Sleep Post Correction

An astute commenter pointed out that I misread the numbers in the paper on sleep and fat loss. I wrote that out of the total 3.0 kg lost, the high-sleep group lost 2.4 kg as fat, and the low-sleep group lost 1.4 kg of fat out of 2.9 kg total.

In fact, the high-sleep group lost 1.4 out of 2.9 kg as fat, and the low-sleep group lost 0.6 out of 3.0 kg as fat. So I got the numbers all mixed up. Sorry for the mistake. The main point of the post still stands though: sleep deprivation negatively influences body composition.

The correct numbers are even more interesting than the ones I made up. Even in the high-sleep group, nearly half the body weight lost by simple calorie restriction was lean mass. That doesn't make calorie restriction look very good!

In the sleep-deprived group, 80% of the weight lost by calorie restriction came out of lean mass. Ouch!

That illustrates one of the reasons why I'm skeptical of simple calorie restriction as a means of fat loss. When the body "wants" to be fat, it will sacrifice lean mass to preserve fat tissue. For example, the genetically obese Zucker rat cannot be starved thin. If you try to put it on a severe calorie-restricted diet, it will literally die fat because it will cannibalize its own lean mass (muscle, heart, brain, etc.) to spare the fat. That's an extreme example, but it illustrates the point.

The key is not only to balance energy intake with expenditure (which the brain does automatically when it's working correctly), but to allocate energy appropriately to lean and fat mass.

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WEIGHT PROBLEMS - ABOUT WEIGHT - OBESITY

If the man is more energy in the form of food is actually consumed than he, he will over time be overweight. To lose weight, eat less than he must be either consumed or its energy consumption, eg increase significantly due to sport or physical work. Of obesity is when the weight is above normal weight. Reference for the normal weight, the body mass index, which represents the body weight in relation to body length: BMI = body mass index = weight (kg) / Height (m2). With a BMI (kg / m2) 18.5 to 24.9 you are normal. At a BMI of 25-30 is referred to as overweight, a BMI of 30 is obesity (obesity) in front.

The energy supply and energy consumption of the body are measured in kilocalories (kcal) or kilojoules (kJ). A kilocalorie equivalent to 4.184 joules. The daily calorie requirement of an adult depends on body size and daily work. For a desk worker he is about 2500 kcal or 10 500 kJ, a forest worker needs about 3700 kcal or 15400 kJ. The need for food energy is increased during exercise, in growth and in pregnancy and lactation. The diet should consist ideally of 15% protein, 30% fat and 55% carbohydrates. With the help of tables, the calorie content of food energy are detected.

A malfunction of the appetite-regulating saturation can also lead to obesity as satiety is not perceived. Certain eating patterns are already instilled in childhood. In addition, it has been found in animal experiments that there are different assessments. One is more inclined to save their energy surplus in fat deposits (fat cells), while the other converts it into heat. Rare behind obesity put a serious disease or hormonal disorders.

Consequences of obesity.
* Metabolic disorders (diabetes, gout, high cholesterol).

* The risk of developing high blood pressure, heart attack, stroke, arteriosclerosis, fatty liver, thrombosis, joint disease, gall stones is increasing significantly.

* The risk of accidents and the risk of complications during surgery are increased. Life expectancy is shortened.

What can you do?
* You should take more time for eating. Chew well and perform any other activities on the side.

* It should be taken in the top five small meals a day.

* Before eating always drink a large glass of liquid, which reduces appetite.

* Each diet should you drink a lot (at least 2l) best calorie-free beverages such as Mineral water.

* Any diet should be accompanied by regular, physical activity.

* The only sensible diet consists of a reduced-calorie mixed diet, a balanced diet with plenty of fresh products (such as Brigitte diet). * One-sided diets (e.g., rice diet, Hollywood diet) are not recommended because they produce most of a deficiency of certain nutrients, vitamins or minerals and do not lead to permanent changes in diet habits.

* Dietary-ready meals can replace a meal now and then.

* Formula diets are powders, granules or drinks with a well-defined nutrient, vitamin and mineral content. They are suitable only for short diets by 2-3 pounds to lose or to replace some meals in a diet.

* Laxatives (e.g. senna), diuretics (e.g., algae extract, birch leaves, pineapple enzyme) and Purification (e.g., senna leaves and birch leaves) only lead to a short-term, increased water excretion. It can permanently important minerals are lost. In addition, the regular use of laxatives leads to constipation. A real weight loss is not the case.

* Appetite suppressants appetite-dampening effect of chemical substances on the brain. Because of side effects, many patients take these drugs do not (e.g., increases in blood pressure in hypertension). Even in healthy patients themselves can have side effects, often nervous.

* Plant (e.g., mate tea) or homeopathic medicines (e.g., Helianthus tuberosus drops) should also reduce the appetite.

* So-called Fat Blocker from the USA do not contain any fundamentally new substances for losing weight, but mainly vitamins.

* Fasting recommended only under medical supervision. Wrong fasting or fasting in existing underlying diseases can have serious consequences, e.g. Kidney stones, heart damage, gout attacks every day drinking, etc. In any case at a diet at least 3 liters. Despite approximately 400 g weight loss per day is also here: long-term success is rare, if not also the diet is changed.

* Together to decrease with others (e.g. Weight Watchers) can strengthen the will to weight loss.

* Keeping a food diary may be the beginning of a weight reduction therapy a means to control their own eating habits.

* It is important to a permanent change of diet to avoid in the future and to maintain the lower weight.

When you need a doctor.
* If you get your excess weight is not even in the handle.

* If have set sequelae of obesity.

What your doctor can do.
* You advise on the nutritional and life change.

* A prescribed drug that triggers an increased feeling of satiety.

* Recently, a new drug containing the active ingredient orlistat on the market, which inhibits the digestion of fat. Thus about 30% of dietary fats are not absorbed by the intestine. It comes to the elimination of high fat chairs. At the same time the recording is the fat-soluble vitamins A, E, D and K decreased. Therefore it makes sense to also take a multivitamin themselves. Since taking orlistat experience different changes and side effects, medical monitoring is important.

* In extreme cases of obesity can be caused by a stomach operation that occurs even with small amounts of food satiety.

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RHEUMATIC COMPLAINTS - ARTHRITIS

Rheumatism is a collective term for a variety of diseases of different causes, which often must be treated differently. All rheumatic diseases is one thing in common: They relate to the connective and supporting tissues of the musculoskeletal system and often internal organs (heart, blood vessels, lung, liver, intestine). We distinguish inflammatory or through constant wear and tear (degenerative) related forms of rheumatism. In some forms of rheumatism a so-called autoimmune reaction of the body behind it. One understands that the body itself forms repellents against the body's own protein. Certain antibodies that can be detected in the blood are called rheumatoid factors.

The following are the types of disease:

1. Rheumatism: muscles, ligaments, tendons and bursae are altered painful.
2. Degenerative rheumatic diseases: for example Osteoarthritis. By erosion, there is wear and tear on the joints, these swollen and sore and are restricted in their mobility in the course.
3. Inflammatory forms of rheumatism: rheumatic fever and chronic arthritis. Both diseases are autoimmune diseases, causes inflammation of the joints with pain, swelling and stiffness. Both diseases can also internal organs are affected. Only the soft tissue rheumatism - and only in mild forms of course - is suitable for self-treatment. So here are intended solely for diseases of this area are addressed. When the soft parts is mostly constant pain of varying intensity, the most pronounced in the morning, then weaker, by physical fatigue but occurs immediately. Rheumatism is most common in the shoulder-neck-arm region and, starting from the hip, on the outer side of the thigh. Other conditions include, for rheumatism, are the shoulder-arm syndrome and tennis elbow and bursitis, and tendonitis. These conditions are described under the heading of tendonitis.

Common causes of soft tissue rheumatism:
* Wear.
* Cold.
* Wrong attitude.
* Overuse.
* One-sided stress.
* Tension created by emotional problems or stress.

What can you do.
1. Heat Application:
* Take hot baths rheumatism (temperature at least 35 ° C).
* Mud or mud packs (temperature at least 42 ° C).
* Red light, the hotter the better.

2. Massage:
* Muscle or connective tissue at the physiotherapist.
* Massage with electrical pulses, these devices are available in the pharmacy.

3. Topical medications:
* Effective heat rheumatism albums, e.g. with rosemary, bee venom, capsicum or essential oils. The effect is due to better blood circulation by warming.
* Analgesic, anti-inflammatory rheumatism albums, such as with Arnica, Belladonna, salicylic acid, ibuprofen.
* To improve the circulation albums for heparin-sensitive patients, who feel the thermally active rheumatoid albums as unpleasant.

4. Inside medicine:
* Some painkillers that act the same anti-inflammatory (such as aspirin or ibuprofen). Painkillers may be taken only in the short term, not as a permanent application. Decay of the pain can already contribute significantly to that release tension and cramping.
* Additional internal therapies anti-inflammatory, analgesic and proactively support the other measures: eg Enzyme preparations (enzyme therapy), vitamin B or vitamin E supplements, herbal combinations and homeopathic medicines.

When you need a doctor.
If the symptoms do not subside, or always occur.

What your doctor can do.
* Save the diagnosis, differentiation from other rheumatic diseases. Exclusion of lumbago, sciatica, herniated disc, etc.
* The doctor can develop an appropriate treatment program for you with various forms of therapy (eg physiotherapy stimulation current anti-inflammatory drugs).
* For the pain he can give you an anti-inflammatory pain medication prescribed (eg diclofenac or coxibs), which will help you to move the painful joint that does not occur, additional tension.

Prevention.
* Avoid cold and train in rheumatoid sensitive places.
* For stress brace not possible. Any preventive or rheumatic ailments take a relaxation or relaxation exercises.
* One-sided stress and overuse of sensitive sites prevent rheumatism.
* To reduce weight, to strain the muscles and joints, not in addition.

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CHOLESTEROL - HIGH BLOOD FAT LEVELS

Cholesterol and triglycerides among the lipids (blood fats). Cholesterol is a vital part for building the cells and the formation of hormones and bile acids, on the other hand, may be in a particular way - the so-called LDL-cholesterol deposited in the inner arterial walls and narrowing of the vessels cause. In the prevention of such diseases and their consequences, eg High blood pressure, plays the cholesterol from the diet so important. From the diet, the body of daily 200-800mg cholesterol. Furthermore, the body itself produces about 1000 - 1500mg of cholesterol per day.

With an increased intake of cholesterol from the outside cholesterol deposited in blood vessels and then forms a risk factor for atherosclerosis and thus also for high blood pressure and heart diseases such as heart attack, heart failure.

The cholesterol level is measured in the blood. We speak of a high cholesterol level at a value of 220mg/100ml. High cholesterol levels are not necessarily nutritionally. Hereditary disorders of cholesterol metabolism can lead to increased values. Moreover, the cholesterol level is elevated in pregnancy. Cholesterol is found only in animal products such as in:

* Egg yolks,
* Butter and other animal fats.

Common causes:
* Overweight.
* Among high-fat diet.
* High alcohol consumption.
* Diabetes and other metabolic disorders.
* Hereditary diseases.
* Hypothyroidism.
* Diseases of the liver, biliary tract or kidney.
* Drugs such as birth control pills, cortisone, diuretics.

What can you do.

* Reduction in body weight.
* Diet: consumption of animal fats and egg yolks, reduce take of plant origin, fiber-rich foods. Fish can still be enjoyed.
* If possible, replace animal fats to vegetable fats often (for example, use margarine instead of butter).
* Reinforced unsaturated fatty acids in the diet to absorb cholesterol levels to reduce and improve the flow properties of blood. (For example, safflower oil, olive oil or cold-water fish).
* There in the cold-water fish contain omega-3 polyunsaturated fatty acid is also available in the form of fish oil capsules for oral use.
* To support dietetic measures at elevated blood lipid levels are also high-dose garlic supplements as a vegetable lipid-lowering effect.
* The herbal substance sitosterol (such as capsules, granules) to reduce the absorption of cholesterol from food.

When you need a doctor.

If you want to have your cholesterol tested by a doctor or if found during a test, was that your value is too high.

What your doctor can do.

If diet, diet and taking herbal supplements are not sufficient, the doctor will continue the treatment with other chemical lipid-lowering agents.

Prevention.
* From about 20 years, you should regularly test their cholesterol levels.
* Exercise regularly and avoid other risk factors for cardiovascular disease such as smoking and obesity.

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ULCERATIVE COLITIS

Ulcerative colitis is a chronic inflammatory disease of the colon, which usually runs in batch mode. It often begins in the rectum and can continuously from there spread throughout the large intestine. The exact cause is unknown. As with Crohn's disease but there is evidence that it is an autoimmune disease. This means the body's immune system is directed against its own for unknown reasons and causes intestinal inflammation. There are also some hereditary predisposition for ulcerative colitis. May also play a role in bacteria or viruses. In some patients will deteriorate over also to inflammation of other organs, particularly the joints, biliary tract and skin.

In Germany around 170,000 people suffering from ulcerative colitis, the disease usually begins between the 20th and 40 years of age. Both sexes are equally affected often. The disease is highly individual and can not be predicted. Patients with ulcerative colitis have an increased risk of colon cancer. This risk increases with duration of disease and the extent of the inflammation.

The following symptoms may occur in ulcerative colitis:

* Severe diarrhea, often with blood in
* Painful bowel movement (tenesmus)
* Weight loss
* Tiredness, fatigue, loss of appetite
* Fever
* Painful joints
* Dermatitis
When such symptoms occur, you should consult a doctor.

What complications are possible

* Hemorrhage: Is the loss of blood through the intestines too large may be needed blood transfusions. Also is a surgical procedure required

* Intestinal perforation (perforation): If the intestinal wall breaks through, the intestinal content reaches the abdominal cavity, where it can cause acute life-threatening infections.

* Toxic megacolon: The toxic megacolon is an acute, maximum expansion of the large intestine, which can by a severe attack of ulcerative colitis can be triggered. The toxic megacolon resulting in a life-threatening bowel obstruction and to threaten a breakdown of the intestinal wall. Symptoms include severe pain, fever and massive circulation problems.

How your doctor makes the diagnosis.

* Laboratory tests: are ulcerative colitis in the acute episode of increased inflammation in the blood values (e.g., increase in white blood cells). Often the same is anemia (anemia) before.
* Ultrasound: Some intestinal changes show up in ulcerative colitis as early as ultrasound, for example, a thickening of the bowel wall
* Colonoscopy: Here are the altered areas clearly visible. At the same time, samples can be taken for microscopic examination.
* X-ray / MRI: After administration of a contrast agent in the intestine can be considered X-ray or MRI. Thus, the inflamed areas are made visible.

Especially important is the differentiation of ulcerative colitis compared to the second major chronic inflammatory bowel disease, Crohn's disease. In spite of all diagnostic procedures, this distinction does not succeed in all patients. Here, only the future course of the disease shed.
What your doctor can do.
Basically, between the treatment of active ulcerative colitis and treatment differences in relapse-free interval.

* Cortisone-containing preparations: they dampen the acute inflammatory effective one. If only the rectum is affected, as can cortisone enema may be used. By the local effect the cortisone out there to fewer side effects throughout the body.
* Immunosuppressants: suppressing drugs such as cyclosporine, the immune system and may additionally be required in severe exacerbations.

* Diet: In addition to any drug therapy is recommended during an acute episode of low-fiber diet with liquid food, severe flares can also be an artificial diet is required.

Chronic active history:
In this course, despite a long-term drug therapy of ulcerative symptoms persist.

* Immunosuppressants: Here comes mainly azathioprine, the substance used, which also suppresses the immune system.
* Infliximab: In some cases, used this drug, which is among the biologics. It is an antibody that is directed against the body's own TNF-alpha (tumor necrosis factor). TNF-alpha plays an essential role in triggering inflammation. All immune-regulating drugs may be associated with serious side effects and are therefore used only with extreme caution and close monitoring. However, it is especially in severe cases with infliximab achieved today are often successful treatment, which seemed in earlier times hard to reach. The use of biologics in ulcerative colitis leads - this was demonstrated in studies - for sustainable healing of the intestinal mucosa. The focus is on this type of treatment, the intention of the aggressive disease activity crucial to counteract. The main goal is ultimately to avoid extensive surgery of the digestive tract, which almost always take an irretrievable loss of bowel segments for security.

Intermittent therapy

In ulcerative colitis and in relapse-free interval, a long-term therapy is recommended.
* Aminosalicylates (mesalazine, sulfasalazine,): they block is the impact of endogenous substances that are responsible for the inflammatory process reactors, on the other they also their production. They also reduce the risk of cancer. Depending on the location of the infestation, they are used as tablets, suppositories or enemas. Cancer screening should because of the increased risk of colon cancer from 8 Year of illness once a year, a colonoscopy with removal of samples are carried out.

Treatment of complications
In case of serious complications, an operation is unavoidable. The type of surgery depends on the present findings. In very severe cases, doctors will have to take even the entire removal of the colon into consideration. Since biologics can be used, can often prevent these situations.

What can you do.
Basically, your diet should mainly consist of light food. It includes whole-grain breads, rice, pasta, vegetables, fresh fruits and salads, low-fat dairy products and low-fat meats. Any form of dietary fiber promotes healthy digestion. Sugar-containing products and those should be avoided rather high in white flour.

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No More Diabetes, Cancer, Glaucoma, High Blood Pressure, TMJ, Excess Weight and Drugs!!!!

Hello Dr Young

My name is Lyn Bayley from Perth Australia. I am 50 years old.

My husband put me on your pH Miracle Lifestyle and Diet as my weight loss program had me plateaued at 90 kilos for over a year. I have a lap band and taking near nothing in food. But my weight loss stopped until I got on your diet. Within two weeks I lost 3 kilo or 6.6 lbs. My diabetes is now in remission after a detox period of bronchitis and lots of phlegm and diarreah.

I had chronic TMJ and earaches that would debilitate me for days. The only thing I could do to stop them was take powerful pain killers and sleep for days. My migraine headaches have now dissapeared altogether and I feel the best I have for twenty years.

I had a fibrous tumor in my ovary. I went to the specialist three weeks later after being on the pH Miracle Lifestyle and Diet and to his utter disbelief absolutely no trace of the tumor!!! IT WAS GONE!!!! The Doctor sat there shaking his head in amazement.

My eye specialist said the damage behind my eyes from 20 years of dibetes is gone as well. No more glaucoma!!!!

I am pinching myself hoping all this will last!!

I have only been doing the pH Miracle Lifestyle and Diet for 10 weeks and every one I know has commentted on my new found disposition!!!

Thank you Dr Young so much for your inspirational and dedicated work!!!!

I love the Doc Broc Green drink!!!

Also, my husband has lost 15 pound and he NO longer needs his high blood pressure medication. He has stopped ALL medications. His average blood pressure is now 125/65 before it was as high as 150/85 on medication.

You and your wife are Saints!!!!!

We are dedicated followers of your every word!!!!

Thanks again from both of us,

Lyn and Will Lyn

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Queering the Breast and Cross-nursing Queer Kinships

I recently submitted this abstract to the "Sex Gender Species" Conference affiliated with the Summer 2011 issue of Hypatia: A Journal of Feminist Philosophy on "Animal Others." This is an adaptation from "The Identity Politics of Breasts" series I began researching approximately a year ago, posted last June and July, and updated and presented on June 27, 2010 at the "Animals and Animality" graduate conference at Queen's University. There is a lot being analysis being crunched into those fourth and fifth paragraphs, and quite a bit missing before the second. Hopefully, I won't have to cut out too much; but if I do,maybe it's for the better and will be material for a future paper.

The seeds for this research direction are numerous, but certainly the works of Karen Warren, Val Plumwood, and Carol Adams have been enormous early inspirations. Over the last four years, I am especially grateful to Tamara Ketabgian (Professor of English at Beloit College), Lauren Corman (Professor of Sociology at Brock University and co-host of Animal Voices), and Ida Hammer (of The Vegan Ideal) whose teachings have ruptured and transformed my ideas. I would love to hear any feedback on this. I can see several lines of criticism and would love to articulate a defense for my position /ideas just as much as I am open to a modification of them.


Queering the Breast and Cross-nursing Queer Kinships
The human breast is a cultural site at which dominant western discourses demarcate nature from culture, woman from man, human from animal, sacred parenthood from perverse sexuality, and generosity from self-interest (Schiebinger 2004). The objective of this paper it to queer sex, gender, and species identity in order to imagine different human-animal-food relations than those found in vegan literature today. Ultimately, I argue for the re-conceptualization of breasts as sites for queer productions that nourish cohabitation across difference and subvert cissexism, hetero-patriarchy, human supremacy, and the human-animal dichotomy.

Feminist scholars on breastfeeding have critiqued both the commodificaiton of breasts as objects of male desire as well as contemporary disciplinary state and medical discourses on breastfeeding (Yalom 1997). Iris Marion Young’s (1990) chapter, “Breasted Experience,” has played a significant role in challenging the meaning of women’s breasts being measured by and for others (i.e. hetero-men, infants, the state) in that it proposes that a woman’s breasts ought to be for that woman, as they are constitutive of her as a subject. Young ultimately rejects a breasted experience based in “a love that is all give and no take,” arguing that a female sexual pleasure need not be mutually exclusive with maternal care (87).

In a recent paper, “Queer Breasted Experience,” Kim Hall argues that “the possibility and meaning of queer breasted experience… has been overlooked in [cissexual] feminist accounts” of subjectivity (2007, 16). Young’s account, she argues, omits the subjectivities of trans men who, born female-bodied, experience breasts more ambivalently than cis women. Essentialist and monistic accounts of female subjectivity, in other words, have ironically, in an attempt to recognize sexual difference between women and men, have thus eliminated the recognition of sexual difference among female-bodied people who do not recognize themselves as women. Just as violence to queer subjectivities have been done in the name of a single limit between man and woman, so to has violence been done in the name of the animal to the vast heterogeneities of animal others (Derrida 1997). Rethinking sex and species difference both is critical for living- and eating-well with others (Derrida 1991).

In more ways than one, breasts offer an apt site at which to throw into question sex, gender, and species essentialism. First, breastfeeding is not a capacity exclusive to female-bodies; male-bodies, too, can produce milk and nurse children (Diamond 1998; Giles 2003). Second, breastfeeding need not be exclusively practiced between child and biological parent, but any parent who is lactating, even if of another species. Human-animal cross-species nursing has been practiced in cultures worldwide, including the West, perhaps since the domestication of dogs (Serpell 1986; Baumslag and Michels 2005; Olmert 2009). Third, food represents a new way of thinking subjectivity beyond sexual difference, in which we eat our way into new identities (Probyn 2000). Breasts thus offer a site at which sex, gender, and species identities can proliferate through creative, queer assemblages.

Condemning any and all human-animal-food relation as intrinsically exploitative assumes, or at least prescribes, species essentialism. For example, in her paper “Disturbing Images,” Maneesha Deckha welcomes a PETA video (in which young women lift up their shirts to reveal udders and ecstatically spray milk at men) because it subverts both the medicalized and hetero-normative discourses of the Madonna-and-child dyad as well as “the wholesome image of [cows’] milk” (2008, 63). Ironically, Deckha commits herself to the very hetero-normative discourse she opposes by asserting that cows’ milk is “meant for that mammal’s offspring,” repeating several times how “unnatural” it is for humans to drink it (64). Deckha’s privileging of the abjectness of the video makes it difficult to imagine more productive and transformative human-animal-food relations that do not reproduce the species barriers she wants to overcome. At least when human women are nursing animal others, audiences are most disturbed by what they interpret to be the woman’s perverse pleasure and disloyalty to her species (Luke 2007). In such instances, cross-species nursing subverts the human-animal dichotomy, but also human supremacy and hetero-patriarchy.

One need not fear that by appraising cross-species nursing they will have committed themselves to the evolutionary, postmodern accounts of naturecultures, which forfeit philosophical rigor for philosophical play (Haraway 2008). Instead, cross-species nursing offers vegan feminists a figure to redefine vegan human-animal-food relations as something other than privation and/or abstinence from consuming animals (and their products). Cross-species nursing disrupts the human-animal dichotomy, inverts the standard narrative applied to human-animal-food relations, and does not necessitate that either nurse or nursed be sacrificed for the nourishment of the other.

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