“Help, I’m losing too much weight and my friends comment how skinny I look!”

Please cool down, you are not going to fade away : )

This is one of the most frequently asked questions I get from Clear for Life customers. Perhaps it’s on your mind also, so I wrote a detailed reply to it.

Let’s start with an ABC of body composition and weight control.

Three elements make up for your body weight: water, lean tissue and fat. Water makes up as much as 70% of our total body mass.

Water has many important functions in the body. One is that it’s used to dilute toxins to bring down their concentration to less harmful level.

When the body cannot eliminate all the toxins it has to store them. But it doesn’t store just the toxins, it also stores the water they are diluted in. Solution to pollution is dilution.

Once you stop putting toxins in the organs of elimination have a chance to catch up. The load of toxins in the body starts to go down. As the body gets rid of the toxins it also releases the extra water.

Any rapid weight loss is always water loss.

That’s one part of the weight loss issue.

Second, and this may make you a bit uncomfortable, nearly all of us are under muscled and over fat.

Here’s a quote from Dr. Graham:

“When thin people have a desire to gain weight, they usually fail to recognize that they need to gain muscle, not fat. Almost every client who has even come to me wanting to curtain their weight loss because they thought they were getting too ’skinny’ actually still needed to lose some fat…

One client, a high-end fashion model, came to me saying she would do whatever I suggested in order to extend her youthful beauty, but she could not afford to lose any more weight. She was long and lanky and looked skinny to be sure, but she was under muscled. When we measured her body fat, she was shocked to discover that it was almost 29% - at least 10% above what I would consider healthy. She did not need to lose weight; she needed to lose fat while gaining muscle.”

Dr. Graham
The 80/10/10 Diet

For most people it only looks like they have muscle because of water and fat. Water inflates their muscles. Within the muscles there’s also lots of fat, and there’s a padding of fat around the muscles.

Once the body starts to release water and fat it looks like our muscles are shrinking. But in reality we have only been stripped off our illusion of muscles. Perhaps for the first time we have to face the fact of how under muscled most of us really are.

Muscle loss happens only in two cases: you don’t use the muscles or you starve yourself. Starving is not an issue, because the body first burns off fat before using muscle for energy. If you purposefully leave yourself calorie-deficient for long periods of time (months) it may happen, but for the vast majority it’s not an issue.

So the only way you can lose muscle is not to use them. Use it or lose it. And as you start using them your muscles gain their size back quickly.

That’s another part to weight loss mystery.

As you can see it doesn’t really make sense to look at your weight and ’skinniness’ as an indicator of how well you are doing. Rather focus on how you are feeling. Do you still have energy? What about your athletic capabilities, are they still the same/improving/declining?

As long as you feel great and can perform athletically (the way you used to) you have nothing to worry about.

Initially, you may experience a drop in your athletic capabilities. That’s a result of detoxification.

Initially the body may break down more tissue than it can rebuild. So you may lose a little strength. That’s ok. It’s temporary and you will gain the ‘lost’ muscle back.

It doesn’t happen to everybody, but if it happens to you it’s important to be aware of it, and keep an eye on it. This ‘weak’ period should not last for more than a month or two. If it goes on for more than two months, you may have a problem with your diet.

With strength training you can minimize or completely avoid this weak period. I’ve noticed and heard from other people that by training your muscles you can prevent the temporary muscle loss.

On a personal note I can tell that none of this happened to me. Yes, I’ve lost some weight, but I was carrying few extra pound that I was happy to get rid of. Instead of looking skinny I have far more muscle now than I did when I was eating a more standard diet. Putting on muscle has become much easier than it used to be. I get bigger gains from doing less work - you just can’t beat that.

My body builds itself almost automatically. And all I’m doing is to follow the diet guidelines in Clear for Life and the exercise routine I learned from Roger Haeske’s Lightning Speed Fitness Program.

I never go to the gym anymore. My strength training routine takes only 5 to 10 minutes a day. I only do exercises that I enjoy - I just can’t stand boring and repetitive stuff. And I do it all in my home.

When exercise is so simple and fun there’s no need to look skinny. That’s why I recommend Roger Haeske’s Lightning Speed Fitness Program.

So to sum things up, ensure that you:

  • Do something with your muscles
  • Eat sufficient calories
  • Keep your fat consumption under 20% of total calories, preferably under 10%
  • Eat a pound of greens a day
  • Drink enough water; even a slight dehydration can lead to reduced capacity for muscular work

Isn’t it funny how good things just stack up when you do the right things? The same advice that helps you to get clear also gives you a great body. It’s a total transformation from skinny and acne ridden to clear, athletic and sexy. And that really sucks when everyone else is getting fatter and lazier : )

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Posted by Seppo, filed under cure acne, diet, exercise, tips. Date: December 23, 2008, 10:10 am | 4 Comments »

Does it feel like your skin has a mind of its own? That it feels like acne is impossible to control?

You certainly aren’t the only one. The email I got from a reader describes the sentiments of many acne victims.

My skin, overall, is good. I do not have severe acne and my breakouts are mild and comes but once in a while. But when I do get them.. I feel they are impossible to control. I also am frustrated by the red marks they have left behind. What would you recommend is best for me.

Two concerns: Control acne and fade away post acne marks. Overall I am happy with my skin. Just want to be able to be in control of it more.

First I have to say you can’t really control your skin. Not in a reliable way at least. Sure creams, lotions, drugs, supplements, light therapies and such can give you some degree of control. But you’ve probably tried almost all of those. And nobody can tell you if they work for you, and if they do for how long. It’s a bit like going to casino. You may win, but the odds are stacked against you.

A bit more advanced way is to see if some foods or substances trigger a breakout. Perhaps you have some food allergies or sensitivities that trigger acne.

But that’s about the extent of control you have over your skin. How your skin looks is largely determined what happens inside of you. If I had a pull a figure out of my hat I’d say what happens inside of you controls at least 80% of your skin. The rest being what you do to your skin.

Trying to control your acne is not the way I recommend. Simply because illnesses don’t happen without a cause. And what we deem as a health problem, such as acne, is nothing but a symptom of the cause. Pimples are not your real problem, and trying to fight pimples won’t get you any closer to curing the real problem.

Why elimination of the symptom is NOT the same as elimination of the disease
Physicians and surgeons palliate symptoms instead of removing causes

Jeffrey Levy, DVM - “The greatest harm of drug treatment is usually not so much the toxicity or side effects as it is the effects of suppression. Allopathic (conventional Western) medical thinking generally seeks immediate gratification: just make the symptom go away.

So the patient may be better in the short term, but is usually worse in the longer term. Homeopathy is just the opposite: sometimes the symptoms are worse in the short term (such as with aggravation or the reversal of a previous suppression), but the real benefit is in the longer term.

A symptom, say itchy skin, is the body’s response to a deeper problem. When a symptom is suppressed, it is only the outward manifestation of the problem that goes away. Since the deeper problem is still there, the body may, in time, produce the same symptom again.

Another possibility is that, as a result of the suppression, the deeper problem progresses to the point that a deeper, more serious symptom is produced. So the itchy skin may go away, but then chronic diarrhea develops. If the diarrhea is then suppressed as well, it may lead to, say, liver disease. But hey, at least the skin is cleared up!

I see this pattern, or variations on it, very frequently in reviewing the medical records of new patients. It is the unrecognized, and often high, price that we pay for the quick fix, for immediate gratification, for the shot or pill that seems to make the problem go away.”

Understanding Basic Healing Principles of Natural Cure

Clear for Life approach recognizes that the root cause is related to diet and lifestyle choices, and that given a change the innate healing mechanisms in your body will heal it.

In the name of honesty I have to say that the Clear for Life approach is not always a walk in the park. Mainly for two reasons.

First, it takes some work initially. Making diet and lifestyle changes you may need to make is not always easy. Though once you get the ball rolling it becomes effortless. Because you start feeling so much better you can get hooked on feeling good. Then there’s no turning back to your old diet and lifestyle (what a shame : )).

Another stumbling block is that you have to give up trying to control your skin. Going through the healing journey can be a bit of a roller coaster ride. One day your skin looks great and the next morning you wake up with horrible pimples.

Healing is a reversal of the disease process. While on it your acne may get worse (temporarily) and some of your old symptoms may pop up (again temporarily).

Going through this roller coaster ride often puts you face to face with deeper self-esteem issues (if you have any, most people do and I certainly had my fair share).

On the other hand with proper tools, guidance and support you can get over these emotional issues and emergy stronger not only physically but also emotionally.

I know this was a long and complicated answer to a simple question. But acne goes far below the surface. When one talks about true healing one cannot chop the body into pieces and deal with them separately. Everything is interconnected and when you throw mind and emotions into the kettle you can begin to appreciate the soup you have cooked.

Still I see acne as perhaps the greatest opportunity you have to drastically improving the quality of your life and getting closer to a happier and more fulfilling life.

If this a path you want to get on head on to Clear Skin Space. It’s filled with people just like you. You’ll get all the support, advice and inspiration you need.

So go ahead and turn acne into your greatest opportunity.


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Posted by Seppo, filed under cure acne. Date: December 20, 2008, 8:34 am | No Comments »

A common folk-wisdom saying states that one man’s medicine is another’s poison. My view is that one man’s poison is everybody’s poison. Generally speaking, of course there are some exceptions to this.

I imagine this piece of ‘wisdom’ got started on how different people reacted differently to same foods or substances. Some got better while others were worse off.

So what’s the deal here. If one man’s poisons is everybody’s poison how can this happen? Shouldn’t everybody get the same reaction?

I can think of several reasons why different people react differently to same substances.

Preexisting conditions

Allergies and other preexisting conditions can cause negative reactions to even healthy foods and substances. Tomatoes are very nutritious and healthy but many people are allergic to them.

In this case the saying is true, but this is the exception that confirms the rule. Once the person deals with these conditions (if possible) they won’t experience the negative reactions anymore.

Fruit is a great example of this. Some people say they react badly to fruits, it gives them stomach cramps or leads to breakouts. Therefore they conclude fruits are bad for them. In case of acne the real problem usually is insulin resistance. Once that’s handled fruits won’t cause acne anymore. In case of stomach cramps simply eating fruits to empty stomach (instead of eating them as dessert) solves the problem.

Going from worse to bad

Most people eat such horrible diets that switching to foods that are merely bad (in relation to ‘worse’ ‘bad’ is better) makes them feel better.

Healthy eating is more about what you don’t eat than what you eat. Adding a bit of healthy foods to a horrible diet won’t make much of a difference. But simply dropping the highly processed foods can make a big difference.

Let’s say you drink five cups of coffee a day. As a result you’ll get a migraine. You switch to defac coffee and your migraine goes away. Does that mean decaf coffee is good for you? No, it simply means caffeinated coffee is worse. And the cure has more to do with absence of caffeine than of any positive quality of decaf coffee.

Compare that to what happens to another person who has never touched coffee before. They drink decaf coffee, after which their head starts to spin and generally feel bad.

Does this mean decaf coffee is one man’s medicine and another’s poison? No it simply means that after drinking coffee for a while the other person can tolerate it. It’s bad for them also, but overtime their bodies have build defenses to minimize the negative effects. This is the reason why you need more alcohol to get drunk now than you needed when you started drinking.

Confusing symptoms with the real problem

In almost all health conditions symptoms are not the real problem. They simply reflect the underlying condition. In case of acne pimples are not the real problem. The real problem is chronic inflammation and blood sugar problems. These conditions lead to acne, and you cannot get rid of them by treating acne.

In many cases, and especially so with acne, the symptoms often get worse before they get better. They are part of the healing process. Say a person starts with the clear skin lifestyle and after few weeks their acne gets worse. A misguided person might conclude that they are on the wrong path.

Going back to their old lifestyle stops the healing process and their skin gets better. They conclude that Clear for Life was the worst thing they ever tried - it made their acne worse.

In this case one man’s medicine appeared like another’s poison. A well informed person persists through the temporary healing crisis and discovers that one man’s medicine is their medicine also.

These were just few examples off the top of my head to explain why different people can react differently to the same substance. I’m sure you can think of many others.

I hope this post helped you to file this piece of ‘wisdom’ to where it belongs: Alice’s Great Book of Dietary Fairytales. Brought to you by the Wonderland Press.


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Confused about fruits? Think fruits cause acne?

Some people say it’s the devil’s incarnation and nature’s candy, which others say it’s the healthiest food you can eat. In this post I explain, in detail, why most fears about fruit and unfounded and why eating fruits fixes the underlying cause of acne and many other health problems.

This is an answer to Krystal’s question at Clear Skin Space forums. She asked:

Okay, seriously, what is the deal? Everywhere I look someone is saying eat fruit, don’t eat fruit, limit your fruit, fruit should be unlimited?

So my question is this..
Does fruit cause people to break-out?

Welcome to the wonderful world of diet and nutrition. Want to get even more confused? Surf to Amazon.com and search books with ‘diet’ in title. You’ll get about 300′000 results - all with different conclusions and recommendations.

But generally the most intense battles in these diet wars are fought on the high-fat vs. high-carb front.

This is important for acne victims because blood sugar problems cause hormonal reaction that can lead to more acne. Some doctors even call acne ’skin diabetes’.

As a disclaimer I live on a high-carb, high-fiber, high-fiber diet and eat very little fat. I don’t have anything against low-carb diets. I just don’t see them as very smart thing to do. But if you are currently on one and it’s working for you then keep up with it. In the end of this post I’ll add some good points about them.

PROBLEMS WITH LOW-CARB THEORY

If you listen to the high-fat, also called low-carb, guys and gals you should shun away from fruits and carbs. Their theory goes that since carbs raise blood sugar levels, which raises insulin levels, which are linked to many diseases (acne included) one should avoid carbs.

The problem is that it’s all baloney. That theory has been proven wrong so many times, both in lab and in real life. Before writing this I again researched the issue a bit. I really loved this comment on a review study:

The purveyors of these diets [low-carb] portray them to be scientifically sound. Although there is some scientific rationale, two common devices used to support contentions include the overinterpretation of data and weaving together of unconnected scientific observations, and these processes often border on sophistry. Nevertheless, driven by the increased prevalence of overweight and obesity, these diets are increasingly popular despite a relative lack of rigorous scientific data. These diets present an attractive alternative to challenging lifestyle modifications (i.e. intentional calorie reduction and increased physical activity).

Diet, Insulin Resistance, and Obesity: Zoning in on Data for Atkins Dieters Living in South Beach by Cristina Lara-Castro and W. Timothy Garvey

Here’s another aspect of low-carb theory that’s wrong.

The entire theoretical framework of low carb diets, like Atkins and The Zone, hang upon the notion that insulin is the root of all evil and so to limit insulin release one needs to limit carbohydrate intake. Dr. Atkins, for example, has a chapter entitled “Insulin–The Hormone That Makes You Fat,”[71] Protein Power calls it the “monster hormone,”[487] and the author of the Zone Diet calls insulin “the single most significant determinant of your weight.”[72]

What they overlook is that “protein- and fat-rich foods may induce substantial insulin secretion” as well.[73] Research in which study subjects served as their own controls, for example, has shown that under fasting conditions a quarter pound of beef raises insulin levels in diabetics as much as a quarter pound of straight sugar.[74]

Atkins’ featured foods like cheese and beef elevated insulin levels higher than “dreaded” high-carbohydrate foods like pasta. A single burger’s worth of beef, or three slices of cheddar, boosts insulin levels more than almost 2 cups of cooked pasta.[75] In fact a study in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition found that meat, compared to the amount of blood sugar it releases, seems to cause the most insulin secretion of any food tested.[76]

Low carb advocates like Atkins seem to completely ignore these facts. Recent medical reviews have called Atkins’ feel-good theories “factually flawed”[77] and “at best half-truths.”[78] “In the scientific world, books like the Zone Diet are generally regarded as fiction,” one reviewer wrote in the Journal of the American College of Nutrition. “The scientific literature is in opposition…”[79] In a medical journal article entitled “Food Fads and Fallacies,” the Atkins Diet is referred to as a “‘New wives’ tale” with a “sprinkling of fallacies.”[80]

According to a 2003 article in the Journal of the American Medical Association, “Dr. Atkins and his colleagues selectively recite the literature” to support their claims.[81] When researchers take the time to actually measure insulin levels, for instance, instead of just talking about them like Atkins does, they often find the opposite of what Atkins asserted.

Phony Baloney
Atkinsexposed.org by Dr. Michael Greger

Another problem with the theory behind low-carb diet is that it over simplifies things. In the Blood sugar worries blog post I explained the concept of input and output.

THE REAL REASON BEHIND BLOOD SUGAR PROBLEMS

The main reason you get blood sugar problems is because the output side is not working well. Glucose cannot exit from the bloodstream. A condition called insulin resistance, which means that the insulin receptors in cells don’t work well, or they are down regulated. When insulin receptors don’t work glucose cannot get out of the bloodstream. Here’s how Dr. Mark Jenkins put it:

It is not hyperinsulinemia that is the problem, it is the receptor. It has been repeatedly shown in the medical literature that increasing the sensitivity of peripheral insulin receptors reduces hyperinsulinemia and hypertension. This process is termed insulin sensitization and is accomplished by aerobic exercise, low-fat / high-carbohydrate diet, and reduction of excessive body fat. Conversely, obesity and high fat diets have been shown to induce insulin resistance. It is important that the high carbohydrate diet have predominantly complex carbohydrates and also have a high fiber content.

Insulin, Diet, Disease and Athletes

And if you think I’m just blowing smoke out my a** just Google ‘high-fat diet insulin resistance’. Scientists have known this thing since thirties.

When researchers want to study diabetes they feed mice a high-fat diet to create diabetes. There’s even a term called ‘high-fat diet induces insulin resistance‘.

If you can tolerate more science talk, here’s what happens to mice on a high-fat diet. If not, you can safely skip this quote.

Main Findings

Unsurprisingly, the mice fed the high-fat diet had an increased body weight compared to those maintained on a normal diet. The investigators observed stable hyperglycaemia and progressively increased hyperinsulinaemia in the mice on the high-fat diet. This is indicative of progressively worsening insulin resistance. After only one week on the high-fat diet, blood glucose levels were raised and intravenous glucose tolerance tests showed reduced glucose elimination and impaired insulin secretion. This demonstrates two distinct mechanistic characteristics of impaired glucose tolerance and type 2 diabetes; namely insulin resistance and islet dysfunction. Metabolic efficiency (that is the energy intake per gram body weight gain) was raised in both the mice fed a high-fat diet and those on a normal diet. However, the increase was attenuated in the mice fed the high-fat diet. Thus the weight gain observed in the high-fat group cannot be fully explained by increased energy intake; there was also a concomitant reduction in metabolic rate.

The concentration of glucose in the blood was consistently 1mmol/l higher in the mice maintained on the high-fat diet than in those on the normal diet throughout the 1 year study period. However, insulin levels continued to rise in the mice maintained on the high-fat diet. This suggests that insulin resistance progressively increased but there were compensatory mechanisms which kept the hyperglycaemia stable at 1mmol/l. When challenged with an intravenous glucose tolerance test, there was no compensation for the insulin resistance and there was a marked deterioration of glucose elimination. This, along with similar patterns observed following an oral glucose tolerance test, highlights that insulin secretion is defective in this model. When the DPP-IV inhibitor was administered in the drinking water of both groups of mice, there was an augmentation in insulin secretion resulting in improved glucose tolerance.

Conclusions and Future Directions

This work has demonstrated that the high-fat, diet-fed C57BL/6J mouse is a robust model for studying impaired glucose tolerance and early stage type 2 diabetes, as it exhibits similar metabolic defects as are observed in the human disease.

Winzell MS & Ahren B (2004) The High-Fat Diet-Fed Mouse: A Model for Studying Mechanisms and Treatment of Impaired Glucose Tolerance and Type 2 Diabetes. Diabetes 53 (3) S215-9

DOES FRUIT CAUSE ACNE?

Now that we have paddled through a mountain of science talk we can move on to the question.

Yes, fruit can cause acne if you have insulin resistance. In that case the sugar in fruits causes a hormonal reaction that can lead to acne.

Get fat out of your blood and reduce insulin resistance with other lifestyle factors and fruit shouldn’t be a problem.

Most fruits are low to medium in glycemic index. And your body is perfectly equipped to deal with sugar from fruits. In Candida and acne blog posts I quoted Steve Pavlina who did an experiment with a raw food diet. Steve monitored his blood sugar levels and they remained remarkably stable. He said that he couldn’t spike his blood sugar levels even if he tried - even eating 19 bananas a day has no effect on blood sugar levels.

Your body is designed to run on sugar and it’s perfectly equipped to deal with it. All your cell run on sugar. The only time your body starts running on fat is if you severely restrict carbohydrate intake. This mechanism is a survival tool, allowing you to survive times of famine or when carbs might not be available. Practically the entire medical community agrees that this ketonic state is not healthy.

Even for people who say they breakout from fruits this is often not the whole truth. When they remove fat out of their diet fruits usually cause no problems. Here’s what on happy Clear for Life customer wrote to me.

Just got to say, you da man! I’m into my 4th week post paleo and my skin is doing very well. I haven’t kept to your diet and detox plan stringently, but am eating an abundance of organic fruits, greens, grains, tubers, and legumes while being very careful about my fat intake. Also maintaining a regular exercise and meditation routine while getting as much sunlight as I can manage working an office job during the rainy season in Seattle.

The first week on my diet I was quite amazed to eat levels of carbs that would have caused a carpet bombing of my face while on paleo. No such result.

After so many years of suffering from acne and then months of being chained to paleo, I’m still quite incredulous to the fact that I can have clear skin and live a normal life.

So you have my sincerest thanks for leading me to a diet and lifestyle that’s providing a long sought-after freedom.

Paleo, or Paleolithic diet, is often high in meat, healthy fats and vegetables with some fruits thrown in. Overall it’s a pretty healthy diet, but the high-fat content can lead to carb sensitivity.

NO ONE DIET FOR ALL PEOPLE

I don’t believe into blood type diet and metabolic type diet theories. These basically say that depending on genetic, or who knows what, make up some people are designed to run on carbs while some are designed to run on fat or protein. So far I haven’t found a single piece of credible evidence to support these theories. And they run against common sense, rationality and real life experience.

That said, I also don’t believe that one diet fits everybody. Yes, I believe that fruits and vegetables are the ideal food for humans. But because we have abused our bodies for decades some people have develped allergies, sensitivities and other conditions that can make eating fruits bad for them, at least some fruits. So we always have to look at the individual and not stick to a dogma.

GOOD POINTS WITH LOW-CARB DIETS

Now that you know why I choose not to eat a low-carb diet and wouldn’t recommend it let’s look at some of the good points in them.

People on low-carb diets tend to eat less processed and junk food they used to. Most junk food is carb-based. Just eliminating soft drinks, candies, pastries (trans fats anyone?) and fast foods can create miracles. I think that simply eating a diet of natural, whole foods is 80% of the solution.

Today people just eat too much of everything. We eat far too many calories. Low-carb diets often get people to eat less. That’s another huge step in reducing insulin resistance and creating health.

Low-carb diets often recommend eating more vegetables. Any diet that gets you to eat less junk and more vegetables is a step to the right direction. Points for low-carb on that.

Creates health awareness. Often when people go on a diet they also become more health conscious. So they might start exercising more and pay attention to their sleep. Diet is just one part of the solution, and in Clear for Life I explained the six elements of health you need to pay attention to. You could eat the perfect diet, but if you ignore the other elements you probably won’t make much progress in terms of health or curing acne.

Finally low-carb diets may get you clear. I know of several people who have gotten clear with a low-carb diet. Since acne is linked to blood sugar response removing carbs somehow short-circuits this mechanisms.

Still, I think high-fruit, low-fat diets are far better at allowing your body to heal itself and removing the root cause of acne. You can actually get to a point where you can eat several days in a row at McDonals and not have it affect your skin at all (unfortunately I speak from experience). Whereas on low-carbs diets such cheats lead to breakouts far more frequently.

CONCLUSION

I hope that by taking you through this long and perhaps a bit science filled journey I managed to shake off some fears you may have concerning fruits. The majority of the scientific community support the idea of high-carb, high-fiber diet in creating health. And fruit gives you both. Plus it’s filled with vitamins, antioxidants and other nutrients.

For all these reason I believe fruits is the ideal food for creating health and curing acne.

Recommended reading:

Fruit Controversy - A free, 30-page report from Frederic Patenaude dispelling the myths about fruits. You have to give your email-address, but Fred sends out good material and doesn’t spam you. And if you really don’t want his emails you can just not confirm your subscription, that way you won’t get any emails from him but still get access to the report.

Atkins exposed.org - A thorough review of science for and against Atkins and other low-carb diets.

Clear for Life - Well, of course you need to read my book : )


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Posted by Seppo, filed under candida, cure acne, diet. Date: December 11, 2008, 12:23 pm | 1 Comment »