This February 24, 2017 study in the Journal of the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics Society concludes that adults who ate home cooked meals and didn’t watch television during meals had a lower incidence of obesity. The study looked at over 12,000 Ohio Medicaid patients and surveyed them as to how much television they watched… Read More
More than 1 in 3 adults in the United States live with obesity, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). In 2008, obesity was estimated to cost $147 billion in medical care. Medical costs for a person with obesity were around $1,429 higher than for people without obesity. Obesity and related conditions… Read More
An article in December 2016 issue Brain, Behavior and Immunity, investigates on whether 20-minute exercise sessions can improve someone’s anti-inflammatory response. The theory is this happens by activating the sympathetic nervous system. More specifically, the researchers tested the hypothesis that a single 20-minute session of exercise would be enough to trigger sympathoadrenergic activation, which, in turn, would… Read More
Americans in this decade are less likely than in the prior decade to say they want to lose weight. This gallup study combined with data from the CDC show taht nearly half of all Americans dont realize they are overweight. Source: Fewer Americans in This Decade Want to Lose Weight… Read More
An April 13, 2016 issue of New England Journal of Medicine concluded that an increased BMI(Body Mass Index) in late adolescence was strongly associated with cardiovascular morbidity and mortality in young adulthood or midlife. From the Article Overweight and obesity in adolescents have increased substantially in recent decades and affect a third of the adolescent… Read More
There is an interesting article in the March 3, 2016 issue of NEJM that discusses obesity and that there are two new areas of research including the manipulation of brown adipose tissue and the role played by the gut microbiome in energy balance. With the tremendous epidemic of obesity, type II diabetes and dyslipidemia, it… Read More
Obesity is epidemic in the United States. It is a simple problem, American have larger portions, eat more processed food, and exercise less. Source: Obesity in America – PublicHealth.org… Read More
This study conducted by the Mayo Clinic in Minnesota and published in the January 2016 Medicine Journal looked at emergency department utilization by obese patients (those with a high BMI) and concluded that this group are substantially higher utilizers of emergency department services compared to their peers particularly in younger adult age groups. This is… Read More
