Originally published January 8 2006
Nutrition expert urges caution when it comes to hormone injections
by Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, NaturalNews Editor
Times nutritionist Jane Clarke dispels any rumors that suggest hormone injections can by themselves help people to lose weight.
MANY Britons fail to control their body weight, but hormone injections will not put an end to yo-yo dieting.
From childhood we learn to regard food as a source of comfort, as a friend, as something to turn to, particularly when times are tough; but a lack of understanding of the long-term effects of overeating, coupled with a poor grasp of which foods are good for us, can lead to a lifetime of weight fluctuations and ill-health.
News that a team at Columbia University, in New York, claims to have found a way to sustain weight reduction is to be welcomed but should be treated with caution.
Yes, it is heartening to hear that leptin may prevent the physiological response that encourages people to put weight back on.
However, used on its own, this measure may prove to be useless.
Any attempt to achieve healthy weight loss --- and to keep the weight off --- must be partnered with behavioural therapy to deal with the emotional issues at the heart of the problem.
It is not enough to treat obesity with needles.
Overeating cannot be dealt with in a laboratory, nor can difficulties with losing weight be attributed solely to evolution and a human history of alternating feast and famine.
Weight gain and the failure to maintain weight loss need to be tackled in the mind before they can be solved with clinical trials.
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