Joe Graedon, M.S. and Teresa Graedon, Ph.D.
See book keywords and concepts |  By now you are probably sick and tired of hearing about the obesity epidemic in America. You already know that bigger is not better and that a large waist size increases the risk of diabetes, high blood pressure, and heart disease. But shedding pounds—and keeping them off—is one of the great challenges of modern life.
It's not that there is any shortage of advice. There are dozens of diet programs and probably hundreds of diet books available to help you shed pounds, preferably painlessly. Effortless weight loss seems to be the perennial American dream. |
Kelly Brownell and Katherine Battle Horgen
See book keywords and concepts |  One cannot understand the obesity epidemic without considering economic factors such as the per capita price of food in comparison to other needs (housing, transportation, etc.), relative prices of healthy and unhealthy foods, and the value to families of obtaining food quickly. If there is one truth in this war on obesity, it may be that the economics of food and physical activity must change.
Will the Free Market Support Healthy Eating?
There are mixed signals. The number of supermarket shoppers claiming high concern with nutrition dropped from 60 percent in 1996 to 46 percent in 2000. | | Is the Environment Causing the obesity epidemic?
There are several ways to tackle this question. One is to track changes within countries over time. The "World Health Organization (WHO), for example, shows increasing obesity in nation after nation. Such rapid increases cannot be ascribed to shifting biology or changes in the world's gene pool. The WHO agrees with scientists who study this process that the changing environment is responsible.3
There are many examples of countries in transition.4 Studies show time and again that weight increases as lifestyles become more modern and westernized. | | It is clear in our minds that the environment has caused the obesity epidemic. Others have come to the same conclusion. Scientists James Hill and John Peters say in the journal Science:
The current epidemic of obesity is caused largely by an environment that promotes excessive food intake and discourages physical activity}*
Similarly, an Institute of Medicine report on obesity highlighted that:
[TJhere has been no real change in the gene pool during this period of increasing obesity. | | Biology is an enabling factor, but the obesity epidemic, and the consequent human tragedy, is a function of the worsening food and physical activity environment. Governments and societies have come to this conclusion very late. There is much catching up to do. |
The Life Extension Editorial Staff
See book keywords and concepts |  Some scientific studies suggest that part of today's obesity epidemic is being fueled by overconsumption of high-glycemic carbohydrates that induce chronic insulin overload (hyperinsulinemia). The ingestion of avocado extract tablets can suppress serum insulin concentrations, thus reducing carbohydrate craving and body fat stores.
There are several ways to use avocado extract successfully. In obese individuals, the best results occur when two standardized avocado extract tablets are taken after dinner and no food is eaten until the next day. |
Kelly Brownell and Katherine Battle Horgen
See book keywords and concepts | | In a 1994 Op-Ed piece in the New York Times, we began public discourse of taxing high-calorie, high-fat, or high-sugar foods as one means for addressing the obesity epidemic.34 This elicited a firestorm of controversy. The storm still rages. However, the intervening years have seen a decline in the hostility toward the tax concept. The topic has become a legitimate part of the nation's obesity deliberations and is debated in the press, at scientific meetings, and among political leaders. It raises many complex issues.
We begin with two emphatic points. |
Kevin Trudeau
See book keywords and concepts |  The United States government, through various agencies, has had a standard party line on the obesity epidemic. As I mentioned earlier in the book, when experts state things they always state them as fact when, in reality, they are simply their opinions. What the federal agencies state concerning obesity has constantly changed over the years.
Years ago the standard party line was the four basic food groups: meat, dairy, grains, and fruits and vegetables. |
The Life Extension Editorial Staff
See book keywords and concepts | | Othet factors are also responsible for today's obesity epidemic. When an individual's hormones are out of balance, it may be impossible to achieve sustained weight management. Even when blood tests reveal "normal" thyroid hormone status, thete is often an inability to convert T4 thyroid hormone into T3, which is necessary for natural thermogenesis (fat burning) to occur. T3 deficiency is anothet hormonal reason why excess weight accumulates with aging.
Additionally, if testosterone and/or estrogen levels are out of balance, excessive fat gain is often the result. | | Physicians tell obese patients to eat less and exercise more; yet the obesity epidemic worsens every year. This protocol will present the forgotten science and combine it with breakthrough approaches that have never been utilized outside a small clinical setting.
HOW TO REGULATE EXCESS INSULIN
The avocado fruit contains a sugar called mannoheptulose, which has been shown to inhibit both synthesis and release of insulin. Consumption of the proper amount of this avocado sugar would thus appear to be a natural, dietary solution to the problem of hyperinsulinemia (excess blood insulin levels). | | Hyperinsulinemia (too much insulin in the blood) is one of the culprits in the obesity epidemic today. According to some popular diet books, one way to reduce excess insulin is to eat a low-glycemic diet. Authors of these books advocate that obese people should avoid foods that induce the pancreas to over-secrete insulin. In reading the many diet books that extol the role of high-glycemic foods in causing weight gain, one is led to believe that it is an absolute fact that individuals become overweight because they consume too many of the wrong kinds (high-glycemic) of food or drink. |
Kelly Brownell and Katherine Battle Horgen
See book keywords and concepts | | Popkin points out that as countries like China have advanced from food shortages to a healthier diet, the line is quickly crossed where eating too much and weight gain become key concerns:
Changes in diet and activity patterns are fueling the obesity epidemic. These rapid changes in the levels and composition of dietary and activity /inactivity patterns in transitional societies are related to a number of socioeconomic and demographic changes.9
Following the U.S. |
Elizabeth Somer, M.A., R.D.
See book keywords and concepts |  John Foreyt says, "The obesity epidemic results from a clash between our hunter-gatherer ancient genes and our modern sedentary lifestyles."
A typical American burns daily in physical activity only 2.04 calories per pound of body weight, or about 306 calories for a 150-pound person. Compare that to modern-day hunter-gatherers, who typically burn about 11.36 calories per pound of body weight every day, or about 1,704 calories. Even our children are sedentary, sitting in classrooms during the day, then sitting in front of a television or computer in the evening. |
Carol Krucoff and Mitchell Krucoff, M.D.
See book keywords and concepts |  That's why experts are taking a new approach to combating America's obesity epidemic. Instead of trying to get overweight people to become thin, which is aimed primarily at appearance, they're trying to get overweight people to become healthy, which is aimed at normalizing blood pressure, blood glucose, and blood cholesterol levels.
To achieve these health goals, it's important to concentrate on behaviors people can control (eating right and exercising regularly) rather than outcomes people can't control (weight loss). |
The Life Extension Editorial Staff
See book keywords and concepts | | However, a cursory review of published scientific literature indicates that the causes of weight gain are multi-factorial. Fortunately, there are established fundamental factors that can be used to induce significant and sustained fat loss. The diet "trap" to avoid is to believe that any one solution is the key to losing weight.
Age-associated weight gain is the end result of numerous degenerative changes that are at least partially reversible. Most Americans with excess body fat were not overweight in their youth. |
Cheryle R. Hart, M.D. Mary Kay Grossman, R.D.
See book keywords and concepts |  The United States is experiencing an obesity epidemic. One out of every three Americans weighs thirty pounds over his or her ideal weight, and one-half of all Americans are at least 10 percent over their ideal weight. This can be blamed on carbohydrate overload and its consequence: the development of insulin resistance.
The Insulin-Resistance Roller Coaster
Insulin never has the opportunity to drop down to normal when repeated blasts of glucose from carbohydrates invade the bloodstream. Waves of high insulin cause hypoglycemia. Hypoglycemia makes you crave more carbohydrates. |
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