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Health Tips: Weight Loss Decreases Inflammation
July 1st, 2012Here’s another reason to drop those excess pounds around your middle. According to a study published in Cancer Research, postmenopausal women who were overweight or obese and lost at least five percent of their body weight had a measurable reduction in markers of inflammation.
Health News: A Metabolic Factor That May Help Diabetes Treatment
July 1st, 2012Humans are designed to hunger for fat—packing it on in times of feast and burning it during periods of famine. Fortunately for humans in developed countries (but not for their health), famine rarely strikes, hence the burgeoning epidemic of diabetes, heart disease, and other weight-related problems.
A Call for Change
March 1st, 2012There is a fine line between diabetes and obesity. The two conditions share such an intimate relationship that it’s often difficult to distinguish which one precedes the other. One thing is certain, though—they are definitely related and many professionals now group the distinct diseases together into a unique, brand-new epidemic—introducing diabesity.
The link between diabetes and obesity is undeniable. How does this change our outlook?
Why It's So Hard Not to Be Fat and Sick in America
March 1st, 2012I cannot figure out how we can go on believing the nonsense being fed to us (pun intended) about food. Why are we not protesting in the streets at the injustices being put on us in the name of profit? It’s obvious to me that the bottom line of food companies and corporations has become far more important than the collective health of the people buying food.
Why are we not protesting in the streets at the injustices being put on us in the name of profit?
Diabesity
March 1st, 2012One of every two of you have a deadly disease that’s making you fat, sick, and will eventually kill you—and 90 percent of you don’t even know you have it. What’s worse is that your doctors are not trained to find it, and most don’t even look for it. This problem will cost us $3.5 trillion over the next ten years. It is bankrupting our economy.
Why You Are Sick and Fat, and What to Do About It
Nutrition for the Heart
February 1st, 2012Poor nutritional choices compound over time; a highfat, high-caloric diet ignites the potential of obesity and leads to the likely consequences of numerous metabolic diseases—heart disease being one of the terminal stops on your body’s path to total health destruction.
Sound extreme?
Your body is an interlinked chain, and once the dietary fuse is lit, it can set off a fiery domino effect of dangerous diseases.
Health on the Edge: Our Nation's Biggest Health Crisis
January 1st, 2012Dr. Ludwig, an obesity expert at Children’s Hospital Boston and associate professor at the Harvard School of Public Health, recently made headlines by suggesting that some parents should lose custody of their obese children in an editorial he co-wrote for the Journal of the American Medical Association.
Obesity is both preventable and reversible through healthy choices we can all make on our own.The Kids Aren't Alright
September 1st, 2010Life has improved significantly since 1975, the year Captain & Tennille topped the charts and super-curly perms and pantsuits were everywhere. The US has made tremendous advances in scientific research and medicine (and, as many would argue, in fashion and music, too).
Think your kids are better off than you were? Think again. Half of American children now suffer from chronic illnesses that can be traced to technology overload, processed foods, sedentary lifestyles, and stress. We give parents easy solutions to overcome today's health pitfalls.65 Percent: Osteoarthritis
January 1st, 2009The amount of obese Americans who will develop osteoarthritis of the knee. This painful condition occurs when two bones rub against each other in the joint once the cushiony cartilage between them wears down, causing inflammation; being overweight can speed this process. Think you’re safe if you’re fit and trim? Not so fast—35 percent of you will develop achy knees too.
Ear Infections May Lead to Weight Gain
January 1st, 2009It sounds crazy, and even a bit cruel, that those ear infections that made you miserable as a kid may have returned to haunt you in the form of fast-food cravings and persistent belly fat. But new research shows that people who suffered moderate to severe middle ear infections when they were young were 62 percent more likely to be obese at the time of the study.
