Topic: Louis Aronne

Pharmaceuticals and fat . About 70% of people in the United States are overweight and, in a cruel catch-22, many of the drugs used to treat...
Weight regain is the bane of many a dieter's existence. Their body weight, ghrelin, leptin, and insulin levels were measured before, during, and after the diet. You may have a lot of leptin, but your brain is resistant to its effects ...

Best Way to Burn Fat

While that's unlikely, it is possible to speed up your metabolism, that little engine in your body that burns calories. "If you don't use the muscle, it atrophies," explains Pamela Peeke, M.D., professor of medicine at the University of ...

Start Your Diet Smart

When it comes to healthy eating, a triumphant Day One is motivation for Day Two, and so on. Dr. Louis Aronne, author of the new book The Skinny, offers tips for a successful start: It fills you up and keeps you in ...

Discover which foods

Have you ever eaten something that you think should make you feel full, only to leave you still hungry? A new book called The Skinny written by Dr. Louis Aronne, a well respected researcher and director of the weight loss program at ...
The Skinny provides the reader (weight loss wannabe) with a lifestyle makeover that gets the metabolism running and puts hormone issues into perspective.. Dr. Aronne has directed the Comprehensive Weight Control Program at New York--Presbyterian Hospital/Weill Cornell Medical Center since 1986 ...
Studies on role of 'good' fat could lead to treatment for obesity, diabetesFight fat with fat? Scientists until recently believed this good fat, which spurs the body to burn calories to generate body heat, played an important role in keeping infants warm ...

New!!!  The Skinny by Louis J. Aronne

The Skinny provides the reader (weight loss wannabe) with a lifestyle makeover that gets the metabolism running and puts hormone issues into perspective.. Dr. Aronne has directed the Comprehensive Weight Control Program at New York--Presbyterian Hospital/Weill Cornell Medical Center since 1986 ...

Study Suggests Sugar May Be Addictive

12/10/2008 Print E-mail Science is verifying what many overeaters have suspected for a long time: "Our evidence from an animal model suggests that bingeing on sugar can act in the brain in ways very similar to drugs of abuse," lead ...

13 Things You Never Knew About Your Weight

Steven Blair is, in his own words, a " A professor of exercise science and epidemiology at the University of South Carolina, Blair is a living example of how fat doesn't play fair. "This is all counter to what people think they ...