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Do you wonder how medical weight loss is different from other weight loss plans? Good question! We happen to think it’s better for a few important reasons…
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Every February 2nd, we look to the groundhog for a signal of what we can expect in the change of seasons. Will it be six more weeks of winter or will we welcome an early spring? That got us thinking about this funny time of year when six weeks is made to feel dark and miserable. Why not turn it around into something positive and productive, regardless of what the groundhog has to say?
Tags: exercise, fad diet, fitness, junk food, obesity, weight gain, weight loss
While the country continues to navigate the uncertainty of operating during the COVID-19 pandemic, recent evidence points to a distressing yet sadly unsurprising fact. Obesity, and especially morbid obesity, is linked to higher mortality and severe symptoms due to COVID-19 when compared to healthy weight patients.
While there’s encouraging news about the widespread availability of the COVID-19 vaccines, we won’t be out of the woods for a while. We should also view the pandemic as a wake-up call to the dangers of obesity to our general health.
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Every year it seems losing weight is right at the top of the list of the most popular New Year’s Resolutions. But sadly, by February most of these people will have given up on their goal and reverted to their old ways, only to resolve the following year to lose the weight once again.
This year, we’d like to suggest you make keeping off any weight you lose in 2021 your resolution. We like that resolution better than to lose weight because losing the weight is only part of the battle keeping the weight off is really the way to make the resolution mean something.
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Statistics show that America’s obesity epidemic is still deepening on the whole, but how does it break down by individual state? We thought it would be interesting to take a look at how the states compare when it comes to body weight statistics within the last 20 years, and attempt to hypothesize about the statistical disparity between them.
We should point out a couple of important things before getting to the statistics that provide context for why these numbers matter.
First, the clinical definition of obesity is having a Body Mass Index (BMI) of 30 or higher. BMI has a directly proportional relationship with increased risk of developing over 59 other chronic diseases, such as Type 2 diabetes, high blood pressure, heart disease, and even some forms of cancer. It’s important to know the standard method of measuring and diagnosing obesity so you can personally understand where you fit into the big picture.
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The number of Americans living with diabetes is rising. In 2010, 25.8 million Americans, or 8.3 percent of the population had diabetes. In 2015, that number rose to 30.3 million, making up 9.4 percent of the population, according to the Center for Disease Control and Prevention.
Tags: diabetes, diabetes diet tips, eating, food, obesity, obesity health risks, sugar, Type 2 Diabetes, weight
