which is, in turn, created by the foods we eat, the drugs we take, the chemicals we interact with and the environment itself. We have the ability to choose all of these things as they pertain to our health, yet most people (despite being made aware of the changes they COULD make) do nothing to improve their circumstances.
Worse, the tendency is to blow off the genuine health advice as ‘faddy crap’ whilst at the same time wondering what new diet Angelina is on this month.
This is, unfortunately, where most people are today in terms of thinking about their health. This is why it IS their fault.
Failing to think for yourself and failing to act on what your gut (excuse the pun) tells you puts the responsibility squarely on your own shoulders.
Take responsibility. Do everything within your power to remove as many of the things that are contributing to your ill health (including being over-fat) and you’ll find that much of the physiological rebalancing has taken place already. Then experts such as yourself (and me) can fine tune the physiology through endocrine stimulation and re-integration
orthomolecular nutrition, biochemical typing and other efficacious systems.
You can’t rebalance physiology on a diet of denatured, processed, chemically enhanced, food colouring saturated, synthetic vitamin loaded foods, right?
We sing from the same hymn-sheet, I know
Thanks for taking the time for injecting some of your wisdom my friend.
Dax
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Right on, Dax.
Whole, un-processed, macronutrient and glycemically balanced, organic diet first. A good quality, properly prescribed and executed exercise program second. And a happy, gratitude-based, attitude underlying it all are the keys to success.
Once those are in place, if someone is not getting results, it’s time to dig deeper.
Too bad you’re across the pond – it would fun to do something together sometime.
Be well,
Dr. Bryan Walsh
http://www.fatisnotyourfault.com
Too true!
Then again… we can STILL do something : )
OK,
Totally agree with what you say & I finally have got round to this way of thinking. I am one of these lazy people who having lost my job a few years back slowly retreated into a daily routine of eating quick n simple foods & drinking cider every day.
Sorted myself out now, largely thanks to you Dax I am close to getting a new job now too. My biggest issue is that in todays society they make the stuff thats good for you so expensive & the stuff that is bad for you is so cheap.
It should be the other way around!!! Make the prices of quarter pounders with cheese about £10 lets see how many parents take their kids to macburgers then.
Following your diet is fairly easy for me as I have my goals but it is difficult for me to get a wide variety of fruit n veg for the money I get in benefits.
So hope to get back to work soon then I can really start getting more exciting & interesting foods.
The only thing I find difficult is getting 6Litres of water in me a day (I started this diet at 340 lbs!!)
keep up the good motivating Dax you r helping me greatly
I am one of those people that eat whole natural organic foods, nothing processed or refined. I exercise daily doing kettlebells, running, and some powerlifting lifts and can not lose weight to save my life (literally). The only beverage I drink is water; no alcohol, soda, or anything with sugar. I have had blood test and everything seems to be fine. What would you recommend?
Dax and Bryan – it would be so cool if you would do something together! You are both great, and the two of you together would be dynamite! So get going…. the world needs you!
Sounds to me like this is an endocrine (hormonal) problem Tasha. (Though I’m not a doctor and allowed to diagnose, remember)
Blood tests only show blood serum levels of hormones NOT whether or not those hormones are being active on cells, which is a completely different matter.
To be honest, I’d look at what you’re supplementing… or not.
Hormones can only bind with their cellular receptors of the mineral catalysts are in place to make this possible.
A good ‘beginner’ supplement program might look something like this:
High dose B complex
Vitamin C supplement 1000mg taken in 2 500mg doses across the day,
Magnesium – taken around 1hr before bed
Zinc – taken around 1 hr before bed
Calcium – at around 5 or 6pm
Fish oils
Check with your doc before taking this program but they should be fine… they’re just vitamins and minerals
Dax
How high of a dose of B Complex and what should I look for? How much calcium and fish oils? I have read so many conflicting things about which fish is right or wrong so any help on that would be greatly appreciated. Thank you so much for all the inspiration and motivation. The Elimination Diet really has changed the way I look at food and my body. Thanks again.