I took my sons for routine blood tests this week, and given that they are the offspring of two type 1 diabetics, you can imagine the fears in the back…
Tag: Obesity
Obesity, a condition linked to heart disease and diabetes, now appears to be associated with another health problem, but one that affects men only - low testosterone levels. A new study conducted by University at Buffalo and published online ahead of print in the journal Diabetes Care, showed that 40 percent of obese participants...
Call me late to the game, this book came out last year, but I just read Dr. David Kessler's The End of Overeating, Taking Control of the Insatiable American Appetite. Wow! If you haven't read it, you should. It's never too late to tell someone about a good book.
I can no longer look at food as anything but salt loaded on fat loaded on sugar.
According to a group of retired admirals, generals, and other senior military leaders, about 27 percent of young adults are medically ineligible for the military service, CNN reports.
The leading medical reason is being overweight or obese. The Army's body fat limit for women in the 21-27 age range, with no prior service is 32 percent body fat and for males...
Scientists from the Garvan Institute of Medical Research in Sydney Australia have shown for the first time that even modest weight loss reverses many of the damaging changes often seen in the immune cells of obese people, particularly in those with Type 2 diabetes...
We ate Kraft singles on white bread, chewy granola bars, potato chips, graham crackers, and popsicles...
A research team led by Dr. Alon Chen of the Weizmann Institute’s Neurobiology Department has discovered that changes in the activity of a single gene in the brain not only cause mice to exhibit anxious behavior, but also lead to metabolic changes that cause the mice to develop...
I watched the first episode of Jamie Oliver's Food Revolution, his new reality TV series. Like Oliver, I could barely contain my dismay.
A new study, published online by PLoS Medicine, estimates that smoking, high blood pressure, elevated blood glucose, and obesity currently reduce life expectancy in the U.S. by 4.9 years in men and 4.1 years in women. It is the first study to look at the effects of those four preventable risk factors on life expectancy in the whole nation...
According to a Kaiser Permanente study of 710,949 children and teens, extreme obesity is affecting more children at younger ages, with 12 percent of black teenage girls, and 11.2 percent of Hispanic teenage boys now classified as extremely obese. In the study researchers used measured height and weight in electronic health records to conduct a cross-sectional study of 710,949 children...