The Wall Street Journal reported that, for some reason, America’s rising obesity rate stopped rising in 2003. Actually, it’s not just the good ‘ol USA that this is happening in, but the entire world. Researchers don’t know why, exactly, so they trot this out – at least this is the summary from the reporter: The [...]
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One of the paradoxes in a consumer society like ours, is that to lose weight, to remove something, we are typically instructed to do so by consuming something else. It’s just how we’re taught: got a problem? Buy something to fix it. A lot of folks think that they can fix their crappy diet by popping [...]
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Is the mainstream media starting to take notice? This article from Bloomberg is a must-read, I assure you. It discusses research that shows the addictive properties – real, serious, addictive responses to junk food as serious as the chemical dependency of drugs – occur. I think that while the entire article is worthy of a [...]
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New research out of the University of Switzerland has discovered a compound that forms when peanuts are boiled increases metabolic activity and leads to weight loss. As boiled peanuts are frequently eaten in Asian cultures, it is believed that the as-yet-unnamed compound, jokingly referred to as ‘gooberol’ by one British researcher, explains why there is [...]
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Empathy for fat folks is in short supply – we’re all lazy and should just push ourselves away from the table and put down the friggin fork – right? Yeah – right. I wish it was that easy. It’s what a lot of fit folks think – because they never were fat. Well, here’s a [...]
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The gist of this story about Olsetra, the fake fat that they sometime use in chips to lower the calorie count, shows that rats that eat the stuff not only eat more calories, but eat more calories even after they stop eating it. The writer of the story appears to be stunned, and writes the [...]
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Maybe it’s me. Maybe I’m the dope. I’m not a researcher, but I simply don’t know how to grasp the following report out of Australia: Losing weight is often touted as a way to improve health, but many weight-loss programs may not help stave off disease since people tend to gain the weight back, Australian [...]
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Oops. We were wrong. Again. Maybe. I love nutrition studies. You can draw whatever conclusions you like, it seems. Probably because the problem is so complex that current science can only go so far into answering these type of questions. From MSNBC.com: a new study suggests that the only thing a big breakfast does is [...]
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As if we fat folk don’t have enough problems already. This isn’t exactly new news – I had heard this years ago – but it did make the news cycle, so I thought it worth a post. From AOL News: If you’re working hard to achieve your New Year’s resolution of losing weight, you may [...]
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Here’s an interesting one. To quote from the article: The percentage of food shoppers who are obese is almost 10 times higher at low-cost grocery stores compared with upscale markets, a small new study shows. Researchers say the striking findings underscore poverty as a key factor in America’s growing girth. In the Seattle area, a [...]
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