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Obesogens

Since 1980 the childhood obesity rates for children between the ages of two to nineteen have tripled. For middle-aged-kids, ages six to eleven, this rate has doubled and the teen obesity rate has quadrupled.  We have an obesity epidemic in this country.  This has nothing to do with genetics; the American populace has the same […]

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Diabesity

Diabesity – what’s that?  Diabesity is the newly coined term for obesity + diabetes, and refers to the link between obesity, insulin resistance, type 2 diabetes, and metabolic syndrome.  Since this is about the link underneath these conditions, you don’t even have to be obese to have diabesity.  Does this matter to you?  Half of […]

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Weight Loss part 1

Hi , Have you ever noticed how many books there are on weight loss?  How could there possibly be so much to say about such a physiologically simple process?  Weight loss happens when you burn stored energy to do stuff.  It is the same process as burning a log in your fireplace.  You put a […]