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What is the Peter Jackson weight loss secret? The image most of us have of the Lord of the Rings movie maker is a portly, bespectacled figure reminiscent of one of his Hobbit characters.

In a fact, film industry insiders and Jackson fans started noticing a new-look Peter Jackson nearly a year ago. But it’s only now with all the publicity surrounding his soon-to-be released feature King Kong that the public at large have woken up to the slim, spectacle free version of the man and begun wondering about the Peter Jackson diet.

And it’s not difficult to see why there’s so much interest. The Peter Jackson weight loss has been impressive – he’s shed some 70 pounds (32 kilograms).

So what’s his diet secret?
Was it the South Beach Diet? The Cave Man Diet? The Atkins Diet?

Obesitycures.com did some research and discovered that Jackson did not follow any of the popular fad diets. The real secret to the Peter Jackson weight loss phenomenon has been dubbed the “Skull Island Diet,” after the fictional island home of King Kong.

Jackson, bemused by all the attention his new image is receiving, insists a lifestyle change, rather than a diet is responsible for his weight loss.

“I just got tired of being overweight and unfit, so I changed my diet from hamburgers to yoghurt and muesli and it seems to work,” Jackson told Britain’s Daily Telegraph newspaper.
Jackson reportedly followed no specific exercise program either, but has spoken several times of his punishing 21-hour-a-day work schedule on the King Kong set, which no doubt accounted for part of the weight loss.

Jackson said he was cutting during the day and shooting during the night for months on end, surviving on three hours’ sleep. “I thought I was some kind of Superman, but it knackered me.”

And what of Jackson new-found spectacle-free status? No, unfortunately losing weight does not improve your eyesight. Jackson underwent laser eye surgery, explaining that he had grown “tired of being outside with rain and dust on the glasses”.

Alan Cooper is a journalist with 20 year’s experience and the publisher of ObesityCures.com, a site with the ambitious aim of being a “one-stop-shop” for impartial information on obesity and weight loss solutions – including fad diets, prescription weightloss pills and natural weightloss aids.

Click on the Peter Jackson link on the home page to view for yourself the dramatic before and after pictures of Jackson’s weight loss.

Ironically, obesity the disease brought about by overfeeding especially on junk foods has reached epidemic proportions, especially in the US. The overeaten food is converted to fats that are stored under the skin and around large internal body organs such as the heart, lungs and liver. They are also stored around the large blood vessels like arteries and veins reducing their lumen or diameter. This constricts blood flow in these vessels by preventing the peristaltic motion of the vessels muscles. This is what causes the high blood pressure disease.

Losing weight, by a mere 10% can greatly improve your self esteem and change the way you feel about yourself. The most important thing is that you have a positive perspective of life and feel more energized. These are the main benefits associated with losing weight:

1: Keeping off heart ailments

Heart diseases such as stroke, heart attacks and heart failure are the leading death causes in the 21st century. Overweight people face the highest risk of contracting these ailments and losing weight goes a long way in reducing the risk of that happening.

2: Eliminate High blood pressure and angina

These, unlike common opinion, are not diseases but are conditions that contribute heavily to heart ailments among other diseases. They are associated with weighty people. High blood pressure is brought about by the constriction of blood vessels diameter by the deposition of fat around the vessels while angina is chest pain when a part of the heart is denied oxygen. It’s associated with pressure or a squeezing sensation in the chest. It is normally a predecessor to other fatal heart ailments.

3: Keep obesity at bay.

Obesity is a weighty issue, to say the least. Going by the statistics from the American Center for Disease and Control, over 61% of Americans are overweight and are at risk of the attendant body disorders1. And unless they change their eating habits, the will, in the near future, be a nation of lazy, obese people with skyrocketing mortality rates.

Losing weight by the obese reduces the risk of a plethora of cancers including breast, colon, kidney and prostrate cancers among others. Being overweight is also attributed to a host of other ailments such as diabetes, coronary heart disease, insomnia, sleep apnea and other fatal diseases. Obese people also tend to suffer from low self esteem, poor confidence and depression due to the embarrassment and social stigma that comes with being fat.

4: Be safe from diabetes

Type II diabetes was once a disease of the older people in society but now affects even obese children. The excess fats are a strain on the normally available insulin, the hormone that stimulates the liver to convert excess sugars in the blood to an insoluble form called glycogen. Thus the body cannot do this unless one supplements the insulin artificially. This is not only expensive but also has adverse side effects that are yet to be defined by science. Losing weight not only removes this inconvenience but also reduces abdominal blood sugar and lowers risk of type II diabetes.