In this article you will learn why it is so tricky to lose weight. Even for the very small number of dieters that are successful, less than 5% will maintain their weight loss for three to five years. This information will help make your subsequent efforts at weight loss much more successful.

At first glance, it definitely appears to be a very simple problem and ought to respond to simple type solutions. If one consumes additional calories than one burns in their daily activity, there would clearly be a weight gain. About 60% of an average person' caloric intake or basal metabolic rate (BMR) is used for basic bodily requirements such as breathing, digestion, and cardiac function. Aside from these basic requirements, if one reduces his calorie intake by 500 calories per day there will be a consequential 1# per week weight reduction.

Why do we as a nation persist to become more obese? It would take many centuries for a change in our genetic makeup, and yet, 100 years ago we were not experiencing such a national weight crisis.

As study continues, it appears the more we know, the more we realize we don't know. In 1994 when scientist discovered leptin, many thought that the "Silver Weight Loss Bullet" had been found. As it turned out, even though it gave a negative feed back to the appestat, it was only one portion of a very complex mechanism controlling one's appetite. The complexity of the feed back mechanism is quite analogous to the changes we undergo in our hormones as we continue to age.

In place of continuing to try to discover the solution to our hunger urge, which has been as it is since the beginning of time, it might be more functional to see what in our surroundings could be having such a result on obesity.

We need to know that the appestat is so responsive that slight changes in hormonal levels could cause measurable changes in our hunger urges.

My previous editorial "Can You Loss Weight Easy?" points out many of the changes in our vital food supply. Both our vegetable produce and our protein meat sources have had drastic changes over the last 50 years.

Our vegetable produce is produced under efficiency guidelines rather than requirement for quality. In the 1920, Britain and the United States were warned that they needed to take curative action so that produce grown would have the proper vitamins and minerals. Most plants will only require three nutrients to grow to maturity. These are nitrogen, phosphorus, and water. When grown in depleted soil the fruits and vegetable will be nutritionally empty. In addition the insecticides and chemical fertilizer used to augment production can in fact be adding harmful quality to the produce. Even organic foods, if grown in depleted soil, might not have the nutrition you need, at least they will not have the detrimental character of agro farms.

We needed to mention this so as to point out that when the human body is not supplied its proper vitamins, minerals, and nutrients, the human body's hormone production can substantially change. Any change in your hormones can make a change in your hunger urges. Earlier in this report mentioned leptin, which is a hormone implicated in the appetite control. When given to obese children who were leptin deficient, the children returned to normal weight. In the laboratory, however, a lot of other factors had to be held constant. Leptin still is not ready for prime time.

When we look at our protein meat production, the dilemma is even more acute. As cattle is taken off of the grazing land and put into feed lots to increase productivity, they are given a grain that is not their natural food. This feed lot grain is usually corn, which substantially raises the acidity of the animal’s stomach. Not being fed their normal food, and being in the unsanitary conditions, the livestock get unhealthy and catches a variety of diseases requiring the utilization of huge amounts of antibiotics. Cattle production now uses 70% of the world’s production of antibiotics. Eventually the E. coli mutates and becomes immune to the antibiotics. The bacteria pass into the highly acidic condition of the animal's stomach. The bacteria then become impervious to being destroyed in the human gastro intestinal tract.

When the meat is harvested, it contains E. coli which has been generated in a extremely acidic condition. This is the reason for the heightened frequency of E. coli 0157:H7 illness. Previously a raw hamburger was no particular problem, but with this new strain of E. coli, a person eating undercooked hamburger can perhaps die.

There are other health factors in which to be worried. For instance grazing cattle have 3 times the quantity of CLA (Conjugated Linoleic Acid) and three times the amount of Omega3. CLA is a factor in distributing lean body weight to fatty tissue. Omega3 used to be a healthy anti inflammatory ratio 1:5 to Omega6. Feed lot cattle have a very unhealthy inflammatory ratio of 1:30 and are a contributing factor in the epidemic of inflammatory diseases we have seen.

Getting back to possible weight problems, the harvested meat also has residual amounts of the six hormones used in the meat production. These hormones are intended to promote rapid weight gain. From what we have seen, it would be unreasonable to imagine this would have no effect on our appetite management.

The very newest protocol for weight control has been discovered by Dr. Suzanne Gudakunst. You have probably seen her on national Television describing her new and pioneering approach. Her protocol realizes the need for caloric controls, but also addresses the other problems delineated in this article. In some cases her patients have lost weight without diet or exercise.

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