Tag: obesity
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Is Cheese Healthy? See What the Research Says
Many people adore cheese. Why is it so appealing? And should we be eating as much as we do?
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Nation’s Largest Health Care Organization Wants to Make Plant-Based Diets the New Normal
A Nutritional Update for Physicians was published in the official journal of Kaiser Permanente, the largest managed care organization in the United States. It told physicians that healthy eating may best be achieved with a plant-based diet, defined as a regimen that “encourages whole, plant-based foods and discourages meats, dairy and eggs as well as…
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Top 20 addictive foods: Are you hooked?
By Margie King • Originally published on GreenMedInfo.com Let food be thy medicine. Just don’t let it be thy drug. Can’t resist a slice – or two or three – of pizza? You may well be addicted. Researchers from the Department of Psychology at the University of Michigan and the New York Obesity Research Center…
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Weight of the World: Global Approaches To Tackle Obesity
By Mark Hyman, MD • Originally published on DrHyman.com There are now 2.1 billion people who are overweight in the world. China and India are number one and two in the world in sheer number of type 2 diabetics. In the Middle East, rates of type 2 diabetes are reaching 40 percent of the population. The World…
