Weight Loss

What Is Leptin? The Master Hormone That Controls Energy and Weight

Nutrition and Diets
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Leptin is the master hormone that controls energy and other hormones within the body. It is produced by our fat cells and taken up in the hypothalamus telling our brain the energy status of our body in real time. According to Dr. Jack Kruse, obesity and anorexia is caused by leptin resistance.

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Book Review: Wheat Belly — William Davis M.D.

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Wheat Belly book by William Davis MD

Wheat Belly describes how agricultural science has modified wheat, wheat’s role in weight gain and disease, and the benefits of a wheat-free diet.

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Book Review: The Sugar Fix — Richard J. Johnson, MD

Nutrition and Diets
The Sugar Fix by Richard J. Johnson, MD

Johnson convincingly writes that high fructose consumption is responsible for the rise in metabolic syndrome, hypertension, diabetes, heart, liver and kidney disease, and even possibly cancer.

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Stop Dieting and Lose Weight — Matt Stone’s RRARF Diet

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Matt Stone has designed a short-term diet called RRARF, stating that if you want to lose weight, you must eat a lot of just about everything to heal your metabolism! This diet is particularly suited to habitual dieters or those who have followed diets limiting certain macronutrients, such as low-carb or low-fat diets, all practices which Matt thinks contribute to lowered metabolism, higher weight set points, and other health issues.

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Are You Fat Because It’s Safe? A Talk with Jon Gabriel

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In this interview Jon discusses the reasons why our bodies choose to be fat. His program offers a completely different way to look at why we struggle so much with weight gain, and it offers not only steps to losing that excess weight but a new way of handling the stresses of life that threaten our survival.

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Book Review: The Gabriel Method — Jon Gabriel

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The Gabriel method isn’t just a diet book but a fantastic compilation of advice that covers the mental, spiritual, and physical aspects of body identity and nutrition. And it’s all very simply presented and easy to execute.

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