Why Toxins and Waste Products Impede Weight Loss - The Leptin Diet Weight Loss Challenge #3

Friday, April 08, 2011  -  Byron J Richards, CCN

The ability of your body to process trash, including toxic trash, is a pervasive factor in your ability to lose weight and reach a healthy goal weight. Struggling with this issue activates back-up strategies for dealing with toxic overload that include expanding the number of fat cells and stuffing them with toxins as well as fat. This is likely done to get the toxic trash out of your circulation and away from key organs. It causes easy weight gain and it complicates weight loss as your body does not easily give up the toxic fat it has stored.

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How Digestive Problems Prevent Weight Loss – The Leptin Diet Weight Loss Challenge #2

Friday, April 01, 2011  -  Byron J Richards, CCN

There are many potential monkey wrenches that wreak havoc with your metabolism and impede your ability to lose weight. New science indicates that damage to your digestive tract heads the list of priorities for debugging stubborn weight issues. This applies to almost everyone who is overweight and not able to lose weight easily by cutting back on excess calories, following the Five Rules of the Leptin Diet, ensuring your basic nutrient needs are met, and exercising more. This is likely true whether you think you have digestive problems or not. 

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Gut Bacteria Promote Storage of Calories by Your Liver

Wednesday, March 30, 2011  -  Byron J Richards, CCN

The balance of power of the contents of your digestive tract has a powerful influence on your liver’s metabolic function, especially regarding the storage of calories and the potential malfunction of storing too many calories and causing health problems.

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The Leptin Diet Weight Loss Challenge #1 – Overview and Basic Needs

Friday, March 25, 2011  -  Byron J Richards, CCN

The overweight issue in America is a national epidemic affecting citizens of all ages. If you are overweight, then losing weight in a healthy and consistent way is the single best thing you can do to help improve your quality of health. This benefits almost any other health problem.

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Whey Protein is a Superior Metabolic Activator

Thursday, March 10, 2011  -  Byron J Richards, CCN

A new human study shows that whey protein, compared to soy or casein proteins, is a superior metabolic fuel that enhances thermogenesis.  Thermogenesis in response to the diet shows the calorie burning potential of a type of food. In other words, if you eat the same number of grams of whey protein, soy protein, or casein then your body responds better to whey.

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Resveratrol Helps Break Down Stored Fat

Tuesday, March 08, 2011  -  Byron J Richards, CCN

Resveratrol continues to impress with its wide variety of health-promoting anti-aging properties. New research on human fat cells shows that resveratrol helps prevent accumulation of triglycerides in fat cells by helping to increase the rate the fat stored in fat cells is broken down.

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Resveratrol Helps Break Down Stored Fat

Tuesday, March 08, 2011  -  Byron J Richards, CCN

Resveratrol continues to impress with its wide variety of health-promoting anti-aging properties. New research on human fat cells shows that resveratrol helps prevent accumulation of triglycerides in fat cells by helping to increase the rate the fat stored in fat cells is broken down.

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How Leptin Problems Raise Blood Pressure

Monday, February 21, 2011  -  Byron J Richards, CCN

Leptin registering in your brain is fully responsible for your metabolic go signal. If leptin does not register properly then your brain thinks there is a food shortage and you may be starving. Unfortunately, most overweight people have way too much leptin in their blood (leptin resistance) and not enough leptin getting into their brain and registering properly (a false state of perceived starvation). This unfortunate state poses numerous problems to your circulatory system and your risk for heart disease. The latest study on this subject explains what has been learned in the past decade and how leptin problems cause high blood pressure and eventual cardiovascular damage.

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How Overweight Children Start Hardening Their Arteries

Sunday, February 20, 2011  -  Byron J Richards, CCN

A new study of 151 obese children and adolescents identifies key mechanisms that show how the process of plaque and calcium accumulation begins to build in early stages in young people This sets them on a path for future cardiovascular disease.  There were two key differences between obese children who were already developing thickening of their carotid arteries and obese children who were not: low vitamin D and low adiponectin.

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Whey Protein Improves Fatty Liver while Lowering Cholesterol

Thursday, February 10, 2011  -  Byron J Richards, CCN

Obese non-diabetic women consuming 60 grams of whey protein per day (20 grams three times per day) for four weeks had a 20% reduction in unhealthy liver fat, a 15% reduction in triglycerides, and a 7% reduction in total cholesterol. 

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