Jonny Bowden, Ph.D., C.N.S.
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 In one study, Preuss and his colleagues O looked at thirty healthy but overweight people 03 ages twenty-one to fifty over an eight-week ^ period. All participants ate a diet of 2,000 calo- % m ries a day and walked for a half an hour five days ^ per week. One group was given Super CitriMax, and the other group was given a placebo. At the end of the study, the placebo group had lost an average of three pounds, but the hydroxycitrate group had lost an average of twelve pounds—a whopping 400 percent more weight. Their average BMI fell by 6.3 percent (in the placebo group it fell only 1.7 percent). |
Elaine Magee
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 If you need more evidence, consider this: A recent study looked at what happens when you feed overweight people prepared meals that are much higher in vegetables and fruits and lower in fat than what they normally eat. They had significant weight loss! In another study, when people ate more vegetables and fruits in meals, they reduced their total calorie consumption by more than 400 per day.
Experts sum up the weight-loss power of produce in two words—energy density. |
| One recent study led by Jaakko Tuomilehto, MD, of the National Public Health Institute in Helsinki, Finland, showed that key lifestyle changes reduced the risk of progression to diabetes by a striking 58 percent over 4 years in overweight people with impaired glucose tolerance.
1. Get as close to your ideal weight as possible. The low incidence of diabetes in people who lost at least 5 percent of their initial weight underscores the importance of even small v/eight loss when trying to prevent diabetes, according to results from the Helsinki study. |
Dr. Steven R. Gundry
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 Then consider this: Studies of overweight people show that if hunger strikes when there is no food in the house, they often won't make the effort to go out and get it.2
Your computer program also initiates a self-destruct process when it senses that you're overconsuming fuel that will be needed by the next generation to continue the genetic mission. Remember, in any ecosystem, there is only so much food; if you appear to be taking more than your fair share, you're weeded out as a threat! |
Kelly Harford, M.C., C.N.C.
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 For example, the percentage of overweight people has jumped in the 1990'sby 31% in Brazil and 43% in Columbia, where the numbers of overweight people are reaching proportions similar to those in several wealthier European countries.
State of the World 2000 Report
Half of the world's population is malnourished today, in both rich and poor nations. This state of malnourishment expressed as both hunger and obesity, has become a significant impediment to development in both rich and poor countries as well. |
J. Douglas Bremner
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 Heart disease, diabetes, cancer, hypertension, and an overall reduced quality of life are a few of the major problems overweight people face. The rate of obesity-related ailments like type 2 diabetes has doubled every ten years. Obese people also wear out their joints from carrying around extra pounds, which can cause joint disease and joint failure. The cost of these obesity-related health problems is $70 billion per year. |
Jack Challem
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 Physical activity keeps you slimmer, and thinner people are less prone than overweight people to depression and anxiety.
• Physical activity can promote feelings of self-esteem and self-confidence, as well as distract you from mood problems.
• Physical activities with other people often lead to positive social feedback and reinforcement.
It almost doesn't matter what type of physical activity you engage in or how intense it is, as long as it's regular—even for as little as ten minutes—each day or several times a week. |
Herbert Ross, DC with Keri Brenner, L.Ac.
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 All of us have heard overweight people say things like "I just can't stop eating the wrong foods," "I'm out of control. I can't resist my cravings for fat and sugar," or "I diet and exercise, but I still can't lose weight." Many of these people have repeatedly sought help without success, but all too often they're condemned for lack of discipline or not trying.
Groundbreaking studies by three major medical universities have revealed a previously unsuspected culprit: insufficient sleep. These studies determined that sleep-deprived people (those who sleep less than the 7. |
Jack Challem
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| In one study, researchers gave cinnamon to 60 overweight people with type 2 diabetes. The dosages were 1, 3, or 6 grams daily for 40 days. People taking cinnamon had decreases in blood sugar ranging from 18 to 29 percent. Although you can buy cinnamon in capsules, it is far less expensive to purchase the ground spice and sprinkle it on oatmeal or fruit, such as apples, cantaloupe, or berries. Take 1 to 6 grams daily. One gram of cinnamon is about one-quarter teaspoon of the spice, so 4 grams would equal 1 tea-spoonful.
Ginseng. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Given that most overweight people are already extremely deficient in omega-3 fatty acids, DHA and other healthy oils, this Alli drug is likely to put them in an even worse state of deficiency.
The drug works by interfering with the digestion of dietary fats, you see. That may sound great if you're eating a diet of fried foods, hydrogenated oils and processed meat products, but even if you block the absorption of those obesity-promoting fats, you're still left in a state of deficiency concerning the healthy oils like omega-3 fatty acids. |
Byron J. Richards
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 Yikes, one more nasty angle that may affect a significant number of overweight people who are stuck in a rut.
When overweight people go on a diet, they typically enter into the starvation mode within a few weeks. Thus, weight loss grinds to a halt. The longer they keep trying to diet in a starvation mode, the worse they feel. Energy, mood, and oftentimes immunity simply bottom out. They are often twenty or more pounds from a normal weight and are stuck. While the leptin-resistance mode is a false state of perceived starvation, the starvation mode is true starvation. |
Joan Liebmann-Smith, Ph. D., and Jacqueline Nardi Egan
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 They're the most common noncancerous soft-tissue tumor in adults and are most prevalent among women and overweight people. If they change size or appearance, however, they may be cancerous.
A lump on the nape of your neck can be also be a sign of a sebaceous cyst (aka epidermal, epidermoid, or keratin cyst). Sebaceous cysts are also soft, movable, and painless. (See Chapter 9.) But unlike lipomas, they usually have an indentation or dark spot in the middle. |
Andreas Moritz
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 It is well known that overweight people secrete more insulin. However, over-secretion of insulin is an effect of weight gain, not its cause. The reason 200 million are overweight is because they have become insulin resistant (see chapter 11 about the causes of insulin resistance). When the insulin receptors of the cells block out insulin, blood sugar begins to rise. To deal with the increase in blood sugar, the pancreas makes more insulin to help remove it from the blood. One way to deal with this dangerous situation is to have the body convert the excessive amounts of sugar into fat. |
Kelly Harford, M.C., C.N.C.
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| For example, the percentage of overweight people has jumped in the 1990'sby 31% in Brazil and 43% in Columbia, where the numbers of overweight people are reaching proportions similar to those in several wealthier European countries.
State of the World 2000 Report
Half of the world's population is malnourished today, in both rich and poor nations. This state of malnourishment expressed as both hunger and obesity, has become a significant impediment to development in both rich and poor countries as well. |
Jonny Bowden, Ph.D., C.N.S.
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| For example, overweight people may—at least in the beginning—have very nonresistant fat cells. In fact, far from being resistant to its siren call, their fat cells may just love insulin and sugar. Their muscle cells may refuse to take any more sugar, but the fat cells say, "Hey, bring it on!" These fat cells are said to be insulin sensitive.
And guess what? The ovaries also tend to remain insulin sensitive. |
Herbert Ross, DC with Keri Brenner, L.Ac.
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| Excessive tissue in the airways (prevalent among overweight people) and excess swelling and mucus production in the nose (often caused by childhood allergies) can also narrow airways and substantially obstruct breathing during sleep.12 Central sleep apnea, in which the brain fails to signal the respiratory muscles to breathe, is less common.
In an episode of sleep apnea, the sleeper involuntary stops breathing for 10 to 60 seconds, resulting in decreased blood levels of oxygen and increased amounts of carbon dioxide. This change in blood gases alerts the brain to begin breathing. |
Jonny Bowden, Ph.D., C.N.S.
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| Overweight people also frequently struggle with elevated levels of the hormone insulin, which can not only make you fat, but can raise blood pressure and even promote the growth of tumors.
If you're already diabetic, exercise may lower your requirement for insulin and help you manage blood sugar naturally. Exercise also promotes a healthy pregnancy; women who are fit and exercise before and during pregnancy tend to have a much easier time of both pregnancy and childbirth, and get back in shape a lot faster after the baby is born.
Exercise and Sex
Then there's sex. |
Craig Pepin-Donat
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 Fat is Not a Four-Letter Word
Fat is not a word that people like to use to describe overweight people. In our politically correct society everything is called by a different name. It reminds me of comedian George Carlin's very funny act based on calling things by a different name to parody political correctness. He would say things like, "You can't call anyone ugly. They're appearance challenged." Or he would say, "Don't call anyone stupid. They're intellectually underdeveloped. |
Hyla Cass, M.D.
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 It also has been found to protect against diabetic complications (neuropathy, retinopathy, kidney damage), and to lengthen lifespan in overweight people with type 2 diabetes.
Side effects: Gastrointestinal side effects are common with metformin.
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A high percentage of those who take it experience nausea, vomiting, and diarrhea. To reduce the likelihood of these unpleasant side effects, start with low doses and gradually work up to higher doses.
Nutrients depleted: Metformin depletes vitamin B12 and folate, also known as folic acid. |
Wendy Bazilian, DRPH, MA, RD, Steven Pratt, MD, Kathy Matthews
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 A study on overweight people showed that those following a low-fat, high-soy protein diet lost more fat while preserving more lean muscle than a control group that received only lifestyle education without the soy-enhanced diet.42 And in a meta-analysis review of different styles of diets over a 24-week period, researchers found that weight loss was most rapid and significantly more weight was lost on a very low-calorie diet that specifically included soy when compared to three other dietary interventions that included meal replacements, energy restriction, or low-calorie programs. |
Thomson Healthcare, Inc.
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 Due to the considerable caloric content (470 kilocalories per 100 G), overweight people should only use the whole seeds, which, except for swelling of mucilage in the testa, remain intact in the bowel without releasing the fixed oil. Flaxseed differs from other vegetable oils in its high level (45-50%) of ALA.
There is a discussion on the toxic effect of the cyanogenic glycosides in the drug, which may cause prussic acid poisoning in humans. However, neither high single doses nor chronic intake of linseed have caused any signs of poisoning in humans. |
Jack Challem
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 It may sound funny, but in Australia officials have recommended a full-scale effort to strengthen toilet seats to accommodate growing numbers of overweight people. Back in the United States, it's become increasingly difficult to take meaningful medical X-rays because too much body fat obscures the images. More than 120,000 U.S. citizens annually now undergo stomach stapling, gastric bypass, or other surgeries to lose weight—and, as a result, they risk developing multiple vitamin and mineral deficiencies.
The worldwide obesity epidemic drives the diabetes epidemic. |
Steven V. Joyal
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 Briefly, the Diabetes Prevention Program Research Group assigned 3,234 nondiabetic, overweight people who had impaired fasting glucose levels to one of three groups: a lifestyle modification program with the goals of at least a 7 percent weight loss and at least 150 minutes of physical activity per week; metformin, 850 mg twice daily; or placebo pills in place of metformin. Over the three years of the study, the researchers found that, compared with placebo, lifestyle intervention reduced the incidence of developing type 2 diabetes by 58 percent and that metformin reduced it by 31 percent. |
Jack Challem
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| The thrifty gene idea might work for bears hibernating over the winter, but it doesn't seem to be relevant to people. overweight people can die of starvation just as quickly as skinny people, so storing body fat offers no real biological advantage. In fact, the scientists who originally proposed the thrifty gene idea have since abandoned it, although the idea still has some adherents.
For the most part, the genetic link between genes and obesity remains murky. Since 1994, more than fifty genes have been linked to obesity; however, none of them is considered the arbiter of a person's weight. |
| In one study, published in the Archives of Internal Medicine, researchers found that overweight people slept almost two hours less a week than did people of normal weight. In other research, described at a meeting of the American Thoracic Society, women who slept only six hours nightly had a one-in-eight chance of being overweight, compared with women who slept seven hours a night. The less sleep women had, the more likely they were to gain weight. |
Benjamin H. Natelson, M.D.
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 Many snorers stop snoring when they shift from their backs to their sides. But overweight people are more comfortable sleeping on their backs. To teach yourself to sleep on your side, you can try a snore-ball. Sew a pocket onto the back of a T-shirt and insert half a tennis ball into the pocket. When you lie on your back wearing the T-shirt, the snore-ball will feel uncomfortable, causing you to roll over onto your side.
Other treatments require seeing a specialist. |
Jack Challem
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| Meanwhile, overweight people may not like their appearance; they might feel anxious about how they look in public or feel depressed because they cannot change how they look.
In addition, people who are prediabetic, diabetic, or overweight are also more likely to have difficulty in concentrating and thinking clearly, especially after eating, when their blood sugar is elevated. Postmeal increases in blood sugar suppress brain levels of orexins, a family of brain chemicals that is responsible for making us feel alert. |
| We believe there has been, mainly because of a deterioration in healthy eating habits and an increase in the number of overweight people. One would think that both doctors and patients would recognize that heartburn and GERD, which are caused by poor eating habits, are best treated by improving one's eating habits.
Virtually everyone experiences heartburn at one time or another. GERD is typically diagnosed when heartburn occurs frequently. |
Andreas Moritz
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| In consideration of the fact that at least 50 percent of the German population is overweight and most overweight people eat more meat than those with normal weight, meat consumption among the overweight must have at least quadrupled in the 33 years after World War II. Being overweight is considered a major risk for high blood pressure and heart disease. |
Michael T. Murray and Michael R. Lyon
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 The majority of overweight people really seem to enjoy diving into their evening meal when they are as hungry as a bear coming out of hibernation. They tend to gobble down their food, often having seconds or even thirds followed by desserts, and then nibbling throughout the evening.
Instead, we stress the importance of spreading your calories throughout the day. First and foremost, you must learn to have a good breakfast with adequate protein and fiber. You must also have a healthy lunch and should always have a small snack between each meal. |
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