Diamond Harvey - Fit For Life

All diets work and all diets fail, but here at last is hope for anyone who wants to achieve and maintain permanent weight loss.

Fit for Life is a revolutionary diet and lifestyle programme that allows you to eat unlimited portions of the foods you like and leads you to new levels of overall good health and wellbeing. As you finally put an end to all those years of boring calorie counting and damaging yo-yo dieting, this simple, natural Fit for Life reveals...

• the three vital principles to bring permanent weight loss and high energy
• the secrets of timing and food combining that work with your natural body cycles
• how and when to exercise safely and effectively
• a complete four-week meal plan, menus, delicious recipes and essential shopping tips.

Fast, effective and easy to follow, the internationally acclaimed Fit for Life is your answer to a healthier, more vibrant life. Dont you owe it to yourself to begin today?

Contents

This book is lovingly dedicated to our three wonderful children, Greg, Lisa and Beau. And to all the children of the world whose health we have an obligation to insure.

WE WISH TO express our deep gratitude to Joanie Prather, Robbie Levin, Russ Regan, Bonnie and M. C. Ayers, and especially to the teachers of Siddha Yoga whose combined efforts helped us make this information available to the public.

Many thanks to our editor, Patti Breitman, whose grasp, understanding, and belief in our work played such an important role in bringing this book to fruition. Also to the other editors, publicists, and staff at Warner Books whose talents, expertise, and professionalism assisted so greatly in the preparation and presentation of the book.

We also wish to thank Irene Webb and Mel Berger of the William Morris Agency for seeing the value of our work and getting others to do the same.

Special thanks also to the greatest P.R. man anywhere, anytime, Norman Winter.

IT IS ALMOST an accepted consequence of modern life that we will succumb to some type of degenerative illness sooner than we would like. However, there is also a parallel interest in finding a way to avoid what seems inevitable. As a consequence many people have quit smoking, taken up exercise, changed their diet and in general tried to take more responsibility toward prevention of illness.

The wonderful thing about the FIT FOR LIFE program is that it can be an excellent beginning along the road to health. Many people will take it up as a weight loss program, and for that it does indeed work. But more importantly it is the first step in what can be a progression to a healthier and more productive life. There are side effects to this diet: anyone who is overweight will lose weight. One will feel an increase in energy and well-being, and symptoms of disease often abate. The human body is designed for activity. Just as a muscle atrophies without use, so do all of the bodily functions. Taking drugs, eating processed foods, having a sedentary job or going everywhere by car, all cause a stagnation in certain physiological activities. The vitality and energy available as a result of eating live foods usually cause a desire for more activity. Especially if one takes up a balanced form of exercise this in turn leads to improved circulation, which is essentially the basis of health.

It is a fact that more and more people today are becoming interested in nutrition. Probably because of this there are endless books, fads and formulas on nutrition and weight loss. One can get lost and confused by all the conflicting theories. I am grateful to finally find a book that I can safely recommend to my patients.

How ironic that most things natural and normal have been labelled esoteric or put into such categories as alternative life-styles. Here we have an age-old, tested and proven method of losing weight that balances natural bodily functions as well.

Society has become too technological to realize that certain primal functions are of a purely natural order and therefore wisdom is gained through their respect and study. Unfortunately in our society we respect those with degrees and status, and the more scientific and technological the data the better. The study of medicine and nutrition has also been advancing in this direction, which can sadly take us further from the truth regarding many physiological functions. For as living beings we are far more complex than the sum of our chemical reactions. It is necessary to take into account the concept of life forces and many other facets of human life which are invisible to the eye or the computer.

I find that, in some cases, the most therapeutic suggestions that I make to my patients are those that follow common sense. It doesnt sound very scientific to tell someone to take hot baths, or get more rest or recreation, or slow down their pace of life, or to eat simply so that the body is able to digest what they are eating. But these are the very suggestions that often prove to be the most effective.

The Diamonds have chosen to devote their life to the study of the human body in a way other than the two-dimensional technological approach prevalent in many universities today. That means that they have worked just as hard for their knowledge and this book proves to me their sincerity. They not only study and teach, but also live their principles.

Modern nutritional study has analyzed the components of the body and presumes that replacing these elements can reconstitute the same. But the common sense fact remains that it is not whats on your plate that counts, its what you are able to use from what you eat.

The idea that we must eat a substance identical to ourselves is ludicrous. The concept of the 4 basic food groups is saying just that. Lets make a representation of ourselves on our plate and then eat it.

Nutritional science is actually more complex and indeed more simple than the scientists would have us believe. It is not enough to determine levels of nutrients based on chemical data and assume that by eating something that contains these chemicals, we are being nourished. The very, very important fact is that foods must be digested in order to be used. This is why the concept of food combining is so very important. It allows the body to break down the foods and allow them to be assimilated into the body. Food incompletely digested is also difficult to eliminate, hence, weight gain and toxicity. I have many documented cases of patients who, by simply following proper food combining principles, have cured themselves of symptoms of disease. This has been true for almost anyone with digestive problems, but there are secondary benefits from proper digestion and elimination that have eradicated symptoms of allergies, headaches, menstrual problems, arthritis, eczema and other diseases.

The theory of food combining is a simple and practical approach to eating. By following the guide one can judge for oneself the results. I would suggest that you perform your own scientific study with your body as the laboratory. You have nothing to lose, for I have never seen anyone harmed in any way by following these guidelines of eating. Many skeptics will worry about the nutritional value of this diet because it is so different from what they have learned in grade school or seen on television commercials. But you actually have more to fear by continuing a diet that does not support your health or ideal weight. I am quite sure that you will find, as have thousands of others who follow FIT FOR LIFE , that your vitality level and sense of wellbeing are enhanced more and more every day, and you will feel and be healthier as a result.