Weight management often depends on calculating metabolic rates, understanding fat biochemistry, and tailoring exercise programming for either muscle acquisition or structured fat reduction.
The words "candy" and "Atkins" aren't often seen in the same sentence. While you can eat candy on Atkins, you can only eat candy low in carbohydrates and in amounts that don't exceed your daily carb allowance.
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The fruitarian diet, which often includes nuts and seeds as well as fruits, can result in dramatic weight loss, depending on which fruits you eat and in what quantities.
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Losing weight is an obsession in the U.S.: in 2008, 26 percent of women and 16 percent of men claimed to be dieting, according to “The Boston Globe.
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Chemotherapy medications are powerful drugs with dangerous side effects. But chemotherapy patients don’t usually isolate themselves completely from babies or small children—nor should they.
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Polycystic ovary syndrome is a hormonal disorder that affects between 5 and 10 percent of American women, according to Harvard Medical School. PCOS is a disorder characterized by high levels of the male hormone, androgen, which often results in weight gain.
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Certain medical conditions, medications and dietary deficiencies zap your appetite. If you're unable to eat, or you feel full after just a couple of bites, you may not get all the nutrients you need from your diet.
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Many disease processes can cause bleeding from the gastrointestinal tract, including ulcers, medications that irritate the stomach, such as aspirin, varices, dilated blood vessels in the esophagus or stomach or cancer.
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Guarana, made from the seeds of a plant grown in the Amazon region, finds its way into a number of energy drinks and weight loss supplements. Guarana’s effects come mostly from its high caffeine content; guarana naturally contains 2.
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Along with weight gain during pregnancy, swelling of your hands and feet -- enough to make getting your rings off and wearing certain shoes difficult -- commonly occurs.
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In vitro fertilization, or IVF, is a fertility treatment for women who cannot become pregnant without medical intervention. A number of factors, including male or female infertility or a combination of both can cause couples to turn to IVF.
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Three principal species go by the name ephedra, also known as a Chinese botanical, ma huang. Ephedra, a shrub-like evergreen plant, contains several active alkaloid compounds, including ephedrine, pseudoephedrine and phenylpropanolamine, also known as norephedrine.
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Medifast, a diet plan that relies on meal replacement shakes, soups, simple meals and bars for most of its daily calorie intake, promises quick and easy weight loss of up to 20 lbs. in 30 days on its website.
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Ketosis, a metabolic state where fat rather than carbohydrates becomes your primary energy source, occurs only when you follow a low-carbohydrate diet or a near-starvation diet. Your body normally uses carbohydrates for energy.
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Ativan, the brand name for the generic medication lorazepam, has long been used as an anti-anxiety drug. Ativan belongs to a class of drugs called benzodiazepines, which act as central nervous system depressants. Weight gain isn't a common side of a Ativan, but could occur in some individuals.
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The Mayo Clinic Cabbage Soup Diet -- which has no connection at all with the actual Mayo Clinic-- is a fad diet that promises you’ll lose a large amount of weight in a short period of time.
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Athletes looking to build muscle mass and overweight people looking to drop a few pounds on a low carbohydrate diet often consume larger-than-normal amounts of protein. Some medical practitioners worry about the effect of large amounts of protein on the kidneys.
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Gastroparesis is the medical term for delayed stomach emptying. The stomach normally dispatches all its contents to the small intestine within 90 and 120 minutes after their arrival time, according to gastroenterologist Dr. Frank Jackson of Jackson-Siegelbaum Gastroenterology.
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Salt substitutes consist of potassium and chloride, two necessary elements in the body. People without kidney problems excrete excess potassium in the urine, but people with damaged kidneys cannot excrete the extra potassium, which builds up in the body.
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Grapefruit can change the way your body metabolizes many drugs. Because of this effect, you may have more side effects than usual if you take medications with grapefruit.
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The Special K Challenge is a short-term two-week diet plan designed to kick-start weight loss in people with a BMI over 25, which classifies them as overweight. It is not meant to be followed as a long-term diet.
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