THE BODY TALKS TO ORDER
Email received on 5 July 2006 after 5 weeks on The Body Talks eating programme...
HEAL YOUR WEIGHT
"Whether you are overweight, underweight or suffering with a chronic illness or condition, this book reveals the effect that food intolerances, fad diets and unnatural foods are having on your health and weight. Over the last seven years, over 2000 people’s bodies have revealed to her extraordinary insights into how we heal our weight and our health through a blood linked and balanced eating programme. Our bodies truly talk, and it’s about time we listened. The Body Talks Programme is both a revolution and a long overdue return to common sense."
THE BODY TALKS EAT FOR LIFE PROGRAMME
No matter what your condition or illness, hard experience as well as constant reminders by clients bodies have demonstrated to me that balanced correct diet and complete nutrition is fundamental to all healing. In the cases where clients have not followed the Body Talks programme or properly avoided their intolerances, they have without exception not healed as fully or nearly as quickly as those who were dedicated. After developing and understanding this amazing nutritional diet programme with hundreds of clients bodies, and then talking a further thousand through it, I eventually wrote it all down as I was losing my voice! A client publisher then offered to publish it for me in Dubai and hence the book, but it was written as a manual and ultimately the most effective tool to help you heal. It is stunning in its simplicity, common sense, balance and ease to follow, once you understand the principles. Reading the books from cover to cover will lead you through a journey of discovery which you cannot understand if you dip into it and take what you think you like! This is compulsory homework please and a vital part of your healing programme!
From a dieting point of view which may or may not be a factor for you, most of the established rules of weight loss that you are familiar with are dangerous for your health. A low calorie, low fat, high exercise programme ensures that your body will just get sicker. Weight loss is also a healing issue, not a fat loss issue. Excess weight is an outer sign that your body is not getting the right balance of nutrients and that your delicate hormonal system is damaged in some way. Unless you first heal your body at a deep cellular level, diets and aggressive exercise aggravate the problems and leave you stripped of vital nutrients, tissue and muscle mass, and subsequently even more prone to weight gain. Hence the yo-yo effect of dieting. It is vital that your body receives enough calories, protein, fats and nutrients daily to heal and remain healthy and energetic. The efficiency with which your body digests, absorbs and uses these nutrients and calories is a function of many complex systems and glands in your body. These are damaged by excess sugar and carbohydrates, food intolerances, chemicals, pollutants, stress, low calorie and low fat diets, genetic inheritances and alcohol and stimulant abuse.
Most of us do not eat enough protein regularly to feed our bodies needs over the next few hours of the day. During normal everyday activity, a man will use 2 eggs of protein every 2-3 hours, a woman every 3-4 hours. As the body must have protein every moment, if you do not then eat more, it must break down muscle tissue in order to feed itself. If you are healing it will use even more. You are then in effect eating yourself from the inside out. As a result, most of us continue to lose muscle mass as we age at a considerable rate. The less muscle mass you have, the less there is to burn off calories.
However this is not a high protein diet. It consists of giving the body exactly the amount it needs to perform at peak output over the hours following a meal. When you eat in the ratio of around 40% protein, 30 % carbohydrate and 30% fat at each meal or snack, every hormone and system in your body is triggered to work in its optimal balanced state. Fat occurs naturally in most proteins, dairy foods and nuts in around the 30 % ratio. If you are hungry and have low energy 2 to 3 hours after a meal, you can be sure you have eaten too much carbohydrate. If you are tired and irritable but not hungry, you will have eaten too much protein. Your body will let you over-eat carbohydrates, but you will not want to eat more protein than you need when you have built up sufficient muscle mass.
Starches such as potato, rice, pasta and corn all contain very concentrated amounts of carbohydrates in small portions. 1 medium potato or 2 tablespoons rice contain 30 grams of carb, the equivalent of 6 teaspoons of sugar, although it will take more time to digest. ( 1 teaspoon sugar = 5 grams carbohydrate). A large head of broccoli contains only 5-8 grams of carb plus many more nutrients. Vegetables and salads grown above the ground can be counted as unlimited. Root vegetables contain more starch and should be eaten in smaller amounts.
In the early stages of your programme, you are aiming to replace fat with muscle. This happens automatically, if the body is receiving enough protein regularly. If you undertake a strenuous exercise routine in these early days, any protein that you are hoping to lay down, will be used by your existing muscles to exercise. It is very important too that if you immune system is low, i.e. below 50%, you do very little exercise in the first one to two months until it begins to recover. Therefore the ideal exercise at this stage is a gentle to moderate 20 - 30 minute walk, 3 to 4 times a week, maximum.
Due to this exchange of fat for muscle your weight will appear to stay the same after an initial weight loss of 1 – 4 kgs, depending on the amount of toxin and water you are storing. When your muscle mass reaches a critical level, it triggers a rise in metabolism which results in a sudden further drop in weight. This is also helped by the healing of your adrenal and endocrine glands which also become more efficient. The process takes time, be patient. You will continue to lose slowly in this pattern over several months. It is this rebuilding of healthy muscle and hormonal systems, that encourages healing, recovers the immune system and that guarantees long-term weight maintenance, good health and vitality.
What others are already saying about The Body Talk, Heal Your Weight:
‘Now I understand the shortcomings of the Atkins programme and why it is not sustainable. For the confused dieter, The Body Talks will put you back on the right track.’ Pat Southcombe.
‘I am often asked to recommend the best therapists, the best products, even the best dry cleaners to my celebrity clients. I myself have seen all the best therapists and nutritionists around the world, but I can truly say that I have never met anyone as gifted and brilliant as Judy Cole. Her gift could change the way we treat many different health problems and this easy eating programme is just the beginning.’ Arezoo, Beauty Therapist to the Stars, London.
‘I recommend this book to all physicians to use it as a desk reference not only for their overweight patients, but also for the ones with chronic problems, with symptoms we vaguely try and attribute to diseases or malfunctions and patients who simply feel down and fatigued. Follow it yourself and witness the miracle. Judy’s source is the body itself. So lets listen to it…’ Dr Omer Karahan. MD.
" I would like to congratulate you on the launch of your book THE BODY TALKS. I must say it is the best book I ever read on health and the least complicated. Reading through the book made me so mush enthusiastic to keep reading through till the end. All what I wanted to ask you about for the past six months since I first met you, I finally found most of the answers in the fabulous book. It has made me more and more committed to what I am eating according to your advice.” Aida
“Just thought I'd drop you a line to say how impressed I am with your
book. When I started reading it on Thursday I couldn't put it down.
While I've known that I should avoid certain foods, having things
explained so clearly was fascinating.
I've now stopped drinking tea & coffee, I'm cutting out the chocolate,
looking for Rye & Spelt bread to replace the wheat & changing from hard
cheese to Feta. I'm sure it will take me a while to get used to new
eating habits & I know I'll slip up now & again but I'm sure I'll have
better long term health because of it.” Paul