Dr. Steven R. Gundry
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 Finally, rapid fat loss is just plain dangerous. Like all other animals, we store heavy metals like lead and mercury and other toxins such as dioxins, PCBs, and organophosphates in our fat cells because they're all fat soluble. That is why women are told to avoid consuming fatty fish during pregnancy-the heavy metals and other toxins in fish could possibly damage the developing fetus. During rapid fat loss, these heavy metals are liberated from the melting fat and enter the bloodstream. Unfortunately, we don't excrete these compounds well in our urine. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 This isn't what you'll hear from those selling fat loss supplements and diet pills, of course. But it's the truth as things stand today. Maybe we will see a revolutionary approach to fat loss at some point in the future (perhaps the PYY appetite control nasal spray, for example), but chances are that medical researchers will continue to be baffled by the human body's multiple, redundant calorie accumulation mechanisms that have so far made it impossible to develop a safe, effective fat loss wonder drug. |
Dr. Steven R. Gundry
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| During rapid fat loss, these heavy metals are liberated from the melting fat and enter the bloodstream. Unfortunately, we don't excrete these compounds well in our urine. Our enzymatic detoxification system must inactivate them, but during rapid fat loss the system is overwhelmed, and toxins rise to high levels and remain elevated for a long time. How long? Studies of volunteers at Biosphere II in the Arizona desert, who lost approximately 37 percent of their body mass in six months, showed toxic levels of heavy metals for a whole year before returning to normal.2 Is this a problem? |
Byron J. Richards, CCN
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 A good response to such an exercise time will typically result in a half pound of actual fat loss, not just water weight dropping. Amazingly, a healthy response to increased UCP3 activity actually improves the antioxidant status of cells.144 145 146 If a person does this three times a week this can equate to 1 -2 pounds a week of healthy fat loss from this fat burning time. There are other fat burning times related to how a person eats, which we will discuss in our next section. |
Thomson Healthcare, Inc.
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 John's Wort on body fat loss, lipid levels, and mood states in overweight healthy adults. Curr Ther Res 60(3): 145-153. 1999.
Constantine GH, Karechesy J. Variations in hypericin concentrations in Hypericum perforatum L. and commercial products. Pharmaceutical Biol 36(5):365-367. 1998.
Cooper WC, James J. An observational study of the safety and efficacy of hypericin in HIV+ subjects. Int Conf AIDS 6(2):369 (abstract 2063). 1990.
Cott JM. In vitro receptor binding and enzyme inhibition by Hypericum perforatum extract. Pharmacopsychiatry 30(suppl):108-112. 1997.
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Jack Challem
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 Georgetown University, who found that the chromium polynicotinate form promotes fat loss but preserves muscle. Some research also suggests that chromium polynicotinate is better absorbed than other forms. (The term polynicotinate indicates that the chromium is bound to vitamin B3, sometimes called nicotinic acid.)
Meanwhile, research has shown that chromium picolinate helps to prevent weight gain associated with the use of the diabetic drug glipizide (Glucotrol). Other forms of chromium, such as chromium glycinate chelate, may work as well. |
Jonny Bowden, Ph.D., C.N.S.
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 Most fat loss was from the legs, primarily in women who were obese at the beginning of the study, and waist size decreased by more than one inch in the CLA group. Remarkably, these changes were independent of alterations in calorie intake or exercise level. The researchers stated, "This trial confirms several previous reports showing that CLA reduces body weight without reducing lean body mass."
Now without going into a lot of boring and technical stuff on biochemistry, it's important to note that CLA comes in a number of different forms, called isomers. |
| There have been some studies on chromium and fat loss and chromium and muscle gain, but the results are inconsistent. It's possible that the doses used in some studies were less than required to make a difference. Jonathan Wright, M.D., one of the leading lights of integrative medicine for more than 30 years, routinely uses much higher doses of chromium (3,000 to 4,000 meg per day, tapering down eventually to 1,000 meg for "maintenance") with his patients to curb sugar and carbohydrate cravings, and reports great success. |
| Sears believes that short bursts of high-intensity exercise create not just a reserve for your heart, but a hormonal environment conducive to fat loss.
If you still doubt this, ask yourself when you last saw a flabby sprinter. Flabby marathoner? Maybe. Sprinter? Never.
You can start PACE with an easy, ten-minute program. After warming up, spend one minute working hard enough to break a sweat and give your heart and lungs a challenge. Then slow down and let your heart rate recover for another minute. Repeat. |
Craig Pepin-Donat
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 If fat loss is your goal and you are looking for results, you will need to reduce your caloric intake and increase your caloric expenditure with cardio-respirato-ry activity to optimize results.
Getting Ripped or Just Ripped Off?
How many home gyms or pieces of strength training equipment have you seen advertised that claim to give you that ripped look? I am talking about the ones that have fitness models performing exercises to make you think that they actually achieved those results using the piece of equipment advertised. |
Ray D. Strand
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 Instead, I'm talking about a healthy lifestyle that has the side effect of fat loss. I work aggressively with my patients for about twelve weeks so they know exactly how to apply these principles to the way they like to eat. Losing weight is not the answer. Correcting insulin resistance is the key.
Treating Diabetes
All physicians agree that we should first give our patients a chance to improve their diabetes by encouraging them to make effective lifestyle changes. |
Marshall Editions
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 Most convincing research indicates that focusing on the low glycemic index (how much 1 oz of food makes the blood sugar rise) promotes fat loss. Generally, calorie intake is reduced, the diet is modified to include foods that are low glycemic and non-processed, and a Paleolithic diet (a caveman diet), in which processed foods are eliminated in favor of simple vegetables, fruits, whole grains, and plain meats, is adopted. White foods should be avoided, as should fad diets, such as liquid diets or diet pills, as they do not tend to promote sustainable weight loss. |
Jonny Bowden, Ph.D., C.N.S.
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| It not only has an impressive research history showing it has anticancer properties, it also has an emerging body of research behind it showing it's quite effective for fat loss. The name of the trans fat in question? CLA.
I'll never forget seeing a series of photos years ago that came out of an early study on overweight rodents given CLA in their diets. Mter euthanizing the rats, the researchers did the equivalent of a rodent autopsy and took photos of their inner abdominal areas. |
David W. Grotto, RD, LDN
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 Belza A, Frandsen E, Kondrup J. Body fat loss achieved by stimulation of thermogen-esis by a combination of bioactive food ingredients: a placebo-controlled, double-blind 8-week intervention in obese subjects. Int J Obes (Lond). 2006 Apr 25.
Diepvens K, Westerterp KR, Westerterp-Plantenga MS. Obesity and thermogenesis related to the consumption of caffeine, ephedrine, capsaicin and green tea. Am J Physiol Regul Integr Comp Physiol. 2007 Jan;292(l):R77-85.
Macho A et al. Non-pungent capsaicinoids from sweet pepper synthesis and evaluation of the chemopreventive and anticancer potential. |
C. W. Randolph, M.D.
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 When taken as part of a healthy diet, DIM helps to relieve PMS symptoms and to promote fat loss and healthy estrogen metabolism.
In men, DIM also promotes its own metabolism. This means that it allows for greater testosterone activity. Men who take DIM supplements will benefit biochemically because DIM promotes an optimal testosterone-to-estrogen ratio.
/ WOMEN SHOULD TAKE 200 MG OF DIM PER DAY; MEN SHOULD TAKE 400 MG PER DAY.
The B Vitamins
The B vitamins—Bi, B2, B3, B5, B6, Bi2, and folate—do a lot within your body to support estrogen detoxification. |
Wendy Bazilian, DRPH, MA, RD, Steven Pratt, MD, Kathy Matthews
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 Another study with overweight adults in Australia found that those participants who had supplemented with fish oil and who had also followed an exercise program experienced more fat loss than those who had been given fish oil supplements alone but had not exercised or had been given a placebo with or without exercise.20 The subjects were not on a calorie-restricted diet and so the loss of fat was not associated with a lower calorie intake. |
| Additional research in animals and humans has shown that higher-calcium diets promote fat breakdown, inhibit the creation of new fat cells and fat storage, and may even preserve metabolism during calorie-reduced diets, which could potentially speed up weight and fat loss.25
Why would calcium have such an effect on weight? One possible reason is the relationship between calcium and your body's energy metabolism. Low calcium levels stimulate production of a hormone—parathyroid hormone or PTH. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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| But you're never going to have total success with fat loss unless you also engage in regular physical exercise and pursue a healthy diet.
When it comes to abdominal fat, remember, there's no way to eliminate that fat by itself without taking a holistic, whole-body approach. In other words, there are no fat loss shortcuts. And even if you try to take a shortcut by undergoing liposuction, for example, you're still going to end up storing body fat somewhere else and it will probably look even worse than when it was on your abdomen or hips. |
| So if you want to get rid of body fat, do it the right way: through diet and exercise, and not through cosmetic surgery or gimmicks that claim to eliminate fat from one specific area of your body. fat loss takes real work, and even though there are some helpful appetite control tools available right now (like hoodia gordonii supplements), there are no magic pills that will do the work for you.
This isn't what you'll hear from those selling fat loss supplements and diet pills, of course. But it's the truth as things stand today. |
| Maybe we will see a revolutionary approach to fat loss at some point in the future (perhaps the PYY appetite control nasal spray, for example), but chances are that medical researchers will continue to be baffled by the human body's multiple, redundant calorie accumulation mechanisms that have so far made it impossible to develop a safe, effective fat loss wonder drug. |
Dr. Edward F. Group III, DC, ND, DACBN
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| While some people have reported weight loss ranging from 5 to 20 pounds when cleansing, this is not actual fat loss, but rather is due to the elimination of stored, hard-compacted fecal matter throughout the entire length of the intestinal tract.
Q. How will I know when my bowels are clean and the compacted fecal matter is gone?
A. Everyone's results on the cleanse will differ, depending on their diet, exercise patterns, and age, as well as physical and emotional stress levels. |
Ann M. Coulston and Carol J. Boushey
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 If fat loss were to be achieved solely through the direct energy cost associated with increased physical exercise, a person must be committed to expending the energy over a reasonable period of time, with respect to his or her weight loss goal.
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Jonny Bowden, Ph.D., C.N.S.
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| Though studies correlating chromium supplements with actual body fat loss are rare, it's still an important part of an overall fat-loss regimen, and here's why: Chromium absolutely helps insulin, the fat storage hormone, do its job more O efficiently That's a big deal. |
Ann M. Coulston and Carol J. Boushey
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| DXA and intra-abdominal body fat loss by CT with increasing duration of exercise [62].
The Midwest Exercise Trial for overweight and obese (BMI 25.0-34.9 kg/m2) young adults, aged 17-35 years was completed by only 74 (43 women; 31 men) of 132 participants randomized to a 16-month program of verified exercise (primarily walking on motor-driven treadmills) or control at an approximately 2:1 ratio (65% to exercise, /V=87, 41 of whom completed the trial; 35% to control, jV=44, 33 of whom completed the trial). |
| They found that at week 8 of diet, the decrease in visceral fat volume was more sharply correlated with the changes in plasma glucose and in lipid metabolism than the decrease in body weight, total fat, or subcutaneous fat volume, and that these correlations were independent of total fat loss. The reduction in visceral fat was more pronounced than the reduction in subcutaneous fat.
Another study [175] reported that the improvements in fasting plasma glucose and insulin sensitivity with weight loss related to losses of abdominal fat. |
Dr. Steven R. Gundry
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| Our enzymatic detoxification system must inactivate them, but during rapid fat loss the system is overwhelmed, and toxins rise to high levels and remain elevated for a long time. How long? Studies of volunteers at Biosphere II in the Arizona desert, who lost approximately 37 percent of their body mass in six months, showed toxic levels of heavy metals for a whole year before returning to normal.2 Is this a problem? You bet it is. Dr. Roy Walford, the longevity researcher who headed up the project, died recently from Lou Gehrig's disease, also known as amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS). |
Ann M. Coulston and Carol J. Boushey
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| A coefficient of fat absorption, that is, (fat intake - fecal fat loss)/fat intake x 100%, is calculated. In CF, PI is defined by a coefficient of fat absorption less than 93% [70].
Because 72-hour fecal fat balance study is cumbersome and not well accepted by CF patients and care providers, measurement of fecal elastase in a small stool sample has gained wide acceptance and is becoming the standard method of care in most CF centers [57]. Elastase is one of the more than 20 enzymes secreted by the pancreas. |
| This makes it obvious that fat loss will be a slow process. Nonetheless, activity equivalent to a 1- to 1.5-mile (1.6- to 2.4-km) walk or jog (a 20- to 30-minute effort) five times a week, as recommended in the OEI guidelines, would be expected to bring about a loss of 6.5 kg of fat over the course of a year, if one did not consume excess energy or expend less energy in the remaining 23.5 hours of the day. |
Michael T. Murray and Michael R. Lyon
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 So most of the weight loss was actually fat loss. As incredible as it was to lose so much weight so rapidly (even though I had only planned on getting down to 195 pounds), what was really amazing to me was that the whole process was effortless. I felt satisfied all the time because I was using PGX to reduce my appetite. In the four years since going on the program, my weight has stabilized between 188 and 190 pounds, and—amazingly—my body fat percentage now fluctuates between 8 and 10 percent. |
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