Good-bye to VeggiePharm blog...and an update from Wilbur!

This is going to be my last regularly scheduled post here at VeggiePharm. I've been having too many complaints about posting comments, too many spammers, and still the strange issue of 100's of fake subscriptions every month. I still don't know what that's all about.

Anyway, I've decided that since I'll be blogging a lot more as I work on my next book, I'll just do it all over at the Potato Hack blog (www.potatohack.com). I've just recently gotten the rights to the website www.thediethack.com, and will redirect the url to the potato hack blog, as well. So that will be my home for the foreseeable future. Already I've begun to remodel.

I'll leave VeggiePharm here in case anyone wants to read...there is a ton of good info to be found in the old posts and especially the comments. One of my favorite commenters through the years has been "Wibur." If he wouldn't have popped up when he did, I would have had to invent him. His journey in healing his gut has been remarkable. Unfortunately, Wilbur has been unable to post here and someone recently asked about his status. Wilbur and I email each other now and then and are Facebook friends. Wilbur sent me an email and asked if I could post it in his name. Instead, I decided to put it here for everyone to see.

Weight Maintenance

It's harder than you might think!

     There's a ginormous problem with dieting that nobody talks about. Weight loss is easy compared to keeping it off. Millions of people regularly lose 10-15% of their body weight doing various diet programs, but within a year most have gained nearly all of the weight back and only 5-10% of dieters manage to maintain a 10% weight loss for more than five years.

It's Grim, Folks...any top-12%'ers here?

It's worse than I thought.

Prevalence of Optimal Metabolic Health in American Adults: National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey 2009–2016.

Looking at almost 9,000 people for five health markers, it appears that only about 12% were considered "metabolically healthy." The health markers used included:

1. Blood pressure: 120/80.
2. Waist Circumference: Under 40" for men, 35" for women.
3. Fasting Glucose <100 mg/dL and HbA1c <5.7%.
4. Triglycerides <150 mg/dL and HDL-C ≥40/50 mg/dL in men/women.
5. Not taking medications for blood pressure, diabetes, and cholesterol.

Who Exercises?

Just curious.

I'm writing a chapter about the exercise connection in weight loss. Please tell me in the comments: Do you exercise?  Why?  Would you take this advice?

Diet Hacks...New Book?

Update:  Now Available!
 

Faithful Readers;

The last three years have been quite hectic for me. My Potato Hack book continues to be a great success having sold well over 100,000 copies now. I finished a Master's Degree in Biotechnology and started a business, Steele Biotech, providing consulting services to various companies (thank-you cannabis industry!), and also some changes in my day job in the hospital that keeps me hopping. So, I apologize for the slowdown in blog activity, but I still enjoy keeping up with lots of you via email and Facebook.

Winter's Here...a good time to write a book! 



The reason I'm here tonight...I've had an idea for another book in mind for some time now, and wanted to get your valued opinion. You all (you know who you are!) were instrumental in getting The Potato Hack published, and even the title came from you guys.  What a fun time that was.

The Diet Hack: The book the Diet Industry does not want you to see (working title).

In this book I want to delve into the secrets of Big Diet and deconstruct their methodologies so that people can construct their own Weight Watchers (ooops...WW) or Jenny Craig or Keto and see the same great results as if they paid the average $400/mo that some of these companies charge.  And, I'm also finding some really good/cheap/free diet plans that people might want to know about.

Below you'll see my very rough outline draft and a table of diets I'm looking at.  Please let me know in the comments if there are any other diets you'd like to see discussed and anything else that might make the book a better experience for the reader.

As I work on this this dark and chilly winter, I'll probably drop a few blog posts to get your ideas on some of the chapters as I work them out.


Thanks!
Tim

Brand Name	Cost	Style
Atkins	Free (Books + Products)	Low Carb
Beach Body	$99+ memberships	Portion control + exercise + supplements
Biggest Loser	Free (Books + Products)	Low Calorie + exercise
BistroMD	$100+/week	Reduced calorie delivered meals
Body for Life	Free (Book) (Going out of business?)	Low fat + heavy exercise
Bulletproof	Free (Books + Products)	Keto + IF
DASH	Free (Books + Products)	Low fat
Fast Mimicking Diet	$225/week	Portion controlled delivered meals
Flat Belly	$19.95/week + books (Defunct website)	Calorie controlled Mediterranean Diet
HCLF- Rusty		High carb low fat + exercise
Herbalife	Varies “reseller programs”	Dietary Supplements
HMR Program	~$100/week	Low cal, low fat meals + supplements + exercise+ support
Ideal Protein	$450/week	Keto Diet + delivered foods + support
Jenny Craig	$99 Enrollment, $19.95 monthly, $450/mo for food	Delivered low calorie food. DNA Service soon
Keto
Kimkin	Defunct/Scam	Keto + Low calorie
LEARN	Defunct?	Lifestyle modification
McDougall’s Starch Solution	Free (Books)	Vegan low fat
Medifast	$400+ monthly	Food supplements + Support
Nutrisystem	$300-$400/mo	Delivered meals/calorie controlled
Nutritarian	$7.95 - $49.95/mo membership + books	Vegan + Whole foods + Lifestyle modifications
Ornish	Free (Books)	Low fat whole food + lifestyle modification
Primal Blueprint	Free (Books)	Low carb/keto + exercise
Rosemary Conley	$80/year	Calorie control + Support
Slim Fast	Varies	Meal replacement shakes
Slimming World	$10/mo	Calorie counting + support
South Beach	$300-400/mo	Delivered low carb
SparkPeople	Free	Lifestyle modification + Support + Apps
Volumetrics	Free (Books)	Calorie control
Weight Watchers	$20-$50/mo	Calorie counting + support
Wheat Belly	Free (Books)	Low carb
Whole 30	Free (Books)	Whole food
Zone	Free (Book)	Low fat + Whole food + Supplements
Non-branded eating styles
Low Calorie
Low Carb
Low Fat
Pescatarian
Plant Based
Vegan
Vegetarian
Western/SAD
Carnivore
HCLF

Rough Outline:

Foreword

Intro

Part 1 Diet Physiology

Chapter 1 – Weight loss diets. Why we diet. A universal diet.  Fad diets.  The Diet Industry. Diet Religions.

Chapter 2 – The Western Diet.  Why we get fat.  CICO. Diseases of Obesity.

Chapter 3 – Co-factors with diet: Exercise, sleep, and stress.

Chapter 4 – Genetics (https://medicalxpress.com/news/2018-11-childhood-reverse-negative-health-effects.html).  Body types.  Unrealistic expectations.

Chapter 5 - How to lose weight. Elements of a healthy weight loss diet.

Part 2 Hacking The Diets

Chapters xx – Ways of Eating

Chapters xx  - Branded Diets

Chapters xx – Non-branded Diets/Diet Books

Part 3 Keeping it off

Chapter x – Weight Loss Maintenance

Chapter x – Disease Management

Chapter x – Gut Health

Chapter x – Exercise and Lifestyle

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Addendum to add pdf of a paper (via dropbox) that Wilbur mentioned in comments:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/nhfvm0r4tlcxkf9/Inulin_Mice_2018.pdf?dl=0