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This Hot News has been reprinted from July, 2004, but I thought it appropriate due to the Cleansing and Weight Loss Classes I am now offering. I have received tremendous interest and response to the classes and had overflow registration (Classes limited to 10) for the one that started January 3. I am currently accepting registration for the class starting Jan 31, and there are still a few places left if you think this is something you might want to do. Please check the class particulars and the schedule by clicking on "Ongoing Classes" to your left.

Read on for more interesting stuff. Then in more modern times, we have Sheldon in 1941 who coined the terms ectomorph, endomorph and mesomorph; Abravanel in 1983 typed people as thyroid, gonadal, adrenal or pituitary; D'Adamo in 1980 developed the blood type diet (which I have not seen to be terribly accurate, except for Type O's); Kelley and Gonzales in the present time have typed us as either sympathetic, parasympathetic or balanced and through highly sensitized testing involving many parameters have had marvelous luck in CURING cancer. (Nick Gonzales M.D. has a multi-million dollar grant from the conservative NIH to properly research his natural, non-pharmaceutical cures of pancreatic cancer.)

Then we have James Wolcott M.D. and Harold Kristal D.M.D. both of whom have researched and written books on Metabolic Typing, the subject of this Hot News. Both men spoke at the 4-day Boulderfest seminar I attended in late July and I was duly impressed with their research and their results. I have been eating "for my type" for a couple of years now, and when I am dutiful about it (ie. don't buy wheat-free, dairy-free Fig Newmans. . .) I maintain a healthy weight, have more energy and sleep better.

Although metabolic typing is much more complicated than I can cover well in this brief Hot News, I'll give you the "bikini" treatment ( ie. brief as possible but cover all the important points. ) If you want to know a lot more, I direct you to these books: The Metabolic Typing Diet by William Wolcott and The Nutrition Solution by Harold Kristal and James Haig.

Bottom Line: We are either Group One/sympathetic slow oxidizers, Group Two/parasympathetic fast oxidizers or Balanced. Group One people don't burn their food very fast so they can eat more carbohydrates, need lighter meats and less fats. Group Two people burn everything up very fast, so they need heavier meats, oils, whole dairy. Carbohydrates, even the "good" ones, are not good fuel for the Twos, as they burn them up very fast and then have a melt-down ie. hypoglycemic reaction soon after they eat. Balanced can teeter-totter between the two groups.

By far, I see more Group Two's than Group Ones, maybe 70/30 and hardly any Balanced. For example, I am a Group Two/parasympathetic fast-oxidizer which means I do very well on lots of protein, the Atkins Diet, whole dairy and calcium. I do not do well with alcohol, caffeine, lots of fruit and fruit juices, sugar, high-glycemic foods and grains. I might have scrambled eggs and bacon for breakfast at 7am and that will hold me happily (with a handful of nuts, piece of cheese or small protein drink around 10 am) until I eat another high protein meal around one.

If I had had a Group One breakfast - eg. oatmeal, fruit and toast - I would be cranky and ravenous by 10 am. Group One's do very well on the vegetarian, Ornish, Pritikin kind of diets. But, you can pretty much discover for yourself what kinds of fuel your very own classy Ferrari demands for optimal performance just by experimentation. I kindasorta knew all this just by how I felt after I ate certain foods and how long the food would "hold" me before I needed to munch again, but when I started reading about metabolic typing, it all made perfect sense to me.

It matters which vitamins and minerals we take, too. For example, Group One people do well on magnesium, while Group Two's don't: We Two's need need calcium to slow us down and bring us into balance. Group One's like potassium, while Group Two's don't. Also, we Group Twos tend towards diabetes and heart disease, while the Group Ones tend to get the cancers.

We all know that broccoli is fantastic for us, right? Well, not for us Group Twos. Our metabolic type prefers asparagus, cauliflower, cooked spinach, winter squash, mushrooms, olives, green beans and carrots. Group Ones prefer broccoli, beets, brussel sprouts, chard, garlic and just about every vegetable imaginable except cauliflower and cooked spinach.

We've all heard how important it is for us to be alkaline, right? It depends on what metabolic type you are as to what will alkalinize you. One size does not fit all. My Group Two body will alkalinize by eating for my type which includes meats, fats and whole dairy, the appropriate vegetables and a bit of fruit (apples and pears are the best for me). Group One's will alkalinize by eating the usual and well-known alkaline diet of fruits, veggies, etc. If I ate a ton of fruits and carbohydrates, I would become acid and unhealthy, dizzy and cranky, my blood sugar would be way off and I would get fat. So the current chatter that meats make you acid and fruits make you alkaline is absurd in the face of metabolic typing. I repeat, one size does not fit all.

"The pH of how food affects you is determined by your metabolic type, not the pH inherent in the food itself. A heretical view." (Kristal and Haig, Boulderfest, July 2004)

I have developed a way to muscle test you to see which type you are, then direct you to dietary and supplement changes to enhance your type. Ask me to test you next time you are in.

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