“The Weight of the Nation” Part 2
Sorry I didn’t get this up yesterday, but I wanted to think about Part 2 – which I watched last night – a little more. Like Part 1, Part 2, subtitled “Choices,” was pretty well done. Unlike Part 1, which gave more of an overview of the obesity crisis, Part 2 focused largely on what individuals can do to improve their health. And like Part 1, Part 2 featured interviewees viewers could empathize with, good...
Weighty Matters: “The Biggest Loser Destroys Participants’ Metabolisms”
Dr. Yoni Freedhoff reports on a new study… In an article published yesterday ahead of print, Darcy Johannsen and friends studied the impact 7 months of Biggest Loser weight loss had on the resting and total energy expenditures of 16 participants. They used all the latest gadgets to do so including indirect calorimetry and doubly labeled water. So what happened? By week 6 participants had lost 13% of their body weight and by...
NYT: “Bridal Hunger Games”
Sigh… In March, Jessica Schnaider, 41, of Surfside, Fla., was preparing to shop for a wedding gown by spending eight days on a feeding tube. The diet, under a doctor’s supervision, offered 800 calories a day while she went about her business, with a tube in her nose. …Something medical is indeed happening in the newest diet to reach the United States. Dr. Oliver R. Di Pietro has been offering what he calls a K-E diet at...
Avery Slims Down
As Paul noted some months ago, pets can inspire lifestyle changes. Paul’s dog, Lainey, inspired him to get out and do more walking. He lost a few pounds as a result – win-win for both puppeh and dad! But that’s small potatoes compared to the lifestyle changes inspired by another pet, Avery – as shown in the MSNBC vid below. Visit msnbc.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy Cute. Hope...
Go Read Dr. Freedhoff’s Latest Post About Dr. Oz
Seriously: here’s a link to “A Tale of Two Oz’s” at Dr. Freedhoff’s blog, “Weighty Matters.” Good stuff – I really can’t add anything to it. Dr. Freedhoff is dead right about the relative lack of studies on raspberry ketone for weight loss. Beyond the two “shaky” studies mentioned, there’s only industry-funded stuff like this. At this point, the evidence is pretty...
More Acai Berry Settlements…
The FTC headline says it all: “FTC Permanently Stops Six Operators from Using Fake News Sites that Allegedly Deceived Consumers about Acai Berry Weight Loss Products.” Alleged Fraudulent Affiliate Marketers will Surrender Assets under Settlements Six online marketers agreed to settlements with the Federal Trade Commission that will permanently halt their allegedly deceptive practice of using fake news websites to market...
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