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"Jim released the documents to the public, including evidence that Eli Lilly pushed the drug for off-label (unapproved) uses and hid the risk of Zyprexa causing pathological weight gain and diabetes—accusations that the drug company has denied.24 The secret documents were featured in a series of NewYork Times articles." - Peter Breggin, Medication Madness: A Psychiatrist Exposes the Dangers of Mood-Altering Medications (Get the book.) "Previously meticulous about her appearance, Regina showed no concern about her huge weight gain and puffy face. Her parents pleaded with me to believe that this was not their daughter—not the sparkling and even brilliant Regina that they knew and loved. "This is not my daughter," Regina's father protested. By the end of the session, Regina was feeling a ray of confidence that maybe her parents and I were correct in assessing her as suffering from a dangerous and disabling degree of Zyprexa toxicity. She hesitantly agreed to come for regular therapy." - Peter Breggin, Medication Madness: A Psychiatrist Exposes the Dangers of Mood-Altering Medications (Get the book.)

"After 28 months of follow-up, here is what they found: The best predictor of weight gain was the intake of soda pop. People drinking the most soda were 60% more likely to gain a significant amount of weight during the study compared to those who seldom drank soda. Other foods positively linked to weight gain were hamburgers, pizza, sausage, red meat, and sweetened fruit juices. This shouldn't come as a surprise, but it certainly explains why Americans are gaining excess weight-these are among Americans' most favorite foods." - Jan Lovejoy, Get Balanced-the Natural Way to Better Health with Superfoods (Get the book.)

"Acute weight gain (50 percent) FDA reviewers found an average weight gain of almost one pound a week for subjects during the six-week trial, and a twenty-six-pound increase for Zyprexa patients who remained in the trial for a year. Eli Lilly and the FDA covered up twenty deaths and twelve suicides among individuals taking Zyprexa, never reporting them to medical doctors or the American public. Instead, they turned this drug loose on unsuspecting American children with mild mental-health issues." - Byron J. Richards, Fight for Your Health: Exposing the FDA's Betrayal of America (Get the book.)

"One big reason for weight gain is having an acidic environment (pH) in your body. This is a huge factor in weight gain, obesity, diabetes and cancer. When your body is too acidic, large amounts of insulin are produced, which converts the calories into fat. It is said your body stimulates a genetic response to starvation and, in turn, stores the fat. This directly stimulates or impedes the insulin-glucagon axis, which makes the body produce extra insulin. It is said, the more insulin available (produced), the higher the probability that fat is produced rather than being used up as energy." - Gregory, A. Gore, Defeat Cancer (Get the book.)

"Other drugs such as hormone replacement therapy (HRT) and the contraceptive pill or injections lead to weight gain in up to 70% of users, once again interfering with the body's most basic functions. They also increase breast cancer risk. While this risk is considerably elevated during use of hormone medication, it drops back to the original level within about five years after a woman has stopped taking hormones. This is the result of a study by the German Cancer Research Center (Deutsches Krebsfor-schungszentrum, DKFZ) in Heidelberg and the University Hospitals of Hamburg-Eppendorf." - Andreas Moritz, Cancer Is Not A Disease - It's A Survival Mechanism (Get the book.) "The drug can cause weight gain of up to 25 pounds, enough to dramatically increase the risk of other cancers, heart disease, and diabetes. Many people, doctors and patients alike, perceive the ability of modern medicine to interfere with the body on the cellular level as a "medical miracle," but this miracle has brought more destruction into the world than it has prevented or eliminated. We have created an endless vicious cycle by treating diseases that then cause other diseases which, in turn, require further treatment." - Andreas Moritz, Cancer Is Not A Disease - It's A Survival Mechanism (Get the book.) "This causes unhealthy weight gain and disturbs basic metabolism. Cancer is a metabolic disorder that can originate in regularly eating the main meal at night and eating between meals or before going to sleep. Overeating usually leads to intestinal congestion, the proliferation of destructive bacteria and yeast, as well as cravings for "energizing, " which really means energy-depleting, foods and beverages such as sugar, sweets, white flour products, potato chips, chocolate, coffee, tea, and soft drinks. Constant cravings for any of these foods or beverages indicate cellular starvation." - Andreas Moritz, Cancer Is Not A Disease - It's A Survival Mechanism (Get the book.) "Prednisone, cortisone, and other steroids used to treat dozens of conditions, including asthma, lupus, and cancer, frequently cause weight gain because they increase appetite and force the body to retain fluids. Steroids cause just as many disorders as the conditions for which they are used, including liver cancer, heart disease, depression, hostility and aggression, eating disorders, stunted height, risk of HIV, acne, and dozens more. Tamoxifen is a popular drug now used to prevent breast cancer recurrence in women." - Andreas Moritz, Cancer Is Not A Disease - It's A Survival Mechanism (Get the book.)

"Many psychotropic, antiseizure, antihistamine, and antidiabetic medications also promote weight gain. The steroids that someone might take to control their asthma can also increase body fat and over-suppress their immune systems, making them more susceptible to infections. Medications affect the entire body and must be used with full consideration of their possible side effects weighed against their benefits. Otherwise, they can, if not used properly, become environmental toxins." These problems are also extremely complex and require complex responses." - Deirdre Imus, Growing Up Green: Baby and Child Care: Volume 2 in the Bestselling Green This! Series (Green This!) (Get the book.)

"With chronic stress, adrenal deficiency, shift work, chronic insomnia, overwork, and age, you can lose your Cortisol control and have low morning levels and high evening or nighttime levels, causing overeating, weight gain, and insomnia. Cortisol curves can be measured by testing saliva levels throughout the day and night. This can be helpful in figuring out why you are tired or restless at a certain time of day, or why you can't sleep at night. If your morning Cortisol is low, then by 2 or 3 p.m. there may be little if any Cortisol left to fuel your afternoon, causing a "slump" at 3 or 4 p.m." - Phuli Cohan, The Natural Hormone Makeover: 10 Steps to Rejuvenate Your Health and Rediscover Your Inner Glow (Get the book.)

"A Lancet study published in January 2005 drew a direct link between weight gain and prediabetes and fast food menus, but somehow, we're still feeding our kids junky, high-fat foods. Dr. Oz gave me the big picture on how excessive body fat can lead to diabetes. "The major task the body has to deal with is stress," he said. "Not just feeling stressed, but environmental stressors—toxins in our environment, foods that are toxic, emotional toxins, et cetera. A thousand years ago, the number-one stressor for the human body was famine. It wasn't deadlines or bad food; it was not having enough food." - Deirdre Imus, Growing Up Green: Baby and Child Care: Volume 2 in the Bestselling Green This! Series (Green This!) (Get the book.)

"Such treatments may work initially, but too often I have seen women coming to my office complaining of weight gain, constant breast tenderness, or insomnia, and no one has measured, monitored, or changed their hormones. For that matter, most people that I meet have taken the same multivitamin or supplements for years, sometimes decades. That's not a good thing either. Supplements are not meant to be taken continuously, in the same dose. Over time this can have toxic effects on your body. In nature, foods and nutrients vary depending on the season." - Phuli Cohan, The Natural Hormone Makeover: 10 Steps to Rejuvenate Your Health and Rediscover Your Inner Glow (Get the book.) "When I prescribed birth control pills to alleviate the symptoms of menopause in them, new symptoms would erupt, such as breast swelling, headaches, bloating, mood swings, and worst of all, weight gain. I call that "symptom swapping." So I considered what I knew from Chinese medicine. The Chinese have always emphasized the kidney as a source of energy, necessary for fertility and healthy aging. They view aging and perimenopausal symptoms as "kidney deficiency." Of course, I had learned about the kidney in medical school but not about its relationship to healthy aging." - Phuli Cohan, The Natural Hormone Makeover: 10 Steps to Rejuvenate Your Health and Rediscover Your Inner Glow (Get the book.)

"Some medications do cause weight gain, either by changing your metabolic rate, making you retain fluids, or affecting how your body converts calories to energy versus storing calories as fat. That's a different story. But if you don't have hypothyroidism or prescription drugs to blame, then your metabolic rate is in the normal range and you need to gain control over your eating habits in order to lose weight." - Roger Gould, Shrink Yourself: Break Free from Emotional Eating Forever (Get the book.) "Avoid Failure Strategy #5: Trick Your Metabolism In our "get it done yesterday" culture, many seek a magic pill to dissolve cellulite, reverse weight gain, and make getting thin a breeze. All the pharmaceutical companies are looking for the big blockbuster solution that will control the hunger gland. The last "miracle pill" released on the market, Phen-Phen, ended up killing people, but the drug companies haven't given up, because the American public would much rather take pills that kill hunger than address the emotional source of the compulsion to overeat." - Roger Gould, Shrink Yourself: Break Free from Emotional Eating Forever (Get the book.) "Emotional eating leads to the inability to practice these habits, which leads to weight gain, which leads to you wanting to lose weight, which leads to you reading this book. So when the part of you that wants to keep eating says you can happily live with the symptoms of emotional eating, or that those symptoms are no big deal, you can obviously contradict it. EXERCISE The Red Flag List Watching these ten habits can help you identify when you're struggling with emotional eating." - Roger Gould, Shrink Yourself: Break Free from Emotional Eating Forever (Get the book.)

"Translation: weight gain. All those effects add up to a lot of damage, which is why we regard insulin resistance and its blood test marker—elevated insulin—as powerful indicators of inflammation and CVD. One obvious sign of an insulin problem is being overweight and shaped a bit like an apple. That means you are packing too much interior abdominal fat, which acts like a gland, releasing a number of proinflammatory substances. For men, waists should be less than 40 inches; for women, less than 35 inches. 2." - Stephen Sinatra, M.D. and James C., M.D. Roberts, Reverse Heart Disease Now: Stop Deadly Cardiovascular Plaque Before It's Too Late (Get the book.)

"The childern showed increase weight gain and growth as well as a reduced incidence of diarrhea and fever. The researchers concluded that the probiotics appeared to have a health-promoting effect in these already healthy children. In another study, the effect of L. rhamnosus GG on children in daycare centers (one to six years of age) found the probiotic reduced absences due to illness, reduced the need to use antibiotics for respiratory infections and reduced the risk of dental caries (cavities)." - Allison Tannis, Probiotic Rescue: How You can use Probiotics to Fight Cholesterol, Cancer, Superbugs, Digestive Complaints and More (Get the book.)

"The biggest problem they usually develop is weight gain, but diet and supplements sometimes help with that. Many of the parents of my kids swear by Risperdal. They say that it's enabled them to finally get through to their children, and to keep them in compliance with the more difficult elements of their programs. Risperdal helps keep kids from developing false perceptions, and having delusional ideas about themselves, their families, and their environments. That's one reason it helps them control themselves. They don't get carried away with unfounded fears, and the anger that often follows." - Kenneth Bock, Healing the New Childhood Epidemics: Autism, ADHD, Asthma, and Allergies: The Groundbreaking Program for the 4-A Disorders (Get the book.) "Obesity is much more common among people with chronic food reactions. weight gain is often triggered by allergic inflammation, which disrupts the metabolism. Food reactions also cause food cravings. In addition, food reactions typically create a false fat of tissue swelling, abdominal bloating, and water weight. Sinusitis is very common among people with airborne allergies, and also among those with food allergies. Both types of allergies cause swelling of nasal tissues, as well as inflammation, and production of excess mucus. Allergies make many existing problems worse." - Kenneth Bock, Healing the New Childhood Epidemics: Autism, ADHD, Asthma, and Allergies: The Groundbreaking Program for the 4-A Disorders (Get the book.) "This approach has more side effects than other asthma treatments, however, and is generally advisable only for short periods of time, due to these side effects, which can include fluid retention, mood disorders, weight gain, and impaired immunity. Another somewhat similar approach is injection of a corticosteroid known as Depo-Medrol. Depo-Medrol can control symptoms for as long as three to four weeks, and can be appropriate for children seeking short-term relief from seasonal allergies. Flonase is an effective inhaled steroid." - Kenneth Bock, Healing the New Childhood Epidemics: Autism, ADHD, Asthma, and Allergies: The Groundbreaking Program for the 4-A Disorders (Get the book.) "He continued to do very well over the next year, in terms of growth and weight gain, and did not have any problems with asthma. His mother noticed much improvement in his concentration and focus. This is a good example of recovery in a child who was failing to thrive, was sickly, was not growing or gaining weight, and was often hospitalized for asthma, despite being treated with multiple medications. He responded very well to nutritional therapy, including the GF/CF diet, and to supplementation therapy, and environmental controls." - Kenneth Bock, Healing the New Childhood Epidemics: Autism, ADHD, Asthma, and Allergies: The Groundbreaking Program for the 4-A Disorders (Get the book.)

"DEPRESSION Clinical depression may manifest a wide range of symptoms, but the most common are insomnia or hypersomnia, physical hyperactivity or inactivity, feelings of worthlessness, loss of interest or pleasure in usual activities, lack of energy, irritability, either poor appetite and weight loss or increased appetite and weight gain, a diminished ability to think or concentrate, and recurrent thoughts of death or suicide." - Tom Bohager, Everything You Need to Know About Enzymes to Treat Everything from Digestive Problems and Allergies to Migraines and Arthritis (Get the book.)

"Within a few more years, the overmedication of animals to induce weight gain had effectively begun to eliminate any of the benefits that antibiotics offered in terms of weight gain and resistance to disease in crowded pens. By the 1970s, hundreds of generations of bacteria succeeded in developing resistance to the drugs being fed to cattle at low dosages but over a long period of time." - Will Allen, The War on Bugs (Get the book.)

"But sudden weight gain can also signal some serious and not-so-serious systemic problems. Putting on weight in a matter of a day or two can be due to fluid retention (edema). Many women notice that both their breasts and bellies bloat as they retain water just before , . i r. £i j SIGN OF THE TIMES their periods. But fluid retention can also signal heart failure, the inability of the heart to pump efficiently. Although swollen feet and legs are classic signs of heart failure, heart-disease-related edema can build up around the abdomen as well." - Joan Liebmann-Smith, Ph. D., and Jacqueline Nardi Egan, Body Signs: From Warning Signs to False Alarms...How to Be Your Own Diagnostic Detective (Get the book.)

"If you suffer from severe pain or if weight gain is complicating your health status, you will want to do the following exercises in addition to the above: Phase one a la carte menu: ?Hypnotic Pain Relief every other day ?Hypnotic Weight Loss every other day After you've followed this menu for three weeks, take stock of your health and wellbeing. Go back to the self-rating scales and reevaluate your status. Note the changes and any progress you've made." - Rick Levy and Lou Aronica, Miraculous Health: How to Heal Your Body by Unleashing the Hidden Power of Your Mind (Get the book.)

"However, side effects include nausea, weight gain, fluid retention, breakthrough bleeding, and sometimes depression. Combinations of estrogen and progestin such as those found in low-dose birth control pills suppress FSH and LH. Mild-to-moderate pain relief is achieved because the body's own estrogen production is decreased. In addition, since the volume of menstrual flow is also decreased, less blood is theoretically available for reflux into the pelvic cavity." - Tori Hudson, N.D., Women's Encyclopedia of Natural Medicine: Alternative Therapies and Integrative Medicine for Total Health and Wellness (Get the book.)

"As the Hu paper suggests, there is a growing body of evidence that shifting from fats to carbohydrates may lead to weight gain (as well as a host of other problems). This is counterintuitive, because fats contain nearly twice as many calories as carbs (9 per gram for fats as compared to 5 for either carbohydrates or protein) . The theory is that refined carbohydrates interfere with insulin metabolism in ways that increase hunger and promote overeating and fat storage in the body. (Call it the carbohydrate hypothesis; it's coming." - Michael Pollan, In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto (Get the book.)

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