For the fifth year in a row, Mississippi lumbers in as the fattest state in the nation, but Alabama is closing in fast, according to a new survey by the Trust for America’s Health and the Robert Woods Johnson Foundation. In Mississippi, 32.5 percent of adults–that’s one in three–are obese. In Alabama, the figure is […]
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Finally, here is a medical researcher who warns that carbohydrates are behind the obesity epidemic. Worse than most carbs, Robert Lustig of the University of California at San Francisco says that fructose, because of the insulin response it generates, is the metabolic equivalent of poison. An obesity expert who has worked extensively with children, Lustic […]
According to popular myth, eating fat is a surefire way to get fat, clog your arteries and pave the way for a future heart attack. But is that true? What happens to the fat you eat? Turns out dietary fat once in your body is constantly alternating between a state of fatty acid, which can travel […]
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