Posted on 07/18/2004 4:07:24 PM PDT by freedumb2003
The first was easy: vitamin C, calcium, chromium and some branded tree and fruit extracts. Fifty bucks a bottle ("for a limited time")?
The second was easy also: there are no data presented.
From what I gather from Dr. Talbott's musings, since "stress" causes some people to pour out cortisol from their adrenal glands and some of them are fat, too much cortsiol is the culprit. Then further, if you take his expensive pills, they will reduce your cortisol levels AND you will lose weight as a consequence. Hypothesis upon hypothesis with an occasional fact thrown in to give them a proof-point. Rating: marketing driven rather than science driven; save your money.
The reason that you (as well as the rest of us) are overweight (other than certain very rare conditions) is that the nutritional intake/energy expenditure environment that we are in is not the best for most of our genetic settings. And yes, there are many people who live in the same envirionment, but are not overweight. Genes and environment both count here. Remember: There is no obesity in a POW camp.
So, read about Atkins or the South Beach diets. Based on the nutritional ecology we had as evolving pre-humans, and even as hunter gatherers, we at much less in the way of carbs. Further, they were different than the ones we eat now. And, as Fat B*stard says in Austin Powers III: "Carbs are the enemy."
Good luck.
Me, too. I couldn't lose weight until my thyroid problem was diagnosed.
Also, I must mention the South Beach Diet.
This book is written by a heart specialist, Arthur Agatston, M.D., who had been searching for years for a diet to help his heart patients and he finally found this one. It's very balanced, good for your heart health, very easy to live with, and is also good for diabetics. It also works.
The doctor wrote the book because he had so many requests for his diet from non-patients who learned, through his patients, of the weight-loss side effect of this diet.
I found my copy at Wal-Mart for twenty dollars or less.
I've read lots of health-food type healthy diet books over the years and his book has the most important aspects of healthy eating which I had learned from them without being extreme.
You aren't eating enough to lose weight. Try Body for Life diet.
OOPS!!...posted to the wrong one before...
You aren't eating enough to lose weight. You need to have a look at "Body for Life"...six small meals a day, six days a week...check into it
You can't get something from nothing (i.e., you can't make fat without food)!
My dad does Jenny Craig regularly and swears by them. They are big advocates of drinking lots of water. Are you doing that?
IF you cut out three regular meals, what were you eating? Mabye I am misreading your post.
All these over he counter weight loss pills include the caveat "when combined with regular exercise and a sensible diet." I suggest if you do that part of it you don't need the pills. I always stick with one simple philosophy, if it really works why do you need to promote it so heavily on tv ads and why can't it be sold over the counter in drug stores. A painless weight loss pill would be so popular you could sell it in stores and you wouldn't need any advertising.
I miswrote... I cut out regular soda but now only eat three regular meals...
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