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From the Chicago Tribune: http://www.chicagotribune.com/features/health/chi-0406130519jun13,1,3841230.story
QUALITIES OF LIFE
8 steps sure to round you out
By Julie Deardorff
Tribune staff reporter
June 13, 2004
Dr. Andrew Weil, the lushly bearded author of "Eight Weeks to Optimal Health," has offered up an eight-step guide guaranteed to expand waistlines and, perhaps, contribute to an early demise.
Note: He was joking.
Days before sweeping through the Chicago suburbs, including a session touting his healthy living and cooking strategies at Marianjoy Rehabilitation Hospital in Wheaton, the integrative medicine pioneer unveiled a different sort of nutritional strategy.
Weil outlined this new approach, called "Eight Weeks to Maximum Obesity," during a three-day national obesity summit in Williamsburg, Va.
- Week 1: "Consult a doctor for nutritional advice. He will have learned nothing [about nutrition in medical school]. If his office is in a medical center, eat in the cafeteria. Major corporations are the food contractors, and they will provide low quality food."
- Week 2: "Spend more time in front of the television or computer and eat snack food unconsciously. Eat as much as possible." In a dig at the government's personal responsibility campaign to fight obesity, Weil also recommended doing "a few situps" during commercials.
- Week 3: "Stock the pantry with prepared, processed, refined, packaged food. It's high in the wrong kinds of carbs and fats and is the most important change we're seeing in the eating of America."
- Week 4: "Eat out more. Choose foods that bring 'oohs' and 'ahs' from other diners when the platters are brought out. Fill up on bread."
- Week 5: "Let kids plan the menu for the week. It's sure to be influenced by advertising and overloaded with calories and fat."
- Week 6: "Do most of the eating in the car. This has the added effect of reducing your walking time."
- Week 7: "Leave out one macronutrient." Macronutrients are proteins, fats, carbohydrates, some minerals and water.
-- Week 8: "Go on a diet. This will set you on a pattern for continuous weight gain."
Copyright © 2004, Chicago Tribune
QUALITIES OF LIFE
8 steps sure to round you out
By Julie Deardorff
Tribune staff reporter
June 13, 2004
Dr. Andrew Weil, the lushly bearded author of "Eight Weeks to Optimal Health," has offered up an eight-step guide guaranteed to expand waistlines and, perhaps, contribute to an early demise.
Note: He was joking.
Days before sweeping through the Chicago suburbs, including a session touting his healthy living and cooking strategies at Marianjoy Rehabilitation Hospital in Wheaton, the integrative medicine pioneer unveiled a different sort of nutritional strategy.
Weil outlined this new approach, called "Eight Weeks to Maximum Obesity," during a three-day national obesity summit in Williamsburg, Va.
- Week 1: "Consult a doctor for nutritional advice. He will have learned nothing [about nutrition in medical school]. If his office is in a medical center, eat in the cafeteria. Major corporations are the food contractors, and they will provide low quality food."
- Week 2: "Spend more time in front of the television or computer and eat snack food unconsciously. Eat as much as possible." In a dig at the government's personal responsibility campaign to fight obesity, Weil also recommended doing "a few situps" during commercials.
- Week 3: "Stock the pantry with prepared, processed, refined, packaged food. It's high in the wrong kinds of carbs and fats and is the most important change we're seeing in the eating of America."
- Week 4: "Eat out more. Choose foods that bring 'oohs' and 'ahs' from other diners when the platters are brought out. Fill up on bread."
- Week 5: "Let kids plan the menu for the week. It's sure to be influenced by advertising and overloaded with calories and fat."
- Week 6: "Do most of the eating in the car. This has the added effect of reducing your walking time."
- Week 7: "Leave out one macronutrient." Macronutrients are proteins, fats, carbohydrates, some minerals and water.
-- Week 8: "Go on a diet. This will set you on a pattern for continuous weight gain."
Copyright © 2004, Chicago Tribune