Comments on: How to Overcome your Food Cravings– 5 easy tips to get you started http://www.drnima.com/2009/05/how-to-overcome-your-food-cravings-5-easy-tips-to-get-you-started/ Health by Educating, Empowering and Entertaining Sat, 22 May 2010 06:38:11 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Dr. Nima http://www.drnima.com/2009/05/how-to-overcome-your-food-cravings-5-easy-tips-to-get-you-started/comment-page-1/#comment-73 Dr. Nima Wed, 27 May 2009 18:05:53 +0000 http://www.drnima.com/?p=549#comment-73 Yes, the truth is, there are about 7.5 teaspoons in a can of soda. Still, that's a lot. She probably mistook what she read about liver function. Still, taking that sentence out, the point of the video was to illustrate how much we take in when we are not living consciously. Several of my patients will drink 4 cans of soda per day, and feed it to their kids, and wonder why they and their kids can't concentrate, have periods of extremes of energy highs and lows... Getting sick all the time, on all sorts of meds, and I see what they bring in as snacks. It's a tough pill to swallow, and that's why I'm writing about it. As far as safety of sucralose goes... how many pharmaceuticals are released each and every day only to be discovered as being unsafe a short while later? The guideline that we can all follow to be on the safe side is if you want to be more alive than dead, eat foods that are more alive than dead. The processed stuff can't be good for you for prolonged periods in the long run. Your body has to do work to process and expel it. Your choices of what you put in to your body affect your health. Do your research, and make an informed decision about whatever you put in to your body. We get sick because we assume the FDA or the government, or even our doctor is looking out for us. Nobody's job is to look out for you. Look out for yourself. Thanks for the comments. All this talk about food is making me hungry. Yes, the truth is, there are about 7.5 teaspoons in a can of soda. Still, that’s a lot. She probably mistook what she read about liver function. Still, taking that sentence out, the point of the video was to illustrate how much we take in when we are not living consciously. Several of my patients will drink 4 cans of soda per day, and feed it to their kids, and wonder why they and their kids can’t concentrate, have periods of extremes of energy highs and lows… Getting sick all the time, on all sorts of meds, and I see what they bring in as snacks. It’s a tough pill to swallow, and that’s why I’m writing about it.
As far as safety of sucralose goes… how many pharmaceuticals are released each and every day only to be discovered as being unsafe a short while later? The guideline that we can all follow to be on the safe side is if you want to be more alive than dead, eat foods that are more alive than dead. The processed stuff can’t be good for you for prolonged periods in the long run. Your body has to do work to process and expel it. Your choices of what you put in to your body affect your health. Do your research, and make an informed decision about whatever you put in to your body. We get sick because we assume the FDA or the government, or even our doctor is looking out for us. Nobody’s job is to look out for you. Look out for yourself.
Thanks for the comments. All this talk about food is making me hungry.

]]> By: barbod http://www.drnima.com/2009/05/how-to-overcome-your-food-cravings-5-easy-tips-to-get-you-started/comment-page-1/#comment-71 barbod Wed, 27 May 2009 07:00:58 +0000 http://www.drnima.com/?p=549#comment-71 I agree with most of what Nima has said. But I gotta say, The Isabel seems a bit misinformed. First off, Paul's right, those are definitely not teaspoons. A teaspoon is 5 ml, not the size of a cereal spoon. Second, the liver doesn't really burn fat. That's what muscles do. The liver can break down lipids for the production of ketones for the brain, but that's pretty much only during starvation. The liver actually produces fats like cholesterol. And yes Paul, your suspicions were correct. You do require at least a partially functioning liver to live. I don't know where she gets her misinformation. I would take her video off; she's just bad for your credibility. Again, I otherwise agree with Nima's points I agree with most of what Nima has said.

But I gotta say, The Isabel seems a bit misinformed. First off, Paul’s right, those are definitely not teaspoons. A teaspoon is 5 ml, not the size of a cereal spoon.

Second, the liver doesn’t really burn fat. That’s what muscles do. The liver can break down lipids for the production of ketones for the brain, but that’s pretty much only during starvation. The liver actually produces fats like cholesterol. And yes Paul, your suspicions were correct. You do require at least a partially functioning liver to live.

I don’t know where she gets her misinformation. I would take her video off; she’s just bad for your credibility.

Again, I otherwise agree with Nima’s points

]]> By: Paul Piotrowski http://www.drnima.com/2009/05/how-to-overcome-your-food-cravings-5-easy-tips-to-get-you-started/comment-page-1/#comment-69 Paul Piotrowski Wed, 27 May 2009 00:36:12 +0000 http://www.drnima.com/?p=549#comment-69 Although I like the message of the second video and agree that Stevia is a much better sweetener than sugar or Aspartame/Splenda, there are couple of things that bugged me about this specific video. Firstly, those did not look like tea-spoons of sugar, they looked more like table spoons. I could be wrong, but they looked huge. Not to mention that there is a difference between a "teaspoon" and a "heaping teaspoon". :) Secondly, where she says "if you're not losing weight and you're drinking diet sodas it's probably because your liver is not functioning at all." I'm not a doctor, but wouldn't we DIE if our liver wasn't functioning at all? Also, I know artificial sweeteners are crap, but I was looking into Sucralose one day (Splenda) and found this: http://www.ific.org/publications/brochures/sucralosebroch.cfm It's put out by the "International Food Information Council" (whoever that is) and their stance on it is that after more than 100 scientific studies they deem sucralose to be safe. They say "The sucralose molecule passes through the body unchanged, is not metabolized, and is eliminated after consumption." I know there are a lot of sites on the Internet saying that Sucralose/Splenda is bad and people report headaches and such from it, but how much do you think of that is truth and how much is just based on the belief that anything made by a corporation for profit = bad? Just wondering. Although I like the message of the second video and agree that Stevia is a much better sweetener than sugar or Aspartame/Splenda, there are couple of things that bugged me about this specific video.

Firstly, those did not look like tea-spoons of sugar, they looked more like table spoons. I could be wrong, but they looked huge. Not to mention that there is a difference between a “teaspoon” and a “heaping teaspoon”. :)

Secondly, where she says “if you’re not losing weight and you’re drinking diet sodas it’s probably because your liver is not functioning at all.”

I’m not a doctor, but wouldn’t we DIE if our liver wasn’t functioning at all?

Also, I know artificial sweeteners are crap, but I was looking into Sucralose one day (Splenda) and found this:

http://www.ific.org/publications/brochures/sucralosebroch.cfm

It’s put out by the “International Food Information Council” (whoever that is) and their stance on it is that after more than 100 scientific studies they deem sucralose to be safe. They say “The sucralose molecule passes through the body unchanged, is not metabolized, and is eliminated after consumption.”

I know there are a lot of sites on the Internet saying that Sucralose/Splenda is bad and people report headaches and such from it, but how much do you think of that is truth and how much is just based on the belief that anything made by a corporation for profit = bad?

Just wondering.

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