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.
That Lost Weight? The Body Finds it. - POSTED ON: May 02, 2016
After’The Biggest Loser,’ Their Bodies Fought to Regain Weight by Gina Kolata, - New York Times, May 2, 2016
Danny Cahill stood, slightly dazed, in a blizzard of confetti as the audience screamed and his family ran on stage. He had won Season 8 of NBC’s reality television show “The Biggest Loser,” shedding more weight than anyone ever had on the program — an astonishing 239 pounds in seven months. When he got on the scale for all to see that evening, Dec. 8, 2009, he weighed just 191 pounds, down from 430. Dressed in a T-shirt and knee-length shorts, he was lean, athletic and as handsome as a model. “I’ve got my life back,” he declared. “I mean, I feel like a million bucks.” Mr. Cahill left the show’s stage in Hollywood and flew directly to New York to start a triumphal tour of the talk shows, chatting with Jay Leno, Regis Philbin and Joy Behar. As he heard from fans all over the world, his elation knew no bounds. But in the years since, more than 100 pounds have crept back onto his 5-foot-11 frame despite his best efforts. In fact, most of that season’s 16 contestants have regained much if not all the weight they lost so arduously. Some are even heavier now. Yet their experiences, while a bitter personal disappointment, have been a gift to science. A study of Season 8’s contestants has yielded surprising new discoveries about the physiology of obesity that help explain why so many people struggle unsuccessfully to keep off the weight they lose. Kevin Hall, a scientist at a federal research center who admits to a weakness for reality TV, had the idea to follow the “Biggest Loser” contestants for six years after that victorious night. The project was the first to measure what happened to people over as long as six years after they had lost large amounts of weight with intensive dieting and exercise. The results, the researchers said, were stunning. They showed just how hard the body fights back against weight loss. “It is frightening and amazing,” said Dr. Hall, an expert on metabolism at the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases, which is part of the National Institutes of Health. “I am just blown away.” It has to do with resting metabolism, which determines how many calories a person burns when at rest. When the show began, the contestants, though hugely overweight, had normal metabolisms for their size, meaning they were burning a normal number of calories for people of their weight. When it ended, their metabolisms had slowed radically and their bodies were not burning enough calories to maintain their thinner sizes. Researchers knew that just about anyone who deliberately loses weight — even if they start at a normal weight or even underweight — will have a slower metabolism when the diet ends. So they were not surprised to see that “The Biggest Loser” contestants had slow metabolisms when the show ended. What shocked the researchers was what happened next: As the years went by and the numbers on the s...
A Justification (Scientific Explanation) for Every Diet. - POSTED ON: Apr 26, 2016
Dear Weight-loss Medical Experts: - POSTED ON: Feb 24, 2016
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