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My Bariatric Life

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In 2003, I made a decision that would forever change my life. Since that time, I have been following a program of lifetime obesity disease management to sustain long term weight loss. It began with bariatric (weight loss) surgery followed by changing the way I eat, mild exercising, and attending a support group (NOT my surgeon's support group). Today, I'm a size medium and living life larger than ever!
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Obesity Epidemic in America, How Did it Begin? - My Bariatric Life

In the more recent years since I had my obesity surgery, I have become educated on healthy eating. It was extremely eye-opening, even shocking, for me to learn where my food really came from and its effects on my health and my life. I am so far removed from the relationship with food that I once had. Never more will I stuff my face with processed... Read moreChevron
posted 06/29/2011, comments (2)|
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Family Lifestyle Therapist and R-PA
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Combatting Childhood Obesity by Limiting Food Rewards

A couple in California decided that food rewards do not belong in the public library system, so they wrote a series of letter to LA library officials stating that fact.  Their feeling was that if you are going to reward kids for reading, why not use books, stickers and other non-food rewards as the incentive.  Pizza and ice cream... Read moreChevron
posted 08/21/2008, comments (0)|
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What Current Obesity Trends Mean for Future Generations

Imagine science textbooks 100 years from now.  Apparently we are doomed to have a chapter that says, "In the year 2048, the American population completed the full mutation and morphed into a new, totally obese nation."  Sound incredible?? Even a bit insane?? Well according to experts, our destiny seems to be a 4 more decade movement that... Read moreChevron
posted 08/07/2008, comments (0)|
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