The Economic And Noneconomic Costs Of Chronic Diseases
July 26, 2011
Chronic diseases include heart disease, cancer, hypertension (high blood pressure), stroke, and diabetes. The economic cost of chronic diseases represents 75% of all health care costs. Chronic diseases are involved in 80% of the deaths in the United States. As of 2005, 44% of Americans were suffer[...]
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Recent Study: Certain Foods Add To Long Term Weight Gain
July 21, 2011
A recent study lends support to the intuitive belief that eating processed meat and red meat, french fries, potato chips, and sugar-sweetened drinks leads to excess weight gain whereas consumption of unprocessed plant-based foods such as whole grains, vegetables, and nuts helps to avoid weight g[...]
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MML Rants And Raves No. 006: Fat Kids, Fat Chance?
May 5, 2011
While preparing our most recent blog entitled Some Ways To Combat Childhood Obesity, it got us thinking: how are obese (fat) people really perceived and treated by others? Let’s be honest: just using the word “fat” in close proximity to the words “child” or “chil[...]
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Some Ways To Combat Childhood Obesity
May 4, 2011
Childhood obesity in the United States is at an epidemic level. Two of the keys to attacking the obesity epidemic is to positively influence the diets of children and to increase their physical activities. Everyone, including parents, educators, health care professionals, governmental officials,[...]
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What Effect Does Obesity Have On Surgery Complications?
April 26, 2011
Perhaps contrary to what you might think, previous research had found that obese patients undergoing non-cardiac surgery had a lower risk of death and complications following surgery, which was known as the obesity paradox. It appeared that obesity provided a protective effect under certain cir[...]
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