Herbert Ross, DC with Keri Brenner, L.Ac.
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 Light therapy also seems to help people who are concerned about gaining weight in the winter. The carbohydrate cravings that frequently accompany SAD are associated with serotonin deficiency, a possible outgrowth of Cortisol increase. Serotonin, a neurotransmitter believed to play a role in regulating appetite, is produced during light exposure. success story
SAD No More with Light Therapy
DECADES AGO, Sherrie Baxter left sunny Oklahoma, her native state, for Vancouver, Washington, in the Pacific Northwest. |
Michael T. Murray and Michael R. Lyon
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 Unfortunately, when you start gaining weight, particularly when you gain internal belly fat (visceral adipose tissue), substances are secreted from the visceral adipose tissue that promote insulin resistance, a condition in which insulin is released but no longer works as effectively as it should. Insulin, as a molecule, is still the same, but the cells throughout the body lose some of their ability to sense and respond properly to it.
Because elevated blood sugar is so harmful, the body works hard to keep blood sugar normal as insulin resistance develops. |
Elaine Magee
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 If you're worried about gaining weight on a nut-rich diet, consider that several recent studies suggest that eating nuts doesn't automatically correlate to weight gain or increased BMI (body mass index). In fact, preliminary data from Sabate indicate that people on nut-rich diets seem to excrete more fat in stools, meaning less fat is absorbed into the bloodstream.
Which nut is best? In my opinion, the answer is to go nutty with all types of nuts. Each has good points. |
Dr. Steven R. Gundry
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 You can also continue to eat your modest amounts of fruit and "brown" foods if you have added them back, so long as you are not gaining weight. If you are beginning to think that I want you to plateau, you're right. In fact, plateauing is one real cornerstone of the program. If your first plateau happens in the first four weeks of the Teardown phase, keep doing what you're doing. If it hits in the fifth or sixth week, remain in this phase until weight loss resumes.
There are two reasons for this strategy. |
| Humans who follow a raw and living food diet often have trouble gaining weight. Why? Because the micronutrients and the bulk of plant fiber activate the ultimate satiation hormones produced by cells in your lower digestive tract. That's right, these plant compounds activate the ultimate "I'm not hungry" hormone switch. This switch can stop a rampaging teenager at an all-you-can-eat buffet.
In the Teardown phase, you learned that the more you consumed animal products from animals that ate green things, the healthier you'd get. |
Caldwell B. Esselstyn, Jr., M.D.
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 I was gaining weight," he says, "but since I had my clothes tailor-made in Hong Kong, I'd have a suit made every trip, and didn't really notice that the old suits didn't fit."
On New Year's Eve, 1987, when Anthony was fifty-eight, he and his wife, Joseanne, booked a two-day holiday package deal at a hotel, which included dinner and dancing. Although it was the sort of activity he ordinarily loved, he felt awful—tired, overheated, and weak. And he felt pressure on his chest. |
Dr. Steven R. Gundry
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| Cheer up; there is a foolproof way to enjoy these calorie-dense foods without gaining weight: you've got to earn them, as you'll learn in Chapter 11. Meanwhile, during the Teardown phase, // it's white, keep it out of sight; if it's beige, behave; if it's brown, slow down.
Tropical Sugar Bomb*
Ripe bananas contain a starch that is rapidly converted to sugar, unlike green bananas or plantains. Cooked plantains, unfortunately, become sugary. Any tropical fruit, including mangos and papayas, has a much higher sugar content than other fruits and, in general, a sweeter taste. |
Craig Pepin-Donat
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 If your goal is to avoid gaining weight needlessly, it is important to be aware of situations where you are more than likely to indulge and go off track. With this knowledge you can at least try to control your food intake and increase your activity level so that you do not fall into the big, fat abyss. These little pound-packing events include vacations, holidays, travel, parties, relationship breakups, colds, moving or just about any situation that takes you out of your normal daily routine or involves stress. |
Peter h. Fraser and Harry Massey
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 We don't have to use antibiotics anymore, and Mark is finally gaining weight. We believe this is all due to NES and Total Body Modification."
CONCLUSION
A New Direction in Healing
IN THIS BOOK we have provided an overview of an emerging paradigm in biology and medicine—one that explores and seeks to engage the quantum processes in the body. Bioenergetics as envisioned and practiced by NES is truly an integrative approach to wellness, seeking as it does to validate the reality that we are more than matter, we are beings of energy and information as well. |
Michael T. Murray and Michael R. Lyon
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| Studies have shown that rather than gaining weight due to slow metabolism, overweight or obese people often underestimate the amount of food they eat by as much as 30 percent. Careful research has shown that many people who are overweight or obese consume calories mindlessly. This is why we recommend keeping careful food records early on in weight loss and repeating your record keeping periodically. This can help you to become more mindful about your food consumption.
You can take steps to increase your resting metabolic rate. |
Marshall Editions
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 Eat a protein product every two to three hours to keep your blood sugar levels from dropping, keep your metabolism strong, and prevent you from gaining weight. Smokers also tend to have multiple nutritional deficiencies, which can also be rectified by following a whole food diet that includes whole grains, lean meats, and fresh organic vegetables and fruits. Drink an 8 oz glass of freshly squeezed orange juice every two to three hours for the first four to five days after quitting smoking. |
Dr. Steven R. Gundry
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| Whenever one of my Club members is stuck on a plateau or even gaining weight, I have the person provide a food diary for two weeks, literally writing down everything that goes into his or her mouth. Several foods with hidden sugars or sweet tastes have consistently reared their ugly heads as culprits. Check out "The Dirty Dozen" (see sidebar, opposite) to see if any apply to you. If you cannot budge from a plateau after two weeks and are not being hampered by any of the Dirty Dozen, you're eating too much protein. Halve your portions and weight loss should resume. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 On the other hand, if by this statement, Trudeau means that you can eat all the ice cream, fried foods, cookies, sodas and desserts you want without gaining weight then of course that's nonsense. The weight will definitely come back for any person consuming primarily processed foods.
A favorite FTC target
But the real story is not whether Trudeau is wrong or right about weight loss, it's about the selective enforcement of weight loss claims by the FTC. Trudeau is a favorite target of the FTC, and he's been sued before over health claims for his coral calcium products. |
Jonny Bowden, Ph.D., C.N.S.
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 What's more, even though they were consuming the same amount of food, the rats given allicin stopped gaining weight. Even more impressive, a third group, given allicin from the beginning of the study, gained very little weight despite eating the exact same bad diet. Even though it's a rat study, that's pretty impressive, don't you think? (And no, the take-home message from that isn't to add garlic to your fast-food diet!) Meanwhile, another recent study found that diabetic rats fed garlic oil had increased insulin sensitivity. |
Michael Pollan
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 We all know that lucky soul who can eat prodigious quantities of fattening food without ever gaining weight. Some populations can metabolize sugars better than others. Depending on your evolutionary heritage, you may or may not be able to digest the lactose in milk. Depending on your genetic makeup, reducing the saturated fat in your diet may or may not move your cholesterol numbers. |
Hyla Cass, M.D.
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 Alexandra's sex drive was non-existent, likely a side effect of the drug; her hair was falling out in clumps, and she was gaining weight. Her doctor told her that all the symptoms were related to the drug, but he believed it was better than being depressed. She wasn't so sure. When she started having anxiety attacks, he added an anti-anxiety drug, Xanax, which would wear off after an hour or two, and then she'd feel even more anxious. In need of a second opinion, she came to see me. |
Jack Challem
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 In doing so, they increase your likelihood of gaining weight and developing diabetes.
Most prescription medications are inherently dangerous and must be used with extreme care. In one study, researchers calculated that more than 100,000 hospitalized patients die each year from medication errors and more than 2 million others suffer serious side effects. These numbers are shocking because everyone assumes that rigorous controls would be in place in hospitals. Another 700,000 people are hospitalized each year because of adverse reactions to prescription and over-the-counter medications. |
Craig Pepin-Donat
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| Have you convinced yourself that eating sugar-free or fat-free snacks will prevent you from gaining weight? If you are like most people, your eating habits have put your health at risk and you may not even be aware of it. Many people think they are eating a healthy and balanced diet, but they are not.
People tend to "nibble" or "graze" on these low-quality food sources as a result of depression, boredom and, in many cases, ignorance or apathy. |
Bill Sardi
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 Her mother had lost 70 pounds in less than 2 months but after a few vitamin C treatment she began gaining weight back. Her mother has now been declared cancer free. [WCCO TV Sept. 17, 2006]
Mounting evidence
Most oncologists are not aware of the scientific about face underway regarding vitamin C and cancer. Researchers note these were unexpected.
Vitamin C has recently been shown to:
¦ Enhance the action of anti-cancer drugs like adriamycin. |
Craig Pepin-Donat
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| The obesity problem is real, and unless we are content with gaining weight and afflicting ourselves with diseases that put lives at risk, we need a dramatic change in how we view our eating habits and our physical activity.
Obesity and Physical Inactivity
My observation over the years is that the fatter people are the less active they become. |
| Gaining weight is a simple process. Each pound of weight gained comes from 3,500 excess calories. Every day you burn a certain number of calories just by living and breathing (your Basal Metabolic Rate also known as BMR), and the more you move through activities such as walking, exercise or movement of any type the more calories you burn beyond what your body will deplete just by being alive. No matter how you look at it, calories are king when it comes to weight gain and weight loss. I am not an advocate of counting calories; I am an advocate of caloric awareness. |
Bottom Line Health
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| The same applies to the new exercise guidelines, which call for 60 minutes of exercise most days to avoid gaining weight. Consider that a goal—the old recommendation of 30 minutes still brings substantial health benefits.
Consensus of nutrition researchers, reported in The New York Times.
The Deadliest Fats Ever Made
Mary Enig, PhD, fellow, American College of Nutrition, and president, Maryland Nutritionists Association. She is author of Know Your Fats (Bethesda Press) and Eat Fat, Lose Fat (Penguin). |
Connie Bennett, C.H.H.C. with Stephen T. Sinatra, M.D.
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 Farm Policy Contributes to Obesity," issued by the nonprofit, nonpartisan Minneapolis-based Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy (IATP), astutely explains that Americans have been gaining weight, in large part, because for the past 50 years, U.S. food policy has been driving down the prices of a few farm commodities, particularly corn and soybeans, so that they're "artificially cheap." At the same time, the IATP pointed out, prices for higher quality fruits and vegetables, grown with little government support, have steadily increased. |
Ann M. Coulston and Carol J. Boushey
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 The ability to choose a larger variety of foods, without gaining weight, also increases the enjoyment of eating, and decreases the guilt associated with occasional choices of foods of low nutrient density. The calories per hour expended for several types of moderate and vigorous physical activities are given in the Dietary Guidelines booklet [11].
The text in the Dietary Guidelines booklet [11] also discusses the many benefits of regular physical activity:
?Increases physical fitness and enables one to meet the physical demands of work and leisure comfortably
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Michael T. Murray and Michael R. Lyon
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| We have found that many women do not strength train because they fear gaining weight, but just the opposite occurs. Building muscle mass actually helps to burn calories more effectively.
You don't have to lift barbells or utilize clumsy machines to strength train. Resistance exercises include those that utilize your body weight. There are even forms of yoga that help to build strength and muscle mass. We provide an exercise routine that you can do at home with no exercise equipment later on in this chapter. |
Dan Buettner
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 Most of us have a caloric "set point" of sorts, a level of calories we can consume each day without gaining weight. We tend to gain weight by eating just slightly beyond the caloric set point week after week. For most of us, the solution is to eat enough so that we're no longer hungry, but not so much that we're full. Wansink asserts that we can
Okinawans, like this 88-year-old fisherman, often remind themselves not to overeat. eat about 20 percent more or 20 percent less without really being aware of it. And that 20 percent swing is the difference between losing weight and gaining it. |
Dr. Steven R. Gundry
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| WHAT IF YOU'RE gaining weight?
When you started the Teardown phase of Diet Evolution, your main purpose was to shut down the "Store Fat for Winter" genetic program by metaphorically removing the "old paint." As you shed old cells, you lay the groundwork for rebuilding your body with modern materials in the form of new cells. But don't be deceived. The "Store Fat" program is always loaded into your genetic computer. That's why you will avoid all "beige" and "white" foods and consume "brown" food in extreme moderation, if at all, in Phase 1. |
Hyla Cass
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| Alexandras sex drive was non-existent, likely a side effect of the drug; her hair was falling out in clumps, and she was gaining weight. Her doctor told her that all the symptoms were related to the drug, but he believed it was better than being depressed. She wasn't so sure. When she started having anxiety attacks, he added an anti-anxiety drug, Xanax, which would wear off after an hour or two, and then she'd feel even more anxious. In need of a second opinion, she came to see me. |
Connie Bennett, C.H.H.C. with Stephen T. Sinatra, M.D.
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| Excess Quickie Carbs Can Lead to Several Blood Sugar Disorders
As people have been carb gorging and gaining weight in the United States and around the world, we've been witnessing an unparalleled explosion of glucose-metabolism disorders, including hypoglycemia, prediabetes (impaired glucose tolerance or glucose intolerance and impaired fasting glucose), hyperinsulinemia, insulin resistance, metabolic syndrome (originally known as Syndrome X and now increasingly called insulin resistance syndrome), and type 2 diabetes. |
Ann M. Coulston and Carol J. Boushey
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| Providers should identify clients who are gaining weight from one year to the next and provide appropriate interventions to prevent further gain.
B. Assessment of Comorbidities and Risk Factors
Patients should be assessed for the presence of both obesity-related comorbidities and concomitant cardiovascular risk factors. This is important because some obesity-associated diseases and cardiovascular risk factors will place the patient in a very high risk category and the aggressiveness of the obesity treatment should be increased. |
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