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What do you do when you're overweight AND menopausal?
Should you diet? Which one? Atkins? South Beach? Weight Watchers?
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"Calcium definitely does seem to have a negative effect on fat storage and in fact a diet high in calcium is associated with weight loss especially around the torso. Numerous studies have shown that people with low calcium intake have more weight gain, less weight loss and bigger, fatter fat cells." from Vicki Koenig, MS, RD, CDN, Nutritionist at Stonyfield Farm. - Bits and Pieces - |
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I'm still on Atkins diet and lost over 20 pounds. Bloodtests showed I had lower cholesterol and triglycerides. Thanks for your encouragement..Benita From The Menopause Diet by Dr. Larrian Gillespie "This book is about my own personal journey through the process called menopause and how I lost the dangerous abdominal weight ALL women are prone to gain during this stage of life. In these chapters, I will reveal why women gain and lose weight differently than men, supported by the latest scientific research, and what you can do to avoid it. I will show you why women have been inadvertently fed the wrong information about diet during menopause and I will present to you explanations for the very symptoms and changes that are natural and what you can do about them. I will also share with you my perspective on current medical literature so that you can make your own intelligent choices about diet, exercise and hormone replacement therapy." From an article on lowcarbeating.net: When carbohydrates enter your body, those carbohydrates are metabolized into glucose in your bloodstream, raising your blood sugar levels. The job of insulin is to move in and bring the blood sugar levels down. Under normal circumstances, this is a good thing. Insulin performs a vital function in your body. It works to keep blood sugar under control. But when your blood sugar rises to excessive levels, the insulin has to find a place to put the glucose that your body doesn't need. Simply put, insulin shoves the excess glucose into your fat cells. In other words, too much insulin causes us to gain weight. Excessive amounts of any carbohydrate or even small amounts of the wrong ones can cause you to have excess insulin. "It's important to understand that your metabolic tendencies are never cured. The fat you sent to kingdom come by doing the Atkins Nutritional Approach™ was one symptom of a chronic metabolic condition. You do and always will have a metabolic tendency to be overweight. Any blood-sugar imbalance you have will not go away permanently because you have taken a nutritional path that circumvents it. All you have to do is go back to eating the way you once did, or even partially so, and you will arouse the sleeping demon. In very short order, your pancreas will once again secrete large quantities of insulin, and you'll suffer the symptoms of unstable blood sugar—jitters, brain fog, afternoon fatigue and the like. Then your insulin resistance will lead inevitably to the production of more insulin and that, in turn, to weight gain if your carb intake exceeds your tolerance. Clearly, you don't want to go there." --Atkins
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Body mass index (BMI) is measure of body fat based on height and weight that applies to both adult men and women. Here's a quick way to find your BMI
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