Why The Book "LIES EXPOSED!"?

The biggest problem with health and nutrition is that most people don't even realize that there is a problem.

• They think that science has figured it all out and has developed these wonderful supplements, drugs, and programs that are going to make us all healthy and skinny.

• All we have to do is take their advice on exercise and eating healthily, and use their supplements and or weight loss drugs.

• Then voila, you are now your perfect self with perfect health.

• The facts are, these new programs (exercise and diet), supplements, herbs, natural medicines, etc., do not provide the claimed benefits and in fact are worsening the health of our society.
  

At least 1/3 of our population is considered obese and at least 3/4 are overweight.

• These statistics continue to worsen.

• To go along with this, the incidence of diabetes, heart disease, and many other disease processes including cancer are continuing to worsen.

• Note that the level of health is not mentioned. This is because true health is not measurable.

• Why are these problems worsening in light of the numerous diet programs, medications, supplements, exercise programs and various other techniques claiming to help with these issues?
  

Nutritionists, physicians, government organizations, and medical societies have failed to address the real issues.

• In keeping with their scientific approach, they study the effects of single or multiple nutritional components and how they appear to function in the body.

• That is fine in figuring out how those components are used in carrying out certain body functions.

• Their findings do not provide a complete picture of how all of the various nutrients and body functions interact in a coordinated fashion.

• The supplement companies take this information and treat it as though that one thing is going to completely change your life and fix everything.
  

For example, when antioxidants gained some press, people from many areas of nutrition, especially supplement producers, began to promote how much healthier you would be if you started taking their antioxidant supplements.

• They pretend as though the antioxidants are a new discovery and a new compound that you can give your body that it is not already receiving.

• They never mention that antioxidants are already contained in most foods that you (should) eat and that you probably already get plenty of them without supplementation.

• When these new products get promoted, they are only added to the other supplements that have been produced from prior discoveries.

• There is never mention of what the overall picture of nutrition is and how these individual products fit into this picture.

• Now you have another product to add to you cupboard of pills that you are taking to cover all of the discoveries that are going to make your health perfect.
  

Many websites, including those from nutritional experts and supplement promoters, provide some valid information, (information that is correct but used in an improper way), and many fallacies that keep getting promoted.

• Many of these fallacies have been challenged many times and proven to be fallacies, but they continue to be promoted anyway.

• Many fallacies are never challenged.

• When you access these sites, you will find something similar to the following (note that the way the information is presented and the content varies widely):

  • In order to lose weight, you have to eat fewer calories than your body needs.

  • You should count calories.

  • To be healthy, you have to eat vegetables and fruit, and limit your intake of fat (this information varies widely).

  • You need to exercise to help you lose weight.

  • Many sites discuss the nutritional content of various food and instruct you on how to balance your nutrient intake.

  • They claim that the cause of obesity is very complex and science and medicine are earnestly trying to figure out why.

  • Many other claims too numerous to include here.
    

Note that some of this information is true, some is partially true, and some is just plain false. How do you know the difference?

Some of these sites may suggest methods of using their information to lose weight and/or promote better health.

• Someone may promote eating from a variety of vegetables.

• They give you a huge list of vegetables with their corresponding caloric content, vitamin and mineral content, etc.

• This is wonderful scientific information, but it does not help you know how to eat vegetables appropriately to achieve your optimum health.
  

Occasionally the scientific or medical communities even come out with information refuting some of their own fallacies.

• An example is an article refuting the necessity for pregnant women to take a multivitamin.

• They suggest that most people eat healthily enough that multivitamins are not necessary.

• They do suggest taking some specific vitamins where shortages have demonstrated problems with the babies. For example, taking 4 mg of folic acid daily to help prevent neural tube defects.
  

The general approach of the medical community is to treat malfunctioning of your body with medication.

• When you go to a doctor, the first thing that you expect and the first thing that the doctor does is give you some pharmaceutical product.

• This is no surprise at all. The physician has been trained to treat malfunctioning of your body with medications not nutrition.

• People have become accustomed to receiving medication for any ailments that they have as science has figured out how to fix our bodies with prescription drugs.

• Because of the approach to body malfunction by treatment with medicine, the physician would not know how to instruct you on fixing your problem with nutrition and you are unaware of how nutritionally unfit you may be.

• The best they could do is suggest one of the diet or nutrition plans which involves supplements and other unnecessary components and is not going to result in your best health and in fact, may actually make your health worse.
  

The websites promoting their concoction of supplements, herbs, natural medicines, diet programs, exercise programs, etc., use some real scientific information, but skew it to fit what they are promoting.

• They also claim to have scientific studies performed by Dr. X or some other professional to prove that their concoction works.

• In reality, there either is no information or it has not been obtained through proper scientific procedures and is useless.

• They also love to use testimonials.

  • People demonstrate the results from using their products and testify of its effectiveness.

  • When you look at these people and see their results you are compelled to try their products.

  • You don't know that their proposals are ridiculous and that most of the people giving the testimonials are just actors.

Many fallacies concerning nutrition, dieting, exercise, etc., have been accepted over the years (this is probably due to the intense marketing by the supplement and diet industries).

• For some reason, people are afraid to challenge these fallacies.

• Even the medical profession, including celebrity docs of all types, embrace most of these fallacies and celebrity docs even have guests on their shows who have a product or program that promotes these fallacies.

• (Of course, when they are paying you millions of dollars to promote their fallacy, it is probably very easy to look the other way. However, in nearly all cases, the physician or other professional is unlikely to know enough to challenge the claims made by these companies or individuals.)
  

Occasionally, someone will come forth with a statement refuting a fallacy. I gave an example of physicians who are challenging the need for pregnant women to use a multivitamin.

• Although they are refuting the use of multivitamins, they still promote the use of specific vitamins because of the strong support for their use as in the folic acid example.

• In cases of very poor diets, a multivitamin is probably useful as I will point out in a blog on multivitamins.

• In all cases, a proper diet will provide all of the necessary nutritional components that a pregnant woman, or anyone else, needs.
  

Now this is where I come in.

• Many years ago, I realized that supplements were fallacies.

• I had used many supplements in my pursuit of weight lifting along with many athletic diets and training routines.

• After studying the effects of diets, supplements, training routines, and other related gimmicks, and continuing to study the literature, the truth started becoming very clear.

• All of the supplements, special diets and other things promoted to make you healthier, have better workouts, grow bigger and stronger faster, etc., had no positive effects as advertised.

• What I found is that the athletes who only stuck to a healthy diet without the use of any supplements did better with all aspects of their training.

  • The only problem at this point was the definition of a healthy diet.

    • There are many many opinions on what constituted a healthy diet and how to achieve it.

  • Diet programs for those trying to lose weight were also becoming more prominent.

After several more years I had collected enough information, and studied enough people and literature, that I began to put together the information that was needed.

• I used it to define a proper healthy diet that provides all of the needed nutrients without supplementation of any kind.

• Much of this information had been promoted by several early nutritionists, but the facts were being clouded by the opinions of other nutritionists and especially the supplement, herb, and natural medicine producers.
  

My first approach was to debunk the fallacies.

• I thought that if people knew that all of these ideas were false, they could pursue an approach that would lead to good health and be nutritionally fit.

• The fallacies and products and programs continued to grow at a very fast pace making it impossible to debunk their lies.

• I took the approach to educate the reader on the truth about dieting, nutrition, weight loss and exercise.

• With this knowledge, they could see the fallacies for themselves.

• I also reveal the real reason for the health and obesity epidemic that science and the medical community seem to dismiss as too simple to be valid or they are just simply looking the wrong direction.

  • There must be some underlying cause for the problems such as genetics which is not the fault of the person.

  • Heaven forbid that anyone should take responsibility for their obesity and poor health.
    

Many people at this point are going to say; "Well, I take supplements, eat a healthy diet and exercise. I am in great health and happy with what I am doing. I am sure that the supplement, herb, natural medicine, nutritionists and other professionals have this all figured out and I'm going to stick with their advice."

It will be very difficult for these people to let go of the lies and fallacies and just embrace the truth. However, for the rest of you, there is hope.

Now you can see the need for a book like "LIES EXPOSED!" and a nutrition and weight loss coaching program.

• For many years, as I was writing this book, I kept feeling like someone was going to beat me to it and provide this information such as I have done.

• I kept a vigilant watch for such information but I could never find any.

• What I did discover is that more products and programs continue to be produced perpetuating the fallacies and making it more difficult to discover the truth.
  

So if you really want to know the truth and new information that I discovered, you need to read "LIES EXPOSED!" or its companion "Stop The BS." Although I will continue to provide written and audio Blogs, and video Vlogs to enhance the information it provides, the book gives you all of the information you need to know in one concise source.

Please provide feedback, positive or negative in the comments below. You can also email be at drmeline@ss-health.com or start a chat by selecting the chat tab. I want to understand what people think the truth is. Thank you for taking your time to read this blog.