Challenge with diet and food supplements

It is nice to understand the potential activity or mechanism of action of food supplements and act on it. Example: "Vitamin C: MedlinePlus Medical Encyclopedia

www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/ency/article/002404.htm

Function. Vitamin C is needed for the growth and repair of tissues in all parts of your body. It is used to: Form an important protein used to make skin, tendons, ..."

That knowledge empowers you and helps you take action.  You run to the store and buy a good supply of vitamin C and take it for now and the future.  What the information can not tell you is just as important.  How much Vitamin C you need to actually have the benefit described? How long you should be doing this?  Is your body just getting rid of the extra or all of it?  Based on your chromosome heterogeneity, was it safe for you to have done it?  Are you missing a critical enzyme to process the vitamin?
The NIH is finding out that things that are promised by food supplements, when put to the test and scientific scrutiny, do not deliver a clearly evident output.  "Taking an apple a day" (low methionine food item) will prolong your life.  While the scientific evidence as to how this is possible is established:  Does it really happen? No.  Why? Because what is left out is even more important.  How many apples  a day should you eat, what type of apple, what else should accompany this practice to make this goal achievable (low calory diet)? And so on and so forth. We all know that food supplements can impact some of the signal transduction pathways in our cells and, as a result, they could potentially impact our lives in some beneficial ways.  But is it safe to constantly be bothering our signal transduction pathways?  Do you believe it is right to do so constantly?  Who said this pathway needs to be switched on all the time?  What guarantees you that the body will not respond and shut it off anyway as it always reacts to action that we deliberately impose upon it!
Keeping a pathway on all the time may impact another pathway all the time, and if you just happen to have the wrong gene for this particular game, you may start on some road you should not be on!  So please, just because it may make sense, it does not yet mean that it is true and relevant for YOU! 

DIET FAILURES

With any kind of diet, by the time you reach the 6-12 week mark,  the selected strategy has given you its maximum benefit.  Hopefully, by then you will have achieved the 10% reduction of your total weight which is the realistic goal to pursue.  If you did it right, 1-2 pound per week of weight loss, you would have lost at least 10 pound by now.  After this, maintenance is the challenge and your body's response is even more of a challenge.
The body wants to get back to the size it knows you can achieve.  Make no mistake, size is the major killer.  Just look at the tumor, when it gets too big, areas of necrosis soon happen because some areas will suffer ischemia.

Your body will start asking for food, will try to tell you that just this small thing will not be harmful, and it will tell this throughout the day.   TIMING, WHEN YOU CAN AFFORD TO EAT SOMETHING IS AN IMPORTANT STRATEGY TO PUT IN PLACE.  KEEP CONTROL OVER THIS.  REMEMBER ONE THING IS FOR SURE: BY THIS TIME, GROWTH HAS STOPPED AND THAT THIS IS ALREADY A GREAT GOAL ACHIEVED. KEEP IT THERE.

To go further down, avoid staying home near the refrigerator.  Go out, walk at the mall without money, just your ID! Or best go to the gym or call your support buddy.  When the diet effect is maximized, that is when you need to exercise the most, and that's when you need Calorie control the most, and your vitamins.  Whatever you do, do not increase your Carbohydrate intake, or any excess calories. Remember, you will not increase your weight doing this.  The body will fight back, trying to use what you have given it to its maximum advantage, using everything to its advantage, constipation will set in to prolong intestinal absorption and reduce stool size, but work on staying "regular".  Constipation is a proven risk of Colon cancer.  Take it out. At this stage, it also is hard to exercise. Your body will tell your brain not to exercise.  Any excuses will come to mind.  Double down and keep exercising.  A walk will be good any time.  Remember, staying home with the refrigerator in the house is one of the brain challenges.  If you do reach for the refrigerator, have safe options.  Very cold water, sweet non sugary options or a fruit.  Dried vegetable chips or low calorie nuts.  Here, frequency to the refrigerator needs to be controlled by a schedule.

So, schedule or time your eating, when you reach to eating, find options that are safe, and keep on moving or exercising; this should be your strategy.  And remember, if you do not increase your weight, that's an objective success already.  We will keep trying to find more and let you know!

Lifetime Carbohydrate Load

At the CRBCM we believe that stricter recommendations about carbohydrate reduction in diet should be instituted sooner in life. Certainly, by the time you are 20 to 25 years of age, there should be a sharp decrease in the daily sugar portion. Most adult growth has occurred by then and transition to open obesity initiates from there.
"I am gaining weight and find it difficult to lose it even with exercise". There is no weight loss without a sharp decrease in carbohydrates! We need to start believing that after a certain age: "You just have had all the carbohydrates in your life". We need to have carbohydrate charts able to tell us that we have consumed 60 percent of our lifetime carbohydrate requirement.   People will understand this! They will know where they stand. We also believe that exercise, despite its important accomplishments, to be mainly a weight maintenance strategy, unless you are a top runner/bodybuilder. Other benefits of exercise are more important: they include improvement in fighting cancer progression. So keep it up!
One needs to workout for hours to lose weight significantly. And in our busy life, one finds time and impetus hard to come by. Exercise must be individualized to be successful, but communities offer less and less individualized care. People with extensive arthritis most likely end up stopping exercising altogether. We have no program adjusted for them. Those on oxygen also stop exercising; again they need some individualized program. Our disabled need adjusted programs. Diet remains an integral part to exercise for health preservation!

To expand the idea, we believe physicians should provide patients with a lifetime health chart to tell them where they stand as compared to a 90-year old person. We can debate all night long, but 90 years is pretty good. I know that those close or past this age will feel excluded. I remember the oncologists in a conference room trying to define who is an "Elderly". Every few years, as we all become older, we keep pushing that elderly-age to stay out!

LIFETIME HEALTH CHART OR STATUS: THAT'S AN IDEA! LET'S PATENT THIS QUICK!

Healthy Nutrition and Popular Wisdom

Conversations on metro buses give an interesting snapshot of popular wisdom shared about "Healthy Nutrition": "Mi esposo dice que comer mucha pasta, nueces y cachuetes durante el verano permite hacer grasa para el invierno y quedarse en buena salud." (my husband says that eating lots of pasta, nuts and peanuts during the summer allows to build up fat to stay healthy in winter).