Dr. Mehmet Oz was a guest on the Oprah show again today, and wow was it ever a good one. I always love to see him on her show because he talks about everything you want to know about. He even talks about floating poop!
Dr. Oz has a new series on the Discovery Health channel where a group of experts conducted some amazing experiments that really change the way we think about food and how it affects our bodies. On today’s Oprah show, he gave us a preview of some of the experiments they did.
One experiment involved calcium and answered the question of whether eating a diet high in calcium helps you lose fat or not. The answer is yes it does!
Dr. Oz suggests eating at least one gram of calcium a day from dairy foods and other foods like prunes and leafy veggies. If you’re eating the right amount of calcium, you can actually double your fat excretion. If your body excretes it instead of absorbing it, your poop will float. Interesting huh?
If you aren’t eating enough calcium, you can take a calcium supplement, but make sure you also accompany it with a magnesium supplement or you’ll probably end up constipated. According to Dr. Oz, a good combination is 1200 milligrams of calcium and 600-800 milligrams of magnesium to keep you from getting bunged up.
Another extremely interesting experiment they did was with a group of people with high blood pressure which a lot of overweight people suffer from. This group of people lived in a zoo, yes a zoo, for 12 days and ate 11 pounds of raw fruits, veggies and nuts every day.
If you think about it, that’s actually a lot of food to eat in one day. But the results were extremely surprising to me. They dropped their cholesterol levels by 25 percent, their blood pressure went down by 10 percent, and they each lost 10 pounds! All of this in just 12 days!
Another eye-opening experiment they did was to see if detox programs really worked. 10 women were split into two groups. One group went on a detox diet for 10 days, while the other group ate things like pasta and potato chips. At the end of the 10 days, there seemed to be no difference in toxicity between the two groups.
Dr. Oz explains the reason why is because toxins go to the fatty tissues like the liver and brain, and it takes more than just 10 days to get them out. He doesn’t say detox programs are bad altogether though. He agrees that they are a good way to jump-start a healthy lifestyle and believes the detox diets should be called a jump-start diet.
Any time I see Dr. Oz on TV, I drop everything and watch. He’s one of my favorite people to watch and learn from when it comes to our health and bodies. You On A Diet
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