A holistic and an integrated overall coping strategy is needed

Eating disorders are engulfing many young people nowadays. Those that get trapped in this condition are those whose self-esteem is eroded. Their self-worth diminishes by nurturing self-defeating thoughts of being ugly and undesirable.

I had a close cousin who has been battling anorexia nervosa for quite some time now. I felt terribly sorry for her. She tried her best to keep a tight lid on her secret. Until one day, she decided to spill the beans to her parents. Opening it to someone else was really tough. She did not even confide her secret face-to-face. Instead, she wrote it in a letter detailing her suffering and how badly she needed help. It was a big relief for her parents. Together, they aided their daughter in seeking professional help.

The path to recovery wasn’t smooth. She still grapples with that nasty habit of eating and purging. Nevertheless, she’s doing a terrific job of letting her family help her. Now she’s able to manage her condition bit by bit. She just needs to pick up pieces of herself little by little. With her family’s support, she should be able to retain a positive image of herself.

It would seem like there’s no easy way from this condition. But there is. It has to start from within. There’s no magical guarantee to overcome this disorder overnight. On your way to recovery, sometimes slip-ups happen. It is so hard to eliminate that self-defeating idea that losing weight is the key to happiness. Overcoming this thought would let you rediscover the joy of being yourself and loving yourself.

If you feel you’re struggling with eating disorders, here are some tips that you might want to take note of:

• Never hesitate to ask someone for help- Most people feel this is rather embarrassing. But it’s not. If you keep it yourself, you are pushing yourself to a brink of self-destruction. Get as much support as you can from a trusted confidant most especially from your family. Learn more about your condition. Educate yourself first before you educate other people about what you’re going through.

• Seek out the help from a trained specialist- Sharing your condition with a trained professional makes it easier for you to understand the situation that you are in. A specialist has all the necessary experience to deal with your condition and all the available tools/strategies/therapies at their disposal.

• Understand the health risks- Eating disorders such as anorexia and bulimia are maybe consequences of an even more complicated health concerns. Or the disorders can cause further risks on your physical well-being especially of you have become underweight.

• Have an integrated treatment overall strategy- An effective remedy not only addresses the signs and symptoms but, most importantly, the root causes as well. A long-term treatment plan may include not only medical monitoring and counseling but education as well. The overall approach should be holistic.

Squandering your health in search of an ideal weight is self-destructive. Managing this condition is challenging. It requires a lot of courage from the patient and enormous support from family and friends.

What’s the greatest threat facing our civilization? (No, it’s not the Islamic jihad   q.) It’s obesity. Due to its attendant health and economic costs, scientists predict that obesity alone will topple economic and social structures, induce a wide range of dire diseases, and drastically cut short Americans’ life spans.

These are more than another set of statistics — they predict things that can and will affect you, your family, your health, and your pocketbook. If you are among the two thirds of adult Americans struggling to escape escalating weight gain, (or even if you’re teetering on the edge with ten persistent pounds you can’t seem to lose), as a physician, I recommend that you take action to lose weight and protect your future health.

And I have good news for you. I’ve developed a simple plan to help you lose weight automatically based on a new scientific breakthrough.

Despite the abysmal failure of conventional medical approaches, this plan is different because it’s based on recent, groundbreaking scientific research, research that I predict will totally revolutionize weight loss and change the landscape of medicine as we know it.

Many of the answers to our weight and health problems are buried in thousands of research papers. With the aid of a number of very brilliant thinkers and scientists, I’ve gathered and synthesized the greatest advances in medical science over the last 20 years — advances that usually take decades to get incorporated into medical practice. Translated into a simple program that has brought easy, sustainable weight loss to thousands of people, you can access them today.

In the recent past, many pundits theorized that society-wide weight gain was due to our genes. In a sense, they were right, but genes only tell half the story. We share the same genes as our hunter- gatherer forebears who foraged in the woods and hunted wild game 20,000 years ago. What’s changed is the environment within which our genes operate.

Up until modern times, man’s natural environment supplied the foods we were genetically programmed to eat. But with the advent of industrialized agriculture and food production, we began eating mass-produced and processed foods that genetically program us to add pounds.

Here’s how:

Food is information — not just calories — and food information speaks to our genes, turning some genes ON and other genes OFF. That’s why it’s genes, not calories, that count.

Until recently, scientists believed that the critical mechanism for weight loss was caloric intake and expenditure — you eat little and exercise hard to lose each pound. But that’s hard to do and hardera to maintain, recent scientific studies reveal (and no doubt not surprising to anyone who has tried repeatedly and unsuccessfully to lose weight).

Using the caloric mechanism for weight loss is a bit like manually cranking a lever to open your garage door inch-by-inch and then having to hold the door open. Wouldn’t you rather push the button that activates the circuitry to open your garage door automatically?

To do that for weight loss, you have to access the master biological mechanisms controlling weight loss and weight gain. Using those mechanisms opens the door to automatic weight loss. The recent scientific discoveries I’ve assembled decode the instruction manual of our basic biology. At last, we can control the master mechanisms: our genes themselves.

The new genetic science (called Functional Medicine) teaches that our genes interact intimately with our environment. Every bite of food we eat, every thought we think, every stress we experience, or toxin we inhale carries a specific message to our genes, turning them on (or off), and telling them how to behave.

As a result, our genes are programmed moment-by-moment to actively create either weight loss or weight gain. Scientists have tracked exactly how all the different foods trigger the messages sent to your genes. With that knowledge, you can give your body the foods that work in your favor — and avoid ones that don’t.

For instance, for decades, people were warned to avoid fats at all costs, but now we know that the type of fat you eat is more important than the amount of fat you eat. The new science traces the biological impact of good fats, like the omega-3 fatty acids (contained in fish, fish oils, certain nuts and many other foods) and bad fats like the trans-fats contained in many processed foods.

What researchers found is that good fats turn on your body’s fat burning genes and bad fats turn off the fat burning genes. When you consume EPA or DHA, both omega-3 fatty acids, they access a metabolic gateway called the PPAR receptor, to activate genes that increase your metabolism, help you burn fat, and assist you in processing bodily glucose more effectively so that foods won’t get stored as fat.

It’s as if the EPA and DHA opens up an extra lane on your hormonal superhighway, making for a smooth and easy route towards slimness and health. That’s why, for automatic weight loss, I recommend adding EPA and DHA (both found in fish oil) to your diet, beginning today. On the other hand, unhealthy trans fats (such as found in many processed and fast foods) act as a metabolic roadblock to weight loss, and if you eat them, you may find yourself crawling along at a snail’s pace, going nowhere.

These are just two of the hundreds of ways that you’ll learn to awaken the fat-burning code hidden in your DNA. In my new book, Ultra Metabolism, due out in March, 2006, you’ll discover a wide range of foods that tell your genes to shad pounds, while learning to avoid the many other foods that tell your genes to pack on the pounds. Eating the foods right for your genes allows you to literally program your body to lose weight automatically, even as  you sleep!

And that is the key: be simply learning to eat the foods that ignite your body’s fat burning engines, and avoiding the foods that snuff out these engines, you finally begin the process of working WITH your body, instead of against it — something that all fad diets fail to do, which is why they all fail in the long-run.

But, because Ultra Metabolism teaches a simple plan to harness your body’s own powerful fat burning forces — ones that have evolved over millions of years — you are actually programming your body to lose weight, automatically.

Why struggle and suffer with ineffective diets when you can actually teach your body to be slim and healthy? With the simple two-step plan I’ve developed, you can program your body to lose weight automatically. In the first step, you eliminate all of the bad foods that slow your metabolism, make you feel lethargic and lead to disease; in the second step, you add the good foods that crank up your metabolism, boost your energy and revitalize your health.

Twenty-first century weight loss is easier than you’ve ever dreamed. And it’s smoothing that I am confident about since I’ve treated over 2,000 patients, many of whom have experienced the very same automatic weight loss that I’ve described here.

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We see a lot of people struggling with weight issues and their body image. With the available resources and materials for weight loss spilled all over the place, those, who are overweight, are a bit confused about which method to follow to shed those extra lbs. Although the basics of weight loss do not change, they depend on setting realistic goals, cutting the calorie intake and exercising a little bit. Many presume that a weight loss program is all about a restricted diet, or fad diets, or diet pills and involving strenuous physical exercises. But, actually the basics of weight loss program are rational, flexible and healthy to which any one can adhere to while they work well on the person aiming to lose weight.

The first basic step towards weight loss is to set a reachable goal. When setting a goal to reduce weight, it is good to know the reason for doing so, benefits you may get at the end of the weight reduction program and the changes you are willing to make in your diet. This kind of analysis of the self helps understand the problem the better way and helps in setting realistic goals for weight loss. The weight loss efforts should be a reasonable one and should be gradual.

Once the goal is set to reduce say two pounds a week, then comes the step of creating a food journal to analyze and monitor what you eat for the particular week. This food journal helps keep track of what you eat, or drink. Sometimes the feeling towards the food you eat is also jotted down. This is very important as it throws light on the food pattern and habits of the person. The weight loss is also recorded. By reviewing the food pattern, the foods that needed to be avoided can be seen clearly and can be substituted with healthy foods. The secret is to be very consistent with this surely you will see positive results. Water is a very good natural hunger suppressant and can be taken in good quantities, if you note that you are drinking less amounts of water. It too can contribute to the weight loss efforts.

When the diet is combined with good exercise say walking or swimming or aerobics, it too aids in burning calories. The exercise should be in such a way that when it is done, it should be enjoyable, choose the kind of activity which interests you a lot than slogging. Exercise too needs to be tracked in the journal to see its effects with your own eyes.

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Hoodia, the phenomenon sweeping America and much of the rest of the modern world, works in a startling way. The product works by tricking the brain into thinking that you’ve already eaten and therefore already have enough energy (blood sugar) and therefore the body doesn’t require additional nutrition. For this reason, the brain proceeds to shut down the hunger mechanism in the body, leaving those who take hoodia to be able to conquer their appetite since they don’t feel hungry. This, in turn, allows those who take hoodia to be able to better control their eating habits in terms of portions and number of daily meals, leading to much lower calorie intake and, therefore, weight loss.

Hoodia has been used for thousands of years by the Bushmen of southern Africa. It was used primarily to ward off hunger during times when food was scarce, such as when they had to journey through the desert. Although there are 20 types of hoodia, only one, hoodia gordonii, has been shown to carry the active ingredient P57 which works as a hunger suppressant. Other variations of hoodia do not appear to work in suppressing appetite.

Hoodia is generally consumed in one of two ways, pill and liquid forms, and is generally taken an hour before meals. It is important to drink plenty of water when taking hoodia since hoodia shuts off the thirst mechanism in addition to the hunger mechanism. It is only too easy to become dehydrated if you don’t ensure you are drinking plenty of water even though you won’t feel thirsty when taking hoodia. Hoodia usually takes about 1 to 2 weeks to work in full force, however most report that they notice appetite suppressing effects within the first half hour of taking hoodia.

There are certain situations that appear to override the effects of hoodia, however. Namely, those with active workout habits, especially those who train with weights frequently, will still notice high appetite levels. Muscles need calories to be maintained and those muscles still call out for nutrition whether you are taking hoodia or not. In addition, it appears as if hoodia works best with low ca`rb diets. Although details are sparse, there does appear to be much evidence that shows that hoodia does not curb appetite on nearly the same level when too many carbohydrates are still being consumed in the diet.

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Most women, it can be said, have an overwhelming desire to be always looking good all the time. Every woman needs to feel beautiful physically. They also want to have a pleasant, alluring personality and attitude. Of course, to make it complete, women want to be in good health.

However, in society today, there is now a confusion about what is beautiful and what is plain vanity.  Media distortion and exaggerated advertising campaigns have done a lot to shape the new standard in beauty:  slim and sexy is beautiful.  No wonder, even Hollywood’s glamorous women find it a requirement to have shapely curves especially during a photo shoot or during the Awards Night.

So, what is a woman to think, if she weighs around 180 pounds and above? Of course, the poor lady would have to think of an easy way out of being called big or fat. Taking over-the-counter weight loss pills would be the quickest, easiest, and most convenient way to lose weight. These weight loss pills are readily available in the market, with or without the approval of the FDA. It is seen everywhere — from the local drugstore, the supermarket, or any health food stores. One can even purchase these pills online, with a lot more options to choose from. These weight loss pills are said to make a person lose weight, decrease one’s appetite, reduce body fat, increase the amount of calories burned, increases fat metabolism, blocks the absorption of dietary fat, and increase the feeling of fullness with continued use.

There are a number of weight loss pills circulating the market today. Whether herbal or dietary supplement, these pills should be taken with caution. A woman’s health is at risk when taking such diet pills. Since these pills are available almost anywhere, it’s appealing to women who would want to lose weight fast. But everyone should consider in researching more on the said diet pills, since some of these pills can be downright dangerous for a woman’s health.

• Bitter orange is considered as a diet pill. This dietary supplement claims to decrease appetite, but what a woman really needs to know is that this specific supplement is also an ephedra substitute. This substitute, however, may cause health risks similar to those of ephedra. Chitosan is another example, a diet pill that supposedly blocks the absorption of dietary fat. This particular drug is relatively safe but its effectiveness is doubtful. This specific weight loss pill can also cause constipation, bloating, and other gastrointestinal complaints. Conjugated linoleic acid (CLA), another diet pill, claims to reduce body fats, decreases appetite and also build up muscles. What people don’t know is that this weight loss pill can cause diarrhea, indigestion, and other gastrointestinal problems, and that is will not reduce a person’s total body weight. Ephedra, which also claims to decrease appetite, has a lot more side effects than any of the other diet pills. This can cause high blood pressure, heart rate irregularities, sleeplessness, heart attacks, strokes, seizures, and even death. This weight loss pill has already been banned from the market due to safety concerns but it can still be legally purchased as tea.

For consumers, especially women, it is hard to know what’s inside those pills. Most weight loss pills have a combination of different ingredients, some of which are just basically add-ons like caffeine or laxatives. This mixture of ingredients can pose a risk to a woman’s health, since the interaction between these ingredients is still unknown. The best way for women to lose weight is not by taking these so-called diet pills but to have an active and healthy lifestyle. Consider eating a good and balanced diet, together with physical exercise. And lastly, be happy with how you look. It’s not how heavy or sexy you are, it’s about confidence and having the right attitude towards life.

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Are you looking to lose weight to improve your appearance, your health, or even both?  If you are, you may be looking for advice.  The good news is that there are number of tips that you can use to help you successfully lose weight and hopefully achieve your weight loss goal.

When it comes to losing weight, the best thing that you can do is eat healthy. Eating healthy involves watching the foods that you eat, not necessarily how much food you eat.  Of course, you may want to restrict the amount of foods that you eat, when on a diet, but it is more important to focus on the foods that you do eat.  For instance, if you were to eat fruit instead of chips, you could have more fruit snacks with your meals than you would be able to if you were just to eat junk food.

Since eating healthy is an important component of losing weight, you may be wondering how you can go about doing so.  One of the first things that you should do is find and familiarize yourself with healthy meals. You can do this by way of standard internet search or by buying a collection of healthy eating recipe books.  To reduce the boredom often associated with healthy eating, especially if you are not use to it, it is important that you spice, up your foods and try to not eat the same meals over and over again each week.

In connection with healthy eating, regular exercise is also important to weight loss.  If you are looking to lose weight, you should start an exercise plan for yourself.  Exercise is important as it burns off calories.  When you burn calories, the amount of calories that your body absorbs decreases. This is, essentially, what makes it possible for you to lose weight.  If you haven’t been exercising regularly in the past, it is important that you take it slow. Exercise is a great way to lose weight, but you do not want to overdo it, especially at first.

If you don’t currently have an exercise plan or program in place, you may be wondering more about what you can do.  One of the many ways that you can go about finding exercises or workouts to do is by buying a collection of fitness magazines. Many fitness magazines have detailed exercises outlined in them, often accompanied by pictures.  You may also be able to find free instructional workout videos or exercise moves online.  As a reminder, it is important to start out slow or at least start with exercises that would be easy for you to.

Eating healthy and regular exercise are both important components of losing weight, but there are additional tips that you can use to help you lose weight.  One of those tips involves finding a workout partner or a workout buddy. This is a person who can exercise with you, whether your exercise involves visiting a local gym or just going for a walk at a local shopping center.  Having a workout partner may help to keep you motivated and it may help to keep exercising and losing weight fun and exciting for you.

Another way that you can go about successfully achieving your weight loss goal is by spicing, up your exercises. As previously mentioned, you can use the internet or fitness magazines to find workouts for you to do at home.  To help reduce the boredom often associated with exercising you will want to change up your exercises, often on a daily basis. For instance, one day you may want to use a treadmill, the next day you may want to lift weights, and the next day you may want to do an exercise DVD, and so forth.

You should also consider making exercise and healthy eating logs or journals for yourself. These items can be used to track your progress. If you have a good week, like one where you completed all of your exercises, you may want to think about rewarding yourself.  Your reward doesn’t have to include food; it can be something as simple as a sticker or treating yourself to a movie.  Journals and logs have been known to help many individuals looking to lose weight and it may be able to do the same for you.

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Research has been conducted over the last few years to identify what compounds present in green tea makes it a potent health drink. The scientists have found that green tea contains several antioxidants which are responsible for many of green tea’s health benefits, including weight loss benefit.

A research study by American and Swiss scientists on the weight loss benefit of green tea was concluded and the results of which were published in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition and Urology. During the course of their study, they have found that green tea contains certain compounds that contribute to its weight loss benefit.

Lead researcher, D. Abdul Dulloo said in a press release that there are only two ways to achieve weight loss – either reduce energy intake or increase energy expenditure. Green tea, it seems, has compounds that can increase the body’s normal metabolism rate, thus giving it its weight loss benefit.

At the University of Geneva, where the study was conducted, Dr. Dulloo and his colleagues experimented on ten healthy young men. They theorized that the main contributor to green tea’s weight loss benefit is its caffeine content. To test this hypothesis on green tea’s weight loss benefit, they placed the study’s participants on a typical “Western” diet which is about forty percent fat, thirteen percent protein, and forty-seven percent carbohydrates.

Thrice everyday, the researchers measured their subjects’ energy expenditure (the measurement used in determining the number of calories burned in 24 hours) and monitored their respiration quotient to find out how well they utilized their carbohydrates, proteins, and fats.

When they interpreted the data they collected, they found out that the men receiving regular dosages of green tea extract showed a significant increase in their 24-hour energy expenditure and a reduction in their respiration quotient (which means that more fat is burned, thereby achieving maximum weight loss). On the other hand, those men who were only given caffeine or placebo with every meal showed only minimal increases in their metabolism rates.

The scientists construed that the substance catechin polyphenol present in green tea adds to its weight loss benefit. These substances in green tea may alter how the body uses the hormone norepinephrine which is responsible for increasing the metabolism rate, thus leading to weight loss.

In their conclusion, the scientists inferred that green tea owes its weight loss benefit to the presence of antioxidants and the substance catechin polyphenol. These substances help increase fat and calorie burning and optimize weight loss.

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Deciding on the best weight loss program for you can be confusing. You need a healthy weight loss program that will allow you to lose weight safely, but there are so many diets out there today; it’s hard to know what the best one really is! It’s no wonder that time after time, your diet fails and you’re right back where you started, or worse, you put on extra pounds. Each new diet is advertised as the best out there, but they don’t put the emphasis where it should be: on a healthy weight loss program that lets you lose weight safely.

Why do so many diets fail? Why is it so hard to find the best weight loss program that will help you lose all the weight you want? The answer is simple: diets fail because they’re too restrictive. We need to eat a variety of foods to survive. When you break a diet, that’s your body’s way of telling you to take care of yourself!

The best weight loss program isn’t a crash diet. It’s not one of those diets where you deprive yourself of your favorite foods. The best weight loss program won’t make you feel hungry all the time. It is one of those diets where you still get to eat your favorite foods. It will let you eat enough that you don’t feel hungry every minute you’re awake. The best one is the one that allows you to lose weight safely.

That’s what it comes down to: the best weight loss program is a healthy weight loss program. It doesn’t cause you to lose weight too quickly, and it allows your body to get all the nutrients it needs, so that you don’t feel hungry all the time. It is one where you don’t feel like you’re even on a diet!

So: what is a healthy weight loss program? One where you can lose weight safely and naturally? Does it even exist? It sure does. And it is really simple. There are no gimmicks, no fad foods, and you don’t have to spend hours a day in the gym. If you want to lose weight safely, the best weight loss program is simply a combination of eating a balanced diet, portion control, and exercise.

Why is it the best? Because it’s healthy and will let you lose weight safely, at a moderate pace. Losing a lot of weight very quickly isn’t good for your body, and when you lose weight too quickly, you’re more likely to gain it back. On the best weight loss program you still get to eat your favorite foods, so you’re not depriving yourself of anything. Fad diets tell you what to eat and when to eat it. The best weight loss program is the one that lets you eat when you’re hungry, because starving yourself makes you more likely to overeat. By adding some gentle exercise, such as walking, you’ll feel healthier and burn extra calories.

That’s the best weight loss program. It’s a healthy one, and you can lose weight safely. No special exercise equipment to buy and you don’t have to starve yourself!

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Do you remember telling yourself that you want to shed some excess weight? How many times did you decide to lose weight? Did you ever cross this first step to act on how to reduce your weight? Most people never actually cross this first step. If they did, most should have been enjoying their day at “Slimland”.

If you want to join Slimland, try going organic and start making healthy food choices to fight those excess pounds and gain one of the greatest foundations of weight loss.

Fruits and Vegetables are Healthier Choices

Organic fruits and vegetables are splendid food choices for moving toward Slimland. They are healthier choices for keeping your body fit. Basically, organic foods are generated in a toxin-free environment. People are used to eating traditional foods like fruits, vegetables and meats, without knowing they are ingesting masses of chemicals into their body. These foods are grown by farmers who resort to chemicals for the improvement of their food and animal produce. You still yield the necessary benefits at the cost of taking in toxins into your body; generally you do not want to have these in your system.

Planning your Weight Loss Diet

Planning your diet plan and how to change to it to get slimmer is very crucial. You have to get use to this and be able to stick with it if you want to be successful in getting rid of those extra pounds. Refrain from consuming high fatty snacks or desserts filled with sugars. You need to immediately cut them off from your diet.

Say NO to Crash Dieting

Any kind of crash dieting is a BIG NO in your new weight loss diet plan. Drastic results may be achieved through these kinds of dieting at the price of obtaining more weight in your body. Crash diets are short–lived and are not the best choices for cutting off your excess baggage.

Lose 1 to 2 Pounds Per Week

Losing 1 to 2 pounds every week is the perfect target for getting slimmer. Anything over that becomes unrealistic and causes other weight loss programs to fail. Live for the now, short–term goals have higher chances of being achieved. You attain this by adapting to your current diet plan and drinking 8–10 glasses of water each day. Combining this with exercising will contribute to more a more enhanced weight reduction.

Organic Foods Your First Step to Success

Your first step for getting into the Slimland population is adding organic foods into your diet plan. Select from several organically grown foods to add to your diet, like fruits and eggs, for your high energy breakfast, an organic vegetable salad with a sliced piece of chicken or grilled fish for lunch and a vegetable dish for dinner. This is your best step toward success by making the right choices in healthier food in your diet.

Nothing is impossible when you are trying to lose considerable weight. What you need is a better plan and a commitment to achieving a healthier diet to that ticket to Slimland.

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