June 2017 Kids Just Wanna Have Fun… The future looks bleak from a long-term public health perspective when you consider that almost 70% of adults are overweight or obese (OO.) Considering that up to 16% of kids are obese, the long-term outlook is dim, not just physically. Many studies haveRead More
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Diabetes, Puberty and Inflammation: Why Diet and Exercise is Medicine
Two articles bring to the forefront, again, what research is homing in on: that inflammation wreaks havoc beyond swelling, redness, and pain. The first, on how inflammation contributes to diabetes – and, by the way, how diabetes feeds into inflammation – comes from Health News Canal: Here we learn of an apparent linkage of bodyRead More
Calories, Disease, Exercise…and Longevity
This blog has every intention to summarize the health care crisis faced by modern and third world people resulting from the ready availability of cheap calories and sedentary living. One simple article in HealthNewsCanal (http://www.healthcanal.com/metabolic-problems/obesity/58073-obesity-may-…) used mathematical modeling to determine the effect of being overweight or obese on longevity and, uniquely, “healthy-life years”. By wayRead More