Some drugs can keep you fat....
Today's Post: Friday, 3-9-2012
Is avoiding fat gain or permanently losing excess fat is a concern of yours?
1. If you have been reading our posts, you likely already know that high fructose corn syrup and artificial sweeteners and the soft drinks that contain them with their super-sweet taste act like drugs to cause you to eat more sugary foods and drink more sugary drinks. Many people also become addicted to this effect.
Although they are not drugs, in this effect they are a powerful appetite stimulant for causing you to get and stay fat that is more effective than many drugs are for what they do.
The good news is that unlike drugs you may actually need, you can simply stop consuming them.
The bad news is that most people don’t yet have a clue how fattening they really are. So they may get and keep more people fat than all the drugs we will cover in this series.
So eliminating them and the foods containing them is the first step to avoid the problem of things that make you fat or keep you fat!
2. Sometimes the drugs may be more of a challenge to get rid of.
Except for some of the worst drugs for keeping you fat, doctors tend to prescribe drugs based on what the drug will do to help you or protect you or make your condition bearable.
Often, they don’t pay much attention to side effects or the effects on your quality of life from those side effects.
Some of the best doctors do and many of the specialists do when prescribing drugs in their specialty.
Still, you may get a drug prescribed for you that does help keep you fat that your doctor doesn’t know has that effect or knows & thinks you need its effect more.
As a result, one of the first things to know is what drugs tend to keep you fat. (Over the course of this series we will cover those we’ve read have this effect. Until we finish, we will post on this subject every Friday.)
Then there are several things you can do.
a) No matter what, even if you need that drug a lot and you know your doctor was right to prescribe it, there are two things you still CAN do.
You can still do all the things that drug doesn’t prevent or get made ineffective by that keep you healthy.
And, you can still do all the things that drug doesn’t prevent or get made ineffective by that keep you from gaining more fat and which help you lose fat.
As you likely know, those lists of things to do overlap a lot.
Simply put if a drug you must take adds 25 pounds of fat to your body and your health is pushed down some by the condition you are taking the drug for, the last thing you need is to have ANOTHER 50 pounds of fat that you could have lost or kept off!
And, the last thing you need is to have other health issues because you stopped preventing them!
For example, you still can avoid soft drinks and diet soft drinks and the packaged snacks and desserts and other foods that contain high fructose corn syrup and artificial sweeteners and tend to be made with refined grains and oils that cause inflammation and disease.
And, for most conditions, you can still exercise most days of every week. (For some of these conditions exercise is a better treatment than the drug!)
b) That’s the next thing to look at. For some of the drugs on this list, the solution is NOT to take the drug at all and exercise and/or lose fat and eat right to treat the condition! We’ll note those as we come to them.
c) The next solution is to stop the drug and try another drug in its class that does this less or not at all or take a drug that helps the condition from another class of drugs that also does not keep you fat.
Your doctor may be able to do this kind of substitution for you. Some can and will happily do so.
If not, you can see if another doctor who works more with people willing to make an effort to stay healthy or to lose fat might be a better doctor for you.
Or, if you and your doctor know each other and like each other and your doctor is a good doctor otherwise, the solution may be to get a second opinion or second doctor’s help who works more with people willing to make an effort to stay healthy or to lose fat might be a better doctor for you to find out what drug to substitute.
It used to be before there were so many drugs and pharmacists had to know directly instead of looking things up online, you could ask 3 local pharmacists and be able to tell your doctor the answer that way. One or more of them would know what you need to try next and get it right.
Even today, if you find an older and more experienced pharmacist or one willing to research it for you, a pharmacist might help.
d) The next way to do it is to see if there are other ways to improve your condition besides taking the drug and the lifestyle upgrades that keep you healthy generally or which avoid fat gain or remove the excess.
Sometimes there aren’t any we yet know about. But in some cases there are. An online support group of people who have that disease may have several other treatment methods besides that drug that have worked for other people that you could try.
Another way to do this is to look at things that may be causing the condition or disease and try removing those or making them better.
That has also worked in many cases.
e) In some cases there may be a chance that working harder at fat loss will overcome the effects.
Or you may be able to do things that cut your excess appetite that the drug causes or you may be able to take a diuretic to keep down the water weight a drug causes.
f) You may be able to get enough treatment effect at lower doses that are less fattening. That might make the extra effort at fat loss strategy work for example.
Or in some cases you may be able to alternate a few days taking the drug with a few days off to take the added fat back off. For drugs that have longer lasting treatment effects that last a few days and it’s safe to do this, that could avoid the problem close to 100 %.
So to summarize, if you can’t stop taking a fattening drug, you can still do all or most of the things that will keep you healthy and less fat. Do them! That way you won’t be even fatter and sicker than necessary.
And, in many cases there IS a way to stop taking the drug which is safe to do or even treats the condition better than the initial drug. So always check that.
And re-check it occasionally if you don’t find anything at first. You may have missed something on your first pass. Or someone may have discovered something since your first or last check.
There was an online article on Friday last week, 3-2-2012 that listed many of these fat promoting drugs, “Prescription Meds Can Put on Unwanted Pounds” from (HealthDay News).
The two experts they found were Ryan Roux, chief pharmacy officer with the Harris County Hospital District, in Houston & Dr. Lawrence Cheskin, who researched this subject and is now, Director of the Johns Hopkins Weight Management Center, in Baltimore.
Ryan Roux researched a list of drugs that fatten and where possible a list of drugs for the same conditions that did not
Between them they came up with a list of drugs that fatten and some drugs for those conditions that do not.
We will cover those drugs and add our ideas to the discussion of each one and begin that next week.
Today's Post: Friday, 3-9-2012
Is avoiding fat gain or permanently losing excess fat is a concern of yours?
1. If you have been reading our posts, you likely already know that high fructose corn syrup and artificial sweeteners and the soft drinks that contain them with their super-sweet taste act like drugs to cause you to eat more sugary foods and drink more sugary drinks. Many people also become addicted to this effect.
Although they are not drugs, in this effect they are a powerful appetite stimulant for causing you to get and stay fat that is more effective than many drugs are for what they do.
The good news is that unlike drugs you may actually need, you can simply stop consuming them.
The bad news is that most people don’t yet have a clue how fattening they really are. So they may get and keep more people fat than all the drugs we will cover in this series.
So eliminating them and the foods containing them is the first step to avoid the problem of things that make you fat or keep you fat!
2. Sometimes the drugs may be more of a challenge to get rid of.
Except for some of the worst drugs for keeping you fat, doctors tend to prescribe drugs based on what the drug will do to help you or protect you or make your condition bearable.
Often, they don’t pay much attention to side effects or the effects on your quality of life from those side effects.
Some of the best doctors do and many of the specialists do when prescribing drugs in their specialty.
Still, you may get a drug prescribed for you that does help keep you fat that your doctor doesn’t know has that effect or knows & thinks you need its effect more.
As a result, one of the first things to know is what drugs tend to keep you fat. (Over the course of this series we will cover those we’ve read have this effect. Until we finish, we will post on this subject every Friday.)
Then there are several things you can do.
a) No matter what, even if you need that drug a lot and you know your doctor was right to prescribe it, there are two things you still CAN do.
You can still do all the things that drug doesn’t prevent or get made ineffective by that keep you healthy.
And, you can still do all the things that drug doesn’t prevent or get made ineffective by that keep you from gaining more fat and which help you lose fat.
As you likely know, those lists of things to do overlap a lot.
Simply put if a drug you must take adds 25 pounds of fat to your body and your health is pushed down some by the condition you are taking the drug for, the last thing you need is to have ANOTHER 50 pounds of fat that you could have lost or kept off!
And, the last thing you need is to have other health issues because you stopped preventing them!
For example, you still can avoid soft drinks and diet soft drinks and the packaged snacks and desserts and other foods that contain high fructose corn syrup and artificial sweeteners and tend to be made with refined grains and oils that cause inflammation and disease.
And, for most conditions, you can still exercise most days of every week. (For some of these conditions exercise is a better treatment than the drug!)
b) That’s the next thing to look at. For some of the drugs on this list, the solution is NOT to take the drug at all and exercise and/or lose fat and eat right to treat the condition! We’ll note those as we come to them.
c) The next solution is to stop the drug and try another drug in its class that does this less or not at all or take a drug that helps the condition from another class of drugs that also does not keep you fat.
Your doctor may be able to do this kind of substitution for you. Some can and will happily do so.
If not, you can see if another doctor who works more with people willing to make an effort to stay healthy or to lose fat might be a better doctor for you.
Or, if you and your doctor know each other and like each other and your doctor is a good doctor otherwise, the solution may be to get a second opinion or second doctor’s help who works more with people willing to make an effort to stay healthy or to lose fat might be a better doctor for you to find out what drug to substitute.
It used to be before there were so many drugs and pharmacists had to know directly instead of looking things up online, you could ask 3 local pharmacists and be able to tell your doctor the answer that way. One or more of them would know what you need to try next and get it right.
Even today, if you find an older and more experienced pharmacist or one willing to research it for you, a pharmacist might help.
d) The next way to do it is to see if there are other ways to improve your condition besides taking the drug and the lifestyle upgrades that keep you healthy generally or which avoid fat gain or remove the excess.
Sometimes there aren’t any we yet know about. But in some cases there are. An online support group of people who have that disease may have several other treatment methods besides that drug that have worked for other people that you could try.
Another way to do this is to look at things that may be causing the condition or disease and try removing those or making them better.
That has also worked in many cases.
e) In some cases there may be a chance that working harder at fat loss will overcome the effects.
Or you may be able to do things that cut your excess appetite that the drug causes or you may be able to take a diuretic to keep down the water weight a drug causes.
f) You may be able to get enough treatment effect at lower doses that are less fattening. That might make the extra effort at fat loss strategy work for example.
Or in some cases you may be able to alternate a few days taking the drug with a few days off to take the added fat back off. For drugs that have longer lasting treatment effects that last a few days and it’s safe to do this, that could avoid the problem close to 100 %.
So to summarize, if you can’t stop taking a fattening drug, you can still do all or most of the things that will keep you healthy and less fat. Do them! That way you won’t be even fatter and sicker than necessary.
And, in many cases there IS a way to stop taking the drug which is safe to do or even treats the condition better than the initial drug. So always check that.
And re-check it occasionally if you don’t find anything at first. You may have missed something on your first pass. Or someone may have discovered something since your first or last check.
There was an online article on Friday last week, 3-2-2012 that listed many of these fat promoting drugs, “Prescription Meds Can Put on Unwanted Pounds” from (HealthDay News).
The two experts they found were Ryan Roux, chief pharmacy officer with the Harris County Hospital District, in Houston & Dr. Lawrence Cheskin, who researched this subject and is now, Director of the Johns Hopkins Weight Management Center, in Baltimore.
Ryan Roux researched a list of drugs that fatten and where possible a list of drugs for the same conditions that did not
Between them they came up with a list of drugs that fatten and some drugs for those conditions that do not.
We will cover those drugs and add our ideas to the discussion of each one and begin that next week.
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