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Conference rocks::weight_control

Title: Weight Loss and Maintenance
Notice:**PLEASE** enter notes in mixed case (CAPS ARE SHOUTING)!
Moderator:ASICS::LESLIE
Created:Tue Jul 10 1990
Last Modified:Tue Jun 03 1997
Last Successful Update:Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:933
Total number of notes:9931

534.0. "Depression" by MSDOA::MCMULLIN () Mon Nov 27 1989 20:00

    How do you handle depression?  It seems like I'm easily depressed and
    once the depression sets in it's hard to gain control.  I just received
    a phone call while ago and although the news wasn't terrible, I felt
    myself sinking as the person was talking.  It wasn't even anything that
    was for sure, just a maybe type thing that has got me upset because of
    something that MIGHT happen.  I don't want to lose the control I've had
    all day and go home and pig out.  Help!!!
    
    Virginia

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534.1LESLIE::LESLIEIncompatible with current releaseTue Nov 28 1989 07:0814
534.2INTER::C_MILLERTue Dec 05 1989 15:3117
    You'd be surprised how popping a couple of Vitmin B tablets will help
    lift your spirits!  I never believed in taking vitamins until recently
    when my world started falling apart.  My nutrionist suggested taking a
    multivitamin instead of tossing candy bars down my throat whenever I
    felt nervous, upset, or anxious.  Sure enough, within a half hour of
    taking a Vit B I feel calm, less tense, and overall happy.  
    
    You can get vitamins from any health food store, Bread and Circus
    grocery store, or Shaklee (a local at-home distributorship with people
    who know their vitamins/nutrients).
    
    When you feel yourself getting upset take a walk, do something you've
    been putting off for a long time, some ACTIVITY so while you are
    thinking about the upsetting thing you're brain/body is also
    concentrating on something else and you can't focus ALL of your
    attention on that problem.

534.3make it completeSALEM::ALLEN_DWed Dec 06 1989 18:557
    Vitiam B is good for you but don't forget the other B complex part
    of the vitiams and try to get one with zink with it it will make
    a big difference to you system,for depression takes the b complex
    vitiams out plus vit c and zink which rebuild the cells so take
    the complete vitiams,you owe it to yourself to be as healthy as
    you can,and that is my two cents. Best of health Don Allen

534.4MILKWY::ZARLENGAhighway to the danger zoneSun Dec 10 1989 04:1019
.2>    You'd be surprised how popping a couple of Vitmin B tablets will help
.2>    lift your spirits!  I never believed in taking vitamins until recently
.2>    when my world started falling apart.  My nutrionist suggested taking a

	Unless you have a vitamin deficiency, and B is usually only
    a problem for vegetarians, you're seeing a placebo effect.

	Be careful with B vitamins, some are fat soluble and overindulging
    with them can lead to health problems like nerve damage.

	The moral is eat well and don't play games with your health.

	Popping vitamins to feel good is, in my opnion, playing games with
    your health.


-mike z

534.5CSSE32::LESLIEMon Dec 11 1989 11:562
    Popping *anything* to feel good is a baaad idea...

534.6Not ALL B vitamins...CGVAX2::FRANCOFri Dec 22 1989 13:5714
    I disagree with .4...Vitmain B is not completely a placebo effect. It's
    a proven medical fact that Vitamin B6 adds in depression and in those
    days/weeks some of us suffer (PMS). However, it's not a miracle cure. I
    also am a depression eater...I found that by taking as little as 25mg.
    of B6 daily helped tremendously. A well balanced multiple vitamin with 
    even 10 mg. extra of B6 can help. 
    
    Always start with a low dosage of any supplement, to be sure that your
    system can assimilate it!
    
    Good luck...you can break the cycle!!
    
    Adrienne

534.7if there is no deficiency, there is not benefit to more BMILKWY::ZARLENGAis there a 6' bat in Gotham City?Mon Dec 25 1989 11:3511
.6>    I disagree with .4...Vitmain B is not completely a placebo effect. It's

  	That's not what I said in .4.

	Here's what I said:
.4>	Unless you have a vitamin deficiency, and B is usually only
.4>    a problem for vegetarians, you're seeing a placebo effect.

-mike z