Once I clearly understood why low-fat diets ultimately fail, my biggest challenge
became figuring out how to convince my patients to let go of the belief that low-
fat equals healthy, and instead follow a more balanced approach. Many of my
patients were initially skeptical, but even the most resistant saw miraculous and
rapid results when they followed the Perfect 10 Diet. While many of my patients
were vaguely aware that not all fat is the same, and that there are both good and
bad fats, most were shocked when I told them not to fear saturated fat, like butter
and coconut. In fact, I told them, these healthy saturated fats do not raise
cholesterol levels or promote heart disease, cancer, or obesity, as we’ve all been
led to believe.
The Perfect 10 Diet started out as a series of informal handouts and pamphlets
I gave to patients as I gathered and amassed research. Even with this minimal
information in hand, my patients began to lose weight, improve their health, and
see a reversal of disease states, often without the use of drugs or other medical
treatments.
As a result, many patients stopped seeing me except for their yearly physicals.
They no longer needed my services. After seeing these sensational results, I
began to speak publicly about the restorative and healing effects of the Perfect
10 Diet.
As word of my patients’ successful weight loss began to spread, it wasn’t long
before I was invited to speak about the Perfect 10 Diet principles on television
and radio stations. People began to call my office, log on to my website, and
share their success stories.
I was besieged with requests for more information about the diet, and so those
few original pamphlets became the wealth of information in this book.
How Is the Perfect 10 Diet Different from Other Diets?
Your body is a finely tuned machine. One way it keeps itself in balance is by
using chemical messengers called hormones to regulate various functions.
Hormones are complex chemicals that the body uses to send messages and
information. Hormones stimulate or inhibit various functions in cells that, in
turn, produce specific cell actions. Your body can’t function properly if one or
several of your hormones are missing or unbalanced, since hormones control
everything, including weight. Hormones tell you when to eat and when to stop
eating. Hormones also tell your body how to metabolize food and whether to use
food for energy or storage. In short, hormones control your metabolism.
In a nutshell, the Perfect 10 Diet is a diet that balances hormones. This makes
the Perfect 10 Diet quite unique, and very different from low-fat, lowcarb, and
other popular diets that disturb hormones. If hormones are disturbed, diseases