Debunking the French weight myth
I’ve had this question many times: “If wheat is a major cause for obesity, why are the enthusiastic wheat-eating French so slender?” It prompts oft-repeated claims like “French women don’t get fat.”
Well, they’re not. I’m in Paris, spending a lot of time at the Rolland Garros tennis facilities with tens of thousands of French people at the event, as well as restaurants, subways, groceries, and streets. Overweight and obesity are everywhere. While the tennis event is international, I hear most of them speaking French and I engage with many of them, also clearly French (as I st...
Source: Wheat Belly Blog - May 26, 2015 Category: Cardiology Authors: Dr. Davis Tags: Wheat Belly Lifestyle France gluten grains obesity overweight Source Type: blogs
Doris: Acid reflux, acne, tremor gone!
Doris shared the photos and some of the many health benefits she experienced while living the Wheat Belly lifestyle:
“I started my journey March 28th, 2014. I’m just shy of turning 48 years old. I began this lifestyle change to lose weight but have since changed my outlook.
“In 2012, my doctor wanted to put me on cholesterol medication. Thankfully, he gave me time to get it fixed with diet. He advised me to continue with my low fat eating! I had already been doing this for years, falling on and off the wagon and binging until I hurt and couldn’t sleep from going to bed with a tummy so full.
“...
Source: Wheat Belly Blog - May 21, 2015 Category: Cardiology Authors: Dr. Davis Tags: Wheat Belly Success Stories acid reflux acne binging cholesterol heartburn tremor Weight Loss Source Type: blogs
Bodybuilding In Colorado
You most likely ask how you play the bodybuilding in colorado as pull ups, chin ups, push ups, dips and hyperextensions. To start with the bodybuilding in colorado that these guys eat low fat healthy clean food all year round. This leads to many beginners trying to get big. This theory is incorrect. Train to get ready for my first contest.He signed competitors with long term contracts and because those contracts were so lucrative many bodybuilders left the International Olympic Committee has no place in the bodybuilding in colorado are always the bodybuilding in colorado that bodybuilding has never been meant to increase t...
Source: Cosmic Watercooler - April 20, 2015 Category: Gastroenterology Tags: Bodybuilding Colorado Source Type: blogs
Losing Weight —What the Experts Are Reluctant to Tell You – Part 1
Have you ever shed 15 or 25 pounds and, then, over the next year or so, put it all back on? Usually, we blame ourselves.
But, as I reported on HealthBeat in 2008, physicians who treat obese and overweight patients know that only about 5% of us are able to lose weight and keep it off—even in highly controlled experimental settings where patients diet and exercise under a doctors’ supervision. Over two years, 95% of us will put the pounds back on, and in some cases, add more.
A National Institutes of Health (NIH), working group study published in the January 2015 issue of the journal Obesity, confirms that: “Despit...
Source: Health Beat - February 21, 2015 Category: American Health Authors: Maggie Mahar Tags: randomized controlled trials diet pills diets long-term weight loss Losing weight low-fat diets metabolism obesity Re-gaining weight Uncategorized Fat: What the Experts don't tell you HealthBeatblog.com Tim Caulfield Traci Mann Source Type: blogs
Losing Weight—What the Experts Are Reluctant to Tell You – Part 1
Have you ever shed 15 or 25 pounds and, then, over the next year or so, put it all back on? Usually, we blame ourselves.
But, as I reported on HealthBeat in 2008, physicians who treat obese and overweight patients know that only about 5% of us are able to lose weight and keep it off—even in highly controlled experimental settings where patients diet and exercise under a doctors’ supervision. Over two years, 95% of us will put the pounds back on, and in some cases, add more.
A National Institutes of Health (NIH), working group study published in the January 2015 issue of the journal Obesity, confirms that: “Despit...
Source: Health Beat - February 21, 2015 Category: American Health Authors: Maggie Mahar Tags: randomized controlled trials diet pills diets long-term weight loss Losing weight low-fat diets metabolism obesity Re-gaining weight Uncategorized Fat: What the Experts don't tell you HealthBeatblog.com Tim Caulfield Traci Mann Source Type: blogs
Does Over-Eating Make You Fat, Or Do You Eat More Because You Are Fat? (PART 2 of “Obesity—What the Experts are Reluctant to Tell You”)
Today, researchers are digging into what drives weight gain, and some are beginning to suggest that we have been confusing cause and effect.
What if it’s not overeating that causes us to get fat, but the process of getting fatter that causes us to overeat?”
Recently The Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) published a provocative piece that asked precisely that question. Shortly before publishing in JAMA, the authors, summed up their argument in a New York Times Op-Ed: “Always Hungry? Here’s Why.”
There, David Ludwig, a professor of pediatrics at Harvard Medical School and director the New Balan...
Source: Health Beat - February 21, 2015 Category: American Health Authors: Maggie Mahar Tags: regain weight calories carbohydrates controlled trials dieting futile long-term weight loss Losing weight low-fat diets obesity Uncategorized yo-yo dieting BMJ carbs David Ludwig fat cells Gary Taubes Kelly Crowe Mark Fri Source Type: blogs
Over-Eating: Confusing Cause and Effect–Does Overeating CAUSE You to Re-Gain Weight, Or Do You Eat More BECAUSE You Are Overweight?
Today, researchers are digging into what drives weight gain, and some are beginning to suggest that we have been confusing cause and effect.
What if it’s not overeating that causes us to get fat, but the process of getting fatter that causes us to overeat?”
Recently The Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) published a provocative piece that asked precisely that question. Shortly before publishing in JAMA, the authors, summed up their argument in a New York Times Op-Ed: “Always Hungry? Here’s Why.”
There, David Ludwig, a professor of pediatrics at Harvard Medical School and director the New Balan...
Source: Health Beat - February 21, 2015 Category: American Health Authors: Maggie Mahar Tags: regain weight calories carbohydrates controlled trials dieting causes weight gain dieting futile dieting makes us hungrier long-term weight loss Losing weight low-fat diets obesity Uncategorized yo-yo dieting BMJ carbs David Source Type: blogs
Over-Eating: Confusing Cause and Effect – Does Overeating CAUSE You to Re-Gain Weight, Or Do You Eat More BECAUSE You Are Overweight?
Today, researchers are digging into what drives weight gain, and some are beginning to suggest that we have been confusing cause and effect.
What if it’s not overeating that causes us to get fat, but the process of getting fatter that causes us to overeat?”
Recently The Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) published a provocative piece that asked precisely that question. Shortly before publishing in JAMA, the authors, summed up their argument in a New York Times Op-Ed: “Always Hungry? Here’s Why.”
There, David Ludwig, a professor of pediatrics at Harvard Medical School and director the New Balan...
Source: Health Beat - February 21, 2015 Category: American Health Authors: Maggie Mahar Tags: regain weight calories carbohydrates controlled trials dieting causes weight gain dieting futile dieting makes us hungrier long-term weight loss Losing weight low-fat diets obesity Uncategorized yo-yo dieting BMJ carbs David Source Type: blogs
How NOT to have HIGH TRIGLYCERIDES
High triglyceride levels are common, as common as muffin tops and man breasts. You will find a triglyceride level among the four values on any standard cholesterol panel. High triglycerides are either ignored by most doctors or reflexively “treated” with drugs, such as fibrates (Lopid, fenofibrate) or prescription fish oil (Lovaza). But buried in this single value is tremendous insight into diet, metabolic efficiencies, and cardiovascular risk, with control using natural, non-medication means very easy to accomplish.
Why are triglycerides important? Triglyceride levels of 60 mg/dl or higher will:
Block insu...
Source: Wheat Belly Blog - January 24, 2015 Category: Cardiology Authors: Dr. Davis Tags: Wheat Belly Lifestyle carbohydrates cholesterol fats fiber prebiotic resistant starch starches triglycerides Source Type: blogs
Diets and Denominators
News non-flash: comparison of various diets (low carb/Atkins, low carb + low fat/South Beach, low calorie/Weight Watchers, and whatever-the-hell-the-Zone-diet is/protein-carb ratio) shows no difference in long term outcomes, defined as sustained weight loss, with the attendant presumed decrease in cardiovascular risk factors and events.
Sorry; no great surprise here. But I think it’s because nutrition research has a huge blind spot: not adequately controlling for type 2 diabetes/metabolic syndrome.
Let me explain.
I have a hypothesis that people with the inborn error of metabolism (insulin resistance) that in the se...
Source: Musings of a Dinosaur - January 2, 2015 Category: Primary Care Authors: notdeaddinosaur Tags: Medical Source Type: blogs
Say “NO” to statins
15-month “before” and “after”
2-year “before” and “after”
Along with her obvious physical transformation, Tanya experienced other positive changes in health, including an improvement in her cholesterol panel, with wheat elimination.
I’ll let Tanya tell her story:
“I first heard about you on Dr. Oz. I thought this lifestyle of yours was way to complicated for me to follow, so I didn’t buy your book. Instead, I was at work and my coworkers were talking about your book. One of my coworkers was a severe diabetic, and she was talking to another coworker about ho...
Source: Wheat Belly Blog - October 14, 2014 Category: Cardiology Authors: Dr. Davis Tags: Wheat Belly Lifestyle cholesterol HDL LDL statin triglycerides Weight Loss Source Type: blogs
Low-fat or low-carb diets: Interpreting results of the new study
The joys of September! Parents gleefully shove their reluctant children onto school buses, the palm trees in Los Angeles don’t change color, and everyone realizes that they gained 20 pounds during their summer vacation. It’s time to get serious again about losing weight.
But how should you eat to best help you shed the extra pounds? Many people are passionate about their favorite diet, but there is very little data comparing different diets to each other. Some swear by low-carbohydrate diets (like Atkins), while others insist that low-fat diets (like Weight Watchers and others) yield more weight loss and achieve health...
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - September 16, 2014 Category: Journals (General) Authors: Albert Fuchs, MD Tags: Conditions Obesity Source Type: blogs
Low Carb Versus Low Fat Diets, and How My HDL Went Up 20 Points
What is a healthier way of eating – low fat or low carb? Several recent studies have been published addressing this question, and the answer seems to be that lower carbohydrate diets, with moderate amounts of fat (yes, even some saturated fat), produce healthier cholesterol levels, reduced markers of inflammation, improved cognitive function, and greater […] (Source: The Examining Room of Dr. Charles)
Source: The Examining Room of Dr. Charles - September 4, 2014 Category: Primary Care Authors: drcharles Tags: Uncategorized Source Type: blogs
Decreasing carbs – an idea whose time has come
This article is big news. It is the most emailed article currently at the NY Times – A Call for a Low-Carb Diet That Embraces Fat.
Despite all the hoopla over this article, the idea is not new. Gary Taubes wrote about this concept previously – Why We Get Fat: And What to Do About It. Denise Minger’s brilliant investigative book – Death by Food Pyramid: How Shoddy Science, Sketchy Politics and Shady Special Interests Have Ruined Our Health addressed this issue also.
As the nutrition evidence accumulates, we are learning that eating fatty foods really does not have a negative impact on cholesterol ...
Source: DB's Medical Rants - September 3, 2014 Category: Internal Medicine Authors: rcentor Tags: Medical Rants Source Type: blogs
Pistachios Offer Protection for People With Diabetes
By Diane Fennell
Research has indicated that eating pistachios along with a high-glycemic meal may help lower after-meal blood sugar response, particularly in people with metabolic syndrome (a cluster of factors that raises the risk of heart disease, stroke, and Type 2 diabetes). Now, a small new study from Penn State University suggests that these nuts may also improve heart health in people who have Type 2 by reducing the body's cardiovascular responses to everyday stress.
Heart attack and stroke are the leading causes of death in people who have diabetes. To evaluate the effects of pistachios on various aspects of car...
Source: Diabetes Self-Management - August 29, 2014 Category: Diabetes Authors: Diane Fennell Source Type: blogs
