Visualization for Weight Loss -The Gabriel Method

Part III: Physical Stresses that Activate the FAT Programs

4. Organic wheat-free bread: These are breads made of organic grains like spelt, rice, rye, and oats.

5. Organic whole wheat bread: This is bread made from organic whole wheat.

Once you fall below this standard to conventionally-farmed wheat bread, whether whole wheat or not, you are eating some- thing that is substantially worse for you. Conventionally-farmed grains have over twenty different pesticides, stabilizers, preserv- atives, and fungicides. They are stripped of all nutrients, and the toxic by-products block your body’s ability to absorb other nutri- ents from other foods. 11 There is one other major advantage to eating live organic fruits and vegetables: they have a quality that only live organic food has. It’s a quality lacking in the overcooked, over processed, arti- ficially flavored, dead foods that make up the majority of our modern day diet. That quality is vitality . NOTES 1. See the appendix (page 185) for how proinflammatory cyto- kines can activate the FAT Programs. 2. For more on how omega-3 fatty acids increase insulin sensitivity and reverse hyperinsulinemia, see R. Rosedale, MD, “Insulin and Its Metabolic Effects,” Mercola.com Newsletter ( July 2001): http://articles. mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2001/07/14/insulin-part-one.aspx. And for a discussion on how omega-3 fatty acids reduce inflammation and proinflammatory cytokines,” see B. Holub, “Clinical Nutrition 4: Omega-3 Fatty Acids and Cardio Vascular Care,” Canadian Medical Associaton Journal 166, no. 5 (Canadian Medical Association, March 5, 2002): 608–615; A. Sher, C. Serhan, F. Bianchini, J. Aliberti, M. Arita, N. Chiang, N. Petasis, R. Yang, and S. Hong, “Stereochemical Assignment, Anti-inflammatory Properties, and Receptor for the Omega-3 Lipid Medi- ator Resolvin E1,” The Journal of Experimental Medicine 201, no. 5 (Rockefeller University Press, March 7, 2005): 713–722; and L. G. Cleland,

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