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• External Forces Trump Inner Balance
  on Aug 27, 2009 in Break Through Your Set Point: How to Finally Lose the Weight You Want and Keep It Off
  You may be thinking if your body is so good at defending your set point, how did your set point become too high? Ultimately, your behavior—how you respond to the environment—trumps your physiology, or your body’s inner workings. Eating is compl...
• The Vermont Prison Overfeeding Study
  on Aug 26, 2009 in Break Through Your Set Point: How to Finally Lose the Weight You Want and Keep It Off
  Whereas the Keys study explored the body’s response to a minimal number of calories, another intriguing study looked at the opposite end of the spectrum: calorie overload. In 1964, researchers at the Vermont College of Medicine asked volunteers to...
• The Framingham Heart Study
  on Aug 25, 2009 in Break Through Your Set Point: How to Finally Lose the Weight You Want and Keep It Off
  One line of evidence comes from people involved in the Framingham Heart Study, which dates back to the 1940s. Back then, very little was known about why people had heart attacks. This landmark study, which continues to this day, sought to answer that...
• The Minnesota Starvation Study
  on Aug 25, 2009 in Break Through Your Set Point: How to Finally Lose the Weight You Want and Keep It Off
  Just a few years before the Framingham study began, a very different type of experiment was already underway in Minnesota, led by Ancel Keys. Dr. Keys is known for his pioneering work on the link between saturated fat and heart disease and for the de...
• WATCHING THE SET POINT AT WORK
  on Aug 24, 2009 in Break Through Your Set Point: How to Finally Lose the Weight You Want and Keep It Off
  Now that we know how the set point works, let’s step back and take a look at some of the other evidence in support of the set point theory. These observations include both short- and long-term studies and anecdotes from people in a variety of diffe...
• Obesity as a Metabolic Disease
  on Aug 24, 2009 in Break Through Your Set Point: How to Finally Lose the Weight You Want and Keep It Off
  The reason weight-loss medications can’t provide any real results is that we have a complex, overlapping system of checks and balances that help "defend" our body-weight set point. Many different genes contribute to your body weight, and thus it’...
• Sending Signals: A Host of Hormones
  on Aug 23, 2009 in Break Through Your Set Point: How to Finally Lose the Weight You Want and Keep It Off
  A wealth of research has helped us understand more about the signals that talk to the hypothalamus to control body weight set points. They include the hormones insulin, leptin, adiponectin, ghrelin, and others. The pancreas, an organ the size of a sm...
• The Sensing Stomach
  on Aug 23, 2009 in Break Through Your Set Point: How to Finally Lose the Weight You Want and Keep It Off
  The stomach communicates with the brain through the ANS, and the nerve of interest to our story is the vagus nerve (see illustration). In Latin, vagus means "wandering," an accurate description of how this vitally important nerve travels from the bra...
• The Hypothalamus: Headquarters of the Set Point
  on Aug 22, 2009 in Break Through Your Set Point: How to Finally Lose the Weight You Want and Keep It Off
  About the size of an almond, your hypothalamus sits atop your pituitary gland at the base of the brain, just above the roof of your mouth. This well-protected location speaks to the vital importance of this brain region. In addition to controlling hu...
• The Autonomic Nervous System
  on Aug 22, 2009 in Break Through Your Set Point: How to Finally Lose the Weight You Want and Keep It Off
  All the nerves in your body that extend beyond your brain and spine belong to the peripheral nervous system. The autonomic nervous system (ANS), which controls the organs and muscles inside the body, is part of that network. Most of the time, we aren...

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