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What's
Your Stress Reflex?... "I Can't Stop Eating"
Ladies Home Journal
When under stress do you...
__ Overdose on bread and pasta?
__ Crave potato chips and chocolate?
__ Realize you've polished off a box of cookies
and barely remember eating it?
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Why Should You Know About Serotonin?
Laura Turner, Author
(New York, USA)
If you you are anything like me,
you love carbs. With that in mind - what could be
better than having a delightful snack consisting
of Biscotti, granola bars or popcorn - and actually
have them help you lose weight? No, I'm not kidding.
The Serotonin Power Diet is designed to teach you
about healthy eating - including "timing" your carbohydrate
snacks so they can work for, not against, you and
your weight. Here's why.
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The
Right Carbs Can Help You Lose Antidepressant-Related
Weight Gain
National
Association of Mental Illness
By Judith J. Wurtman,
Ph.D. and Nina Frusztajer Marquis, M.D.
Audrey, in her 30's, is typical
of people who experience medication-induced weight
gain. "I never ate junk food until 6 months ago,
when I started taking medication for my depression,"
she related. "In college, I used to feel superior
to my friends who lived on chocolate cupcakes and
French fries. I was the health-food queen, a regular
at the salad bar. Now I can't stop myself from gorging
on packaged cakes and even - I can't believe I'm
going to say it - canned frosting. I've packed on
35 pounds - and the cravings won't stop."
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Could Rice and Other Complex Carbohydrate Foods
Be the Key to Health, Happiness AND Weight Loss?
Press Release
Melissa McAllister/Barbara King
Pollock Communications
The USA Rice Federation agrees
with the research-based nutrition approach presented
in "The Serotonin Power Diet" to improve
mood and help regulate appetite
ARLINGTON,
VA, -- According to the creators of The
Serotonin Power Diet (Rodale Inc./January
2007), Judith Wurtman, PhD, and Nina Frusztajer
Marquis, MD, carbohydrate foods, like rice, are
essential to the body's ability to produce serotonin,
which in turn both regulates mood and helps control
appetite. The premise of their research-based, clinically-proven
diet is that the brain needs complex carbohydrates
to manufacture serotonin and when the brain manufactures
enough serotonin, it improves mood and helps regulate
appetite.
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The
Serotonin Power Diet
Use Your Brain's Natural
Chemistry to Cut Cravings, Curb Emotional Overeating,
and Lose Weight!
by Judith J. Wurtman,
PhD, and Nina Fruztajer Marquis, MD
Is it possible to lose weight
while feeling content and satisfied? Will you ever
get to eat the foods you love and crave without
packing on pounds? At last, it's possible to answer
those questions with a resounding "Yes!"
Based on decades of research and clinical tests,
THE SEROTONIN POWER
DIET (Rodale Inc. / January 2007 / $24.95 / Hardcover)
solves the puzzle once and for all.
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Carbs
are essential for effective dieting and good mood,
Wurtman says
by Elizabeth A. Thomson
News Office
During the current low-carb/pro-protein
diet craze, carbohydrates have been demonized --
accused of causing weight gain and blamed as the
reason people can't lose weight. Do they deserve
this stigma? Not according to MIT researcher Judith
Wurtman.
Wurtman, director of the Program
in Women's Health at the MIT Clinical Research Center,
and colleagues have found that when you stop eating
carbohydrates, your brain stops regulating serotonin,
a chemical that elevates mood and suppresses appetite.
And only carbohydrate consumption naturally stimulates
production of serotonin.
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MIT
researchers: high-carb supplement helps with weight
loss
Massachusetts Institute
of Technology
News Office
CAMBRIDGE, Mass.-- MIT researchers
reported recently in the Psychopharmacology Bulletin
that a high-carbohydrate dietary supplement can
help patients who experience weight gain while taking
antidepressants.
Even though the high-carbohydrate
regimen altered serotonin levels, it did not alter
the antidepressants' effectiveness.
The regimen, which includes a
high-carbohydrate drink developed at MIT based on
research conducted here, also helped non-medicated
obese individuals, the researchers reported. All
participants lost between 12 and 26 pounds during
the 12-week study.
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The Serotonin Power Diet effectively reverses weight
gain
The Serotonin Power Diet
effectively reverses weight gain associated with
antidepressant use, Wurtman finds.
For millions of Americans, antidepressants
and other mood stabilizing drugs improve quality
of life tremendously. For many, though, the benefits
come at a hefty price: weight gain, sometimes upwards
of 30 pounds or more just within a year. But there
is a solution: The Serotonin
Power Diet developed by MIT research scientist
Judith Wurtman, PhD and her associate, Nina Frusztajer
Marquis, MD.
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Atkins
Diet 'Causes Mood Swings and Depression'
By Lyndsay Moss
Health Correspondent,
PA News
Low carbohydrate regimes
like the Atkins diet could lead to mood swings and
depression and leave slimmers feeling like "an emotional
zombie", researchers have claimed.
The
controversial high-protein, low-carb Atkins diet
has prompted criticism from many doctors who fear
it could increase the risk of long-term health problems
such as kidney damage, high cholesterol and diabetes.
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Atkins
can cause depression
by Mark Prigg
The Evening Standard
"The Atkins diet is at the centre
of fresh controversy after scientists said it could
cause depression and mood swings. Medical experts
have found that the diet blocks the brain's ability
to produce chemicals that keep us happy.
"Nutritionists have called for
people to abandon the diet, claiming they could
be risking their mental health as well as physical
well-being. "The key to the research is serotonin.
This is the chemical released in the brain that
keeps us relaxed and positive.
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Low-Carb
State of Mind
By Brenda Goodman
Psychology Today
Summary: The low-carb plan can
lead to irritability and mood swings.
Do the chips that don't pass the
lips of low-carb dieters weigh heavily on their
shoulders instead? People who avoid certain foods
or are reducing their food intake are famous for
irritability, but many who are testing low-carbohydrate
approaches like Atkins and the South Beach Diet
are reporting unusually high feelings of anger,
tension and depression. "It's called the 'Atkins
attitude,' " says Judith Wurtman, director of the
Women's Health Program at the Massachusetts Institute
of Technology and the Adara Weight Loss Center,
both in Boston. " ...
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