obesity

Losing Weight with Apps

Losing Weight With Apps Can a phone app help you lose weight? How about with your cholesterol, blood pressure, or waist size? Perhaps you’ve heard the latest Noom ads, where they boast forty publications showing that their app will help you lose weight. Apple is coming out with more ways to have their new watch…

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Red Meat: Is it good or bad? The answer is sometimes

Red meat is every bit as contentious as politics. In this case carnivores vs vegans – here is the latest data with references

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Keto Cons

A number of years ago I published a book “Losing the last 30 lbs: fundamentals of weight loss.” This is an excerpt from that book about “diets” and why it is that they fail. Hope you enjoy the humor…

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Obesity Rates Decline In Four States – Sort Of

The news that obesity rates declined for the first time is more of a statistical fluke than real cause to celebrate. There is nothing new that has decreased rates

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Obesity Rates Continue To Rise

Obesity rates continue to rise in the US in spite of reduction in consumption of sugar, increase in fiber. This affects minority more. The answer may be found from the interventions we do with children.

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Artificial Sweeteners: Still Bad

Artificial sweeteners, or “low energy sweeteners” have periodically been implicated as a separate cause of obesity. Evidence has been found that people take in more calories when using sweeteners.

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The Food Additive That May Be Causing Obesity

A new study shows that a common food additive, emulsifiers, may be a source for obesity, inflammation, and bad problems. More and more, we are finding out about the microbiome of our gut.

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Vagal Stimulator for Obesity: Lifestyle Wins

An implanted vagal stimulator for weight loss has been approved by the FDA. While some state that this may not be for everyone, there is a population that this might benefit. The question is finding that group.

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Chicken Consumption Correlates with Obesity

The rise of obesity in the US correlates with the rise of chicken consumption in the US. You think that chicken is healthy for you? Maybe it isn’t.

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