Non Surgical Weight Loss Stays Off!

Recently in the International Journal of Obesity, it was shown people who lost weight through lifestyle changes were as likely to keep the weight off as those who receive weight loss surgery. Overall weight loss was around 123lbs in both groups. while both groups did gain weight over the first year they both maintained a weight loss of 30lbs over 5 years.

Further the study concluded those who lost weight with exercise and diet had a lower risk of depression and suicide than the surgery group. Suicide rates as published in the New England Journal of Medicine for surgical weight loss patients is 58% higher than in the normal population.

One of the biggest differences between the groups is the use of diet and exercise by the lifestyle group and the lack by the surgical group.

Sources:
International Journal of Obesity January 2009
New England Journal of Medicine August 2007

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You Are Eating A Colorie Restricted Diet and Still Cant Loose Weight

Diet is a critical component to good health. We all know "junk foods" reduce our wellness, raise our weight and have a significant impact on our long-term health. But what if it wasn't just junk food? What if it was something we thought of as being healthy?

A large part of the success I have in practice is the simple elimination of potentially allergenic foods from my patients diet. Thyroids begin to work, blood pressure medications are reduced, type 2 diabetes resolves.


Our immune system runs on protein. It looks for specific proteins that don't belong and reacts to them. Often the protein is thought of as being benign and a part of our diet.
Symptoms of a food sensitivity can be pretty significant:


* Autoimmune diseases of any kind, thyroid, diabetes myasthenia gravis, etc

* Respiratory symptoms like snoring, asthma, chronic cough and ear infection

* Neurological symptoms such as headaches, dizziness, depression and dementia

* Skin issues like acne, psoriasis, dandruff, eczema and rosacea

* Malabsorption symptoms like poor energy, chronic fatigue, difficulty concentrating, vitamin and mineral deficiency symptoms

* Metabolism problems like weight gain, weight loss, moodiness, chills, addictions

* Gastric symptoms such as Irritable bowel syndrome, diarrhea, constipation, indigestion, gastro esophageal reflux, ulcers
* Genital reproductive disorders include infertility, chronic miscarriage, genital thrush.



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If food intolerance is not treated, and suppressed by over-the-counter (or worse- prescription) medications, specific diseases may occur, including:


* Atherosclerosis

* Bowel cancer

* Anemia

* Osteoporosis

* Celiac disease

* Chron's disease

* Multiple sclerosis

* Rheumatoid arthritis

* High blood pressure

* Graves disease

* Hashimoto's thyroiditis

* Sjogren's Syndrome


-And many others

How do you figure out if a food is causing you all this discomfort? Sometimes it is a simple act of looking at your diet and evaluating it for excessive amounts of any one kind of food. Once you pick the food out you eliminate it from your diet for 2 weeks. If you see symptoms disappear then you know you have solved the mystery.


When do you need a visit with me? When your symptoms are complex and you are unsure where to begin. I put together a customized hypoallergenic diet and set a time table for elimination and re-introduction.

The best part of doing this dietary protocol on my patients is the results and rate of cure. After we have found the food that is causing symptoms and removed it, the patient experiences an almost miraculous turn around in health.

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