Losing Weight —What the Experts Are Reluctant to Tell You – Part 1
Have you ever shed 15 or 25 pounds and, then, over the next year or so, put it all back on? Usually, we blame ourselves.
But, as I reported on HealthBeat in 2008, physicians who treat obese and overweight patients know that only about 5% of us are able to lose weight and keep it off—even in highly controlled experimental settings where patients diet and exercise under a doctors’ supervision. Over two years, 95% of us will put the pounds back on, and in some cases, add more.
A National Institutes of Health (NIH), working group study published in the January 2015 issue of the journal Obesity, confirms that: “Despit...
Source: Health Beat - February 21, 2015 Category: American Health Authors: Maggie Mahar Tags: randomized controlled trials diet pills diets long-term weight loss Losing weight low-fat diets metabolism obesity Re-gaining weight Uncategorized Fat: What the Experts don't tell you HealthBeatblog.com Tim Caulfield Traci Mann Source Type: blogs
Losing Weight—What the Experts Are Reluctant to Tell You – Part 1
Have you ever shed 15 or 25 pounds and, then, over the next year or so, put it all back on? Usually, we blame ourselves.
But, as I reported on HealthBeat in 2008, physicians who treat obese and overweight patients know that only about 5% of us are able to lose weight and keep it off—even in highly controlled experimental settings where patients diet and exercise under a doctors’ supervision. Over two years, 95% of us will put the pounds back on, and in some cases, add more.
A National Institutes of Health (NIH), working group study published in the January 2015 issue of the journal Obesity, confirms that: “Despit...
Source: Health Beat - February 21, 2015 Category: American Health Authors: Maggie Mahar Tags: randomized controlled trials diet pills diets long-term weight loss Losing weight low-fat diets metabolism obesity Re-gaining weight Uncategorized Fat: What the Experts don't tell you HealthBeatblog.com Tim Caulfield Traci Mann Source Type: blogs
Over-Eating: Confusing Cause and Effect – Does Overeating CAUSE You to Re-Gain Weight, Or Do You Eat More BECAUSE You Are Overweight?
Today, researchers are digging into what drives weight gain, and some are beginning to suggest that we have been confusing cause and effect.
What if it’s not overeating that causes us to get fat, but the process of getting fatter that causes us to overeat?”
Recently The Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) published a provocative piece that asked precisely that question. Shortly before publishing in JAMA, the authors, summed up their argument in a New York Times Op-Ed: “Always Hungry? Here’s Why.”
There, David Ludwig, a professor of pediatrics at Harvard Medical School and director the New Balan...
Source: Health Beat - February 21, 2015 Category: American Health Authors: Maggie Mahar Tags: regain weight calories carbohydrates controlled trials dieting causes weight gain dieting futile dieting makes us hungrier long-term weight loss Losing weight low-fat diets obesity Uncategorized yo-yo dieting BMJ carbs David Source Type: blogs
Over-Eating: Confusing Cause and Effect–Does Overeating CAUSE You to Re-Gain Weight, Or Do You Eat More BECAUSE You Are Overweight?
Today, researchers are digging into what drives weight gain, and some are beginning to suggest that we have been confusing cause and effect.
What if it’s not overeating that causes us to get fat, but the process of getting fatter that causes us to overeat?”
Recently The Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) published a provocative piece that asked precisely that question. Shortly before publishing in JAMA, the authors, summed up their argument in a New York Times Op-Ed: “Always Hungry? Here’s Why.”
There, David Ludwig, a professor of pediatrics at Harvard Medical School and director the New Balan...
Source: Health Beat - February 21, 2015 Category: American Health Authors: Maggie Mahar Tags: regain weight calories carbohydrates controlled trials dieting causes weight gain dieting futile dieting makes us hungrier long-term weight loss Losing weight low-fat diets obesity Uncategorized yo-yo dieting BMJ carbs David Source Type: blogs
Does Over-Eating Make You Fat, Or Do You Eat More Because You Are Fat? (PART 2 of “Obesity—What the Experts are Reluctant to Tell You”)
Today, researchers are digging into what drives weight gain, and some are beginning to suggest that we have been confusing cause and effect.
What if it’s not overeating that causes us to get fat, but the process of getting fatter that causes us to overeat?”
Recently The Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) published a provocative piece that asked precisely that question. Shortly before publishing in JAMA, the authors, summed up their argument in a New York Times Op-Ed: “Always Hungry? Here’s Why.”
There, David Ludwig, a professor of pediatrics at Harvard Medical School and director the New Balan...
Source: Health Beat - February 21, 2015 Category: American Health Authors: Maggie Mahar Tags: regain weight calories carbohydrates controlled trials dieting futile long-term weight loss Losing weight low-fat diets obesity Uncategorized yo-yo dieting BMJ carbs David Ludwig fat cells Gary Taubes Kelly Crowe Mark Fri Source Type: blogs
Look Into This Surgeon’s Face . . .
Below, a photo from:
Faith in Humanity @TheWorldStories · Feb 16
A Heart surgeon resting after a long 23-hour (successful) heart transplant. His assistant is sleeping in the corner
Clearly, he has given his all. (MM)
(Source: Health Beat)
Source: Health Beat - February 21, 2015 Category: American Health Authors: Maggie Mahar Tags: surgeons Uncategorized heart transplants Source Type: blogs
The Individual Mandate: Has the Obama Administration Silently Repealed the Rule that Virtually Everyone Must Have Health Insurance?
Obamacare’s critics continue to argue that the Affordable Care Act (ACA) will self-destruct. Now, some claim that the mandate that uninsured Americans must purchase coverage– or pay a stiff fine— is so riddled with new “loopholes and exemptions,” that it no longer exists.
14 New Waivers
When the ACA passed Congress in 2010, it offered a handful of basic exemptions to the mandate that everyone must be insured. For example, if the only comprehensive coverage available would cost more than 8% of a household’s income, the fine wou...
Source: Health Beat - February 9, 2015 Category: American Health Authors: Maggie Mahar Tags: Affordable Care Act exemptions fines mandate Obamacare penalties Uncategorized waivers bankrupt cannot afford catastrophic insurance divorce hardship exemptions Medicaid Source Type: blogs
Obamacare Fines: How to Escape a Hefty Penalty If You Really Can ’ t Buy Insurance
Already, the fear-mongers are sounding the alarm: If you don’t purchase exactly the type of health insurance that the Affordable Care Act (ACA) requires, come tax-time the IRS will slap you with a stiff penalty.
As I explain in the post below, the ACA mandates that if you’re not already covered, you must buy insurance that includes “essential benefits” such as hospitalization, maternity and newborn care, and mental health services. Ignore the mandate this year, and you will be fined when you file your taxes next year.
How Much Would You Owe?
If you opt out of pu...
Source: Health Beat - January 30, 2015 Category: American Health Authors: Maggie Mahar Tags: ConsumerReports.org exemptions to Obamacare penalties hardship exemptions if you don't buy health insurance individual mandate Obamacare fines Uncategorized Affordable Care Act Source Type: blogs
Obamacare Fines: How to Escape a Hefty Penalty If You Really Can’t Buy Insurance
Already, the fear-mongers are sounding the alarm: If you don’t purchase exactly the type of health insurance that the Affordable Care Act (ACA) requires, come tax-time the IRS will slap you with a stiff penalty.
As I explain in the post below, the ACA mandates that if you’re not already covered, you must buy insurance that includes “essential benefits” such as hospitalization, maternity and newborn care, and mental health services. Ignore the mandate this year, and you will be fined when you file your taxes next year.
How Much Would You Owe?
If you opt out of pu...
Source: Health Beat - January 30, 2015 Category: American Health Authors: Maggie Mahar Tags: ConsumerReports.org exemptions to Obamacare penalties hardship exemptions if you don't buy health insurance individual mandate Obamacare fines Uncategorized Affordable Care Act Source Type: blogs
Obamacare Fines: Everything You Need to Know About How to Escape a Hefty Penalty If You Don’t Buy Insurance
Already, the fear-mongers are sounding the alarm: If you don’t purchase exactly the type of health insurance that the Affordable Care Act (ACA) requires, come tax-time the IRS will slap you with a stiff penalty.
As I explain in the post below, the ACA mandates that if you’re not already covered, you must buy insurance that includes “essential benefits” such as hospitalization, maternity and newborn care, and mental health services. Ignore the mandate this year, and you will be fined when you file your taxes next year.
How Much Would You Owe?
If you opt out of pu...
Source: Health Beat - January 30, 2015 Category: American Health Authors: Maggie Mahar Tags: ConsumerReports.org exemptions to Obamacare penalties hardship exemptions if you don't buy health insurance individual mandate Obamacare fines Uncategorized Affordable Care Act Source Type: blogs
Obamacare Fines: Everything You Need to Know About How to Escape a Hefty Penalty If You Ignore the Mandate That You Buy Insurance
Already, the fear-mongers are sounding the alarm: If you don’t purchase exactly the type of health insurance that the Affordable Care Act (ACA) requires, come tax-time the IRS will slap you with a stiff penalty.
As I explain in the post below, the ACA mandates that if you’re not already covered, you must buy insurance that includes “essential benefits” such as hospitalization, maternity and newborn care, and mental health services. Ignore the mandate this year, and you will be fined when you file your taxes next year.
How Much Would You Owe?
If you opt out of pu...
Source: Health Beat - January 30, 2015 Category: American Health Authors: Maggie Mahar Tags: ConsumerReports.org exemptions to Obamacare penalties hardship exemptions if you don't buy health insurance individual mandate Obamacare fines Uncategorized Affordable Care Act Source Type: blogs
