What causes weight loss

Thanks for all the information and insights. I think my situation is going to be a lot like Beth’s, that if I do start to lose weight, at first part of me will be cheering. Takes a while to reverse habits that we’ve had for so long. I just …

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So what caused the cattle to lose weight? For decades, universities, private corporations and governmental institutions around the world have researched the weight loss phenomenon of the Jojoba pulp. In the late 1990s, a company called Chr…

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You haven’t “really” lost 3 pounds in one night. That is almost impossible, as it would require burning off 10,500 calories in excess of what you consume. As noted above, the weight loss is mostly water loss and will likely return…

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What is it about cancer that causes weight loss?

Q: My wife has stage IV kidney cancer.Lately she has been losing weight,even though her latest scans show stable disease.Just wondering what is it about cancer that causes weight loss?Ben, I am not talking about being over weight and wanting to shed a few pounds.I am talking about weight lose caused by cancer.

A: The weight loss many people with advanced cancer experience may be caused by increased metabolism due to their disease, according to a study published in the International Journal of Cancer, (Vol. 93, No. 3: 380-383).This means that it is especially important for patients with advanced cancer to increase their food intake to maintain body weight and optimize their health, say experts.”We know that as the disease progresses, nutrition becomes a matter of concern,” says Terri Ades, RN, MS, AOCN, director of quality of life and health promotion strategy for the American Cancer Society (ACS). “Often patients are undernourished and lose weight, and we cannot fully explain why.”In the study, Swedish researchers looked at food intake in almost 300 advanced cancer patients with solid tumors, age 30 to 90 years old. Participants kept a careful diary of everything they ate for four days. During that period, the research team measured the patients’ weight, weight loss, and resting metabolism.More than 40% of these patients were 10% or more below their normal long-term weight levels, but this did not seem to be due to lower food intake. Almost half of them had an unusually high resting metabolic rate, but the people with high metabolisms didn’t seem to eat an extra amount of food.”Usually when someone uses extra energy, they have a sense of hunger and eat more food, which provides the body with needed nutrients,” Ades says. “In this study, in this group of patients, that did not seem to happen.”

Will I gain weight while on Geodon? What is the best anti-paranoia medication that causes weight loss?

Q: Will I gain weight while on Geodon? What is the best anti-paranoia medication that causes weight loss, not weight gain?

A: Weight gain is not an issue with Geodon, as far as I know. If it is, Topamax is used as a mood stabilizer and appetite suppressant. It might be compatible with the medication you are taking. Ask your doctor.

Diabetes – Can you please explain to me how sugar in urine causes weight loss?

Q: I read somewhere how the cause of weight loss in diabetes was that sugar spilt into the urine and it caused weight loss. I dont really understand it though and dont know what to search google for lol. Could you please explain it to me?

A: From an excellent website on diabetes… http://www.phlaunt.com/diabetes/16351841.phpWhat is “Spilling Sugar” and How Does It Relate to Kidney Damage?Each person has a certain blood sugar level at which the kidneys will start pulling glucose out of the blood stream and eliminating it in the urine. The average level at which this happens is around 180 mg/dl (10 mmol/l). In fact, before blood sugar meters became common, most doctors diagnosed type 2 diabetes using a urine dip, and patients “controlled” their blood sugar by testing their urine for glucose and feeling confident they were doing well if they didn’t see any.However, that 180 mg/dl threshold is only an average. Individuals vary greatly in where they, personally, will spill glucose into the urine.Some people have forms of diabetes (particularly MODY-3) where they can spill glucose in urine at levels as low as 140 mg/dl.Others have forms of diabetes where glucose doesn’t appear in the urine until our blood sugar goes over 250 mg/dl. It is possible that there is a relationship between how much glucose appears in the urine and your risk for kidney damage, though there isn’t enough research to draw any conclusions. But if your renal threshold is unusually low, it makes sense to try to keep your blood sugar at a level low enough that you don’t spill sugar, even if you are spilling at a level your doctor tells you is “nothing to worry about.”http://www.phlaunt.com/diabetes/16351841.php===Why does spilling sugar cause weight loss? Some of the calories you are eating are going right back out of your body, through the urine, instead of being used by your muscle cells. Because you don’t have enough insulin in your body, or because of insulin resistance, your cells can’t unlock the sugar and use it. You eat, but you lose weight. Your cells are literally starving for glucose, even though you have too much glucose in your blood. The sugar is locked out, and can’t get into the part of the cell that burns it for fuel. Too much glucose becomes toxic to your body, so your kidneys have to dump it. This is what causes all the urinating that is so common in undiagnosed diabetes, and also in diabetics that have bad glucose control. This also causes extreme thirst too, and can lead to serious consequences, if left untreated. Untreated high blood sugar causes kidney damage, nerve and blood vessel damage, heart disease and eye disease, so its not a safe way to lose weight.This can happen in both type 1 and type 2 diabetics. (My grandmother’s blood sugar got high enough to spill sugar quite often, she lost a lot of weight, and went into a diabetic coma more than once. Now my mother is in the same situation. Type 2 runs on both sides of my family).http://blog.360.yahoo.com/blog-NbDgUzQhfrJTXdmg.DfXS.Tx