No More Eating Disorders: How a Missed Meal Can Build Fat

Overview

An eating disorder is a compulsion to eat, or avoid eating, that negatively affects both one's physical and mental health. Eating disorders are all encompassing. They affect every part of the person's life. According to the authors of Surviving an Eating Disorder, "feelings about work, school, relationships, day-to-day activities and one's experience of emotional well being are determined by what has or has not been eaten or by a number on a scale." Anorexia nervosa and bulimia nervosa are the most common eating disorders generally recognized by medical classification schemes, with a significant diagnostic overlap between the two. Together, they affect an estimated 5-7% of females in the United States during their lifetimes. There is a third type of eating disorder currently being investigated and defined - Binge Eating Disorder. This is a chronic condition that occurs when an individual consumes huge amounts of food during a brief period of time and feels totally out of control and unable to stop their eating. It can lead to serious health conditions such as morbid obesity, diabetes, hypertension, and cardiovascular disease.

Friday, February 5, 2010

How a Missed Meal Can Build Fat

When excessive sweets or other carbohydrates are consumed, they are absorbed so rapidly that a healthy pancreas is overstimulated. It produces not only enough insulin to convert the excess sugar into fat, but it keeps on producing insulin and even converts the normal supply of blood sugar into fat also, thus causing a shortage of blood sugar. Another shortage of blood sugar means another hungry person. And the cycle of overeating continues. A missed meal causes excess fat because of a pendulum action. The blood sugar level in this case is the pendulum. And when it swings it creates hunger at one end and fat on the other.

The Miracle Diet keeps the blood sugar pendulum from swinging. It keeps the blood sugar at a closer to constant level. It is really no miracle. Just natural, common sense. One of the first things that the average diet cuts out or down is oil and fat. Over a decade ago, however, a test was made on hospital patients given different diets, all with the same number of calories, but only one of the diets contained any oil.

The patients on the diet with some oil were able to stay with their diet most easily. They not only lost weight but did not regain their lost weight as long as the oil was continued.

Oils have a way of decreasing hunger, too. They appear to retard the emptying time of the stomach. They also stimulate the burning of body fat and this keeps blood sugar at normal levels for longer periods.

"Standard" reducing diets cut out all oil and fat wherever possible. This, I believe, is a contributing factor to their general failure to reduce weight successfully.

Autor: Priscilla Yao

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Added: February 5, 2010
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