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News: Human body strongly resists Losing Weight

Saturday, March 14th, 2009

Research confirming the human body is designed to strongly resist attempts to lose weight was presented at an international gathering of obesity experts hosted by Queensland University of Technology.

Queensland University of Technology appetite regulation and energy balance researcher Dr Neil King, from the Institute of Health and Biomedical Innovation (IHBI), has discovered that human bodies have strong mechanisms to defend attempts to lose weight but very weak mechanisms to prevent weight gain.
Dr King’s weight loss intervention studies demonstrate the ‘plateau effect’, whereby weight loss from exercise and calorie restrictions stops at a certain point.
He conducted two studies on weight loss following induced energy deficits in two different groups of overweight and obese people. Dr King expressed that the ‘plateau effect’ has been known about for some time and weight management consultants recommend longer exercise times, higher intensity or cross training to combat it. But these studies show that a plateau in body weight occurs even in the face of a continued negative energy balance.
In the first study, 30 obese men and women took part in a 12-week, laboratory-based exercise program in which they exercised five times a week. The second study looked at weight loss in 200 males on a commercial weight loss program comprising exercise and dietary advice.
In the first study, the subjects’ energy deficit was caused by exercise only which was fixed and imposed in contrast to the second study where subjects used diet and exercise to lose weight but chose how much they did of each. Dr King stated that the first group’s weight loss during the first eight weeks averaged 3 kg but it ‘plateaued’ at week eight and weight loss for the next four weeks was markedly reduced (7 kg).
The second group had a variable pattern of weight loss but it, too, showed a plateau. He commented that there appears to be little at this stage to predict the onset, duration and frequency of the plateau. Dr King aims to identify and characterize mechanisms responsible for the human body’s inbuilt weight loss resistance.

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Best diet: Low-carbohydrate diets

Friday, March 13th, 2009

It’s official, a low-carb diet is better at burning fat than just cutting calories.

American scientists who were working to find out how diet affects the operation of the liver put 14 overweight people on either a low carbohydrate or low calorie diet.

They found those eating fewer carbs lost almost double the weight over two weeks, and several changes in liver function were identified as part of the reason why.

“Energy production is expensive for the liver,” says Dr Jeffrey Browning, assistant professor at the UT Southwestern Medical Centre, in Dallas, Texas.

“It appears that for the people on a low-carbohydrate diet, in order to meet that expense, their livers have to burn excess fat.”

The average weight loss for the low-calorie dieters was about 2.2kg, while the low-carb dieters lost about 4.3kg on average.

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FEED ME! - WOMEN’S BRAINS GEARED TO EAT

Thursday, March 12th, 2009

Women find it harder to suppress their hunger and hence have difficulty LOSING WEIGHT, according to new research that may help explain their higher obesity rates.

US researchers quizzed 13 men and women about their favourite foods - which ranged from pizza to cinnamon buns and chocolate cake - and they were then asked to fast overnight.

The next day the hungry test subjects underwent brain scans while being presented with their favourite foods.

They also used a technique called cognitive inhibition, which they had been taught, in a bid to suppress thoughts of hunger and eating.

While both men and women said the technique decreased their hunger, the scans showed only the men’s brain activity actually decreased.

“Even though the women said they were less hungry when trying to inhibit their response to the food, their brains were still firing away in the regions that control the drive to eat,” says Gene-Jack Wang of Brookhaven National Laboratory.

“There is something going on in the female … the signal is so much different.”
This could explain why women do not find it easy to lose weight. There are no easy one-off solutions like fad diets, best diet pills and liposuction to weight loss. Having said that, there are simple and scientific approaches to fast, easy weight loss. However, one still needs to be disciplined and take a holistic approach to Weight Loss.

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Calorie Restriction slows down Aging

Wednesday, March 11th, 2009

A scientist has revealed how people could extend their lives by as much as 30 years in his extraordinary new book, The Anti-Ageing Protocol - a formula that is set to radically change our views - and experiences - of old age.

Dr. Malcolm Goyns, a leading scientist in the field of ageing research has discovered a unique dietary protocol that slows ageing and also has a prolonged anti-obesity effect. While conducting ground-breaking research into calorie restriction (CR) diets and their effect on ageing in rodents, Dr. Goyns and his collaborators found that alpha-lipoic acid (ALA) can mimic the CR diet’s life-extending effects if used as part of a particular dietary protocol. This work has just been published in the scientific journal ‘Mechanisms of Ageing & Development’.
Dr. Goyns said, “The anti-ageing protocol originated from a totally unexpected finding in our scientific study. CR diets are known to greatly extend the life spans of mammals, including humans such as those in Okinawa, Japan. Our experiments with rodents found that after a short period of CR dieting the animals could be allowed to feed freely and still show extended life, if their food was supplemented with ALA. What was equally surprising was that a prolonged anti-obesity effect also occurred. These observations provide exciting opportunities for anyone who wants a longer healthier life.”

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Dangerous Food Ingredients

Sunday, March 8th, 2009

Do you know which dangerous food ingredients to watch out for in your groceries? These are the “deadly ingredients,” as I call them, and they can directly promote heart disease, migraines, obesity, outrageous food cravings, osteoporosis, diabetes and even birth defects.
The top three most dangerous ingredients I’ve found in my research are:

1) Sodium nitrite — causes cancer, found in processed meats like hot dogs, bacon, sausage. Used to make meats appear red (a color fixer chemical).

2) Hydrogenated oils — causes heart disease, nutritional deficiencies, general deterioration of cellular health, and much more. Found in cookies, crackers, margarine and many “manufactured” foods. Used to make oils stay in the food, extending shelf life. Sometimes also called “plastic fat.”

3) Excitotoxins — aspartame, monosodium glutamate and others (see below). These neurotoxic chemical additives directly harm nerve cells, over-exciting them to the point of cell death, according to Dr. Russell Blaylock. They’re found in diet soda, canned soup, salad dressing, breakfast sausage and even many manufactured vegetarian foods. They’re used to add flavor to over-processed, boring foods that have had the life cooked out of them.

Grocery Warning exposes the truth that food companies will never admit to and the mainstream media will never print (because they receive advertising funds from food companies, of course!).

It reveals, in shocking detail, exactly which ingredients compromise your health (and how they do it). Based on thousands of hours of research, and quotations from the top doctors, authors and nutritionists, Grocery Warning tells you the truth about foods and groceries that will empower you with life-changing information.
Did you know, for example, that:
Feeding children hot dogs increases their risk of brain cancer by 300%?
Strawberry yogurt, fruit punch and other red-looking grocery products are often colored with dead, ground-up cochineal beetles? The ingredient is called “carmine,” and it’s made from insects. It’s listed right on the label of many of your favorite foods.
Food companies now “hide” MSG in safe-sounding ingredients like yeast extract or torula yeast?
Many Florida oranges are actually dipped in an artificial orange dye in order to make them more visually appealing? It’s the same dye that’s been banned for use in foods because of cancer risk.
Girl Scout cookies are still made with hydrogenated oils that contain trans fatty acids?
Many so-called “healthy” or vegetarian foods also contain the very same offending ingredients as conventional groceries?
Eating just one serving of processed meats each day increases your risk of pancreatic cancer by 67%?
One artificial color additive causes behavioral disorders in children? And that 80% of children diagnosed with ADHD can be outright cured of the condition in two weeks by avoiding certain ingredients?
The #1 ingredient in Slim Fast meal replacement shake (powder form) is sugar?
Some guacamole dips don’t even contain avocado? Instead, they’re made with hydrogenated soybean oil and artificial colors.

The truth about metabolic disruptors:

Nearly all modern diseases are caused by what I call “metabolic disruptors.” These are common ingredients, such as white flour and sugar, that prevent your body from healing. Unfortunately, metabolic disruptors are used in almost all commercially prepared foods, which means most products on your grocer’s shelves contribute to poor health. But if you know what to look for, you can fill your cart with foods that will help you live a longer more vibrant life.

Here’s what else you’ll find in Grocery Warning:
Which common ingredient has been shown to ravage the cardiovascular system and promote heart disease while destroying brain cells.
Why some popular beverages have been linked to blindness and seizures, dementia, Alzheimer’s and behavioral disorders.
How a single food ingredient is killing more than 30,000 Americans each year and yet remains perfectly legal due to food industry politics and influence on federal regulators.
How food manufacturers alter natural fats and convert them into disease-promoting ingredients that ravage your health and make it virtually impossible to lose weight, no matter what you eat!
The one natural, alternative sweetener that has no calories, no blood sugar effects, no chemical toxicity, and tastes great!
What “homogenized” means on milk products and the shocking truth of how this artificial alteration of dairy fats poses a very real threat to your health.
How to reverse osteoporosis and other bone disorders through dietary and lifestyle changes that create high-density bones throughout your body.
The truth behind the margarine scam and how the food industry convinced an entire nation to eat disease-promoting margarine for decades, based on shoddy scientific evidence and political influence.
The one natural oil that’s lacking from the diets of virtually all Americans, but can significantly improve brain function.
Why at least one prominent doctor is accusing the FDA of committing crimes against humanity for not protecting the public from the immediate health dangers posed by three different ingredients found in virtually every grocery store.

Back to the “hidden” ingredients

So how do food companies manage to hide excitotoxins and taste additives to their foods? It’s easy: They just keep changing the words to confuse consumers. Once customers learned to avoid MSG / monosodium glutamate, the food companies started using yeast extract.

Other hidden sources of MSG include:

• Autolyzed vegetable protein
• Hydrolyzed vegetable protein
• Calcium caseinate
• Sodium caseinate
• Textured protein

The ingredients “stacking” trick
Food companies also use the ingredients stacking trick to intentionally leave you with the wrong impression about what’s really in their food products.

For example, one company makes a nutrition bar that’s absolutely loaded with sugar, but they way they’ve arranged the ingredients prevents sugar from appearing as the #1 ingredient. Instead, the first ingredient is rice. But looking down the label, you’ll find all the following forms of sugar, all in the same nutrition bar:

• Sugar
• Sucrose
• High-fructose corn syrup
• Corn syrup solids
• Dextrose

Add all these up, and the #1 component in the bar is, indeed, sugar (or sugary substances). But the manufacturer has used ingredients stacking to make you think the top ingredient is actually rice.
It’s a clever, dishonest technique used by food companies to lie with food labels.

Remember, the longer the ingredients label, the less healthy the food. Read those ingredients lists before buying foods, and if you discover chemical names that you can’t pronounce, don’t buy the food!

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