Why Light Foods Make You Feel So Heavy
Many people wonder why they have put on so much weight since consuming light-foods. Or, they may
ask, why don’t light-foods seem to contribute to slimming? The answers to this question are quite simple.
Low-energy foods deplete your energy and, thereby, slow down your metabolism, making it more and
more difficult to metabolize even the light-foods and lose any extra weight. In addition, after eating light-
foods a couple of times, your body begins to realize that it is deprived of energy. Consequently, it sends
you urgent messages to consume energy-containing foods. Since carbohydrates are the foods that keep
your serotonin and beta-endorphin levels normal, not eating them makes you cranky, restless and moody.
To overcome the discomfort, you eat more of these same low-energy foods than you normally would.
Much of it, though, gets converted into fat and waste matter. This natural response occurs in everyone,
even in children.
Children are generally more in touch with their natural instincts and have not yet been influenced by
theories about diets, calories, and light-foods. When researchers tested the eating habits of children, they
wanted to find out whether children extract fewer calories from their food and lose weight if they
consume light products. The scientists were surprised to discover that those children whose diet included
light-foods (low calorie) had actually increased their appetites and started eating more to balance the loss
of energy caused by the light-foods.
The body is constantly aware of how much energy is required to conduct all its activities and
subsequently sends the appropriate signals of how much we should eat in order to satisfy its needs. The
requirements, of course, change as the day goes on. A theoretical system of how much you should eat at
each meal and how many calories you can use up without becoming fat is therefore useless, if not
harmful. It strongly interferes with the body’s natural and uniquely programmed weight control
mechanisms. The accompanied anxiety of eating too much or eating the wrong type of food may even
shut down the digestive functions, which means you are converting much of the ingested food into
undigested toxic waste. This clogs up the system even more and adds extra weight to the body.
The body always knows when it has reached a point of satiety. This was shown in another experiment
during which a group of children were given the permission to eat as much as they wanted and whatever
they wanted for six consecutive days. They were even allowed sweets, cakes, and other kinds of
“unhealthy” foods. Parents were not permitted to influence their children in any way.
The researchers carefully recorded what and how much of each food a child ate during each meal,
throughout the six 24-hour periods. Some children ate only minute amounts during some meals but then
greatly increased the amounts at other meal(s). The children’s calorie intake fluctuated substantially from
meal to meal; yet, when calculated for an entire day, calorie consumption remained the same.
Gaining “Waste-Weight”
Many studies show that light-foods encourage appetite and overeating and do not reduce weight. The
more enzymatic energy contained in food, the faster we feel satisfied. But not only light-foods are energy
depleted and dissatisfying. Refined, processed, chemically treated foods contain no Prana or life energy,
which is the type of energy the body needs to help digest food.
There may be plenty of calories in the highly refined white flour products but the body is not able use
this form of “dead” energy. Our digestive system is naturally programmed to extract energy from live
foods or complex staple foods, which contain plenty of Prana. The body regards such lifeless foods as
meat, cornflakes or light-foods to be indigestible and tries to “dump” them as quickly as possible. All they
do is to congest the intestines where they ferment and putrefy. This is the first location in the body where