Slim and Recovered: With the Qualitative Method

As an alternative therapist with "limited"
knowledge, I actually have greater freedom and objectivity
in performing my analyses, since I am not bound by the
restrictions of the standard theories. For example, since
the emergence of the idea that carbohydrates and excess
calories are the causes of obesity, nearly all subsequent
theories have involved "carbo diets," "carbo detox" or
"low-calorie diets," "calorie burning," and the
like.
However, my observations and practice over
the past dozen years have proven that carbohydrates, fats,
and sugar, and possibly blood type, affect body weight
increase only when a person consumes greater than normal
quantities. If dietary intake is too low (less than normal),
thus not meeting the body's needs for cell growth, these
factors have little or no influence.
Why does the
title of this book combine the words "slim" and "recovered?"
Simply because in over 80 percent of obesity cases, the
patients have other health problems as well. The most common
complaint is acute or chronic gastric problems; others
include vertigo, anemia, diabetes, high blood pressure, high
cholesterol levels, heart, liver and kidney problems, and
menstrual difficulties.
So we can see that excess
body weight is closely related to other health complaints.

In Slim and Recovered, Ping Wang analyzes the
problems of being overweight and disease, based solely on
his observations and experience in therapeutic practice. He
limits the illnesses discussed here to those that have been
handled with satisfactory results providing greater insight.
The basic philosophy introduced in this book is that we
should not consume more food than our digestive organs can
handle, so that we can avoid obesity and other health
problems; and we should not deceive ourselves by thinking
that fruit, vegetables, and water will not make us fat.
These cases are analyzed from a perspective that is
unconventional, yet based on reality. Discover the answers
to these difficult questions: Why do
some people eat a lot, but stay slim? I consume
low-fat, low-carb, low-calorie food and drink, and routinely
exercise on the treadmill, why am I still overweight?
Why do some vegetarians get high blood pressure
and even suffer strokes? Why do some people have
strokes when they're still very young? I regularly
exercise with weights and equipment, why are my arms and
legs getting larger, not smaller? My mother drinks
plenty of water, why are her legs swollen and her uric acid
levels so high?