Diabetes is one of the biggest health risks our growing population is facing. According to the American Diabetes Association, there are 23.6 million people in the United States who have diabetes. Besides your diet, you have to exercise to ensure healthy blood sugar levels. That doesn’t mean you have to be a crazy gym rat, [...]
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Just a Little Exercise Fights Diabetes
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The Dangers of Obesity in Two Minutes
Johnson & Johnson put together a powerful testimonial as to why obesity is so dangerous. It’s a brief, but frank, two-minute piece on what the consequences are of not taking care of your weight. Most people know about the basics: obesity can lead to heart problems, diabetes, etc. But narrator Dr. Nancy Snyderman digs into [...]
Man is Too Fat to Adopt a Child
A man in England is deemed too fat to adopt a child. Meanwhile, 4,000 kids in the UK remain without a home. I blog further on this craziness over at Diets in Review.
Recession Leads to Receding Waistlines
If there can be a silver lining in an economic downturn, it may be that we get healthier. Within a broader piece on the current dire economic conditions, Bryan Appleyard of The Times in the UK reports on how a recession has a few favorable side effects:
The strange thing is that people get healthier in [...]
Yoga Instructors Lighten Things Up
The New York Times has an interesting piece on how some yoga instructors are trying to change the image of what their favorite activity is all about. To the layperson, yoga enthusiasts are super thin maybe even overly earnest people who only eat tofu and bean sprouts. This is, of course, a gross exaggeration.
The interesting [...]
When Sneezes Become Dangerous, and Sexy!
It’s a busy day on the sneezing news front:
It seems that if you’re sneezing a lot, you may not be sick. Well, you may be sick, just in a different way. It could be because you’re thinking about sex! Dr. Mahmood Bhutta of John Radcliffe Hospital in Oxford, England found that some people even say [...]
