suethsayings

The reality of obesity, weight loss surgery and other things

Wednesday, January 30, 2008

Pizza, Fat and Genetics

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My 12 year old granddaughter is as slim as a rail. Not "skinny" but just perfect... looks great in pants etc. Like I never did, ...
Thursday, January 24, 2008

is this a diet blog?

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I had a gent leave a comment here, saying he just loved the content of this blog. And then, in the next sentence, he advertised his favorit...
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Wednesday, January 23, 2008

Why are so many weight loss surgery patients on antidepressants?

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A friend sent me an article today from one of the large medical sites. The article was authored by Drs Roizen and Mehmet Oz (of "You O...
Monday, January 21, 2008

It's all her fault that she got a repercussion of WLS

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In my favorite WLSer blog, "Melting Mama" , Beth details how some "rocket scientists" are accusing her of -causing- h...
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Wednesday, January 16, 2008

Queen Size movie was a Queen size diet ad

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Recently Lifetime aired a movie called "Queen Sized" about a very fat High School lady who was nominated for Homecoming queen as a...
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Saturday, January 05, 2008

Weight loss surgery ads disguise themselves

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I shouldn't write another blog so soon, but an article I saw in Newsweek annoyed me just a bit too much. It's because the article tr...
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Friday, January 04, 2008

But it's NOT a diet!

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Weight Watchers has a new ad campaign. They tell their viewers that "Diets don't work". Which is true - countless studies sug...
Thursday, December 20, 2007

Big Medicine revisited

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People may remember a blog I wrote in June 2007 in which I accused the TV show "BIG MEDICINE" of being an infomercial for weight l...
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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...
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