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A Radical Approach To Over-eating

In the last few years there has been increasing talk about people adding weight in spite of the fact that they do not consume considerable quantities of food. While this is relatively rare, it has become fashionable to consider the possibility of a genetic disorder when it comes to obesity.

But is this really your problem? If it is, you need a specialist's help. If it's not, you may simply fall into a more commonplace category.

A far more typical occurrence is that people simply start eating without being able to stop until an entire plate of food is gone.Or, more drastically, they may not be able to stop until an entire serving dish is gone. There is a need to consume the entire container, whether all of that food is needed or not.

The temptation is to say that this phenomenon is simply absurd and leave it that. That is very easy for someone to do if he or she doesn't have this compulsion. Nevertheless, the person who does have it is still without answers to a problem which they find especially disconcerting.

There are a number of ways to approach this problem. One of the best is to assume that an eating compulsion is actually due to insufficient nutrition. In other words, the person who is compelled to eat actually has a physical need to do so because of a low tissue levels of various vitamins and minerals. Often times this can be easily diagnosed by having either a blood test or hair analysis.

A less expensive way to find out is to simply start mega-dosing with a powerful multi-vitamin. Doing so more than once per day and especially right after a workout really may have the desired effect. That is, it may actually cause a feeling that smaller quantities of food are all that is necessary. In other words, one's hunger will subside much more quickly. It will no longer be experienced as ravenous.

The temptation is to say that one really ought to be under a doctor's supervision when doing anything like this.Perhaps that is true, but how long will it be before getting in for an appointment? Also, how likely is it that the doctor will see a connection between something like a low B-complex level and a patient's eating compulsion? Better yet, what if your B-complex need is higher than what is generally thought to be normal? As if that's not enough, would a person even consider going to a physician because he or she always has to finish the entire container of food.

Mega-dosing on vitamins has worked for others and can make an eating problem go away for you. Further, it has caused no side effects if any for anyone in the writer's experience. One can buy heavy dose multi-vitamins from any health food store. What could an experiment with a month's supply really hurt?

By: mark19

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Obese 45 years ago;state champion power lifter 30 years ago;able to do more today at 61 than when out for swim team in high school. Author of "Think and Grow Fit" (a rational person's guide to getting in shape and staying that way forever.) Personal hero : grandfather of fitness, Jack Lalanne, who is extraordinary at his 2 hour a day workout age of 95! Personally committed to raising USA life expectancy from 85 to 140. www.foreverfitness.info blog.foreverfitness.info

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