What is the best way to avoid obesity?
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Dr. Mehmet Oz answered:Your best weapon against fat isn't a Tae Bo video or self-serve liposuction vacuum. It's food. Good food. Inflammation-reducing food (inflammation is an overly revved up response of the body's immune-fighting system).
To reduce obesity-causing inflammation, you need to eat foods with nutrients that can have anti-inflammatory and antioxidant properties.
Antioxidants are often what give a specific food its flavor, smell, and color. Eating more anti-inflammatory foods means eating more flavorful and brightly colored foods. (The foods you eat ought to be tasteful; you can magnify a flavor by doubling up on it with two different food sources. For example, add sun-dried tomato bits to tomato sauce, or eat dried apples with applesauce to bring out the flavor.)
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Your best weapon against fat isn't a Tae Bo video or self-serve liposuction vacuum. It's food. Good food. Inflammation-reducing food (inflammation is an overly revved up response of the body's immune-fighting system). To reduce obesity-causing... More -
Dr. Michael T Murray answered:The key to both avoiding and reversing obesity is reducing the expression of the thrifty genotype. Can this actually be done? Definitely. That is what the Hunger Free Forever program is all about. Activation of the thrifty genotype is a lot like inviting a monster to come live inside your body. Once this monster is inside, it has a very powerful desire to take over - it wants to eat and it wants to grow. The monster that we are referring to is an accumulation of fat that resides in our abdominal cavity and surrounds our internal organs. This type of fat is also referred to as intra-abdominal fat and visceral adipose tissue.
The expression of the thrifty genotype and the hunger of the "monster" is largely the result of the impact of two opposing hormones secreted by fat cells in the abdomen: adiponectin, a compound that helps insulin work better, and resistin, a compound that blocks insulin's action. The levels of these fat-derived hormones go a long way in determining the body's sensitivity to the hormone insulin. Fortunately, our program reestablishes the proper ration of adiponectin to resistin and thus provides a key mechanism to improving the sensitivity to insulin, thereby reducing the expression of the thrifty genotype. And, as we will continually stress, improving the body's sensitivity to insulin is the key goal in breaking the weight-gain cycle, getting appetite under control, and allowing for maintenance of your ideal body weight.
The key to both avoiding and reversing obesity is reducing the expression of the thrifty genotype. Can this actually be done? Definitely. That is what the Hunger Free Forever program is all about. Activation of the thrifty genotype is a lot like... More
