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Breaking diet myths

o Mel Gibson’s personal trainer Samantha Jackson talks about dangers of visceral fat

Ű BY VERONICA ELANKOVAN

a diet. It is miserable. There is no enjoyment. We are humans.” Jackson stressed the importance of having a healthy relationship with food. Likening the body to a car, she said eating not enough food meant a lack of fuel for the body to function. “You would not drive for two hours in your car if you only had one litre of fuel in the tank. Well, we do not do that to our bodies either,” she said, adding that the point is not to starve. Jackson emphasised the importance of being aware of the science behind how our body works. “We cannot get rid of toxic belly fat by doing sit-ups, crunches – by exercising or starving, anything like that.” Over last weekend, at the talks, Jackson taught people to recognise how much toxic belly they have and what it does inside their body as well as what to look out for – and also how to get rid of it and to stop it from coming back. The four main pillars of her talk were

E VERYBODY can be healthy, Samantha Jackson said when asked about her health philosophy. Jackson, who is a clinical nutritionist, personal trainer and Dexa Radiologist, believes in getting to the core of the problem when it comes to healthy living and progressive weight loss – in other words, visceral fat or “toxic belly fat”. Breaking diet myths, the Australian, who is also Mel Gibson’s trainer, educated Malaysians about food science in two health

Jackson (left) is Gibson’s personal trainer.

transformation talks, supported by the Australia Malaysia Business Chamber (Western Australia) recently. “I want us to be human,” she said after saying nothing is off the menu as long as we strike a balance. “I actually do not want people on any sort of diets because you lose the will to live when you are on Jackson educates people about food

loss – as she also shared this is her fourth trip to Malaysia this year. Jackson explained fat loss is not all about diet, because “if diets worked, we would not keep going on them”. She reiterated that through her talks, she “really wants to dispel a lot of myths around the diet industry”. “It is like a US$70 billion (RM295.6 billion) industry and it fails us every single time, but we can actually teach our own bodies to not store fat.” Jackson insisted no food is off limits and that, via her talks, people are going to learn to eat in a way that puts their body into homeostasis – a state of balance, in which the body self-regulates and maintains itself. “You cannot punish your body into looking and feeling great,” she said, adding that carbs and sugar are friends and not foes. The fat loss journey needs incredible willpower and discipline

around type 2 diabetes, cardiovascular and not about weight loss alone. Jackson is a firm believer in fun, so her talk was not a drab one but injected with her signature cheekiness that lifts the sombre mood of the topic. She also

Jackson believes everybody can be healthy.

– many find themselves relapsing after achieving a goal or succumbing to the mundanity of life itself. As such, Jackson revealed mindset is very important, but first,

one needs to be educated. “It is extremely important. But what is even more important than that is education,” Jackson told theSun .

science while addressing the

touched on the “big one” – which is fat

dangers of visceral fat.

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