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By Healthnut at Buddyslim

Losing weight is not as simple as ABC.    Alot can go wrong during dieting.  One can pass out, regain weight, throw up, develop migraine headaches, lose a vital organ, or need some medical intervention.    I often wonder why doctors with such massive knowledge about the human body are not warning people about the dangers of dieting.   Why do they wait until the person needs an operation to deliver the bad news?

A low carb, high protein diet, for example, is destined to damage the kidneys, yet many are still on this diet.   According to the National Kidney Foundation, chronic kidney disease is on the rise with an estimate of 20 million Americans at risk.   While it is hard to say that the rise is all due to dieting, it is hard to believe that the rise is all due to genetic defects.

Every doctor wants to see the overweight and the obese lose weight to decrease the risks for heart attacks, strokes, and diabetes.  Yet, none of these crusading doctors are providing dieters any risk guidance or any info on weight loss physiology.    Extreme dieting is not safe and can cost lives.  While starvation, for instance, will mobilize usage of the fat, too much fat cells floating in the body will clog up and fatten up the liver as well as can build plaque in the arteries.

Surely, dieters do not deserve nor are they aware about these dire consequences.   Armed with a “barrel of questions” and a quest for answers,  I must had listened to well over 100 hours of lectures given by countless doctors to get the following points.     Here are the more interesting ones you need to know:

1) Eating smaller portions and more meals per day is the better for the body.  Instead of eating three meals per day, eat five or six meals per day.  Not only will you spike up less glucose this way, but you will metabolize food better.  Located near your heart, the stomach can expand up to 2 to 4 liters.  If you place a liter of coke in the center of your chest, ask yourself what expanding to 2 to 4 liters will look like inside your body?  And if you are in a hurry, how much heartburn will you incur?

2) Sometimes you may just be thirsty and/or vitamin/mineral deficient instead of being hungry.    Thirst and hunger have similar cues.   Processed foods are low in nutrients and will tend to make people eat MORE. What is happening here is that the body is searching for a specific vitamin/mineral, and when you are not getting it, your body will keep telling you to eat until you get enough of that vitamin/mineral.  That’s why processed foods make poor food choices when it comes to dieting.

3)  There is a 20 minute delay between the stomach and the brain registering that the stomach is full.   If you eat slowly, you will end up eating less.

4) Doctors can “brag” all they want about their diet plans.  The Atkins, Dr. Phil’s,  South Beach, Ornish, and the Zone are just some of the popular diet plans by doctors/surgeons.   Until they show you their personal test results and the possible side effects, don’t believe a word they say.    I have learned that doctors tend to be bias and do not always tell both sides of the story.   While one side maybe true, the other side may be dangerous.

5)  Whenever you read about obesity and rats, toss the idea in the trash.     Mice and rats do not have gallbladders; therefore, they can’t digest fat and will get fat when they eat fat.

6)  Early satiety and being full is not the same thing.   It is important to know the difference because if left untreated, the body will get weaker and weaker.  Feeling full after eating is healthy. Early satiety means someone just feels full but has not eaten.    Cancer patients typically will experience early satiety.

7)  When you go into starvation, your body breaks down fat as fuel.  Carbs are the first to go while fat is the body’s last reservoir for fuel.  While dieters think this is great, too much fat floating in system will fatten up the liver, and a fat liver will lead to liver failure.   Starvation and liver disease will lead to ascites (pot belly).

The longer you cook your carbs, the more mushy and the higher the glycemic the carbs will be.  That means that unless your body is able to produce enough insulin supporting that extra glucose, your tummy will grow.

9)  The higher the glucose, the lower your metabolism rate and the more damaging the liver and kidneys will be.   If your glucose reaches around 180 mg/dl, it will begin put “holes” in the kidneys.   Too low of a glucose level is not ideal either since this will affect the brain.   Your glucose level should be above 60 mg/dl.

10)  The longer you cook your proteins, the harder the proteins will be.   Think of an egg…from scrambled to hard boiled.

11)  Liposuction is NOT a permanent fat loss strategy but an EXPENSIVE temporarily cosmetic fix with latter consequences. Keep in mind that liposuction is not the same as a tummy tuck.  Each year, I’m amazed at the number of women who are “sucked” into believing liposuction will “suck” the fat out of them permanently.  Desperate for flat abs, many shell out thousands of dollars to plastic surgeons to get both liposuction and tummy tuck done. But the truth is liposuction is a scam.  And doctors are sooooooooooo crooked about this.  If one does not change his or her diet after liposuction, one will eventually gain back all the fat.  Fat goes where it wants to go.  There are “NO STOP SIGNS” telling the body that fat cannot enter the abdominal region.

12)  Kegel exercise can help strengthen the female’s pelvic as well as reduce her chances of acquiring urinary incontinence.  As a female ages, a lot can happen to the female pelvic.  Cystocele (when the bladder collapse into the vagina), rectocele (when the rectum collapse into the vagina), and enterocele (when the bowel collapse into the vagina) are just a few examples.

13) To keep the blood from clotting during menstruation, females should exercise unless they have endometriosis.   Anytime you are in an idle position, whether you are a male or female, your blood will clot.    Females  have the advantage of seeing this first hand physically during menstruation.    They look like “chunks of a liver” or “blood strings”.

14)  Heart rate monitors are just expensive gadgets that do not monitor the heart nor prevent a heart attack.     If you want to accurately measure your heart, buy a stop watch and a cheap stethoscope.

15)  Defecating on a daily basis will help accelerate your metabolism.   Unfortunately, constipation in America is a big issue, and doctors have yet to begin addressing this issue.

16)  Your abdomen contains lymph nodes which help with the drainage of excess fluids.    If there are any inflammation, infections, or damage to these lymph nodes, the abdominal region will swell.

17) Low fat diets do not work because we need dietary fat to store any fat soluable vitamins - A, D, or E.  While we may have plenty of fat, the fat that is on us is not in the same type of fat needed to store these vitamins.

To be continued…