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September 13, 2016
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August 30, 2016
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June 27, 2016
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June 7, 2016
Book Reviews
"In his new book called, Skinny Without Willpower, author Yogesh Verma, PhD, offers important insights into key factors for long-term, successful weight loss and management. He helps to bust key myths, such as eating less or adding more exercise to lose weight. He explains why each approach will often backfire! He also debunks other common beliefs about counting calories and relying on willpower as strategies for weight loss.
Yogesh includes important insights about metabolism, and how refined/processed carbs cause destructive cycles of blood sugar spikes and crashes. He explores the interplay of critical hormones like insulin, ghrelin and leptin that drive feelings hunger and satiety. Stress and food cravings are also covered, along with the affects of lifestyle choices on weight management.
The book is nicely structured and well-researched, and it includes visual elements like charts and photos to improve reader comprehension. Yogesh includes dashes of humor to help communication and reader understanding.
This insightful book is essential for anyone who is struggling to lose weight or maintain a healthy weight, and who wishes to understand the reasons why they have been unsuccessful. It can even aid those readers who wish to prevent weight gain with age. Yogesh includes many practical eating and lifestyle tips for successful, long term weight loss and healthy weight management.
This book is a must read and a great tool for anyone who wants to better understand how to maintain a healthy weight throughout life, and improve overall health and energy. Yes, you can lose weight and keep it off! And if you are a professional, this book is an essential tool for helping clients succeed in their weight loss and health goals. "
-Steven Carney, CPC, End Sickness Now
"Yogesh' book "Skinny Without Willpower" was an enjoyable read with enough details to backup the arguments for a good diet. It was simple enough to understand and apply in real life. The added research in the book was helpful in supporting the claims. The book has great advice for the general population. I would definitely recommend the book to others."
- Beth Ann Sanelli, Stanford Health Care
May 19, 2016
Free eBook in return for an honest review
I am looking for honest reviews of my new book "Skinny Without Willpower: How eating more and exercising less can help you lose weight and keep it off." This book is a new way of looking at obesity and shows how the real cause of weight gain is hormonal and unless we do something to fix that no matter how much of "eating less and exercising more" we do we can't lose weight permanently.
Beyond weight loss this book is aimed at someone who wants to prevent chronic disease and premature aging. Its an easy read designed for the average college freshman level reader with enough scientific facts to back up the theory I present.
Enjoy hearty healthy real foods to keep you satisfied and never count calories, and above all, exercise is optional.
Has extensive tables of low GI and high antioxidant content foods and a list of belly fat burning superfoods. Everything you need to lose weight and regain your vitality is in this book.
Please message or email me at yogeshv@hotmail.com if you are interested and I'll send you a copy of the eBook.
Thanks in advance.
Cheers,
Yogesh.
April 21, 2016
Skinny Without Willpower: A Must Read For Anyone Interested in Weight Loss and Wellness
My book “SKINNY WITHOUT WILLPOWER: "How eating more and exercising less can help you lose weight and keep it off” is now available for purchase. This book will change the way you think about weight loss.
This book shows you how you can reprogram your hormones for effortless weight loss. Beyond weight loss this book shows how you can prevent chronic disease (diabetes, heart disease, age related dementia and cancers) and premature aging via diet and lifestyle changes. Exercising is optional!
For more information visit www.skinnywithoutwillpower.com
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I am working with an International distributor to make the book available in other countries. Please check www.skinnywithoutwillpower.com for most recent updates.
November 16, 2015
Can Exercise Keep You Young?
At a cellular level aging involves the shortening of telomeres found on the ends of our DNA which protect the DNA from damage during cell division. As the cell divides during the course of its lifetime the telomeres reduce in length. Scientists can measure the length of telomeres to determine the cells biological age.
In a relatively large study, over 6000 subjects between the ages of 20-84 years were surveyed for their physical activity level and subdivided into 4 exercise sub-categories: moderate exercise, vigorous exercise, walking/cycling for exercise and muscle strengthening exercise. The changes in their telomeres lengths were analyzed over a 3 year period.
It was found that people engaging in at least 1 physical activity had a modest 3% reduction in telomeres shortening, while the ones that participated in 2, 3 and 4 different types of physical activities saw a 24%, 29% and 52% reduction in telomeres shortening respectively.
The take home message from this study is that exercise prevents aging but mostly when many different modes of exercise are combined. Doing only one type of exercise is not only boring but minimizes the beneficial effect exercise has on aging. The greater variety in your physical activity the younger you will remain. So run, bike, play sports, do yoga and lift weights and you might stop aging all together…well perhaps not, but at least you would keep it to a crawl.
Reference:
Loprinzi PD1, Loenneke JP, Blackburn EH. “Movement-Based Behaviors and Leukocyte Telomere Length among US Adults.” Med Sci Sports Exerc. 2015 Nov;47(11):2347-52.
November 12, 2015
The Cost of Modern Technology in Human Evolution
Throughout 2 million years of evolution, humans have been hunting, climbing, lifting, hiking, crawling and being physical for a good part of their waking hours. Thanks to modern technology we no longer need to do all that in order to survive. But sitting at our desks slouched over bright monitors for 8-10 hours a day isn’t sustainable either. Besides all the processed factory foods this is one of the biggest reasons why chronic disease is on the rise. So get up every hour or so and walk around, do something with your hands, lift something heavy and sprint full speed once in a while and play some sports when you can. Being active lowers stress hormones and lifting heavy and occasional sprinting releases growth hormones that keep you young. Be active, eat right and worry less and you will have a lifetime of good health.
November 11, 2015
The Benefits of Anthocyanins in Disease Prevention
Anthocyanins are plant pigments found in deep colored fruits (cherries, berries, blackcurrant, apples, grapes, plums and nectarines), vegetables (eggplant, red radish and red cabbage) and nuts (pistachios and almonds) that have shown enormous benefits in disease prevention and overall well-being. Recently they have become the focus of obesity research as they have shown to lower insulin spikes post-meal.
Insulin spiking from eating too many easily digested (processed) carbohydrates is the sole cause of insulin driven weight gain. It is well known that adding fat and protein to a carbohydrate meal slows gastric absorption of sugars and blunts the insulin spiking. This leads to lower weight gain. Recent research has shown that these plant compounds show a similar insulin blunting effect post-meal. Furthermore anthocyanins have shown to improve insulin resistance which is a precursor to type II diabetes. Not only that they have also shown reduction in inflammation which is the root cause of many chronic diseases like heart disease, certain cancers and age related dementia.
One large study of 1950 Finnish men between the ages of 42-60 years showed decreased risk of stroke and cardiovascular mortality and a reduction in risk of lung cancer in middle-aged smoking men with increased consumption of these plant compounds.
In a large meta-analysis of 12 studies involving 9513 cases and 181,906 control subjects it was shown that increased consumption of these plant compounds decreased the risk of breast cancer especially in post-menopausal women.
Including some of these fruits and vegetables in your daily diet will go a long way towards preventing weight gain and imparting the health benefits for long term well-being.
References
Jennings A1, Welch AA, Spector T, Macgregor A, Cassidy A. “Intakes of anthocyanins and flavones are associated with biomarkers of insulin resistance and inflammation in women.” Journal of Nutrition. 2014 Feb;144(2):202-8.
Mursu J1, Voutilainen S, Nurmi T, Tuomainen TP, Kurl S, Salonen JT. “Flavonoid intake and the risk of ischaemic stroke and CVD mortality in middle-aged Finnish men: the Kuopio Ischaemic Heart Disease Risk Factor Study.” British Journal of Nutrition. 2008 Oct;100(4):890-5.
Mursu J1, Nurmi T, Tuomainen TP, Salonen JT, Pukkala E, Voutilainen S. “Intake of flavonoids and risk of cancer in Finnish men: The Kuopio Ischaemic Heart Disease Risk Factor Study.” International Journal of Cancer. 2008 Aug 1;123(3):660-3.
Hui C1, Qi X, Qianyong Z, Xiaoli P, Jundong Z, Mantian M. “Flavonoids, flavonoid subclasses and breast cancer risk: a meta-analysis of epidemiologic studies.”PLoS One. 2013;8(1):
