Tag: sustainable weight loss
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Why ‘Big Sugar’ Is As Hazardous As ‘Big Tobacco’
By Susan Peirce Thompson Last week, the Journal of the American Medical Association published papers revealing that, in 1965, the sugar industry paid three scientists from Harvard to draw attention away from the connection between sugar and heart disease and focus instead on fat. In their findings, they relegated sugar to a problem for the…
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Why 100 Million Americans Are On Diets That Don’t Work
Do you ever struggle with excess pounds? If you do, you’re definitely not alone. Right now, more than 2/3 of the US population is overweight or obese. In fact, the average American woman now weighs as much as the average American man weighed in the early 1960s — 166.2 pounds. In the same amount of…
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How 2,000 People Lost 30,000 Pounds in 2 Months
In the last two months, I’ve been part of an experiment that has seen 2,000 people lose more than 30,000 pounds. And with the weight loss has come people getting off diabetes medications, lowering their blood pressure, and feeling happier and more energetic than they have in years. For me, it all started last year…
