Where a more extended form of physical activity demands more energy, glucose becomes the next most immediate source of energy or ‘fuel’. For example, after the first 50-100 metres have been run, the ATP and CP stores have been depleted, but the person is still running and needs more energy. The glucose is broken down [...]
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The discovery that antidepressants can help relieve symptoms of bulimia represents a major medical success story. Treatment with antidepressants is one of the few drug strategies shown to be of any value in managing this illness. In fact, scientific studies have found that use of these medications can reduce bingeing frequency by as much as [...]
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When Debbie Watson didn’t feel good about her life, she turned to food for a quick fix. Bingeing lessened her isolation and pain, but at the expense of her waistline. Only when she learned to love herself and accept love from others did she succeed in slimming down.
Debbie, of Durham, North Carolina, traces her struggle [...]
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I’ve told you what kinds of foods to eat, but I’ve given it to you in a range. For example, it’s recommended that you eat 6-11 servings of the grain group each day. “Well,” you may say, “there’s a big difference between eating 6 pieces of bread and 11! Which is it?” To figure out [...]
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The onset of Type II diabetes mellitus is often associated with weight gain. That’s why losing weight via reduced fat intake (achieved by trying to eat less fat and taking Chitosan to remove a lot of fat we do eat) is often the “medicine” of choice for this disease. I’ve had a great deal of [...]
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Good nutrition and weight loss must go hand in hand. The quickest, simplest way to lose weight is to stop eating altogether. It’s called starvation, and it’s very bad for your health because it causes the body to turn on itself and consume its own tissues for energy. Even short fasts can be dangerous for [...]
In my 40-plus years of practicing medicine, I’ve seen every kind of diet and diet aid you can imagine. The Alcohol Diet was popular for a while, as were the Scarsdale and Cambridge Diets. There are high-protein diets and liquid diets, diets that tell you to eat all you want and others that leave you [...]
High blood pressure (hypertension) is also related to excess fat. A major cause of stroke and heart failure, high blood pressure is endemic here in the United States. We doctors pass out pill after pill in an apparently futile attempt to control blood pressure, which often goes unnoticed because it may produce no symptoms—until that [...]
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