Brooke Douglas is back with her monthly nutrition advice for DrPullen.com This month she shoots down yet one more myth, that high fructose corn syrup is somehow worse than sucrose, a.k.a. table sugar, as a sweetener in foods. We get fat as a country because we eat too much and exercise too little, not because ...
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Earth Day and Medical Progress
I tried to come up with a post today to relate to earth day. I’m a conservationist, and was hoping to somehow relate Earth Day to something relevant in medicine. My first find was an article discussing a letter in Lancet, a prominent British medical journal, arguing that obesity is a factor in global warming. ...
Exercise and weight loss. More tough news.
Exercise alone does not seem to be effective in preventing weight gain once a woman is already heavy. The latest JAMA issue reports on a huge study trying to see if different levels of exercise prevent weight gain in women. This study looks at the 34,000 women in the Women’s Health Study, a huge cohort ...
Obesity- Have both Doctors and Patients Just Quit Trying?
I know I'm worn down by the US obesity epidemic. Many patients clearly overeat, others are also too sedentary, and some just seem to be obese genetically. Regardless it seems that the only patients who really lose weight in my practice figure it out themselves. I wish I had an answer for everyone who ...
What are the common causes of preventable death in the US?
Most people can guess smoking is #1. But can you guess #2 Think a minute and look at the rest of this post. Comment if you are surprised. This is from The estimated number of deaths related to the risk factors annually was: 467,000 for smoking 395,000 for high blood pressure 216,000 for overweight and obesity 191,000 for inadequate physical activity and inactivity 190,000 ...
Even modest weight loss leads to improved heart health
Many may say “Duh?” when told that losing a bit of weight improves your cardiovascular health. It seems intuitive, but it is not something that has a lot of good data to prove. Here is an article about a recent study from Washington University in St. Louis that shows that modest weight loss in obese ...