Wednesday, October 15, 2008

Components of Permanent Weight Loss

Yearly, the percentage of overweight individuals is growing. In North America the percentage of overweight individuals is pushing 66%! This is a concern that naturopathic doctors deal with frequently as permanent weight loss has huge implications in a person's overall health.

So why is it that so many patients attend clinic after clinic and fail to maintain the weight goals they strived so hard to achieve?! I hear of patients who spent their entire lives on programs like Weight Watchers, Zone, LA Weight Loss etc... only to become discouraged with themselves.

Here are the top 7 items most naturopathic doctors will address in natural weight-loss programs:

1. Emotional Eating
2. Brain Chemistry Imbalances
3. Food Sensitivities
4. Nutritional Deficiencies and Low-Calorie Dieting
5. Hormone Deficiencies
6. Detoxification
7. Lifestyle Modification

In combination, when done safely, addressing the above items will lead most successfully to permanent weight loss.

So there you have it - the missing links ;)

3 comments:

Nick Inglis said...

So if you UNDEREAT you can gain weight? This has always killed me, because I'm so afraid of eating due to my stomach issues that I'm probably ~500 calories under most days.

Sophia Jason said...

Naturopathy believes that nature has healing powers and that the body has considerable ability to heal itself. Considering this philosophy, the naturopath facilitates and enhances this process with traditional medicines and physical therapies, diet and exercise. For them prevention is preferable to Cure. That is why they are now trying to prevent obesity from becoming myriad diseases.
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Sophia Jason said...

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