A diet rich in heavily processed, nutritionally-deplete food wreaks havoc on our bodies. To reverse the tide, we need to rethink how we approach our food. Like anti-smoking campaigns which reveal the true dangers of smoking, we need to make people aware of how their food choices affect their health.
Anti-smoking campaigns have been really effective in exposing the dangers associated with cigarettes, so should a similar approach be used for unhealthy lifestyle choices? Share the post "Obesity vs. Smoking: Which is More Dangerous? If every person was given this book, no one would be obese.
It would be an epidemic of the past. It almost seems sad people are dying because of obesity when it's so simple to be thin! I have been struggling with my weight for the past ten years… I could not understand because I don't eat desserts, cakes, chocolate or sweets and I cook most of my food.
After reading your book I realized that I was actually nutrient deficient. Since I have been listening to your CD every night, I don't feel hungry at all. I was working at radio station 4BC when Jon came on to our breakfast show at my request as a producer for several shows.
I read [the book] over two nights, couldn't put it down. It was like the penny had dropped, after three days of listening to your meditation CD, my whole relationship with food changed I can't explain my extra energy, my ability to handle my very stressful job is so much easier, I'm happier and more confident.
I cannot remember the last time I felt so alive, fulfilled, and happy. When I read your book it was as if you knew me better than I knew myself. It is amazing that more be people have not made the connection that a healthy lifestyle consists of taking care of the mind, body, and soul, instead of just the body Since I've read your book and listened to you CD, I've been craving dark green leafy veggies, and I've also slowed way down on sugar.
As a matter of fact I don't crave sugar! My daughter is doing great too. We both have committed to following your lifestyle. I tell everyone I see about your book and CD. Thank you so much. You have brought together a multitude of aspects and created a truly holistic 'treatment' that is more a new lifestyle and at a time of raised awareness where it all makes such intuitive and rational sense.
I am feeling so much more energetic already as I gradually introduce more live foods and nutrients into my body. Your desire to share your wealth of knowledge and amazing success with weight loss is what is so inspiring to me and I'm sure will be to millions of others around the world.
I feel content - just very different. For some reason, I don't seem to require a lot of food. My portion sizes have gotten smaller. I don't measure them out, but I look at what's on my plate and it really is a small amount.
I just don't feel that I need it. I don't crave sweets either and I'm a chocoholic - at least I was one. Now I can take it or leave it. After following your method I can now get back into some of my old "skinny" clothes, which is fabulous! PLUS I am eating a lot more and exercising less! So, Jon How wonderful for you to be able to help people in this way! Your work has helped me in at least two ways: first, since my husband died 20 months ago, I added 15 pounds and have slowly lost it over a year I now know why I gained the weight and how to take it off without cycling through diets and most of all without 'working' at it.
The whole approach is enlightening, very interesting and humorous, so it was a joy to listen to. Many thanks for a great, commendable program, Jon. I am telling everyone all about you. Your method is the first holistic approach that has made sense to me. The Gabriel Method is the most amazing process… our bodies work the way they work.
I have been using this method for a month, cut back my walking by half and people are asking me what diet I am on! I have complete pleasure in telling them I am on no diet and letting my body get me to where I need to be. I've applied visualization techniques using your CD for the first time last night and I'm feeling a big difference from within today.
I find I am no longer obsessing about food all day. I have had chocolate bars and cake in the house all week and I have paid no attention to them normally they would pray on my mind all day until they were gone, and still I would not be satisfied. Gone are the days of constant dieting, taking pills and shakes and feeling guilty about food. I now have a powerful tool my mind just took someone like yourself for me to realize it was always there for me and will work for me when I truly need it to.
Any doubters out there I say, give it a go! You have nothing to lose but weight which has held you back from the true sense of living. I was given The Gabriel Method book about a month ago. I had some skepticism about this new dieting fad. How wrong I was.
I had given up on the idea that one day I could be thin again, however, I read the book in one weekend and as they say, I had a light bulb moment, where I finally realized why I was overweight. It has been a month now and not only have I lost 8kgs, but I am alive again, and it has been noticed by everyone around me. I am smiling and have a passion for life again. Bless you Jon and your soothing voice that sends me to sleep everynight!
No insomnia since I started listening to the CD and after too many years of being overweight, I am finally seeing results! I started to follow The Gabriel Method book and two months later I have lost 9 kgs. At this time I have not done any exercise due to having arthritis. Jon Gabriel you are a God send! I love The Gabriel Method book.. Jon is light-years ahead of the world and since I started listening to the CD at night time, I have lost another 4 kg.
My body and mind loves this. Of all the books I have read, this one shows a truth my body understands. I have lost almost 40 lbs. I didn't change much other than to add some walking 5 days a week which I haven't even done for 2 months since the snow started and I'm still losing weight.
I have read The Gabriel Method book in the last 2 weeks, and what a change to my life! I am about 70kg overweight, but have discovered that losing weight is really a change of mindset about your life and food. I lost 2. I sleep better, feel better and want to eat better already.
I was a chip crisps aholic and have not craved any in about 3 weeks now - that alone is a miracle! I just started reading The Gabriel Method book and it is like Jon is talking directly to me and telling me, Hey Jeff, you are not alone and this will work for you.
I am thankful to Jon for writing this book. Finally there is something that I can actually do to lose weight - reprogramming the mind makes so much sense to me! I am amazed at the results! I lost 1kg in the first week but the biggest change has been a mental one. I am no longer craving sweet things or worried about food all the time and I find that I am wanting to exercise and eat natural healthy foods. I am a huge fan of your work which has been inspiring and has helped me a lot.
As a biology student your ideas make perfect sense to me and explained a lot about why I am the size that I am. Before your book I was obsessed with eating and I couldn't stop thinking about. After incorporating your ideas into my life I no longer have this food addiction except if I am stressed or not eating right.
It is surprising how predictable my body has become! Thanks for sharing your ideas with me and the rest of the world. It has been miraculous for me. I just can't think of any other way to describe it. I believe in the power of visualization and this has been another reminder of the powerful link between mind and body. I lost 1kg in my first week and found myself exercising every day and eating much healthier food.
I've been on The Gabriel Method for three weeks now and have noticed that my belt notch has decreased one notch which is about 2 cm!
I don't even show the slightest interest in cakes, biscuits or other 'party' foods and only eat my three main meals most days , and I now drink a lot more water. I used to not eat breakfast and constantly obsess over food. It was the true 'famine' syndrome. I know that I will achieve my ideal weight. Two weeks and 6. As great as all of this is, the aspect of that I find the most surprising is the amount of detoxing my body has gone through.
I bought the book a week ago, read it that night and wow, it sure did put a lot of "stuff" into perspective about food, weight gain and weight retention. I immediately started to implement "whole foods" and I really don't feel like eating rubbish at all.
I am feeling so much better, thank you Jon! A week into doing The Gabriel Method I feel better already. I don't crave sugar, am eating fruits and veggies and am feeling great! Thanks Jon! The Gabriel Method truly is amazing!
My cravings are subsiding and I feel so much healthier. The CD is the key for me. I started it on July 31 and have lost 7lbs so far! This is miraculous for me, after exercising 7 days a week and counting every calorie I was losing about 1 lb per week. Two RAND researchers, health economist Roland Sturm and psychiatrist Kenneth Wells, examined the comparative effects of obesity, smoking, heavy drinking, and poverty on chronic health conditions and health expenditures.
Their finding: Obesity is the most serious problem. It is linked to a big increase in chronic health conditions and significantly higher health expenditures. And it affects more people than smoking, heavy drinking, or poverty. Although obesity is a recognized health risk, there have been relatively few public policies designed to reduce its prevalence.
Sturm and Wells note that "Americans haven't given obesity the same attention as other risks, like smoking, but it is clearly a top health problem and one that is on the rise in all segments of the population.
More effective clinical and public health approaches are urgently needed. Sturm and Wells examined data from Healthcare for Communities, a national household telephone survey fielded in Approximately 10, respondents participated in the survey, which was designed to be nationally representative. Among other questions, the survey asked respondents to self-report on 17 chronic health conditions including diabetes, hypertension, asthma, heart disease, and cancer , height, weight, poverty, smoking status, problem drinking, health-related quality of life, and a variety of demographic factors.
The study reveals that obesity is linked to very high rates of chronic illnesses — higher than living in poverty, and much higher than smoking or drinking. Figure 1 compares the increase in chronic conditions related to obesity. When compared with normal-weight individuals of the same age and sex having similar social demographics, obese people suffer from an increase in chronic conditions of approximately 67 percent.
In contrast, the increase for normal-weight daily smokers is only 25 percent; and for normal-weight heavy drinkers, only 12 percent. A comparable factor is aging. In terms of chronic conditions, being obese is like aging from 30 to Poverty is also a significant health threat: The increase in chronic conditions for people living in poverty is approximately 58 percent. Figure 2 shows health care expenditures for obese individuals, current smokers, past smokers, heavy drinkers, and people who have aged from 30 to 50, as compared with a baseline of normal-weight individuals of the same age and sex with similar social demographics.
The bars on the left show expenditures for such health services as inpatient care and visits to the doctor's office; the bars on the right show expenditures for medication both prescription and over-the-counter.
Obese individuals spend more on both services and medication than daily smokers and heavy drinkers. Brain, lung, adrenal cancer 54 died of pneumonia ultimately and no spare fat on her to help her survive longer. No way will you convince me smoking is better for you than being over weight. PS OP, have you ever watched a loved one die, struggling for every breath? February 22, PM edited February 5. February 22, PM 2. I would think obesity would be the bigger problem - carrying around added weight puts added stress on so many bodily systems.
If you have any weaknesses in any of those systems genetic or otherwise derived , obesity is likely to exacerbate it. Many of the issues that obesity exacerbates fly under the radar. I don't see many stats for increase in mortality from obesity that factor in less direct effects like the increased risk of becoming bedridden or wheelchair bound, though that definitely affects mortality rates.
Smoking stresses fewer systems but is more straightforward in it's effects. Also, there's been a big uptick in lung cancer in non-smokers in the US and UK in the last decade or so and it has a very high mortality rate because non-smokers are rarely checked for lung cancer.
It's a non-small cell lung cancer and seems to be characterized by specific mutations that distinguish it from the non-small cell lung cancer that is seen in smokers.
A family friend's wife died from it about years ago. Nasty stuff. It had metastasized to multiple organs and her spine before she was diagnosed. February 22, PM 4. Do you think folks in penitentiaries work out more because they have more time oh a pun. February 22, PM 0. Need2Exerc1se wrote: ». Plus you are putting others around you at risk because of your habit.
Yeah, I've looked at statistics like that before Statistically, there are more obesity related deaths and other issues than with smoking.
That said, I wonder if it's a bit skewed considering the number of obese people has been on the rise for decades while smoking has been on the decline for decades.
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