Preliminary Health Care Podcast

More at www.preliminaryhealthcare.com The most common advice we hear for weight-loss is to “eat less and exercise more” (ELEM). By inference, eating more and exercising less makes you fatter. Further still, this mentality assumes and implies that being fat is a choice—a choice made by lazy weak-willed gluttons. You’ll be able to find why this is all wrong in other posts or in the full Fat-Loss eBook (coming Dec 1st, 2014), but here I want to explain how/why this paradigm is exactly backwards. In other words, we wrongly assume that fatter people are fatter because they eat more; in reality, though, fatter people may eat more because they are larger! Make no mistake, people get larger BEFORE they eat more. I understand if that sounds completely crazy at this point, but let’s apply this notion to a different scenario. Imagine we’re talking about a husband and a wife: the husband is 6 feet tall and 190 pounds; the wife is 5’ 4” 140 pounds. Who do you think will eat more? Of course, the man because he is larger—