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Is the US Government Responsible for the American Obesity and Chronic Disease Epidemic? by Madsweat Health Maven

Posted Tue 28 Aug 2012 8:46pm Is the US Government Responsible for the American Obesity and Chronic Disease Epidemic? : Another great artical by @joshstoneatc at Athletic Medicine raising a good question … Is the government responsible for obesity and chronic disease. Read the artical and tell us what you think? Read on »

Obesity and Chronic Disease – A Perfect Storm by Mark Pegram Posted Wed 23 May 2012 4:20am Obesity has become a huge issue as the medical economy sees this as a threat to its existence. That is there is more illness than the population can sustain. At some point the health industry’s percentage of GDP will reach break point. We are now close to twenty percent of GDP and I suspect very close to the break point. So how did we get h ... Read on »

CHRONIC DISEASES AND OBESITY by Helpful Buckeye Doctor of Veterinary Medicine

Posted Sun 10 Mar 2013 12:00am "Don't let yesterday use up too much of today." Native American Proverb EOB-8.... Helpful Buckeye has discussed obesity in dogs and cats in several previous issues of Questions On Dogs and Cats. Now, we want to take that discussion a bit further and look at some chronic diseases that are actually made wors ... Read on »

Childhood Obesity Is Gateway To Many Other Chronic Diseases by Len S. Patient Expert

Posted Mon 28 Jan 2013 3:05pm From Your Health Journal…..”I found a great website today called Natural News, and I love it. I hope by reading this I bring some traffic to their site as they have some great articles. Today’s article review is from their site called Childhood Obesity Is Gateway To Many Other Chronic Diseases by David Gutierrez. Childhood obesity is a cau ... Read on »

Practical Approaches to Obesity Care and Chronic Illness In Busy Clinical Settings: Three Key Ingredients by JaanS Medical Doctor

Posted Tue 27 Sep 2011 11:23pm If anything is true about the population health management service providers, they are constantly looking for better ways to fit their programs into busy clinical settings. That's why this article on New and Emerging Weight Management Strategies for Busy Ambulatory Settings, courtesy of the American Heart Association , should be "must" ... Read on »

New Cure for Chronic Disease Discovered by Mark Hyman, M.D. Medical Doctor

Posted Fri 27 Jan 2012 1:23pm Last year my friend, Chelsea Clinton recommended I read a book by the former head of the National Health Service in Great Britain called Turning the World Upside Down – about what we can learn from poor countries in the developing world about putting patients and communities at the center of health care, not doctors and hospitals. It ins ... Read on »

Inflammation: How to cool the fire inside you that's making you fat and diseased... by Mark Hyman, M.D. Medical Doctor

Posted Wed 17 Sep 2008 12:17am

2 Comments How can you, in a week or less, get dramatic relief from all the symptoms you thought you had to live with the rest of your life? I'll get to that in just a minute... Last week, I showed you how addressing the toxins that make us sick and fat can help create long-term health, vitality, and weight loss. Today, I'm going to tell you about ... Read on »

Can Social Networks Cure Disease? Part I by Mark Hyman, M.D. Medical Doctor

Posted Fri 20 Apr 2012 10:41am Last week I gave a talk at TEDMED on how social networks may be an unexpected solution to our heath care crisis. Here’s how my talk went….. I want to tell you a story of how a skinny Haitian chicken and a bowl of beet and cabbage soup turned my world upside down and helped me think differently about how we might deal with the crazy expl ... Read on »

Omega-3 in higher doses may help prevent diabetes, heart disease by Dr. John Z. Medical Doctor

Posted Thu 24 Mar 2011 12:00am FHCRC.org - A study of Yup’ik Eskimos in Alaska, who on average consume 20 times more omega-3 fats from fish than people in the lower 48 states, suggests that a high intake of these fats helps prevent obesity-related chronic diseases such as di ... Read on »

HEALTHY LIFESTYLES MATTER by marie dufour RD Registered Dietician

Posted Wed 04 Nov 2009 10:05pm By Marie Dufour, RD – Just in case we needed a reminder, the Germans confirm that following healthy lifestyles lowers by 80% the risk of chronic diseases. Surprised? Helloooooo!!! The EPIC study of 23,153 German patients ages 35 to 65 (1) confirms what we already knew about the impact of healthy lifestyles on chronic illness. German pati ... Read on »