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GRHF Announces Obesity Ad Campaign
The Greater Rochester Health Foundation has announced a new TV advertising campaign that targets the parents of overweight children. The ads are part of a $50 million campaign against childhood obesi… more →
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Mea Culpa: Average Holiday Weight Gain Not as High as I Thought
wrote 3 days ago: Travis Saunders at the Obesity Panacea blog notes that average weight gain in adults over the Thanks … more →
Book Review: Good Calories, Bad Calories
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wrote 3 weeks ago: Here’s my review of good Calories, Bad Calories: Challenging the Conventional Wisdom on Diet, … more →
Are Fructose and High Fructose Corn Syrup Bad for Us?
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wrote 3 weeks ago: Table sugar (sucrose) is a combination of glucose and fructoseDarya Pino earlier this month posted a … more →
Low-Carb Ketogenic Diet for Overweight Diabetic Men: A Pilot Study
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wrote 1 month ago: A low-carb ketogenic diet in patients with type 2 diabetes was so effective that diabetes medication … more →
For Heart's Sake, Should You Avoid Red Meat in a Low-Carb Diet?
wrote 1 month ago: Low carbohydrate diets tend to contain disproportionate amounts of fat from animal sources. Red mea … more →
Olive Oil in Mediterranean Diet Linked to Lower Body Weight
wrote 1 month ago: The source of virgin olive oilThe University of Navarra in Spain reported recently that a diet rich … more →
Low-Carb Diet Helps Obese Swedes With Diabetes
wrote 1 month ago: Obese people with type 2 diabetes following a 20% carbohydrate diet demonstrated sustained improveme … more →
Low-Carb Ketogenic Diet Beats Low-Glycemic Index Diet in Overweight Type 2 Diabetes
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wrote 1 month ago: Avoid the needle with a low-carb ketogenic diet Duke University (U.S.) researchers demonstrated bett … more →
Medical Cost of Obesity Soars
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wrote 5 months ago: Healthcare dollarsA report released last week found that obese individuals in the U.S. spend an extr … more →
ADA Now Says Low-Carb Diets OK for Overweight Type 2 Diabetics
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wrote 5 months ago: Eighty-five percent of type 2 diabetics are overweight or obese. Overweight either causes or aggrav … more →
A Chance to Cut is a Chance to Cure
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wrote 6 months ago: "Has anybody seen my pen?"Gastric bypass is the most common bariatric surgery in the U.S. … more →
Does Weight Loss Prevent Type 2 Diabetes?
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wrote 6 months ago: Finger-pricking four times a day gets old real quick! I found an interesting statistic in a scientif … more →
Low-Carb Diet Beats Low-Fat, Calorie-Restricted Diet
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wrote 6 months ago: Body mass index 38 I found one of the early studies (2003) demonstrating the effectiveness and safet … more →
OBESITY IS VERY DANGER!
wrote 9 months ago: Overweight and obesity are now defined by Body Mass Index (BMI) values (weight in kilograms divided … more →
GRHF Announces Obesity Ad Campaign
wrote 1 year ago: The Greater Rochester Health Foundation has announced a new TV advertising campaign that targets the … more →
Overweight Black Children: How Do We Handle This Crisis?
wrote 1 year ago: The percentage of black children who are overweight has sky-rocketed since the 1970s. The Child Tren … more →
LA Restricts Fast Food Restaurants
wrote 1 year ago: The government response to the obesity crisis has taken many forms over the last several years, incl … more →
Foodlink: Healthy Meals Still Available
wrote 1 year ago: Foodlink is attempting to raise awareness — and participation — in its summer meals prog … more →
In the News: Cancer Rates and Education and Obesity and Diabetes
wrote 1 year ago: Two new studies of interest out today. The first links cancer rates and socioeconomic status, parti … more →
