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Last weekend I noticed a billboard on the highway that read: Obesity is a disease, it is not a choice! Nice way to avoid responsibility–put the blame elsewhere. This billboard was promoting a weight loss program (not a bad idea, but a misleading headline!) Remember the days when the main excuse for weight gain [...]
The Turkish people love to eat! My husband and I just spent 8 days visiting this interesting country and noticed that very few individuals were obese (or even overweight). There is fast food in the cities but it tends to be buffets with lots of veggies, cheese, lamb and chicken. Some form of [...]
Women who worked a rotating night shift had an increased risk of type 2 diabetes that was not completely explained by an increase in body mass index (BMI), according to results of a prospective study of women who were enrolled in the Nurses’ Health Studies. Nurses who had 1 to 10 years of night shift [...]
In 2020, the vast majority of adults in America will be overweight or obese and more than half will suffer from diabetes or pre-diabetic conditions, according to projections presented by Northwestern Medicine researchers at the American Heart Association (AHA) Scientific Sessions recently in Orlando. The AHA has set a target to help Americans improve their [...]
This sounds like a headline that Jay Leno would satirize on his late night show! Low-income women with children who move from high-poverty to lower-poverty neighborhoods experience notable long-term improvements in diabetes and extreme obesity, according to a new study. While I appreciate that this study was the first to employ a important randomized [...]
Why are some people obese while others are lean? Obese people must make poor eating choices, but could there be a physiological basis for those poor choices? A new study reveals that obese and lean people make decisions about short-term versus long-term rewards differently and have physical differences in their brains. Surprisingly, some of these [...]
To many, a tax on soda is a no-brainer in advancing the nation’s war on obesity. Advocates point to a number of studies in recent years that conclude that sugary drinks have a lot to do with why Americans are getting fatter. But obese people tend to drink diet sodas, and therefore taxing soft drinks [...]
It has been reported in the past that obesity (body fat mass) is protective against osteoporosis and fracture. However, a recent study has documented a high prevalence of obesity in postmenopausal women with fragility fracture. An international group of researchers has presented research at the European Congress on Osteoporosis & Osteoarthritis that compares the prevalence [...]
Addictive eating behavior and substance dependence have similar patterns of brain activity, finds a new study from the Rudd Center for Food Policy and Obesity at Yale. The study is published in the Archives of General Psychiatry and is the first to link symptoms of addictive eating behavior with specific patterns of brain activity in [...]
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