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The reality of obesity, weight loss surgery and other things

Tuesday, November 27, 2007

New "Prevent childhood obesity" initiative forgets some things

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Today we got the news that Laura Bush (our First Lady) saluted the announcement of a new initiative to prevent "childhood obesity...
Saturday, November 24, 2007

BBC investigation shows obesity crisis to be overblown!

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We used to believe scientists and what they told us. We used to believe official reports. Now it turns out that, more often than not, they a...
Friday, November 02, 2007

Obesity and Cancer - Food and Cancer

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Actually if you read the news articles about the Report claiming to "prove without a doubt" that obesity is a serious risk factor ...
Tuesday, October 09, 2007

Most kids dieting or calorie restricting

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A survey of 500 teens in the UK revealed that 33 percent of girls between the ages of 13-18 years old are dieting however, 50 percent of th...
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Friday, September 14, 2007

Obese children - what is abuse?

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If we would listen to the media, we would put our kids on a diet, at the first sign of any fat we see. Unfortunately, our medical providers ...
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Monday, September 03, 2007

Actually fat people live longer than WLS patients, suggests study

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Those researchers on the Swedish Obesity Study (one of the studies which the news media is using to "prove" that gastric bypass pa...
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Thursday, August 23, 2007

Do gastric bypass patients really live longer than fat people?

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In the last couple of days, the headliner news has been that two studies have suggested that gastric bypass patients live longer than fat pe...
Wednesday, August 22, 2007

How the Biggest Loser lost 214 lbs

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Erik Chopin, 36 years old and winner of the "The biggest loser", revealed in an interview on Fox news how he lost 214 lbs. This w...
Thursday, August 09, 2007

Your fat friends can make you fat? III

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The full text for the New England Journal of Medicine, "fat is contagious" study is available for free at this url: http://content...
Tuesday, August 07, 2007

Why Am I fat.... Everyone knows why - they THINK

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A recent issue of the Discovery Health Newsletter , lists 7 reasons why we are not "losing weight" and it says the usual things .....
Friday, August 03, 2007

Latest insanity against people of size

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Seems the latest insanity from some insurance companies is to force people not at a certain weight or cholesterol level to pay an extra amo...
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Wednesday, August 01, 2007

Hanging out with fat people can make YOU fat - 2

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I know I already did a blog on this study but since it is an ongoing news item, I feel compelled to talk more about it, what the scientists ...
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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