Connie Bennett, C.H.H.C. with Stephen T. Sinatra, M.D.
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 Admittedly, women with the syndrome will have to work against their metabolism to lose weight, but it's worth the hard work, because as they drop the pounds, their hormones will begin to normalize, he explains. Regular exercise will also help to manage weight at the same time that it helps the cells to process insulin.
Why Childbearing and Sugar Don't Mix
It's imperative for both women trying to conceive and those who already have conceived to control their sugar intake. |
| Not only that, but apparently you don't even have to lose weight or take insulin or other medications to experience such benefits.
"We were shocked that you could lower the blood glucose as much as the patients did just by changing their diet," says Dr. Nuttall, chief of the Endocrine, Metabolic and Nutrition Section at the Minneapolis V.A. Medical Center and a professor of medicine at the University of Minnesota.
"We thought they'd be improved, but we didn't think it would be improved as much as it was. The results were better than you get when you put patients on oral agents," adds Dr. |
| My internist put his foot down and gave me the speech about how I needed to lose weight, exercise more, and pass up desserts," recalls the 70-year-old gynecologist, who, at the time, carried 168 pounds on his five-foot, six-inch frame, which most would consider close to normal weight.
As a physician, Dr. Strausz was well aware of the risks associated with diabetes, but, as a native Hungarian raised on rich pastries and poppy-seed strudel, he didn't think it was going to be easy for him to follow his doctor's instructions to cut down on sugary foods and refined carbs. |
| Ten-nant, whose clinics use "standard addiction medicine techniques" to help their patients lose weight and gain control of their lives.
If you're feeling addicted to sweets, you may feel vindicated and validated at last. With this new information, you can take charge. But having been where you are now, I need to be brutally honest: It's easy to fall prey to sugar's seductive charms. You need to be vigilant. You need to stand strong. Most of all, you need to know that you can succeed. |
| So when you eat a high-carb meal, you suppress glucagon—meaning you probably won't lose weight, note the authors of SUGAR BUSTERS! But, after a high-protein meal, you get "a significant increase in the glucagon level," they write. "Glucagon promotes the mobilization of previously stored fat."
Summarizing Your Body's Reaction to Quickie Carbs
To review: The more refined carbs and sweets you eat, the more glucose you dump into your system all at once. |
| I hardly have time for two Slim Fast peanut-butter bars, but at least I'll lose weight." (5 teaspoons of sugar for the bars, according to Dr. Appleton's Lick the Sugar Habit Sugar Counter)
¦ 10 a.m.: "I need a pick-me-up now, because this report is due in an hour! Maybe this Krispy Kreme glazed devil's food donut will give me the energy boost I need." (7.5 teaspoons for the donut)
Noon: "I'm wiped out, hungry, and I have such a headache. Think I'll get a cream soda and Snickers bar with my tuna sandwich. (About 12.25 teaspoons of sugar for the soda, 7. |
Brigitte Mars, A.H.G.
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 However, use of ephedra can have many potential side effects (see "Contraindications," below), and there are many safer ways to lose weight.
In 1926 the German firm Merck synthesized ephedra's alkaloid, ephedrine, a chemical that is related to the endogenous brain hormone adrenaline. Synthetic ephedrine and pseudoephedrine are currently found in pharmaceuticals including Contac, Sinutab, Sudafed, Actifed, and Robitussin PE.
Topically, the resin from the ephedra shrub can be applied to cuts to promote healing.
Edible Uses
The red berries on the plant are the only parts considered edible. |
David W. Grotto, RD, LDN
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 James Hill from the University of Colorado, a leading researcher in obesity, even if your ultimate goal is to lose weight, just keeping your present weight stable is a great start. Try introducing a few new foods your first week. The sample menu plan at the back of this book shows how easy and delicious adding in can be, and you can trim down portion sizes to tailor things to a calorie level that's right for you. Try a few more new foods the next week and the week after that. Eventually, you will find that many of your new foods have become replacements for foods less beneficial to your health. |
| WEIGHT LOSS: A study found that diets high in fruits, such as pears and apples, helped women between the ages of 30 and 50 to lose weight. After 12 weeks, those women who ate pears and apples lost on average over three pounds. This study also found a significant decrease in overall blood glucose and cholesterol in the women who consumed the two fruits.
Tips on Using Pears
SELECTION AND STORAGE:
• Pears are one of the only fruits that will ripen best off the tree.
• Choose firm and unblemished pears.
• To ripen pears quickly, place in a brown paper bag and store at room temperature. |
Joan Liebmann-Smith, Ph. D., and Jacqueline Nardi Egan
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 While it's common for the elderly to lose weight as they age—usually less than a pound a year—losing more than that appears to signal the imminent onset of this neurological disorder.
We've probably all experienced putting on a few extra pounds, especially around the holidays. This is usually a benign sign of lack of restraint around the buffet table. But sudden weight gain can also signal some serious and not-so-serious systemic problems.
Putting on weight in a matter of a day or two can be due to fluid retention (edema). |
Ray D. Strand
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 If these people do not correct the underlying problem for their weight gain—insulin resistance—they will not lose weight. How frustrating it must be to keep going back to their support group but never coming close to losing the kind of weight the others are!
I encourage all of my patients to begin balancing their diet by eating low-glycemic carbohydrates with good protein and good fat (which I'll explain later in this chapter). When this diet is combined with a modest exercise program and cellular nutrition (Chapter 17), the underlying insulin resistance may be corrected. |
J. Douglas Bremner
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 If you exercise thirty minutes a day, lose weight, and cut out processed foods that are high in salt, your hypertension will likely disappear.
To this end, if you have high blood pressure, I have to emphasize again that you should stop consumption of all frozen, processed, and fast foods. This means no more trips to McDonald's or the like, potato chip binges, or frozen-food entrees. All of these foods contain extremely high amounts of sodium. Canned vegetables should be avoided, but if you have to eat them, rinse them off. |
Elaine Magee
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 Theoretically, if you lower triglycerides, you should help the body's own leptin work better, which may help you lose weight. Eating a low-fat diet, they say, is a natural way to reduce triglycerides. corner, and all the junk and snack food that seems to feed the masses, not to mention our apparent love affair with high-calorie sweetened beverages like soda, fancy coffee drinks, and bottled teas (from 150 to 400 calories a pop), and you've got yourself an obesity epidemic.
The icing on the obesity cake, so to speak, is our practice of dieting, losing weight fast, and gaining it back. |
Mehmet C. Oz., M.D. and Michael F. Roizen, M.D.
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 Unfortunately, this rate of "growth" slows as you lose weight. Technically, you're not actually making it grow but, rather, losing the pelvic fat that's currently covering it. As you gain weight, the fat engulfs your penis and crowds out the light and you may begin to feel that it's "out of sight, out of mind." out the delivery better than the injection. The downside is that sublingual testosterone has been linked to liver abnormalities. ? |
Marshall Editions
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 Sciatica sufferers should eat a diet that will enable them to lose weight if necessary [Z% /"A anc' nave regular bowel movements. Eat light, frequent meals throughout —£nBr the day. Big, heavy meals slow digestion and decrease overall gastric function within time. Apples, fresh vegetables, and whole grains have high fiber levels. Eat several portions a day to relieve constipation. Stay hydrated by drinking eight glasses of water a day, as dehydration aggravates sciatic pain. |
| Hirsutism has been linked to 9^\ljjf insulin resistance, so follow a low-carbohydrate diet to reduce insulin ^55^ levels, improve insulin resistance, and help you lose weight if needed.
When consuming starches, consume mostly whole grains, such as brown rice as opposed to white rice. Increase your consumption of omega-3 fats, one of the essential fatty acids. Omega-3 fats are found in cod liver oil, and in fatty fish such as salmon, sardines, and mackerel. Eliminate trans-fatty acids from your diet. |
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| Certain lifestyle changes, such as stopping smoking and maintaining a healthy diet to lose weight (if appropriate), lower cholesterol, and prevent diabetes are essential. It is also important to exercise on a daily basis. If these conservative measures do not relieve symptoms, a medication called Trental® is prescribed. Failing this, surgical intervention may be necessary.
To treat pain due to spinal nerve compression: Leg pain can be due to problems with the back and the compression of spinal nerves as they leave the spinal cord. |
| Follow a low-carbohydrate diet to reduce insulin levels, improve insulin resistance, and help you lose weight if needed. Starches in your diet should be mostly from whole grains, such as brown rice as opposed to white rice. Increase your consumption of omega-3 fatty acids, found in cod liver oil and oily fish such as salmon, sardines, and mackerel. Eliminate products that contain trans-fatty acids from your diet, including margarine and deep fried foods. |
Bottom Line Health
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| Reality: It takes a lot of exercise to burn off enough calories to lose weight. To lose one pound of fat through exercise alone, a person needs to burn 3,500 calories more than what he/she is currently burning. For a sedentary, 170-pound person to lose one pound a week without dietary changes, he would have to walk at least five miles a day. It takes approximately one hour on a treadmill to burn off the calories from one medium-sized bagel—and that's without butter or cream cheese.
The best way to lose is to combine physical activity with a reduction in calories. |
| On average, people who make a concerted effort to lose weight manage to keep off approximately 75% of the pounds for two years. After five years, most have kept off at least 50%.
Success rates are higher than they used to be because of advances in weight-loss methods. We now know that there are four key components—wise food choices, regular exercise, positive lifestyle changes (such as setting short- and long-term goals) and emotional support. People who incorporate all of these elements tend to be successful at losing weight and keeping it off.
Myth 2: Willpower is the key to weight loss. |
| Now they claim that dairy helps us lose weight. As in many aspects of nutrition, the evidence linking dairy foods to health conditions is complicated and contradictory. Dairy foods may have lots of calcium and other nutrients, but they are high in saturated fat (the bad kind) and calories.
Bottom line: If you want to avoid the fat and saturated fat, choose nonfat options. If you don't like or can't tolerate milk, you can get the nutrients it contains from other foods. Consuming dairy foods is not the key to bone health. |
Ann N. Martin
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 In their lawsuits, Nutro and Kal Kan, allege that this causes the dogs to lose weight in dangerous amounts. The suit claims that dogs fed according to lams' instructions won't receive sufficient nutrition. "lams executives deny that the feeding instrucrions are inappropriate and say the allegations in the lawsuits are without merit," reported Greg Johnson in an October 2001 article in the Los Angeles Times. |
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| Because it is very difficult to lose weight through diet and exercise, it's not surprising that more people are turning to bariatric, or gastric bypass, surgery to treat their weight problems.
But several new studies point out the risks that are associated with this procedure.
STUDY FINDINGS
One study conducted by researchers at the University of Chicago and the University of California, Irvine, found that the number of bariatric surgeries being performed in the United States have increased dramatically, from 13,365 in 1998 to an estimated 102,794 in 2003. |
Ron Garner
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 If the body was overweight, it begins to lose weight. Daily energy also increases. Figure 10.1 shows, in summary format, the main relationships of cellular pH to health and disease in the human body.
In summary, when the body's pH is out of balance (below 6.8), we cannot digest and assimilate food and supplements effectively. This means we do not benefit from their essential nutrients; most of them pass right through us. Our cells gradually begin to metabolize at a lower rate and body mineral reserves start to deplete. |
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| Symptoms of Depression
In addition to feeling sad, hopeless and/or sluggish, people who are depressed may gain or lose weight, sleep too much or too little, feel irritable, anxious or emotionally numb, and/or lose interest in pleasurable activities, including sex.
If you experience two or more of these symptoms for more than two consecutive weeks, seek professional help immediately.
Some symptoms of depression that are commonly overlooked include chronic aches and pains, as well as problems with memory and concentration.
Switching Meds Can Help Beat Depression
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C. W. Randolph, M.D.
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Sticking to this nutritional plan will go a long way toward balancing your hormones and will help you lose weight; however, for those wanting to get rid of estrogen dominance and belly fat quickly and for good, there are two more important steps you have to take. The next two chapters will tell you exactly what they are.
USE PROGESTERONE-THE SIMPLE WAY TO A FLAT BELLY
Although the title of this chapter might sound too good to be true, the success of thousands of patients has shown this to be a reality. |
Elaine Magee
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| This combination of an abundance of high-fiber foods and a moderate amount of protein offers an eating pattern that can help us cut back on how much we eat so we can lose weight," says Collins. What's one of our most impressive food sources of fiber and plant protein? In one word—beans! Try a lunch or dinner entree featuring beans, and see for yourself if you seem to eat less during the meal and stave off hunger for hours afterward.
ARE YOU NUTS?
Nuts are probably one of the most misunderstood foods. |
| Weight loss. Why lose weight to help prevent or treat type 2 diabetes? Obesity influences insulin resistance. Short-term studies have demonstrated that losing 5 percent of body weight (about 10 pounds for someone weighing 200 pounds or 15 for a 250-pound person) helps decrease insulin resistance and improve high blood sugar, high blood lipids, and high blood pressure in people with type 2 diabetes.
Sugar. To eat sugar or not to eat it, that's the big question for people with diabetes. The answer: Go ahead and eat sugar, but follow the ADA's recommendations. |
| For the study participants who did not lose weight, tallying more than 4 hours of exercise a week was still associated wi:h significantly less diabetes risk.
"the use of glycemic index and glycemic load may provide a modest additional benefit over that observed when total carbohydrate is considered alone." Here are some highlights from the recent ADA recommendations regarding:
Fiber. People who are at risk for diabetes should aim for 14 grams of fiber for every 1,000 calories. This is about 28 grams for a typical 2,000-calorie intake or 35 grams for 2,500 calories. |
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