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| Then, in a group of 780 dieters, those who got the most calcium lost more weight than those without extra calcium. And perhaps more importantly, other research indicates a calcium-rich diet means you'll lose body fat, not lean muscle.
Animal research at the University of Tennessee, conducted by Dr. Michael Zemel, discovered that a low-calorie, high-dairy diet caused a loss of up to 70 percent of body fat. Low-calorie, low-calcium diets only reduced fat by 8 percent.
Both Zemel and Heaney think that calcium helps control how you burn fat. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 The big mistake made by most dieters is that they rely on the supplement to "save them" while they continue on making terrible lifestyle choices (like eating a dozen donuts while watching the Superbowl). Trim Spa will not save you from yourself. But it can be a smart aid to help you make a lasting change for improved health and reduced body fat. |
Byron J. Richards, CCN
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 In milder cases of eating disorders, whether in young women or adult dieters, it is simply a matter of explaining to them why diet-induced starvation metabolism does not work. This applies to underweight, normal weight, or overweight individuals.
In more serious situations of metabolic wasting, there are physical reasons why the person cannot eat. They are locked in a metabolic pattern where they have no appetite. They are nauseous, or when they eat they become nauseous. Even if they make themselves eat, they may not gain weight or energy. |
Mary-Ann Shearer
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 Often the first sign of this deficiency is the extreme irritability that most dieters suffer.
Another harmful practice that many diets encourage is the consumption of foods or substances that are extremely low in calories but high in artificial additives. Although this may result in rapid weight loss, it can leave the dieter feeling quite terrible and may even cause long-term health problems (see chapter nine). |
Victoria Boutenko, M.A.
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 Fats as the main contributor to weight gain is a popular delusion among dieters. This misconception leads to massive confusion and explains why so many overweight people are not succeeding in losing weight. I am sure that many people would be shocked to find out that we may gain weight from eating, say, cheese, not only because it is rich in fat, but mostly due to its high acidic level. In response to high pH acid, the body creates fat cells to store the acid. For example, almonds have 70% fat, and pork has only 58%. |
Mike Adams
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 The Omega Diet:
New research shows that eating a very low-fat diet — the express goal of millions of dieters — has the opposite effect: It turns your body into a fat-making machine! Just as a cow can transform low-fat grass into a generous layering of body fat and creamy milk, your body can convert fat-free food into a bulging belly and thicker thighs - and it will do so whenever your diet is very low in fat and high in carbohydrates. |
| Excitotoxins: The Taste That Kills
This observation has important ramifications for those seeking weight loss. As dieters well know, it is vital to avoid the production of insulin by the pancreas. Normally, this is accomplished by avoiding the consumption of refined carbohydrates and sugars. But if MSG can induce the pancreas to secrete insulin, then a dieter who avoids carbohydrates but eats MSG may be experiencing insulin spikes anyway!
This is profound, and herein lies one of the gems in this manual. |
| And if you follow this, that will be a long time, because you will live much longer and much happier than those dieters who consume metabolic disrupters, who don't drink enough water or eat enough fiber, and who avoid exercise and strength training.
That's why I almost think it's strange to call this a diet a diet at all. I consider it a way of life, not something that I do merely to lose a few pounds. |
| Mustard, hot sauces, condiments
There are many condiments and sauces available to healthy dieters. My favorites include mustard, Tabasco sauce, and other hot sauces. The pitfall to watch out for in this category is added sugars, which are present in rather large quantities in barbecue sauces, ketchup, relish toppings, and other condiments. If you start reading the labels of these condiment products, you'll be amazed to find just how much these food manufacturers rely on sugar to add taste to their products. |
Mary-Ann Shearer
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| But I have since come to realize that for many dieters who have followed a regime that requires everything to be weighed and measured, to change over to a lifestyle that allows them to eat as much as they like is like giving an alcoholic the key to a liquor store. As a result, I've put together various flexible programs that make the transition easier. What you have to decide is which program suits you best. That way you are making the final decision and are not left feeling totally restricted. If you need a more detailed program with recipes and day-to-day guidance, go to www.mary-anns. |
Byron J. Richards, CCN
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| Once the government agrees, then the quick-fix and frustrated dieters jump on board. Years later, the adverse effects accumulate.
The widespread promotion of gastric bypass surgery is a new low. The economic forces behind it promote its "safety," downplaying its serious risks and problems with a marketing campaign appealing to thinner America.
There is only one safe and healthy way to lose weight and maintain quality of health. That is to implement a comprehensive approach to achieving and maintaining natural balance. All quick-fix weight-loss solutions are detrimental to natural balance. |
Neal D. Barnard and Bryanna Clark Grogan
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 They are so high in fat and cholesterol that they increase cholesterol levels for about one in every three dieters, some of whom have eventually experienced wildly high cholesterol levels and serious heart disease symptoms.4,5 There is no good reason to begin any low-carbohydrate, high-protein diet. pants were women with moderate to severe weight problems. Most had tried many different diets: low-calorie diets, low-carb diets, Weight Watchers, the cabbage-soup diet, and just about everything else. |
Joseph E. Mario
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 Low incidence among fish and fish oil (margarine) consumers (in Japan and the Far East), indicative ofaVitaminrdeficiencyofessential polyunsaturated fatty acids(thatreduce allergic inflammation); and low incidence in fresh raw-food dieters (Africa). Can be eventuated into remission, but may reappear.
Can be dairy al lergy; or yeast infection, causing dizziness, light-headed, and Meniere's syndrome. Antagonized by a diet high in phytate in barley, oats, and wheat, which binds Calcium. |
Phyllis A. Balch, CNC
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 Dieters and people who are fasting may experience bad breath because the lack of food causes the body to break down stored fat and protein for fuel; metabolic wastes resulting from that process have an unpleasant odor as they are exhaled from the lungs.
NUTRIENTS
SUPPLEMENT
SUGGESTED DOSAGE
COMMENTS
Very Important
Aerobic Bulk Cleanse from Aerobic Life Industries or oat bran or psyllium husks or rice bran
1 tbsp in juice or water twice daily, on an empty stomach. Take separately from other supplements and medications.
For needed fiber. |
Alan R. Gaby, M.D., Jonathan V. Wright, M.D., Forrest Batz, Pharm.D. Rick Chester, RPh., N.D., DipLAc. George Constantine, R.Ph., Ph.D. Linnea D. Thompson, Pharm.D., N.D.
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 However, 20% to 40% of these dieters did not stay on their diets, and were not counted in the results. In addition, one of these trials continued for an additional six months, at the end of which there was no longer a significant difference in weight loss between the two diet groups. A recent 12-week controlled trial found that overweight adolescents also lost more weight with a low-carbohydrate diet than with a low-fat diet, even though they consumed 50% more calories than did the children on the low-fat diet. |
Joe Graedon, M.S. and Teresa Graedon, Ph.D.
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 PPA was not as safe as most dieters assumed, however. As early as 1980, British researchers had raised a red flag. When they gave PPA to healthy young medical students, they noted side effects such as an alarming elevation in blood pressure along with dizziness, heart palpitations, headache, insomnia, anxiety, and restlessness. By 1990, doctors in the United States had reported 142 bad reactions to PPA, including bleeding stroke, seizure, and even death. But it
This weight loss medication is also available by prescription under the name Xenical. |
Phyllis A. Balch, CNC
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| Because drinking grapefruit juice is so common in the United States, especially among dieters, we have cut right to the chase. In short, it has been found that grapefruit juice increases the bioavailability of many drugs (makes their concentration higher in the body) by inhibiting the CYP3A4 enzyme in the small intestine. Some drugs that appear to be affected are:
• The antihypertensive drugs felodipine (Plendil), nifedipine (Adalat, Procardia), and nitrendipine (Concept, Nitrepin).
• The cholesterol-lowering drugs lovastatin (Advicor) and simvastatin (Zocor). |
Joe Graedon, M.S. and Teresa Graedon, Ph.D.
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| This meant that most dieters could no longer rely on a pill to help them. Ephedra had been taken off the market because it was too dangerous. And PPA was removed as well, also because it was not safe enough.
With the approval of orlistat (available by prescription as Xenical) to go over the counter under the name Alii, people finally have a tested do-it-yourself option. The company has chosen the name Alii to imply that it will work best if allied with a full program of dietary and behavior modification approaches. |
Phyllis A. Balch, CNC
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| Almost 95 percent of all dieters regain their lost weight within a year and have to diet all over again.
Q Dieting may be dangerous for people older than sixty, as malnutrition may result. Exercise if you want to lose weight, don't stop eating.
Q Fad diets may produce some results, but the fact is that not only can these diets be unhealthy (particularly if you jump from one diet to the next), but once you go off the diet, the weight often returns—along with some added pounds. |
| Meanwhile, dieters are spending billions of dollars to get slim. Some 25 percent of American men and 45 percent of American women are on a diet on any given day. Americans spend over $40 billion on dieting and diet-related products each year.
Experts have different theories on how and why people become overweight, but they generally agree that the key to losing weight is simple: Eat less and move more. The body has to burn more calories than it takes in. Traditionally, there are three basic approaches to weight management through nutritional supplementation. |
Joe Graedon, M.S. and Teresa Graedon, Ph.D.
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| There are probably some breakfast choices that might be worse for dieters than no breakfast at all. Coffee and a Danish pastry come to mind; so do orange juice and a big stack of pancakes dripping with butter and maple syrup. Foods like this are high in sugar and refined flour that are quickly absorbed and push blood sugar and insulin up rapidly. (This can be quantified in scientific terms as the glycemic index of a food, which compares the food's effect on blood glucose to that of table sugar. |
John A. McDougall
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 Within sixteen weeks of beginning a low-calorie diet, about 10 percent of dieters develop gallstones, and more than 30 percent develop gallstones within twelve to eighteen months following gastric bypass surgery (an extreme weight-loss measure).
How does weight loss lead to gallstones? When the body begins to shed pounds, stored cholesterol is released in large amounts from the body fat into the bloodstream and is then secreted into the bile. As a result the bile becomes supersaturated with cholesterol, the primary cause of gallstones. |
by Michael Murray, N.D. and Joseph Pizzorno, N.D.
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| Contact with professionals was minimal, to replicate the experience of most dieters. While the subjects on the Atkins diet had lost more weight than subjects on the conventional diet at six months, the difference at twelve months was not significant. Adherence in both groups was poor. Other clinical studies have shown similar results. |
Jonny Bowden, M.A., C.N.S.
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 Principle #6: When You Add Back Foods, Add Them One at a Time and Watch for Reactions
One of the delightful unexpected "side effects" experienced by many low-carb dieters is that symptoms they've had for years and which are unrelated to weight begin to clear up—notably headaches, allergic symptoms, inflammation, and assorted aches and pains. |
T. Colin Campbell, Ph.D. and Thomas M. Campbell II
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 Additionally, they found that the dieters had a stunning 53% increase in the amount of calcium they excreted in their urine,47 which may spell disaster for their bone health. The weight loss, some of which is simply initial fluid loss,51 may come with a very high price. |
by Michael Murray, N.D. and Joseph Pizzorno, N.D.
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| To prevent regaining the weight lost, dieters must stick to this level of carbohydrate consumption, perhaps for the rest of their lives.
While we agree with the underlying principle of the Atkins Diet—that a diet high in sugar and refined carbohydrates causes weight gain and ultimately leads to obesity—we disagree with the solution. |
T. Colin Campbell, Ph.D. and Thomas M. Campbell II
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| Atkins states that many of his patients require nutrient supplements, some of which are used to combat "common dieters' problems."54 In one passage, after making unsubstantiated claims about the efficacy of antioxidant supplements that contradict recent studies,53 he writes, "Add to the [antioxidants] the vita-nutrients known to be useful for each of the myriad medical problems my patients face, and you'll see why many of them take over thirty vitamin pills a day."56 Thirty pills a day? |
| He advocated a high-protein, high-fat diet—sacrificing long-term health for short-term gain—and then advocated taking his supplements to address what he called, in his own words, the "common dieters' problems" including constipation, sugar cravings, hunger, fluid retention, fatigue, nervousness and insomnia.1
This strategy of gaining and maintaining health with nutrient supplements, however, started to unravel in 1994-1996 with the large-scale investigation of the effects of beta-carotene (a precursor to vitamin A) supplements on lung cancer and other diseases. |
Phyllis A. Balch, CNC
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| Because this amino acid helps to build and maintain muscle, supplemental glutamine is useful for dieters and bodybuilders. More important, it helps to prevent the kind of muscle wasting that can accompany prolonged bed rest or diseases such as cancer and AIDS. This is because stress and injury (including surgical trauma) cause the muscles to release glutamine into the bloodstream.
In fact, during times of stress, as much as one third of the glutamine present in the muscles may be released. As a result, stress and/or illness can lead to the loss of skeletal muscle. |
Joe Graedon, M.S. and Teresa Graedon, Ph.D.
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| For decades, dieters were convinced that grapefruit had special fat-burning power.
This idea was bolstered by advertisements like one for a diet plan in which a muscular construction worker pulled a grapefruit out of his lunch box with disdain, squeezed it, and tossed it away. Then he held up a little grapefruit pill and sang the praises of its grapefruit essence for weight loss.
One popular grapefruit diet has people either eating half a grapefruit or drinking 8 ounces of grapefruit juice three or four times daily. |
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