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"Finally, rapid fat loss is just plain dangerous. Like all other animals, we store heavy metals like lead and mercury and other toxins such as dioxins, PCBs, and organophosphates in our fat cells because they're all fat soluble. That is why women are told to avoid consuming fatty fish during pregnancy-the heavy metals and other toxins in fish could possibly damage the developing fetus. During rapid fat loss, these heavy metals are liberated from the melting fat and enter the bloodstream. Unfortunately, we don't excrete these compounds well in our urine." - Dr. Steven R. Gundry, Dr. Gundry's Diet Evolution: Turn Off the Genes That Are Killing You - And Your Waistline - And Drop the Weight for Good (Get the book.)

"Most fat loss was from the legs, primarily in women who were obese at the beginning of the study, and waist size decreased by more than one inch in the CLA group. Remarkably, these changes were independent of alterations in calorie intake or exercise level. The researchers stated, "This trial confirms several previous reports showing that CLA reduces body weight without reducing lean body mass." Now without going into a lot of boring and technical stuff on biochemistry, it's important to note that CLA comes in a number of different forms, called isomers." - 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.)

"When taken as part of a healthy diet, DIM helps to relieve PMS symptoms and to promote fat loss and healthy estrogen metabolism. In men, DIM also promotes its own metabolism. This means that it allows for greater testosterone activity. Men who take DIM supplements will benefit biochemically because DIM promotes an optimal testosterone-to-estrogen ratio. / WOMEN SHOULD TAKE 200 MG OF DIM PER DAY; MEN SHOULD TAKE 400 MG PER DAY. The B Vitamins The B vitamins—Bi, B2, B3, B5, B6, Bi2, and folate—do a lot within your body to support estrogen detoxification." - 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.)

"Another study with overweight adults in Australia found that those participants who had supplemented with fish oil and who had also followed an exercise program experienced more fat loss than those who had been given fish oil supplements alone but had not exercised or had been given a placebo with or without exercise.20 The subjects were not on a calorie-restricted diet and so the loss of fat was not associated with a lower calorie intake." - Wendy Bazilian, DRPH, MA, RD, Steven Pratt, MD, Kathy Matthews, Superfoods Rx Diet: Lose Weight with the Power of SuperNutrients (Get the book.) "Additional research in animals and humans has shown that higher-calcium diets promote fat breakdown, inhibit the creation of new fat cells and fat storage, and may even preserve metabolism during calorie-reduced diets, which could potentially speed up weight and fat loss.25 Why would calcium have such an effect on weight? One possible reason is the relationship between calcium and your body's energy metabolism. Low calcium levels stimulate production of a hormone—parathyroid hormone or PTH." - Wendy Bazilian, DRPH, MA, RD, Steven Pratt, MD, Kathy Matthews, Superfoods Rx Diet: Lose Weight with the Power of SuperNutrients (Get the book.)

"It not only has an impressive research history showing it has anticancer properties, it also has an emerging body of research behind it showing it's quite effective for fat loss. The name of the trans fat in question? CLA. I'll never forget seeing a series of photos years ago that came out of an early study on overweight rodents given CLA in their diets. Mter euthanizing the rats, the researchers did the equivalent of a rodent autopsy and took photos of their inner abdominal areas." - 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.)

"Our enzymatic detoxification system must inactivate them, but during rapid fat loss the system is overwhelmed, and toxins rise to high levels and remain elevated for a long time. How long? Studies of volunteers at Biosphere II in the Arizona desert, who lost approximately 37 percent of their body mass in six months, showed toxic levels of heavy metals for a whole year before returning to normal.2 Is this a problem? You bet it is. Dr. Roy Walford, the longevity researcher who headed up the project, died recently from Lou Gehrig's disease, also known as amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS)." - Dr. Steven R. Gundry, Dr. Gundry's Diet Evolution: Turn Off the Genes That Are Killing You - And Your Waistline - And Drop the Weight for Good (Get the book.)

"They found that at week 8 of diet, the decrease in visceral fat volume was more sharply correlated with the changes in plasma glucose and in lipid metabolism than the decrease in body weight, total fat, or subcutaneous fat volume, and that these correlations were independent of total fat loss. The reduction in visceral fat was more pronounced than the reduction in subcutaneous fat. Another study [175] reported that the improvements in fasting plasma glucose and insulin sensitivity with weight loss related to losses of abdominal fat." - Ann M. Coulston and Carol J. Boushey, Nutrition in the Prevention and Treatment of Disease (Get the book.) "This makes it obvious that fat loss will be a slow process. Nonetheless, activity equivalent to a 1- to 1.5-mile (1.6- to 2.4-km) walk or jog (a 20- to 30-minute effort) five times a week, as recommended in the OEI guidelines, would be expected to bring about a loss of 6.5 kg of fat over the course of a year, if one did not consume excess energy or expend less energy in the remaining 23.5 hours of the day." - Ann M. Coulston and Carol J. Boushey, Nutrition in the Prevention and Treatment of Disease (Get the book.) "Implications of Obesity Genes for Obesity Treatment Patients with monogenic obesity will probably be more difficult to treat than those with polygenic obesity, because individuals with monogenic obesity will likely have strong food-seeking behavior and may have physiological resistance to fat loss. The discovery of human obesity genes may have future implications for diet, behavioral, and drug therapy of genetically obese humans, and perhaps of all obese people. But as yet, no specific treatments are available, with the exception of leptin, for most genetic obesities." - Ann M. Coulston and Carol J. Boushey, Nutrition in the Prevention and Treatment of Disease (Get the book.) "DXA and intra-abdominal body fat loss by CT with increasing duration of exercise [62]. The Midwest Exercise Trial for overweight and obese (BMI 25.0-34.9 kg/m2) young adults, aged 17-35 years was completed by only 74 (43 women; 31 men) of 132 participants randomized to a 16-month program of verified exercise (primarily walking on motor-driven treadmills) or control at an approximately 2:1 ratio (65% to exercise, /V=87, 41 of whom completed the trial; 35% to control, jV=44, 33 of whom completed the trial)." - Ann M. Coulston and Carol J. Boushey, Nutrition in the Prevention and Treatment of Disease (Get the book.)

"One recent study showed that 33 percent of overweight women said they would trade 5 percent of their remaining lifetime for just ten pounds of permanent fat loss. With that level of desperation, you would expect these women to succeed in dropping pounds, but they don't succeed, so again, you see that negative motivation easily overpowers even the most positive motivation in the weight-loss arena. The desire to hold onto the comforts of emotional eating can be a powerful force indeed—far more powerful than the desire to shed the belly." - Roger Gould, Shrink Yourself: Break Free from Emotional Eating Forever (Get the book.)

"Sears believes that short bursts of high-intensity exercise create not just a reserve for your heart, but a hormonal environment conducive to fat loss. If you still doubt this, ask yourself when you last saw a flabby sprinter. Flabby marathoner? Maybe. Sprinter? Never. You can start PACE with an easy, ten-minute program. After warming up, spend one minute working hard enough to break a sweat and give your heart and lungs a challenge. Then slow down and let your heart rate recover for another minute. Repeat." - 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.)

"Preliminary research in animals4 and humans5' 6 suggested that chromium picolinate increases fat loss and promotes a gain in lean muscle tissue. Double-blind research has also reported a reduction in body fat7 and body weight8 in people given 400 meg of chromium (as chromium picolinate) per day for three months. However, other studies have failed to show a significant effect of chromium picolinate on body composition.9 Where is it found? The best source of chromium is true brewer's yeast (page 480)." - Alan R. Gaby, M.D., Jonathan V. Wright, M.D., Forrest Batz, Pharm.D. Rick Chester, RPh., N.D., DipLAc. George Constantine, R.Ph., Ph.D. Linnea D. Thompson, Pharm.D., N.D., The Natural Pharmacy: Complete A-Z Reference to Natural Treatments for Common Health Conditions (Get the book.)

"In patients with CHD, for example, those who undertook a relatively simple weight training routine after aerobic exercise experienced greater improvements in fitness, strength, fat loss and muscle gain than those who performed aerobics only(6). Exercise When You're Not Exercising Increasing the amount of activity in one's daily routine can go a long way towards improving one's fitness levels." - Anthony Colpo, The Great Cholesterol Con: Why Everything You've been Told About Cholesterol, Diet and Heart Disease is Wrong (Get the book.)

"This is not good practice for fat loss. The best advice I can give is keep your heart rate lower and trust that you're getting a workout. You'll find that your sugar and carbohydrate cravings will decrease if you workout and maintain your FBHR. I have shoulder and neck problems, what's the best exercise routine or particular exercises for me? The best advice I can give to you is to be mindful of your posture. Your ears should be in line with your shoulders and your shoulders should be relaxed and in line with your hips. You should not puff your chest out!" - Kevin Gianni and Annmarie Colameo, The Busy Person's Fitness Solution (Get the book.)

"In fact, as clinical researchers have shown, and as millions around the world have discovered for themselves, high-animal fat, low-carbohydrate diets are extremely effective for fat loss. As for smoking habits, at the start of the trial both groups had a similar number of heavy smokers; by the end of the study, there were almost twice as many heavy smokers in the control group." - Anthony Colpo, The Great Cholesterol Con: Why Everything You've been Told About Cholesterol, Diet and Heart Disease is Wrong (Get the book.)

"A good response to such an exercise time will typically result in a half pound of actual fat loss, not just water weight dropping. Amazingly, a healthy response to increased UCP3 activity actually improves the antioxidant status of cells.144 145 146 If a person does this three times a week this can equate to 1 -2 pounds a week of healthy fat loss from this fat burning time. There are other fat burning times related to how a person eats, which we will discuss in our next section." - Byron J. Richards, CCN, Mastering Leptin: The Leptin Diet, Solving Obesity and Preventing Disease, Second Edition (Get the book.)

"Most convincing research indicates that focusing on the low glycemic index (how much 1 oz of food makes the blood sugar rise) promotes fat loss. Generally, calorie intake is reduced, the diet is modified to include foods that are low glycemic and non-processed, and a Paleolithic diet (a caveman diet), in which processed foods are eliminated in favor of simple vegetables, fruits, whole grains, and plain meats, is adopted. White foods should be avoided, as should fad diets, such as liquid diets or diet pills, as they do not tend to promote sustainable weight loss." - Marshall Editions, 1000 Cures for 200 Ailments: Integrated Alternative and Conventional Treatments for the Most Common Illnesses (Get the book.)

"Georgetown University, who found that the chromium polynicotinate form promotes fat loss but preserves muscle. Some research also suggests that chromium polynicotinate is better absorbed than other forms. (The term polynicotinate indicates that the chromium is bound to vitamin B3, sometimes called nicotinic acid.) Meanwhile, research has shown that chromium picolinate helps to prevent weight gain associated with the use of the diabetic drug glipizide (Glucotrol). Other forms of chromium, such as chromium glycinate chelate, may work as well." - Jack Challem, Stop Prediabetes Now: The Ultimate Plan to Lose Weight and Prevent Diabetes (Get the book.)

"While some people have reported weight loss ranging from 5 to 20 pounds when cleansing, this is not actual fat loss, but rather is due to the elimination of stored, hard-compacted fecal matter throughout the entire length of the intestinal tract. Q. How will I know when my bowels are clean and the compacted fecal matter is gone? A. Everyone's results on the cleanse will differ, depending on their diet, exercise patterns, and age, as well as physical and emotional stress levels." - Dr. Edward F. Group III, DC, ND, DACBN, Health Begins in the Colon (Get the book.)

"If fat loss is your goal and you are looking for results, you will need to reduce your caloric intake and increase your caloric expenditure with cardio-respirato-ry activity to optimize results. Getting Ripped or Just Ripped Off? How many home gyms or pieces of strength training equipment have you seen advertised that claim to give you that ripped look? I am talking about the ones that have fitness models performing exercises to make you think that they actually achieved those results using the piece of equipment advertised." - Craig Pepin-Donat, The Big Fat Health and Fitness Lie (Get the book.)

"John's Wort on body fat loss, lipid levels, and mood states in overweight healthy adults. Curr Ther Res 60(3): 145-153. 1999. Constantine GH, Karechesy J. Variations in hypericin concentrations in Hypericum perforatum L. and commercial products. Pharmaceutical Biol 36(5):365-367. 1998. Cooper WC, James J. An observational study of the safety and efficacy of hypericin in HIV+ subjects. Int Conf AIDS 6(2):369 (abstract 2063). 1990. Cott JM. In vitro receptor binding and enzyme inhibition by Hypericum perforatum extract. Pharmacopsychiatry 30(suppl):108-112. 1997. Cott J." - Thomson Healthcare, Inc., PDR for Herbal Medicines, Fourth Edition (Get the book.)

"CLA has also shown the ability to simultaneously enhance muscle gain and accelerate fat loss in humans, although not all trials have been able to confirm this, and the effect observed in successful studies has been relatively small(49-58). Saturated fat may protect against heart disease. Harvard researchers took 235 postmenopausal women with established coronary heart disease, and divided them into four categories according to their level of saturated fat intake. They then performed coronary angiographies at baseline and after a mean follow-up of 3." - Anthony Colpo, The Great Cholesterol Con: Why Everything You've been Told About Cholesterol, Diet and Heart Disease is Wrong (Get the book.)

"It's called PACE (Progressively Accelerating Cardiopulmonary Exertion—a fancy way of saying interval training). Sears—a bit of a contrarian, but a brilliant one—goes so far as to call what most people call "cardio" exercise a waste of time. He believes that forced, continuous endurance exercise induces your heart and lungs to "downsize" because smaller organs allow you to go further, more efficiently, with less rest and less fuel. What's wrong with that, you might ask? "Instead of building heart strength, (long, slow endurance exercise) robs (the heart) of vital reserve capacity." - 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.)

"Preliminary research in animals and humans suggested that chromium picolinate might increase fat loss and lean muscle tissue gain when a o 3 3 a used with a weight-training program.266,267,268 However, most studies have found little to no effect of chromium on body composition or strength.269,270,271 ¦272,273 One group of researchers has reported significant reductions in body fat in double-blind trials using 200 to 400 meg per day of chromium for six to twelve weeks in middle-aged adults,274,275 but the methods used in these studies have been criticized." - Alan R. Gaby, M.D., Jonathan V. Wright, M.D., Forrest Batz, Pharm.D. Rick Chester, RPh., N.D., DipLAc. George Constantine, R.Ph., Ph.D. Linnea D. Thompson, Pharm.D., N.D., The Natural Pharmacy: Complete A-Z Reference to Natural Treatments for Common Health Conditions (Get the book.) "While this type of diet does not usually lead to greater weight loss than other diets when calorie intakes are kept equal,35 one controlled trial found greater body fat loss in women eating a diet almost equal in calories and fat but approximately twice as high in protein and lower in carbohydrate compared with a control group's diet.36 Another controlled trial compared rwo diets similar in fat content but different in protein and carbohydrate content." - Alan R. Gaby, M.D., Jonathan V. Wright, M.D., Forrest Batz, Pharm.D. Rick Chester, RPh., N.D., DipLAc. George Constantine, R.Ph., Ph.D. Linnea D. Thompson, Pharm.D., N.D., The Natural Pharmacy: Complete A-Z Reference to Natural Treatments for Common Health Conditions (Get the book.)

"So most of the weight loss was actually fat loss. As incredible as it was to lose so much weight so rapidly (even though I had only planned on getting down to 195 pounds), what was really amazing to me was that the whole process was effortless. I felt satisfied all the time because I was using PGX to reduce my appetite. In the four years since going on the program, my weight has stabilized between 188 and 190 pounds, and—amazingly—my body fat percentage now fluctuates between 8 and 10 percent." - Michael T. Murray and Michael R. Lyon, Hunger Free Forever: The New Science of Appetite Control (Get the book.)

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