Archive for the ‘Diabetes and Obesity’ Category
Tuesday, December 6th, 2011
Interval training is maximum cardiovascular exercise. All cardio benefits are ramped-up by doing interval training once a week. The benefits are huge - your heart rate slows, you use oxygen more efficiently, you get faster - quickly, and you feel great from all those endorphins running around in your bloodstream.
Here ...
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Friday, January 23rd, 2009
[caption id="attachment_494" align="alignleft" width="220" caption="Dr. David Katz"][/caption]Today SCIENCE AND SOCIETY presented an in-depth interview with Dr. David Katz, an internationally recognized authority on nutrition, weight management, and the prevention of chronic disease.
Dr. Katz discussed solutions for ending the diabetes and obesity epidemics, including action steps for schools, physicians, government, communities, ...
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Wednesday, November 26th, 2008
In July 2008 the American Academy of Pediatrics recommended that some children as young as 8 be treated aggressively with cholesterol-lowering drugs.
More recently, in the November 20th, 2008 edition of the New England Journal of Medicine,
researchers recommended that statins be prescribed for millions of healthy people with normal cholesterol levels.
Needless ...
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Wednesday, November 19th, 2008
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Jill Baron, MD is a board-certified Family Physician who practices Integrative Medicine in New York City. Dr. Baron’s practice combines conventional western medicine with holistic and mind-body therapies including nutrition, stress management, weight management, and menopause therapies. A ...
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Sunday, November 9th, 2008
We are constantly searching the landscape for heroes, not to fill in a missing piece in ourselves, but rather to be a cause of inspiration, stimulation, and motivation. Even those of us who are self-starters, self-motivators, need coaches and mentors to cause us to reach ever-higher levels of achievement.
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Monday, October 20th, 2008
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Kristy Lee Wilson, a certified personal trainer and performance enhancement specialist, has been an elite athlete for 20 years. For eight years she was an elite gymnast with the Australian Institute of Sport and ranked as one of Australia’s top junior gymnasts. Kristy Lee ...
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Thursday, October 16th, 2008
Weight loss is not about suffering. It could be, of course. Plenty of people go through plenty of suffering trying to lose weight. But why have it that way? Sure there's some discipline involved, but the process can actually be empowering and personally fulfilling. Losing weight can actually a fun ...
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Tuesday, October 7th, 2008
A diabetes epidemic has been sweeping the globe for many years. In 2005, an estimated 21 million people in the United States had diabetes – 7% of the population. African-Americans, Hispanic-Americans, and older people are at increased risk.
The majority of affected persons have adult-onset diabetes – non-insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus [NIDDM] ...
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