Tipping the Scales: Attention! It Is Not About Dieting, It's About Living

By Harold Schulman and Rosemarie Schulman

This book can help consumers and professionals become experts for fighting the obesity epidemic. The authors review other plans and describe their program that incorporates adopting a life-style of better eating, better behavior, appropriate response to stress, and nutritional supplements and substitutes as primary helpers. Their experience taught them that this approach is the safest and can lead to a life long commitment. Additionally they describe current and future scientific leads that may help us in the future. A special feature is a dictionary of common herbals used in todays market.
Its not about DIEting, its about Living!

• Language: English
• Publisher: Xlibris US
• Release date: Jul 29, 2002
• ISBN: 9781465321640

Harold Schulman

Harold and Rosemarie Schulman are a doctor-nurse team that has set out to educate our society on the basics of obesity. They propose a program that they used in their clinical practice for the past seven years. They learned that our attraction to high tech substitutes and supplements could be translated into an effective life long program for weight management. Dr. Schulman has spent most of his career in academic medicine and is a respected teacher, researcher and clinician. Mrs. Schulman is a nurse clinician with a life long commitment to women and their battle to maintain health, weight and beauty.

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Copyright © 2001,2005 by Harold Schulman and Rosemarie Schulman.

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Contents

PREVIEW

INTRODUCTION

I. SPECIAL ALERT!

WHO GIVES YOU HEALTH?

II. How TO HEAL-THY BODY OF

THE OBESITY PROBLEM?

III. IS THERE A NEW FRONTIER IN WEIGHT CONTROL?

IV. Is THERE A BEST WAY TO LOSE WEIGHT?

V. WHAT IS SO HOT ABOUT A CALORIE?

VI. IS THE BMI YOUR CRYSTAL BALL?

VII. WHAT ARE THE PATHWAYS TO OBESITY? MAD MAX REDUX?

VIII. IS THE PLEASURE OF EATING A BOOBY TRAP?

IX. SHOULD YOU TRUST YOUR SENSE OF TASTE?

X. WHY IS EXERCISE SO WEIGHTY?

XI. TRENDSETTERS REVEALED

XII. WHICH ONE: ATKINS OR TIPPING THE SCALES?

.XIII. HOW DID THE FOOD PYRAMID GET YOU IN TROUBLE?

XIV. INTRODUCING: GOOD CARBS, BAD CARBS, AND LOW CARBS: WHAT IS A CARB ANYWAY?

XV. A SERVING EXPOSED: IS IT PORTION OR I BEG YOUR PARDON?

XVI. DRUGS FOR OBESITY: DO THEY WORK?

XVII. LEARN THE DIFFERENCES: NUTRITIONALS, MEDICINALS, SUBSTITUTES AND SUPPLEMENT?

XVIII. REVEALING THE INSIDE STORY ABOUT THE COLON AND HEALTH.

XIX. WHY ARE NUTRITIONAL SUPPLEMENTS AND SUBSTITUTES BENEFICIAL IN HEALTH AND WEIGHT MANAGEMENT?

XX. UNCOVERED: MANY WEIGHT-MANAGEMENT PROGRAMS WORK AT FIRST, THEN FAIL, WHY?

XXI. DISCOVER WHAT SUCCESSFUL DIETERS HAVE IN COMMON?

XXII. EXPLAINED: THE STRUCTURE OF A COMPREHENSIVE PROGRAM DESIGNED TO HELP YOU LOSE THE WEIGHT—AND CONTROL IT FOR LIFE!

XXIII. WHAT SHOULD YOU EXPECT OF AN INTEGRATED WEIGHT-LOSS PROGRAM?

XXIV. UNLOCK YOUR BRAIN AND SEEK HYPNOSIS FOR WEIGHT LOSS

XXV. BREAKING NEWS: IS MENOPAUSE A WAKE-UP CALL?

XXVI. JUST PLAIN AWESOME RECIPES FOR LIVING WELL

XXVII. HOW TO SURVIVE A HOLIDAY OR WHEN YOU ARE EATING OUT?

XXVIII. WHAT IS SCIENCE TELLING US ABOUT OBESITY?

XXIX. WHAT ELSE CAN YOU AND OTHERS DO?

APPENDIX

GLOSSARY OF HERBAL CONTENTS AND TERMINOLOGY

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

PREVIEW

Wouldn’t it be amazing if you could go on a trip or adventure that would make you an expert in obesity? If the answer is yes, hook a ride through Tipping the Scales. Don’t you want to tip them in your favor? Your reward is healthy aging. Take your time and enjoy the experience.

Read this book and you will understand the failures, bumps in the road and increased dress sizes. It will be a joyous lifelong journey. You will meet and engage the tormentors, obstacles and saviors to your success.

First, you ask yourself why you are making this journey. In front of your eyes is the dreamy answer—health, beauty and an ageless life.

Second, you have to size up the lay of the land. What is going on here? Look around and you will see all the tragic failures on the side of the road. You will face your personal obstacles and know the experiences that sabotaged you.

Next, you will engage a giant mirror that gives a crisp and clear image. It is you. It also broadcasts your BMI. It is truth, the mirror on the wall.

Next enter the mystical room where you see your past and future. They are all there. Parents, peers, lovers, bosses, children, teachers and fast food palaces.

Then, you must pass through the laboratory of Mr. Calorie. The heat is on, but you are not burning up.

The next stop is the house of a drooling tongue and a fickle brain. Yummy-yummy plus it feels so good. Are they your friends or enemies?

Getting scared? Enter the arena of expert booksellers. They have all the answers for you. Buy their book and repeat all the false promises and errors of history.

The next part of the adventure is a fidget, a walk, a run, weight lifting, dancing and exercise classes. Having fun? Where were you hiding?

The door opens and you are looking at a Megaplex vision of a giant food pyramid. It has six-steps-each level containing something to eat. Fill up on the lower levels because there are traps and surprises in the upper ones.

The preacher in the next stop exudes the joy of using special high tech food substitutes that will cover up for sins and omissions. This is not faith-based-it is real.

You then enter a room with a strangely familiar unpleasant smell. You cannot escape until you know that you are inside a colon swarming with bacteria and feces. The only way to escape is to get rid of the stuff via the back door. Learn how to dispose of the waste better, and avoid the symptoms of gas, pain, sluggishness and immune dysfunction.

Feeling overwhelmed. Fear not, an angelic problem solver has a solution for you. It is a lucid vision of you eating and doing all the right things, and not forgetting. If others can do it, so can you. A lesser mentor can also create the magic.

You are near the end of your journey and start to feel anxious. There is too much to learn and apply. How would you like to meet some people who have done it? In the next room there are people carrying big signs announcing what they did. There are seventeen of them. Find the ones who are experts in your area of anxiety.

Still need help? Of course you do. Where should you look for help? What should a good mentor do with and for you? It is not a short trip. We show you how to find the right one.

You are probably wondering what you could or should eat? Your hostess will give you some luscious simple recipes. Remember it is not about DIEting, it’s about living.

Still troubled? Now you can journey to a darkened very peaceful room where a hypnotic, rhythmic voice with soothing background music takes you into your subconscious, shows that you can get rid of the red tape, and free yourself to success and freedom. A beautiful image of you returns.

Are you still curious? Enter the Hall of Science and see the future pill, lotion, potion, shot, and scalpel. Note that there are danger signs on admission and exit. They are far away and not risk free.

IN FRONT OF YOUR EYES, YOU SUDDENLY SEE A HOLOGRAM OF YOUR LIFE. HOW MANY CHANCES DO YOU HAVE TO REGAIN YOUR BEAUTIFUL BODY? THE FACT THAT YOU ARE STILL READING THIS ARTICLE MEANS THAT YOU ARE SERIOUS? SO GET GOING, TURN THE PAGE.

INTRODUCTION

Have you noticed that there are dozens of books on weight loss and yet most folks do not lose weight? So why do people buy these books when they usually do not help for the long run? We believe there is an urgent need for a book that covers most of the polemics thrown at you about how pounds are lost and gained and how to fix it. When you went to school, you learned basic principles so you could see and understand the bigger picture. Our extensive clinical experience taught us that people were confused and desperate for understandable information to guide them through this chaotic environment.

After ten years of bringing our complementary expertise to bear on weight management and health issues for women, we felt the need to reach a larger audience, to help them sift through the mound of information available on weight control. Within this information glut, there are recurrent themes to abstract and discomforting human behavioral problems that need fixing. This book highlights these issues and directs the reader to a solution. There is not one solution because the pathways to obesity are highly individualistic, but there is hope for the motivated.

If you are looking for a magical new diet, you will not find it in this book. However, if you are looking for a scientifically documented eating and living style, you will find it. It is a long-term solution to weight management. It means adopting a lifestyle of better eating, better behavior, appropriate response to stress, and usage of nutritional helpers.

In our free society, information is a blessing and a problem. You need helpers and guidelines to plow through the maze successfully. You never achieve absolute truth because each day a new piece of evidence might cause you to modify your understanding. We have tried to be the helpers to give a quick, informative summary of available knowledge and popular approaches. You may be surprised at our cutting-edge information. Our expertise and insights came from our medical education, interest in nutritional supplements and substitutes and holistic medicine, and ten years of frontline experience.

The presentation attempts to speak to the significant issues, not overstuffed with menus, anecdotes, or diets. In place of these book stuffers, we have tried to teach and remind about the influences on weight such as taste, pleasure, psychology, exercise, drugs, science, and alternative medicine. Most of the information is evidence based: that which has fulfilled scientific criteria. The information that is interpretive, theoretical or personal is identified as such. Its goal is to help you realistically and successfully—in the battle to save your bodies.

The deepest question is what is obesity? It is a phenomenon now reaching alarming proportions in the United States. Information should help answer the question. The foundation of attacking obesity is nutrition, psychology, behavior, temptation, biological drives, and chemistry. This book contains this information. It does not solve the problem, but passes the baton to you.

The overriding phenomenon (excluding those with genetic defects) is perception and your looking at your inner and outer world. This is the essence of consciousness, your most extraordinary gift. We the authors are not obese. The inner self says that our bodies need constant attention to avoid the dangers of environment, aging and disease. From the beginning of school and before, your parents and teachers taught you about hygiene. Our minds absorb events that were welcome, forced, accepted and ubiquitous. These events may interfere with the needs of the outer self.

The outer self is how you relate to others. Most of you are deeply concerned about your appearance. At least half of you feel deeply enough to avoid obesity. Respect for one’s body should be the first commandment of health. What about those who seem to be losing the mandate? How can you help them regain a better footing? Many want it but years of traveling on the wrong path are hard to reverse.

The right path is a revised inner self and a smarter navigation. These are the foci of this book

WE ALSO COME UP FRONT TO GRAPPLE WITH COMPLEMENTARY ALTERNATIVE MEDICINE, FOR WHICH AMERICANS SPEND AS MUCH MONEY AS THEY DO ON SCIENTIFIC MEDICINE. WE EXPLORE THE REASONS FOR THIS AND SUGGEST THAT THESE SUPPLEMENTS AND SUBSTITUTES HAVE A RATIONAL BASIS AND IN OUR HANDS HAVE BENEFITED A LARGE NUMBER OF PEOPLE. IN CONTRAST TO SOME OF OUR INFAMOUS PROPHETS WHO SELL THESE PRODUCTS AS AN AFTERTHOUGHT, WE OFFER REASONS WHY THEY SHOULD OCCUPY A SIGNIFICANT ROLE IN HELPING YOU KEEP IN BALANCE FROM THE ONSET.

I. SPECIAL ALERT!

WHO GIVES YOU HEALTH?

No surprises—only you. Not your doctor, health care provider, schools or even your parents. Doctors and nurses cannot be relied upon unless they have a designated weight program or have a close relationship with a referral center or program. Our current medical system is a triage after a quick screening to rule out serious illness, such as sending you to a lab or imaging center. Your parents may or may not be useful. As matter of fact in preventing obesity, they have not done a good job. Your schools have also fallen prey to pleasing you about eating rather than educating you. Our government has gotten into the game by having an internet site, www.smallsteps.gov/text/index

, but has not come up with a dynamic salesperson as Dr. Koop was in convincing us about the dangers of smoking. Since eating is both social and a pleasurable reward, it effects and influences our emotions, and that is part of the problem.

The World Health Organization defines health as a state of complete physical, mental, and social well-being, not merely the absence of disease or infirmity. In other words, it is up to you. You should care for your bodies the way we care for your automobiles. The analogy does not hold very well because we get only one body. By respecting your body, you liberate the mind and expand your social well-being.

The United States Department of Health and Human Services emphasized the essentials of health by a proclamation called Healthy People 2010. It lists ten leading health indicators: physical activity, overweight and obesity, tobacco use, substance abuse, mental health, injury and violence, environmental quality, immunization, responsible sexual behavior, and access to health care. A great list that requires constant vigilance and guidance. See http://www.healthypeople.gov

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There is no shortage of definitions of health, but there is a book that helps crystallize a concept for a good personal definition. Two naturopathic physicians, Michael Murray and Joseph Pizzorno, wrote the material