Ron Rosedale - The Rosedale Diet

Part One
Everything You Need to Know About the Rosedale Diet

Part Two
Making the Rosedale Diet Work for You

W ant a slim, sculpted body and a longer life? Theres a tried and true way to achieve both. Eating lessa lot less. Decades ago, researchers discovered that if you put laboratory animals on a very low calorie diet about one-third fewer calories than normal they can live up to two times longer than well-fed animals. Not surprisingly, food-restricted animals retain their sleek, youthful figures. What is truly amazing, however, is that their bodies not only appear younger, but by every objective laboratory measure, they are younger. Levels of key hormones that normally fluctuate with age, and other important markers of aging remain remarkably stable. Nor do food-restricted animals suffer as often from the chronic diseases associated with normal aging, such as diabetes, heart disease, and cancer.

Slim for life. Healthy for life. A longer life in a younger body. Despite these wonderful results, no one is seriously suggesting that humans should follow such a punishing diet. Who wants to starve? Who willingly can?

The fact is, you dont have to starve to be in great shape or to enjoy the prospect of a longer, disease-free life. Thanks to the Rosedale Diet, you can have all the benefits of a strict, low calorie diet a great body, great health, and the promise of longevity without ever having to feel a hunger pang.

The even better news is that you can lose weight and get healthy while still eating delicious meals and snacks such as chicken tortillas, wraps, guacamole, nuts (even so-called fattening nuts like macadamia nuts), lobster salad, raspberry cheesecake, and eggs Benedict. No starving. No hunger. The best part of all is that you will be back in control of your hunger, your weight, and your life.

My program has worked for thousands of my patients, and it can work for you. By following the Rosedale Diet, my patients have not only successfully lost weight, but have rejuvenated their bodies and reclaimed their health. The once obese are now trim and fit, in an amazingly short period of time. Remarkably, the same biomarkers of longevity seen in calorie-restricted animals are seen in my patients. In fact, by every objective laboratory measure, my patients have de-aged their bodies:

• High blood sugar levels, a hallmark of aging, fall to normal, healthy levels.
• Body temperature stays lower in my patients, a sign that their bodies are running more efficiently.
• Key hormones are restored to more youthful levels.
• High blood lipid levels (triglycerides) plummet to a healthy range.

The so-called diseases of aging, such as type 2 diabetes, a veritable epidemic among people over forty, and heart disease, the number one killer of both men and women, are vastly improved. In fact, after following my program for a few weeks, my patients are able to throw out most of their prescription medicines.

My patients not only look great, but they tell me that they feel great too, and have a huge amount of energy. The best news is, unlike calorie-restricted animals who are kept in cages and starved to enjoy these benefits, my patients feel full and satisfied. Its too early to say whether my patients will live longer we need to wait another thirty or forty years for that data but all indications are that they will. I can say with certainty that the quality of their lives is significantly better. (My patients can speak for themselves, and they do. They tell their own stories in their own words, throughout this book.)

Within this book, you will find the tools that you need to take back control of your weight, and ultimately, your life. You will be empowered with the latest scientific information on how to lose weight safely, quickly, and permanently. Once you start the Rosedale Diet, you, too, can experience the same spectacular success in terms of both weight loss and better health enjoyed by my patients.

The Rosedale Diet works because it corrects the underlying metabolic aberration at the root cause of both obesity and premature aging: hormonal dysfunction. Hormones are chemical messengers that direct all body activities, including how much you eat, and ultimately, whether you are fat or fit. Your hormones can work for you or against you. The wrong diet creates hormonal imbalances that trigger hunger and food cravings, the main problems that prevent people from losing weight and keeping it off. The right diet the Rosedale Diet almost magically controls hunger and eliminates food cravings. That is why it works so well.

Hunger is a powerful force. As I tell my patients, following a diet while trying to fight hunger is like trying to hold on to the edge of a cliff and hoping that gravity will go away. Eventually, youre going to let go. If youre hungry, eventually youre going to eat and chances are, youll overeat to make up for lost time.

How does my diet curb hunger? The Rosedale Diet is specially designed to control the key hormone that regulates both appetite and weight loss. That hormone is leptin. Leptin is produced by your fat cells. It tells your brain when to eat, how much to eat and most important, when to stop eating. Leptin is also critical for many of the bodys most important functions, including the regulation of blood circulation, the prevention of blood clots, making new bone, regulation of body temperature, and reproduction. In fact, if a woman produces too little leptin, she will stop menstruating, and therefore will be unable to conceive. Very recently, leptin amazed the scientific community when it was found to be able to rewire critical and central portions of the brain to better do its bidding. The more scientists research leptin, the more they learn about how vital it is to life.

As hormones go, leptin is the new kid on the block. In fact, its so new, most of your doctors may not have heard of it, or are unsure what it does. Yet, I consider leptin to be so important for the health and well-being of my patients that I always measure their leptin levels, and if I have any say in the matter, doing so will become standard medical practice within a few years. Measuring leptin is easy its a simple blood test but it tells me volumes about my patients potential for gaining weight and the ease with which they will be able to shed excess pounds. Blood leptin levels indicate how well leptin is functioning in your body. High fasting levels of leptin (from blood taken after waking and before eating breakfast) mean that leptin is not functioning well, and therefore, unless leptin is brought down to a healthy level, losing weight and keeping it off will be an insurmountable challenge. Low fasting leptin levels mean that leptin is able to do its job and that your body wont sabotage your weight-loss efforts by making you constantly hungry.

More important, leptin levels are a bellwether as to how well a person is aging. If their leptin levels are high, it bodes ominously for their health, and that bodes poorly for longevity. In fact, remember those calorie-deprived laboratory animals that were much healthier and lived well beyond their normal life span that I described earlier? They had very low leptin levels compared to their well-fed peers. Fortunately, it is easy to lower your leptin levels without starvation by following the Rosedale Diet, as Ill describe later.