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The weight-related health crises that developed and now lesser-developed nations are facing cannot be ignored but also cannot be solved readily. Despite the available science – of nutrition and of activity – does not impact …
Obesity and Heart Disease: Fraternal but Not Identical TwinsRead More
A recent study just came out touting the benefits of bariatric surgery for obese teens. This article found that kids who had the surgery to bypass the stomach, reducing the amount of food and its …
Diet is a word describing the types of food one eats. Dieting, on the other hand, tends to describe the kinds of foods you don’t eat, usually to lose weight. To say you are on …
There is a fairly new and widely-believed current of thought that many lifestyle diseases – heart, metabolic, cancers, even obesity itself – are related to if not caused by excess inflammation. And inflammation is a …
Which Comes First – the Excess Weight or a Dysfunctional Immune System?Read More
There is no perfect weight. Let’s get that off the table right now. But each of us has a weight that is more better (intended bad grammar), even more perfect than other weights we’ve been. …
Tufts University’s Health&Nutrition Letter did a front page review of a NYT article based on a study of some contestants in “The Biggest Loser” TV-reality show from a few years back. The gist of the …
As per my blog post of June 22, this article says it nicely: it’s not just what you eat but what you don’t eat, too. Now, that may or may not sync perfectly with said …
This is a great article with sound advice on how to help your kids – and maybe you – cut the sugar habit. Some good facts, good pointers but one really solid, absolutely essential bit …
Earlier this summer, three news articles blasted out of the summer doldrums to shake up everyone’s ideas about weight management and dieting. In a likely futile effort to reconcile what each says with what the …
The latest controversy, which we’ve seen played out over the past 30 years, comes to you from two doctors: one, a pediatrician, the other a researcher in weight management. The former wrote in the NY …
The Weight Loss Conundrum, Continued: Diet vs Exercise…or Both?Read More
