Wolf Funfack began as a country doctor, now follow his Hollywood Stars
Diet Rules
Weight loss at any cost. Wolf Funfack has invented the Metabolic
Balance diet, a diet trend, which is spoken in office hallways and
even during filming of major movies.
Wolf Funfack can bring a glass of water. It really the time for a cup
of tea or strong coffee, but the physician thinks nothing of it in the
hours between meals. An espresso after lunch time, which would
stimulate the digestive system, he says. But coffee in between,
perhaps even with high sugar, insulin levels do exaggerate, hungry and
stop burning fat.
Wolf Funfack is equal to his theme, sensible diet. The internist who
invented the Metabolic Balance diet, a diet trend, which is spoken in
office hallways and even during filming of major movies. German actor
Armin Rohde and how Hollywood stars like Jennifer Aniston and Kate
Winslet have supposedly lived according to rules of Funfack. A few
weeks ago called the Süddeutsche the nutrition experts euphoric as the
"Messiah's Plus."
Experts have doubts
Funkfack will not mention names of celebrities, but if there was more,
he says only. It's amazing what has enabled the Bavarian country
doctor. It all began 35 years ago now. Funfack wrote his doctoral
thesis on obesity, ie obesity, in childhood, was an internist in Upper
Bavaria Isen and treated countless people with obesity. "That was very
frustrating," he says, "after half a year the people were back at me:
yo-yo effect." That should make the change but thought Funfack and
developed his theory: In order to reduce food, the body needs
hormones. The produce he can, if given a suitable building materials.
The key to losing weight must therefore lie in the diet, and therein,
the metabolism optimally set, he thought to himself. He examined blood
samples, books circulated, and then began to create customized diet
plans. The idea: If one of the body for a certain period only, the
substances that he really needs, rejuvenates the metabolism and the
patient - Funfack now prefers to say "client" - is declining.
Many experts believe his theory, however, for humbug. "Utter nonsense"
it is only recommended on the basis of blood tests to exclude certain
foods, or, say critics such as Georg changer is, a nutritionist at the
Technical University of Munich and obesity specialist. Of course, one
could for example be determined based on blood lipid levels, as it is
necessary that a patient decreases. This, however, to develop a diet
plan that "nonsense" was.
Eat according to rules
Funfack but believes in his program so much that he even survived for
more than ten years following the rules. 2001 he himself had still
weighed significantly more than a hundred pounds, he says. ". Was not
that help people lose weight, but also even be thick" So he began: Two
days of preparation, then the strict transition phase, in which he
allowed only the food of his diet plan strictly weighed and food,
limited - two weeks in length. Then followed the relaxation phase. "We
want the people back off and be independent," says Funfack.
This means eating according to rules. At least five hours of rest
between meals, long night's sleep, lots of fruits and vegetables.
Recommendations, which could also make any dietitian, says critic
changer. The other rules - one serving of protein per meal, and low in
carbohydrates - it assesses skeptically: "This maintains the fat
content increases in the diet, and thus has already failed, Robert
Atkins," he says, alluding to the inventor of the low-carb diet , who
was forced to declare bankruptcy six years ago.
House with garden and pond
Funfack says that he himself with his diet in a short time lost so
much weight that people responded to him how good he looked, he felt
much better. He tells of hard obese patients more than 80, had lost 90
pounds. And the study of the Upper Rhine Institute for Rehabilitation
Research, in which more than 60 percent of the 851 study participants
with the metabolic balance program lost at least five percent of their
initial weight, 31 percent as much as ten percent. But: "There is a
study in which a control group based on the dietary recommendations,
without being to create a specific food plan," says Susanne Klaus,
professor of the physiology of energy metabolism at the German
Institute of Human Nutrition. "Too expensive," says Funfack.
It annoys him that his critics accuse him that he does not work
scientifically enough that he was just a simple country doctor and not
just nutritionists. Therefore, he studied journals, he quoted from the
state recognized colleagues who hold a blood test before starting a
diet for useful documents can be put in which he identifies important
passages with a green highlighter.
More than half a million people have now tried in the program.
Metabolic Balance has created branches in several dozen countries, a
computer now, the food plans.
The water glass is still unused on the table, but Funfack has no more
time - too many clients. Two years ago the internist gave up his
practice. Headquarters is now an impressive mansion on the outskirts,
built strictly according to geomantic principles. Funfack lives with
his wife on the first floor, in the garden is a pond. That his program
would one day be so successful, he says goodbye, he'd never have
imagined.
