Monday, March 4, 2019

Food & Eating Options

The FDA Says Yes To The First New Weight Loss Drug In 13 Years

Read this article until the end and get some effective tips to lose weight over the winter. People who unwind every day with a glass of red wine or juice made from red grapes burned more fat than they did without the drink, according to a study done by Oregon State University. The fat-loss effect is courtesy of the elegic acid in grapes, which dramatically slowed the growth of existing fat cells and formation of new ones, and boosted metabolism of fatty acids in liver cells," the research team reported. Best weight-loss prescription ever? Just make sure to have only one small glass per day.

2) Racism: Ukrainians are not as tolerant or accepting as most of the Western world". I found that even among young people there is widespread dislike, though rarely intense hatred, of gays, blacks, Arabs and Muslims (very little acceptance of homosexuality). If you're a visible minority" you should use common sense and slightly heightened vigilance and you should be alright. The chances of being assaulted are very slim. Just because a good number of people curse you out behind your back doesn't mean they'll break a bottle over your head. I only met one foreign born student who claimed to have been assaulted twice, though I've met other Africans who seemed often very wary of their surroundings. Many people lead their lives in a very liberal way, but hold rather conservative points of view, sometimes outwardly racist.

As such, we rely on hormones to precisely and tightly regulate body fat. We don't consciously control our body weight any more than we control our heart rates or our body temperatures. These are automatically regulated, and so is our weight. Hormones tell us we are hungry (ghrelin). Hormones tell us we are full (peptide YY, cholecystokinin). Hormones increase energy expenditure (adrenalin). Hormones shut down energy expenditure (thyroid hormone). Obesity is a hormonal dysregulation of fat accumulation. We get fat because we've given our body the hormonal signal to gain body fat. And those hormonal signals go up or down according to our diet.

This was a randomized crossover, isocaloric and eucaloric study. That is, all patients did both arms of the study eating the same foods and the same calories and then compared against themselves. The two arms of the study were eating between 8am and 8pm, and the eTRF strategy of eating between 8am and 2pm, but remember, both groups ate three meals per day of the same foods. Some would start with the conventional diet, then cross over to eTRF, and others did the opposite, separated by a seven-week washout period. Subjects were men with prediabetes.

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