Lifestyle Master Program

Author(s): Ellen Livingston
Publisher: Ellen Livingston

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Lifestyle Master Program
eBook 1.0 by Ellen Livingston
adrenal glands as backup support, and this leads to eventual exhaustion of the pancreas and adrenal glands. As you can see, the body's sugar-regulatory system has been disrupted, and the break-down we call disease will be the inevitable result.
This degenerative result is totally preventable! When dietary fat is kept below about 10% of total calories taken in, our brilliantly designed sugar regulatory mechanism is able to work efficiently and effectively to keep blood sugar at healthy levels, all the time. In a body free of excess dietary fats, healthy sugars from fresh ripe fruits will cause blood sugar to gently rise and then gently fall, as it should. The sugar will enter and exit the bloodstream fairly quickly, but causing no spikes or sudden drops. Does it make any sense that fruit sugar, in the form nature so beautifully and deliciously provides, would be “bad” for us? Of course not! Even in a body already diseased with diabetes or other blood sugar disorders, the solution lies in decreasing dietary fat to an appropriate level, not eliminating healthy sugars.
The transition to a high fruit diet for individuals with existing diabetes and other blood sugar disorders may need to be more gradual and more disciplined. Overtly fatty foods of all types - avocado, nuts, seeds, nut and seed butters, refined sweets, oils, dairy foods, meats (these last four not recommended anyway) will ideally be eliminated completely for a period of time, to best support the healing process. This will insure the best inner terrain for the body's blood sugar regulatory system to get back on track as quickly as possible to functioning the way it is supposed to. Another helpful modification during transition is to eat greens or celery with all sweet fruit meals. This will add extra dietary fiber to the meal, which will effectively slow down the uptake of the fruit sugars into the blood stream. It may also be necessary at first to have smaller sweet fruit meals (more frequently) to avoid overloading a compromised blood sugar regulatory system.
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