Impulse Control: For Overeating And Other Vices

Overeating is the primary impulse control issue from which people suffer. A huge 70% or more of the adult US population is either overweight or obese.

This video briefly outlines how our brain is wired to drive us to seek pleasure, such as overeating. If we do not gain control over the pleasure seeking system of our brain, then the likely outcome is obesity and all the problems that go along with it.

To over come eating and other vices, we need to understand the nature of the pleasure-seeking system that is hard-wired into the human nervous system. Watch this video and read the blog to know about the pathway in the human brain so you can picture it in your mind when the impulse to eat kicks in. Read the blog here ”Impulse Control: For overeating and other vices”

Dr. David R. Seaman
Owner at DeFlame Enterprises

Weight Loss Secrets You Need To Know

Dieting is only one part of the weight management picture. Most important is learning about the obesogenic environment in which we all live, which promotes weight gain and obesity, and also learning how to control our brain, body physiology, emotions, and primordial drives that want us fat. If you do not exert dominion over these four factors, you will be fat.

The only way to maintain normal body weight is to control the eating beast within. Most people rapidly gain back the body fat they lose after going on a diet. The primary reason for this is that people do not understand the multiple biological, survival, and emotional drives that are at work to push every one of us to overeat. If you can learn to control the "eating beast within," you can achieve and maintain normal body weight. Read this blog in which Dr. David Seaman shared some useful secrets for weight loss.

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Osteoarthritis is "heart disease" of our joints

At first glance, the title of this blog may seem like a preposterous notion; however, it is a fact. Years ago, osteoarthritis (OA) was misperceived to be a wear-and-tear condition of joints, a myth that is still perpetuated today…however, we now know that OA is actually a chronic inflammatory state within joint tissues. Years ago, we also misperceived that heart disease was simply a buildup of cholesterol and other substances on top of the wall of an artery…now we know that heart disease is actually a chronic inflammatory state in the within the artery wall.

Osteoarthritis is a chronic inflammatory condition of our joints that is chemically identical, on practical level, to heart disease. This has been known for a long time. For all practical purposes, the chemistry of osteoarthritis and atherosclerotic heart disease is identical. The view we should take is as follows: osteoarthritis is “heart disease” of the joints and heart disease is “osteoarthritis” of arteries. The difficulty that most have when considering this fact is that, to the naked eye, joints and arteries are very different structures.

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Can Fish Oil Cause Inflammation?

I recently wrote an article for magazine, which discussed chronic inflammation in relation to autism. Part of the pro-inflammatory state involves an excess of omega-6 fatty acids. So, part of the DeFlaming approach involved taking some omega-3 fish oil.

It is important to understand the right supplementation method of taking Fish Oil. A 1000 mg capsule of fish oil does not mean you are getting 1000 mg of omega-3 fatty acids. For example a 1200 mg capsule of the Anabolic Labs fish oil product contains 600 mg of omega-3 fatty acids. You always want to make sure you are going by the omega-3 content, not the total oil amount.

The typical recommendation for fish oil supplementation is to get 1000-3000 mg of omega-3 per day. For perspective, there is 9 calories per 1000 mg of a fat or oil. So if you were to take 2 fish oil capsules that contain 1200 mg of total oil per capsule, you would be taking 2400 mg of total fish oil, which amounts to 21.6 calories. This would deliver 1200 mg of omega-3 fatty acids, which means that a little more than half of the 21.6 calories are omega-3 fatty acids. This is clearly not a lot of fish oil or omega-3s.

After the article get published, I was contacted by a reader who claimed that taking 1000-3000 mg of fish oil per day would promote inflammation because the omega-3s would oxidize. So, can fish oil really cause inflammation?
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The Superfood Myth

The term “superfood” has been used now for several years and is accepted by many people as factual – meaning that certain foods have super healthy benefits and without them, your body will suffer. This is far from an accurate characterization. Below is the list of the 10 top superfoods found on a pro-superfood website:

Almonds, Broccoli rabe, Avocados, Raw milk, Wheatgrass, Salmon, Flaxseeds, Blueberries, Cinnamon, Sweet potatoes

Now, have a look at the list of 10 top superfoods from the National Health Services in the UK, which correctly criticizes the characterization of these foods as “super”:

Blueberries, Goji berries, Chocolate, Oily fish, Wheatgrass, Pomegranate juice, Green tea, Broccoli, Garlic, Beetroot

The position taken by the superfood advocates, is that these foods are needed to somehow supercharge one’s health, or that optimal health cannot be achieved without these foods, which are views that reflect a lack of understand of health promotion.

Consider the fact that most Americans are overweight and inflamed – this means that adding a cup of blueberries per day, or adding cinnamon or garlic to meals, will NOT have a “super” effect on the system and convert an inflamed obese person into a DeFlamed obese person or somehow stimulate weight loss.

Before food modernization, remote societies were capable of eating only that which they grew, foraged, or hunted, and these societies were remarkably free of the degenerative diseases compared to their prevalence in industrialized nations. Arctic Eskimos largely ate fatty meats, such as whale, walrus, and seal. The Masai tribe in Africa lived primarily on meat, milk, and blood. Neither of these populations ate a single superfood and each population was healthy for generations.

Consider hypertension, a very common condition in America. Fasting studies have demonstrated that a 2-week water fast can normalize hypertension or reduce it to pre-hypertension levels (1,2). In this case, no foods were consumed at all, just water.

So the notion that we need a superfood to achieve a healthy state or to reverse an unhealthy state is obviously an overblown claim. The goal should be to avoid pro-inflammatory foods and replace these with anti-inflammatory foods, such as those incorrectly called superfoods, and only eat enough calories to achieve and maintain a normal body weight. The simple details of this concept and process are outlined in The DeFlame Diet.

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Cardiovascular Health Promotion - Nutritional Supplements

There are many cardiovascular conditions from which people suffer, most of which are caused by chronic inflammation, including atherosclerotic-induced heart attacks, peripheral artery disease, erectile dysfunction, and hypertension. Back pain can also be promoted by atherosclerosis of the arteries that feed the spine.

The use of aspirin (salicylates) by patients demonstrates the inflammatory nature of cardiovascular disease. Interestingly, vegetables and fruit contain low doses of salicylates, and these foods are recommended by the American Heart Association for heart health.

Regarding supplements, magnesium, fish oil, vitamin D, botanical/spices, and coenzyme Q10 are all known to offer cardiovascular health benefits via their anti-inflammatory actions. So the best nutritional supplements for cardiovascular health promotion are included in the Basic and Advanced Health Promotion programs.

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Prostate Health Promotion - Nutritional Supplements

There are three main conditions that compromise the prostate gland: prostatitis, benign prostatic hypertrophy, and cancer.

In particular, prostate hypertrophy and cancer are known to be promoted by ongoing chronic inflammation, long before any symptoms begin. So, in addition to whatever pharmaceutical or surgical treatments that may be used, it is important to include health promotion (deflaming) activities as well.

These activities include the anti-inflammatory diet as described in the Diet Book and the Basic or Advanced supplement programs.

Additionally, certain prostate-health specific nutritional supplements have been identified, which are found in Prostana. These nutrients include Saw palmetto, nettle and pygeum.

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