Surprise! Vitamin D Can Help or Hinder Your Weight Management

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'Vitamin D, once thought to influence little more than bone diseases such as rickets and osteoporosis, is now recognized as a major player in overall human health. Most recently, new studies suggest that your vitamin D status can even help or hinder your weight management, which I'll review below.

It's a tragedy that dermatologists and sunscreen manufacturers have done such a thorough job of scaring people out of the sun. Their widely dispersed message to avoid the sun as much as possible, combined with an overall cultural trend of spending more time indoors during work and leisure time has greatly contributed to the widespread vitamin D deficiency seen today.'

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Angela Stokes on CNN News: Raw Food Weight Loss

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Five Hidden Factors in Weight Gain

Health Videos - Five Hidden Factors in Weight Gain

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Seaweed Extracts Can Help You Lose Weight, Mostly Body Fat

'Alginated-based supplements from seaweed enhanced the weight loss results of an energy-restricted diet, suggests new data from Denmark.


Using the commercially available sodium alginate Protanal LFR 5/60 from FMC Biopolymers, researchers from the University of Copenhagen report that obese people taking the alginate supplements lost an average of 1.74 kg more of body weight than those on placebo.


The additional loss of body weight was "mainly attributed to a reduction in the percentage of body fat", they wrote in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition.


"These results suggested that alginate may be a potential agent to achieve a clinically relevant reduction in body weight in obese subjects when consumed as prescribed as an adjuvant to an energy-restricted diet."'

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High-Fat Diet May Cause Less Weight Gain, New Brain Cell Growth

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'Scientists gave mice a high fat diet, after which, the mice showed growth of new brain cells and less weight gain.

"We really don't understand the function of these neurons in the normal brain," study researcher Seth Blackshaw, an associate professor at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, told LiveScience.

Prof. Blackshaw said the growth of new brain cells has yet to be explained, but initial data makes interesting implications.

"Our data suggests that these neurons may have an important role in regulating feeding."'

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Don’t Be A Calorie Counter – Eat Fat and Lose Weight!

 


'Are you a calorie counter? If so, your health could be in jeopardy. People who count calories are usually not consuming the right types of foods and often develop all types of problems such as obesity and heart disease. 

Calories found in natural, whole foods eaten until your body feels full can never make you gain weight. If you are regularly eating processed, packaged foods and thinking you can get away with continuing to eat those foods because you watch your calories, think again.'


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9 Super Fat-Fighting Foods

'Did you resolve to lose weight in 2011? Increase your body’s fat-burning power by eating more foods that help your liver (your body’s main fat-metabolizing organ) to burn fat better. While there are many fabulous foods that fight fat, here are nine of my favorites:' 


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THE LIVER AND DETOXIFICATION

'More than ever before in the history of mankind, human beings need to have healthy livers to break down the chemicals that have crept into our environment. If you talk to radiologists and gastroenterologists who are looking at people's livers today they will tell you that the condition "Fatty Liver" affects more than 50% of people over the age of 50!

Common causes often include; incorrect diet, excessive alcohol intake, adverse reactions to drugs and toxic chemicals, and viral hepatitis. Dr. Cabot believes it is because modern-day medicine has become sidetracked into treating the symptoms of diseases and not the causes. Excess weight is a symptom of liver dysfunction and not solely due to the number of calories you consume.

We have been attacking the symptoms of weight excess with fad diets, obsessive high impact aerobics, stomach stapling and toxic drugs, such as appetite suppressants, laxatives and diuretics. We have failed to consider the underlying cause of LIVER DYSFUNCTION and indeed we have virtually ignored the hardest-working organ in the body, with dire consequences.'



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