If you gain weight during your early adult years through middle-age how does that impact your health and the risk of dying too young? A recent study showed that weight gain in adulthood significantly increased all causes of death. In this nationally representative study, the researchers also found that those who lost enough weight to … Read More
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Tempted to try the latest diet you read about in a tabloid magazine at the checkout line in the supermarket. Before you do, ask yourself these questions. Does it promote or ban specific foods or groups of foods? Does it promote a one-size-fits-all approach and leave little room for individualization? Does it promise quick weight … Read More
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Childhood obesity is one of the most serious public health challenges in the 21st century. The problem is global and growing at an alarming rate. In 2016, more than 41 million children under the age of 5 were overweight. Overweight 4-year-olds have double the risk of high blood pressure by age 6. This initiates a … Read More
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Today we eat 300 more calories every day than we did 35 years ago. Because food is everywhere in our daily lives, we are encouraged to eat standing in line at the supermarket, at the drugstore, and while pumping gas in addition to all the coffee shops, quick service restaurants, food trucks and ice cream … Read More
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We have long known that people who work the night shift or rotate shifts find it easier to gain weight and harder to lose. Though we have been able to observe these differences, until now we did not know why this happened. A recent research study (Human Resting Energy Expenditure Varies with Circadian Phase ) … Read More
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Research published in the Journal of the Academy of Nutrition and Dieteticslooked at life-course theory to explain how obesity develops over time taking into account a person’s life events. For a person to get the right intervention to lose weight it is important to determine if changes in weight were the result of a dramatic … Read More
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Use mustard, salsa or plain yogurt in place of 1 tablespoon of mayonnaise. Eat 1 slice of toast at breakfast instead of 2. Order a cup of soup instead of a bowl. Try a plain baked potato with pepper and nonfat plain yogurt instead of sour cream. Eat cereal with skim milk instead of whole … Read More
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Your gut bacteria may not be on your side when you switch to a healthier diet? All of us carry around trillions of microbial hitchhikers that interact with us every day. Researchers from Washington University in St. Louis, looked at how our human gut microbiota responds to diet. They found that those people who typically ate … Read More
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According to David Katz, MD, Director of the Yale University Prevention Research Center, “There are many efforts to combat obesity, but… We do much more across the expanse of our culture, to foster obesity, than to defend against it.” New statistics from 2011 to 2014 from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention support his … Read More
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A recently published research study showed that men were more likely to overeat when they ate their meals with women. They ate less when they shared a meal with guy friends. Not only did the men eat more unhealthy foods (like pizza) when their dinner companion was a woman but they also ate more healthy … Read More
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