- weekly weighting on a scale
- restrict caloric intake
- restrict high fat foods
- pay attention to portion size
- daily exercise
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But lifestyle changes alone also have a limited impact on obesity rates. Almost every single study has shown that weight loss is usually limited to three to 10 per cent of initial body weight with behavioural treatments…
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2018 Jan 11 When you lose weight, your fat cells don’t just let go of fat: Fat cells store hormones, toxins, vitamins, and many other things. When you lose weight these are all released into your body. It is best to not have then around in the first place.
2021 Sept 13 How a ‘fatally, tragically flawed’ paradigm has derailed the science of obesity: The idea of reduce intake will help you lose weight (energy imbalance) is widely accepted but could be very wrong. It is the regulation of insulin that will reduce body fat.
By the mid-1960s, researchers studying fat storage and metabolism had established unambiguously that the hormone insulin dominated the regulation of fat storage. While insulin works conspicuously to control blood sugar — defects in insulin production and responsiveness are primary causes of diabetes — it does so partly by stimulating the uptake of fat into fat cells, inhibiting its release and inhibiting its use as energy in non-adipose tissue. No tissue in the body is as sensitive to insulin’s action as fat tissue — “exquisitely sensitive,” as these researchers often described it…
In the case of obesity, the hormonal/constitutional hypothesis also encountered dogmatic resistance in response to its single most direct practical implication: Diets that can successfully resolve obesity are not those that induce us to eat less, per energy-balance thinking, but those that reduce circulating levels of insulin, accomplished most effectively by replacing dietary carbohydrates — sugars, starchy vegetables and grains, and the like — with fat…
These physicians, an ever-growing but still small minority, find that when they induce their patients to restrict carbohydrates but not calories, their patients can achieve and maintain a healthy weight with relative ease and get healthier in the process.
Your Workout Burns Fewer Calories Than You Think: Our bodies compensate for at least a quarter of the calories we expend during exercise, undermining our best efforts to lose weight by working out.
A more intractable problem with using exercise for weight loss, he continued, is that exercise realistically burns few calories, period. To drop pounds, we also will have to eat less.
“Half a cookie or half a can of cola” after a half-hour walk, and you will have taken in more calories than you burned, he said, however much or little you compensate.
Weight Loss (Hormones vs Calorie Counting)
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2023 Feb Best Diet(s) for Type 2 Diabetes | Dr. Nicola Guess: To reduce your type 2 diabetes risk the most important factor is weight loss. All other aspects such as protein, which diet you do, matters very little, 2:05 “The best evidence, right now, is that weight loss, however you achieve it, is the primary determinant of diabetes remission. 22:35 lose 5-7%, however you achieve it, seems to prevent the development of type 2 diabetes, 23:46 prevention of weight gain is relatively easy compared to weight loss, prevention of pre-diabetes is easier than prevention of type 2 diabetes 24:41 “To when I think insulin resistance, to me that is synonymous with overweight..the proportion of population who are overweight and obesity is pretty similar to the proportion who have insulin resistance 25:25 Weight loss has such a huge effect on fasting insulin that nothing else matters that much 29:47 the prevention of type 2 diabetes and cardiometabolic disease, maintaining a healthy weight and doing a good amount of physical activity are so above and beyond in terms of effect size of your risks of type 2 diabetes..nothing else really matters.
2021 What causes diabetes? | ft. Prof. Roy Taylor: 1:33 cause of diabetes: carrying around more fat than the individual can cope with. each person has a fat threshold. Diabetes occurs when you exceed this threshold.
2022 How to reverse Type 2 Diabetes | ft. Roy Taylorreduce body fat below the personal fat threshold and type 2 diabetes will go into remission
2022 May 09Reversing Type 2 DiabetesDr Jason Fung: reverse T2 diabetes by reducing intake and changing diet, it is all about lifestyle and diet
2025 Jan 13 Why Is the American Diet So Deadly?: A scientist tried to discredit the theory that ultra-processed foods are killing us. Instead, he overturned his own understanding of obesity.: A very interesting take on ultra-processed foods. There is nuance on the subject.