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Are
You Following the Right Hauser
Diet?
Did you take the Hauser
Diet Quiz? You did? Great!
That’s
the first step toward thinking about how your body reacts
to food. I bet some of the questions were a little bit hard
to answer, weren’t they? Did you struggle when answering
some of the questions? Do you really know how you feel when
eating certain foods, or did you answer according to your
likes and dislikes? Did you just answer the questions the
way you thought you should?
Since we first launched the Hauser
Diet Quiz, we have gotten
some emails stating that the quiz-takers are not sure that
they are actually the animals that they came out to be on
the quiz. If you answered “yes” to the questions
mentioned above, you are not alone. The quiz was developed
as a good way to gather information and point you in the
right general direction, however it is certainly not as accurate
as doing the actual blood tests involved in Diet
Typing.
We wouldn’t want you to get started down a path that
might be wrong for you. We want the quiz to get you thinking.
Some people really do not know how food makes them feel.
They just eat to eat. Some people may not tune in to fine
differences in how they feel or even attribute changes in
things such as fatigue, energy, muscle pain, bloating, diarrhea,
coughs, or nasal stuffiness to their food intake. Sometimes
the changes are very subtle, but are the key to good health
that can help balance your body chemical, feel good, and
have the best energy so that you can enjoy life to the fullest.
Many people who take the quiz test out to be a Bear. Many
people are Bears when they get Diet
Typing. However, many
people are not Bears but think they are. Before you get set
out on your new Hauser
Diet think about whether you really
answered the quiz appropriately. If answered appropriately,
we think that it holds to about 85% significance with correlating
to a person’s actual Diet
Type. However, many people
answer the quiz question incorrectly because they truly do
not know how to answer the questions. That’s alright!
That’s most people! Part of what we are trying to teach
you is how to tune into those cues from your body. |
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Examples of Bears who were not
Bears!
Bear turned Otter! Recently a new patient, S.J., came to Caring
Medical to get Diet
Typing for fatigue and weight gain. She is
45 years old and just didn’t feel like herself anymore.
When she took the quiz, she typed out to be a Bear. However,
when we sat down with her to go over her results, we informed
her that she was an Otter. She immediately said, “But I
typed out to be a Bear on your on-line quiz.” We explained
that her Glucose Tolerance Test (GTT) showed that she was a fast
oxidizer of food (low fasting blood sugar but with a high spike
after ingesting the glucose drink) which put her in the Otter
category. Upon further questioning, she did admit that every
time she went out for pizza and beer she felt terrible later
in the evening. She felt the same way if she ate pasta for lunch.
Being a busy mother, she was always on the go. Both she and her
husband work and her two pre-teen kids are into a lot of activities,
so she really never noticed how she was really feeling related
to her food. She just knew she was tired. S.J. was willing to
make some changes so that she could feel better and have the
energy she needed to keep up with her schedule. She needed to
cut out soda pop consumption, as well as pastas and breads, and
focus on protein foods such as beef, chicken, fish, and eggs,
as well as good servings of fresh veggies and salads. We talked
about ways to keep protein containing foods on hand (instead
of grabbing chips or cookies).
S.J. reported that after just 4 weeks on the Hauser
Otter Diet her energy had increased dramatically and she was now able to
go for her daily walks that she had gotten away from. With the
ability to be more active, she had already seen a drop in weight
of 7 pounds! If she had continued on the Bear
Diet, she could
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Monkeying
around on the Bear Diet!
Just
last week, we saw a 39 year old athlete who has completed
a number of Ironman Triathlons, and something like 15 marathons,
among other things. K.M. owns his own business, is recently
married, and also recently had his first child. So he’s
trying to juggle all of these things, continue to train,
and eat right. He took the Hauser
Diet Quiz online and
he also tested out as a Bear. He really didn’t know
where to go with this information, because to him, the
Bears can just eat whatever they want. So he basically
just kept doing what he is already doing. He noticed that
he was starting to gain some weight (normally weighs 160
pounds and is creeping up to 180 pounds.) K.M. still had
good energy, but it was not as good as it had been. He
attributed this to all the changes in his life as well
as having to get up with the baby at night. But now that
the baby is sleeping through the night, the pounds are
Having already been a patient of Caring
Medical – as he
said, “it’s the place where athletes turn for Prolotherapy for their sports injuries” (he
blew out his knee after a marathon a few years ago, but fixed
it up with Prolotherapy),
he gave us a call and set up an appointment to get Diet
Typing.
Well, he was quite surprised! He turned out to be a Monkey with
an alkaline blood pH and normal oxidative rate.
Well, let me tell you, this guy loves to eat meat – steak,
ribs, chicken, eggs, and the more the better! Monkeys are allowed
some meat on their diets, but not nearly as much meat as the
Otter and Lion Diets allow. M.K. was eating much more like an
Otter than a Monkey, even though he tested out to be a Bear on
the quiz.
M.K. received his new Hauser
Monkey Diet and met the challenge
of a new eating plan head on. He purchased a lot more fresh veggies,
ordered salads when he went out for lunch, and tried to eat more
vegetables and whole grains at dinner time instead of so much
meat. He admits that he still loves a good steak now and again,
but his energy has returned, his bowels are much more regular,
and he has already dropped 6 pounds!
Take home point! While taking our online
Hauser Diet quiz is a good first step, it may not provide
you with the exact diet you need. Coming in to have Diet
Typing done is the only way to really know
that you are on the track to good health, maximum energy,
and feeling great. Give us a call and we’ll set you
up! We promise, we’ll make it as painless as possible!
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