Ori Hofmekler Blog

A few days ago, I was approached by producers from Fox TV’s “The Morning Show with Mike and Juliet” for a discussion about The Warrior Diet. I was asked to bring a female testimonial and recommended Brandy Jackson, co-host for our radio show “The Warrior Within”. Brandy lost over 57 pounds in five months (see testimonial at www.warriordiet.com). The producers told us that we’d be featured with a couple of other diets and that I will certainly get a FAIR chance to present and argue my approach. I was also asked to NOT challenge their experts with anything they weren’t prepared for…the first feature was “The Flat Belly Diet” – a typical calorie restrictive diet for women – same old same old nothing new approach. You could see how patronizing Fox experts were to this poor author lady, who kept nodding her head “yes, yes” anxiously waiting for their verdict.

To see the television clip, see http://www.mandjshow.com/videos/%e2%80%9cmj-investigates%e2%80%9d-new-dieting-trends/. My segment is halfway through the video clip.

As we were walking into the studio, I immediately noticed how out of shape the nutrition experts were – one was overweight and the other one was under weight, which gave me a creepy feeling from the start (I’ve never trusted a health expert who looks unhealthy). I was asked to present The Warrior Diet’s main concepts and as soon as I started, I was cut off abruptly by these Fox experts. All I managed to say is that The Warrior Diet is based on similar principles as the ancient Greek/Spartan diet, explaining how humans are inherently night eaters and that the most successful diets in history were actually based on one main meal at night.

Nonetheless, before I could even finish presenting the first concept behind The Warrior Diet, this so-called medical expert interfered with the following remarks: First – “The Spartan/Greek experience was before science and therefore irrelevant”, and second – “An article in the journal Metabolism has shown that ‘people who eat their main meal at night suffer from blood sugar implications’.” Then this “starved” looking nutritionist next to him started screaming how “crazy The Warrior Diet is” insisting that it’s all based on “fasting” and didn’t forget to mention how damaging it would be for her clients. I responded first to the male “expert”, who failed to mention that the studies featured in Metabolism were done on people who were FORCE FED and against their spontaneous will had to eat only the food that was mandatory by the study’s terms and also had to consume a FIXED calorie intake (more than they wanted) – certainly NOT The Warrior Diet way. This expert also failed to mention that the scientist who conducted these studies – Dr. Mark Mattson – is a great supporter of The Warrior Diet and actually had featured The Warrior Diet in his article in the prestigious medical journal Lancet. I couldn’t even react to this stupid remark about the irrelevance of the Greek/Spartan experience which came from a guy whose medical education (maybe unknowingly to him) is fundamentally based on ancient Greek Hypocratian tradition – which ironically endorsed one main meal per day at supper. I’m still puzzled how a medical doctor today can possibly forget where the ideas of Western medicine had originated from.

As for this so-called nutritionist woman, obviously there is no point of discussion since she apparently became victimized by her own dietary approach with a look of someone who is seriously malnourished. In times of so much confusion as to “what is healthy” – she somehow managed to get a job as a nutrition expert with virtually no capacity to adapt to changes or admit that her “old” concepts of dieting on mainly calorie restrictions are obsolete, redundant and even dangerous to most people. The “eat frequently, eat moderately” approach has proven to be a complete failure. This approach is the very reason why people today are getting fatter and sicker than ever in spite of dieting more than ever.

The Warrior Diet is the ONLY diet today that puts the record straight regarding the three most critical nutritional blunders of our society which have been shattering people’s ability to manage weight and sustain health:

• Wrong meal timing
• Wrong food choices
• Wrong food combinations

There is also a CRITICAL need to address the problem of chemicals in our food and environment – which has been inducing a fattening and sickening impact on our society with often mortal consequences. I was unable to present any of these elements in this TV show which after all invited me as a guest. Mike, the host, shook my hand before I was cut off and that was it, just like that…trying to save any more embarrassment to their experts who were not prepared for any substantial argument.

Behind the scene I was approached by the producer of the show, “it was great and I’m so sorry that it was too short”…when I confronted these experts all I got was kind of a nod of the head, like this is business as usual, “more studies need to be done” – this is I guess what “experts” say when they don’t know what to say.

Anyway, this short “face off” just demonstrated how stubbornly have mainstream nutrition experts been resisting any new viable solution to our current health disaster, how cowardly they’re trying to avoid confronting new ideas, persistently holding on to their old redundant and failing routines. And most amazingly, how people today have been okay with this ABSURD phenomenon.

We’ll continue discussing this issue next week in our radio show “The Warrior Within” and at www.warriordiet.com. Until then, thank you all for your passionate support.