Dr Oz Tips - Detox to Break Your Sugar & Fat Addiction

Excess Sugar and Fat in our system can affect your body just like cocaine. Effects can include mood swings and binge eating.

If you eat too much, it will block the formation of leptin in your system which tells you that you are satisfied. Without leptin, no matter how much you eat you will continue to feel hungry.

How do you detox your body off of fat and sugar?

Three steps =

1. Restore your liver with antioxidants. Use broccoli, cauliflower, radishes and cabbage - cruciferous vegetables. Also add Allium vegetables - onion, garlic, leeks.

2. Add Supplements - Chromium picolinate can help withdrawls from sugar. Vitamin B Complex can help you with cravings for fats and sugars. It can boost serotonin levels in your brain which will make you happier, and more satisfied. Vitamin B should be in your weight loss plan every day.

3. Four to One ratio of white meat to red meat in your diet. So red meat at maximum of every fourth meal. Add 3 servings of fruits per day - deeply colored fruits are great antioxidants and give lots of vitamins into your daily diet.

Dr Oz Tips - What's the best time?

Best time to workout?
5 minutes after you wake up. If you eat first, you have to burn through what you have eaten before you can get to the stored fat. Therefore working out before you eat will draw from your stored fat, rather than the fat you have recently ate.

Best time to eat breakfast?
Just after your workout.

Ideal time for dinner?
6:30pm

Best time to boost your metabolism?
Just after you eat your breakfast. Have a glass of cold water to increase your metabolism.

Best time to go grocery shopping?
After breakfast and water. Blood sugar levels are at a stable point. If your blood sugar is low, you will make irrational decisions.

Best time to take fiber supplements?
6p - take before dinner. That will help fill you up before dinner, and take the place of extra food that you may eat at dinner as you will feel more full and it generally has no calories.

Movie Notes: PBS - FAT: What No One Is Telling You

PBS - FAT: What No One Is Telling You

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/takeonestep/fat/index.html

As humans we only have two desires - to find food, and to procreate.  You cannot override the urges of those two basic human/animal needs.

There are 20 - 30k functions in the body - about 400 so far have been found to handle simply eating and burning energy.

We make about 100 - 200 decisions about food every single day.

Just 75 years ago we faced famine in this country.  Our entire food situation has changed and we as a species has not yet learned to adapt to this new found commercialization of food sources available any time of the day.

Michael Gershen is a doctor of the gut.  He believes there is neurochemical systems that involve just the gut and it is technically our second brain. 

It can literally cause depression and similar emotional reactions just like our brain on the top of our body.

Lee Kaplan, MD, PHD at Harvard

(Not from movie) “We’re learning an enormous amount from surgery, even though surgery itself is used infrequently,” Kaplan said. Doctors used to think weight-loss surgery worked by making the stomach smaller, but they have found

evidence that the surgery actually changes physiological mechanisms in the body that eventually determine whether or not a person gains weight, he said.

Movie Notes: Killer at Large

KILLER AT LARGE

http://www.killeratlarge.com/

60 Million People are Obese (2008)

People have been around for 4 million years but only in the last 75 years has agriculture taken over to the point that we now have a surplus of food.

We make 200 food decisions each day - what to eat, what size, portion, flavors, refill, how far to the kitchen, etc.

There was a time when gas stations only sold gas, or bookstores only sold books.  There is now food around us all the time, everywhere, that we are constantly getting the message that it is time to eat.

Factors to Obesity:

Portion Size

Low Physical Activity

High Fructose Corn Syrup

Quitting Smoking

Eating Disorders

Lack of Sleep

Calorie Dense Foods

School Lunches

Technology

Genetic Factors

Fast Food

Metabolic Syndrome

Hyperthyroidism

Hypothyroidism

Vending Machine

Unregulated Marketing

Sendentary Lifestyle

Food Addatives

Lack of Open Spaces

Depression

Stress

When we are stressed our bodies take that it is a time of famine.  So we crave food/nutrition. 

When you have social factors such as the economy or the "war on terror"  these are low stressors that are always in the back of our mind.  We are constantly stressed in a low way of our environment.  Then add on work, family, bills, repairs, transporation, debt, etc. and our bodies think that food is insanely scarce due to the stress levels and it wants you to eat all the time, any time to you see food to store up for the time when there really won't be any food - the thing is, there never isn't food in our current culture.  Things are open 24 hours - grocery, gas station,fast food, convenience stores, drive thru, etc.

The same receptor in the brain that handles alcohol, coke, herone is the same that handles sugar.

Being obese is technically a sin.  It is going against God's wishes for the body (no matter your religion).

In all other areas of life we purchase and desire things on a quality over quantity - except in the area of food where we definitely desire quantity over quality.

Oil is used to make fertilizer.

Fertilizer is used on the food and to process and ship the food.

20% of our fuel consumption as a nation goes to food - the same amount as transportation.

If every person in the US lost 1lb this year, we would save 39 Million gallons of fuel.

If you take $1 into the grocery store you can get:

1200 calories in candy

75 calories in carrots

875 calories in soda

150 calories in orange juice

The food system is set up that the least good for you foods, the ones that cost the most to process are the least expensive.  Whereas foods taken straight out of the ground, washed and sent to your grocery store cost A LOT more.

In the No Child Left Behind program schools have cut their PE classes (some have even turned the gym into classrooms) to double up on Math and other testable classes to show the test results of No Child Left Behind.

USDA has a minimum mandate of calories for our school lunch system, they do not mandate a maximum.

USDA subsidizes the costs of chicken nuggets, tater tots, chocolate milk and fruit cocktail with high fructose corn syrup.  They do not subsidize any fresh foods.

We spend more on just the CA prison system in a year than we do feeing every child in school all across america for lunch in a year.

There are 15 TSP of sugar in a 20 ounce soda that are sold in vending machines in almost every school across this country.  There are 12 TSP in a 1/4 cup.  On average children are drinking TWO of these sodas per day.  Imagine putting about 3/4 cup of sugar in a baggy and sending a kid off to school with that telling them they have to finish it before they come home from school.

Children under 8 years of age cannot distinguish between a tv show and a commercial.

The head positions of the USDA are people who have been lobbyists for or worked in the major food industry - beef, monsanto, general mills, etc.

Dr. Richard Carmona who was the 17th Surgeon General of the US testified before a hearing committee that he was muzzled by the White House, FDA and USDA on his speeches and topics and wasn't allowed to talk about the obesity problem in our country due to the pressure on politicians and the white house from big food business.

http://www.stopobesityalliance.org/about/about-carmona/

61% of our active military are obese.  VA amputations are mostly due to complications from diabetes.

In 2006 Scotty Pippin (basketball player) received $850,000 in farm subsidies from land he owned in Arkansas.  Local farmer's market farmers don't receive any subsidies and they actually plant, grow, harvest and sell their crops.

Why Organic?

Nutritionally organic food in some cases isn't more nutritionally sound than their non-organic counterparts.  However, the way in which the food is grown, the processes used to encourage water conservation and reduce pollution. Considering my goal is to reduce chemicals in my food, this was particularly interesting to me.  Here is what the Mayo Clinic has to say on Organic vs Non-Organic foods.

http://www.mayoclinic.com/health/organic-food/NU00255

Tim Ferris - 4 Hour Body

Tim Ferris the author of the 4-Hour Work Week and now the 4-Hour Body was on Dr. Oz and he shared these three tips that Dr. Oz tested with his medical team.

Tips for losing weight:

#1 - Ice therapy

a. cold pack for 30 minutes on the upper back and work your way up to an ice bath for 10 minutes from the waist down.

b. drink ice water throughout the day

The first one works because when you are cold, your brown fat (the fat around your organs) works very hard to keep your organs warm and pump your blood through your tissue and they consume a ton of energy to do this.

The second one works as your body needs to heat up the water to be able to let it pass into your intestines.  This takes energy by your body (calories) and is an easy way to burn extra calories.

#2 - Consume 30g of protein within 30 minutes of waking up.

This will give you the amount of healthy fats to fuel you throughout the entire day.

#3 - Pig out once a week

By spiking your calories once a week - improves thyroid output. It makes a diet sustainable. That allows you to be restrictive the other 6 days a week. However, before your one meal binge drink a shot or two of grapefruit juice before you pig out. It opens up these receptors in your muscles. Then you binge. Within ONE hour of eating, you should do squats for 60 to 120 seconds. This will further open up the muscles receptors to burn the calories you have consumed rather than them being placed on your ass and thighs.

Another one that I read about on the same day in Dr. Oz's book YOU: On a Diet was fidgeting.  People who fidget burn more calories in a day than non-fidgeting people.  Any type of movement burns energy (calories) and so the more general movement during the day - the more calories burned.

I plan on definitely trying #1.  #2 I am going to work up to.  #3 has no appeal to me whatsoever at this point in my journey.  I get physically ill when I over do it on healthy foods, I can't even imagine pigging out intentionally on junk and unhealthy for me foods.

Multitasking - How effective is it?

I was recently watching a live entrepreneur virtual conference on the web that featured a different entrepreneur each hour - all of them men.  This hour's particular speaker was in Costa Rica with some entrepreneur friends where they were having a conference talking about their next big ideas.  They were at a restaurant and watching this speaker have his hour via the camera on his laptop.  Within the span of about 15 seconds he:

- talked to us (the audience) about a particular topic then,

- in mid sentence interrupts himself and talks to the waitress and introduces her via the camera then,

- solicits feedback from his friends around him on whether or not he is funny then,

- eats a few chips from the bowl in front of him and then,

- lifts his beer, looks straight into the camera, takes a swig of beer and says, "I'm multitasking"

Ok Dork. =)

From Dr. Oz episode called "Battle of the Sexes" and specifically on Multitasking:

In the womb the developing brain is exposed to hormones that affect how it forms; boys get more testosterone, which favors development of the left side of the brain and girls get more estrogen, which sparks more connections throughout the brain. This, in part, explains the difference in communication and perception between the two sexes. Imaging studies have shed light on these differences as researchers examine brain parts that "light up" during verbal exchanges. Essentially,

 

Women: Always processing information, multitasking.  Talk things out, review things over and over and take a non-direct route to get to the point.  Language and speech are highly developed and we have more to say, and use more words to say it.  Ability to zoom in on problems.  Remember all details and we have a greater biological need to have order and solve problems.

Men:  Low attention span (channel changing).  Get to the point directly, quickly, using as few words as possible - overwhelmed by lots of words.  Act first, talk later.  They generally don't remember the details.  Focus more on spatial and mechanical things (things that don't require words).

Multitasking is a trait that hormonally is just stronger in women.  There are many times when I am watching a movie, a load of laundry in the washer and dryer, dinner in the oven, PVPing with the hubby, thinking about a blog post, and talking to my husband about my random thoughts on all of these subjects and more - all at the same time.  Meanwhile, when the PVP battle has ended his response to my random stream of thoughts that I have just verbalized is often, "huh?". =)

I always thought that multitasking is a good thing.  The ability to complete many things at the same time should mean that I have more time to do the things I enjoy - right?  Instead what I found is that I didn't really enjoy much of anything.  I found that I would only delve far enough into a topic to find the solution, find the reason, find the cause, speculate the solutions, play out each of their scenarios, apply the solution, fix the problem, complete the task - and then I move on - meanwhile dealing with many other "issues" at the same time.  I was just.. getting things done.  Do this job, done.  Finish this task, done.  Watch this movie, done.  Watch this series, done.  Do this task, done.  Have this meal with friends, done.  All the while I was also working/doing/completing and thinking about other topics, other tasks - you know, multitasking.

About a year ago, though a series of events and conversations with my loved ones I realized I had been doing this for.. ever.  When a particular thing was done I didn't sit to enjoy something to a richer or deeper experience, I went on to DO more things, to check off more things on my never ending (and multiple copies) to do list.  I would eventually even rope my husband in this.  He would take on some of my tasks with the hope that it would free me up to spend more time with him, and instead, I would find more things/tasks/responsibilities to fill the free time he had created for me.

Since this realization I have been working on simplifying my life.  Responsibilities that I had taken on that no longer applied to my personal goals and objectives - eliminated.  Responsibilities of a complicated life disassembled and taken apart to create a more simple existence.  So far it has been great!  This has done a few things for me:

- Reduced Stress

When you aren't constantly moving, worrying, thinking, doing - you have time to actually relax.  When you relax you give yourself the ability to let your mind wander, to enjoy one thing at a time - the company of another, a song, a movie, the stars in the sky.  This is really what our life is about - experiencing life.  I literally got rid of my to do lists.  I no longer have an ongoing to do list of items.  I know what needs to be done, and if I find that I do need a list, I just make a short list each day of what I intend to accomplish that day to keep me on track at the end of the day the list is trashed.

- Increased Creativity

Without being burdened all the time with the "omg what if I don't get this done, and this, and this.." I now have time to think, explore, try and do things that I just simply never felt I had time to do before.

- More Space

By cleaning out the things that no longer applied to my current life objectives and hobby priorities I created more simple space. This also allowed me to rethink our space and dedicate space to new areas of our life - like fitness.

- More Life Enjoyment

When your life isn't complicated with things that just simply don't need to be there - there is more time to really enjoy life and all that is around you. =)

- Better Overall Health

Now that I am committed to healthy eating and exercise, and when done right they both take time and focus.  Thought, planning and execution are important for both tasks and they are now at the top of my priority list rather than being almost to the bottom or non-existent.

OK Dork, Noah Kagan, maybe you really do have something here.  Maybe your kind of multitasking is really what I should be focused on - Costa Rica, beer and chips, surrounded by friends and taking just over an hour to share my knowledge with hundreds of other people who want to be in my shoes.  That sounds like some pretty enjoyable and yet life effective multitasking. 

Good job and thank you. =)