Tuesday, June 26, 2007 - (Byron J. Richards, CCN)
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.
Thursday, June 14, 2007 - (Byron J. Richards, CCN)
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.
Tuesday, June 12, 2007 - (Byron J. Richards, CCN)
Instead of pondering your next meal, now a person will be able to lose weight while pondering if they would like to live. Is the benefit worth the risk? Sanofi-Aventis’s drug Acomplia is one more example of how artificially influencing appetite signals, and thus leptin, is like playing with dynamite. Leptin is powerful, it controls survival. When drugs interact directly with subconscious brain circuitry associated with acquiring food, the result is highly unpredictable.
Tuesday, June 05, 2007 - (Byron J. Richards, CCN)
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.
