by OneMoreBite | Oct 26, 2005 | Drugs & Herbs
Everyone Wants a Diet Pill
Take this pill and lose weight and all is well with the world, only one problem: they don’t work. Sure, you can lose weight with prescription diet pills, a little bit that is, but at what cost?
All a scammer has to do is claim to have a diet pill that helps you lose weight and people start throwing money. The claims aren’t true, and the companies are usually short-lived because they know they are breaking the law by making false claims yet they persist.
“This diet pill really works! Take one in the morning and tomorrow you’ll be 10 pounds lighter!” “Eat whatever you want!” “No effort.” blah, blah, blah.
If there really were a pill that effectively killed your appetite, would you still eat? Think about it. Do you eat now with no appetite? Sometimes? Okay, that’s my point. Appetite suppresants only work if you are paying close attention to your hunger signals. Eat when hungry, sleep when tired. Good advice.
Check the comments on the Brazilian Diet Pill at Diet-Blog.com
by OneMoreBite | Oct 25, 2005 | Weight Loss News
Mice Benefit from Yo-Yo Dieting Say Researchers
Finally, another mouse study indicated that on-again, off-again dieting may actually prevent breast cancer in postmenopausal women. Mice on the so-called “yo-yo” diet regimen had a 96 percent reduction in cancer, compared to the animals allowed to eat whatever they wanted.
The results were surprising to the researchers who initially believed the effect of this yo-yo pattern would be detrimental (obviously, that’s what any sane person would have assumed).
“This is the way people used to eat,” says study author Margot Cleary, Ph.D., an associate professor at the University of Minnesota’s Hormel Institute in Austin. “For many, many centuries for human beings it was feast or famine. Maybe the body has adapted to that.”
Whether the findings will apply to humans remains to be seen but, if they do, they would add a new twist to what is known about nutrition and disease.
“It’s been well known for decades that chronic food restriction is protective against lots of things, not just cancer, but it was thought the protective effect existed to the degree you restricted calories,” Dr. Cleary explains.
“Our results show that it’s really the manner that you receive these calories that can have a significant effect on what the impact is,” she notes.
You can incorporate “cheat days” into your dieting plan and still lose weight. In fact, that’s the method employed by many bodybuilders and other elite athletes who must stay in top form year around. A once a week cheat day (or cheat meal for the ultra disciplined) goes a long way toward keeping your sanity, plus your body likes it as it does get used to the feast/famine cycle.
If you want to diet, do so with a bit more common sense. Stay on your plan for a day or two, then allow a bit of a cheat day, then back to your plan for another day or two and so forth. This disciplined approach to yo-yo dieting may be just the thing to jump start your weight loss.
By cheat day I mean go ahead and have what you want, but I don’t mean carry home two grocery sacks full of treats and consume them at one sitting. Sane binging is eating half the bag of Hershey’s Kisses, while out-of-control binging is eating that bag, plus three others you bought for Halloween, then having to go back out to restock for the trick-or-treaters.
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by OneMoreBite | Oct 20, 2005 | Food Safety
Think back to tobacco. Originally it was a plant that when smoked caused a nice pleasant sensation and cigaretts and cigars were born. Then Big Tobacco stepped up to the plate introducing numerous chemicals to “enhance the flavor” and speed of the burn (hence you must buy more smokes). Chemicals they knew were dangerous or at least should have known in legal parlance. Some were added to make a person desire another smoke, or help one get addicted, and all this went on for decades until finally someone stepped up to the plate with a lawsuit. Today it still goes on to a large extent but not quite so blatantly, yet, Congress wants to stem the tide of lawsuits against Big Food before they’ve even begun? Fat chance (no pun intended).
BBC News: US Approves “Cheeseburger Bill”
CBS News: House Approves “Cheeseburger Bill”
FoxNews.com: House Passes “Cheeseburger Bill”
Washington Times: The “Cheeseburger Bill”
These headlines aren’t very clever are they?
The Hill: The Newspaper for and about US Congress: House GOP tries out ‘guns and butter’ strategy against obesity class-action suits
Znet News: Obesity, Class and the Cheeseburger Bill This article is the first to point out the obvious use of enormous fat guts hanging out, superimposed near giant burgers and fries. Real nice use of images.
A Hamburger A Day chimes in
BBC News: US Approves “Cheeseburger Bill”
Good law needs to be very specific and this bill is far too broad and sweeping to have any effect whatsoever. This bill simply attempts to create sweeping legislation against the rights of the citizens in favor of the corporations and frankly, I’m getting pretty sick of it. We do know that eating fast food regularly is unhealthy, yet advertisements say otherwise and that’s perfectly legal. Fast food (restaurant food in general) is too high in calories and saturated fat, plus contains who knows what chemicals which cause who knows what illnesses, so yes, I’d vote no on this bill. Write me a bill with substance that is specific and then we’ll talk.
by OneMoreBite | Oct 6, 2005 | Diet Products
The brown sugar in the product (what they’ve added) allows consumers more of the browning, rising, texture, moistness and molasses-like flavor characteristics of baked goods made with brown sugar. Consumers need to use only one-half cup of Splenda Brown Sugar Blend to replace the sweetness of a full cup of brown sugar.
Okay, let’s think about this a minute. If Splenda Brown Sugar Blend is Splenda mixed with brown sugar, why couldn’t we do this ourselves? I hate when I pay extra for something I could mix up myself, so if anyone is experimenting, let me know.
Brown sugar Splenda is a proprietary blend of brown sugar and Splenda Brand Sweetener, or sucralose. In other words, it’s sugar. It’s also important to realize that despite all claims to the contrary, Splenda is not calorie free. The US labeling laws allow a claim of zero or “no calories” if the calorie count is less than 5 per serving. That explains why sometimes that packet of candy will claim to serve 2.3 people! So when you consume more than one serving, guess what; you’re eating lots of real calories.
Yes, Virginia, Splenda contains approximately 4 calories per teaspoon, and .9g carbohydrate. Not a huge amount, but if you enjoy an occasional Splenda packet for a snack, and plenty of people do because they think it’s calorie free, you are getting lots of unwanted calories. Five Splenda packets equals 20 calories, and so on. Every calorie counts, so don’t consume empty calories even in the form of Splenda.
If you want a snack, have an apple; 80 calories of wonderful, juicy goodness and crunch.
Splenda’s Recipe: Brown Sugar Substitute
1 cup artificial sweetener*
1/4 cup sugar-free maple syrup
Mix ingredients well.
Replaces 1 cup of regular brown sugar to be used when baking.
*Use type of sweetener that measures 1 cup to 1 cup of granulated sugar like Splenda, duh.
I note this recipe isn’t using brown sugar but maple syrup. I want to know how much real brown sugar they use to mix with the granulated Splenda so we can all save bucks and just mix our own. Home chemists alert! Let’s get on this detective work because this is not rocket science. The first person to crack the code wins a free t-shirt.
Remember, sugar free is not calorie free. If you make a recipe using a sugar substitute, still enjoy the same portion you would have otherwise. Don’t fall victim to the trap of thinking you can eat all you want, just because it doesn’t have any sugar.
One cup of Splenda contains 96 calories and 24g carbohydrates. One cup of sugar contains 770 calories and 192g carbohydrates. You can see how this one substitute could equal big changes in your weight.
Splenda.com or 1-800-777-5363
by OneMoreBite | Sep 25, 2005 | Drugs & Herbs
Alpine Pure announced today the launch of its Artichoke, Echinacea and St. John’s Wort herbal supplement product line in the United States. The product that caught my eye was Artichoke because they state it promotes improved liver function, stimulates fatty acid and cholesterol metabolism, and relieves flatulence and feelings of fullness.
Relieves flatulence? Who wouldn’t want that? They said “feelings of fullness” in the same sentence as relieves flatulence so I’m not sure what’s the implication? Does it relieve feelings of fullness or promote it? Not too many of us want a product to relieve the feeling of fullness. Guess I better put on my investigator’s cap and go find out.
Does Alpine Pure’s new Artichoke dried fresh plant juice help with lowering cholestorol and weight loss? We can find out soon enough as they say their new line of products is coming to health food stores in the U.S., and if anyone in Europe who has used these products is reading this, please let me know results you’ve achieved.
