Even though the Fat Blocker Eating Program is the most nutritious way you can possibly eat, I still recommend that you take supplements of the antioxidant vitamins and minerals. Volumes of research have shown that antioxidants can help ward off cancer, heart disease, and many other diseases, and can even slow the aging process. But we simply don’t get enough of these vitamins and minerals in our diets. So supplements seem to be the way to go. Remember, though, that supplements should never be substituted for nutritious eating. They add to your diet, they don’t replace it!

Note: While on my 8-Point Fat Blocker Program, it’s best to take your supplements with breakfast and an hour or two after your evening meal. Doing so eliminates any risk of the Chitosan you may be taking with lunch or dinner pulling certain fat-soluble nutrients out of your stomach before they can be absorbed.

♦ Vitamin A: beta carotene and other carotenes—Good sources of vitamin A include yellow-orange fruits and vegetables such as sweet potatoes, apricots, pumpkins, carrots, cantaloupes, and other melons, mangoes, papaya, peaches, and winter squash. Dark green leafy vegetables such as broccoli, spinach, collard greens, parsley, and other leafy greens are also good sources.

Supplement:

I typically recommend to my patients 25,000 IU daily of beta carotene. Better still, at most health food stores you can purchase combination supplements that contain beta carotene plus alpha carotene, lutein, lycopene, zeaxanthin, and cryptoxanthin. Use the amounts as directed on the label. However, rest assured even if you make a mistake and eat more than the recommended amounts, it makes little difference. Our bodies need food supplements in certain amounts. A reasonable excess simply has no place and gets eliminated. This does not mean, however, that you should eat far more than recommended. Serious overdoses of such nutrients as vitamin A can be dangerous.

♦ Vitamin C—Probably the best known of all of the vitamins, this antioxidant is found in citrus fruits, cantaloupes, papayas, kiwis, mangoes, raspberries, pineapples, bananas, and strawberries. It’s also found in lots of fresh vegetables such as asparagus, brussels sprouts, collard greens, cabbage, broccoli, tomatoes, potatoes, and red peppers. Vitamin C is heat sensitive and easily destroyed by cooking or exposure to air, so fruits and vegetables should be as fresh as possible, and if cooked, should be steamed or microwaved only a short time. You can keep the vitamin C in cooked foods longer by cooking them whole and cutting them up afterwards, rather than before.

Supplement:

I generally recommend starting with 500-1000 mg. of vitamin C twice a day.

♦ Vitamin E—Vegetable oils (such as sunflower and safflower) are the main source of vitamin E, but it’s also found in wheat germ, nuts, avocados, peaches, sunflower seeds, whole grain breads and cereals, spinach, broccoli, asparagus, dried prunes, and peanut butter.

Supplement:

I don’t believe that you can get enough vitamin E from the diet alone. In any case, eating that amount of peanut butter is hardly a good idea! That’s why I often recommend to my patients that they start with between 300-400 IU twice a day. I take my vitamin E in the form of 400 IU of D-alpha tocopherol succinate, twice a day.

♦ Selenium—This antioxidant not only helps protect the cells from the damaging effects of free radicals, but may also help keep the immune system functioning properly. Good amounts of selenium can be found in swordfish, salmon, tuna, cracked wheat bread, sunflower seeds, oysters, and shrimp.

Supplement:
I usually suggest to my patients that they take 200 meg. per day.

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It is true that some people can eat all they wish and, to the annoyance of their weight-conscious, dieting friends, remain thin. The reason is thought to be that they are more efficient in the way they handle the extra energy and are able to disperse it into their surroundings, in the form of heat. Also, these people are often more active.

It seems, too, that the tendency to fatness may start very early in life. Investigators have found that if a baby is obese it has an 80 percent chance of becoming a fat adult. If a mother, through misguided kindness, overfeeds her baby, by giving it extra semi-solid cereal baby foods too early in life, she maybe laying the foundations for obesity later in life. In the first year of life, babies form fat cells to help store the extra energy the body receives from overfeeding. These fat cells differ from fat cells formed after the age of I which are designed to meet a need and once that need has gone disappear. In contrast, the fat cells formed before the age of I persist. If a fat adult, who was a fat baby, tries to lose weight, the cells simply become emptier and smaller, and in some strange way, these ‘hungry’ cells send out messages which stimulate the person’s appetite, so that dieting becomes difficult.

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The writers of Leviticus first expressed this abhorrence when they wrote: ‘If a man lies with a man as with a woman, both of them shall have committed an abomination: they shall be put to death; their blood shall be upon them.’ It should be pointed out that in the same chapter, death was the penalty if you cursed your father or mother, if you committed adultery, if you fornicated with your father’s wife or with your daughter-in-law.

Jesus does not mention homosexuality, either to condemn or to condone. Paul does. Writing to the Corinthians, a people notorious for their depravity, he says, ‘neither adulterers, nor fornicators, nor idolators, nor homosexuals (whether active or passive), nor thieves, nor the greedy, nor drunkards, nor slanderers, nor swindlers will possess the Kingdom of God’ (1 Cor. 6: 9-10). Later, writing in Rome, which was also considered a depraved city, Paul, in condemning idolatry, argued that those who persisted in worshipping idols would be abandoned by God and would, therefore, ‘take up dishonourable passions’ as divine retribution for their sin. Women would ‘exchange natural relations for unnatural’; and men would, after ‘giving up natural relations with women, burn with passion for one another’; and would commit ‘shameless acts with each other . . .’ Continuing, Paul says that those who return to idolatry will ‘break all the rules of conduct’. They will be ‘filled with every kind of injustice, mischief, rapacity and malice’; they will be
‘one mass of envy, murder, rivalry, treachery and malevolence . . .’ (Rom. 1:18; 1:22-8).

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Harold was in his mid-thirties when he sought help for secondary impotence, which had begun two years previously. His first sexual experience had been when he was in the army. He and twenty of his mates had visited a brothel and had queued up for the two available prostitutes. His urgency, and her desire to get to the next client, had established a rapid ejaculatory pattern which had persisted in his other pre-marital sexual experiences. Once married, his rapid ejaculation had been accepted by his wife as a transient adjustment phase. However, its persistence had nagged her and although she was occupied with their three children, she eventually sounded out her married friends about their sexual experiences. The result was destructive. Most of them enjoyed sex, and often reached orgasm.

She complained tentatively to Harold, who tried various home remedies, but without any real success. Eventually, his wife reached breaking point and in a domestic row, triggered by a trivial incident, she told Harold that ‘he couldn’t care less about her sexual tensions, or he wouldn’t come so quickly’.

Harold tried even harder to avoid ejaculating prematurely, and failed. The tension mounted, and he sought excuses to avoid having to try and fail. He began to work late, to claim exhaustion from overwork at the office, and to say that he was not feeling well. His wife, increasingly anxious, induced him to see a doctor about his tiredness. In the interview the doctor did not enquire about Harold’s sexual relations, and Harold was too embarrassed to mention that he had a sexual problem. The doctor checked him thoroughly and found him fit. He suggested a holiday, gave him some vitamin pills, and forgot him.

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Of all human behaviour, sex, to achieve its full dimensions, needs the involvement of both partners. To achieve the full sexual potential of the union, the partners must be able to communicate with each other about their sexuality. They must be able to talk to each other about their sexual needs, their sexual attitudes, and the sexual stimulation they prefer. Communication in sex can be by words – by the couple talking to each other – but it can also be nonverbal. Communication, indicating love, affection, and desire, can be by body-language, by smiles and gestures, by touch, by taste, and by smell. When there is failure to communicate, either because of childhood inhibitions about sex, or because of traumatic adolescent sexual experiences, disharmony intensifies. And when sexual inadequacy exists, both partners are involved, since sexual response represents the interaction between two involved people. Transient sexual encounters can occur without emotional involvement, but more lasting sex means the emotional and physical involvement of both partners.

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