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What Does Your Doctor Look Like Naked? Your Guide to Optimal Health

by Warren Willey

312 pages; quality trade paperback (softcover); catalogue #04-1524; ISBN 1-4120-3696-8; US$35.00, C$40.25, EUR28.75, £20.13

Dr. Warren Willey's latest book covers all the necessary steps to obtain and maintain optimal health! It includes understanding the process of disease; eating plans for optimizing weight, and much more.

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About the Book

What Does Your Doctor Look Like Naked? Your Guide To Optimal Health delves into the complete concept of obtaining and then maintaining optimal health and your ideal body. It, unlike other books out there, describes not only what to do but more importantly the HOW TO and WHY the program works. With this understanding, optimal health, weight loss, and the body you desire are only a few steps away.

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About the Author

Dr. Warren Willey is the Medical Director of the Fitness Medicine Clinic, a full-service preventative medical organization helping people to obtain optimal health and fitness through elite nutritional programs, diet strategies, and exercise programs.

He is a Board Certified Osteopathic Physician, and completed his postgraduate training at the Mayo Clinic. He is a founding diplomat of the American Board of Holistic medicine and a diplomat with The American Board of Family Practice. He is an active bodybuilder and has designed a number of exercise modalities. Dr. Willey is an established author having written a medical textbook and for a number of periodicals including Men's Fitness. He has 20+ years experience with personal training and nutritional intervention.

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From Chapter 4: Understanding the Process of "HEALTH"

In my practice, I commonly ask my clients the definition of health. Though the responses are varied, one common consideration usually comes out... (and I quote): "Health is not needing to see a doctor or take drugs". Talk about a misinformed concept. This, in my opinion, is a product of mass marketing and our current disease care system (See Chapter 3). This IS NOT, I repeat, IS NOT the definition of health! Health in YOUR new system of thinking is: "a continuing process of transformation, both physical and mental, that allows your body and mind to take the next step into maximal living, by decreasing the chance of disease thereby increasing the chance of enjoyment".

From Chapter 9: The Fallacy of Scale Weight: Understanding Body Composition

Our current paradigm dictates that the scale weight change, whether from fat, water, or lean mass. Unfortunately, this thinking is flawed because WHAT you are losing is more important than HOW MUCH you are losing. The word "loss" in and of itself has negative connotations. I do not know about you, but I get rather moody when I lose something, from car keys to that to-do list I lost in the pile on my desk. Forget about losing weight and start focusing on GAINING lean mass. Gain? Did he just say GAIN? Yes I did! Focus on gaining muscle because that is what burns the fat! Doesn't gaining something sound and feel better than losing something?

From Chapter 13: Developing an Understanding of Food

A brief, though I hold my tongue, proclamation of one of the biggest charades ever perpetrated by the food / marketing industry: 'Low fat' and 'diet' food. Never, in the history of man, has a more criminal act been pulled on the masses. Simple question: Why is obesity and all its associated diseases so prevalent with all the low fat and diet foods out there? Answer: because this IS one of the primary causes of the obesity and disease epidemics in our country! Let me explain: just because fat on your body is bad, does not mean fat in your mouth is bad. Fat is needed for a number of physiological processes including fat burning. We will cover more about this later, but for now it suffices to say that fat is not bad. I was once in an argument with a registered dietician (one of many) and we were arguing over the Atkins style of eating. While I am only a proponent of Atkins' style as a short-term diet option and not a lifestyle, I am in the same ballpark when it comes to a lot of the complex (I call them active carbohydrates as you will see below) carbohydrates causing a number of problems. The registered dietician's argument was "you can not remove an entire food group from someone's diet and lose weight or be healthy". My response was simple in turn "What have you and the whole American Dietetics Association done with fat? You have removed an entire food group"! All of these low fat foods have one thing in common: High Sugar. Diet foods cut the fat and add sugar in its place thereby reducing calories, but exposing the body to more harmful substances. Not all calories are created equal! I will elucidate this more in future writings, but for now please know that diet foods and low fat foods are a problem, not a solution to our overweight epidemic!

Here comes another paradigm revolution: Food is a Drug! By every term and definition of a drug, food fits. The definition of a drug is: Any substance that affects the structure or functioning of a living organism. In my experience, once my patients have come to this realization, once their paradigm has shifted, a few key events take place: they realize that food (like drugs) has specific effects, interactions, and side effects. They understand that food has consequences. They understand that like most prescription drugs, you occasionally need another drug to combat the side effects of the first (and it can occasionally become exponential in process). They realize that food is very powerful, and cannot only affect them while they eat, in terms of cravings, fat storage, etc. but sometimes up to 72 hours later. Francis Bacon said, "Knowledge and Human Power are Synonymous" and "Knowledge Itself is Power". Believe me, gaining a firm understanding that food is a drug is one of the most powerful things you can do for your health, your body, and your longevity.

Another fact I tell all my clients that seems to take them off guard: There is no such thing as a BAD food. I am convinced that there are foods that are BETTER than others, and some that can be utilized at more optimum times, but overall, no food is or should be completely avoided because it is "BAD". This is where food timing comes in. Food, which you now recognize as a drug, has all sorts of metabolic, hormonal, and chemical responses that follow its intake. When you time the type of food you eat with other daily events, you optimize that food. More importantly, you optimize the effect that food has on you. This is a vital part of this program. By following the recommended eating schedule, you will gain an understanding of HOW to eat; you will start to see the dramatic effects of food timing. This is part of the real life properties of this program. Knowledge of the TYPE of food and the TIMING involved allows you to eat the foods you enjoy, without the dreaded diet connotation. Before we get deeper in that subject, we need to review some food basics. These are what I call: The Fundamental Facts of Food.

From Chapter 14: Food Timing

No other fact should be more fundamentally understood than the following: there is no such thing as a bad food. What is important to know is WHEN to utilize the foods we like to eat. The timing of food intake in relation to our sleep / wake cycle, exercise, work, playtime, and all other activities of daily living is what needs to be understood. Once this has been embedded, you will begin to see results of your quest for optimal health on a new level. You will actually learn to BENEFIT from pizza and beer. No, that is not a typing error. I said BENEFIT from what most diets would consider horrific foods. Food timing is elementary in your quest for optimal health. Your understanding of the fundamental facts about foods (see above), and the difference between active carbohydrates, free carbohydrates, proteins and fats will now allow you to place foods strategically in your day, according to your activities and plans. The following will provide instructions for utilizing foods and the reasons why I suggest certain things and at specific times.

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