Travis Stork - The Doctors Diet: Dr. Travis Storks STAT Program to Help You Lose Weight & Restore Your Health

Dr. Travis Storks STAT Program to Help You Lose Weight, Restore Optimal Health, Prevent Disease, and Add Years to Your Life

By TRAVIS STORK, M.D.

Dedicated to all of those in search of health and happiness .

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

I want to personally thank Alice Lesch Kelly for her enthusiasm and dedication to this project, and Lisa Clark for her guidance every step of the way. To Jon Ford, Ashlee Gagui, Hagop Kalaidjian, Maggie Greenwood-Robinson, and everyone else who played a role in putting this book together: I thank you!

Copyright 2013 by Bird Street Books, Inc
First edition 2013
EAN/ISBN-13: 978-1-939457-03-5

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Cover design by: Hagop Kalaidjian
Layout by: Stuart Smith
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MEDICAL DISCLAIMER

This publication is intended to provide helpful and informative material. It is not intended to diagnose, treat, cure, or prevent any health problem or condition, nor is it intended to replace the advice of a physician. No action should be taken solely on the contents of this book. Always consult your physician or qualified health-care professional on any matters regarding your health and before adopting any suggestions in this book or drawing inferences from it.

Be sure to see your own health-care provider before starting The Doctors Diet or initiating an exercise program, especially if you have cardiovascular disease, diabetes, or any other health condition.

The Doctors Diet is not designed for women who are pregnant or breastfeeding. Consult with your obstetrician, your babys pediatrician, or other qualified health-care professionals on the best nutrition choices during pregnancy and lactation.

The author and publisher specifically disclaim all responsibility for any liability, loss, or risk, personal or otherwise, that is incurred as a consequence, directly or indirectly, from the use or application of any contents of this book.

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CONTENTS

INTRODUCTION
THE WEIGHT GAIN EMERGENCY

L ights flash. Sirens blare. An emergency services vehicle rushes through the streets in a life-or-death race against time. Inside the ambulance, emergency medical technicians work frantically to stabilize their patient. Screeching to a halt, the EMTs throw open the ambulance doors, grab the gurney on which their patient lies, and charge into the emergency room. There, highly trained ER doctors and nurses take over, springing into action in a tenacious fight for the patients life. When luck is on their side, the patient pulls through. When its not, an ER doctor is left with the heartbreaking task of having to deliver the tragic news of the patients death to their family.

Too many times, I have been the ER doc giving this awful news. No matter how many times it happens, it never gets any easier to tell someone that the person who means more to them than anyone else in the worldtheir mom, their dad, their sister, their brother, their childhas passed away. I feel as if I lose a little piece of my heart every time I have to do it.

What makes it toughest is knowing that so many untimely deaths could have been prevented.

Death is inevitable, of course. No matter how hard we try, we cant avoid it. But death isnt always a tragedy. When someone whos lived a long, happy life dies peacefully at home, surrounded by family and friends, thats terribly sad, of course. But its not a tragedy. When someones life ends years or even decades before it should? When someones quality of life is compromised at an early age? Thats a tragedy. And thats the kind of death and disability that ER docs see every single day.

When you think about all of these unnecessary ER deaths, you may shudder as you imagine their causeshorrible trauma, grisly accidents, car crashes, even gun violence.

But when it comes to the kinds of problems we see most often in the ER, the reality is actually quite different than what most people imagine.

NOT AN ACCIDENT

The majority of patients in ERs are not there because of trauma or accidents. They are there because of their diets. Thats right: the biggest emergency in ERs across the United States is the food we willingly, knowingly, happily choose to eat.

Our food choices are so dangerously unhealthy that eating-related diseases send twice as many people to hospital ERs than injuries and accidents.

Unhealthy eating contributes to as many as 580,000 deaths in the United States every year. Thats more than smoking, drug abuse, gun violence, and traffic accidents combined . If you eat the typical American diet, it very well may kill you.

I dont want that to happen to you! As an ER doctor and as a fellow human being who loves life with an infinite passion, I want to protect you from that fate. I dont want YOU to be the person on the gurney being rushed to the hospital with flashing lights and blaring sirens. I dont want YOU to be the patient lying in the ER with a medical team fighting desperately to save your life. I dont want YOU to be the corpse wheeled to the morgue while an ER doctor gives your shocked family the tragic news that you are gone forever because your life could not be saved.

Im not telling you this to scare you. Quite the oppositeIm leveling with you because I care about you. I want to empower you. I want to energize you and give you hope! As bad as this black cloud of health facts sounds, it actually has a really amazing silver lining. It doesnt have to happen to you! You dont have to be the dying ER patient with a distraught family. You can turn your diet around, and in doing so, you can revive your health and change your life.

Thats right. No matter how bad your diet is, no matter how much excess weight youre carrying around, no matter how many food-related mistakes youve made in the past, you can start fresh now . You can embark on a new way of living today that will immediately begin to chip away at your risk of dying from your diet.

How? By following The Doctors Diet.

Its that simple. Changes that you can start to make right this minute can turn your diet from a flashing-lights emergency to a health-boosting, life-saving gift that you give yourself and your family. You really can turn your life aroundand The Doctors Diet can show you how.

DELICIOUS CHANGES

Change can be difficultbelieve me, I understand that. Its hard to let go of a lifetime of poor eating habits and grab on to a healthy new diet. But I promise you, with The Doctors Diet, Im making it as easy for you as possible. Ive created a program that will guide you, step by step, in the simplest way possible, to develop a healthier dietary outlook that will help you lose weight, restore your health, reduce disease risk, and pave the way for you to live a longer, happier life.