Monday, December 31, 2012

Small Easy Changes Can Lead to Sustainable Weight Loss and Healthier Eating Habits

Not quite. These results confirm that small, consistent changes in our daily eating behavior can result in gradual weight loss and developi...

Obesity Care May Not Be Best Delivered by PCPs

Understatement, false statement and truer-words-were-never-spoke statement of the year. To meet the challenges of a growing obesity epidemi...

Body's Food Clock Upset By Holiday Overindulgence

Now you have it. The reason why people overeat the remaining 362.25 days of the year. Overindulgence during this feasting season can play...

How To Keep From Overindulging This Holiday Season

Don't. Go ahead and overindulge. It is the holiday season. At the end of this posting, I will provide a guide on how best to overeat...
Sunday, December 30, 2012

Targeting Taste Receptors in the Gut May Help Fight Obesity

Has to work. Despite more than 25 years of research on antiobesity drugs, few medications have shown long-term success. Now researchers r...

From Farm To Table, Mealworms May Be The Next Best Food

At last. A weight loss strategy from the experts that has a prayer of working. And, this type of grub, has the added advantage of delive...

Are Bacteria Making You Hungry?

Only if you find their looks/taste appealing. Over the last half decade, it has become increasingly clear that the normal gastrointestinal ...
Saturday, December 29, 2012

Bye Bye Mediterranean Diet, the Poorest Can't Afford It Anymore

So what? And when you read the following drivel, see if you can determine what the heck these morons are talking about? Recently the Medi...

Occasional Family Meals Enough to Boost Kids' Fruit and Veg Intake

BFD. Eating meals together as a family, even if only once or twice a week, increases children's daily fruit and vegetable intake to nea...

Obesity May Be Declining Among Preschool-Aged Children Living in Low-Income Families

Not if the mirror is the reason why the too-fat decide to lose weight. For years Blanca Ramirez, like many Americans, started each new year...
Friday, December 28, 2012

Popular TV Chef Recipes 'Less Healthy' Than Supermarket Ready Meals

And remember that First Cow, Michellesie Obama, encourages celebrity chefs to create meals for kids. Recipes created by popular television ...

Intensive Weight-Loss Intervention Linked With Increased Chance of Partial Remission from Diabetes

Two important points. Among overweight adults, participation in an intensive lifestyle intervention (that included counseling sessions and ...

Eating Whole Eggs Can Improve Blood Lipids

Does this seem different from what we have been hearing for, oh, the last forever number of years? Eating whole eggs can improve lipoprotei...
Thursday, December 27, 2012

Aerobic Exercise Trumps Resistance Training for Weight and Fat Loss

Not news. Fitness Watch and FitnessMed have been telling this to people for years. Aerobic training is the best mode of exercise for burn...

New Compound Reverses Fatty Liver Disease

Fatty liver disease is what fatty people get. Scientists from the Florida campus of The Scripps Research Institute (TSRI) have developed th...

Muscle-Loss Study Sheds New Light On Ways to Prevent Muscle Loss, Obesity and Diabetes

Crapapalooza. A research study from Nanyang Technological University (NTU) has yielded important breakthroughs on how the body loses muscle...
Wednesday, December 26, 2012

Weight Loss Achieved by 2 Lifestyle Interventions

More evidence that too-fat is a choice. Two different lifestyle interventions modeled after those delivered in the Diabetes Prevention Prog...

Brown Fat Transplants May Spur Weight Loss

Not. But it is interesting to see this progression in the field of Brown Therapy. See here . Mice given brown fat transplants lose wei...

Curbing Car Travel Could Be as Effective as Cutting Calories

Stupid, stupid, stupid. Those considering how to maintain a healthy weight during holiday festivities, or looking ahead to New Year's r...