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January 21, 2008 12:14 PM EST -- A recent study in the Annals of Internal Medicine debunked the long held belief among doctors that obese people underestimate the number of calories they consume. It turns out that the tendency to . . . more
February 11, 2008 03:50 PM EST -- Have you heard of the book French Women Don't Get Fat ? Apparently French women stay thin by lingering over three hour lunches, eating morsels of triple cream cheese washed down by lots of red wine . . . more
February 25, 2008 02:30 PM EST -- Years ago in my medical practice I saw a woman in her late forties who was gaining weight despite no change in her diet or exercise. She felt tired and completely disinterested in sex, and she started . . . more
December 03, 2007 05:58 PM EST -- I must admit, I always have to laugh when I read those lists of things you’re supposed to do when you’re feeling stressed and the urge to snack hits. “Take a bubble bath” is always . . . more
March 03, 2008 11:42 AM EST -- The leader of a workshop offered by the program Overcoming Overeating asked participants to imagine moving to a planet where their weight would never change, never go up or down. Would they still bother . . . more
October 22, 2007 10:19 AM EDT -- Once upon a time, weight and health were not talked about in the same breath—or even the same drag of a cigarette. In fact, smoking—the mother of all bad health habits—was once thought . . . more
February 18, 2008 01:28 PM EST -- Think of an accomplishment or endeavor of which you are particularly proud. Are you a great mom? A whiz at picking stocks? An amazing tennis player? Chances are you approach this particular activity with . . . more
March 10, 2008 04:34 PM EDT -- Of all the many things people do to try and lose weight, consuming artificially sweetened soft drinks is probably the most common. A huge chunk of the over 40 billion dollars Americans spend annually . . . more
January 28, 2008 11:56 AM EST -- For the more than 200,000 people who underwent weight loss (bariatric) surgery last year, the operation may have seemed like a dream come true. In the past several years bariatric surgery has become safer, . . . more
Why do we eat?
by denise e
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January 01, 2008 02:51 PM EST -- What drives us to eat when we shouldn't? Knowing the answer to this question could be just what we need to see results in 2008. There are four basic reasons of why we eat: 1. Because we . . . more
July 20, 2007 12:07 AM EDT -- Hello everyone.. I have started my walking again.. and I am beginning to notice I am losing a bit of weight! I will notice more in a week but for now I am down a pound or two! I know when you start walking . . . more
March 24, 2008 10:16 AM EDT -- Believe it or not, the brief exposure to nutrition I received in medical school in the early 1980s focused almost entirely on vitamin deficiencies. We medical students learned about scurvy and rickets, . . . more
August 06, 2007 10:23 PM EDT -- So, it's been a couple of days.  There have been a few victories and a few defeats, but overall I'm living healthier than I was a week ago.  I still ate breakfasts out both days this . . . more
March 17, 2008 05:23 PM EDT -- Here's a joke my patients seem to like: A guy goes to the doctor, who tells him he has to give up smoking, drinking, and sex. Guy says, "Gee, doc…will that really help me live longer?" . . . more
May 05, 2008 01:12 PM EDT -- For generations now, many anxious new parents have been calmed by the first sentence of Dr. Benjamin Spock's classic Baby and Child Care : "You know more than you think you do." Much of . . . more
February 04, 2008 04:52 PM EST -- Say you're a woman in your forties. You feel pretty good about your looks: you color you hair, and (ever since that Oprah show) you don't wear "Mom" jeans. Once, a couple of years ago, . . . more
July 21, 2008 03:04 PM EDT -- I commented recently to a colleague of mine that he was looking very trim and fit. "I'm on the Orange Bowl Diet," he confided. I'd never heard of this diet—and I thought I'd . . . more
April 28, 2008 05:01 PM EDT -- Michael Pollan, author of the best sellers The Omnivore's Dilemma and In Defense of Food, has coined the term "our national eating disorder." Pollan refers to the state of disarray into . . . more
July 01, 2008 11:38 AM EDT -- I was struck, in the coverage of Tim Russert's recent death, at the focus on the journalist's heart — in both the literal and figurative senses of that word. There were many articles, . . . more
July 28, 2008 05:42 PM EDT -- The lead article in last week’s issue of The New England Journal of Medicine reported the results of a clinical trial in which the effectiveness and safety of three different weight loss diets were . . . more
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