Seasonal Foods and Nathuropathy

If you are a dietician then you might have wondered that some of your patients who claim they are taking less calories than they burn are not actually loosing weight, on the contrary they gain weight and then you blame the patients for not revealing the truth and not following the diet properly, of course out of frustration. This article will make you familiar with the approach of a naturopathic doctor (ND) on treating weight loss cases.

When you start fasting or eating less at first you loose some weight which is not actually the body fat but is the breakdown of cell structures, organ tissue, bone, and muscle. Eventually, the individual reaches a plateau, where the body is exhausted and unable to respond. At this point, eating even less and exercising more intensely can have a seemingly paradoxical effect and result in gaining more weight back than was lost.

What a naturopathic doctor does is he looks about your metabolism and the makes a perspective about you. A healthy metabolism has the appropriate balance between anabolic and catabolic reactions. From a naturopathic medicine perspective, the foundation for successful, healthy weight loss and maintenance is through healing the metabolism by balancing these two processes. In the naturopathic approach weight loss not only depends on the difference between calories taken and calories burnt rather it depends on various other factors also that include Psychological stress levels, Exercise history, Dietary history, Hormone balance, Quality and amount of sleep, Toxic chemical exposure (for example, alcohol, tobacco, processed foods, caffeine, and pharmaceutical drugs).

Naturopathic approach tries to find out the actual circumstances for metabolism damaging. The basic things to look for in a patient who claims to gain weight even after reduction in appetite are if he/she is taking Very-low-fat or low-fat diet, high-carbohydrate diets, Low-protein diets, Fasting or going through excessive cardiovascular exercise and last but not the least going through Traumatic or prolonged psychological stress. When done chronically or excessively, these pursuits may contribute to metabolic damage.

According to naturopathic doctors “It is first necessary to be healthy in order to lose weight and not that losing weight makes for health. You must heal your metabolism before you can go for weight loss or more accurately fat loss. Doctors following this approach advise eating frequently to balance blood glucose levels, and performing resistance training (for example, weight training) to build muscle tissue before engaging in cardiovascular exercise. The rationale behind this recommendation is that cardiovascular exercise can be a depleting (catabolic) activity, whereas weight training is an anabolic activity.

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