The News Section of this week’s edition of the Canadian Medical Association Journal (CMAJ) features an article by Roger Collier, in which I am extensively quoted with regard to wether or not health professionals should use the term “obesity”.
Regular readers of these pages will be quite familiar with my views on this issu. Readers may [...]
“The doctor wrote down “morbid obesity” in my chart. I was mortified. I looked it up. It meant I was going to die from being fat. I was 12.”
This is perhaps the most moving paragraph in Obese From the Heart, a book that everyone struggling with excess weight should read – more importantly, a book [...]
People working in certain professions bear a higher professional risk for weight gain - these include most people with sedentary jobs, but also chefs, professional drivers, shift workers as well as police and fire fighters.
One group that may bear a higher professional risk may have been overlooked: the clergy.
In a paper by Proeschold-Bell and Legrand [...]
Readers of these pages will be quite familiar with my previous posts on food addiction.
A new paper by Paul Johnson and Paul Kenny from the Scripps Research Institute, Jupiter, FL, just released online in Nature Neuroscience, demonstrates that in rats development of obesity is coupled with a progressively worsening deficit in neural reward responses (as [...]
Regular readers of these pages are well aware of the close link between addictions and some forms of overeating. This topic is now nicely addressed in a commentary by Valerie Taylor (McMaster, Hamilton), Claire Curtis and Caroline Davis (both York University, in this week’s edition of CMAJ.
As they discuss,
“The concept of food addiction, which more [...]
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Big waist size nearly doubles risk of early death: Study
Aug. 11, 2010 Vancouver Sun – "What's important is overall mortality," said Dr. Arya Sharma, scientific director of the Canadian Obesity Network. "In the end, having a large waist circumference kills you." Read the article
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