Low testosterone levels and symptoms of male sexual dysfunction due to obesity may be reversible with weight loss after bariatric surgery, a new study finds.Ā Ā The results were presented at The Endocrine Society’s 93rd Annual Meeting in Boston. “Morbidly obese men have a high prevalence of hypotestosteronenemia, or low testosterone, and of sexual dysfunction,” said […]
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I recently found this program that aired on the BBC (British Broadcasting Corporation) 2 years ago aboutĀ the historyĀ of low carbohydrate dieting.Ā It’s well done, interestingĀ and gives some useful background.Ā My only caveat is that in spite of showing that low carbohydrate approachĀ is better than low fat dietsĀ for weight reduction, the program endsĀ withĀ some doomsdayĀ scientist saying how
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Why Starting The Atkins Diet Causes You To Feel Tired Patients who go on the Atkins low carbohydrate diet often experience headaches, ābrain fogā, lightheadedness or fatigue the first few weeks after reducing their carbohydrate intake. These symptoms will improve after a few weeks but for some individuals they can be quit severe and will
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The approach taken on this blog is not the Adkinās diet.Ā Completely eliminating carbohydrates is not the intention, but more a reduction. Ā Reducing the amount of carbohydrates eaten in a day and increasing protein in the diet is one of the best steps toward weight loss. Besides the benefits of weight reduction, reducing carbohydrates in
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There are many myths surrounding weight loss.Ā It’s difficult to tell if the bits of advice about weight loss are true or false.Ā Ā One commonly encountered bit of adviceĀ is that drinking a glass of water before a meal will help you lose weight.Ā Is this true?Ā Yes, if you drink a lot of water.
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One of the most well established concepts in psychology is that animals (including humans) learn about relationships among the events they experience.Ā These repeated experiences can change how we react to the events weāve experienced.Ā This is the basis of Pavlovian psychology.Ā Research on the use of artificial sweeteners suggests just such a mechanism may
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I do! I’ve watched the show the ‘The Biggest Loser’ a few times and come away each time with the same thought, “This is the most dangerous, manipulative show I’ve ever seen on television.” Medically speaking, to encourage individuals to lose weight at these tremendous rates is very unhealthy and extremely dangerous.Ā Weight loss experts
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Try eating more slowly if you’re looking to shed some pounds. Ā When you eat too fast you can outpace your body’s normal hunger mechanisms that tell you when you are full. The more slowly an individual eats, the more the body is able to release hormones that suppress our hunger.Ā So, eating a moderate
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One of the more intriguing health benefits I’ve observed in my patients from decreasing carbohydrate intake (to 25-30% of daily calorie intake) and increasing protein (20-30 grams per meal 3 times per day) is the significant and fairly rapid body sculpting effect that occurs. Patients will often comment how quickly they seem to shrink in
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Many of us have been in the circumstance where someone is pressing us to eat something we would rather not eat.Ā We can be put on the spot to eat something (especially unhealthy high carbohydrate snacks) that we know we’d rather avoid, but the pressure can cause us to give in rather than being rude.
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About 80% of my weight loss patients have a similar complaint, they feel a sense of hunger in the afternoon described as a “grumbling” of their stomach, a sense of weakness or even a shaky sensation as if they have low blood sugar.Ā And I tell them all the same thing, “Your sense of hunger
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False. Fat and muscles are both composed of different types of cells in our bodies. Exercise drivesĀ muscle cells to grow larger.Ā The energy used during exercise will make the fat cells shrink. And substantially increasing the size of your muscle cells helps to increase the amount of energy your muscle will burn offĀ throughout
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Patients that I assist with weight loss are frequently disappointed that they may averaging only 1-2 pounds of decreased weight per week.Ā They have a false sense of appropriate weight loss rates.Ā I figure this is from the relentless false and misleading advertisements of most weight loss programs they’ve seen or read about. When a
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I found that one of the main reasons people don’t want to start a weight loss program is because they are afraid of trying and not actually losing weight and that they often don’t even know where to begin. My response is to avoid focus on losing weight because that is going to occur slowly
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As our modern carbohydrate supply becomes more processed, our bodies are experiencing more rapid absorption and intense spikes of sugar into our blood streams.Ā The elevated blood sugar levels forces our bodies to produce higher and higher levels of insulin in order to maintain a normal level of blood sugar.Ā The degree to which our
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Parents who work long and odd hours are more apt to buy fast food and prepared entrees, says the study by Cornell University researchers, published in the September/October issue of the Journal of Nutrition Education.Ā And another coping mechanism is to skip some meals entirely. The survey study found that: About a quarter of moms
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Clearly there are strong genetic influences on body fatness.Ā But what’s really inherited is the rank order of body fatness compared to the the people who have a lifestyle that’s similar to yours. If both your parents were 200 pounds, that does not mean that you are destined to be 200 pounds. But if both
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The quick answer is a complicated no. The protein we eat is broken down into small building blocks known as amino acids.Ā Amino acids are used for a wide variety of metabolic reactions that keep our cells functioning. After eating protein, our body has a few hours to utilize the amino acids made available from
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