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Due to the present social and economic situation, most people have lost the correct natural and physiological rhythms. Man has been following these rhythms for hundreds of thousands of years and the population has remained healthy because of them.
Since the beginning of the Neolithic period (around 10,000 years ago), when Man began cultivating cereals and other edible plants and was able to accumulate food stores and raise animals instead of hunting them, obesity within the population began to appear.
Despite an improvement in social conditions (the first urban settlements were formed), health conditions were worsened (surprisingly, Paleolithic men and women, who ate less and were more physically active, were healthier, taller and most of all had longer life spans).
Today, in order for us to become slender again, a few dietary rules need to be rebalanced. This doesn't mean that we have to hunt saber tooth tigers every morning, but we need to reinstate several mechanisms which enabled humans to live in a healthier manner thousands of years ago.
One of the causes behind the increase in obesity is the unconscious repeated use of certain foods that easily lead to the insurgence of delayed food allergies (intolerances).
It has recently been proven that food intolerances provoke an inflammatory reaction that induces weight gain. This is a clear danger signal from the body and in response to that danger (for example when faced with morning fasting or an insufficient intake of food at breakfast), every individual attempts to accumulate fat stores that can (perhaps) be used when food is scarce once again.
If conditions of famine were frequent and possible 200.000 years ago, today they are much less so. The real risk that we face is becoming fat, with fatty tissue distributed in the wrong places and finding ourselves much less healthy than we could be.
Today the most frequent food intolerances are caused by the presence of the following substances in food of which we are often unaware:
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hydrogenated fats present in almost all industrially produced foods;
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milk and dairy products are omnipresent;
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yeasts and fermented products and products with a high salt content;
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wheat (or at least a dominant cereal, such as rice in China and Japan and Corn in Latin America).
A careful investigation of food intolerances and a diet that annuls the inflammation that they cause sends an equal signal to the body that is contrary to that which gave rise to the weight gain, thereby encouraging the loss of fat.
Therefore a diet based on food intolerances, such as the GIFT diet, also represents one of the innovative signal diets that allow the body to return to its correct equilibrium in a healthy, ecological and rapid manner.
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