According to the majority of experts we need to eat breakfast. Somebody even suggests, that breakfast should be the most important meal of the day. Remember: eat breakfast as a king, lunch as a prince, and dinner as a popper. But when I tried to apply this to my weight loss program I found out that eating breakfast may be not a good idea. What I found was

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According to common sense to loose weight you need to consume less calories. Therefore it was proposed to cut down on fat because it contains a lot of calories. Therefore low fat foods were created. However the results of consuming low fat food were disappointing. Therefore they came up with another idea: low carb diet. The result? Which approach is better?

The study from Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel, done on 322 volunteers, show that people who eat low carbs or Mediterranean diet loose more weight and get more benefits for their heats. The explanations of this fact may be as follows:

1.  Low fat food may be bulked up with starch.

2.  Starch causes blood sugar and hence insulin swings, resulting in appetite increase.  Same as low nicotine cigarettes: less nicotine, but more cigarettes taken.

Any other comments, ideas or explanations?

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There are few proven ways to prolong life. The most important one — calorie restriction.  Calorie restriction is the cornerstone in anti aging. How to reduce calorie intake? Portion control! But it much easier to say than to do. And also how to stop eating when the food is still on the plate, but you are already full? There is another easy way to do it.

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A few days ago I decided to eat a steak  for Saturday dinner. It was about 200 g. Very tasty! However I ate about the half of the steak! I could not finish it because I was full. I could not believe it! A few years ago I would eat the whole steak with a side dish and asked for more. At that time I was overweight. But now I’m ok. What happened to me? What happened to my appetite? What happened to my stomach? In my opinion the secret of weight loss is daily meal planning to avoid processed food.

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It is not a secret, that obesity may be the risk factor for cancer. There are multiple explanations for this. Some people say that obesity is creating inflammation, therefore promoting cell transition into cancer cells. Some people think, that fat is taking too much of vitamin D, reducing our natural defence from cancer. Apparently we may get another clue how obesity hurts our body. For me the news was quite unexpected: Pfizer new drug was linked to lung cancer. Guess what drug it is?

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Daily meal planning may be the key for weight loss.
Recently I saw a patient who was suffering from multiple medical problems. One of them and perhaps the most important – obesity. And my patient understands this. But when I reminded him about weight loss, he said that he cannot eat the right food because of the simple and obvious reason: he did not have time to get what he needed, because of being always busy. And this is understandable. Being busy is the part of our lives. So what has to be done?

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