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Yo-yo Dieting and Weight Control
Contributing Author: Hansen, Richard D.M.D.
Dr. Hansen received his BS in biological sciences from USC in 1972 and his degree in dentistry from Washington University in 1976. He is the member of over 16 professional societies, and is on the faculty at UCLA. Dr. Hansen's practice in Fullerton was the actual FDA clearance site for laser treatment. He is extensively published in magazines, journals, and popular press and has appeared on several television programs including Good Morning America, The Discovery Channel, ABC-CBS- and NBC News.
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QUESTION: ANSWER: This is a common theme with most Americans these days. We either see most people eating lots of C.R.A.P. (Caffeine, Refined/Processed foods, Alcohol or Aspartame, and Pasteurized Milk) within some fad diet program, or cutting calories to lose weight. I can tell you from my clinical experiences that neither one works. Remember, it takes life to give life! The body actually needs about 1,500 calories a day just to survive. The body is a fine-tuned piece of machinery that needs the right amount of energy for things to happen, be produced, eliminated, and so forth. We actually need more than 1,500 calories when we are active, are in school and thinking a lot, have kids, are pregnant, and so forth, to keep up with the energy demands of our activities. The Chinese believe that the more we think, the more we use our spleens (which makes Qi and blood), and the more Qi- and blood-deficient we become. This deficiency can lead to a lot of issues, with internal stagnation being one of them. In TCM, excess weight is typically a result of Qi or blood stagnation. The thing I see most frequently is that a lot of people yo-yo diet. There are many downfalls to doing this, including:
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Eating, life, and nutrition are supposed to be fun. Personally, I feel that most Americans have turned eating into their own prison. You can’t eat this; you must do that; shame for eating this; shame for doing that. How fun does that sound? The goal here is to have fun; that is what life is all about. Life should be celebrated and not just lived! Losing weight and keeping it off while cutting calories is impossible. The less you eat, the more stressful dieting becomes, the more you body eats itself, the more your hormones are out of flux, the more fat-storing hormones are released to maintain fuel (fat) for the body, and the more your body tells your thyroid to slow down as a protective mechanism, for the body to keep what little fuel it has to live on. The beginning will be tough for the teen client, as she may gain weight. In the end, however, she will lose a lot of weight and keep it off. You need to educate her on how to eat and how to live, not how to cut calories. Losing weight is all about the physiology in your body and getting healthy within. Doing that will create the body she wants. As for the lab test, if a full thyroid test to measure everything was not conducted, then the test was a waste of time. Just testing for TSH, which is released by the pituitary as a signal for the thyroid to turn on, is not valid. Here is why:
Here is what I would do to get your client on track:
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