Archive for August, 2006
Adult obesity increases in 31 states
An August 2006 report titled “F as in Fat: How obesity policies are failing in America” (PDF) from the Trust For America’s Health shows that over the past year, adult obesity rates have increased in 31 states in the U.S. and stayed the same in the rest of the states. The worst affected are the [...]
Starvation Response: Why drastic calorie reduction does not work
When trying to throw some light on the quintessential question “Why do we crave sugar?“, I mentioned how well the human body has adapted to changing situations. The eternal hunt for sweetness, however, is only one of the amazing things we have learnt over years of living in different environments. Famine, drought, predators, nature and [...]
Be overweight during midlife and have fewer years to live?
In one of my posts, a couple of months back, I wrote that “Body Fat % [...] is a much better indicator of a person’s fitness levels than the BMI (which are often subjective depending on a person’s frame-size or how active his lifestyle is)” and this is very much true. Think of a well [...]
Del.icio.us links
During the course of a normal news day, the most popular news-sites, that I frequently use to draw inspiration from, have about 5-7 new stories a day. Of these, many are either drug-industry, disease or medical-science related, while typically just 1 or 2 are general-health and fitness (the niche of this blog) related.
When I see [...]
100 Calorie Packs – calorie controlled but nutritionally empty
As I walk down the snack food aisle my eyes are once again accosted by the myriad colorful and flashy signs from the product boxes. I always ignore the usual suspects like “Low Fat!”, “Low Carb!” and “0 grams trans fats!”, but lately I have been seeing a new suspect in the middle of the [...]
