Dr. Dorothy Gault-McNemee - Gods Diet: A Short & Simple Way to Eat Naturally, Lose Weight, and Live a Healthier Life

CHAPTER 1
IF GOD DIDNT MAKE IT,
DONT EAT IT
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CHAPTER 2
WERE KILLING OURSELVES!
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CHAPTER 3
VITAMINS, MINERALS, AND
CHOLESTEROL
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CHAPTER 4
CASE STUDIES
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CHAPTER 5
MENUS
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CHAPTER 6
RECIPES
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CHAPTER 7
BITS AND PIECES
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CHAPTER 8
CONCLUSION
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NOTES
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N ow, if you want to spend good money for this book, go ahead. But if you understand the chapter title, spend your money for something else.

Ive made this book short for two reasons: because the concept is so easy it doesnt need a long book and because I want you to read the book and change your life.

Since I was thirteen years old, I have bounced from one diet to another, spending far too much money on diet books and fad diets. I finally just gave up. The research was telling me that I was born with my fat genes and it really wasnt my fault that I was overweight. I was finally fed up (no pun intended) and decided to eat whatever I wanted and forget about my weight. (That little decision was good for another 15 pounds!!!)

I am sure it comes as no surprise that even as I was eating with no restrictions, I still wasnt happy. So, over the next year I spent a lot of time thinking about the diets that worked, and those that didnt. I knew deep in my heart that pasta and six slices of bread a day wasnt good for me, no matter what the nutritionists were telling my diabetic patients. I knew that cutting out all of the fat in my diet would help me lose weight; however, I also knew that my body wouldnt have the building blocks it needed to make hormones, that my skin would get dry and my hair would get brittle if I didnt have fat. I also knew that I needed fat in my diet to feel full as well as to absorb the fat-soluble vitamins.

I felt I no longer had the time nor the inclination to count calories, fat grams or carbos. I didnt want to weigh 2 ounces of this or 4 ounces of that. I had always had a hard time remembering how many bread exchanges, fat exchanges, vegetable and fruit exchanges are deemed healthy. I couldnt remember which diet was betterthe Asian or Mediterranean or American Pyramid plan. I couldnt remember what was on any of their meal plans. And even if I could remember, I certainly threw out all of my knowledge the moment I stepped into a restaurant.

Then one day the front page of the newspaper said that XYZ was good for you while the folks on TV said that it was bad for you. All on the same day! That was when I threw up my arms and said, If God didnt make it, dont eat it.

I realized that what I really wanted was to be healthy and trim. Logic said that I needed to go back to basicsand when I say basics, I mean back to 10,000-to-15,000-years-ago-type basics. Ive often told my patients that we chubs come from good stock. We are the survivors. We are the ones whose ancestors stored body fat efficiently for the lean years. So, since we obviously hadnt evolved to be able to eat whatever and whenever, we were obviously going to have to go back to basics. We were going to have to go back and eat the way we did when we first appeared on the earth thousands of years agoand the way we had eaten until the last hundred years. We were going to have to be logical.

If God made us and made all of the animals, fruits, and vegetables, then that must be what we were intended to eat. Obviously, weve been around a pretty long time. So, I decided to disregard all of the information about low-fat diets and pasta being good for you. I decided that weighing food and counting calories, or fat, or carbohydrates or anything else just didnt make sense. I didnt need to add more work to my life.

Knowing that there really had to be a healthy way to eat good food and feel satisfied, I developed Gods Diet. Actually, this easy, effective way of eating was there all of the time; I just read the signposts. It is really so simple. I call it Gods Diet because a name like All Natural implies that anything that isnt a manmade chemical would be okay. It is those very products that are often loaded with sugar and flour, and that is not okay. Once we begin to process food, we tend to take away all of its good, nutritional qualities and leave all that is bad. And for good measure, well add some sugar or corn syrup!

Think of it this way: if it wasnt around 10,000 to 15,000 years ago, you probably shouldnt be eating it. I cant imagine Adam and Eve throwing together a little pasta with Alfredo sauce (one of my personal favorites). I bet they didnt bake nicely crusted bread. They didnt have luscious donuts, or birthday cake with ice cream. They didnt make enchiladas or gorditas. They either killed it, picked it, or dug it up. If it was good enough for them, why not try it ourselves? It certainly seemed logical. (If I am nothing else, I am logical.) Of course, we also know that our ancient ancestors often died in their twenties and thirties. But they didnt die of heart attacks and clogged arteries or diabetes and obesity. Heck, they probably didnt have a word like