Fight Fat at Its True Source . . . Your Cells. An M.I.T.-Trained Scientist Explains the ONE Secret You Need to Know to Lose Weight and Keep It Off. Raymond Francis is the scientist people turn to when diets don't work. His groundbreaking approach treats excess weight for what it reall y is--a disease caused by malfunctioning cells. As Francis explains, many of the foods we eat every day, especially the 'health' and 'diet' ones we dutifully buy to lose weight, have the opposite effect . Full of hidden toxins and lacking nutrients, they actually poison your cells and alter your weight-control genes, causing your body to put on the pounds. Like he's done for thousands of other people, Raymond Francis can help you turn this fat cycle around and reclaim your waistline--and your health. His simple yet scientifically supported plan will have you looking and feeling better than you have in years-- in just six weeks. You'll discover: Which low-fat and no-fat products actually make you fatter How one missing nutrient can signal your body to store fat Which food additives are most toxic--and how to spot them on a label The 'Big 4' worst foods to eat--with delicious and nutritious alternatives How to sneak more fiber- and nutrient-rich foods into your day Plus, delicious recipes for meals and snacks and week-by-week to-do lists to keep you on track Your body already knows how to regulate its weight--you just need to give it a fighting chance. Now you can--for life.

Raymond Francis is an internationally recognized leader in the field of optimal-health maintenance. He is the author of the bestselling books Never Be Sick Again and Never Be Fat Again as well as Never Fear Cancer Again, a breakthrough book on how to prevent and reverse cancer. Francis is the creator of a revolutionary and simplified understanding of disease, the Beyond Health Model, which employs the concept of One Disease with Two Causes and Six Pathways. After a miraculous recovery from a terminal disease diagnosis in 1985, Francis devoted himself to improving the health of people everywhere. At the robust age of 76, Raymond Francis is president of Beyond Health International, a supplier of highly advanced health education and world class health-supporting products to the public and the publisher of Beyond Health Newsclips, a newsletter supplying advanced health information. An in-demand speaker, Francis has been a guest on over 2,000 radio and television shows. His books have been translated into Chinese, Polish, Romanian, French and Turkish.

Excerpt from Never be Fat AgainToxins Make You Sickùand Fatter Toxins in our food and in our environment play an important role in our overweight epidemic by distorting the body's ability to control both appetite and weight. Common food additives such as MSG and aspartame can make us feel hungry even when we do not need food. Chemicals used in common plastics such as phthalates and bisphenyl-A, as well as PCBs and solvents, are also associated with weight gain. Animals exposed to pesticides can experience huge weight gains without any increase in caloric intake. Domesticated animals are fed growth promoters to fatten them up, but when you eat their meat you ingest those growth promoters, and they fatten you up. Even prescription drugs, including antihistamines, antidepressants, anti-inflammatories and hormones, can cause weight gain. The effects of toxins are magnified when poor diets deprive us of the essential nutrients that our detoxification systems need in order to remove toxins from our bodies. A major source of dietary toxins is processed junk food. Processed foods, from breakfast cereals to hot dogs to dinner helpers, are loaded with toxic artificial preservatives, colorings, and flavorings, plus nitrites, MSG, artificial sweeteners, and many other toxins. As toxins accumulate in our bodies, normal cell function is increasingly impaired, and premature aging along with health problems of every description, including overweight, result. Fighting Fat as a Disease All of us started life as a single cell, the smallest unit of life in the plant and animal kingdom. A mature body is made up of between 50 and 100 trillion such cells. Each cell is an individual unit of life that is part of a communityùtrillions of cells communicating and cooperating with each other. When our cells are healthy and functioning normally, the entire community functions harmoniously. When this happens, we say the body is in homeostasis, meaning that our body is in balance and able to function at its highest potential. Health is the state in which all cells are functioning optimally, communicating and cooperating with each other, and the body is self-repairing, self-regulating, and balanced. Being overweight is a diseased state where there is massive cellular malfunction resulting in injured molecules and cells, oxidized fats, cross-linked proteins, nutrient deficiencies, depleted enzymes, and metabolic chaos in general. In most cases, dieting only makes this situation worse. No matter what name you give to a disease, the essence of disease is that a massive number of cells are no longer functioning normally; they are no longer properly communicating, self-regulating, and self-repairing. Getting well or losing weight permanently requires that this be reversed. When a person's cells are no longer operating normally, it can manifest as a common cold, the flu, polio, heart disease, arthritis, osteoporosis, diabetes, cancer, depression, or any other so-ca

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Excerpted from Never Be Fat Again: The 6-Week Cellular Solution to Permanently Break the Fat Cycle by Raymond Francis, Michelle King
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