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'Facts' About Weight Loss That Are Wrong

Connecticut Public Radio | By Faith Middleton
Published January 20, 2015 at 1:10 PM EST
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With the food-centric holiday season behind us, many of us would like to trim down a bit. Articles and studies about weight control are everywhere. But our returning metabolic specialist, Dr. Reza Yavari, says that most of the top ten weight loss tips are incorrect. You've heard a calorie is a calorie is a calorie? Not so much, according to Yavari.

Miracle drugs for weight loss? No such thing. Not even the ones mentioned on your favorite "legitimate" TV show.

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GUEST:

  • Reza Yavari is on the clinical faculty at Yale and a trained endocrinologist. His practice, Beyond Care, combines cutting edge medicine with spa-like treatments in offices located in Madison and Trumbull, Conn. Yavari's 2007 book was called It Must Be My Metabolism.

MUSIC:

  • “Gne Gne,” Montefiori Cocktail
  • “Transitions,” El Ten Eleven

Lori Mack, Jonathan McNicol, and Marian Roy contributed to this show.
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For more than 25 years, the two-time Peabody Award-winning Faith Middleton Show has been widely recognized for fostering insightful, thought-provoking conversation. Faith Middleton offers her listeners some of the world's most fascinating people and subjects. The show has been inducted into the Connecticut Magazine Hall of Fame as "Best Local Talk Show".
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