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The role of very-low-carbohydrate ketogenic diets (VLCKD) in the long-term management of obesity is not well established. The present meta-analysis aimed to investigate whether individuals assigned to a VLCKD (i.e. a diet with no more than 50 g carbohydrates/d) achieve better long-term body weight and cardiovascular risk factor management when compared with individuals assigned to a conventional low-fat diet (LFD; i.e. a restricted-energy diet with less than 30% of energy from fat). Through August 2012, MEDLINE, CENTRAL, ScienceDirect,Scopus, LILACS, SciELO, ClinicalTrials.gov and grey literature databases were searched, using no date or language restrictions, for randomised controlled trials that assigned adults to a VLCKD or a LFD, with 12 months or more of follow-up. The primary outcome was bodyweight. The secondary outcomes were TAG, HDL-cholesterol (HDL-C), LDL-cholesterol (LDL-C), systolic and diastolic blood pressure,glucose, insulin, HbA1c and C-reactive protein levels. A total of thirteen studies met the inclusion/exclusion criteria. In the overall analysis,five outcomes revealed significant results. Individuals assigned to a VLCKD showed decreased body weight (weighted mean difference 2091 (95% CI 2165, 2017) kg, 1415 patients), TAG (weighted mean difference 2018 (95% CI 2027, 2008) mmol/l, 1258 patients)and diastolic blood pressure (weighted mean difference 2143 (95% CI 2249, 2037) mmHg, 1298 patients) while increased HDL-C(weighted mean difference 009 (95% CI 006, 012) mmol/l, 1257 patients) and LDL-C (weighted mean difference 012 (95% CI 004,02) mmol/l, 1255 patients). Individuals assigned to a VLCKD achieve a greater weight loss than those assigned to a LFD in the longterm; hence, a VLCKD may be an alternative tool against obesity.

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Our country is obsessed with dieting and working out. But despite having the most gyms, diet books, and exercise DVDs, we are one of the heaviest, sickest nations in the developed world.

That's why, when it comes to weight loss, I believe we've got it all wrong.

Functional medicine recognizes that weight gain is a symptom, not the cause of health problems. In other words:

Weight-loss resistance is a sign that something is going on underneath the surface. And that can rarely be solved in the long term by just another fad diet. Research shows that calorie counting almost always fails when it comes to sustainable weight loss.

We need to ditch dieting and get healthy first. Then we'll reach our goal weight and look great, by accident. It will simply be a natural by-product of radiant health.

How do we do this? By healing. Here are the four key areas your mind, emotions, gut, and hormones that you need to heal first in order to reach your health goals.

The first step to healing yourself is to become aware that we spend most of our day lost in compulsive, unconscious thought.

In fact, Stanford research estimates that a staggering 90 percent of our thoughts are actually repetitive. Think about that: Nine out of 10 of your thoughts are ones you have constantly.

How can this harm your health? For many people these thoughts are not just repetitive, they're also negative. This chronic stress can raise inflammation in our bodies and could contribute to health problems in the long term unless it's kept in check.

Further, research out of Cornell University found that we make about 200 food-related decisions each day. The problem is that most of these food decisions, the researchers found, were made on mindless autopilot. We aren't consciously aware we're making most of them, which could be further contributing to poor eating habits.

That's why increased consciousness of our thoughts is the first step to healing and long-term health. Observing the presence of our thoughts brings us into the here and now, and breaks the addictive cycle of our past.

I recommend practicing mindfulness meditation as one way to become more aware of our health choices and eliminate negative, repetitive thought patterns. Read 11 Ways To Keep Negative Thoughts From Harming Your Health for more practical tips.

Anxiety, fear, and hate are some of the most common emotions that can keep you from reaching your health goals.

These emotions will flood the body with stress and stress hormones. And stress is linked to an increased risk of weight gain and many other heath conditions.

You can't heal a body you hate. So instead of punishing your body into submission by restricting foods, make food your friend.

The key is to eat it consciously and rationally. Your body is a gift that has taken care of you. Love yourself enough to nourish your body with good food medicine.

Further, try to pinpoint what you might be holding onto from your past that's keeping you from your goals. Forgiving yourself and others can be a revolutionary act of healing.

I consider this emotional healing to be vital in my work helping patients overcome their health obstacles.

Now we have to deal with the physical body itself recovering from years of unknowingly mistreating your body.

As Hippocrates said, "All disease begins in the gut." The health of our microbiome, the trillions of bacteria that live within us, determines many facets of our overall health, including our weight.

I often see weight gain as an underlying gut problem. Your microbiome could be damaged after years of junk food, toxins, stress, and harmful medications and you might be seeing the effects in your health.

Healing the gut is a process, which I go into more detail in other articles. But herbal medicines like slippery elm, marshmallow root, and deglycyrrhizinated licorice (DGL) can help. Nourishing bone broth is also on my list of favorite foodie ways to heal the gut.

We tend to think we crave foods or can't get healthy because of a lack of willpower. But often, it's really an underlying hormonal problem that's disabling you from making rational choices about food and keeping you stuck in a cycle.

For example, I often see brain-hormonal connection problems in my patients, such as thyroid conditions, adrenal fatigue, and leptin resistance (when your brain doesn't get the message from your hormones that your body is full).

Years of stress and poor diet can do a number on brain and hormonal health, further perpetuating hormonal dysfunctions. Many people struggling with health problems have some level of brain inflammation, which not only can contribute to anxiety, depression, and brain fog, but can also hurt your hormones.

Healing your hormones is often the first step to healthy weight loss and long-term wellness.

To find out more, check out my free guides to Heal Your Gut and Heal Your Hormones. You can also consider a free webcam or phone evaluation to talk about your specific case.

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There is a general perception that almost no one succeeds in long-term maintenance of weight loss. However, research has shown that approximately 20% of overweight individuals are successful at long-term weight loss when defined as losing at least 10% of initial body weight and maintaining the loss for at least 1 y. The National Weight Control Registry provides information about the strategies used by successful weight loss maintainers to achieve and maintain long-term weight loss. National Weight Control Registry members have lost an average of 33 kg and maintained the loss for more than 5 y. To maintain their weight loss, members report engaging in high levels of physical activity ( approximately 1 h/d), eating a low-calorie, low-fat diet, eating breakfast regularly, self-monitoring weight, and maintaining a consistent eating pattern across weekdays and weekends. Moreover, weight loss maintenance may get easier over time; after individuals have successfully maintained their weight loss for 2-5 y, the chance of longer-term success greatly increases. Continued adherence to diet and exercise strategies, low levels of depression and disinhibition, and medical triggers for weight loss are also associated with long-term success. National Weight Control Registry members provide evidence that long-term weight loss maintenance is possible and help identify the specific approaches associated with long-term success.

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A large new study compares the effectiveness of low-fat and low-carb diets for long-term weight loss.

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Trying to lose weight? Low-fat diets are not the way to go, according to a large new study.

"There is no good evidence for recommending low-fat diets," lead author Deirdre Tobias, of Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, in a press statement.

The study, a meta-analysis of dozens of randomized controlled trials, showed low-fat diets were not effective for achieving long-term weight loss compared to higher far diets.

"Behind current dietary advice to cut out the fat, which contains more than twice the calories per gram of carbohydrates and protein, the thinking is that simply reducing fat intake will naturally lead to weight loss. But our robust evidence clearly suggests otherwise," said Tobias, whose research is published in The Lancet Diabetes & Endocrinology.

Tobias and her colleagues analyzed 53 studies -- all randomized trials comparing the effectiveness of low-fat diets to other types of diets -- that included more than 68,000 adults. The researchers found that reduced-fat diets only led to more weight loss when compared with no diet at all. People on low-carbohydrate diets lost substantially more weight than those who went the low-fat route.

The study results aren't really surprising, said endocrinologist Dr. Caroline Messer, medical director of the Center for Pituitary and Neuro-Endocrine Disorders at Lenox Hill Hospital and Manhattan Eye, Ear and Throat Hospital.

"It's nothing new, and similar to what we've always told our patients for all these years. Low-fat diets are not the key to sustained weight loss, despite the fact that a gram of fat has higher calorie content than a gram of carbohydrate. It's a confirmation of what we knew," Messer told CBS News.

"With low-fat versus low-carb, there was less weight loss with the low-fat diet. The only time the low-fat diet was useful was when it was compared to no diet. Low-carb wins out over a low-fat diet," said Messer.

Messer said cutting back on carbohydrates has already been the cornerstone of weight management for patients with type 2 diabetes. "It should similarly be emphasized for non-diabetic patients struggling to lose weight," she added.

The study authors' conclusion is clear: "Health and nutrition guidelines should cease recommending low-fat diets for weight loss in view of the clear absence of long-term efficacy when compared with other similar intensity dietary interventions."

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Boca Health, which is the premier physician supervised metabolic and medical weight loss clinic offers a decided advantage to other methods of weight loss. For Boca Raton, as well as for many other areas in South Florida, the basic approach to weight loss, eat less and exercise more simply doesn't offer the results that you need.

The health care professionals at Boca Health understand that some medical conditions which are part of our lives can be a dramatic hindrance to our weight loss efforts. Physicians at Boca Health assist in the evaluation of your problems and in devising a program of weight loss that is workable for you.

Many people lose more muscle than actual fat when dieting. This is due to an industry which offers a vast array of bad information at every turn. The people who come to Boca Health are desirous of losing inches and losing fat, not losing or jeopardizing their lean muscle. The focus of our team of physicians and health care providers is that you will see the progress as quickly as possible and you'll begin to feel the effects that healthy weight loss can offer you. The BioSpace body scan will give you a detailed analysis of what you have to know about your body makeup.

Yes, of course the eat less, exercise more approach may in some cases be an effective way to lose weight. It may also help you to even keep the weight off for a time. The problem is that it is not effective for everyone and when it comes to taking off the weight and keeping off the weight, you may need a little more.

The advantages of a physician-overseen weight loss methodology are self-evident. The state of the art medical equipment, the highly-trained staff & specialized weight loss personnel are just a few of the reasons why medically based weight loss clinic methods are going to offer you the best weight loss methods and the best results.

Boca Health recently unveiled the hottest new diet to hit South Florida: the Boca Health Diet. The Boca Health Diet is a revolutionary new look at weight loss and good health. It is overseen and your health is monitored by medical weight loss physicians and the diet is customized to fit the individual weight loss needs of each of our clients.

The Boca Health Diet, contrary to the HCG diet, includes breakfast and snacks, has a higher calorie diet and a higher protein intake.

The Boca Health Diet is extremely safe, and results in greater weight loss than the HCG diet. Furthermore, because of the extra calories and proteins in the Boca Health Diet, patients are encouraged to work out for an even greater weight loss.

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The secret to losing weight

As a nation, we are getting fatter and fatter. It is now estimated that approximately 60% of the Australian adult population are overweight or obese; a figure which has more than doubled over the past 2 decades.[1] Given the health complications associated with carrying excess body fat, these figures may sound bad from a public health perspective, but not so from a business point of view, as many overweight people are willing to fork over a considerable amount of money to anyone able to offer them a solution. In fact, the average Australian woman spends around $250 annually on weight loss many doing so even if not overweight! [2]

Given that the population is certainly not getting any thinner, it would seem apparent that whatever it is that people are buying isn't working. One may therefore start suspecting that the key to successful weight loss must be some kind of well hidden secret, and consequently set out to find this secret, spending a lot of money in the process.

Fortunately for me, I happen to be among the few privileged people lucky enough to be aware of what this multi billion dollar industry secret is. Fortunately for you, I have decided to share it with you, but only if you promise not to tell anyone! (When I use this introduction in the seminars I often give, the entire room suddenly falls silent except for the sound of a few desperate people scrambling to get to their pens out in order to write down what the secret is.) Are you ready for it?

Adipose tissue (fat) is essentially our bodies' way of storing excess, unused chemical energy. Other than by surgical means, in order to get rid of it, we must force our body to break it down to use as a fuel source, by consuming less energy (kilojoules / Calories) than what we expend through physical activity. In other words, body fat regulation is a matter of energy in vs energy out. In layman's terms, if you want to lose weight you need to eat less and exercise more.

That's about all you need to know to lose weight, though doing so healthfully and doing so in a way in which it is likely to be habit forming (and therefore last long-term) is going to be advantageous. Most fad weight loss schemes and diets work of course, because ultimately, despite the very different claims they all make, they are all essentially low energy diets.

To give an example, a clinical trial published in the January 2005 issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association studied 4 of the most popular diets in the United States , by randomly assigning people to follow either the Atkins Diet, the Zone diet, the Weight Watchers diet and the Ornish diet. [3] After 1 year, all four groups resulted in approximately similar amounts of weight loss and improvements in their cholesterol, insulin and C-reactive protein levels. As it turns out, regardless of the fact that all four diet made very different claims about why they made you lose weight, ultimately they were all energy restricted diets.

Whether or not they are good for you and whether they are realistically sustainable in the long run however are the key aspects that a good weight loss program should provide. In regards to long term health, the best kind of generic dietary recommendation is set out by the NHMRC's Dietary Guidelines' and illustrated by Nutrition Australia's Healthy Eating Pyramid'. Whilst these recommendations are intended to maintain a healthy body weight, they are also designed to minimize the risk of other diet related diseases, including (but no limited to) cardiovascular disease and certain cancers.

When it comes to long-term sustainability, I think it's reasonable to suggest that restrictive dietary regimes significantly different to what existing habits are like, will not last very long. Making subtle improvements to ones own usual diet, identifying cues preceding poor food choices and learning how to plan ahead to overcome them would be far more effective for long term success. Unfortunately however this doesn't seem to be what the market wants, or at least not what they are willing to open their wallets for.

Healthy Weight Loss --> Healthy Life

I spent a considerable amount of time in 2006 writing a book called 'Healthy Weight Loss --> Healthy Life: The essential guide to long-term healthy weight loss for Australian adults'.The majority of the book focuses on how to make subtle, heathier alterations to existing dietary habits. You can download part 1 here, or click here for more details.

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References

[1] Cameron AJ, Welborn TA, Zimmet PZ, Dunstan DW, Owen N, Salmon J, Dalton M, Jolley D, Shaw JE. Overweight and obesity in Australia: the 1999-2000 Australian Diabetes, Obesity and Lifestyle Study (AusDiab).Med J Aust. 2003 May 5;178(9):427-32. Erratum in: Med J Aust. 2004 Apr 19;180(8):418.

[2] Ball, k., Andajani-Sutjahjo, S., and Crawford, D. The costs of weight control: what do young women pay? MJA 2003; 179 (11/12): 586

[3] Johnston CS, Tjonn SL, Swan PD, White A, Hutchins H, Sears B. Ketogenic low-carbohydrate diets have no metabolic advantage over nonketogenic low-carbohydrate diets. Am J Clin Nutr. 2006 May;83(5):1055-61.

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LIVE A BETTER LIFE THROUGH MEDICAL WEIGHT LOSS IN BEAUMONT

As the only Bariatric Center of Excellence in Beaumont, TX, the CHRISTUS Southeast Texas Bariatric Center can help you safely and permanently achieve your long-term weight loss goal, whether through gastric bypass, laparoscopic sleeve gastrectomy, or lap band surgery.

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Diet Doc now offers their best diet plans to date that include newly advanced no carb meal and snack plans, prescription diet products for fast weight loss and education for long term weight loss.

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LIVE A BETTER LIFE THROUGH MEDICAL WEIGHT LOSS IN BEAUMONT

As the only Bariatric Center of Excellence in Beaumont, TX, the CHRISTUS Southeast Texas Bariatric Center can help you safely and permanently achieve your long-term weight loss goal, whether through gastric bypass, laparoscopic sleeve gastrectomy, or lap band surgery.

Our local team of medical weight loss specialists highly skilled doctors, nurses, dietitians, and licensed counselors are here to guide you through treatment, insurance and financial coordination, education, support and aftercare.

If you're ready to make a change to live a better, healthier life, contact us for a consultation today.

CHRISTUS Southeast Texas Bariatric Center 3030 North St., Suite 340 Beaumont, TX 77702

IS WEIGHT LOSS SURGERY RIGHT FOR YOU?

To find out,click here to schedule an appointment with Dr. Jerome Schrapps, our medical director. x

For more information, call 409-839-LOSE (5673).

Your first consultation will provide:

a general overview of your long-term weight loss surgical options

an evaluation to determine if you are a candidate for surgery

an explanation of our program

a detailed review of your insurance benefits and preferred payment options

answers to all your questions!

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