According to obesity america 2008, in 1991, no US state had an obesity rate above 20 percent. Today more than sixty percent of people are overweight, not necessarily obese, but the figure for obesity for 2008 was 25%. It will be well above that today because the obesity numbers grow exponentially. The fact is that today, almost 2 thirds of the population is overweight, and they are all heading towards obesity and type2 diabetes. You have ice in...more
The real problem is not how to stop sugar craving. No matter what kind of diet you choose, or how well you stick to it, at the end of it, the weight will already be on the way back. You will get on the scales one day and realize that you carry more weight than when you started. That is what happens after any diet that has caused you to reduce your calories.If you lose weight by cutting down your calories the weight will always return, and always...more
If you start on a diet which demands you lower your calories you have already embarked on the road that leads to ultimate obesity. Each time you begin a new diet you travel a little further down the road. Type 2 diabetes is just a small detour from obesity. To get off that road you need to eliminate diets for good.Until five years ago, I was as guilty of dieting as anyone else. I am a persistent person and I kept deluding myself that I had what it took to keep the weight off.My weight problem started in the early 80s. My thyroid had become damaged during some surgery that had gone wrong and for the first time, I began to gain weight. The doctor referred me to a dietician for professional help.Normally I would have spent a few weeks in the gym and worked it off. But these were new, modern times, in the beginning of the eighties, when a dietician was a new kind of expert who could help us learn the right foods to eat and how to correctly regulate our weight.So I was put on my very first diet ever. It was the two third carbohydrate diet also known as the Pyramid. It was the very latest in food technology. Like millions of other people, I never lost a pound. Instead I gradually...more
I am sure all parents worry about the food they give their children. They recognize that American obesity in children is caused first and foremost in the home and they do their best to follow the recommendations they get from experts like Nutritionists. The trouble is, those experts are not real experts and they are equipped with the wrong...more
The Big Diet Fraud That Started ObesityThis was the age of broad experimentation, a lot of it non-scientific. A lot of it was centered around food and eating. There had never been a need for either medicine or science to look at changing a food regime which people had followed pretty much unchanged for centuries.The medical profession seemed quite...more
Thirty years ago the majority of people were slim. It was a time when diet cravings were rare. People would handle their own weight problems, if and when they put on a few pounds. They would simply exercise more and cut down on snacks for a few weeks. Today the majority of people are overweight. Chances are they are either on a diet, about to go on a diet or they have just finishes a diet. In thirty years, diets have gone from being almost ignored to being a way of life. Back when Nutritionist first arrived on the scene they had some serious news about cholesterol. Tests had shown that just about everybody had very high cholesterol. The way to correct that was to follow a diet they had designed for that purpose.Nobody had thought much about diets and even less about nutritionists, but what they heard was a little scary. So a large number of people, most of them not even overweight, went on the diet to avoid what they were told would be a heart attack or a strokes.What they did not know, and perhaps the Nutritionists did not know either, was that to correctly measure cholesterol, there are two separate readings. One is for the healthy cholesterol, and the other for the bad. The...more
The phrase, legal for trade scale means, a weighing scale, which is granted the legal permission to be used for commercial operation. Such a scale is used for weight measurement in a manufacturing, retail or trading facility where accuracy in the...more
Author: Gail MercedesThose that suffer from Celiac disease require a gluten free diet. Therefore, a gluten free diet and Celiac diet are the same diets. Celiac disease is a hereditary condition. Most common among with those of Scandinavian-Celtic...more
If you are to thinking about the kind of diets that work, weigh loss must be in your mind. As much as dieting helps to manage body weight, dieting should primarily be targeted at enabling a healthier lifestyle.Some of the diets plans offered by...more
If there is something ideal for those who want to live a healthy lifestyle, running to lose weight might be the best stepping stone. If you are plagued by an excess weight tally you can easily burn it through running. Forming the habit of frequent...more
I had wanted to have a baby for so long and it had been a bit of a struggle for me, due to circumstances. You can imagine, the day I was able to announce it, it became real, I was going to be a Mom! I had all the major fears, "Would I be a good...more
Author: Gail MercedesThere are lactose intolerances, casein allergies and milk allergies. Each is a different allergy or intolerance. To alleviate symptoms milk and milk derivatives have to be removed from both diets. Some processed foods can contain...more