The new rules of weight loss
The ever-growing obsession with beauty and weight loss has seeded the growth of some very extreme ways to get thin. There’s the diet pill, fad diets, the cleanses and my personal favorite, (if only out of sheer bewilderment) the waist trainers that women are using, which are basically corsets that rearrange your internal organs to Read More
Research shows just 7 days of overeating and inactivity causes insulin resistance
Obesity is now so bad in America that doctors have coined a term, metabolic syndrome, to cover the laundry list of symptoms associated with the extra fat. Among these are type 2 diabetes and insulin resistance. While these might seem like obvious additions to the list, the reason has not been clear until now. In Read More
Fat shaming advocated as needed approach to weight loss
Most researchers are against fat shaming, but one bioethicist, Daniel Callahan, favors a much harder, even shaming approach to weight loss. In a report published by the Hastings Center, Callahan claims that people don’t hate being fat enough to do something about it. He also suggests that fat people are indulged by society. After all, Read More
Top 10 foods that help regulate blood sugar and prevent diabetes
Diabetes is a prevalent ailment to scourge society. It is a metabolic disorder that is caused by the inability of the pancreas to produce the hormone insulin. Insulin is required to metabolize the sugar levels in the blood. When insulin becomes deficient, sugar is retained in the blood, and this deficiency can lead to type Read More
Doctors sell short-term benefits of weight loss surgery without disclosing long-term failure statistics
Surgeons are in the business of selling surgery. It appears that, like any salesperson interested in making as much money as possible, they may be pitching the benefits without mentioning the downside. In the case of weight loss surgery, there is not only the downside of horrendous side effects but also the reality that, long-term, Read More
Shocking annual death toll from sugary drinks
Sugary drinks kill you. Remember that the next time you’d like to suck one down. You’re flirting with your own mortality every time you do. This isn’t speculation. It’s science. According to a recently released study, scientists have finally quantified the world-wide death toll from sugary drinks. Results were published in the journal Circulation. Every Read More
