Beyond Diet vs Fast Metabolism diets

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Book 2 – The Fast Metabolism Diet by Haylie Pomroy (I absolutely do NOT recommend it)

I looked through this book over the weekend. Again, this was at the request of someone who I felt the need to respond to. The number of silly statements is amazing, which I will highlight in a minute. Keep in mind that there is NOT a SINGLE reference in this book. Booo. The author makes all kinds of definitive statements on how the body “really” works when it comes to weight loss, here is a sampling;

“Because eating less actually makes the situation worse. When your metabolism is too slow, you, you’ll store lettuce as fat, and you certainly won’t burn any fat”

“It has been proven that a body in starvation mode will first access muscle for fuel, and not fat”

“Metabolic Myth #3: Losing weight is simply calories in, calories out”

“Calories are a lie”

“Rule #1: you must eat five times per day, 35 times a week”

“You may not skip any meals or snacks”

“Rule #2: You must eat every 3 to four hours, except when you’re sleeping”

“Rule#3; You must eat within 30 minutes of waking everyday”

“But you must eat something within the first 30 minutes so your body doesn’t have to run on fumes. Also, please don’t exercise before you put something in your stomach. I tell my clients, ‘Don’t fast and then go fast” You might think you’re burning more fat this way, but in reality it is one of the worst things you can do to your metabolism”

“Rule#9: Meats must be nitrate free…Because nitrates do this by slowing down the breakdown of fat in the meat, they also slow down the breakdown of fat in the body”

“Rule#2 No Corn”

“Rule#3 NoDairy… Fat free dairy aggressively slows down fat metabolism”

“Rule#4 No Soy”

“Most of my clients lose anywhere from half a pound to a pound a day, and sometimes a little more”

“Never get up and exercise in the morning before you’ve eaten breakfast or at least a snack”

I don’t have page numbers for these because I read through it at the library and took a few pictures of the statements that really stood out, but the pics did not have the page numbers in them and I wasn’t going to waste my time and go back and get them. If you don’t believe these are direct quotes from the book you can go check for yourself.

My head hurts from all of this nonsense. Most of these statements are completely false and a couple of them are not totally false but very misleading. I am not going to dismantle all of the nonsense now, but will just review one of her silly statements. Let’s take a look at

“Rule#9: Meats must be nitrate free…Because nitrates do this by slowing down the breakdown of fat in the meat, they also slow down the breakdown of fat in the body”.

There is plenty of research on the effects of nitrates on human physiology, such as;

1-Food sources of nitrates and nitrites: the physiologic context for potential health benefits.

2-Nitrate in foods: harmful or healthy?

3-Acute blood pressure lowering, vasoprotective, and antiplatelet properties of dietary nitrate via bioconversion to nitrite.

4-Sodium nitrite: the “cure” for nitric oxide insufficiency.

Here is the funny thing from reading the research, not a word about the ability of ingested nitrate to inhibit the ability of the body to breakdown fats in the digestive track. On a side note, if it did do this, which it likely does not, it would mean that LESS fat would be absorbed, similar to Alli (orlistat), which would mean LESS calories would be available from the food. Hence, it could help with weight loss as Alli has been shown to do, but with some possible side effects which are related to the information that Haylie has been giving us (hint; it is expelled from the rectum). Additionally, when nitrates are eaten;

“In the proximal small intestines, nitrate is rapidly absorbed with high bioavailability (100%)” (1).

So nitrate is absorbed relatively early in the digestive process and there is NO evidence that it inhibits fat breakdown once it is absorbed (1-4). What may be the funniest thing about avoiding nitrates from meats is the fact that vegetables contain much higher amounts of nitrates. For example, the following are the average nitrate contents of

hot dog 9 mg/100 gr
bacon 5.5 mg/100 gr
spinach 741 mg/100 gr (nearly 82 times more than hot dogs and 134 times more than bacon)
mustard greens 116 mg/100 gr
broccoli 39.5 mg/100 gr
tomato 39.2 mg/100 gr (1).

The authors of the paper state;

“Approximately 80% of dietary nitrates are derived from vegetable consumption” (1)

From this information, if Haylie where right about her nitrates from meat inhibit fat breakdown, then she should be screaming from the rooftops to avoid vegetables. While working on this I decided to reach out to Haylie on her Facebook page. Here is our brief exchange;

Hi Haylie,
regarding my nitrate question. You stated;

“Haylie Pomroy: Author of The Fast Metabolism Diet On the diet, we’re trying to avoid taxing your liver — chemical nitrates force your liver to spend time processing them, instead of fat. It’s the same reason we avoid all chemical ingredients on the diet”
Like · Reply · 1 · 13 hours ago

I then asked;

Would you then suggest avoiding many vegetables, such as spinach, bok choy, lettuce and carrots, because they contain many times MORE nitrates than nitrate treated meats?

Haylie Pomroy: Author of The Fast Metabolism Diet Those are natural nitrates -we’re talking about chemical nitrates

Like · Reply · Yesterday at 11:46am

Her “liver” response is nothing like her reason she stated in her book which was about the direct inhibition of fat breakdown on the treated meat. Nevertheless, the “liver” thing is without merit. Her “natural” vs “chemical” nitrates is just ridiculous. There is no evidence that the nitrates found in meats are different than the nitrates found in vegetables.

This information is not top secret stuff. I did not need special clearance to be able to access this information. That is what is so frustrating about silly *kitten* like this. A few clicks on Google and PubMed and voila, you can have access to some useful information on any topic (there are a bunch of things to keep in mind when reading information and research but that is for another day).

Seriously, this women is spewing enough *kitten* that the amount of methane it omits could contribute to climate change. What is even worse is she was a recent guest on the Dr Oz show, which Dr Oz, both explicitly and implicitly, supported this type of nonsense. All of these “Have to” and “Must” statements without a shred of evidence. Unexceptable!