Low Fat Diets and Being Overweight

Before we can begin to figure this out, we need to grasp the reality of this and understand the problem. It has been said that excess body weight is known to increase the risk of heart disease, stroke, high blood pressure, pulmonary disease, and diabetes. Furthermore, a recent study suggested that increased body weight is related to an elevated risk of mortality from cancer. Since pre-existing chronic disease can lead to weight loss, this study also included alternative analyses that disregarded deaths occurring soon after enrollment and restricted the assessment to groups without pre-existing disease. In addition, the researchers adjusted for pre-existing disease by asking older participants to report their weight as it was when they were 50 years old. Examining weight at an earlier age provides a measure of typical adult weight that is largely unaffected by the onset of chronic disease.

Did you know that two out of three Americans are considered overweight? The primary cause is that we eat more and exercise less. There is no doubt that the more advances we make that enhance our lifestyle the heavier we become. Hold up...and wait a minute! What about all those low-fat foods that we eat now? Most people on low fat diets ask...How come I reduced fat in my diet but I’m still gaining weight? That's a simple answer. A few years ago we all became aware of the detrimental effects of fat in our diet. So what did we do? We began to concentrate on lowering cholesterol and taking fat out of our diets. This is a good thing. However, The National Center for Health Statistics studied eating habits of 8,260 adult American between 1998 and 2005. Their research showed that Americans had significantly reduced their fat intake but still packed on the pounds. How can this happen? There is no mystery. In the process of counting fat grams, we stopped counting calories! There's your problem.

Many of us bought in to the theory that if it’s “low-fat” it won’t make us fat...WRONG!

Did you fall off a turnip truck yesterday? Listen, you seriously can’t forget about counting calories. If you eat more calories than you need the body will store them as fat. It doesn’t matter whether the calories are from fat or carbohydrates.One school of thought believes that eating small amounts of fat can actually keep you from over indulging on total calories. The theory is that dietary fat causes our bodies to produce a hormone that tells the intestines to slow down the emptying process. You feel full and therefore are less likely to overeat. Adding a little peanut butter to your rice cake may satisfy your hunger for a longer period of time, thus preventing you from eating more than you need.Here’s more news that is surprising. 

Tufts University scientists put 11 middle aged men and women volunteers on a variety of average, reduced and low-fat diets. The results? Extremely low-fat diets which provided only 15 percent fat from calories (this is a diet near impossible in real life) did have a positive effect on blood cholesterol and triglyceride levels.However, a reduced-fat diet (much more realistic) only affected those levels if accompanied by weight loss.

In fact, they concluded, cutting fat without losing weight actually increased triglyceride levels and decreased high density lipoproteins (HDL), the “good” cholesterol that helps protect again heart disease, and none of us want heart disease! Take care of your body, I say this daily..it's the only home you'll ever have and you cannot be replaced! Are you picking up what I'm laying down here?

So what can we do about this HDL and how can our bodies fight that 'bad?' We can deduce, therefore, while excess fat isn’t healthy, fat is also not necessarily a bad thing. Without some fat in our diet, the body won’t make nerve cells and hormones or absorb some of the fat soluble vitamins.Okay, so how can you determine your ideal weight? Just how much fat and how many calories should you consume to reach and maintain a healthy weight? The truth is, one answer just won't work for everyone... So you need to do some figuring to determine how much fat and how many calories you can have.Remember, take care of yourself, and seek the advice of a professional. 

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Cell Phones Can Cause Brain Cancer!

Do Scientists Really Think Cellphones Might Cause Brain Cancer?

I've heard this before, and until recvently I thought that it was hog wash! BUT.....what I was unaware of was during phone calls and other data transmissions, cellphone antennas emit radio waves, a form of electromagnetic radiation, or light, which is invisible to the human eye. It is unclear how large doses of these radio waves affect biological tissues. This article might be a lot to take in, but please, pay attention....it can happen to you! Don't roll your eyes,...listen to me!

The International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC), a branch of the World Health Organization (WHO), has officially labeled cellphone usage "possibly carcinogenic," grouping it in the same risk category as lead, the pesticide DDT and gasoline fumes.

The WHO pronouncement doesn't come with new and definitive evidence of a link between cellphone use and brain cancer. It's based on the results from dozens of studies and simply points to the possibility of a link, the need for caution when using cellphones, and above all, the importance of further study.

From what I understand, there are two types of electromagnetic radiation: ionizing and non-ionizing. Ionizing radiation — including X-rays, UV rays, and gamma-rays — packs enough energy to strip electrons off the atoms it encounters, leaving them positively charged, or ionized. It is well established that large doses of ionizing radiation can cause cancer.

Listen up....What [cellphone radiation] does is similar to what happens to food in microwaves, essentially cooking the brain. I didn't believe this until I was at a neighbors house drinking wine the other night and talking about illnesses and she told me that a doctor that she works with was diagnosed with this type of cancer a few years ago and that he had quite a large tumor on his brain. They removed it and he is doing well now, BUT it scared the crap out of me, an already cancer survivor. So what do we do? How about use your cell phone with limited usage. It's not attached to your hip, and you don't need to be on it 24/7.

Is There a Danger Threshold with Cell Phone Use?

Some cellphone users have interpreted the results of the Inter phone study as meaning that there could be a danger threshold,  an exposure level above which cellphone use is dangerous (and below which there is no danger). This is because the study found a spike in tumor rates only among people with the highest level of cellphone use: those who had talked on cellphones for at least a half hour per day for a decade. For less frequent users, no correlation between frequency of cellphone use and cancer risk was apparent. What does this mean for those of us whom for the last decade have lived with our phones attached to our faces for hours on end every day, day in and day out? Sucks to be us?

If the dangers of other forms of radiation are a model for the danger of radio waves, children may be at a greater risk than adults. Children's skulls and scalps are thinner. So the radiation can penetrate deeper into the brain of children and young adults. Their cells are dividing at a faster rate, so the impact of radiation can be much larger. Practice a safer environment, please...life is too short, and remember...cell phones are a luxury, not a necessity.

How can I minimize my radiation exposure?

I know, this sounds so technical, but the facts are that non-ionizing radiation is emitted by a cell phone's antenna, which is usually embedded inside the handheld device itself. The best way to minimize your exposure is to use a headset, which allows you to conduct phone calls without holding your phone to your ear.

The power radiated from the phone drops off rapidly with distance, so some researchers say you can significantly decrease your exposure by simply holding your phone away from your head slightly during phone calls. Some cellphone manufacturers recommend doing this. The Apple iPhone 4 safety manual advises, "When using iPhone near your body for voice calls or for wireless data transmission over a cellular network, keep iPhone at least 15 mm (5/8 inch) away from the body." Blackberry Bold tells users to "keep the Black Berry device at least 0.98 in. (25 mm) from your body when the Black Berry device is transmitting.



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