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"Excess Abdominal Body Fat Research shows that having fat around the abdomen (often referred to as an "apple shape" or a "beer belly"), and not just total body fat, is associated with insulin resistance and an increased risk for heart disease. The risks associated with the accumulation of excess fat around the abdomen have been known for some time. In 2005, researchers published the results of a study that followed 27,270 men for thirteen years. During that time, 884 men developed type 2 diabetes." - Steven V. Joyal, What Your Doctor May Not Tell You About Diabetes: An Innovative Program to Prevent, Treat, and Beat This Controllable Disease (Get the book.)

"We have hormone "factories" right in our own body fat. body fat makes estrogen.17 The more body fat you have, the more estrogen you make. The result is seen in higher cancer rates in overweight women and a worse prognosis when cancer strikes.18 Similarly, as men gain weight their body fat produces estrogens. As you can see on any beach in America, overweight men often have breast enlargement. While this is partly fat, it is also breast tissue growing under the influence of estrogen coming from their body fat. In extreme cases, this estrogen overload leads to impotence." - Neal Barnard, M.D., Eat Right, Live Longer: Using the Natural Power of Foods to Age-Proof Your Body (Get the book.)

"Body Fat There's nothing more fundamental to losing body fat than exercise. Not, as many people think, because the exercise burns the fat off, but rather, because muscle burns fat even while you sleep. The more muscle you have, the more calories you burn. Sixty to 70% of the energy your muscles burn (even while sleeping) is fat. Every pound of muscle that you have burns fat calories 24 hours a day. Think about that. If you add 4 pounds of muscle to your body, every day you automatically burn an extra 200 calories or so, free of charge (plus another 200 calories from your exercise)." - Jon Barron, Lessons from The Miracle Doctors: A Step-by-Step Guide to Optimum Health and Relief from Catastrophic Illness (Get the book.)

"We have hormone "factories" right in our own body fat. body fat makes estrogen.17 The more body fat you have, the more estrogen you make. The result is seen in higher cancer rates in overweight women and a worse prognosis when cancer strikes.18 Similarly, as men gain weight their body fat produces estrogens. As you can see on any beach in America, overweight men often have breast enlargement. While this is partly fat, it is also breast tissue growing under the influence of estrogen coming from their body fat. In extreme cases, this estrogen overload leads to impotence." - Neal Barnard, M.D., Eat Right, Live Longer: Using the Natural Power of Foods to Age-Proof Your Body (Get the book.)

"There is also evidence that they improve cholesterol levels and favor a beneficial redistribution of body fat (i.e., less abdominal fat and more peripheral body fat). The side effects of thiazolidinediones (TZDs) include fluid retention and liver toxicity. The latter complication requires that you have regular monitoring of your liver function. Several significant warnings about TZDs emerged in 2007." - Steven V. Joyal, What Your Doctor May Not Tell You About Diabetes: An Innovative Program to Prevent, Treat, and Beat This Controllable Disease (Get the book.)

"Not only does exercise reduce cravings for cigarettes, but it seems to dramatically improve endurance and fitness, decreases body fat stores, and decrease insulin resistance. A prospective study of Japanese men concluded that age of smoking initiation and number of cigarettes smoked were major risk factors for developing diabetes.78 Similarly, data from the U.S. Cancer Prevention Study found that as smoking increased so the rate of diabetes increased for both men and women." - Gabriel Cousens, There Is a Cure for Diabetes: The Tree of Life 21-Day+ Program (Get the book.)

"Chapter 2 will help you to understand how age, body fat, and environmental toxins can join forces to sabotage your inner hormonal equilibrium. DOMINANT? velyn, a thirty-seven-year-old graphic artist and mother of three, walked into my office literally dragging her forty-three-year-old husband, Richard, behind her. I had delivered all three of her children and had been her gynecologist for years. Evelyn related the following: Dr. Randolph, remember how trim and athletic my body was even after three kids? Even two years ago, I was a perfect size 8." - C. W. Randolph, M.D., From Belly Fat to Belly FLAT: How Your Hormones Are Adding Inches to Your Waistline and Subtracting Years from Your Life (Get the book.) "When high estrogen levels are unopposed by sufficient progesterone, the resulting condition of estrogen dominance also impacts your body fat's distribution. In both men and women, higher estrogen levels predispose the body to store fat around the abdomen. In women, estrogen dominance causes fat to be stored around the waist, hips, and thighs, and it's the main reason that many middle-age women have pear-shaped bodies. Estrogen dominance is also the reason for the middle-age spare tire in men." - C. W. Randolph, M.D., From Belly Fat to Belly FLAT: How Your Hormones Are Adding Inches to Your Waistline and Subtracting Years from Your Life (Get the book.) "After reading this chapter, you should be able to determine if your age, your body fat, your symptoms, and your chronic exposure to environmental estrogens signal that you are suffering from estrogen dominance. If your situation and symptoms fit, then stop feeling guilty about those extra pounds around your middle. They are not your fault. At a cellular level, you have been, and continue to be, set up. Nevertheless, don't give up. You can eliminate your condition of estrogen dominance once and for all while having a very positive impact on your overall health and well-being." - C. W. Randolph, M.D., From Belly Fat to Belly FLAT: How Your Hormones Are Adding Inches to Your Waistline and Subtracting Years from Your Life (Get the book.) "Although many anti-aging enthusiasts are familiar with DHEA, far fewer are likely to be aware of its metabolite, 7-keto DHEA, which within the body to safely boost immune function and help reduce body fat. The term 7-keto DHEA is in fact a brand name for the chemical compound 3-acetyl-7-dehydroepiandrosterone. Human blood levels of both DHEA and 7-keto DHEA tend to rise and fall in a similar pattern with age: increasing until the twenties, beginning to decline in the thirties, and continuing to decline until the levels are reduced by about 50 percent by age fifty." - C. W. Randolph, M.D., From Belly Fat to Belly FLAT: How Your Hormones Are Adding Inches to Your Waistline and Subtracting Years from Your Life (Get the book.)

"In a two-week study of twenty-five obese adults, body weight and body fat were reduced after sauna therapy for fifteen minutes at 60 degrees Celsius daily in a far-infrared sauna (see Resources). Researchers reported on another obese patient who couldn't exercise because of knee arthritis and lost 17.5 kilograms, decreasing body fat from 46 percent to 35 percent after ten weeks of sauna therapy. Weight loss is inhibited when you have high levels of toxins. This is, in part, because the toxins block thyroid function. When you get rid of these toxins, you keep your metabolism going faster." - Mark Hyman, Ultra-Metabolism: The Simple Plan for Automatic Weight Loss (Get the book.)

"Ingestion of a tea rich in catechins leads to a reduction in body fat and malondialdehyde-modified LDL in men. Am J Clin Nutr. 2005;81:122-129. Yang YC, Lu FH, Wu IS, et al. The protective effect of habitual tea consumption on hypertension. Arch Intern Med. 2004;164(14)!l534-1540. Teff www.ethnomed.org/cultures/ethiop/teff.html Mengesha B, Ergete W. Staple Ethiopian diet and cancer of the oesophagus. East Afr Med}. 2005 Jul;82(7):353-356. Tomatoes www.tomato.org Basu A, Imrhan V. Tomatoes versus lycopene in oxidative stress and carcinogenesis: conclusions from clinical trials." - David W. Grotto, RD, LDN, 101 Foods That Could Save Your Life! (Get the book.)

"INCREASING LBM Increasing your LBM calls for exercise that convers some body fat to muscle (see chapter 15). In the process, you'll also build more bone density and increase strength in tendons and connective tissues, especially if you follow the diet plan in chapter 3. The best approach is to combine some sensible dieting with exercise to achieve your objective more quickly and effectively. We'll look at sensible ways to diet in the next chapter. Monitor Your Caloric Intake As we discussed in the last chapter, people with lower body fat always have a lower cancer risk." - James Scala Ph.D., 20 Natural Ways to Reduce the Risk of Prostate Cancer : A Mind-Body Approach to Health and Well-Being (Get the book.)

"It's true that many ADHD kids are more active than their peers — studies show they have less body fat, on average — and I see plenty of adults with ADHD who are already exercising. But they need to be doing more, and on a regular basis. In general, I tell my patients to make every effort to institute a regimen of daily exercise—or at least during the five weekdays, when they need to focus at school or work." - John J. Ratey, MD, Spark: The Revolutionary New Science of Exercise and the Brain (Get the book.)

"OBESITY: There have been a handful of studies, mostly conducted in Japan, that have shown promising results in reducing body fat when green tea or green tea catechins were consumed. However, the amount of catechins used in these studies would be equivalent to more than 10 cups of green tea per day! Green tea may be a useful tool for achieving a healthy weight, but it is certainly not the entire solution. OSTEOPOROSIS: Though too much caffeine is a concern for bone health, a study found that older women who drank tea had greater bone density than those who didn't." - David W. Grotto, RD, LDN, 101 Foods That Could Save Your Life! (Get the book.)

"Their percentages of body fat were way below national norms using the CDC's height and weight standards. On other fitness variables, something like ninety-eight percent of the students passed." Broeder is perfectly aware of Naperville's demographics, yet he's still impressed. "The numbers are too high for it to just be that," he says. "The PE program itself has to have had an additive impact on what that population would achieve otherwise." - John J. Ratey, MD, Spark: The Revolutionary New Science of Exercise and the Brain (Get the book.)

"Rats and mice who were fed buckwheat flour had lower cholesterol levels, less body fat, and fewer gallstones than mice that were not fed buckwheat flour. Prematurely aging rats that were fed buckwheat flour had improved immune cell function compared to those who didn't consume it. A study done on diabetic rats found that buckwheat concentrate added to rat chow decreased their glucose levels by twelve to nineteen percent after eating. And buckwheat studies with humans also are showing promise—for appetite control." - David W. Grotto, RD, LDN, 101 Foods That Could Save Your Life! (Get the book.)

"Extra body fat can prevent the body's cells from using magnesium to break down carbohydrates. Characteristic signs of Type-2 diabetes in children include: overweight, early stages of heart disease, magnesium deficiency, and insulin resistance. Chlorophyll through a plant-sourced diet is high in magnesium. Chlorophyll is an amazing food that is essential for humans, and at the center of every chlorophyll molecule is the element magnesium. Plant blood (chlorophyll) and human blood (hemoglobin) are not so different, as shown in Figure 21." - Gabriel Cousens, There Is a Cure for Diabetes: The Tree of Life 21-Day+ Program (Get the book.) "Berkson suggests that women are more greatly affected by chemical exposures than men, probably because they have a higher ratio of body fat and different metabolic and elimination rates than men. ARSENIC IN TAP WATER Arsenic is another commonly found hormone disruptor suspected of playing a role in diabetes. Arsenic interferes with the action of glucocorticoid hormones, which belong to the same family of steroid hormones as estrogen and progesterone. Glucocorticoids turn on many genes that help regulate blood sugar and even ward off cancer." - Gabriel Cousens, There Is a Cure for Diabetes: The Tree of Life 21-Day+ Program (Get the book.)

"Assists body fat loss ?Improves blood lipid profile ?Decreases MDA Maldealdehyde in response to lipid peroxidation) Antioxidant Properties ?Decreases macromolecule oxidation, owing to lower ROS production ?Decreases hypoxia, due to enhanced circulation ?Less ROS (Random Oxygen Species "Free-Radical") generation ?Reduces xanthineoxidase resulting in less ROS (free radical) production What's Next: ArginoCarn Research Currently Underway? Much of what comprises my concept and my restorative path in understanding treatments under "Metabolic Cardiology" is based upon the Metabolic Syndrome." - Stephen T. Sinatra, M.D., The Sinatra Solution Metabolic Cardiology (Get the book.) "Anthropometric data (e.g., body fat, circumference measures, Basal Metabolic Index 10. Pulmonary function testing 11. Resting blood pressure and heart rate This is the first human intervention study to combine carnitine supplementation and supervised exercise in relation to such exhaustive measurement to all of the variables listed above. The results soundly support GPLC as demonstrating strong performance in the retention of muscle carnitine during and after strenuous physical activity as well as significantly affecting the production of nitric oxide (NO)." - Stephen T. Sinatra, M.D., The Sinatra Solution Metabolic Cardiology (Get the book.)

"Andro-stenedione is converted to estrogen (estrone) in the body fat and to a lesser degree in some other tissues and organs including the muscle and skin. For some women, this source of estrogen is adequate to counter some of the menopausal symptoms, and they have an easier time. Although this adrenal source of hormonal support is a blessing, the adrenal glands produce their maximal amount of androgens in the presence of fully functioning ovaries." - Tori Hudson, N.D., Women's Encyclopedia of Natural Medicine: Alternative Therapies and Integrative Medicine for Total Health and Wellness (Get the book.)

"At that time I did feel the effects of middle age: body fat, cynicism, low energy. I looked "old." We ate the typical American diet. I became acutely dissatisfied with myself. Stress, fear of high cholesterol from alcoholic beverages and fast foods, loss of energy, and thoughts of physical illnesses weighed me down, and all the time we neglected to use the good information on Gary's radio show, Natural Living. Finally, the logic of health and science brought us to a support group." - Gary Null and Amy McDonald, The Food-Mood Connection: Nutrition-based and Environmental Approaches to Mental Health and Physical Wellbeing (Get the book.)

"If you're trying to lose weight, or more properly, body fat, you'll probably need to work out longer or harder (or both). You can increase the intensity of exercise either by doing it for a longer period of time or by doing it harder. A good place to start: Subtract your age from the number 220. Then calculate 50 percent of that number and 70 percent of that number. Keep your heart in that "target range" between the two percentages. You can always up the ante and go higher for a more intense workout later on, but there are striking benefits even at the 50 percent level." - Jonny Bowden, Ph.D., C.N.S., The Most Effective Natural Cures on Earth: The Surprising, Unbiased Truth about What Treatments Work and Why (Get the book.)

"Belza A, Frandsen E, Kondrup J. body fat loss achieved by stimulation of thermogen-esis by a combination of bioactive food ingredients: a placebo-controlled, double-blind 8-week intervention in obese subjects. Int J Obes (Lond). 2006 Apr 25. Diepvens K, Westerterp KR, Westerterp-Plantenga MS. Obesity and thermogenesis related to the consumption of caffeine, ephedrine, capsaicin and green tea. Am J Physiol Regul Integr Comp Physiol. 2007 Jan;292(l):R77-85. Macho A et al. Non-pungent capsaicinoids from sweet pepper synthesis and evaluation of the chemopreventive and anticancer potential." - David W. Grotto, RD, LDN, 101 Foods That Could Save Your Life! (Get the book.)

"A Welsh study linked the concentration of these artificial trans fats in body fat with death from heart disease. The Dutch government has already banned any products containing trans fatty acids. Why is an increased risk of heart disease so important in the consideration of cancer? It is because cancer and heart disease share the same causes. A heart attack occurs when a part of the heart muscle is deprived of oxygen and dies. Cancer occurs when a part of an organ or system in the body is deprived of oxygen and would die if the body's cells were not able to mutate and become cancerous." - Andreas Moritz, Cancer Is Not A Disease - It's A Survival Mechanism (Get the book.)

"High levels of these hormones, called androgens, are known to be a cause of menstrual irregularities including amenorrhea, hirsutism (abnormal body hair growth), and other metabolic disturbances. In addition, type 2 diabetes, elevated insulin, and glucose intolerance, conditions that often co-occur with obesity and polycystic ovarian syndrome, are associated with amenorrhea and oligomenorrhea (infrequent menses).2, 3 Usually, oligomenorrhea and chronic anovulation caused by hormonal abnormalities is the cause of the menstrual irregularity in women with significant amounts of excess body fat." - Tori Hudson, N.D., Women's Encyclopedia of Natural Medicine: Alternative Therapies and Integrative Medicine for Total Health and Wellness (Get the book.)

"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. So the response that the body generates is something called the cannaboid receptors. Their nickname is the 'can't avoid' receptors." - Deirdre Imus, Growing Up Green: Baby and Child Care: Volume 2 in the Bestselling Green This! Series (Green This!) (Get the book.) "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.)

"Oral: 2-6 mg per day Cream (1-4 mg/g): apply twice weekly to external genitalia before sexual activity ing of body fat and body mass index, and an improved sense of well-being.186 The ability of exercise to reduce the incidence or severity of hot flashes during menopause is not clear. It appears that for women who are not overweight, moderate exercise may be beneficial for hot flashes and more vigorous exercise may exacerbate them. Exercise Recommendations." - Tori Hudson, N.D., Women's Encyclopedia of Natural Medicine: Alternative Therapies and Integrative Medicine for Total Health and Wellness (Get the book.)

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