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<blockquote data-quote="Winnie53" data-source="post: 885751" data-attributes="member: 160246"><p>BeeGee, after thinking more, I read your OP again.</p><p></p><p>I've been reading Robert Lustig, M.D.'s book, Fat Chance: Beating the Odds Against Sugar, Processed Food, Obesity, and Disease - (he's a pediatric endocrinologist and researcher at University of California, San Francisco). He makes the argument that <em>physiology drives obesity</em>. I think he's right. Here are a few quotes from chapter 18: Altering Your Hormonal Environment for your consideration:</p><p></p><p>Page 210: <em>"Felix Kreier in Amsterdam argues that 'behavior' is the sum output of the genetic, hormonal, and biochemical inputs to the central nervous system that create specific drives.(2) What we call 'behavior' is actually the cognitive inhibition on those biochemical drives. Yes, you can choose to ignore your cravings and skip the cookie. But can you really keep this up 24/7/365, when a hormone or a neurotransmitter is telling you to act and when the signal gets stronger with time?"</em> He continues... <em>"In one generation, our sugar glut has tweaked related hormones and neural pathways to our detriment. Of course there are exceptions to this rule. But if the majority of us were able consistently to ignore our physiologic responses screaming for that doughnut, there wouldn't be any need for this book. Your body will always work against you, and you're doomed to fail."</em></p><p></p><p>Page 211: <em>"Face it: we're stuck with our hormones and our biochemistry. Many suffer from functional hormonal problems in one of the brain's eating pathways--hunger (chapter 4), reward (chapter 5), stress (chapter 6), or a combination of all three."</em></p><p></p><p>Page 211-212: <em>"The goal of obesity management is to reverse the hormonal dysfunction by accomplishing the following:</em></p><p></p><p><em>1. Get the insulin down--to reduce your body fat and improve leptin resistance.</em></p><p><em>2. Get the ghrelin down--to reduce hunger.</em></p><p><em>3. Get the PYY up--to hasten satiety (the feeling of being full).</em></p><p><em>4. Get the cortisol down--to reduce perceived stress and hunger, and reduce deposition of energy into visceral fat."</em></p><p></p><p>I was listening to a interview with JJ Virgin yesterday, author of the book, The Sugar Impact Diet. She is a board certified nutrition specialist who has been coaching clients for 30 years. She, like Lustig, is brilliant, and has a tremendous gift for communicating key concepts in a way that's succinct and easy to understand by anyone. (I'm reading her book next. Virgin and Lustig have greatly expanded my understanding of why the low carb high fat (LCHF) diet works for both weight loss and reducing insulin and glucose levels).</p><p></p><p>To drive home her point of how addictive sugar is, she shared a study in which rats were, I assume alternately, given morphine or Oreo cookies. Interestingly, both lit up the same area of the brain. When the rats were then given the choice of either, <em>they chose the Oreo cookies</em>.</p><p></p><p>Page 217: <em>"There are two ways to look at how our environment relates to obesity. The first one says that genes and behavior interact to drive weight gain. But both genes and behavior are unalterable; so in this paradigm, all is lost. The second says that behavior is the output of hormones (see chapter 4) and hormones are responsive to the environment. Obesity is a hormonal problem, and hormones are alterable, so in hormones there is hope."</em></p><p></p><p>Going back to Lustig's four goals, I'll try to relate each to what I've personally experienced on the LCHF diet over the last 4 months in my next post.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Winnie53, post: 885751, member: 160246"] BeeGee, after thinking more, I read your OP again. I've been reading Robert Lustig, M.D.'s book, Fat Chance: Beating the Odds Against Sugar, Processed Food, Obesity, and Disease - (he's a pediatric endocrinologist and researcher at University of California, San Francisco). He makes the argument that [I]physiology drives obesity[/I]. I think he's right. Here are a few quotes from chapter 18: Altering Your Hormonal Environment for your consideration: Page 210: [I]"Felix Kreier in Amsterdam argues that 'behavior' is the sum output of the genetic, hormonal, and biochemical inputs to the central nervous system that create specific drives.(2) What we call 'behavior' is actually the cognitive inhibition on those biochemical drives. Yes, you can choose to ignore your cravings and skip the cookie. But can you really keep this up 24/7/365, when a hormone or a neurotransmitter is telling you to act and when the signal gets stronger with time?"[/I] He continues... [I]"In one generation, our sugar glut has tweaked related hormones and neural pathways to our detriment. Of course there are exceptions to this rule. But if the majority of us were able consistently to ignore our physiologic responses screaming for that doughnut, there wouldn't be any need for this book. Your body will always work against you, and you're doomed to fail."[/I] Page 211: [I]"Face it: we're stuck with our hormones and our biochemistry. Many suffer from functional hormonal problems in one of the brain's eating pathways--hunger (chapter 4), reward (chapter 5), stress (chapter 6), or a combination of all three."[/I] Page 211-212: [I]"The goal of obesity management is to reverse the hormonal dysfunction by accomplishing the following:[/I] [I]1. Get the insulin down--to reduce your body fat and improve leptin resistance. 2. Get the ghrelin down--to reduce hunger. 3. Get the PYY up--to hasten satiety (the feeling of being full). 4. Get the cortisol down--to reduce perceived stress and hunger, and reduce deposition of energy into visceral fat."[/I] I was listening to a interview with JJ Virgin yesterday, author of the book, The Sugar Impact Diet. She is a board certified nutrition specialist who has been coaching clients for 30 years. She, like Lustig, is brilliant, and has a tremendous gift for communicating key concepts in a way that's succinct and easy to understand by anyone. (I'm reading her book next. Virgin and Lustig have greatly expanded my understanding of why the low carb high fat (LCHF) diet works for both weight loss and reducing insulin and glucose levels). To drive home her point of how addictive sugar is, she shared a study in which rats were, I assume alternately, given morphine or Oreo cookies. Interestingly, both lit up the same area of the brain. When the rats were then given the choice of either, [I]they chose the Oreo cookies[/I]. Page 217: [I]"There are two ways to look at how our environment relates to obesity. The first one says that genes and behavior interact to drive weight gain. But both genes and behavior are unalterable; so in this paradigm, all is lost. The second says that behavior is the output of hormones (see chapter 4) and hormones are responsive to the environment. Obesity is a hormonal problem, and hormones are alterable, so in hormones there is hope."[/I] Going back to Lustig's four goals, I'll try to relate each to what I've personally experienced on the LCHF diet over the last 4 months in my next post. [/QUOTE]
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