DIET YES, MEDICINE NO

Doctor makes campaign against medicines to lose weight

Concerned with the mother, that made treatment to lose weight, the daughter took the label of the medicine that she took daily for the endocrinologist Odilza Vital to do an evaluation of possible side effects. The doctor immediately showed that, besides three anorexígenos types - substances moderators of the appetite - the medicine contained doses extremely discharges of a potent one diuretic. I "supported the girl's" concern - says the endocrinologist - "and I asked that she alerted the mother so that she stopped taking the formula, but the woman, that was not that fat, insisted on continuing using the medicine. The result: I came to know that, times then, she had suffered a cardiac arrest probably provoked by the potassium lack and magnesium due to accentuated diuretic action of the medicine to lose weight."

The tragedy of the medicines to lose weight, that was already a great concern of the doctor Odilza Vital, starting from this episode, it turned into education reason, inspiring the campaign that she intends to unchain in partnership with the American doctors Mitchell Kurk and Robert Atkins. Odilza and their partners explain that the campaign, in international level - "if possible", says her - it intends to exalt the true road in the good way: the alimentary reeducation and the balanced diet.

With 30 years of profession, the endocrinologist receives at her clinic in Icaraí, Niterói, hundreds of patients that want, "at any cost", a finer silhouette. In Brazil, about 40% of the population is obese and suffers of weight excess, what would explain, "at least estatisticamente" the need of an uninterrupted campaign, because the number of people chemically dependent of medicines to lose weight grows every day.

MECHANISMS OF ACTION

As well as there were three anorexígenos types in the formula that the daughter brought so that the endocrinologist examines, in the Brazilian market, several types of those substances whose mechanisms action in the nervous system headquarters are very similar. Odilza explains that the anorexígenos acts more precisely in the hipotálamo, that controls the main functions of our organism through chemical reactions that "inform" to the body when it is or not with thirst, sleep, hunger or cold, for instance. The anorexígenos provokes the liberation of certain substances stored in the nervous endings of the brain - as the dopamine and the serotonin - responsible, among other things for transmitting the sensation of hunger absence.

For stimulating the central nervous system, that medication type in medium and long period can unchain serious psychiatric diseases. Odilza counts that a great number of people run, like this, the risk of passing the rest of the life in psychiatric treatment, because they can arrive to a permanent picture of schizophrenia, as already testified several times. The doctor reminds a woman's case that independently took medicine to lose weight, and had change of behavior. One day she saw in the refrigerator that the eggs were painted of yellow and numbered, thinking the husband wanted to maintain her under control. Evidently that it was hallucination, and she had to pass for psychiatric and psychological treatments for five years, without at least to get to lose weight, doing get to gain 35 kilos, because she had weakened with the medication supposedly slimming. "Now, with our help, it already made thin 15 kilos", says Odilza.

The doctor reminds that although the lingering use of anorexígenos can provoke cardiovascular damages, as hypertension, arrhythmias, anxiety, tremors, insomnia, deliriums and even irreversible psychotic behavior. She reminds an only 21 year-old boy's other case that ended up abandoning University of Law after he totally turned dependent of a medicine type to lose weight. "He got to take, a day, a whole glass of medicine", says.

PERSONALIZED DIETS

The endocrinologist, that follows the same line of work of the Americans Mitchell Kurk - author of books as the best seller "Stops Aging and Revitalize Your Life" - and Robert Atkins, author of "The Revolutionary Diet of Anti Aging", both of publisher Campus, says that even the diet needs to be strictly "adapted the person, and not the person that adapts to the diet". For that, to know which the diet ideal for each patient one, Odilza considers fundamental that being done, besides routine exams, the one of glucose, separates and triglycerides in fast and powder-prandial, a type of accomplished exam three or four hours after the ingestion of carbohydrates. "That test will characterize if it exists or no resistance to the action of the insulin, and a lot of times, reveals diabetes occult chemist in the fast" glycemia, explains Odilza.

After the exams, the doctor will have subsidies to formulate an appropriate diet to the patient. According to the doctor, the only medicine that should accompany the whole diet are the supplements of vitamins and nutritious. Besides, it is important to chew well and to eat slowly. The satiation is more related with the time that the food is in the mouth. The excessive weight in the stomach gives discomfort and fault" sensation.

The endocrinologist suggests a diet that can substitute in a healthy way the "magic formulas" of weigh loss. In the beginning, explains the doctor, the base of the diet should be of a low tenor of carbohydrate. Depending on the person, it is possible to make thin 1,5kg a week. That diet is rich in proteins, that it provides the increase of the metabolism, and it includes other foods, as tomato, that besides having a low tenor of carbohydrate, it is rich in potassium and magnesium.
Plus 1 (a) hour of physical activity: walk, mats, bicycle ergometric and swimming.