Eating and Weight Management

Weight Center

Modular Nutrition

Alpha Nutrition Program

Alpha Nutrition Online 

Table of Contents
 

Preface
Introduction
An Overview of Human Behavior
Appearance, Beauty and Success
What about Genes?
Looking for Something
Drives & Cathexis
Approach-Avoidance
Wealth and Happiness
Diseases are Processes, Not Things
Good and Bad Chemicals

Overweight Issues
Weight Loss Schemes and Scams
Fat Burning, Wrong Ideas
Patterns of Weight Gain
Lifestyle Weight Gain
Disorganized Eating
Dysfunctional Eating
Staircase Weight Gain:
Pleasure and Pain
The Biological Questions
Age-Related Weight Gain
Metabolic Weight Gain
Insights into Losing Weight
The Size of the Problem
Obesity
Realistic Goals
Overweight and Disease
The Sitting Disease
Diets Don’t Work
Not Weight Loss - Lower Body Weight
Not Rational

Appetite and Eating Behaviors
Appetite Control System
ACS works at three levels:
Chemical Controllers of Appetite
Inhibitors of Fatty Acid Synthase
You Can’t Defy ACS
Weight Regulation Must Be Spontaneous.
Human Energy
Metabolic Efficiency Factors
Food Addiction
The Addictive Loop
Bulimia
Withdrawal
Exorphins
Chocolate
Coffee and Tea
Food Allergy, Addiction Complex
The Alpha Nutrition Program
Motivation-Support
Alpha Nutrition Program Tools
Food Selection Is All Important
High Nutrient Density
The Value of Alpha ENF
Alpha DMX
Normal is Adaptive Dysfunctional
Mapping the Path of Change
Adjustments to Change
Body Image
Success, Difficulties and Failure
Nutrition
Carbohydrates
Sugars
Carbohydrate Chemistry
Carbohydrate Polymers: Polysaccharides
Fiber
Fats
Fatty Acids
Fat Transport and Utilization
Cholesterol & Atherosclerosis
Exercise
Modes of Exercise
Aerobic Exercise
Rating Exercise by Energy Consumption
Heart Rate Goals for Exercise
Weight Training and Muscular Fitness
Isotonic and Isometric
Exercise Programs
Level 1: Basic Fitness Level
Example Program
Level 2: Light to Medium Aerobics
Level 3: Athletic
Peak-Demand Energetics
Lactic Acidosis
Optimal Fuel for Exertion
Too Much Protein Can Limit Performance.
Drug Use and Problems
Fen Phen
Sibutramine (Meridia)
FDA Warnings and Recalls
Ephedrine, Phenylpropanolamine
Abstracts
Why lose weight?
Prevalence of large weight gains and losses
Impaired (‘diabetic’) insulin signaling
Abdominal obesity, insulin resistance and breast cancer
Increased lipolysis in adipose tissue
Chitosan supplementation does not affect fat absorption
Juvenile obesity, energy, fat intake and physical activity
Obesity: under-diagnosed
Sibutramine: slight weight loss
Pharmacotherapy for obesity
Sibutramine in the management of obesity
Pharmacologic options for the treatment of obesity.
melanin-concentrating hormone-1 receptor antagonist
Appendix
Alpha Nutrition Nutrient Formulas