Q: If the OTM plan is not a diet, why do people using the OTM plan loose weight?
A: On the OTM plan we will loose excess fat. This is primarily because our bodies create appetite until our physiological nutritional requirements are met, regardless of the amounts of food we eat. The way we eat today, typically causes us to eat to excess. The OTM plan shows us how to meet our nutritional needs more effectively. The result is eating less, losing weight and getting healthier!

Q: Why will my energy levels increase when I adopt the OTM Plan?
A: Sufficient nutrients and movement give us energy. Compromising foods, lack of exercise and poor attitude sap our energy.   Following the OTM plan we will increase the amount of nutrients in our diet, increase our movement and therefore increase our overall energy.

Q: What is it about the OTM plan that makes it easier to adopt and stay with it?
  A: Diets are dead-ends. Most people on diets feel deprived and restricted making them psychologically ineffective. In addition, diets typically don’t provide sufficient nutritional intake to curb our physiological hunger so the combination inevitably fails. The OTM plan is a lifestyle change that you can easily adapt to your needs and comfort levels. It is not rigid and you don't have to give anything up. It's all about adding nutrients and getting healthier. You make the choices and trade offs.

Q: What are some of the foods that play an important role in the OTM plan?
A: The OTM plan focuses on good nutrition. An important part of the food plan is fresh, raw fruits and veggies. These foods are easily digested and more quickly contribute nutrients to our bodies. However, you can still have the compromising foods you love – the key is to keep the nutritional value of your diet higher than the compromising value.

Q: What are some of the compromising foods that are identified in the OTM plan?
A: The OTM plan identifies compromising foods as those foods that are not easily digested and introduce toxicity into our bodies.  Some of the examples are animal products, alcohol, complex carbohydrates, and concentrated sugars.

When I talk about digestion, I am referring to the breakdown and chemical conversion of food into nutrients at the multi-cellular, cellular and sub-cellular levels. Compromising foods are more difficult to digest. Our body has to work harder to completely digest animal products, complex carbs, and concentrated sugars, and in general much of these partially foods are routed into fat cells because the body naturally seeks the simpler compounds. Think empty calories.  In addition, compromising foods also introduce toxicity such as cholesterol from animal products.

However, you can still have the compromising foods you love – the key is to keep the nutritional value of your diet higher than the compromising value, and understand how to balance the two in a daily routine.


Q: How do I know that the guidelines of the OTM plan are good, scientifically valid concepts and endorsed by reputable scientific and medical organizations?
A: Go to any of the western medicine websites (i.e. American Medical Association, American Heart Association, Center for Disease Control, etc.), look at their latest studies, they all support and encourage lifestyle and dietary changes to promote health and eliminate disease.

Western medicine is doing more research into the connection between disease, diet and lifestyle. The research is helping to change the general beliefs – albeit slowly. When we look at the volume of this research, it makes me wonder why we wouldn’t change our beliefs immediately. Eating fried foods, animal products, concentrated sugars and complex carbs have been shown to cause our bodies to deteriorate.

More and more, the medical associations are recommending increasing the intake of fresh fruits and vegetables as a basis for improving health and fitness. The OTM plan builds on the fundamental concept that a focus on good nutrition before illness prevents illness.

Q: The OTM plan seems to incorporate the belief that our body has a tremendous power to keep itself healthy. Why do you think that that management of nutrition and toxicity isn’t more widely practiced by the medical community?
A: This is changing and will continue to change as life style induced diseases start to overwhelm the healthcare infrastructure. Already the US Federal Reserve Chairman predicted a healthcare cost crisis based on the growing levels of obesity.

When it comes to healthcare, we have been focused on treatment, drugs, supplements – anything that is outside our control. We are taught by western medicine, food, drug and supplement companies. They believe we need their products or services and we believe them too. This is also how our medical community is taught – to treat disease. The statistics show that even after serious illness, most people don’t change their life style, so in some ways the doctor’s are being driven by our behaviors as well.

We, as consumers, want to believe there is a cure, a product, a magic treatment that will make us and keep us healthy after the fact. Some of these beliefs have been passed on to us for generations. We need to get the right information and let go of the beliefs that are no longer serving us well. We are seeing the change within the medical community as more focus is being placed upon preventative measures and the importance of diet, exercise and lifestyle. Now, we need to see it among ourselves.