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Losing weight with pleasure
Farewell to the long list of strict, sometimes dangerous diets, that leave the mind and the body in a state of dangerous depletion, and prove to be pointless on the long run because the weight is gained back as soon as the diet is over. What a hectic job for the researchers looking for the miracle method. Have we found it ? Apparently, those who have tested it, have come out totally satisfied.
Patients who have followed the "Protein Diet" or the "Protein Fast ”, assure you that you have a real hope of losing weight without too much pain, or none at all. However, there will be no fanciful diets, nor superfluous words. To lose weight, first you have to go on a diet.

DIET AND ITS PROTEIN SUPPLY
The idea of fasting is not recent but the Protein Fast is an innovation. In our culture Ramadan and Lent are practiced as a means to rebalance the body systems. Likewise the Protein Fast recommends the elimination of sugar and fat from the diet as a result of which the pancreas is at rest and fat is no longer stocked. Starting from this point, the body derives energy from its reserves. During its transformation, fat creates ketonic substances that act in an euphoric and dynamic way on the brain, and are effective as hunger stoppers. This is what Dr.BLACKBURN, Nutrition Professor in Harvard University, called ketogenesis. Weight loss should only occur to the detriment of the fat mass, while safeguarding the noble mass of the body: the muscles, the organs and the skin. But pay attention, to insure a serious weight loss, one must not feel hunger. The therapist's role is to propose to the patient a diet where hunger is non-existing. With the Protein Fast, hunger disappears between 48 and 72 hours, as soon as ketogenesis starts. But what kind of diet? No more eating at all? Certainly not. The patients have a strict fast program for one or two weeks (ideally) during which they will only consume vegetables (steamed, but with seasoning), along with protein sachets according to a medical prescription. . These sachets can be made into hot drinks (cocoa, capuccino), pudding (caramel, chocolate, coconut, vanilla, coffee), cream soup or broth... the prescriptions include vitamins, potassium, calcium and trace elements to be taken orally as supplements. During this first stage, evidently alcohol is forbidden. During phase two, the diet allows eating white meat, fish or poultry, white cheese, but is always based on vegetables that could be prepared with different flavors and spices. To succeed, you have to be creative in cooking to prepare eggplant with garlic, steamed vegetables with herbs or even tabouleh without burghol …. What about the diet results ? On average there is a weight loss of 20 kilos in 20 weeks, around 6 to 8 kilos per month for women, and between 8 and 10 kilos per month for men.

A PROTEIN DIET
Obesity treatment is crucial and urgent since it is a major cause of morbidity and mortality. Certainly obesity may be the result of several factors such as genetic, psycho-emotional , psycho-social, familial, environmental, or due to a disturbance of the endocrine glands but essentially the dietary approach of obesity treatment consists of establishing a negative caloric balance that leads to the catabolism of triglycerides, which is translated as an efficient and definite weight loss. Hence, the nutritionist who is daily confronted with seriously overweight patients, has to prescribe a balanced, efficient and safe diet. So he has two Possibilities: either the low calorie diet or the ketogenic regimen.

THE FAILURE OF LOW-CALORIE DIETS
The low calorie diets are not new. In the XVIII century, Brillat Savarin had already recommended in the three precepts of "Taste Physiology " the "discretion in eating". In theory it seems evident that the best diet consists of eating less, but in practice it's a different story. STUNKARD proved that the low calorie diet was a total failure, since this traditional cure of obesity was only 8% effective. Of course, when this diet is well balanced, it remains reassuring and without danger, however, it is THE HARDEST, THE MOST DIFFICULT, AND THE MOST TIRESOME for three reasons :

1-This diet DOES NOT REMOVE HUNGER.
Few people resist this unpleasant sensation and give up after a few days or a few weeks.

This diet IS TOO LONG. In fact the loss of 500 g/week is discouraging for a patient who has10, 15, or 25 kilos to lose.

3- This diet FAVOURS TEMPTATION.
Since the sensation of hunger is ever present, and patients have to limit themselves to small portions of food, so many people cheat, or simply give up.

For the above reasons, the low-calorie diet is not indicated for the treatment of obesity, especially since it might have certain side effects.

Consider simply the case of a cardiac person with 25 kilos overweight who quits the low-calorie diet after losing 10 kilos because of this lack of motivation, and eventually goes back to his old eating habits. Consequent weight gain or short term or even medium term is inevitable and prove fatal to his health.

Let us finally remember that professor BRITSTRIAN from Harvard University, had demonstrated in 1980, during the 30 th Conference of the American Society of Bariatric Physicians, in his speech entitled "ULTRA LOW DIETS ", that the balanced low-calorie diets could lead to a loss of muscles ranging between 15 and 25 % of the total weight loss.

THE KETOGENTC OPTION : The Protein Fast through the induction of triglyceride catabolism, encourages the oxidation of free fatty acids at the hepatic level and provokes the famous physiological phenomenon of compensated acidoketosis that BLACKBURN called KETOGENESIS. The constant and controlled presence of ketone bodies in the body shows the perfect adaptation of the human system when subjected to a fast supplied with a precise amount of amino-acids.

As long as the human body has an excess of fat that should be eliminated through ketogenesis and mainly through the Protein Fast, the effects of ketogenesis persist during this diet and supply the body with most of the energy it needs.

All these metabolic reactions that take place during the Protein Fast and that Blackburn carefully described in his many books and articles, are absolutely safe.

As a matter of fact, this method is based on strict scientific data and its application should be made according to a precise protocol.

The Protein Fast has specific advantages that no other diet offers whether it is the low-calories or the dissociated diet.

The absence of hunger
The first duty of the physician is to propose to the patient a diet where hunger is non-existing. Protein Fast is the only diet capable of offering that in total safety. In this technique, hunger disappears between 48 and 72 hours . In fact, ketogenesis takes about two days to start and set off
the ketonic bodies: acetone, acetylacetic acid and hydroxybutyric acid. The latter it seems stimulate the satiety center in the brain.

2- The rapidity
No matter how strong is the patient's motivation, if weight loss occurs slowly, it will be too difficult for him to persevere in his diet, especially if he has too many kilos to lose.. However, with the Protein Fast, motivation is constantly reinforced through a rapid weigh loss starting from the first week losing 3 to 4.5 kilos. Eventually the rhythm of weight loss sets at about 2 kilos on a weekly basis.

3- The protection of the muscles
A sound slimming diet should burn basically the body fat mass, and protect the muscular mass while keeping an equilibrated nitrogen balance.

Many researchers have tried in vain to counter the negative nitrogenous balance of the total fast, but it was professor BLACKBURN who succeeded in the field by establishing the precise daily needs of amino-acids.

To protect the muscular mass of a woman, she has to take daily 1.2 g of protein per kilo of her ideal weight, while a man should take l.4g.

Unlike low-calorie diets, the Protein Fast only the adipose tissue is used as a source of energy.

4- The Motivation
The Protein Fast favors an excellent motivation which is constantly reinforced by the weigh loss and the astonishing changes that take place on the body image.

5-The Safety
One of the major advantages of the Protein Fast is its safety. It is in fact a medical treatment that should be applied in conformity with strict rules. Used for over twenty years and with more than 12 millions patients cured, this method proves its efficiency when it is applied by doctors who have received a proper training.

6- The well-being
This feeling is surely the most appreciated during a slimming diet. Starting from the first day of the treatment, the formation of acetone, creates a feeling of well-being and euphoria which is reinforced by the detoxificating action of Protein Fast.

7- The easiness
Patients find it easy to follow the Protein Fast especially that they do not have to measure food nor to calculate calories. So there is no risk of error miscalculating nor temptation to eat more.

8- The sleep
Insomnia with obese people is often the result of a decrease in the respiratory capacity caused by the intrathoracic compression, itself due to an abundance of fatty tissues. The weight loss induced by the Protein Fast improves the respiratory capacity and its effect is beneficial to sleep.

9- The skin
The wrinkling and the aging of the skin that are noticed following a severe diet low-calorie diet are unnoticed with the Protein Fast, since the muscular mass is completely protected by the precise and sufficient protein supply of high biological value. Thus the skin remains soft and satin like.

10- The measurements
Many of our patients complain of various degrees of cellulite accumulation, especially in the pelvis area. They will be happy to know that the Protein Fast, thanks to its protective action on the muscles, drains all the cellulite away.

It is astonishing to notice that right from the first week of the diet, women can notice an important decrease in the.measurements at the level of the size, the hips, the thighs and the buttocks. This diet's efficient action on cellulite has therefore, another interesting advantage over low-calorie diets.

All these are enough reasons to privilege the use of Protein Fast. This method receiving the consensus of the international medical circles, proves its efficiency and its credibility, thus remaining the first choice for doctors wishing to treat their patients' excess weight.

The numerous advantages of the Protein Fast must not make us forget that this diet is only a link in the chain of solving the obesity problem. In addition to the dietetic element, any serious diet must take into consideration the energy spending and the behavior modification.

	Losing weight with pleasure Farewell to the long list of strict, sometimes dangerous diets, that leave the mind and the body in a state of dangerous depletion, and prove to be pointless on the long run because the weight is gained back as soon as the diet is over. What a hectic job for the researchers looking for the miracle method. Have we found it ? Apparently, those who have tested it, have come out totally satisfied. Patients who have followed the "Protein Diet" or the "Protein Fast ”, assure you that you have a real hope of losing weight without too much pain, or none at all. However, there will be no fanciful diets, nor superfluous words. To lose weight, first you have to go on a diet. DIET AND ITS PROTEIN SUPPLY The idea of fasting is not recent but the Protein Fast is an innovation. In our culture Ramadan and Lent are practiced as a means to rebalance the body systems. Likewise the Protein Fast recommends the elimination of sugar and fat from the diet as a result of which the pancreas is at rest and fat is no longer stocked. Starting from this point, the body derives energy from its reserves. During its transformation, fat creates ketonic substances that act in an euphoric and dynamic way on the brain, and are effective as hunger stoppers. This is what Dr.BLACKBURN, Nutrition Professor in Harvard University, called ketogenesis. Weight loss should only occur to the detriment of the fat mass, while safeguarding the noble mass of the body: the muscles, the organs and the skin. But pay attention, to insure a serious weight loss, one must not feel hunger. The therapist's role is to propose to the patient a diet where hunger is non-existing. With the Protein Fast, hunger disappears between 48 and 72 hours, as soon as ketogenesis starts. But what kind of diet? No more eating at all? Certainly not. The patients have a strict fast program for one or two weeks (ideally) during which they will only consume vegetables (steamed, but with seasoning), along with protein sachets according to a medical prescription. . These sachets can be made into hot drinks (cocoa, capuccino), pudding (caramel, chocolate, coconut, vanilla, coffee), cream soup or broth... the prescriptions include vitamins, potassium, calcium and trace elements to be taken orally as supplements. During this first stage, evidently alcohol is forbidden. During phase two, the diet allows eating white meat, fish or poultry, white cheese, but is always based on vegetables that could be prepared with different flavors and spices. To succeed, you have to be creative in cooking to prepare eggplant with garlic, steamed vegetables with herbs or even tabouleh without burghol …. What about the diet results ? On average there is a weight loss of 20 kilos in 20 weeks, around 6 to 8 kilos per month for women, and between 8 and 10 kilos per month for men. A PROTEIN DIET Obesity treatment is crucial and urgent since it is a major cause of morbidity and mortality. Certainly obesity may be the result of several factors such as genetic, psycho-emotional , psycho-social, familial, environmental, or due to a disturbance of the endocrine glands but essentially the dietary approach of obesity treatment consists of establishing a negative caloric balance that leads to the catabolism of triglycerides, which is translated as an efficient and definite weight loss. Hence, the nutritionist who is daily confronted with seriously overweight patients, has to prescribe a balanced, efficient and safe diet. So he has two Possibilities: either the low calorie diet or the ketogenic regimen. THE FAILURE OF LOW-CALORIE DIETS The low calorie diets are not new. In the XVIII century, Brillat Savarin had already recommended in the three precepts of "Taste Physiology " the "discretion in eating". In theory it seems evident that the best diet consists of eating less, but in practice it's a different story. STUNKARD proved that the low calorie diet was a total failure, since this traditional cure of obesity was only 8% effective. Of course, when this diet is well balanced, it remains reassuring and without danger, however, it is THE HARDEST, THE MOST DIFFICULT, AND THE MOST TIRESOME for three reasons : 1-This diet DOES NOT REMOVE HUNGER. Few people resist this unpleasant sensation and give up after a few days or a few weeks. This diet IS TOO LONG. In fact the loss of 500 g/week is discouraging for a patient who has10, 15, or 25 kilos to lose. 3- This diet FAVOURS TEMPTATION. Since the sensation of hunger is ever present, and patients have to limit themselves to small portions of food, so many people cheat, or simply give up. For the above reasons, the low-calorie diet is not indicated for the treatment of obesity, especially since it might have certain side effects. Consider simply the case of a cardiac person with 25 kilos overweight who quits the low-calorie diet after losing 10 kilos because of this lack of motivation, and eventually goes back to his old eating habits. Consequent weight gain or short term or even medium term is inevitable and prove fatal to his health. Let us finally remember that professor BRITSTRIAN from Harvard University, had demonstrated in 1980, during the 30 th Conference of the American Society of Bariatric Physicians, in his speech entitled "ULTRA LOW DIETS ", that the balanced low-calorie diets could lead to a loss of muscles ranging between 15 and 25 % of the total weight loss. THE KETOGENTC OPTION : The Protein Fast through the induction of triglyceride catabolism, encourages the oxidation of free fatty acids at the hepatic level and provokes the famous physiological phenomenon of compensated acidoketosis that BLACKBURN called KETOGENESIS. The constant and controlled presence of ketone bodies in the body shows the perfect adaptation of the human system when subjected to a fast supplied with a precise amount of amino-acids. As long as the human body has an excess of fat that should be eliminated through ketogenesis and mainly through the Protein Fast, the effects of ketogenesis persist during this diet and supply the body with most of the energy it needs. All these metabolic reactions that take place during the Protein Fast and that Blackburn carefully described in his many books and articles, are absolutely safe. As a matter of fact, this method is based on strict scientific data and its application should be made according to a precise protocol. The Protein Fast has specific advantages that no other diet offers whether it is the low-calories or the dissociated diet. The absence of hunger The first duty of the physician is to propose to the patient a diet where hunger is non-existing. Protein Fast is the only diet capable of offering that in total safety. In this technique, hunger disappears between 48 and 72 hours . In fact, ketogenesis takes about two days to start and set off the ketonic bodies: acetone, acetylacetic acid and hydroxybutyric acid. The latter it seems stimulate the satiety center in the brain. 2- The rapidity No matter how strong is the patient's motivation, if weight loss occurs slowly, it will be too difficult for him to persevere in his diet, especially if he has too many kilos to lose.. However, with the Protein Fast, motivation is constantly reinforced through a rapid weigh loss starting from the first week losing 3 to 4.5 kilos. Eventually the rhythm of weight loss sets at about 2 kilos on a weekly basis. 3- The protection of the muscles A sound slimming diet should burn basically the body fat mass, and protect the muscular mass while keeping an equilibrated nitrogen balance. Many researchers have tried in vain to counter the negative nitrogenous balance of the total fast, but it was professor BLACKBURN who succeeded in the field by establishing the precise daily needs of amino-acids. To protect the muscular mass of a woman, she has to take daily 1.2 g of protein per kilo of her ideal weight, while a man should take l.4g. Unlike low-calorie diets, the Protein Fast only the adipose tissue is used as a source of energy. 4- The Motivation The Protein Fast favors an excellent motivation which is constantly reinforced by the weigh loss and the astonishing changes that take place on the body image. 5-The Safety One of the major advantages of the Protein Fast is its safety. It is in fact a medical treatment that should be applied in conformity with strict rules. Used for over twenty years and with more than 12 millions patients cured, this method proves its efficiency when it is applied by doctors who have received a proper training. 6- The well-being This feeling is surely the most appreciated during a slimming diet. Starting from the first day of the treatment, the formation of acetone, creates a feeling of well-being and euphoria which is reinforced by the detoxificating action of Protein Fast. 7- The easiness Patients find it easy to follow the Protein Fast especially that they do not have to measure food nor to calculate calories. So there is no risk of error miscalculating nor temptation to eat more. 8- The sleep Insomnia with obese people is often the result of a decrease in the respiratory capacity caused by the intrathoracic compression, itself due to an abundance of fatty tissues. The weight loss induced by the Protein Fast improves the respiratory capacity and its effect is beneficial to sleep. 9- The skin The wrinkling and the aging of the skin that are noticed following a severe diet low-calorie diet are unnoticed with the Protein Fast, since the muscular mass is completely protected by the precise and sufficient protein supply of high biological value. Thus the skin remains soft and satin like. 10- The measurements Many of our patients complain of various degrees of cellulite accumulation, especially in the pelvis area. They will be happy to know that the Protein Fast, thanks to its protective action on the muscles, drains all the cellulite away. It is astonishing to notice that right from the first week of the diet, women can notice an important decrease in the.measurements at the level of the size, the hips, the thighs and the buttocks. This diet's efficient action on cellulite has therefore, another interesting advantage over low-calorie diets. All these are enough reasons to privilege the use of Protein Fast. This method receiving the consensus of the international medical circles, proves its efficiency and its credibility, thus remaining the first choice for doctors wishing to treat their patients' excess weight. The numerous advantages of the Protein Fast must not make us forget that this diet is only a link in the chain of solving the obesity problem. In addition to the dietetic element, any serious diet must take into consideration the energy spending and the behavior modification.
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