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Family Lifestyle Therapist and R-PA

Is a High-Fat Diet Really a Danger to My Health?

It's no wonder that consumers are confused.  They see brisk sales of Atkin's diet books and assume if everyone is buying the book and using the diet - "I should too."  Then they hear from so-called food gurus who appear on talk shows extolling the virtues of diets filled with fat as "satiating and necessary" despite the... Read moreChevron
posted 10/03/2011, comments (0)|
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Normal Weight Obesity: Thin with High Body Fat Percentage

The Mayo Clinic recently coined a new term to diagnose a subset of obese patients.  They are actually "normal weight" but their body fat percentage is too high.  This relatively new term follows another recently coined term TOFI which means, thin on the outside, fat on the inside.  It was created to describe a phenomenon where a... Read moreChevron
posted 02/17/2010, comments (0)|
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Official Obesity Day

  New to the site and I thought I would share this, as I just came across it today.   It is a website where you can give your opinions on weight issues: http://www.obesityday.eu   It is four question survey which seeks to find out what people, european and non-european, think about excess weight and obesity. The hope is to... Read moreChevron
posted 06/12/2009, comments (0)|

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