Many dieters experience headaches in the beginning of too restrictive weight loss programs or of plans that are too different from their habitual way of eating.

Reasons for this unpleasant complication are plentiful. For one t hing, migraine sufferers know that their headaches can be triggered by certain foods. sometimes they know these foods, sometimes they can be unaware of new food effects. Also, carbohydrate-rich foods can bring a short term relief but on a low carb diet, there is no carb-rich foods and no such relief.

On the other hand, this diet’s long term effect is often a complete disappearance of migraine headaches.

Headaches can be also caused by hunger and cravings that are usual on initial stages of any restrictive diet. Other than limiting your carbohydrate intake, you can fight these type of headaches by eating bulkier foods. These foods, ounce for ounce, have less calories than energy-dense foods and since your body judge when it’s time to stop eating by meal’s …
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It is always an exciting day when something entirely new about metabolism begins to emerge.  Of course it will be decades before innovation is agreed upon by the tortoise-moving FDA, medical profession, and other “health authorities” who have done nothing but watch as their “solutions” have either allowed or directly contributed to a societal epidemic of obesity.

One of my hobbies is taking emerging science and predicting what it means – and then comparing it to my many years of hands-on clinical experience to see if the idea possibly has merit as well as practical application to better the human condition.  I must say that a little animal study on butyric acid has me quite excited.

Nutritionists have known for decades that butyric acid is the most important fatty acid to the health of your colon.  Your colon produces butyric acid as a result of fiber fermentation, with the help of friendly flora.  Hostile bacteria and Candida albicans are likely to get in the way of this process.  Restoring health and balance to this system has always been a priority for alternative health practitioners.

It has also been known for some time that dietary fiber has other benefits to GI health and metabolic health.  Fiber is known to enhance absorption of food, clearance of cholesterol, clearance of toxins, reduction of appetite, and stabilization of blood sugar based on a more consistent rate of absorption of calories out of the digestive tract.

However, the idea that the butyric acid produced in your lower colon may be absorbed into your body and facilitate direct changing of genes involved with overall fat metabolism is new – and the possibilities of what this …
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One of the great problems involved with being overweight is the extreme ease with which new fat cells form.  A new study shows that alpha and gamma tocotrienol can help prevent baby fat cells from turning into adult fat cells. 

It should be rather obvious to anyone that if you overeat you will expand your fat cell population, regardless of what nutrients you may also consume, because your body must have some place to store all the extra calories.

However, one of the frustrating points regarding weight management is the ease with which fat cells are willing to multiply, even if you are mostly being good.  Just a few days of overeating and you can pack on five quick pounds – frustrating to say the least.

Once your fat cells have “learned” how to store weight in excess, it appears that this is …
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