Obesity
« Previous EntriesHow Does Obesity Affect Our Health?
Thursday, March 11th, 2010You can not read a magazine or turn on the television these days without hearing about the problem of obesity in this country. Today over 130 million Americans are considered to be overweight or obese.
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Gastric Banding and Food Choices – How to Get Back to Basics After Falling Off the Wagon
Thursday, March 11th, 2010Have you had gastric banding surgery and lost weight successfully? Have you found yourself making less than perfect food choices around holidays, vacations, special events, or stressful times at work or in your personal life?
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Stop Being Obese and Do Something About It
Thursday, March 11th, 2010Most of today’s modern world population is unfit and obese; there is no doubt that there are direct correlations with our “modern” lifestyle. The fact that we can get a cheeseburger whenever we don’t feel like cooking and that just a few mouse clicks will get us anything off the internet straight to our door [...]
Cancer Adds to the Problems of Being Overweight
Thursday, March 11th, 2010We’ve all heard about the dangers of smoking and hormone replacement therapy in terms of cancer. Now there may be a new lifestyle factor that doctors will attribute to cancer – The problem of being overweight or obese.
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Food You Eat Today Becomes You Tomorrow – Simply Give Your Body What it Needs
Thursday, March 11th, 2010Science has now shown what we probably all knew.The reason we are getting heavier is that we are eating more calories. The solution then is to eat foods that the body needs so that we get the goodness we need and will be less hungry.
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Healthy Tips to Lose Weight
Thursday, March 11th, 2010Obesity is the major problem of this generation. As per the report, the world had a number of 6.5 billion obese people in 2006.
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Obesity – An Element of One’s Self Image
Thursday, March 11th, 2010I recognize similar personality traits in overweight women. Yet, everybody is different and nobody can write a book to take the place of the psychiatrist.
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Risk of a Stroke Increases As Weight Goes Up
Thursday, March 11th, 2010New research finds that the more overweight you are, the higher your risk of stroke is. Using data from the Atherosclerosis Risk in Communities Study, the team followed 13,549 middle aged (45-65 years) Americans for nearly 20 years, looking to see if ischemic stroke risk was associated with several measures of obesity; body mass index [...]
If Only I Were Skinny – Ending the Wait For Weight – Pt 1 of 2
Thursday, March 11th, 2010As a plus size woman are you thinking that life is going to change once you get thinner? Are you anticipating that as those pounds drop, and the scale moves in your favor, that everything will effortlessly fall into place, and all the situations you’ve avoided facing will magically resolve themselves? Thanks to the billions [...]
The Virtual Gastric Band – An Alternative to Surgery?
Wednesday, March 10th, 2010More people are turning to gastric band surgery as a means of managing their weight and it’s no surprise when we see the dramatic and very visible change in people, especially when we see our favourite celebrities who have had the procedure. Unfortunately there are a number of drawbacks, not least the cost and the [...]
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