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Improve your sex life with bariatric surgery…
Are you an overweight female who is experiencing reduction in sex drive, difficulty becoming aroused, inability to achieve orgasm, a strong dislike of sexual activity, or pain with sexual activity or intercourse? Have you had weight loss surgery? If so, you will find these study results done by Dale S. Bond, assistant professor of psychiatry […]
Attention Pregnant Women!
Are you currently pregnant, or are currently trying to get pregnant? If so, then you may find these study results important. Dr. David Ludwig, director of the Optimal Weight for Life at Children’s Hospital Boston and coauthor Dr. Janet Currie found that increasing amounts of maternal weight gain during pregnancy led to the birth of […]
Do you have an overweight child or adolescent?
Researchers from John Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and National Institute on Aging examined changes in American boys and girls (between ages 2-19) and by ethnic groups at the population level. They found that U.S. children and adolescents had increased adiposity (fatty tissue) measures including Body Mass Index (BMI), waist circumference, and triceps skinfold […]
Attention Diabetics!
Do you have Diabetes and are taking multiple medications to treat this disease? Have you had or are you interested in having bariatric surgery? If so, then you will love these results found by a study done in 2002-2005 by Dr. Martin A. Makary and team from John Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and […]
Attention Sugary Drink lovers!
Do you enjoy drinking sugar-sweetened beverages such as soft drinks, fruit drinks, sports drinks, energy/vitamin waters, sweetened iced tea, punch, or lemonade? If so, then you may change your habits after hearing these results found in a study published in 2010 by Vasanti S. Malik with the Harvard School of Public Health and colleagues. They […]
Caution with short-term behavioral changes…
A study done by Asa Ernersson and team of researchers from Linkoping University Sweden found that those who engaged in a four-week period of excessive food consumption (to increase energy intake by an average of 70%) and decreased exercise, showed an increase weight and fat mass more than two years later (even after the initial […]
