One of the most controversial chapters in Dr. Lipman's new book "The 100 Calorie Secret" is all about the question whether or not you should exercise while trying to lose weight."Although it may be healthy and good for everybody, imposing the need to exercise while being on a diet to lose weight creates confusing goals for most people. Overwhelming yourself with time-consuming exercise plans, and at the same time restricting your calorie intake, will lead to failure of both losing weight and regularly working out in nine out of ten cases." Dr. Lipman no longer stands alone with his opinion. Check out John Cloud's latest, must-read article"Why Exercise Won't Make You Thin" in Times Magazine.
Susie Levan Interviews Dr. Lipman on 101.5 Lite FM
Dr. Lipman And The Miami Herald
Dr. Lipman and his new book "The 100 Calorie Secret" featured in the Miami Herald.
The 100 Calorie Secret with Dr. Lipman
Weight Loss in 2010: NEAT The New Secret
Written by Richard L. Lipman M.D.
Friday, 13 February 2009 03:11
Is Exercise Needed For Weight Loss? Will it actually help you lose pounds? Can sedentary individuals actually add significant muscle mass? Can you change your diet and accomplish time consuming exercise at the same time? These are some significant and controversial issues.
A previous article reviewed the benefits of exercise, the problems with trying to make an Olympic athlete out of a couch potato, and what is really realistic. Here is more about a new concept- NEAT which may help sort out some of these issues and change the dieter struggling to lose weight and becoming discouraged by inability to exercise.
Dr. James A Levine from the Mayo Clinic recently coined a new term from his measurements of daily activity: NEAT ( for non-exercise activity thermogenesis) to describe the calorie burning that is associated with daily activities including walking, cleaning, cooking, driving a car and even sex. (Thermogenesis is the scientific word for calorie burning). Increasing you NEAT activities just a few minutes a day can help you lose weight and improve all of your metabolic parameters like blood pressure, heart rate, and cholesterol. It will truly prolong your life.
in the figure above, the black column represents how all of the days calories are used: part of the calories for NEAT, & those calories for basal metabolism (digestion, heart beat, body heat). Not included are any calories burned up by exercise or burned on a job.
New Obesity/Overweight Model: Disability and Mortality
Written by Richard L. Lipman M.D.
Tuesday, 23 June 2009 20:22
A new weight gain-obesity model links increase in free fatty acids(the metabolic abnormality), mechanical stress, and sex hormone imbalance to all of the complications of weight gain and obesity. With over 1 billion adults overweight, and 300 million obese in the world today, the epidemic has become global.
Weight loss depends on learning that eating starts as an impulse decision, often not the result of any signal of food depletion. Thus, even in the presence of fullness and full energy stores it’s easy for the brain to tell us to eat, especially when pleasing, convenient food is easily available.
The issue of rapid weight loss vs. slow weight loss as a predictor of long term weight loss success has been debated for years. Drs Adam Tsai and Thomas A Wadden from the University of Pennsylvania Center of Weight and Eating Disorders summarize all of the available scientific studies in their 2006 report in Obesity Research.
They found that participants in very low calorie diets(VLCD) with subsequent rapid weight loss had no greater weight loss after 1 year than those involving more conventional low calorie diets(LCD) .
