when you are identified as being overweight or obese, you are told all about health risks assicuated with that weight that include:
heart disease
diabetes
metabolic syndrome,
cancer
arthritis
stroke
and these health risks are then used as reasons to inspire you to watch your weight, avoid weight gain or to reduce, if you are... Read more
This is the time of year when "potluck" reigns supreme. It's certainly a good way for people to entertain during tough financial times. It's also popular because it means people can bring their culinary talents to a party thrown by someone else. But the concept can be a "food mine" for people struggling to have healthy... Read more
The problem with pre-diabetes and even diabetes is that very often the person can have it and not know it. Of course if you are overweight - we might suspect it - but frankly, not every person who is overweight gets diabetes. So we need better ways to identify these patients so that we can intervene with strategies that that can... Read more
I cannot be the only person who has been seeing Oprah grow. Since her commitment to training and running a marathon, I have been watching her show and noticing that she has been steadily putting on weight. I even got a bit upset when several months ago she blamed it "on her thyroid." Most people whose thyroid goes off a bit... Read more
I have always had a love-hate relationship with my pear shaped body. On the one hand, voluptuous hips and thighs were values, no worshipped by the Grecians (at least that's what I've been told). On the other hand, always knowing that if I gain even 5 pounds it's going to go right to my hips and thighs, causing me to be what's... Read more
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