Nutrition

Zucchini Spaghetti

I made this last night, and OH MY GOSH, it was sooo good! Tasted just like spaghetti, but so much better and I didn't feel sluggish or weighed down after eating it.

Makes 1- 2 Block zone meal, measured raw

Saute' in 2/3 tsp Olive oil, italian spices, red pepper flakes and garlic:
1 1/2 cups zucchini, cut into spaghetti thin strips (maybe more like linguine)
1 cup mushrooms, cut into bite size pieces

Broil for 10-1 minutes or until soft:
1/2 eggplant, chopped bite size and salted for 20 minutes, then dried off with paper towel before broiling

Steam (or you can saute with zucchini/mushroom mixture):
1 1/2 cups broccoli

Grill:
2 oz Chicken breast

Mix all together when done and top with 1/4 cup Arrabiata Spaghetti sauce (check label, you only need about 2-3g of Carbs); top with parmeasan and salt and pepper to taste.

Carb Cravings on the zone?

Do you have carb cravings? Especially after you eat a particular meal? Robb Wolf, strength & conditioning coach, crossfitter and formerly a research biochemist, states that this usually oocurs because you ate too many carbs in your last meal. To curb this, eat a few less carbs (Robb ususally has 3/4 of his carb Rx for that meal) with that same meal and add about 3 blocks of fat instead. This will decrease that sugar craving; the added fat just keeps your calorie intake the same and still keeps you in the zone.

Zone Problems - by Robb Wolf

“For leanness eat a low glycemic load diet built around lean proteins and seasonal vegetables and fruits. For health and vitality exercise most days with varying intensities and  activities”.

- Robb Wolf

Nicole Carroll forwarded a great question to me. Here is the question and my subsequent response:

Hi Nicole,

I attended the CrossFit Charlotte Level 1 Certification and I have to say you all were absolutely brilliant. I have attended many certifications in my career and CrossFit was by far the most educational. I wanted to ask you a few questions about the zone diet if you don’t mind. I downloaded the info. off the CF journal. I also re-read entering the zone, I had it at home.

I weigh 143, height 5′7″my body fat is exactly 17%- I did the hydrostatic (underwater) testing exactly 1 week prior to the cert.
I have exactly 116 lbs. of lean muscle.
So, I should calculate 116 multiplied by .7 activity level, equals 81.2 dived by 7 puts me between an 11 and 12 block meal plan.

So, I went with the 12 block. 3,1,3,1,3,1 I weighed everything! portioned it perfectly. Well, day 4 I got up to teach my kickboxing class (I only teach once a week) had a raging headache and my muscles would barely allow me to make it through the class. I felt awful all day, no energy, headache, nauseous etc.. I had a zone friendly but much larger dinner that night and felt quite a bit better. I had lost 3-4 lbs. in the first week. I had a cheat meal that Saturday night but stuck to the diet. The following week the same thing happened on day 3. It is awful to feel that way. I didn’t want to continue doing this if I am going to feel awful on it. For the duration of the week I followed the daytime regimen perfectly but had to increase by about 1 more block at dinner so I didn’t wake up feeling so awful in the morning. It’s not that I am hungry (yes, a little at night) but I wake up with no energy and I usually only have a 1 block snack first because I workout first thing. I can’t workout on an empty stomach but I can’t do it on a full stomach either I am on week 3 and have stuck to a 1,3,1,3,1,4,1 diet and all my weight is back. Performance is still not good either. according to my calculations 12 block is about 1200 calories which is a lot less than I am used to, I usually ate the “perimeter diet” at about 1900 a day. I workout 6 days a week. I do the CrossFit workkouts daily and about 2-3 days add about a 2 mile run. 1 day a week I teach a 1 hour kickboxing class. I have had 1 dessert Saturday night as my cheat and that is all.
Here is my daily schedule m-sat.
I get up at 6:00am and eat the 1 block snack right away and have 1 cup black coffee,
1 get to the gym at 7:30am to workout.
Have breakfast 3 blocks by 9am,
lunch 3 blocks between 1 and 2,
1 block snack about 5pm,
get home from work between 8:30pm and 9pm and have dinner 4 block ish,
maybe 1 block snack at 11pm if I am famished.

I really want to decrease my body fat and increase my performance but I am most definitely frustrated and struggling with this. Any advice you can give me would be great. Maybe I am missing something? Either that or I am a big baby and just need to suck it up. Either way, I know you are busy but I would appreciate if you could offer any insight.

Here is my response:

Nicole shoots a few of the fun Zone questions to me from time! It sounds like you were eating pretty clean and not too much before…good stuff. The deal with the Zone is it starts off a calorie restricted diet which allows people to lean out at a remarkable rate. When folks hit a desired level of leanness, the fat content is increases anywhere from 2-5x. This is a maintenance Zone that is higher in fat and fuels nearly all of the top crossfit performers.

Now…why have you been feeling like crap? You may have cut your carb level quite a bit as compared to your previous eating, you may be a bit sluggish in ramping up your fat mobilizing enzymes, or you might be pretty near an optimum level of leanness for you. Most of the top females have their abs up and run around 12-14% BF. You are pretty darn close to that…do you want to lean out more?

Here is what I’d do: Increase your fat blocks to 2x. That means for every meal double the fat you are eating, at the end of the day you will have taken in 12 blocks of protein, 12 blocks of carbs and 24 blocks of fat. Do you feel better? If not bump it up to 3x. Same deal. You may need to tinker this all the way up to 5x fat. So, if you are at a level of leanness you are happy with you can run with this plan and you should feel great and see your performance take off. If you want to lean out more drop back to the base Zone for a day, then back up to the higher fat level for the next day. Alternate this and see how you feel. You should continue to make progress, both in terms of your leanness, and your performance. It will take a little patience but it sounds like you have PLENTY of discipline!

Sweet and Salty zone salad

This makes 1- 2 block meal

3 cups romaine and red leaf mixed
1 cup sliced cucumber
1/2 cup sliced celery
1/3 cup sliced red onion
1/4 chopped fugi apple
1/4 cup halved red seedless grapes
3 oz deli turkey, chopped
1 tsp slivered almonds
1 tbsp avocado
red wine vinegar to taste
salt to taste

Zone Blocks

There seem to be a lot of questions regarding what a food block is on the Zone. I am going to really simplify this, so I urge you to do some research on your own on this subject.
Carbohydrate-(9 grams of carb= 1 carb block) Most of your carbs should come from fruits and vegetables on the Zone. However, if measuring your carbs off of a label make sure you subtract the dietary fiber content from the total carbohydrate amount. Dietary fiber does not enter the bodies bloodstream, and therefore should not be included in the equation.
Protein-(7 grams of protein = 1 protein block) Protein blocks are made up primarily of meat, eggs and cheese. If you use lower fat versions of these you will be able to have a higher quantity. For example; ground turkey is 1 1/2 oz for each protein block with negligible fat content. Bacon is 1oz for 1 protein block with 5 times the fat.
Fat- (3 grams of fat= 1 fat block) Fat block should come from either monounsaturated (olive oil, nuts, avocados) or omega-3 fatty acids (cold water fish).
Complements of Crossfit Santa Cruz Central

What do Olympic Gymnasts eat?

Low-carb diet provides energy spurts needed in the sport

ANAHEIM, Calif. - With rock-hard biceps and abs that would make a bodybuilder jealous, Stephen McCain doesn’t need to lose weight. Yet count him as a devotee of the increasingly popular low-carbohydrate diet.

That’s because gymnastics, unlike swimming or long-distance running, is considered an “anaerobic” sport, one in which short, intense bursts of power are much more important than endurance.

“Over the span of a three-hour workout, we’re probably only up on the equipment for 15 minutes,” McCain said. The longest routine for a man or woman is the floor exercise, which lasts between 60 and 90 seconds.

Thus, having lots of complex sugars stored up — the kind produced by carbohydrates — does not help a gymnast that much. Those energy spurts are best provided by a diet high in protein. Most gymnasts try to get between 60 percent and 70 percent of their calories from proteins (like meats and cheeses), the rest from carbs (like whole-grain pasta, fruits, vegetables) and fats (like oils from peanuts). And, as has been proven by all the Atkins, South Beach and Zone diets so popular these days, high-protein regimens help gymnasts keep their weight down.

Click here to read more about the diet of olympic gymnasts.

Yo-Yo dieting by: Robb Wolf

The dieting merry-go-round is an interesting thing. So much information and good intention, so few favorable results. One result is a sense of failure on the part of dieters that takes on the likeness of a relationship gone bad. Promises are made, only to be broken and a sense of betrayal ensues. Instead of the dynamic describing two lovers this is the personal hell that many people face. Rosy picture isn’t it!

Part of what makes this situation so difficult is that people are facing tough biological, social and psychological issues when attempting to alter eating habits. All of these issues end up stuck together and the glue, not surprisingly, is carbs. WHOA! you might be saying…that’s a lot to lay on a piece of toast or a plate of potatoes…but in my experience this is exactly the issue. Lets take these apart one at a time:

Biological- When folks mention they are yo-yo dieting they are NOT having a problem eating meat, veggies, nuts and olive oil to excess. Whatever the clueless Mcdougalites may say, it’s not being ON the low carb diet that’s a problem, it’s going off the rails and eating every carbohydrate in site down to the bark on trees! Calorie restriction doesn’t work and just feeds into neurosis. It sounds great and plays into our puritanical leanings but it is a failed venture. I’m not sure why but everyone from the government to doctors to theologians LOVE this whole calorie restriction thing…”Eat less, be prudent..have more water dense vegetables…drink a glass of water before a meal to blunt hunger.” Bullshit. None of that crap works and it just leads people down a path towards failure.

The people who have success with this stuff find a level of carb intake that “works”. This level is different from person to person but it mirrors what people like the Dr.’s Eades and others have said for years.

Social- have you ever noticed that no one says a word to the folks who eat a bag of chips and a coke for lunch but if you have a piece of grilled meat, a bag of nuts and a salad you can sell tickets to your lunch hour as a circus side show? It’s an interesting but well documented fact that people do not like seeing others change or make progress. Come from a poor or dysfunctional family? Did you work to get healthy and perhaps wealthy? Are your family members excited about your success or least bit resentful? We see this almost daily…one spouse starts training and eating differently…they start making progress and change and the significant-other freaks out. It either undermines the efforts of our client or the couple tends to split. No shit here folks…heavy stuff but we have seen this pattern play out dozens of times the past 5 years. So part of yo-yo dieting is that people undermine our progress. It kinda sucks to catch flack for trying to affect positive change and sometimes it’s just enough to slide one back to junk-food (that’s TOO MANY CARBS if you missed the section above). Where does personal accountability come into this? Glad you asked…

Psychological- for some damn reason people have some kind of self sabotage thing they get going. For some it relates to diet, for others it’s betting on football and buying shit they do not need. Whatever the issue is the individual knows better, sets their will for change…then fails, feels like crap and the cycle continues. Some people do manage to affect change…but no one knows what the hell it is they are doing differently so it’s really tough to replicate. A growing number of psychiatrists think that drugs, talk therapy and chakra balancing are not very effective at helping people change. What is effective? Sleep, omega-3 fatty acids, and a tightly controlled insulin level. I know this is dragging things back to the biological but most of the yo-yo dieting, bad relationships gambling…it’s all neuro-chemistry and you either take steps to remedy the situation…or you don’t. If you are not sleeping well (and enough), taking your fish oil and keeping your insulin levels under control NOTHING YOU DO WILL WORK.

I’m sorry if this is a bit of a downer but some things just can not be snuck-up on. Some things require a fundamental shift in how you are doing things…if you want to kill the yo-yo dieting (and most behaviors that are troubling) you need to do some combo of the following:

1-Best defense: Don’t be there. What his means is do not have crap in the house. NONE. We do not have self control, we are not wired for it. This is that deal where folks have 8lbs of beef cooked in the refrigerator and they quip “I’m hungry…I’m bored with this…” You’re not bored, you are addicted to crack and you need to decide how you are going to handle the situation. If you absolutely MUST have some, go out and eat it. Make it high quality and do not bring ANY home. No Gad-damned Ezekial bread that can be gnoshed down at 2am as a peanut butter and jelly sandwich. Meat & veggies, nuts & seeds…that’s what you have on hand at home. If you are not convinced, let me use this analogy:

Most people feel like they can pull off a committed, monogamous relationship.They can avoid a bit of temptation, and do just fine. Cool. What if you are drunk and you just took a whopping dose of Ecstasy…and 10 of the hottest members of whatever sex you are into walk into the room with you and insist on having their way with you. Refined carbs are analogous to an alcohol soaked Ecstasy binge at the PlayBoy Mansion. If you are OK with the consequences of that fact, fine but if you are looking to affect change you need to know that will power will fail you EVERY TIME. You need to plan and you need to keep your home free of crack.

2-Rally the troops or go it alone. Tell the people near you, be it family or friends what you are up to and that you need their help. If they rally to your aid, great, it will really help things. If they begin undermining you as I mentioned above you need to distance yourself and minimize their influence. Obviously this can suck if it’s your best friend, spouse or boss but things are tough enough. If you let the people around you undermine your activities…bad on you. Your eyes are open and you know better.

3- Give yourself a break. This may seem at odds with the ass-whooping I’ve unleashed but you are only one meal away from perfect compliance. Obviously this can not stretch into an infinity of non-compliance (unless you are my parents!) but you need to take it easy on your bad-self. You CAN do this but you actually have to DO it.

We see three basic behaviours in our clients with regards to food. Some folks “get it”. They generally eat what they should, when they should. They feel good and they make great progress at more or less a constant rate. Some of our other clients are still stuck on the crack and generally eat too much of the wrong stuff. They feel like shit during workouts and make some progress, albeit slow. The final group does not eat enough. Progress is stalled and in many cases retrograde. This last group is actually a flavor of yo-yo dieting and it is hard as hell to reach these folks.

Perhaps a line from Star Wars in closing:

“Do or do not, there is no try”. Yoda

The dieting merry-go-round is an interesting thing. So much information and good intention, so few favorable results. One result is a sense of failure on the part of dieters that takes on the likeness of a relationship gone bad. Promises are made, only to be broken and a sense of betrayal ensues. Instead of the dynamic describing two lovers this is the personal hell that many people face. Rosy picture isn’t it!

Part of what makes this situation so difficult is that people are facing tough biological, social and psychological issues when attempting to alter eating habits. All of these issues end up stuck together and the glue, not surprisingly, is carbs. WHOA! you might be saying…that’s a lot to lay on a piece of toast or a plate of potatoes…but in my experience this is exactly the issue. Lets take these apart one at a time:

Biological- When folks mention they are yo-yo dieting they are NOT having a problem eating meat, veggies, nuts and olive oil to excess. Whatever the clueless Mcdougalites may say, it’s not being ON the low carb diet that’s a problem, it’s going off the rails and eating every carbohydrate in site down to the bark on trees! Calorie restriction doesn’t work and just feeds into neurosis. It sounds great and plays into our puritanical leanings but it is a failed venture. I’m not sure why but everyone from the government to doctors to theologians LOVE this whole calorie restriction thing…”Eat less, be prudent..have more water dense vegetables…drink a glass of water before a meal to blunt hunger.” Bullshit. None of that crap works and it just leads people down a path towards failure.

The people who have success with this stuff find a level of carb intake that “works”. This level is different from person to person but it mirrors what people like the Dr.’s Eades and others have said for years.

Social- have you ever noticed that no one says a word to the folks who eat a bag of chips and a coke for lunch but if you have a piece of grilled meat, a bag of nuts and a salad you can sell tickets to your lunch hour as a circus side show? It’s an interesting but well documented fact that people do not like seeing others change or make progress. Come from a poor or dysfunctional family? Did you work to get healthy and perhaps wealthy? Are your family members excited about your success or least bit resentful? We see this almost daily…one spouse starts training and eating differently…they start making progress and change and the significant-other freaks out. It either undermines the efforts of our client or the couple tends to split. No shit here folks…heavy stuff but we have seen this pattern play out dozens of times the past 5 years. So part of yo-yo dieting is that people undermine our progress. It kinda sucks to catch flack for trying to affect positive change and sometimes it’s just enough to slide one back to junk-food (that’s TOO MANY CARBS if you missed the section above). Where does personal accountability come into this? Glad you asked…

Psychological- for some damn reason people have some kind of self sabotage thing they get going. For some it relates to diet, for others it’s betting on football and buying shit they do not need. Whatever the issue is the individual knows better, sets their will for change…then fails, feels like crap and the cycle continues. Some people do manage to affect change…but no one knows what the hell it is they are doing differently so it’s really tough to replicate. A growing number of psychiatrists think that drugs, talk therapy and chakra balancing are not very effective at helping people change. What is effective? Sleep, omega-3 fatty acids, and a tightly controlled insulin level. I know this is dragging things back to the biological but most of the yo-yo dieting, bad relationships gambling…it’s all neuro-chemistry and you either take steps to remedy the situation…or you don’t. If you are not sleeping well (and enough), taking your fish oil and keeping your insulin levels under control NOTHING YOU DO WILL WORK.

I’m sorry if this is a bit of a downer but some things just can not be snuck-up on. Some things require a fundamental shift in how you are doing things…if you want to kill the yo-yo dieting (and most behaviors that are troubling) you need to do some combo of the following:

1-Best defense: Don’t be there. What his means is do not have crap in the house. NONE. We do not have self control, we are not wired for it. This is that deal where folks have 8lbs of beef cooked in the refrigerator and they quip “I’m hungry…I’m bored with this…” You’re not bored, you are addicted to crack and you need to decide how you are going to handle the situation. If you absolutely MUST have some, go out and eat it. Make it high quality and do not bring ANY home. No Gad-damned Ezekial bread that can be gnoshed down at 2am as a peanut butter and jelly sandwich. Meat & veggies, nuts & seeds…that’s what you have on hand at home. If you are not convinced, let me use this analogy:

Most people feel like they can pull off a committed, monogamous relationship.They can avoid a bit of temptation, and do just fine. Cool. What if you are drunk and you just took a whopping dose of Ecstasy…and 10 of the hottest members of whatever sex you are into walk into the room with you and insist on having their way with you. Refined carbs are analogous to an alcohol soaked Ecstasy binge at the PlayBoy Mansion. If you are OK with the consequences of that fact, fine but if you are looking to affect change you need to know that will power will fail you EVERY TIME. You need to plan and you need to keep your home free of crack.

2-Rally the troops or go it alone. Tell the people near you, be it family or friends what you are up to and that you need their help. If they rally to your aid, great, it will really help things. If they begin undermining you as I mentioned above you need to distance yourself and minimize their influence. Obviously this can suck if it’s your best friend, spouse or boss but things are tough enough. If you let the people around you undermine your activities…bad on you. Your eyes are open and you know better.

3- Give yourself a break. This may seem at odds with the ass-whooping I’ve unleashed but you are only one meal away from perfect compliance. Obviously this can not stretch into an infinity of non-compliance (unless you are my parents!) but you need to take it easy on your bad-self. You CAN do this but you actually have to DO it.

We see three basic behaviours in our clients with regards to food. Some folks “get it”. They generally eat what they should, when they should. They feel good and they make great progress at more or less a constant rate. Some of our other clients are still stuck on the crack and generally eat too much of the wrong stuff. They feel like shit during workouts and make some progress, albeit slow. The final group does not eat enough. Progress is stalled and in many cases retrograde. This last group is actually a flavor of yo-yo dieting and it is hard as hell to reach these folks.

Perhaps a line from Star Wars in closing:

“Do or do not, there is no try”. Yoda

Spicey Thai Peanut "Pasta"

This will make 1 - 4 Block zone meal. If you like thai food, this is soooo good! Spaghetti squash is such a great substitute for pasta; it's low glycemic, tasty, filling and doesn't weigh you down like.

Ingredients:

2 cups cooked spaghetti squash

     - Cut spaghetti squash in half, scrape out the seeds and place face down into a baking dish that has just enough water to cover the bottom. Bake at 350 degrees for 30-45 minutes or until soft. When done, scrape out the inside with a fork into bowl

Saute'

1 tsp olive oil (or use spray) over medium heat
2 cups raw broccoli, cut bite size
2 cups raw mushrooms, cut bite size
1.5 cups raw red bell pepper, sliced thin and long
1.5 cups raw zucchini, sliced bite size

then add,

4 oz grilled chicken, cut bite size

For the sauce*, mix together

2 tsp peanut butter (fresh ground PB is best; you can grind it yourself at Whole Foods)
1-1/3 tsp sesame oil
1/2 tbsp soy sauce
1 tsp rice wine vinegar
1/2 tsp honey
1/4 clove garlic
pinch of cayenne
hot sauce to taste
- you can put the sauce on while food is still in pan, or once on plate

*the amount of fat is 4 blocks at 3 grams per block, not 1.5g

** I also like to add some non-salted peanuts on top

Pumpkin Pie in the zone

Time: 10 minutes prep, 45 minutes baking

• 3 1/2 C pumpkin puree
• 1/2 C unsweetened applesauce
• 2 eggs
• 1/4 C agave nectar
• 2 Tbsp ground almonds
• 1/2 tsp each of ginger, cloves, cinnamon, allspice, and nutmeg
• 1 C pecans

Combine all of the ingredients except the pecans in a bowl, mix well. Pour into a dish for baking pies. Cover with the pecans. Bake at 350 degrees for 45 minutes.

If the pie is chilled before serving, it will cut and serve much better. It tends to crumble more easily if still warm.

Zone info: 6 servings at - 2.5 carb blocks, .5 protein block, 5.4 fat blocks

-The Performance Menu

Alarming effects of the microwave oven

Ten Reasons to Throw out your Microwave Oven

From the conclusions of the Swiss, Russian and German scientific clinical studies, we can no longer ignore the microwave oven sitting in our kitchens. Based on this research, we will conclude this article with the following:

1). Continually eating food processed from a microwave oven causes long term - permanent - brain damage by "shorting out" electrical impulses in the brain [de-polarizing or de-magnetizing the brain tissue].

2). The human body cannot metabolize [break down] the unknown by-products created in microwaved food.

3). Male and female hormone production is shut down and/or altered by continually eating microwaved foods.

4). The effects of microwaved food by-products are residual [long term, permanent] within the human body.

5). Minerals, vitamins, and nutrients of all microwaved food is reduced or altered so that the human body gets little or no benefit, or the human body absorbs altered compounds that cannot be broken down.

6). The minerals in vegetables are altered into cancerous free radicals when cooked in microwave ovens.

7). Microwaved foods cause stomach and intestinal cancerous growths [tumors]. This may explain the rapidly increased rate of colon cancer in America.

8). The prolonged eating of microwaved foods causes cancerous cells to increase in human blood.

9). Continual ingestion of microwaved food causes immune system deficiencies through lymph gland and blood serum alterations.

10). Eating microwaved food causes loss of memory, concentration, emotional instability, and a decrease of intelligence.

Have you tossed out your microwave oven yet?

After you throw out your microwave you can use a toaster oven as a replacement. It works well for most and is nearly as quick.

How do microwaves work?

   Microwaves are a form of electromagnetic energy like light waves or radio waves. Microwaves are used to relay long distance telephone calls, television shows and computer information across the globe or to a satellite in space. They are used because they can travel through anything, such as smoke, clouds and rain/snow. Most commonly though, microwaves are used to heat up food.

   Every microwave oven contains electrons that are affected by magnetic and electric fields in such a way to produce micro wavelength radiation at about 2.45 GHz. This radiation interacts with the molecules of food by alternating current (AC), or changing the polarity of all the molecules (amino acids, lipids, proteins...) millions of times per second, which causes frictional heat. This, in turn, heats up your food from the inside out, substantially damaging and deforming the foods molecules. This type of frictional heat can destroy the fragile structure of vitamins and enzymes in food, completely depleting nutrients in food, changing the taste and texture and causing numerous health problems:

Resulting effects on the human body

Digestive system: The unstable catabolism of microwaved food alters their elemental food substances, causing disorders in the digestive system.
Lymphatic system: Due to chemical alterations within food substances, malfunctions occur in the lymphatic system, causing a degeneration of the body's ability to protect itself against certain forms of neoplastics (cancerous growths).
Free radicals: Certain trace-mineral molecular formations in plant substances - in particular, raw root vegetables - form cancer-causing free radicals.
Increased incidence of stomach and intestinal cancers: A statistically higher percentage of cancerous growths result in these organs, plus a generalised breakdown of the peripheral cellular tissues and a gradual degeneration of digestive and excretory functions.

Here are the effects observed in humans having "direct" exposure to microwaves, that is, without their having consumed the irradiated food substances:

• Life-energy field breakdown: Persons near microwave ovens in operation experience a breakdown of their life-energy fields which increases relative to the length of exposure.
• Cellular energy decreases: The cellular-voltage parallels of individuals using the apparatus degenerate - especially in their blood and lymphatic serums.
• Destabilized metabolism: The external-energy activated potentials of food utilisation are both destabilised and degenerated.
• Cell damage: Internal cellular-membrane potentials during catabolic processes into the blood serum from the digestive process degenerate and destabilise.
• Brain circuitry destruction: Electrical impulses in the junction potentials of the cerebrum degenerate and break down.
• Nervous system: Nerve/electrical circuits degenerate and break down while energy-field symmetry is lost in the neuro-plexuses (nerve centres) in both the front and rear of the central and autonomic nervous systems.
• Loss of bioelectric strength: The bioelectric strengths within the ascending reticular activating system (the system which controls the function of waking consciousness) go out of balance and lose their proper circuiting.
• Loss of vital energies: Humans, animals and plants located within a 500-metre radius of the equipment in operation suffer a long-term, cumulative loss of vital energies.
• Nervous and lymphatic systems damage: Long-lasting residual magnetic "deposits" become located throughout the nervous system and lymphatic system.
• Hormone imbalances: The production of hormones and the maintenance of hormonal balance in both males and females becomes destabilised and interrupted.
• Brainwave disruptions: Levels of disturbance in alpha-, delta- and theta-wave signal patterns are markedly higher than normal.
• Psychological disorders: Because of the disarranged brain waves, negative psychological effects also result. These include loss of memory and ability to concentrate, suppressed emotional threshold, deceleration of intellective processes and interruptive sleep episodes in a statistically higher percentage of individuals subjected to continual range-emission field effects of microwave apparatus, from either cooking apparatus or transmission stations.