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Hormones of Weight Loss - Full Story

A quality weight control program whether you understand this or not, must consider the body hormones that have  a major impact on our metabolism. All this information can be found in scattered bits and pieces if you search various articles , but most often the relationships are not explained too clearly. I will present a brief but hopefully more clear explanation of the hormones involved in weight loss as well as weight gain.

One of the very important hormones that affects weight control is insulin. Insulin is a blood sugar regulator. High carbohydrate intake leads to higher blood sugar levels. This in turn leads to an increase of insulin output by the body. Insulin production is the body’s natural response to the condition of  high sugar levels in the blood. If that sugar is not getting converted into energy fast enough to produce safe levels in the blood, insulin will will turn to an alternate action and convert that blood sugar into fat that will be stored by the body.

The term lipogenic refers to that quality of being fat producing. In addition to insulin being lipogenic, it also inherently exhibits another quality that has negative results in terms of weight loss programs. Insulin is also antilipolytic. This simply means that it naturally works to fight against the breakdown of fat. As you now see, a diet that stimulates high insulin output will certainly be encouraging natural body activities that are counter productive to your goal of losing weight.

When the body is stressed due to a variety of reasons, insulin production also increases in order to stimulate the production of cortisol, our stress hormone. The body then responds to high cortisol by lowering the levels of the hormone dehydroepiandrosterone (DHEA). This hormone is very important in the production of muscle. Producing more muscle than fat is our ultimate goal.

Chronic stress stimulates fat cells into storing fat. Fat cells located in the abdominal wall, characteristically possess more cortisol receptors on their cell membranes. So in turn, stress will encourage these cells to retain more fat.

Leptin is produced by adipose tissue and leptin binds to nucleus cells of the hypothalamus, a region of the brain known as the “satiety center.” Binding of leptin to this nucleus tells the brain that the body has had enough to eat thus giving you the feeling that you are full or that you have had enough to eat. In a small number of humans, mutations of the leptin gene are present that stimulate a constant demand for food. This normally leads to severe obesity. Unfortunately this condition often compounds itself. As the body produces greater and greater quantities of leptin to fulfill the requirements of the process it can also cause higher tolerances and reduced efficiency. Although a method to control this hormone has not been developed, there have been some short term benefits experienced by the administration of a product called “recombinant human leptin” by way of injection.

The hormone serotonin, a neurotransmitter in the brain made from the amino acids found in proteins. Like leptin, it also sends messages that body is satisfied and that we have eaten sufficient to meet our body’s needs. Low serotonin levels cause depression, obesity, lethargy, and a greater desire for refined carbohydrates. Low levels of serotonin leads to overeating because the brain believes the body is starving. A diet that restricts protein-rich calories can be one reason for low serotonin levels. Some people that produce very high levels of cortisol also tend to experience lower serotonin levels.

Another glandular condition known as hypothyroidism may affect as high as 30 percent of the population. A low thyroid condition reduces our fat burning rate and causes fatigue, inhibiting energy levels. Your thyroid is small gland at the base of your neck that controls energy flow. A shortage of thyroid hormones makes you feel lethargic and promotes low activity levels. Slowed digestion causes constipation, sluggish metabolism leads to weight gain and elevated cholesterol levels. The brain also needs thyroid hormones to stimulate the production of hormones like serotonin that we talked about earlier. Hypothyroidism can lead to depression and lethargy and weight gain.

Although not often mentioned in the discussion of weight loss and hormones, testosterone and estrogens are key players as well. These are typically male, female hormones. The production of these hormones tends to reduce as age increases. The male hormone, testosterone stimulates high energy and associated fat burning benefits. Quite the opposite though, the female hormone estrogens actually encourage the storage of fat. A decrease in estrogens levels therefore would seem beneficial in your weight loss program. Unfortunately a number of conditions call for the addition of estrogens to ease women through the menopause process. Although beneficial in that affect, it will be counter-productive to weight loss or weight control efforts.

As becomes quite obvious, a number of hormones play a part in weight control. Some of these hormones interact with each other. Some hormones can be manipulated with drugs or by good meal planning. Others hormones such as leptin are can be manipulated to some degree. As always, the ultimate answer is a careful selection of food groups and meal planning and healthy exercise.

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The Prosecution of

George W. Bush

for Murder

• The Legal Framework for the Prosecution
  By Vincent Bugliosi
  The Huffington Post, May 19, 2008
  Straight to the Source

That the king can do no wrong is a necessary and fundamental principle of the English constitution. -Sir William Blackstone, Commentaries on the Laws of England, 1765

No living Homo sapiens is above the law. -(Notwithstanding our good friends and legal ancestors across the water, this is a fact that requires no citation.)

With respect to the position I take about the crimes of George Bush, I want to state at the outset that my motivation is not political. Although I’ve been a longtime Democrat (primarily because, unless there is some very compelling reason to be otherwise, I am always for “the little guy”), my political orientation is not rigid.

For instance, I supported John McCain’s run for the presidency in 2000. More to the point, whether I’m giving a final summation to the jury or writing one of my true crime books, credibility has always meant everything to me.

Therefore, my only master and my only mistress are the facts and objectivity. I have no others. This is why I can give you, the reader, a 100 percent guarantee that if a Democratic president had done what Bush did, I would be writing the same, identical piece you are about to read.

Perhaps the most amazing thing to me about the belief of many that George Bush lied to the American public in starting his war with Iraq is that the liberal columnists who have accused him of doing this merely make this point, and then go on to the next paragraph in their columns.

Only very infrequently does a columnist add that because of it Bush should be impeached. If the charges are true, of course Bush should have been impeached, convicted, and removed from office. That’s almost too self-evident to state. But he deserves much more than impeachment. I mean, in America, we apparently impeach presidents for having consensual sex outside of marriage and trying to cover it up.

If we impeach presidents for that, then if the president takes the country to war on a lie where thousands of American soldiers die horrible, violent deaths and over 100,000 innocent Iraqi civilians, including women and children, even babies are killed, the punishment obviously has to be much, much more severe.

That’s just common sense. If Bush were impeached, convicted in the Senate, and removed from office, he’d still be a free man, still be able to wake up in the morning with his cup of coffee and freshly squeezed orange juice and read the morning paper, still travel widely and lead a life of privilege, still belong to his country club and get standing ovations whenever he chose to speak to the Republican faithful. This, for being responsible for over 100,000 horrible deaths?* For anyone interested in true justice, impeachment alone would be a joke for what Bush did.

Let’s look at the way some of the leading liberal lights (and, of course, the rest of the entire nation with the exception of those few recommending impeachment) have treated the issue of punishment for Bush’s cardinal sins.

New York Times columnist Paul Krugman wrote about “the false selling of the Iraq War. We were railroaded into an unnecessary war.” Fine, I agree. Now what? Krugman just goes on to the next paragraph.

But if Bush falsely railroaded the nation into a war where over 100,000 people died, including 4,000 American soldiers, how can you go on to the next paragraph as if you had been writing that Bush spent the weekend at Camp David with his wife? For doing what Krugman believes Bush did, doesn’t Bush have to be punished commensurately in some way? Are there no consequences for committing a crime of colossal proportions?

Al Franken on the David Letterman show said, “Bush lied to us to take us to war” and quickly went on to another subject, as if he was saying “Bush lied to us in his budget.”

Senator Edward Kennedy, condemning Bush, said that “Bush’s distortions misled Congress in its war vote” and “No President of the United States should employ distortion of truth to take the nation to war.” But, Senator Kennedy, if a president does this, as you believe Bush did, then what? Remember, Clinton was impeached for allegedly trying to cover up a consensual sexual affair.

What do you recommend for Bush for being responsible for more than 100,000 deaths? Nothing? He shouldn’t be held accountable for his actions? If one were to listen to you talk, that is the only conclusion one could come to. But why, Senator Kennedy, do you, like everyone else, want to give Bush this complete free ride?

The New York Times, in a June 17, 2004, editorial, said that in selling this nation on the war in Iraq, “the Bush administration convinced a substantial majority of Americans before the war that Saddam Hussein was somehow linked to 9/ 11, . . . inexcusably selling the false Iraq-Al Qaeda claim to Americans.” But gentlemen, if this is so, then what? The New York Times didn’t say, just going on, like everyone else, to the next paragraph, talking about something else.

In a November 15, 2005, editorial, the New York Times said that “the president and his top advisers . . . did not allow the American people, or even Congress, to have the information necessary to make reasoned judgments of their own. It’s obvious that the Bush administration misled Americans about Mr. Hussein’s weapons and his terrorist connections.” But if it’s “obvious that the Bush administration misled Americans” in taking them to a war that tens of thousands of people have paid for with their lives, now what? No punishment? If not, under what theory? Again, you’re just going to go on to the next paragraph?

I’m not going to go on to the next unrelated paragraph.

In early December of 2005, a New York Times-CBS nationwide poll showed that the majority of Americans believed Bush “intentionally misled” the nation to promote a war in Iraq. A December 11, 2005, article in the Los Angeles Times, after citing this national poll, went on to say that because so many Americans believed this, it might be difficult for Bush to get the continuing support of Americans for the war. In other words, the fact that most Americans believed Bush had deliberately misled them into war was of no consequence in and of itself.

Its only consequence was that it might hurt his efforts to get support for the war thereafter. So the article was reporting on the effect of the poll findings as if it was reporting on the popularity, or lack thereof, of Bush’s position on global warming or immigration. Didn’t the author of the article know that Bush taking the nation to war on a lie (if such be the case) is the equivalent of saying he is responsible for well over 100,000 deaths? One would never know this by reading the article.

If Bush, in fact, intentionally misled this nation into war, what is the proper punishment for him? Since many Americans routinely want criminal defendants to be executed for murdering only one person, if we weren’t speaking of the president of the United States as the defendant here, to discuss anything less than the death penalty for someone responsible for over 100,000 deaths would on its face seem ludicrous.** But we are dealing with the president of the United States here.

On the other hand, the intensity of rage against Bush in America has been such (it never came remotely this close with Clinton because, at bottom, there was nothing of any real substance to have any serious rage against him for) that if I heard it once I heard it ten times that “someone should put a bullet in his head.” That, fortunately, is just loose talk, and even more fortunately not the way we do things in America. In any event, if an American jury were to find Bush guilty of first degree murder, it would be up to them to decide what the appropriate punishment should be, one of their options being the imposition of the death penalty.

Although I have never heard before what I am suggesting — that Bush be prosecuted for murder in an American courtroom — many have argued that “Bush should be prosecuted for war crimes” (mostly for the torture of prisoners at Abu Ghraib and Guantanamo) at the International Criminal Court in The Hague, Netherlands. But for all intents and purposes this cannot be done.

*Even assuming, at this point, that Bush is criminally responsible for the deaths of over 100,000 people in the Iraq war, under federal law he could only be prosecuted for the deaths of the 4,000 American soldiers killed in the war. No American court would have jurisdiction to prosecute him for the one hundred and some thousand Iraqi deaths since these victims not only were not Americans, but they were killed in a foreign nation, Iraq. Despite their nationality, if they had been killed here in the States, there would of course be jurisdiction.

**Indeed, Bush himself, ironically, would be the last person who would quarrel with the proposition that being guilty of mass murder (even one murder, by his lights) calls for the death penalty as opposed to life imprisonment. As governor of Texas, Bush had the highest execution rate of any governor in American history: He was a very strong proponent of the death penalty who even laughingly mocked a condemned young woman who begged him to spare her life (”Please don’t kill me,”

Bush mimicked her in a magazine interview with journalist Tucker Carlson), and even refused to commute the sentence of death down to life imprisonment for a young man who was mentally retarded (although as president he set aside the entire prison sentence of his friend Lewis “Scooter” Libby), and had a broad smile on his face when he announced in his second presidential debate with Al Gore that his state, Texas, was about to execute three convicted murderers.

In Bush’s two terms as Texas governor, he signed death warrants for an incredible 152 out of 153 executions against convicted murderers, the majority of whom only killed one single person. The only death sentence Bush commuted was for one of the many murders that mass murderer Henry Lucas had been convicted of. Bush was informed that Lucas had falsely confessed to this particular murder and was innocent, his conviction being improper.

So in 152 out of 152 cases, Bush refused to show mercy even once, finding that not one of the 152 convicted killers should receive life imprisonment instead of the death penalty. Bush’s perfect 100 percent execution rate is highly uncommon even for the most conservative law-and-order governors.

The above is an excerpt from the book The Prosecution of George W. Bush for Murder by Vincent Bugliosi Published by Vanguard Press; May 2008;$26.95US/$28.95CAN; 978-159315-481-3 Copyright © 2008 Vincent Bugliosi

Vincent Bugliosi received his law degree in 1964. In his career at the L.A. County District Attorney’s office, he successfully prosecuted 105 out of 106 felony jury trials, including 21 murder convictions without a single loss. His most famous trial, the Charles Manson case, became the basis of his classic, Helter Skelter, the biggest selling true-crime book in publishing history. His forthcoming book, The Prosecution of George W. Bush For Murder, is available May 27.

FACTS ON THE IRAQ WAR

Death penalties can be imposed by unelected judges and by unelected Pentagon generals. In Iraq death penalties have been caused by. Depleted uranium 80 times the normal level. Which has generated cancer in Iraqis as well as Italian American and other troops. Compulsory vaccines from the war profiteering pharmaco-military industrial complex. Lariam, ostensibly antimalarial drug made by Roche which have killed 4 wives whose husbands had drug caused rage. . Heat rising to 137 degrees and melting soap as well as turning metal soda pop cans on a loading dock into chambers in which Nutra Sweet becomes more toxic. Baghdad Boils, face lesions, blamed on sand flies… food poisoning deaths from heat on military packaged meals. ‘ Friendly fire’. lack of protective gear . helicopter malfunctions in Chinook, Osprey and Black Hawk helicopters . underfunded hospital system . Those hostile to the invaders and occupiers of their own Iraq.
Author: O Anna Niemus

How war profiting works:

The U.S. Government Accountability Office states that hundreds of AK47 assault rifles s well as hand pistols have vanished in Iraq without the Pentagon having anyway to track them down not 1 single serial number. U.S. General Portraus said it was a clerical error.

 On Oct. 25, 2004 at Al Caca Munitions in Iraq 380 tons  in explosives are missing.

 Since the beginning of the Iraq war 300,000 Barrels of OIL have mysteriously disappeared that a lot of gas money. That translates to Billions of dollars being made by whom?

Check with CNN News for more information.

 Senator Hillary Clinton has become enraged about the state of the poor health care being offered to the wounded and maimed Iraq army Veterans. They come home to terrible health care. What an insulting slap in the face to our brave soldiers.

 Cost of the Iraq War on American Citizens and whoever might be involved: Nearly a whooping 45 Billion Dollars and counting. That’s enough to make every Citizen in America a Millionaire.  I have not paid a million dollars so far in my life on taxes have you? That means that the money is coming from generations of tax money bankrupting the country that will lead to generations having to pay it back. Do you think the Government Politicians and other Billionaires will put it back for us? We are becoming the financial slaves of the world and we have not done much to stop it but be patriotic and let or babies be killed to fatten other peoples bank accounts. Never forget money and greed are the bottom line of tyrannical personalities.

 WHERE WILL YOU STAND?

THE PLEDGE OF DECENCY

I, place your name / unit /rank / branch / (Father-Son-Mother-Daughter of ) here, a proud soldier serving my Country the United States of America, willingly give my solemn vow to my Family, Relatives, Friends, American Citizens, and World Citizens, to lay down my arms on this day the Forth of July 2008 to help bring about an end to the Iraq War that I know to be an unjust and unnecessary war that warrants no foreseeable honorable intentions by the government I currently work for.

I will however continue to defend my life and my country by upholding my promise to perform my military duties for my country to the best of my abilities. Even though I lay down my arms today if my fellow soldiers, my country, or my person is threatened by deadly force I will act accordingly to save American lives. I do this to bring peace to America and also for the People of the Iraqi Nation to have the ability to govern and protect their own democratic Sovereign Nation as they see fit remaining allies to America and its Citizens.

Sincerely,

Rank, Name, Branch and Date

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Look around. It only takes a moment with the fast paced media to see the madness of human on human destruction around us. Even in my birth state of Mississippi the murder rate in the capitol city is up 48% for the year in a place so small you can drive through the entire town in minutes. What is the cause or causes of the lack of respect for life in a technologically advanced society? Why is it out of all the sciences that we rapidly gain new and brilliant miracles is it that we cannot advance the science that matters most? Social Science - the science of relations involving human interactions on all levels of relationships, including the dwindling sanctity of marriage, religious patron abuses, political wars, and everyday common sense human decency.

I know that anyone with half a brain can point out the worst of things, “but can any of you provide solutions?” I am willing to give it a try for the sake of all of humanity. This is the only world we have and if the mightiest, most technologically, and most politically advanced society on Earth can’t do anything then the inevitable prospect of anarchy of mind-blowing scales will be upon us much sooner than later this I can assure you. I want a different better world for all of us and only a collective push for peace on a global scale will brighten a lack-luster future for humanity, for you and me.

I love life and all of my brothers and sisters worldwide. We truly need to educate ourselves for the cause if nothing else personal peace and understanding. The education that we have been spoon feed for centuries will be the death of us all because the killing technology is at it’s highest capacity and outdated systems of human understanding will fatten the greedy and implode upon all of us regardless of who and what you think you have, or don’t have in material wealth, education, high, middle, or low social status. You my friends don’t have the capability to create that kind of immunity when the world itself is an encased hell.

There is only one war in the world and that is you with your programmed ignorance about who and most importantly what you are. Everything else horrible in your life, in your world, in our world lies in that immutable truth.

Divine Peace, “X”

Hello Fellow citizens.  Today 30 April 2007 as I was getting interviewed about my book on Philosophy on WAOK CBS Radio 1380 AM I was asked this question by the Honorable Shelly Wynter (Radio Host/Talk Show) about the Immigrants. What do you think should be done about the illegal immigrant problem (mostly Hispanics) in America today? I have since had time to ponder the question and these are my personal thought on this controversial topic.

The Immigration dilemma in the U.S. now is a tough situation. This is brought about a civil war like mentality to the masses. It’s a “it’s us or them mentality,” and it is stifling and exasperating the troublesome situation. I personally have friends that are the so-called illegal aliens that are hard working decent people. Who what only one thing to live a good life with food, shelter, and happiness for their families and themselves.

Say that the shoe is on the other foot. You are that man or that woman and your family is literally starving, (kids, mother/father, grandmother/grandfather, etc…) living in a destitute town where you are treated like cattle and right across a knee deep shallow river lies prosperity and a future for you and your suffering family. Please tell me what would you do??? Any descent type of man or woman will not sit by and let their family waste away and be destroyed and enslaved right before their eyes. Really even if you had the tiniest of chances to began a new life would not not take that risk? What if you did not to take the risk could you bear the thought of your family dying because you simply do not have money in your possession? Personally I could not live with that. Especially when millions of your brothers and sisters dared to take the risk and succeeded. Come on People this is not a overnight fix that a mass deportation will remedy.

If you are an American Citizen you are constantly bombarded with images of wealth and how much of it that we have. If you were born somewhere else you would not see those images you would see tin shacks, ground wells, and no plumbing. To others the lives of our poorest citizens mirrors a utopia. To try to force them out would be like prohibition of alcohol and that definitely didn’t work. It gave rise to organize crime that is still a thorn in our sides and abolishing the immigrants will create a big underworld demand for people with the hopes of freedom and a future.

The Solution:

The biggest complaint from my fellow Americans is that the immigrants take away all the jobs. First of all in ten years the America economy will be a complete bust for nearly everyone because the government allows all of the big job creating corporate entities move the jobs to cheap labor camps far from U.S. borders, this is where the jobs are disappearing to. If they do this then tariffs(taxes) need to go directly to the American People with just a tiny portion going to a already free flow spending greedy government to subsidize of dwindling incomes or stop trading here or be fined which also goes to subsidize the citizens. Next create thousands of new jobs make jobs for the poor and disenfranchised American citizens to work in ways to legally faze in the immigrants and make sure these are Americans that are poor. This would create jobs like building housing and processing buildings (construction), education for the poor that need to fill the job positions, saving billions of our tax dollars on arresting and shipping illegal immigrants away and so on.

Peace needs to be the forefront of our politics in this matter not hatred and slave master mentalities that make immigrants suffer in a limbo of quasi citizen and indentured slavery from people who would not suffer them their civil liberties as fellow human beings.

Divine Peace, “X”

What makes the youth of today sacrifice their lives and others? Did they have a spiritual path? If so why was it not enough to dissuade them from destroying live. Is your Dogma or anti-Dogma strong enough for you to not end your life and the life of others. What is your path and how can you stop the madness before it pays you a visit?

My path is simple. To love, honor, and respect God the creator. To treat everyone how I want to be treated. To remove any mental/emotional barriers that may prevent me from loving my fellow man/woman and any of God’s creations. To use all the scientific and spiritual knowledge I have to bring me closer to the supreme scientist God without the limitations of Dogma and sharing such liberating information with the world. This can be your path as well if you want it to and I welcome you with open arms to the unbiased love of a true Humanitarian. I support your path whatever it may be as long as it promotes peace and harmony in the world.

Divine Peace, “X”