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Jogging Helps Correct Leptin Problems

Elevating levels of the hormone leptin typically accompany abdominal obesity, high cholesterol, high blood sugar, and high blood pressure. Leptin seeks to communicate, as if making a phone call, to the soluble leptin receptors in numerous locations throughout the body and general circulatory system. This communication is vital for the normal function of metabolism, production of energy, and virtually all aspects of cardiovascular health.

Read More:  abdominal fat, Exercise, jogging, Leptin Diet, metabolism

Fat Fitness and Cardiovascular Health

On the cover of my book, The Leptin Diet, is the million dollar question, “How fit is your fat?” Scientists are now catching on to this concept and actively studying how a fit leptin system results in a fit metabolism and proper body weight that are likely to provide significant reduction in the development of cardiovascular disease.

Read More:  cardiovascular disease, heart disease, metabolic fitness, metabolism, statins, The Leptin Diet

Leptin Abuse - Parents Making their Own Toddlers Fat

A new study shows that soft drinks and sweetened fruit drinks between meals and at bedtime double the risk for a child to be overweight by age 4 ½. It is obvious these children don’t buy their own food, so it is parents who are doing it to their own kids – a problem that significantly worsens based on the economic and educational status of the parents.

Read More:  childhood obesity, Leptin Diet, metabolism, toddlers

Obesity and Prostate Cancer

The University of Southern California has an NIH grant to explore the relationship between obesity and cancer. Researchers are now reporting what I have been stating since the release of Mastering Leptin in 2002, obesity is a significant risk factor for aggressive prostate cancer....

Read More:  breast cancer, Leptin Diet, metabolism, organic food, prostate cancer

Men Lose More Weight Taking Fish Oil

A study published in the International Journal of Obesity found that men taking fish oil lost the most weight while on a diet, an additional 3 pounds over 8 weeks (for a total of 10 pounds). Eating salmon was also helpful.

Read More:  DHA, fat metabolism, fish oil, metabolic fitness, metabolism

High Fat Diet Disturbs Body Clock

Researchers conducted a simple mouse experiment that showed eating a diet too high in fat causes a disruption of the 24-hour biological clock. While their experiment is simple, and their results not unexpected, the meaning of the results is profound.

Read More:  biological clock, high fat diet, hypothalamus, metabolism, saturated fat

Adequate Oxygenation Vital to Healthy Metabolism

New research is uncovering how hemoglobin behaves within a cell to deliver oxygen to the cell engines so that calories can be burned as fuel. Oxygen must be present within cells in order for metabolism to work at an optimal rate. Thyroid hormone is short-circuited at the cellular level if oxygen is not present.

Read More:  cells, Exercise, hemoglobin, Iron, Iron bisglycinate, iron deficiency, metabolism, oxygen

B Vitamin Deficient Parents More Likely to Produce Overweight Children

Proper health preparation prior to and during pregnancy has a profound affect on the future health of the child. The “fetal programming” that takes place is especially involved with energy regulation, formation of metabolic “hardware,” and the likelihood of obesity during childhood or even adulthood.

Read More:  B Vitamins, calcium folinate, DNA, Folic Acid, high blood pressure, insulin, metabolism, methylcobalamin, The Leptin Diet

Lipoic Acid in Combination with Acetyl-L-Carnitine Activates Fat Cell Metabolism

Fancy experiments with high tech equipment are now becoming the norm. Such research is beginning to unravel the complex mystery of genes and related proteins involved in metabolism. Acetyl-L-Carnitine has long been known to help metabolize fat. Lipoic Acid has long been known to help metabolize carbohydrate. A new study with fat cells show that the two used together, better than either alone, work synergistically to increase the metabolic rate of fat cells.

Read More:  Acetyl-L-Carnitine, carbohydrate metabolism, fat cells, fat loss, fat metabolism, fitness, Lipoic Acid, metabolic rate, metabolism, R-Alpha Lipoic Acid

Fish Oil Lowers Fat Mass and Shrinks Fat Cells

In a study with 27 type II diabetic women it was found that three grams of fish oil per day (containing 1.8 grams of omega 3 fatty acids like DHA) given for two months reduced total fat mass as well as reduced the size of fat cells. Inflammatory genes operating within fat were also reduced, an important result indicating that leptin status was improved (though not directly measured). This study shows how fish oil can improve unhealthy body composition even in individuals with significantly disturbed metabolism.

Read More:  DHA, fish oil, metabolism, overweight, supplements, Triglycerides

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