Does Your Blood Pressure Medication Assist With Weight Loss? Studies Suggest ACE Drugs May Help

This recent study suggests Angiotensin Converting Enzyme (ACE) Inhibitor drugs could play a roll in fat loss. These drugs have been around for decades and used by millions of people for controlling high blood pressure.

Recent studies find these dugs may have additional uses such as weight loss. There are other studies suggesting altering the ACE system may impact weight as well as other effects of interest that are currently being studied.

File this one under “hard to believe”. But still, researchers from California believe they have found a simple, free way to lose weight.

The researchers found 173 premenopausal overweight women (aged 25-50 years) who reported drinking less than one liter of water per day. These women were then instructed to increase water consumption, and were studied for 1 year.

I’m a huge fan of eating raw nuts for health and weight loss, but each time I recommend them, I’m confronted with folks asking me, “Won’t all the calories and fat in nuts make me gain weight?”

The answer will surprise you.

There is a new weight loss secret to report, and this time it is from our Swedish friends. But no, it’s not, “Stop eating Swedish meatballs”. Instead, the Swedes have discovered Online Weight Loss Programs.

Summer’s just about over and I’m starting to hear a lot of excuses about why people are skipping workouts and eating crap again.

So here’s what I would do if I were you…and wanted to lose fat and stay lean over the upcoming holiday season (it’s never too early to start building healthy habits to avoid over-eating in the Fall)…

Since I started modding over at BBR and FLR, one thing I’ve become uncomfortably aware of, is how “mainstream” disordered eating really is. 

Another Nail In The Coffin For The High Carb Diet

Anyone who reads my articles and ebooks knows I am not a fan of high carb diets, especially if it’s a low fat low protein diet combined with a high carbohydrate intake. Some interesting new research supports a lower carb intake.

Study Suggest Diet and Exercise Equal For Weight Loss..

Gang, I have a feeling many of you have seen this report, or one like it, floating around on the ‘net right now regarding a study that (supposedly) found diet or exercise takes off weight equally? Although the media often does a poor job of reporting on nutritional research accurately, they do a truly terrible job of it here. However, it’s not totally their fault as the researcher themselves totally missed the mark on the results of their own study, which is not uncommon BTW.

I have the full paper and it’s not as bad as that press release, but it’s close. It’s an example of a study that is very well done, but the underlying assumptions are wrong, so they come to all the wrong conclusions from the results they got, and stranger, made comments on results they didn’t actually test for!

Miracle Weight Loss In A Pill?

The holy grail of drugs for a pharmaceutical company would be to finally discover a compound that mimics the metabolic effects of exercise on metabolism. It appears they are getting much closer. Exercise in a pill, or exercise in a bottle, all promising to cause massive weight loss, have been promised by various supplement companies for years. They were of course scamming people, but I digress… Back to this new research. The research is mice so far, but interesting and worth keep an eye on. However, it should be noted, plenty of drugs and other compounds have worked great for weight loss in animals only to find they don’t work in humans. The drug is called:
5-aminoimidazole-4-carboxamide-1-β-D-ribofuranoside (AICAR), and research is on going.