INTRODUCTION
Fat Is Not The Enemy
THE MYTH
You’ve heard it all before. Everybody from the American Medical Association to the media
trendsetters to that so-called “expert” at your neighborhood gym has been saying the same thing for
the last three decades: Fat is bad. Carbohydrates are good. If you want to get the body you’ve been
working so hard for, you’ve got to focus on those carbohydrates and keep fat to an absolute minimum.
So you dedicate yourself to living by the percentages the Lords of Lowfat give you. 55 percent
carbs. No more than 15 percent fat. You load up on turkey and chicken. You separate the egg
whites. You surgically remove all visible fat from any piece of meat. You always broil. Never fry.
But you’ve been living a lie.
Fact is, the high carbohydrate diet favored by so many bodybuilders can actually work against
them. They bulk up on all those carbs and end up packing on a tremendous amount of bodyfat.
Then, when it’s time to cut, too much muscle ends up being left in the gym along with the bodyfat.
Strength levels and personal motivation drops. You can become irritable. Maybe even
depressed. By the time that contest you’ve been working so hard for comes around, you often
look no better than you did for the last contest. You may look worse.
And that diet. To say it’s inconvenient and strict would be a drastic understatement. In a
world where eating makes up a great part of our social life, the regimen of a high carb diet can
quickly make you a social outcast.
Not that you can’t make progress toward your goals with a high carb diet. You can. Some.
But you can also find yourself plateauing or even losing lean body mass. As you count down
toward contest time, panic can set in. You take drastic measures to compensate for the state
you’re in and end up losing weeks of training.
So, why are you torturing yourself? Especially when there is an alternative that can pack on
muscle while keeping bodyfat at a minimum. It’s called the Anabolic Diet and, while it flies in
the face of what most bodybuilders have been led to believe, it could be the answer to your prayers.
THE ANABOLIC DIET
Unlike the high carb diet that can work against the body’s system of growth producing
hormones, the Anabolic Diet maximizes the production and utilization of the Big 3 growth
producers — testosterone, growth hormone and insulin — and does it naturally. It also shifts
the body’s metabolism from that of a sugar burning, fat producing machine to that of a fat
burning machine. With the body packing on extra muscle and simultaneously burning both
dietary and stored body fat, the bodybuilder finds himself twice blessed.
The Anabolic Diet stresses a high fat/high protein/low carbohydrate approach to nutrition.INTRODUCTION 3