Weight & Food Sensitivity

Current statistics estimate that 46% of men in England and 32% of women are overweight and an additional 17% of men and 21% of women are obese.

Furthermore overweight and obesity are increasing. It is said that the percentage of adults who are obese has tripled in the last 20 years.

A recent report has shown that in 1998 obesity caused 30000 premature deaths. Obesity can cause many health problems including heart disease, diabetes, high blood pressure, osteoarthritis and certain cancers.

Obesity affects more than health; the social and economic costs of obesity are well documented. The National Health Service currently spends at least £500m a year treating obesity and it is said that 18000 sick days a year are lost because of obesity. This could be costing the economy more than £2bn a year. Obese women are 20% less likely to marry than their thinner counterparts. The household yearly income is lower and they are 10% more likely to live in poverty, self-esteem is impacted as obesity clearly has a depressing effect on lifestyle.

Dieting alone rarely results in any lasting weight loss. Research has shown that being overweight is not due to a lack of willpower as much as it is an imbalance in a person's biochemistry. Any food can be incompatible with one's physiology, because:

The food may contain naturally occurring pharmacoactive substances, or lectins, which act as allergens that directly trigger cellular responses.
The condition of the gut wall may be too permeable (by virtue of an allergy that attacks the gut wall itself, and/or damage resulting from an imbalance in the gut's natural protective functions. This condition then allows for the "perfusion" of food macromolecules into the blood stream, a condition known as "leaky gut syndrome". Non-fully-digested food proteins and endogenous toxins then enter the blood. The body perceives that as "foreign" and causes the cells to release chemicals that induce damage and inflammation and in many cases, water retention. A deficiency in Secretory IgA (a protective antibody in the gut) can also produce this same effect.

Due to dietary insufficiency or another defect in one of the body's detoxification systems, any one or more of the artificial additives, or naturally occurring pharmacoactive agents in food, may cause a similar disruption to the immune system and metabolic activity.
Therefore, in order to sustain weight loss, it is important to regain balance in the body's metabolic functions and brain chemistry, which is promoted by the elimination of incompatible foods.

A study from the Columbia / HCA and Baylor Sports Medicine Institute has shown that 98% of the subjects following the ALCAT plan either lost weight or improved body composition.

A 1996 study of 30 patients who could no longer achieve further weight loss following a hypocaloric diet, experienced significant improvement in body composition and weight by following the ALCAT Test.

Dr Gilbert Kaats, Ph.D. Director of the Health and Medical Research Foundation said "we found that you can change peoples health dramatically when you remove their intolerant foods from their diets. [Determining] food intolerance is extremely helpful in improving health and losing weight. It is much more effective than traditional dieting."

"To test for allergies consider using the ALCAT Test. It's an effective way to identify any severely reactive foods that can play a direct role in digestive and eliminative disturbances of all kinds." The Metabolic Typing Diet by William L. Wolcott.

"...one of the best cell reactive test, the ALCAT Test, appears to be quite reliable. In one study of the ALCAT Test, performed by a London Hospital, the accuracy rate was 83%, and in another double-blind trial of the test the accuracy rate was 96%" The False Fat Diet by Elson M. Haas, M.D. and Cameron Stauth.