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The Seven Myths about Weight Gain
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In this interview about Dr. Hyman's new book, Ultrametabolism: The Simple Plan for Automatic Weight Loss, Dr. Mark Hyman presents a new science of weight loss that will make other diet books obsolete. It's based on a groundbreaking concept called nutrigenomics-the science of how food "talks" to our genes.
· Discover the Keys to Waking up your Metabolism
· Learn How to Exercise Less to Lose More
· Find out how to Lose Weight just by Correcting your Biochemistry
· See How Food is Information That affects our Genes
· Learn how a Natural Food Based Diet Harmonizes your Body
· Chronic Stress and Toxins make us Fat - Find Out Why
· Get the Truth About the 7 Myths of Weight Gain
· Hear about Functional Medicine, an ideal type of medicine looks at optimizing your potential and looking for the real underlying causes of why you don't feel as fabulous as you'd like
Also revealed are the seven myths about weight gain:
Myth 1: Eat less + exercise more = weight loss
Myth 2: You can control weight by counting calories
Myth 3: Eating fat makes you fat
Myth 4: Eating no-carb or low-carb will make you thin
Myth 5: Skipping meals helps you lose weight
Myth 6: The French paradox meets the American paradox
Myth 7: Food politics: Government and industry are the guardians of our health
Dr. Hyman is Editor in Chief of Alternative Therapies in Health and Medicine, on the Editorial board member of Integrative Medicine: A Clinician's Journal, and former co-medical Director at Canyon Ranch Lenox , the world's leading health resort. His practice is affiliated with Harvard Medical School's Brigham and Women's Hospital, he is on the Faculty of the Institute for Functional Medicine, and is a nationally recognized author, speaker, and authority on prevention and wellness.
Liz Lipski, PhD, CCN Is the host of the Access to Health Experts interview series. She holds a doctorate and is board certified in Clinical Nutrition, is the author of Digestive Wellness, Digestive Wellness for Children, and Leaky Gut Syndrome. She's the Director of Doctoral Studies at Hawthorn Health and Nutrition Institute, and the nutrition editor for Pilates Style Magazine. Dr. Lipski is the founder of several web-based health information sites including Innovative Healing and Access to Health Experts.
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Weight gain
Category: File - :Get fat3.jpg|right|thumb|200px|An 1895 advertisement for a weight gain product.
Weight gain is an increase in body weight. This can be either an increase in muscle mass, fat deposits, or excess fluids such as water.
Body weight
Although some people prefer the less-ambiguous term body mass, the term body weight is overwhelmingly used in daily English speech as well as in the contexts of biological and medical sciences to describe the mass of an organism's body. Body weight is measured in kilograms throughout the world, although in some countries people more often measure and describe body weight in pounds (e.g. United States and sometimes Canada) or stones and pounds (e.g. among people in the United Kingdom) and thus may not be well acquainted with measurement in kilograms. Most hospitals, even in the United States, now use kilograms for calculations, but use kilograms and pounds together for other purposes. (1 kg is approximately 2.2 lb; 1 stone (14 lb) is approximately 6.4 kg.)
The term is usually encountered in connection with:
*food and feeding behaviour
*normal and abnormal growth and development
*the physiological and hormonal control of ingestion and digestion
*foraging for food in animals
*hunger and other motivations to eat
*problems in regulating body weight, often resulting in obesity
*eating disorders such as anorexia nervosa and bulimia nervosa
*effects of disease
* athletic competitions where the participants are classified according to their body weight
Body mass index
The body mass index (BMI), or Quetelet index, is a statistical measurement which compares a person's weight and height. Though it does not actually measure the percentage of body fat, it is used to estimate a healthy body weight based on how tall a person is. Due to its ease of measurement and calculation, it is the most widely used diagnostic tool to identify weight problems within a population, usually whether individuals are underweight, overweight or obese. It was invented between 1830 and 1...
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