Reversing Diabetes

The battle of the diets, Atkins, Ornish, Weight Watchers and the Zone.

The winner Is?

The first head-to-head trial of four popular diet plans - Atkins, Dean Ornish, Weight Watchers and the Zone - has found that people who stick with any of them for a year lose about 5 percent of their body weight, far fewer pounds than most dieters hope for, and at least a third drop out of all of them before the year is up.

The real secret to any diet is reducing calorie intake.

"This is the first real assessment of popular diet books to see what results they will produce," said Thomas Wadden, director of the Weight and Eating Disorders Program at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine. "The results are modest. The study shows that no single approach has a monopoly on weight loss."

But the study also found that even modest weight loss pays off: All the diets cut the risk of heart disease by 7 to 15 percent. "It shows yet again that modest weight loss can improve risk factors," said Kelly Brownell, director of the Yale Center for Eating and Weight Disorders.

About two out of every three American adults are overweight or obese, according to the latest government figures, placing them at increased risk of a host of health problems, from arthritis and cancer to diabetes and heart disease. About 300,000 deaths each year are linked to obesity.

Estimates are that about half of men and two-thirds of women are trying to lose weight, which has helped fuel the $37-billion annual weight loss industry in the United States. Most dieters hope to shed about 30 pounds, a goal that the new findings suggest is unrealistic.

Researchers said the results, announced at a news conference at the American Heart Association's annual meeting Nov. 9 in Orlando, might help settle the growing debate about the best way to shed unwanted pounds for good.

"This supports our data that it doesn't make any difference if you lose weight with high-carbohydrate or low-carbohydrate diets," said Gary Foster, clinical director of the Weight and Eating Disorders Program at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, who did a recent study comparing the Atkins diet to traditional low-fat diets.

"Diets work if you use them. They all work probably by the same mechanism, which is that they get people to eat fewer calories," he said.

Led by Tufts University researchers and funded by the Tufts-New England Medical Center with federal support, the study randomly assigned 160 overweight and obese men and women to follow one of the four diets for a year. Participants ranged in age from 22 to 72. All had tried to lose weight before and all had at least one major risk factor for heart disease - high blood pressure, elevated blood cholesterol, abnormal blood sugar level or full-blown diabetes. Their average body mass index was 35, equal to about 216 pounds for someone 5 feet 6 inches tall. Individual participants ranged from overweight to severely obese.

The Atkins, Ornish and Zone groups each received a book describing their program. Since no book describing the Weight Watchers program exists, this group received a cookbook published by Weight Watchers International. All groups received instruction in the programs and four counseling sessions during the first two months. They were assessed for their ability to follow the regimens and then left to their own devices for the next 10 months. Researchers measured body weight, took blood and urine samples and collected food intake records through the year.

About half of those in both the Atkins group (very low carbohydrate, high fat) and the Ornish group (very low fat, high carbohydrate vegetarian) dropped out before the study was completed.

About a third dropped out of the Weight Watchers group (low fat, moderate calorie, similar to the diet advocated by the U.S. Dietary Guidelines) and the Zone (which relies on a system to track how much food raises blood sugar levels). "The more extreme diets like Atkins and Ornish were tougher to follow than the Zone and Weight Watchers," said Michael Dansinger, director of obesity research at the Tufts atherosclerosis research lab and the lead author of the study.

All four groups showed about 3 percent weight loss overall over the year - equivalent to a 200-pound person trimming about six pounds. But among those who stuck with their diets for the entire year, results were slightly better, ranging from a 4 percent loss for Atkins to 6 percent for the Ornish group. Both the Weight Watchers and the Zone dieters lost about 5 percent.

Although this modest weight loss may not be what dieters are looking for, it brought significant health benefits. Risk of heart disease dropped 7 percent in the Ornish group, 11 percent in the Zone group, 12 percent on Atkins and 15 percent for Weight Watchers. None of the groups experienced adverse effects.

"A lot of people have been concerned that the Atkins diet will cause cholesterol levels to go through the roof," Dansinger said. "But we found that total cholesterol dropped by about 3 percent, and low-density lipoprotein went down about 8 percent." Although neither of those changes is statistically significant, Dansinger said those numbers are more than offset by a 15 percent rise in protective cholesterol - high-density lipoprotein. "That was significant," he said.

Another concern addressed by the study is whether very high carbohydrate diets, such as Ornish, increase the risk of diabetes by overtaxing insulin production. Although there was an initial rise in insulin levels in the Ornish group, at the one-year mark insulin had dropped 27 percent.

The Secrets of Joy Workshop - Nov 3 – 5, 20010 - Eagle Crest Resort - Bend, Oregon

Why is joy and happiness important?

Medicine today tends to focus primarily on: drugs, surgery, genes, germs, microbes, and molecules. However, there isn’t any other factor in medicine – not diet, not smoking, not exercise, not stress, not genetics, not drugs, not surgery – that has a greater impact on our quality of life, incidence of illness and premature death from all causes than loneliness and isolation. Most people do not know what to do about it, WE DO!

Numerous studies demonstrate that changes in lifestyle change our health. There are four areas in which these studies are concerned:

1. Diet
2. Exercise
3. Stress Management
4. Love & Intimacy

There are tons of studies, information and research on how to have a better Diet, which Exercise is best and which Stress Management technique can work for you. There is very little information how to have more Intimacy, to be connected, to be satisfied with life, to have a meaning life,or a sense of well being that is not religious based. This is why the divorce rate is over 50%. We do not know how to have the things we want the most. Our workshop will demonstrate that it is possible.

Our Workshop does not offer any information on Diet, Exerices, or Stress Management. Our Workshop provides 4 days of understand how to have more Love and Intimacy in your life.

Any kind of intimacy can heal. It's a basic human need that often goes unfulfilled in our culture. It matters not only in the quality of life, but in the quantity. It's a need as basic as eating and breathing and sleeping. When we don't know that there are serious consequences that threaten not only our well-being, but also our survival. Studies show that people who feel isolated are three to five times more likely get sick and die prematurely than those who don't.

This web site is about on how to increase your Love & Intimacy and improve your life satisfaction.

Have you ever wondered from makes you tick?

Why are some people always happy and other always sad? Why are some people are very agreeable and other like to argue.

For sake of argument, we call the patterns people have – Temperaments. You can call it what ever you want. Your life’s strategy, your style, your way, your nature or “just the way you are.”. It makes no difference what you call it, it exists and we can define nine Temperaments Types.

Would it surprise you to learn that you were born that way? You were born with a fixed Temperament Type. It is in your genes. You inherited your Temperament Type from your ancestors. Yes, your Temperament is fixed as you were conceived, before you even started your life’s process. It is nearly impossible to change your fixed Temperament Type, but you can learn to “manage it.”

The research from Positive Philosophy shows that 50% of your happiness is determined by your Temperament Type. That means that 50% of being loved, having Intimacy, being connected, being satisfied with life, having a meaning life, and a sense of well being is a function of your genes you were born with. But:

1. The better you “manage” your Temperament, the happier you can be.
2. The better you “manage” your Temperament, the better you will understand yourself, your family, your friends, your customers, and the culture in you live.
3. The better you “manage” your Temperament, the more successful you have with money, marriage, family, health and the society in which you.

Our genes may determine our Temperament, but they do not control our Fate. Connection is the root of sickness and health. It is what makes us well, what causes sadness and what brings happiness, what makes us suffer and what leads to healing. If a new drug had the same impact, virtually every doctor in the country would be recommending it for his or her patients. It would be malpractice not to prescribe it -- yet, with few exceptions, doctors do not learn much about the healing power of love, intimacy, and transformation in our medical training.

The question is how to have more connections? How do increase your love and intimacy? If you alreadyknew how, you would have already done it. Attendance at our Workshop will give you new methods and proven techinque to help you. The methods and techniques were developed from the research from Positive Philosophy.

The Secrets of Joy Workshop - Nov 3 – 5, 20010 - Eagle Crest Resort - Bend, Oregon

Just Wait Foundation, the organizer of this workshop, is not affiliated with the Dr Dean Ornish or the Preventive Medicine Research Instute, nor is trained or certified by them, but is a supporter of Dr Ornish philosophy.

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