Thin Isn’t “In”
With all the emphasis on overweight/obesity, it’s hard to visualize having the opposite problem. But quite a few do…especially young women who aspire to be models. Michael had started her modeling career in Texas as a 5-foot-9, 130-pound 15-year-old, and at every rung she climbed on her career ladder, she heard the same thing: She needed to take off a few pounds. It was a couple of pounds for Dallas, a few more for New...
Oleoyl-Estrone
Admittedly, I don’t keep a very close watch on what Big Pharma is up to, when it comes to the development of anti-obesity drugs…let’s face it, most of ’em don’t do much, and carry a significant risk of side effects. Some of the sides are relatively harmless (i.e., anal leakage from Orlistat), while others are more serious (i.e., depression/suicide risk from Rimonabant). And – to be blunt – I...
TV/Video Linked to Overweight/Adiposity in Preschoolers
To add to Paul’s comments about the detrimental effects of TV on children’s food choices, a recent study found a correlation between the time preschoolers spend in front of the tube, and their weight/degree of adiposity (as measured by skinfold thickness). The American Academy of Pediatrics recommends restricting TV/video viewing for children to < 2 hours/day. Yet the study found …that 30.8 percent of the...
1.5 Cheers for McDonald’s
Chris Coleson’s 80+ pound weight loss hit the news cycle recently. The former 276 pounder now weighs in at a relatively svelte 190 lbs. and has dropped 14 pants sizes: his waist went from 50 inches to 36 inches. That’s pretty impressive, although what he did was less newsworthy than how he did it. But rather than try conventional diets, which had failed him before, the then 276-pound Coleson opted for his own...
The Worst Diets Ever
The WebMD site has a nice little article on crash diets, called “The Worst Diets Ever: Diets That Don’t Work.” While it doesn’t call out very many diets by name, it provides a good set of guidelines on how to evaluate a diet program. What does a bad diet look like? The author, Kathleen Zelman, offers 5 criteria to ID which ones to avoid: Diets that focus on only a few foods or food groups “Detox”...
The “No TV” Diet!
Here’s a suggestion for losing weight… Unplug the TV. Or, if you want to live a little more dangerously, pull a “Keith Richards,” and heave it off the balcony (checking first for innocent civilians below), or empty a couple of shells of double-ought buck into it from a safe distance away (the living room?). Whatever you do, it’s time to bid good riddance to this benevolent monster. OK, OK, all silliness...
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