Archive for the ‘Obesity’ Category
Fast Food and Metabolic Syndrome
Tweet There is yet another group of researchers trying their best to demonstrate how bad fast food is. If you’re tempted to roll your eyes at this point, I could hardly blame you. This is something that most of us “know” even though we really don’t have a whole lot of proof in the form [...]
In: Diabetes, Diet, Insulin, Obesity
McDonald’s Drops Pink Slimy Stuff!
Tweet Poor McDonald’s just can’t do anything right. Every time they try, they can’t shake the widely-held speculation that they are chiefly responsible for the obesity epidemic. I know you’ve heard it: The reason the children in the inner cities are so fat is because they have little access to fruits and vegetables. Instead, they [...]
In: Diet, Disease, Obesity, Sugar
Getting Fatter
Tweet The news on weight only gets worse. The excuses and recommendations remain the same — completely ineffectual. The doctors believe that no one is listening to them. They think it’s a simple matter of eating less and exercising more. The fact is that in 1995, there was not a single state with an obesity [...]
In: Diabetes, Diet, Heart Disease, Hypertension, Insulin, Obesity, Populations, Sugar
Prejudiced Doctors
Tweet I’ve always maintained that the biggest problem with the modern medical community is their overconfidence. On the one hand, they’ve become very good at keeping us alive and applying band-aids to chronic disease. Their biggest shortcoming is that they can’t cure practically anything. Some of it is their fault but most of it is [...]
In: Diet, Disease, Obesity, Sugar, Uncategorized
Excess Pounds
Tweet I saw two very interesting articles regarding possible causes for excess pounds. It’s universally recognized that weight gain for adults happens over a period of years. It’s a steady weight gain that people have a very hard time controlling. A team at Harvard recently looked at data on 120,877 U.S. women and men from [...]
