Overweight is a major issue for more and more of us today (about 50% of adults are medically overweight). It increases the risks of many serious medical problems like diabetes, heart disease, stroke, and many cancers. It makes daily life challenging and the myth of the “jolly fat person” is nothing more than a myth, and a cruel one at that. Weight control is a serious and important issue…
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Metabolic Syndrome NEED TO KNOW
Here is a term you have probably heard of already. It has been in the news (health news) for many years now and it is certainly a key health risk concept. But do we all understand it? Before we get into this let us say that the science [...]
A Healthy Guide to Good Nutrition
A Healthy Guide to Good Nutrition Maintaining the correct nutrition helps you to reduce the risk of a complex myriad of health-related problems, the most frightening of which are most certainly heart diseases, lung diseases, bone diseases and cancer. Proper nutrition means that you must eat many different [...]
Covid-19 and Weight
Covid-19 has changed the world. Millions have died; the economic and social impacts are massive to say the least. The question of disease-severity and co-morbidities has gained a lot of attention. We all know that it is the elderly and those with certain co-morbidities that are at most [...]
Being Realistic (About Exercise)
Active living is good for us. Very good indeed. The simple truth is that you cannot be well, truly well, unless you live actively. You know that don’t you? And you’ve been active, at times, have you not? But you’ve battled to stick with it and so your [...]
Weight loss: online resources (links & apps)
Weight loss is important for many of us (truth be told, more than half us want or need to lose weight). Most of us actually know, more or less, how to lose weight - we know to eat less, exercise more, avoid junk & fast food, eat veggies, [...]
Calorie counting
The arithmetic of weight control has long been understood: we gain weight when we consume more energy (calories) than we burn off (through living, breathing, moving, etc.). We maintain weight when the input and output are equal. We lose weight when we burn off more than we consume. [...]