Weight Managment | Dr. Chad Edwards

Are diet drinks really helping?

January 3, 2012 By Doc Leave a Comment

When it comes to drinking sweet tasting substances (soda, coke, coca cola, pop, tea, etc) there are no free rides! I’ve seen extremely overweight people drinking a 44 oz ‘diet coke’ and just had to chuckle. Now, I’m not saying that drinking any diet drinks make you fat but it reminds me of a comedian [...]

Filed Under: Weight Managment Tagged With: Artificial Sweeteners, Carbohydrate, Coca Cola, Coke Coca, Comedian, Consumption, Cottage Cheese, Diet Coke, Diet Drinks, Drinking Water, Free Rides, Gain Weight, Health Drinks, Neurobiology, Oz Diet, Soda, Sugar Cravings, Tea

Weight Loss – Is It Really As Simple As A + B = C?

September 20, 2010 By Doc 1 Comment

Weight loss is dependent on numerous factors and cannot be simplified to calories consumed vs calories burned.

Filed Under: Physiology, Weight Managment Tagged With: Apples And Oranges, Body Composition, Body Fat, Bouts, Calories, Degree Celcius, Duration, Exercise Duration, Gain Weight, hormone, Human Metabolism, Intensity, Kilocalories, Kilograms, Lose Weight, Lost, Lot, Measurement, Metab, Metric System, Ml, System Measures, Type Of Food, Unit Of Energy, Unit Of Measure, Weight Calories, Weight Gain, Weight Loss

Glycolysis Step-by-Step

February 15, 2010 By Doc Leave a Comment

Glycolysis is a 9 step process that breaks glucose down into 2 ATP and 2 Pyruvates. This article discussed the processes step by step.

Filed Under: Carbohydrates, Increase Metabolism, Physiology Tagged With: Atp, Carbon Sugar, Cellular Energy, Control Mechanism, Diphosphate, Energy Currency, Enzyme Hexokinase, Fructose, Glucokinase, Glucose Levels, Glucose Molecule, High Energy Phosphates, Inhibition, Pfk, Phosphate, Phosphofructokinase, Phosphorylation, Step 2, Step 3, Sugar Step

How the Body Gets Energy Through Glycolysis

February 14, 2010 By Doc Leave a Comment

Glucose is essential for cellular energy. Here, we discuss how it is utilized for energy.

Filed Under: Carbohydrates, Increase Metabolism Tagged With: acetyl CoA, Aerobic Exercise, Anaerobic Exercise, anaerobic metabolism, Analogy, Atp, citric acid cycle, Cytoplasm, Dump Truck, Electron Acceptor, Electrons, Energy Currency, Energy Demands, Energy Supply, Fates, Front Yard, glucose energy, Glucose Metabolism, Glut 4, Glycolysis, immediate energy, Insulin, Kreb Cycle, Kreb S Cycle, kreb's cycle, Lactate, lactate production, lactic acid production, lactic acidosis, Mitochondria, Myocyte, NADH production, oxygen debt, Pyruvate, TCA cycle

Adenosine TriPhosphate (ATP) is the Energy Currency for the Cell

February 2, 2010 By Doc 1 Comment

ATP is the energy currency of the cell and is produced through metabolism of Carbohydrates, Proteins, and Fats.

Filed Under: Increase Metabolism, Nutrition Tagged With: ATP production, Beta Oxidation, carbohydrate catabolism, carbohydrate metabolism, Carbon Molecules, Cellular Metabolism, citric acid cycle, Degree Celsius, Electron Transport System, Energy Currency, energy currency of the cell, Energy Heat, Energy Production, Energy Source, Ets, Fadh, fat metabolism, Fatty Acid Metabolism, Fatty Acids, Glycolysis, Intermediate Products, Kilocalories, Kreb Cycle, Kreb S Cycle, kreb's cycle, Lactate, Minor Exceptions, Mitochondria, oxygen metabolism, protein deamination, Protein Metabolism, Pyruvate, TCA cycle, triglyceride metabolism

Insulin: Friend or Foe?

January 31, 2010 By Doc 2 Comments

Insulin has a number of essential functions. However, an excess of this vital hormone can be extremely detrimental.

Filed Under: Carbohydrates, Diets Tagged With: Adipose Cells, Blood Sugar, Carnitine, Cell Surface, Cellular Metabolism, Diabetic Ketoacidosis, Diabetics, Fatty Acids, Friend Or Foe, Glucagon, Glucose Production, Glucose Transporters, Glucose Uptake, Glut 4, Insulin, Ketones, Metabolism Of Fats, Mitochondria, Primary Source, Source Of Energy, Triglycerides

Exactly What is the Paleo Diet?

January 26, 2010 By Doc 4 Comments

You may have been wanting to improve your health and fitness or lose weight and stumbled across the “paleo diet.” So what, exactly, is the paleo diet? Good question and I hope I can give you a good introductory overview in a few hundred words. Let me start by saying that the scientific evidence supporting [...]

Filed Under: Health Promotion & Disease Prevention, Intake Control, Nutrition Tagged With: Acid Base Balance, Arguement, Bread Wheat, Caloric Intake, cancer, cardiovascular disease, Corain, crohn's disease, diabetes, Diet Info, Dietary Recommendations, Dramatic Departure, Eiro Research, EiroFit, eirofit weightloss, Excretion, Fad Diet, Gimmick, Good Question, Green Beans, health & wellness, Health And Fitness, healthy weightloss, Heart Disease, hyperlipidemia, Introductory Overview, Irritants, Lean Meats, Lentils, natural weightloss, Oats, Obesity, Paleo Diet, Quality Foods, stroke, Weight Loss, weightloss, weightloss program

New York City Agrees with Me

January 8, 2010 By Doc Leave a Comment

I found it VERY interesting that I had just posted my article ‘Don’t Drink Your Calories’ when I saw a TV News report that showed this video. Play it now… WOW! Hard to argue with that – I thought that video added some great emphasis on what I was trying to say! That video is [...]

Filed Under: Intake Control Tagged With: calorie counting to lose weight, calorie restriction, Calories, healthy weightloss, natural weightloss, New York City, News Report, Obesity, Public Service Announcement, Success, Tv News, Weight Loss, weight loss through calorie counting, weightloss

Don’t Drink Your Calories

January 8, 2010 By Doc 1 Comment

Cutting out calories in liquid form can result in a big change in your weight over time.

Filed Under: Intake Control Tagged With: 10 Years, Average Person, Beverages, Caloric Intake, calorie control, Calorie Intake, Calories, Coke Soda Pop, Cokes, Counting Calories, Cutting Out, drink calories, Extra 200, fast weight loss, fast weightloss, Fruit Juices, juice calories, Juice Milk, Kcal, liquid calories, milk calories, Obesity, Oz, Period Of Time, Portion Control, Several Times, slow weight loss, slow weightloss, Sodas, Weight Loss, Whole Milk

Portion Control is Key!!!

December 25, 2009 By Doc 3 Comments

As stated previously, controlling intake is an essential component to weight control. You must know how much you are taking in. Otherwise, you will never know what adjustments need to be made. The scientific method requires the manipulation of only one variable and evaluating the results. The fact is, many people are inadvertently manipulating multiple variables [...]

Filed Under: Intake Control Tagged With: best weight loss, best weightloss, Body Fat, Calories Per Day, Energy Calories, Energy Demands, Energy Stores, Essential Fatty Acids, Excess Energy, Fats, First Law Of Thermodynamics, Frustration, Human Body, Law Of Thermodynamics, Manipulation, Metabolism, Muscle Loss, Portion Control, portion control for weightloss, Proteins, Resupply, Scientific Method, Sleep And Rest

Paleo? But I LOVE my bread…

The majority of my patients come to me because they are seeking improved health and understand that my approach is through the ‘Healthy Trinity’ consisting of Nutrition, Exercise, and the 3R’s. However, it is still fairly common that, when I mention and describe the Paleo Diet, patients change their expression. “You mean I can’t eat [...]

What Your Hands Can Tell You About Your Food

If you’ve read any of my stuff or hear me talk at all then you know I recommend eliminating (or dramatically reducing) gluten from your diet. I have a lot of patients who ask me if I’ll test them for Celiac disease or gluten intolerance. Yes, I’ll test them but I often recommend against testing [...]

Healthy Gut, Healthy Body

Most of my patients want to improve their overall health. Occasionally I’ll have someone come in with a vague abdominal pain or some other abdominal symptoms. Some of them have been to their OB/GYN, general surgeon, gastroenterologist, family doc, pediatrician, etc and they still don’t have an answer. Sometimes they get surgery to “see what’s [...]

How To Know If You’re Getting Enough Vitamins

If you know me at all then you know that I’m a huge proponent of proper nutrition. It is one of the cornerstones of my ‘Healthy Trinity’ which is the foundation of optimizing health. The Functional Medicine approach to nutrition means that each person has an adequate & functional nutritional status. We have to have [...]

The Mismanaged Thyroid (Gland & Hormones)

I had a patient the other day, I’ll call her Sally, who was a new patient and had been recommended by a friend. She told me that she didn’t fell right. She felt as though “something was wrong” and “I don’t feel like I used to feel.” She told me she had been to several [...]