Learning about Dieting from Costco?
Yup, Costco. Information comes from unexpected places sometimes. Members of the wholesale club Costco receive their monthly magazine, The Costco Connection. Besides highlighting upcoming store events and new books and items coming out, there are actually really good articles by well known people like financial expert Suze Orman and doctor/author Dr. Mehmet Oz.
In last month’s issue of the magazine, there was an article by Dr. Oz and Dr. Michael Roizen, talking about their new book, You on a Diet
10 Things You Don’t Know About Your Body, Fat and Dieting
1. Healthy, monogamous sex is one of the things that can help control your appetite.
2. Your belly has an organ called the omentum that specifically stores most of your belly fat and is the source of toxic material that can inflame your liver and affect your metabolism.
3. Massage is a weight-loss technique. Physical touch increases your body’s oxytocin level, which helps control appetite.
4. Food is processed in the intestines, not the stomach.
5. The scent of grapefruit oil helps control appetite.
6. Liposuction is not a weight-loss technique; the average weight loss after liposuction is 10 pounds. (The procedure can be effective for body sculpting.)
7. Periodic extreme stress does not make you gain weight; chronic stress does.
8. Video games have been shown to help people lose weight. One reason: they help keep your hands out of the bowl of M&Ms.
9. Fat in food is not automatically stored as fat. All excess calories - no matter if they’re protein, carbohydrates or fat - can be stored as fat.
10. Some weight-loss drugs being developed are using the body’s reaction to drugs such as marijuana and cocaine to explore the science of hunger and satiety.
