Today on yahoo.com they had a featured article on weight loss. This article (in my resource links) from Johns Hopkins illustrates the bad information out there. It is valuable because it debunks a myth that a certain eating habit will help you lose weight (see Atkins diet, high protein diet, low protein diet, high fat diet, low fat diet, low candy diet, etc. etc.) but the advice given and the protocol only helped the 821 participants to lose, on average, 9 pounds over 2 years. If that's all I lost I'd be PISSED! A medical study published in the New England Journal of Medicine, one of the most respected resources in medicine for physicians, and the best they could do was 9 pounds in 2 years? After what I've been able to do over the last year for my patients, that is sad and pathetic that the medical community keeps going back to low results, low yield practices in weight loss.
Here's where I shake my head. The diet was for 2 years and led to some weight loss in 6 months, averaging 13 pounds per patient, but after 2 years all the groups averaged 9 pounds off still. So in a study where they were observed by physicians and exercised and had diet plans and were even counseled, they could only muster 13 pounds of weight lost initially, and only 9 pounds remained off. THAT SUCKS COMPARED TO MY TECHNIQUE! I average a pound a day, and in 5 months averaged 40 pounds off that stayed off (so far) for each patient. My patients lose the first 13 pounds in 2 weeks and keep losing, because with my technique and Alwin Lewis's technique, it is the calorie intake that matters, not the type of calories.
Also misleading: the dietitian in the article states you need a low-fat diet. It has already been proven that natural fat intake is not the problem. Sugar calorie intake causes the worst of the LDL's to go up (High density LDL), not fat as learned in basic biochemistry. Natural fat intake causing problems is another myth that needs to be debunked. It has always been the sugar! Watch the YouTube video from Dr. Robert Lustig on sugar to get a medical school lecture on the metabolism of high fructose corn syrup and you'll see what I mean. The link is in my main blog listed in my signature if you cannot find it.
Robert H. Lustig, MD, UCSF Professor of Pediatrics in the Division of Endocrinology, explores the damage caused by sugary foods in the YouTube below. He argues that fructose (too much) and fiber (not enough) appear to be cornerstones of the obesity epidemic through their effects on insulin. IT'S NOT FAT. It's a great lecture made for the public. The first 30 minutes gets bogged down in the science but for a former medical student like me it's exciting to watch. But if you want to skip that first 30 minutes you'll see the brunt of the lecture after that. UCSF Mini Medical School for the Public is a great series full of up-to-date science.
After watching his lecture imagine having a full understanding of how a low-fat diet really isn't the key to good health and dieting! Our obesity epidemic is based on higher intake of sugar based on drinks and foods packed with it! Average and high fat diets have never been the issue! If that were the case, we should have had a major decline in heart attacks and strokes and diabetes in the last 10 years, but instead our country is getting even fatter and having even more problems. Yes, your LDL goes up when you eat large amounts of animal fat, but your high density LDL does not go up, and that's the LDL that causes heart attacks, strokes, fat livers, diabetes, gout and high blood pressure as shown in the basic biochemistry lecture by Dr. Lustig, a lecture every medical student has sat through and yet tends to forget when advising their patients in weight loss.
High density LDL comes from sugar calories. Period. Watch the video and educate yourself on today's obesity epidemic and the true causes of it.
Case in point. Today I had 3 patients come in for follow up on their diet plans. Patient number one was in his first 7 days of the diet and coming in to coach him and encourage him as well as check him to ensure his blood pressure isn't dropping and his weight is dropping appropriately. In the first 7 days, he lost 7 pounds. This is not water weight, this is not stool weight. It is fat burning when the body is allowed to burn fat calories through calorie reduction. he is allowed to eat what he wants in extremely smaller portions. He was smiling, had inner confidence, and also did NOT feel hungry. He had none of the misery you see with the usual diets out there. This is just the first 7 pounds in his journey. He is diabetic and is holding all his medicines and his sugars are 130-150 without any of his medicines while doing this diet. Another strong case for him to realize how important portions are to his sugars.
Patient number 2. He just completed his first month of the diet. Started at 331 pounds, today weighed 306. 25 pounds of weight lost! No gimmicks. This is fat loss and burning pure and simple. He hasn't started exercising yet either. He has a big smile on his face for the fact that very soon he will be under 300 pounds for the first time in 6 years and is holding all of his diabetes medicines due to sugars of 100-130 while on the diet.
Patient Number 3. She just completed her first week of doing the diet diligently. She had an initial 1 month failure where she was trying to cheat. Lo and Behold when doing it right she lost 11 pounds. Her bp dropped from 140/80 to 110/70 and we are already weaning off the lasix I had started a few weeks ago to get her blood pressure and edema down. She is not dehydrated in the least.
3 patients either on their way or past the 9 pound weight loss factor in 1 month or less. All feeling fine and safe. A few symptoms of hunger at first. The one coming off lasix had a few headaches but they will likely go away when we stop the medicine. I am excited for these patients because they too will be experiencing what over 50 patients have experienced with my techniques and hundreds more have experienced with Dr. Alwin Lewis.
Oh, and in case you were wondering, I too have lost 30 pounds on the this diet. Stay tuned to rapidweightlosshypnosis.com to learn about the diet techniques me and Dr. Alwin Lewis use.
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Arthur E. Apolinario, M.D., M.P.H.
http://www.rapidweightlosshypnosis.com
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