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
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) .
Weight Loss & The Toxic Enviroment-Not Your Will Power or Genes
Written by Richard L. Lipman M.D.
Wednesday, 17 June 2009 19:40
"Stop blaming people or their genes--it's an abundance of unhealthy, heavily advertised, low-cost food that underlies the nation's obesity crisis " says Dr Kelly Brownell from Yale University when asked why weight loss was so difficult.
We are missing the real cause of America's waist problem when we focus on our will power or our genes. It takes thousands of years to change people's genes through evolution, but only 25 years to change the environment. McDonald's, Burger King and others have spent years developing tricks to sabotage our will power. We don't have a chance.
