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What’s The True Obesity Culprit: Caloric Intake Or Physical Activity?

Posted on 10. May, 2009 by Andrew.

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We’ve talked about how, in an effort to lose weight, simply eating fewer calories seems to be the most important single step a person can take. So on the flip side, what was the single most determining factor for the rise in obesity in America in the last 30 years? Was it our [...]

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Should Your Employer Be Charging You For Bad Health Habits?

Posted on 01. Mar, 2009 by Andrew.

You’ve heard the studies on weight loss and cash incentives, how people tend to lose more weight when there is a pot of gold at the end of the rainbow. And I’m sure you’re familiar with the television application of this in THE BIGGEST LOSER. So why wouldn’t your employer get in on the action?
But [...]

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Why Teens Do Not Need Statins

Posted on 25. Feb, 2009 by Andrew.

It’s been a while since we’ve talked about statins (which managed to snag the #1 spot in my Top 10 Biggest Health & Fitness Losers of 2008) and a new study is going to bring it back into the lime-light.
By this point, I’m sure my feelings on childhood obesity are glaringly obvious to Go Healthy [...]

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How Fighting The Obesity Crisis Can Help Fight The Economic Crisis

Posted on 06. Feb, 2009 by Andrew.

There was a great article in the LA Times that brought up a very interesting correlation between the obesity crisis and the economic crisis. What’s the connection? Check this out:
The idea is that improvements in public health would decrease obesity-related health and economic costs (estimated at $100 billion per year) and would position Americans to [...]

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Think Malnutrition Can’t Affect You?

Posted on 26. Dec, 2008 by Andrew.

When you say the word “malnutrition”, most people get a picture of a small child in sub-Saharan Africa with a disproportionately large stomach, flies circling his/her teared face. But this is not the only face of a person suffering from malnutrition. Malnutrition can affect those of any socioeconomic background. That’s exactly what the article over [...]

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Childhood Obesity: A Parental Solution

Posted on 24. Dec, 2008 by Andrew.

I read a great article in The Los Angeles Times the other day that took a look at a study in the Journal of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine aimed at helping to get obese and overweight kids to slim down. The study suggests that:
“…a family-based intervention — even one that only involves parents — may [...]

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Battling obesity the healthy way - Part 1

Posted on 06. Nov, 2008 by Andrew.

Though I have touched on weight loss approaches in the past, I realized that I have not tackled the issue of obesity. Obesity, as defined by The American Dietetic Association:
“…is a complex multifactoral chronic disease state involving interactions between genetic, physiological, psychological, metabolic, and environmental influences.”
Every one of those factors was present in my experience [...]