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72How To Stop Eating: Understanding Hunger, Appetite and Cravings
There are healthy food cravings and there are unhealthy food cravings. The first is normal. It is triggered by certain hormones in the body which tell the brain that the body needs to refuel. The second is abnormal. It occurs when the body is not...
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73What Do Diabetes and Mental Illness Have In Common?
Sleep deprivation has been linked to an increased risk of diabetes and psychiatric disorders. Research shows that during long term sleep deprivation, there is an increased adrenaline fight or flight reaction. Sleep deprivation also leads to neuronal rewiring in they hypothalamus.
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53The Yin and Yang of Appetite Control: Leptin and Ghrelin
By now we have all heard of Leptin; that wonderful hormone that tells us when we’re full. Leptin is yet another reason not to fear adipose tissue or fat. We can fear overeating but fat keeps us warm, tells us when to stop eating (if we listen),...
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70Go to Bed and Lose Weight!
Go to bed instead of watching that late night movie and you might find it easier to drop extra weight. Sure certain activities in bed have the potential to burn calories and even increase your cardio fitness, but that is not today’s topic….. ...
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62Is obesity a disease?
I believe that obesity is a combination between genetics and lifestyle. It is too easy to simply say that genetics, or lifestyle is the sole cause of obesity. There is evidence that both are factors of...
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81Weight Loss Hormones: Ghrelin and Leptin
Ghrelin and leptin are hormones in the body that you should know a little something about if you're interested in the topic of weight loss. Basically, ghrelin and leptin are hormones that we all have but we each have different levels of them. These...
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