DIET AND
NUTRITION NEWS
Diet Pills
These range from common over the counter
appetite suppressants such as phenylpropanolamine, caffeine pills and
ephedrine hydrochloride (ephedrine is not an appetite suppressant, though
often misused as one - commonly referred to as "white crosses" or "mini
thins") to prescription medications like Redux and Phen/Fen. There are a
wide variety of diet pills on the market that are available, many of them
have addictive qualities, and some even contain small amounts of laxative.
Diet pills, both over-the-counter and prescription, (as recommended,
continuously, or in excess) can cause the following: nervousness,
restlessness, insomnia, high blood pressure, fatigue and hyperactivity,
heart arrhythmias and palpitations, congestive heart failure or heart
attack, stroke, headaches, dry mouth, vomitting and diarrhea or
constipation, intestinal disturbances, tightness in chest, tingling in
extremities, excessive persperation, dizziness, disruption in mentrual
cycle, change in sex drive, hair loss, blurred vision, fever and urinary
tract problems. Overdoses can cause tremors, confusion, hallucinations,
shallow breathing, renal failure, heart attack and convulsions.
Prescription diet pills like the new and popular Phen/Fen (phentermine/fenfluramine)
should never be taken without the written prescription of a doctor. There
is an ongoing debate about their effectiveness, and all the health risks
and benefits should be weighed. It should only be used in cases of extreme
obesity. In addition to the health risks above, taking Phen/Fen increases
your chances of Primary Pulmonary Hypertension, which is a disease that
attacks the lungs, has a poor prognosis, and is fatal. Please Read the
special announcement on the dangers of Phen/Fen and its link to valvular
heart disease!
Caffeine pills and/or Ephedrine Hydrochloride should never be taken for
weight control, and should not be taken continuously. Ephedrine is a
medication used occassionally to treat asthma, but more commonly allergies
and hayfever - it is a bronchial dialator. Both can cause all the side
effects as diet pills, with an increased risk of addiction (both physical
and psychological), headaches, high blood pressure and heart palpitations
and arrhythmias, including heart attack. Ephedrine use can contribute to
psychosis, anxiety and depression.
BALTIMORE - A new
diet pill that is coming to the market is going to be different from
anything else available, doctors said. The diet pill, called Alli, is
expected to come out this summer. Doctors said it's an over-the-counter
pill that has the Food and Drug Administration's stamp of approval.
"You
should expect to lose about 50 percent more than what you would do with a
standard diet," said Mercy Medical Center's Dr. Jonathan Rich.
Rich
said Alli is a less potent version of the prescription diet pill Xenical.
Weight
Loss Supplements: Fact or Fiction?
"Cures" Are Often More
Hype than Help
-- By Becky Hand,
Licensed & Registered Dietitian
Whether browsing the Internet, surfing through 500 channels, or flipping
through your favorite magazine (or tabloid), you’ll find them everywhere:
weight loss supplements that offer quick and easy solutions to shedding
unwanted pounds. Simply pop a pill, put on a patch, or tone up with the
touch of a cream. Do these "cures" work, or are they more hype than help?
Let’s take a look at some of the most popular weight loss products, their
claims, their risks…and why they’re NOT such a great idea.
Weight Loss Supplements
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Bitter Orange, Citrus
Aurantium, and Sour Orange:
These products are concentrated extracts from the orange peel. They are
often used in “ephedra-free” products, claiming that they increase
metabolism, but tests involving people haven’t even been conducted! They
contain the stimulant synephrine, which can cause hypertension and
cardiovascular toxicity. Orange supplements can also interact with
medication. Their risks are even greater when used with other
stimulant-containing ingredients such as caffeine and decongestants.
Individuals with heart disease, hypertension, and glaucoma should avoid
these at all costs.
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Chromium (Examples:
Puritan’s Pride Chromium Picolinate, Vitamin World Naturally Inspired
Yeast Free Chromium Picolinate, Nutrilite Trim Advantage):
Claims that chromium increases weight loss and improves body composition
have only been backed by one study, while all other studies failed to
find any supporting evidence. There are two types of chromium: Trivalent
(which the body requires and is considered safe in doses of 200
micrograms or less daily) and Hexavalent (which may cause stomach
upsets, ulcers, convulsions, kidney and liver diseases, and death).
Hexavalent chromium can be toxic and shouldn’t be used in supplements,
but some do contain this dangerous form!
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Conjugated Linoleic Acid
(CLA) (Examples: Vitamin World CLA, Nature Made CLA, Now Foods CLA):
This product claims to promote leanness, but very few studies support
this claim. While more research is needed, CLA is generally safe.
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Ephedra/Ephedrine:
Ephedra may aid weight loss by suppressing appetite, and research has
proven its effectiveness when used with caffeine. However, ephedra
causes high blood pressure, stroke, and serious heart problems, which is
why the sale of dietary supplements containing ephedra was prohibited in
April 2004.
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7-Keto
Dehydroepiandrosterone (7-keto DHEA):
Preliminary research indicates that this product may decrease body
weight and fat composition by increasing metabolism, but larger research
studies are needed (see Ephedra to learn why testing is important).
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Hydroxycitric Acid (HCA)
and Garcinia Cambogia:
These products claim to suppress appetite and improve fat metabolism.
While studies have shown mixed results, they are generally safe.
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L-Carnitine:
L-Carnitine claims to inhibit obesity, but there is very little evidence
of its effectiveness.
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Dihydroxyacetone (DHA),
Pyruvate, and Dihydroxyacetone and Pyruvate (DHAP):
A few small studies suggest that these supplements may have modest
effects on weight loss, but research is needed. Presently, no serious
side effects have been reported.
Hoodia Diet Pills:
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What is Hoodia ?
Hoodia is being touted as the new miracle supplement for safe, effective
weight loss. Hoodia gordonii, (Hoodia) is the botanical name for a cactus
like plant that grows in Southern Africa. Scientists have recently
isolated several compounds in this amazing plant that are responsible for
dramatic weight loss. This all-natural appetite suppressant is also being
applauded for containing no dangerous stimulants that caused adverse side
effects associated with weight loss products of the last decade.
Weight Loss Pills
Weight loss pills that
work, whether they are carb blockers like Carbo Delete, metabolism
boosters such as MetaboSpeed or the famed Hoodia 750 packed with Hoodia
Gordonii are the only diet pills Lab88 will sell.
Best Diet Pills at Lowest
Prices!
Diet pills offered range
from MetaboSpeed, the secret diet pill celebrities have been using that is
now easily available to the public. These diet pills along with Hoodia 750
and Carbo Delete are offered at discount prices and if you buy two bottles
of any one type of weight loss pill you will receive an extra bottle for
free!
Evolution of Dietary
Antioxidants: Role of Iodine
The authors review the role of inorganic and
organic forms of iodine as an antioxidant in evolution of plants and
animals. Iodine is one of the most abundant electron-rich essential
element in the diet of marine and terrestrial organisms. It is transported
from the diet to the cells via iodide transporters. Iodide, which acts as
a primitive electron-donor through peroxidase enzymes, seems to have an
ancestral antioxidant function in all iodide-concentrating cells from
primitive marine algae to more recent terrestrial vertebrates. Thyroxine
and iodothyronines have an antioxidant activity too and, through
deiodinase enzymes, are donors of iodides and indirectly of electrons.
Thyroid cells phylogenetically derived from primitive gastroenteric cells,
which during evolution of vertebrates migrated and specialized in uptake
and storage of iodo-compounds in a new follicular “thyroidal” structure,
for a better adaptation to iodine-deficient terrestrial environment.
Finally, some animal and human chronic diseases, such as cancer and
cardiovascular diseases, favored by dietary antioxidant deficiency, are
briefly discussed.
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10/02/2007
Are diet
pills very efficient to contrast fats?
In television, on
newspapers and for radio we feel and we read every day that they exist
of the fast and simple methods for the loss of weight. But they are
indeed effective? And in what they consist? These dietetic products for
the loss of weight many times are extracted of grass that helps our
organism to burn more calories, increasing leggermente the corporea
temperature and the sensibility of our nervous system. These compounds
are made up of caffein, theine and other substances with similar
effects. Other products instead have the property to isolate the cells
of fat person who we ingest with the feeding, and from there they avoid
therefore the absorption from part of our body. If we reason little but
we render account that to assume these integrators is like avoiding to
eat the fat people, but to fatten does not want to say exclusively to
eat many fat people. In fact also the carbohydrates and the proteins can
be transform to you in fat person and therefore if a balanced feeding is
not followed the risk is that it is fattened however. The first products
of which we have spoken instead are effective, but they are only an aid
and a support for one diet very balanced and structured. The gold
assumption makes us to burn more calories and cra the conditions for the
dimangrimento, by themselves these products are not resolving. Insomma,
if you want just to become thin, fairies an just diet, eaten a P2o of
all, and above all muovetevi more! In the Prodotti section for the diet,
found a product that it arranges the two tipologie, so as to essere
molto more effective.
08/02/2007
Creatina: During the last
few years large succeeding between all the sportswomen has had the
creatina monohydrate. This integrator succeeds in inside veicolare water
and nourishing others of the muscular cells, favoring of therefore the
increase. But as it goes taken the creatina? Essential for its
assimilation it is the carbohydrate added one to medium release, like
fruit and other alimony. E' to dilute it in one water bottle well and to
drink it during all the day so as to to have greater possibilities of
absorption: in fact one of the problems of the creatina monohydrate is
that of the amount that we ingest, it comes only absorbed one small
amount. Moreover you drink much water in the period in which you take
the creatina, in how much the water facilitates the expulsion of the
residual ones does not assimilate to you.
08/02/2007
The oranges are of the
indispensable fruits for a healthy diet in how much supply tantissime
vitamins of group C that serve essentially in order to fight the colds and
the shapes of infuence and that they are of the optimal anti-oxidants that
help us not to age. The better way in order to have use of than these
property is that one to eat at least 1 during the day; however the orange
spremute ones can be replaced to a comprising diet the healthy fruit. The
thing to remember in this case is that the spremuta one goes consumed
within 20 minuteren, time after which the healthy and beneficial property
of vitamin C begin to diminish. To remember also that the oranges contain
one good dose of fibers (contained especially in the part white woman).
08/02/2007
Diet health and caterings…
When a slimming diet is begun, the more important thing for having of
turns out to you satisfactory is being constant. But like respecting the
diet when it is outside house? Many of we to job have the possibility to
go to catering and to eat those foods that never do not respect our true
tastes, but that they have only the effect to plug the hunger to us.
Generally in the caterings a P2o is found of all, in particular it feeds
and flavored foods a lot that of sure they would blow up the nerves to our
dietologo. however, for law it is obligatory that in the caterings they
come prepares foods to you in white man, like cold paste or rice and some
plates. What to make then? Beh, if you do not want to give a cut to the
loss of weight, you choose the sconditi plates, the verdure or the legumi,
or quite the cold plates. These alimony is in general terms poor in fat
people and sure they are inserted also in your same slimming diet. For the
amounts you do not scare to you; even if generally in the caterings the
amounts are smaller regarding those than house, also an approximate
calculation can go well in order not to ingest of little of too many
calories. In short, used the good sense and tried to remember the amounts
that you assume in the diet when you are to house.
02/02/2007
The 2 more important factors for the loss of
the weight
1.
The loss of weight depends essentially on the energetic budget. In order
to lose weight, the energy that you assimilate with the food, it must be
smaller of the energy that you spend with your activity. This is
absolutely fundamental. Foods or pills do not exist that they will make
you to lose weight. The only way is to eat little less and/or to make more
physical exercise so that your organism caterpillars more calories than
those ingested.
2.
A loss of constant weight demands constant changes. To put itself to diet
for short periods in order then to only return to a mistaken alimentary
regimen, will not help you to having effects in the time. The only way in
order to lose weight and to remain in health is to adopt small changes in
just the style of life, changes that must last in the time and become of
the habits. To eat in way healthier and to make more activity physical not
only will make you to lose weight, but it will make also to feel you
better in the time.
Consumption of red meat
has a number of important dietary implications:
• the possibility of
introducing a good amount of ESSENTIAL AMINO ACIDS (including a number of
ramified chain acids stimulating protein synthesis), a factor not to be
underestimated in certain physiological conditions such as growth,
pregnancy and nursing;
• the presence of IRON
easily absorbed in the intestine and utilised almost entirely by our body,
particularly important in women of child-bearing age, during pregnancy and
nursing, as it is a component of the molecules which transport oxygen to
the tissues and the enzyme factors involved in energy metabolism;
• a good content of
coenzyme vitamins (B1, B2, B6, B12, PP, FOLIC ACID, BIOTIN) utilised in
numerous metabolic reactions involving the carbohydrates, lipids, protein
and nucleic acids;
• a high content of
CARNITINE, indispensable for "combustion" of fatty acids;
• the presence of important
mineral elements:
• PHOSPHOROUS, a
fundamental component of bone tissue and constituent of the cell
membranes, nucleic acids and molecules responsible for transporting energy
• MAGNESIUM, a constituent
of the bone matrix and component in more than 300 enzyme reactions of the
intermediate metabolism
• POTASSIUM, regulator of
the water balance, nerve functions and muscle contractility
• ZINC, a component of
enzymes involved in the metabolism of nucleic acids and vitamin A and in
synthesis of cell proteins, regulator of the principal blood buffer system
• COPPER, component of
enzymes involved in molecular oxygen consumption reactions, digestive
processes, iron absorption and formation of collagen and elastin
• CHROME, involved in
sugar, fat and nucleic acid metabolism
• MANGANESE, component of
enzymes required for cholesterol synthesis and protein metabolism
• SELENIUM, component in
the defence system against peroxidation and cell degeneration _relatively
slow digestion, giving an increased sense of repletion, helpful in low
calorie diets.
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