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Author Dee McCaffrey
At 4-foot-10 and 210 pounds, Dee McCaffrey knew all too well the painful experience of growing up overweight. But the author of “Plan-D: The Amazing Anti-Diet That Will Change Your Life Forever” lost 100 pounds and got healthy.
Now, McCaffrey is a weight-loss success story. She has maintained her 100-pound weight loss for 17 years and credits her success with a change in what she ate.
“Healthy eating is about respecting how our bodies are designed,” said McCaffrey, founder of The Center For Processed-Free Living in Tempe. “There are some foods that our bodies naturally thrive on and others that make us sick and fat. We’re all designed to eat real food — foods without labels and long ingredient lists that haven’t been highly processed and aren’t foreign to our DNA.”
McCaffrey said she eliminated processed foods from her diet and the change resulted in her 100-pound weight loss.
McCaffrey will share the lessons she learned that helped her lose weight and keep it off in a free Processed Free Living nutrition class Friday at Global Bikes in Gilbert.
“Our bodies are amazing machines,” McCaffrey said. “Given time, the right nutrients and enough physical activity, the body will naturally do what it is designed to do. It will function optimally and achieve the proper body composition.”
During the one-hour class, McCaffrey said she will touch on several topics:
• Explain the chemistry behind why processed foods — including flour and sugar — are harmful to the body.
• Expose hidden and harmful ingredients in “healthy” foods that actually make you sick and fat.
• Describe why low-fat diets can be dangerous.
• Share why Splenda is not the miracle sweetener and describe which natural sweeteners are best to use.
• Break the myth about fats and explain why you need to eat fat to lose fat.
• Demystify the chemistry of fats and explain which are destructive and which are essential to healing the body.
“Processed foods not only contain toxic food additives, they lack key nutrients and create imbalances in body chemistry,” McCaffrey said. “Processed-free living therefore replaces those nutrients and begins to heal the body on the cellular level.”
Learn about healthy eating
What: Processed Free Living nutrition class
When: 7 p.m. Friday
Where: Global Bikes, 835 N. Gilbert Rd. #111, Gilbert
Cost: Free
Information: (480) 892-1315 or http://www.globalbikesbikeshop.com/
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