Don Colbert - Dr. Colbert’s Keto Zone Diet: Burn Fat, Balance Appetite Hormones, and Lose Weight

DR. COLBERTS

KETO ZONE DIET

DR. COLBERTS

KETO ZONE DIET

Burn Fat, Balance Appetite Hormones, and Lose Weight

DON COLBERT, MD

Copyright 2017 by Don Colbert, M.D.

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Names: Colbert, Don, author.

Title: Keto zone diet : burn fat, balance hormones, and lose weight / Don Colbert, M.D.

Description: Franklin, TN : Worthy, [2017]

Identifiers: LCCN 2017020127 | ISBN 9781683970248 (hardback)

Subjects: LCSH: Ketogenic diet. | Reducing diets. | BISAC: HEALTH & FITNESS / Nutrition.

Classification: LCC RC374.K46 C65 2017 | DDC 613.2/5--dc23

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Medical Disclaimer: Because each individual is different and has particular dietary needs or restrictions, the dieting and nutritional information provided in this book does not constitute professional advice and is not a substitute for expert medical advice. Individuals should always check with a doctor before undertaking a dieting, weight loss, or exercise regimen and should continue only under a doctors supervision. While we provide the advice and information in this book in the hopes of helping individuals improve their overall health, multiple factors influence a persons results, and individual results may vary. When a doctors advice to a particular individual conflicts with advice provided in this book, that individual should always follow the doctors advice. Patients should not stop taking any of their medications without the consultation of their physician.

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To my patients who have trusted me with their very lives. Some, with the very principles outlined in this book, were able to beat the diseases that ravaged their bodies.

Others were able to lose excess weight, even the stubborn belly fat that seemed impossible to lose, and achieve their ideal weight. For many, it was not just reaching a weight they needed, it was achieving the weight they wanted, and that was far more exciting.

Still others have been able to cure, treat, or manage a host of preventable diseases, chronic diseases, and even some hereditary diseases. Ive said for many years that genetics load the gun, but your environmentwhat you eat and your lifestylepulls the trigger.

If something ails you, this book may help.

This book is also dedicated to my fellow practicing doctors who give their lives for the betterment of their fellow man. Keep up the good work!

CONTENTS

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

THIS BEING A UNIQUE BOOK, one that has so much potential to change our lives, homes, futures, pocketbooks, communities, and world, I wanted to begin with a few special acknowledgments (confessions, really) that I hope will help you.

I acknowledge:

I used to recommend the usual high-carb, low-fat diet to my patients.

I used to prescribe the normal statin drugs to lower my patients cholesterol.

I used to fear fat.

I used to suffer from psoriasis over most of my body, and did so for more than twelve years.

I used to have very little in the line of defense against the disease that killed my father: Alzheimers.

However, that is no longer the case. Now, I see food and use food for what it can be the best medicine in the world for everything that ails us.

From head to toe, the results have been astounding!

DR. COLBERTS

KETO ZONE DIET

INTRODUCTION

LOSING WEIGHT, getting healthy, and staying fit come down to a belief system. That is because we all choose to do whatever we believe in. Obviously, believing that eating donuts is a valid weight-loss strategy does not make it so, no matter how much we hope it to be true. The point is, our choices directly affect our actions and are influenced by what we believe. We choose to do whatever we believe in.

The challenge is, what do you do when the rules change?

Take eggs for example. For decades, we were taught that egg yolks were bad for us because they contain cholesterol. Like many people, I would eat one yolk and three egg whites, and I recommended that to my patients. After all, cholesterol is bad, right?

Well, things change.

According to the 2015 Dietary Guidelines for Americans published by the Office of Disease Prevention and Health Promotion, it is now okay to eat the whole egg. In fact, you can now eat as many whole eggs as you want. The rules changed!

We are so used to eggs being bad guys that now we are faced with a choice: believe what we were taught since the 1950s or accept the new reality that whole eggs are in fact healthy.

What to do? What to believe? Naturally, what you choose to believe will be your course of action.

This eggs-are-now-healthy breakthrough is just one of countless examples. What is happening on a much bigger scale is that the much-touted high-carb, low-fat healthy lifestyle is springing leaks. Holes are appearing in this rusty metal tub of a belief system. The ship is sinking. And it is time to abandon ship as quickly as you can.

It is a paradigm shift, and it is happening now. It will take time for new breakthroughs to be tested and retested, and even more time for the public to be informed through the slow-to-change medical community and government agencies.

One of my professors in medical school explained that in about ten years, half of what we were being taught would be outdated and pretty much of no value. He noted, The problem is we dont know which half that is.

Eventually, though, public opinion will shift. People will understand and accept the new paradigm, and then they will choose to take action. Unfortunately, that will take a very long time, and time is a commodity many of us do not have.

For years I have treated patients who suffered from advanced cancers, obesity, type 2 diabetes, heart disease, mental illness, and much more. They needed help yesterday so they could be on the road to healing today. They were desperate, and they had no time to wait!