Re: Natway, anorexia symptoms

Hi Mikey, I still haven't seen where the medical community specifically says they don't recognize "toxic hunger" as an accepted medical diagnosis as they do with so-called "adrenal fatigue":

"Adrenal fatigue is a term applied to a collection of nonspecific symptoms, such as body aches, fatigue, nervousness, sleep disturbances and digestive problems. The term often shows up in popular health books and on alternative medicine websites, but it isn't an accepted medical diagnosis."
http://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/addisons-disease/expert-answers/adrenal-fatigue/faq-20057906


Some interesting news is that the Medicine National Institutes of Health library has publish a preliminary results study of Dr. Fuhrman's theory and it does mention "toxic hunger":


Nutr J. 2010; 9: 51.
Published online Nov 7, 2010. doi: 10.1186/1475-2891-9-51
PMCID: PMC2988700
Changing perceptions of hunger on a high nutrient density diet
Joel Fuhrman, corresponding author Barbara Sarter, Dale Glaser, and Steve Acocella

Methods
This was a descriptive study conducted with 768 participants primarily living in the United States who had changed their dietary habits from a low micronutrient to a high micronutrient diet.

Results
Highly significant differences were found between the two diets in relation to all physical and emotional symptoms as well as the location of hunger.
Nearly 80% of respondents reported that their experience of hunger had changed since starting the high nutrient density diet, with 51% reporting a dramatic or complete change in their experience of hunger.

Conclusions
A high micronutrient density diet mitigates the unpleasant aspects of the experience of hunger even though it is lower in calories.
It appears that a high nutrient density diet, after an initial phase of adjustment during which a person experiences "toxic hunger" due to withdrawal from pro-inflammatory foods, can result in a sustainable eating pattern that leads to weight loss and improved health.
Because our findings have important implications in the global effort to control rates of obesity and related chronic diseases, further studies are needed to confirm these preliminary results.

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2988700/


But regardless if a term or condition is recognized by the medical community, it really boils down to is how successful does a protocol work in healing a proposed condition?


Dr. Fuhrman's advice worked great for me. Simply by eliminated most of the animal products from my diet, my worst health problems went away within a week. It was simply AMAZING how fast it worked and easy it was! Didn't have to take a single supplement either during or after for it to work, or for the results to last. A simple change in diet is all it took. Saved me a TON of money.


I don't see too many people being truly healed by AF protocols. Some of the few people who seemed to have improved got better when eating a higher-calorie diet and the others seem to have to keep doing the AF protocols to stay well (a few of them have come back reporting that they've crashed though). Haven't seen too many people totally feeling better without having to stay on any of the AF protocols. Doesn't seem like a very high success rate which questions both the protocols and the proposed condition.
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