No-Drug, Anti-Inflammatory Diet Yields Positive Clinical-Trial Results, Including Marked Improvement Of Metabolic Abnormalities And Rapid Weight Loss

Main Category: Obesity / Weight Loss / Fitness
Also Included In: Cardiovascular / Cardiology;  Nutrition / Diet;  Clinical Trials / Drug Trials
Article Date: 20 Jun 2006 - 0:00 PDT

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Research about the benefits of a no-drug, anti-inflammatory, and non-special dietary supplements diet is to be presented June 24-27 at the 2006 annual Endocrine Society's Scientific Meeting in Boston.

The research's author is Frank K. Leung, M.D., a fellow of the American College of Endocrinology, and a Harvard-trained, board-certified physician with more than 20 years of experience in weight-reduction management and diabetes treatment.

Dietary food items contain both health-positive and health-negative aspects of micro-nutrition. Undesirable negative micro-nutrition can result in an increased inflammatory reaction in the human body as measured by C-reactive protein (CRP). CRP has been touted as a predictor of the likelihood of a heart attack and vascular insults. A 2004 study published in the Journal of American Medical Association argues that it is useful in predicting the likelihood of bowel cancer.

Dr. Leung's research, set forth in his two papers, demonstrates:

- Dietary food micro-nutrition is a major factor that can result in an increased inflammatory reaction in the human body, as measured by CRP.

- Elimination of the inflammatory micro-nutrition will lead to rapid reversal of metabolic abnormalities and obesity.

- It is possible for rapid weight loss in subjects who are morbidly obese all their life, regardless of age.

- It is possible to restore physiologic balance, and sensitivity of satiety and hunger occurs within 24 hours on the anti-inflammatory diet in patients with long-standing obesity.

- Based on the results of the study, the conventional wisdom of eating frequently and regularly to control satiety and hunger may be questioned as un-physiologic and un-natural.

- Weight loss is achieved in all of the unselected morbidly obese participants.

- Marked improvement was shown in diabetes, lipid profiles, blood pressure, energy levels, body aches and overall wellness.

"Sometimes, it may be too late trying to put out the fire after the fire has started," Dr. Leung said. "Yet by eliminating the negative inflammatory aspects of our dietary micro-nutrition, it is possible to improve upon an anti-aging, anti-diabetes, anti-obesity and weight-loss healthy diet."

Frank K. Leung, M.D.
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