Fasting is No Better For You Than Regular Calorie Restriction - new Scientific Study - POSTED ON: May 03, 2017
A Scientific Study was recently published concluding that an alternate-day fasting diet was NOT superior to a daily calorie restriction diet for Metabolically Healthy Obese Adults with regard to adherence, weight loss, weight maintenance, or improvement in risk indicators for cardiovascular disease (including insulin resistance). The lead researcher in this study, Dr. Krista Varady, has previously done extensive research on Alternate Day Fasting. Those studies are currently considered the best scientific authority on Intermittent Fasting, and her previous research findings have often been extensively quoted by the majority of Intermittent Fasting Gurus, including Dr. Jason Fung, author of The Obesity Code (2016) and The Complete Guide to Fasting (2016) Below is a recent article from TIME.
Fasting Isn’t Better for You Than Regular Dieting Alexandra Sifferlin May 01, 2017 TIME Losing weight is hard, which is why weight loss experts have long searched for different approaches to make it easier for people. One strategy gaining steam is intermittent fasting, where people fast or lower their calories substantially for a short period of time. (This diet plan also has potential lifespan-extending benefits.) But new research published in JAMA Internal Medicine suggests that the fasting diet may not be the weight loss key it's been hyped up to be. In the new trial, researchers wanted to know whether people who tried a fasting diet would be more successful than those on a standard diet. They told 100 people with obesity to follow one of three diets for a year. Some were told to cut their calorie consumption by 25% per day—a typical calorie restriction diet—while others did an alternate-day fasting diet, where they ate about 500 calories on “fast” days and whatever they wanted on “feast" days. The last group, which served as the control group, ate what they normally would. The researchers expected that the people in the fasting group would lose more weight and have an easier time sticking to the diet than regular dieters, but the results didn't reflect that. At the end of the year, people who did the fasting diet and those who just cut calories both lost an average of 13 pounds. However, people in the fasting group actually had a harder time sticking to the diet, and more people in that group dropped out of the study. “I really thought people would have an easier time and lose more weight on the [intermittent fasting diet] and I was shocked they lost the same amount,” says study author Dr. Krista Varady, an associate professor of nutrition the University of Illinois at Chicago and author of the book The Every-Other-Day Diet. “Th...
Binge = Response to Starvation - POSTED ON: Feb 23, 2017
No one in life gets away with avoiding all problems. Some problems are physical. Some problems are mental. Some problems are the two combined. If it’s my problem, I’m the one who has to deal with it. Defining a problem helps me understand it, which helps give me wisdom to know the difference between what I can change, and what cannot be changed.
What is a Binge? The dictionary definition of bingeing is:
Bingeing isn’t usually because of lack of self control and weakness. We binge because of a complex interaction of habit, brain chemistry, and external cues that signal us to eat. This interaction can be overcome, but it's harder to do and takes longer to change than most of us realize. Current scientific research indicates that bingeing has a physical (PHYSIOLOGICAL) cause, and that mental & emotional (PSYCHOLOGICAL) problems are a RESULT of the condition, not the CAUSE of the condition. Neuroscientists say that Bingeing is a normal response to Dieting because:
Metabolic suppression is one of several powerful tools that the brain uses to keep the body within a certain weight range, called the set point. The range, which varies from person to person, is determined by genes and life experience. When dieters’ weight drops below it, they not only burn fewer calories but also produce more hunger-inducing hormones and find eating more rewarding. The brain’s weight-regulation system considers your set point to be the correct weight for you, whether or not your doctor agrees. If someone starts at 120 pounds and drops to 80, her brain rightfully declares a starvation state of emergency, using every method available to get that weight back up to normal. The same thing happens to someone who starts at 300 pounds and diets down to 200.
Our brains send signals to the rest of our body that it is starving when our weight is below its Set Point range. A person’s Set Point is determined by a person’s genes and life experience. Life experience involves a person’s weight history, because when a person gains and holds “excess” weight, their Set Point...
Happily Ever After & Neuroscience - POSTED ON: Feb 20, 2017
Once upon a time, there was a fat woman who wanted to become thin. She began eating less food than her body used day after day, and eventually her body became a size “normal”.
After she crossed the “finish line” to her weight goal, she slightly relaxed her rigid eating behaviors, but in order to maintain her weight-loss, she paid close attention to the hunger signals from her body, working to eat only when she felt hungry, and to stop as soon as she stopped feeling hungry. And she lived happily ever after….. …........... NOT exactly .......…. I advise anyone struggling with - or interested in - maintenance issues to go to DietHobby’s BLOG CATEGORIES, Research - Science and read the articles that have been scrapbooked there. The following article was written by Sandra Aamodt, a neuroscientist, author of “Why Diets Make Us Fat: The Unintended Consequences of Our Obsession With Weight Loss” (2016). It was posted in the New York Times in May 2016. Dr. Aamodt makes the point that the problem with Dieting is not Willpower. It’s neuroscience. I found her book to be well researched, and I believe she accurately states the basic problem. Dr. Aamodt’s information is extremely valuable, and I recommend her book for people working to maintain weight-loss. However, although the “solution” to the dieting and maintenance struggle that she proposes could be effective for some people, it is not one …. for various reasons … that I find personally acceptable or one that I’m willing to adopt.
Why You Can’t Lose Weight on a Diet by Sandra Aamodt SIX years after dropping an average of 129 pounds on the TV program “The Biggest Loser,” a new study reports, the participants were burning about 500 fewer calories a day than other people their age and size. This helps explain why they had regained 70 percent of their lost weight since the show’s finale. The diet industry reacted defensively, arguing that the participants had lost weight too fast or ate the wrong kinds of food — that diets do work, if you pick the right one. But this study is just the latest example of research showing that in the long run dieting is rarely effective, doesn’t reliably improve health and does more harm than good. There is a better way to eat. The root of the problem is not willpower but neuroscience. Metabolic suppression is one of several powerful tools that the brain uses to keep t...
Weight-Loss Alternative Facts - POSTED ON: Jan 24, 2017
What is commonly believed to be “Fact” about weight loss, including weight-loss and health, has no basis in evidence from Scientific Research. No matter how many people believe a lie, it will never become the truth.
Repeating an untruth as though it were true, over and over, will never make it true.
Also, wishing, hoping, or believing that something is true won’t magic away objective facts. A current event along that line occurred when aides of the new president recently denied the reality of certain specific objective facts even though photographic and other verifiable evidence proved that those facts were True. Even though the truth was clearly visible, the White House denied it. One aide even defended their false statements as being an offer of “Alternative Facts”. After that new political term was used to justify Falsehoods, Lies, and Untruths, it was corrected by a tweet from the Merriam-Webster Dictionary saying: “A fact is a piece of information presented as having objective reality.” Below is an accurate article showing how the marketing of “Alternate Facts” has been effectively applied to Weight-Loss isues. When We Talk About Weight Loss Research by Ragen Chastain of Dances with Fat One of the reasons that I’m no longer interested in attempting weight loss is that my review of the literature informs me that it simply has no basis in evidence as being an effective way to either lose weight or become more healthy (which are two separate things). When I say that, people often object insisting that there are studies where people have lost weight. The problem is that any old research where a couple of people lost weight won’t do (go ahead, review the literature. I think you’ll be shocked to find how often the average participant lost a few pounds, gained back half of it before they stopped tracking, and then the authors declare the study a success.) The research we would need for weight loss to meet the criteria of an evidence-based medical intervention is twofold. First, we would need a study where the majority of the participants lost the amount of weight that we are told we need to lose to change our health and maintain that weight loss long term (over 5 years). If we had thos...
Psysiology = Biology Messing with Physics - POSTED ON: May 23, 2016
How to Lose 50 pounds and keep them off. by Dr. Arya Sharma, M.D. See Video Below Physiology: the way in which a living organism or bodily part functions. Biology: the physiology, behavior, and other qualities of a particular living organism. Physics: the study of matter and its motion through space and time; energy and force.
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