Tragedy Turns Ex-Fatty Boy/ Fatty into Bruce Lee of Wellness -
Beginning at age six, 'Fatty Boy' was my nickname. As I grew older, my nickname was changed to Fatty. How fun was it to be called a Fatty? I didn't care much, but I do not recall loving it. Although I was very cheerful by nature, consciously and subconsciously, I hated being fat, especially when it came to changing my clothes....
Well, here's the nature of my old body...
I’m a 56 year old diabetic man who has been on insulin for over 40 years and the last 10 on an insulin pump. I didn't start having serious problems until I was about 40; and that’s when things began a downhill slide to my present condition. I have lost the ability to feel the low insulin reactions; I have had levels as low as...
Unfortunately, I've been blessed with crummy genetics. That's right, a strong family history of heart disease and a cholesterol level that has hovered around 200 since my early twenties. I have a grandmother that died from a heart attack at age 69, a grandfather that died of a heart attack a year before I was born, a diabetic grandfather didn't recover from quadruple by-pass surgery, and my...
My name is Whitney and I am a 21 year old soon to be college graduate maintaining balance and a healthy lifestyle while battling daily stressors life throws our way. I am an avid runner, I am applying to graduate programs in the fall for public health, I love nutrition, health, and wellness and am passionate about learning new invigorating facts to share with people.
I recently found out I...
I've immense interest in health foods,I call them nature's best foods. I'm inspired by Doctor's like Mehmet Oz and Dietitians like Ellie krieger to live a health conscious life.Healthy eating doesn't have to be boring.I always try to make the food appealing to get my family to eat delicious and healthy at the same time. My blog Health nut is my journal of healthful recipes with nature's best...
I teach "Fat Nutrition & Current Health Concerns" at Stanford, in the Human Biology Program, and I teach courses on Health and Nutrition at Foothill College.
Through my business, Gerda Endemann Nutrition Education, I give seminars and workshops, and provide individual consultations on nutrition-related health concerns. I specialize in lowering blood cholesterol and optimizing...
My name is Chris Hempel. In October 2007, my husband and I received life-threatening news about our cholesterol - but our lives weren't in danger. We learned that we were born with a defect in a critical cholesterol gene and that our precious six-year-old identical twin daughters, Addi and Cassi, inherited a double mutation - both genetic cholesterol defects.
For many months, I'd known...
