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Products to facilitate weight loss

On this site you find medicines based on herbs, vitamins, minerals, anti-oxydants and cojugated linoleic acid ( CLA ) to help for problems with excessive weight. Please click on the links to learn more about the constituents and effect of these products or to make a purchaise.

HYPOTHYROIDISM / sluggish thyroid - Thyax: Helps against depressed thyroid function and problems caused by low levels of thyroid hormones:  Fatigue, obesity, coldness in hands/feet/ears, low blood pressure, yellow hand color, dry skin and hair, poor memory, depressive feelings, unnormal appetite for sugar, decreased blood circulation, itching or rashes, constipation. The hormones of the thyroid gland are necessary for a normally high metabolic rate. The symptoms of hypothyroidism are partly a consequence of reduced metabolism because of lack of thyroid hormones.

Natural drugs for other health problems

PRODUCTS FOR PREVENTION, CURE OR SUPPORT BY A LOT OF OTHER DISEASES - Medicines to be taken by mouth: Acne, aging symptoms, AIDS, allergies, Alzheimers disease/dementia, angina, arthritis (osteoarthritis), arthritis (rheumatoid arthritis), asthma, attention deficit disorder (ADD), breast cancer, burns, carpal tunnel syndrome, cholesterol, cronic bronchitis, chronic cough, chronic fatigue sydrom, cognitive problems, colds and flue, congestive heart failure (CHF), Crohn`s disease, depression, diabetes mellitus type 1, diabetes mellitus type 2, eczema, edema, endometriosis, fatigue, fibromyalgia, hair loss, herpes simplex, hyperlipidemia, hypertention, obesity, otitis media

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PRODUCTS FOR PREVENTION, CURE OR SUPPORT - Many topical medicines: - Many diseases respond to topical treatment, as well as to medicines taken by mouth, especially skin conditions and rheumatic ailments. Sometimes there is a need to combine systemic and topical treatment. Here you find many good topical remedies and also some systemic ones.

Vitamins. minerals, anti-oxidants, glyconutrients, noni, acai mangosteen and other supplements

Some other products

What about all those diets out there?

You can find a plethorea of weight loss diets on the market or solicitated from weight loss experts or gurus. These diets can be grouped in four cathegories: Those simply not working;  those not working and dangerous to your helath; those that are effective but will hurt your health at the same time; those working and are good for your health. All the diets that are effective and good for your health apply the principles outlined at the top of this page some way or another. It is simply not possible to loose weight without first gaining full controle of your lifestyle habits. Some supplements and tricks can help, but you must also consider your lifestyle and chenge it the right way.

Here is a list of many of those diets, in this list you both find good and bad diets: Weight Watchers Diet, Atkins Diet, Zone Diet, LA Weight Loss, Grape fruit Diet, No Carb Diet, Liquid Diet, Low Carb Diet, Celebrity Diets, GI Diet, Anne Collins Program, Atkins Diet, Beverly Hills Diet, Blood Test Diet, Blood Type Diet, Body For Life, Diet Workshop, Caveman paleolithic, Cabbage Soup Diet, Carb Addicts Diet, Carb Diets, Celebrity Diets, Chocolate Diet, Cider Vinegar Diet, Dash Diet,Diabetic Diet, Diet Divas Diet, Diet For Weight Looser, Fat Flush Diet, Fibre Rich Diet Plan, Food Combining Herbal Life, GI Diet, Grapefruit Diet, Dr. Phil's Diet, High Fiber Diet, High Protein Diet, Hip and Thigh Diet, Hollywood 48 Hour, Jenny Craig Diet, LA Weight Loss, Liquid Diet, Low Carb Diet, Low Fat Diets, Mayo Clinic Diet, Mediterranean Diet, Negative Calorie Diet, No Carb Diet, NutriSystem Diet, Peel Away the Pounds, Peanut Butter Diet, Perricone Diet, Protein Power Diet, Raw Food Diet, Scars dale Diet,South Beach Diet,Suzanne Somers Diet, Three Days Diet Plan, Total Health Makeover, Weight Watchers Diet, Zone Diet, Weight Loss Bible

Scientific finding and facts about obesity

Here are some new scientific findings about over-weight and weight-loss. There is however one warning to be said about scientific findings. Scientific findings in this field have often later proved to be false or only valid for a group of over-weight persons. One should therefore allways be somewhat sceptical about such findings, regardless of their origin.

1. Weight gain from night eating: Eating during night more easily result in weight gain than eating during day-time. This occur even if the night eating result in less eating during day by the same amount of nutrient.

2. Weight gain from night waking: Staying wake at night so that a person does not get his needed sleep, easily result in obesity. This occure even  without night eating. A person that wants to get slim, should therefore get a good sleep every night.

3. Night eating syndrome: There has been found a pattern by many individuals that some doctors believe should be regarded as a specific disease, called Night Eating Syndrome, where night waking and eating sessions are important symptoms. The syndrome has been defined as a result of behaviour studies conducted by a team from the University of Pennsylvania Medical Center - USA and related endocrine studies by a team of  the University Hospital in Tromsö - Norway.

About Night eating syndrome

a. The characteristics of this syndrome

The syndrome is characterized by the following symptoms:

- Lack of eating in the morning (morning anorexia).

- Depressive feelings or low mood level during daytime, sometimes even typical depression.

- Difficulties of falling to sleep. Staying wake at night.

- Agitation and restlessness during night. 

- Night eating, often as much as 4 times each night, and usually of carbohydrate-rich food (sugar and satrch).

- Sleeping between each eating session. Each eating session makes it easier for the person to fall to sleep, but the sleep only lasts as long as there is an elevated level of carbohydrates in the blood.

- The eating pattern result in half or more of the intake of food occure between dinner and the morning.

- The eating pattern often result in a greater than normal food intake during a 24 hour's time, but the total food intake is not extreme, as for example by binge eating.

- The eating pattern is often followed by feeling of guilt in the day-time.

- The pattern must persist for at least 2 months before the diagnosis night eating syndrome is appropriate.

b. The physiological mechanisms and causes of night eating syndrome

People suffering from this disease have constantly an elevated level of the stress hormone cortisol. They have a reduced level of the hormone melatonine necessary for normal sleep. They also have less of the hunger-reducing hormone leptin during night.

10 % of of obese persons seem to be suffering from night eating syndrome, but not everyone suffering from this syndrome is over-weight.

The origine of the syndrome may be a prolonged elevated stress,  and an abnormal way of reacting to stress.

Since the syndrome includes a strong habit pattern, the different parts of the habit pattern may enforce each other and make the condition persist. Not eating breakfast in the morning, results in reduced blood sugar levels with subsequent depressive feelings, restlessness and fatigue. And ten the eating of carbohydrate rich food will result in an excessively elevated blood sugar level that falls rapidly again with new attcks of low mood, fatigue and restlessness.

c. Treatment of night eating syndrome

Since persons suffering from this disease have an elevated level of cortisol, a hormone produced by the adrenal medulla, a possible specific organic reason for this elevated level should be searched for, and if found treated.

Since a stress pattern often is an important element of the cause, the measures to reduce the dayly stress levels probably will help against the condition.

- Factors or conditions making stress at work or in family life should be eliminated.

- Psychological councelling may be of help.

- Since the syndrome includes a strong habit pattern, one should try to break this pattern. It is difficult to change habits when the reason behind the habist are fundamental physiological patterns. However, one can still manage to do something in that direction.  Allways eating breakfast in the morning can be a good beginning of new and better habits.

- A habit of regular training, for example jogging or swimming, often reduces the stress levels, and makes it easier to fall to sleep in the night.

- A supplement of the amino acid Tryptophan may elevate the level of melatonine and make a person sleep better.

- Dayly meditation has shown to reduce stress, and may help.

- One should try to eat food with a low glycemic index. This is food that causes a slow elevation of the blood sugar, and then causes the blood sugar level to be stable for a long time. The food shall not contain refined sugar or starch. It should contain all necessary nutrients, including proteins, fat and slowly absorbable carbohydrates. Such food are: Full corn bread or cereals, fish, seafood, vegetables, poultry, lean meat and  fruit without added sugar or fat. Also drink water and to some extend pure juices.