suethsayings

The reality of obesity, weight loss surgery and other things

Friday, July 27, 2007

Fat Friends make you Fat?

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We have heard of photo-shopping photos to make them look like we want them to look. And they can also photo shop movies. Remember the one w...
Tuesday, July 24, 2007

is there a childhood obesity epidemic 2?

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I received an interesting email from Rae this AM. I'll reprint it here because it's important what she said: Wow. I can't believ...
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Monday, July 23, 2007

childhood obesity - real or hype?

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An article on a science site, questions whether the "childhood obesity epidemic" isn't just a bunch of hype: http://www.sirc.o...
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Sunday, June 24, 2007

Commenter objects to info on obesity and evolution

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I received a feedback comment which accused me of telling "lies" in my article on evolution. This article was written with the aid...
Friday, June 15, 2007

Obesity surgery safe for teens? Let's have a closer look!

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So the latest scoop in all the papers is that an obesity surgeon, Dr Varela of the UT Southwestern Medical Center in Texas has reported on a...
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Saturday, June 09, 2007

diets in general

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I love to hear different opinions... so I hope folks don't mind hearing MY opinion.... MEE not have an opinion? NAW.... *LOL* OK, ...
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Monday, June 04, 2007

TV show, "Big Surgery" is a big informercial

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Possibly hitting bottom with biased shows on bariatric surgery, (weight loss surgery) is the new show on Discovery channel TLC entitled ...
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Saturday, May 19, 2007

Can fat hysteria be dumbing down our kids?

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Most public schools these days, are very concerned with the fatness of the kids who attend there. In walking around the cafeteria of a pu...
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the News abounds with news - some of it junk

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On the good side of the news, Gina Kolata has written a book which tells its readers some of the things about weight loss that the diet ind...
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Wednesday, April 25, 2007

Fat workers cost employers more money due to injury?? NOT

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The latest little anti obesity fluff from abcnews, claims that >>>> Overweight workers cost their bosses more in injury cla...
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Friday, April 13, 2007

Baby Boomer obesity study flawed

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A study last year which made headline news (of course) shouted that Baby Boomers who were just a tad "overweight" (BMI 25-27) woul...
Thursday, March 22, 2007

exercise - what is too much?

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A blog recently stated: >> What is MIA in health recommendations, intent on getting everyone exercising 60-90 minutes a day, is balan...
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Friday, March 09, 2007

The Atkins Diet works the best!

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So our newest article on dieting from the prestigious medical journal, the JAMA, tells us that in a study lasting one year, people lost the...
Monday, March 05, 2007

less people dieting

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According to a recent news article , even though our society is totally fat phobic and food obsessed, only 16 percent of the population is d...
Sunday, March 04, 2007

Child obesity epidemic? Where IS IT?

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A recent blog mentioned a campaign in which "childhood obesity" was targeted on billboards as a "public health issue". ...
Friday, March 02, 2007

too fat to love? Maybe not!

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Apparently Pat Buchanon is the one who started the "is Al Gore too fat to run for president" news which has hit the media like a t...
Tuesday, February 13, 2007

Older adults have more fat and less muscle

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A "double whammy" for adults, announces an article in "Medical News" reporting on a study at Wake University which incl...
Sunday, February 11, 2007

Is all Food really FOOD?

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We read every day that certain foods are bad, other foods are "good". The opinions (I suppose similar to many other topics) seem t...
Friday, February 09, 2007

WLS - Weight Loss Surgery - the real question is quality of life

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One blog that I read, the medpundit , has an excellent article about bariatric (weight loss surgery i.e. WLS). In it the physician gives ...
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Wednesday, February 07, 2007

Artificial Sweetener - really a diet aid?

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Artificial sweetener is considered a good thing in our society because it doesn't have any calories and thus, people feel they can hav...
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