Boost Weight Gain

Question:
At 32, I'm five feet ten inches tall, weigh nine stone seven pounds and look scrawny. I've all the time been this weight, but now my physician had told me I must pile on the pounds. I do weight training and would like your guidance on what to eat.

Answer:
I receive a huge amount of letters like yours. Obesity now overshadows the problem of being underweight, but only 30 to 40 years ago doctors usually prescribed tonics to boost appetite and weight. The main causes of failure to gain weight are Poor appetite and malabsorption of nutrients. However, I should say here that some types of people just don't put on weight authentically this is explained in Dr Ali's cusine Bible. If you are constitutionally designed to be lean, you may all the time find it hard to pin weight but you can still be healthy.

Food And Dessert

I'm assuming that since you are in quarterly feel with your house doctor, you have no fundamental disease. However, there are some conditions that other readers may want to consider. Cancer, fever, lasting ailments and psychological problems such as anorexia nervosa may cause weight loss. people with nausea and sickness fear eating because it brings on the symptoms, and this is a tasteless cause of rapid weight loss. I found that most of these patients had whiplash injuries or traumas to the head and neck prominent to poor circulation
to the brain, with fatigue and dizziness as well as nausea.

Malabsorption of nutrients and difficulty in putting on weight is a problem for people with diarrhoea, inordinate mucus discharge, Crohn's disease or other gut or bowel diseases. people with hyperthyroidism have an increased metabolic rate. This group often has diarrhoea or frequent bowel movements and burns fat quickly.

When I was young my mother and grandfather - a physician and homoeopath -were all the time involved about my long thin build, and my mother used to make plum and tamarind chutney for me to take to boarding school. The mixture of plums and tamarind paste, with ginger, black pepper, black cumin seeds, cinnamon plus sugar and water syrup, was conception to advantage the appetite and digestion.

Try the following if you want to boost weight gain:
Diet
Sugar is digested very quickly, and the glucose level in the blood rises and blocks appetite. So don't eat puddings or fruit after meals instead, snack on fruit in the middle of meals, and leave at least an hour in the middle of your med and dessert.

If your appetite is poor, drink one tablespoonful of brandy in warm water about half an hour before meals for one month. To make this more nutritious, Pour some brandy into a decanter and add grated ginger, shelled fresh pistachio nuts, peeled fresh almonds, saffron stamens, whole black peppercorns and aniseed (as seeds). Drink as above.

Soak one teaspoonful of tamarind paste from Indian food market with a pinch of salt in a cup of hot water for 15 to20 minutes, and sip before a meal.

Mash a banana with cream (organic, if possible), add a tablespoonful of manuka honey, and eat with breakfast.

Supplements
Take two tablespoonfuls of Drakshasav, an ayurvedic balsam made from grapes and herbs (from Indian food stores), with meals twice daily for two months, to aid digestion and absorption. Also, take two tablets of a good liver tonic called lksir Meda Khas (Dehlvi Remedies) daily, one after lunch and one after evening meal for three months.

Exercise and massage
You are doing body-building exercises to help build muscle, and this is very good for your body too. Leisure is vital, especially for hyperactive people. Teach yourself to do all at a slower pace. Consequent the breathing and mental exercises on Dr Ali's Leisure Cd (Integrated health Group). Neck and shoulder massage can help heighten the blood flow to the brain. Aim for ten minutes at bedtime on alternate nights. See Dr Ali's Lifestyle Progromme Dvd.

Boost Weight Gain