Loving Movement Jimmy Moore Ryan Turner

April 2014 Loving Movement - What’s the point in exercise? - Running: the road to greater health or a shortcut to the grave? Jimmy Moore talks cholesterol Ryan Turner brings you more delicious low-carb recipes Sell by/Best before - our food writer explains We want to be slim so what’s stopping us? Diet & Health Today April 2014 Contents 4 We want to be slim so 14 5 Health markers that what’s stopping us? matter more than Zoë Harcombe cholesterol Jimmy Moore suggests some more 7 Out of Time appropriate health markers to keep a track of Clare Hargreaves takes a look at food labeling and asks whether it’s time to start using our eyes and noses again 16 Running Olly Selway asks ‘Is is the road to greater health or a shortcut to the grave?’ 8 What’s the point in exercise? 18 John’s piece If it has no impact on losing weight. Sam A usually thought provoking piece from John Feltham Nicholson Less appy, more ‘appy 19 Loving movement 9 A humorous and thought provoking rap poem A personal look at natural movement by Tara by Chris Packe Wood 10 Chef’s Corner 20 The terroir of British clothes A selection of deliciously healthy and low-carb Kate Jones recipes from Ryan Turner 21 Contributors Cover image courtesy wildfitness.com 2 Diet & Health Today As human beings, our bodies are designed to move. And move quite a lot, too. But the question always arises: what kind of activity did we evolve to participate in? Some say running marathons is normal, while others say that lazing in the sun is equally so. Whatever your view on activity, there can be no doubt that our complex frames are built to support a range of movements and we hope that the views of this month’s contributors will be thought provoking. Many of you have taken the time and effort to write in with suggestions for articles and content for future issues of this magazine, and we’d like to thank you for doing so. We really hope that the effort that’s being invested to grow the readership this year will mean that we have a strong base for years to come, which will give a great platform for new contributors to share their thoughts with the open mindedworld. If you’d like to contribute to this magazine with an article, Get a move on! recipe or a real-life health story, please send in your submissions to [email protected]. First, a huge thank you to everyone who downloaded and shared the first issue and for the valuable articles from the We hope you enjoy this second issue and do feel free to various contributors. Thanks to you, the first edition was a share it with whomever you wish. great success, and we hope that this issue builds upon that. Very best wishes We have a few contributions from activity specialists this month, and we make no apology for that. Andy & Zoë Harcombe The content of this magazine is intended to inform, entertain and provoke your thinking. It is not intended as medical Diet & Health Today advice. It may, however, make you question current medical and nutritional advice. That’s your choice. It’s your life and health in your hands. Neither the authors nor the publisher made is a free magazine, can be held responsible or liable for any loss or claim arising possible by the generous contribution of its authors, editors and creators. from the use, or misuse, of the content of this magazine. Please feel free to share this magazine with your friends, The views expressed in the articles are those of the either by email, printing off a copy and sending it to them or individual authors and not necessarily those of the publisher. by sending them a link to download it themselves. This If you wish to quote, use or republish any of the work in this edition, and others, can be downloaded at magazine, in full or in any part, you must get permission to www.dietandhealthtoday.com do so from the appropriate author. Thank you for sharing and supporting the work of the contributors of this magazine. 3 We want to be slim, so what's stopping us? Zoë Harcombe In a study of formerly obese people, Step 3) You become physically and/or psychologically researchers at the University of Florida found dependent. You get to the point that you need the substance to avoid feeling bad. Chocolate gives you a short lived 'high', that virtually all said that they would rather be but not having chocolate produces a profound 'low'. blind, deaf or have a leg amputated than be obese again [1]. That is the extent of our desire to be slim Step 4) You suffer consequences of your chocolate and yet two thirds of people in the UK, USA and Australia are consumption. In the case of food addiction, the usual overweight and one quarter obese. Why? This paradox has been of complete fascination to me ever since I found myself overeating and gaining weight as a teenager. I wanted to be slim more than I wanted anything in the world and yet I found myself irresistibly drawn to food. I discovered (and experienced) Not just any food - refined carbohydrates essentially: three common medical conditions chocolate; crisps; cereal; bread; biscuits; sweets; chips; tomato sauce; ice cream. Funnily enough, I never craved that cause insatiable food cravings. meat, fish, eggs or vegetables. Why do we overeat? The desire to understand why we overeat, when all we want is to be slim led to a great deal of research (before the consequence is weight gain. Sometimes it is type 2 diabetes internet made it easy) and culminated in my first book Why that shocks people into change. do you overeat? When all you want is to be slim (2004). If we didn’t suffer consequences of addiction (alcohol related I'm not going to go into detail about this book, as many illness; smoking induced lung damage; sleep loss with readers of Diet & Health Today are familiar with my work. For excess caffeine and weight gain with food addiction), we people who have not come across this book, the headlines would have no reason to change. We would carry on are that I discovered (and experienced) three common drinking, smoking and eating as we wanted to and there medical conditions that cause insatiable food cravings. The would be no consequences. However, this is not the case. three conditions are: Candida; Food Intolerance and There are consequences and, in the case of food addiction, it Hypoglycaemia (see next page). is the scales that tell us we're at Step 4 and we need help. The final piece of the puzzle was that traditional dieting - The Harcombe Diet® was designed to be the perfect diet to trying to eat less (let alone do more) leads to these three overcome the three conditions that cause insatiable food conditions and my books explain how and why. cravings. (Phase 1 was created by taking the medical dietary advice for each condition separately and combining the That has hopefully got everyone to the same base level advice to produce the 'common denominator' - the foods that understanding that there are physical reasons for food all the physicians, expert in each condition, would advise for cravings. I then defined food addiction as a four stage their individual area of expertise). If you have food cravings process. See if you empathise with this definition: and haven't yet tried Phase 1, this article may have helped Food addiction you already. Step 1) You have a craving for a particular substance My key focus in this article, however, is for people who know (alcohol, tobacco, caffeine, sugar). Let's say that your craving what to do and - for some reason - aren't doing it. You may is for chocolate. be a Jimmy Moore follower. You may have come across Paleo and find it makes perfect sense. You may have been Step 2) You develop increased tolerance, so that you need inspired by any of the great content by Sean Croxton, more chocolate to have the same effect. Michael Eades, Chris Kresser, Robert Lustig, Gary Taubes - and many more - books, blogs or videos. There are numerous routes through which you could have discovered 4 "real food." The issue is - are you through to the end goal. The cannot eat in this way and stay slim now doing the right thing? Or is successful slimmer is on auto pilot. and healthy. So we need to make something still getting in the way? The original mindset prevails. This is sacrifices and sacrifices are different beyond powerful. to different people. The fundamental Now, we all know - most of us from - Sacrifice & specific foods: If drivers of human personal experience - that weight being slim means giving up loss from a calorie controlled diet is wine, cheese or dark nature rarely sustained. The exception, the chocolate - is it worth it to you Let's go back to basics. At the most individual who manages to keep personally? This is all about fundamental level, humans have two weight off, is almost certainly starving you and your motivation. basic drivers. We seek to move away and able to calorie-restrict and deny Giving up processed food to from pain and towards pleasure. The hunger for life. But making the switch be slim and healthy should be stick and carrot are the two sides of to real food/managed carbohydrate an easy choice for any these motivators.

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