My Top 3 Secrets for Losing 25 kgs // Healthy Living to a Ripe Old Age, Part 2

<p>People are getting fatter, it seems, by the minute. Obesity, even amongst children, is becoming a global pandemic. Over the past few years, Berni Dymet has lost 25 kgs – that’s 55 lbs – in weight. And is effortlessly keeping it off.</p> <h3> </h3> <h3><span style="color: #ff9900;"><strong>Secret Number 1</strong></span></h3> <p>Are you ready for secret number 1? Here we go. Back in the 1800s we ate about 7 kg (that’s 15 lbs) of sugar a year. Today, that’s topping out at 70 kg (or 150 lbs). The crazy thing is, we kind of think that’s normal, but before the early 20^th century, the only way you could get sugar in your diet at all was to fight the bees for some honey (there was no farming or mass production the way there is today), or to be near an apple tree when it was in season (once a year), or chew on a log called sugar cane because 99% of it’s log, and only 1% of it is sugar.</p> <p>What we consider normal today, in a historical perspective, is grossly abnormal. It’s our high consumption of sugar and other refined carbohydrates that’s very clearly at the heart (pardon the pun) of so-called western diseases of obesity – cardiovascular disease (that’s heart attacks and strokes), and diabetes. In fact the research shows that within 20 years of a western diet high in refined carbohydrates, making it into a country, almost like clockwork, heart disease, stroke, obesity and Diabetes simultaneously appear, but don’t just take my word for it. If you’re online, go to YouTube and watch the video “<em>Bitter Truth</em>” by Professor of Paediatrics, Robert Lusdig. The high refined carbohydrate intake isn’t just killing us and disabling us. It means that in many countries now, childhood obesity (previously unheard-of) is a pandemic.</p> <p>So here’s my number 1 secret for losing the 25 kg which I have lost, and am now able to keep off without ever having to think about it: I have as completely as possible removed both sugar and other refined carbohydrates (white flour, peeled potatoes, white rice) from my diet