The MAHONY® DIET method is intended for healthy individuals who are in a mild form overweight, and who want to quickly, reliably, and safely reduce their body weight and subsequently maintain it in the long term.
The method is based on the selection of dietary dishes with high protein content, reduced sugar and fat content, and low caloric value, fitting into the concept of the so-called protein diet, established by Prof. Blackburn from Harvard University in the USA.
The patient receives a menu set for a target reduction (-3 kg, -6 kg, -9 kg) or for permanent maintenance of a reduced weight (healthy snacking), where some common foods are replaced by special MAHONY® DIET dietary preparations.
Under the energy-poor protein diet MAHONY® DIET the human body preferentially uses its fat tissue as a source of energy. The discovery of this phenomenon is the greatest contribution of Prof. Blackburn to modern medicine and the treatment of civilization diseases (obesity, high blood pressure, high blood fat values, etc.).
In the process of starvation, the organism normally uses the following components as a source of missing energy, in the following order:
- Glycogen (source of missing sugars necessary for brain activity)
- Skeletal muscle tissue (in the process of so-called gluconeogenesis, glucose begins to form from it)
- Adipose tissue (fatty acids are a tremendous but also tremendously distant source of energy)
So, in practice, the starving person appears to lose muscle tissue first, followed by fat.
Already in 1976, Professor Blackburn formulated a protocol he called "Protein sparing modified fast", whereby "protein" he meant the striated muscles of a starving individual.
Using his protocol, i.e. feeding a diet high in protein, low in energy, and low in sugars and fat, the source order is reversed as follows:
- Glycogen (source of missing sugars necessary for brain activity)
- Adipose tissue (fatty acids are a tremendous but also tremendously distant source of energy)
- Skeletal muscle tissue (in the process of so-called gluconeogenesis, glucose begins to form from it)
Weight loss then occurs preferentially at the expense of fat, and not muscle tissue (clients' blood fat values adjust quickly and lose muscle tissue only to a very limited extent - this can be verified by continuous measurement on an impedance scale). It is therefore clearly the healthiest and most medically correct way of reducing body weight, which is targeted against obesity, which is defined as "the increase of fat tissue in the body as a result of excessive energy intake".
Therefore, the primary goal of a rational diet should not be to reduce the kilogram weight, but rather to reduce the body's fat tissue volume.
This type of diet is sometimes (and quite absurdly)keto diet"). Nonsensical because the so-called ketosis (i.e. flooding the body with ketone substances) is a completely natural consequence of the breakdown of fat tissue during any reduction diet or starvation. I.e. ketosis is about as interesting as sweating during physical exertion and is nothing more than a physiological side effect of a properly maintained diet.
