Weight regain is completely avoidable. It also is most dangerous type of weight gain to your health.

Many recent reports have shown that weight cycling or Yo-Yo Diet may have associated risks far worse than obesity itself. Personally, I don't think comparing degree of risk between yo-yo dieting and obesity is useless. Who cares?

If you're obese or overweight, lose weight and feel better; just don't weight cycle while you try to lose weight.

So, how are you going to lose weight, keep it off, and avoid weight cycling? I have a few suggestions...check out my next article in a few days.

In meantime, do your own research and investigate ways to speed up your metabolism. Then, if you're feeling really academic, find ways to stabilize a fast metabolism.

If you can keep your metabolism from slowing down, weight gain of either type are non-issues.

To Healthy Living!

Michael A. Smith, MD
Chief Medical Consultant
Diet Basics Home of On-line Dieter

Dr. Smith is the Chief Medical Consultant for Diet Basics, a content rich site dedicated to the on-line dieter.

When one learns to have regular exercise and nutritional discipline great things can be achieved, as in case of my 'twin' who beat leukemia which I mentioned under 'cancer cures'. The joke that says if it walks like a duck and talks like a duck - it is a duck! - might have some benefit for us to consider. Who is quack? The results are sufficient to know we could use homeopathic and naturopathic or chiropractic knowledge but it is an uphill fight. There are 300 doctors in Ontario who support this 'environmental medicine' but they run risk of losing their license. Yes, it happens all time, and lawyers get rich while people die from debilitating effects of drugs and their effect on leeching body of vitamins and resources to beat all kinds of disease.

Dr. Bell did a tape I listened to once; it said in 1993 average age or lifespan of doctors was 57 and population at large was 73 (U.S.). He is a veterinary doctor who found benefits of chromium and vanadium with cattle also worked on humans. Animals might 'quack' but 'experts' are often 'quacks'!