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Posts Tagged: Dieting Dangers
How Dieting Causes Metabolic Syndrome
With quotes from Health at Every Size by Linda Bacon… “… extensive evidence documents that attempts at dieting typically result in weight cycling, not maintained weight loss. Weight fluctuation is strongly associated with increased risk for diabetes, hypertension, and cardiovascular disease, independent of body weight. In other words, the recommendation to diet may be causing the very diseases it is purported to prevent!” It’s a topic I’ve written about before in posts on Hypertension and How Calorie Restriction Causes Weight Gain, but I figured it was a good time to revisit the general concept. I have been thinking a lot about sustainability lately. Not sustainability in the “pee three times before you flush” or the “let’s build a compost toilet” kind of way, but the importance of sustainability in your… Read more »
Medifast Hair Loss
Medifast, a “fast, safe, and effective weight loss program recommended by 20,000 doctors since 1980,” is one of those super low-calorie weight loss programs. Oh, but the doc oversees your progress so it’s “safe.” Kind of like chemotherapy. Speaking of which, the inspiration for this post came from my mother, who I’m staying with for a few weeks here in “Nashvegas.” Yesterday she went to have her hair done down at the local beauty joint, and came back excited to tell me what she heard down at the salon. Seems someone came in after having lost a 100 pounds or so on Medifast. “Wow! Congratulations you look so great!” Blah, blah, blah. “Oh little old me? Why thank ya’ll. I feel amazing!” (hyperchondria) You get the picture. Of course, she’s… Read more »
