In many of my blog posts and FB posts, I share the latest thoughts and research on weight management with one primary focus at heart: that keeping weight off is easier than losing it. I …
Eating Disorders May Arise from Parental Comments about Weight
A NYT article came out recently summarizing a study of 500 women and their experiences as young girls when it came to weight and parental comments about it (the link to the article is embedded): …
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The Brain-Hunger Complex: How Obesity Alters the Brain and Vice Versa
Two articles in Health Canal, an online health blog of recent scientific publications, prompt me to comment as this issue is rapidly coming to the forefront of the obesity crisis. The first identifies functions within …
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Weight Loss in Older Adults
Traditionally, physicians have been reluctant to encourage older adults – those over 75, for example – to lose weight since studies have shown that older adults who lose weight tend to have unnoticed medical problems. …
Exercise and Weight Control in Aging Women (And Men, Too…)
On Wednesday, March 24, an article about a research project hit the news big time. a continuing study, as a sub group of the women’s health study (by Dr. I Min Lee), found that women …
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Normal Weight Obesity
It sounds paradoxical but those in the exercise/fitness field know it’s there: people whose wt and whose BMI are normal, or even low, but are obese…by body fat standards. We’ve all heard about muscled athletes …