Why Can’t We Stay Slim?
Dr. Leonard Firestone, CEO of Manhattan Pharmaceuticals Explains why.
(PRWEB) September 23, 2004 -- Most Americans would admit to wanting to shed a
few pounds… so why do we find it so difficult over the years to maintain a
desirable waistline? The answer, according to Dr. Leonard Firestone, CEO of
Manhattan Pharmaceuticals, lies in the nature of appetite regulation, and the
complex cocktail of biological cues that seems to compel us to down that granola
bar – or super-size fries.
Food, Food Everywhere
Modern society
presents plenty of opportunities to consume calories – the mid-day “pick-me-up”
candy bar, the friendly end-of-day cocktail, the celebratory slice of cake – and
fewer and fewer opportunities to work them off. Experts agree that our sedentary
lifestyle is also responsible for the rise in overweight and obese Americans,
which the American Medical Association estimates now accounts for fully
two-thirds of the population. Food is at the heart of most social occasions,
like holidays and family celebrations, and even business events, making it even
harder to self-regulate consumption.
Eating, But Never Feeling
Full
And it’s more than just the quantity of what we’re eating; it’s the
quality. Processed foods often contain highly concentrated caloric loads, but
insufficient bulk to trigger the feeling of “fullness” that provides a signal to
stop eating. Concentrated calories also produce a spike in insulin secretion,
intensifying the craving for food.
Bodies Designed for Famine, Not
Feast
“The human body evolved to handle a sustained activity level and to
endure long stretches of famine,” explains Dr. Firestone, “not protect us from
the abundance of food and lack of exertion that modern living affords.” Our many
regulatory mechanisms are designed to store consumed calories for use on a
“rainy day,” presenting an obstacle to weight control so deeply rooted in our
own biology, that basic lifestyle changes (diet and exercise) usually can’t
address the issue alone. Thus the very latest research programs aim to exploit
some of the body’s own, natural appetite suppressants. For example, Manhattan
Pharmaceuticals has discovered one of these, Oleoyl estrone (OE), and found in
their laboratory that administering additional OE strongly inhibits the craving
for calories.
“We agree with obesity specialists,” Dr. Firestone
observes, “that when conventional diet and exercise regimens fail to produce the
desired results, a pharmaceutical is needed to reach the goal line. Among these,
we think it most likely that a natural appetite suppressant, OE for example,
will prove to be safest and most effective.”
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