What is it in food that makes us skinny? Is it really the amount of calories per unit of food? After all, excess calories turn into fat, right?

Dr. Berg claims that People don’t lose weight and get healthy; they first must get healthy before losing weight. Let that sink in. This makes total sense because I have relatives who can eat more than any of us and never gain an ounce. The rest us just look at food gain 10 pounds overnight.

Dr. Berg states that what creates health has nothing to do with calories, but with the nutrients in those calories: vitamins and minerals. The derivation of word food comes from Latin word for nourishment. Nutrients are the things in food that nourish us.

However, due to the severe drop in the nutrients in our foods over the last decade (which, by the way, corresponds with the rise in obesity) it is becoming more difficult to get even the minimum recommended daily allowance (RDA) in our diet. To get your daily RDA for potassium, you would have to consume 10 bananas. Even worse, many people take synthetic vitamins, which come from petroleum, not food.

What does a person have to do to lose weight?

They follow the mainstream recommendations portion control, cutting calories. From a nutritional viewpoint, this is starvation. Dr. Berg says that the body will hold fat as a protective mechanism if it doesn’t get nutrients.

Dr. Berg’s website has a product called Berg Essentials. At first it turned me off, because I thought it was another sales pitch to get me to buy more pills. But what got me interested was the list of ingredients. They were all food-based, but the foods were all extremely high nutrient-based foods. You don’t see the typical chemical binders, only foods and organic. I then compared this to my vitamins and none of them listed any food ingredients, despite claiming to be all natural. So I called the company to find out that 90% of the ingredients I have been taking were made synthetically, from petroleum. The company said legally it could claim that a product was natural if it had 10% natural ingredients. This really upset me, especially since the guy on the phone said that there is no difference between something natural and something synthetic: a chemical is a chemical.

Dr. Berg mentioned that in nature vitamins never come in individual parts like in synthetics but in complexes. And the only reason someone would sell synthetics is because they are inexpensive, so much more profit can be made.

If you want a quality vitamin, give Berg Essentials a try.