Parents who work long and odd hours are more apt to buy fast food and prepared entrees, says the study by Cornell University researchers, published in the September/October issue of the Journal of Nutrition Education.Ā And another coping mechanism is to skip some meals entirely. The survey study found that: About a quarter of moms […]
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The caloric density of foods that we’re exposed to has also changed dramatically in the last few decades.Ā The more manufacturers process the food, the greater the caloric density the food product often obtains. For example, letās look at the number of calories per pound of corn and corn products: Fresh Corn – 490 calories
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Clearly there are strong genetic influences on body fatness.Ā But what’s really inherited is the rank order of body fatness compared to the the people who have a lifestyle that’s similar to yours. If both your parents were 200 pounds, that does not mean that you are destined to be 200 pounds. But if both
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Weight loss (bariatric) surgery has been shown to reduce diabetes-related mortality by 88%. A study published in the New England Journal of Medicine showed that weight loss surgery surgery reduced the overall death rate by 34%, disease-related deaths and cardiovascular deaths by 48%, cancer-related deaths by 59%, and diabetes-related deaths by 88% in patients with
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What is Insulin Resistance? Insulin is a hormone. It helps your body move sugar from the blood stream into the muscles and the liver where the sugar is used as fuel or converted into fatty acids that are later moved into the fat cells and are stored as energy there. In some people, the muscle
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