It’s no secret that artificial sweeteners generate controversy. A notable example is the systematic review published by Toews et al. in the British Medical Journal, which concluded, “No evidence was seen for health benefits from NSSs [non-sugar sweeteners], and...
INTRODUCTION We all crave more energy. It is disheartening to start the day feeling tired before you go to work or try to work up the impetus to go to the gym. Our lives are intruded upon by both physical and emotional obstacles. Taking a personal inventory of our...
The etiology of obesity is complex. The research has shown that there are many internal and external influences on body weight, one major influence being the bacteria that live within our gut, or our microbiota. As research continues to emerge on the gut-brain axis...
The number of people worldwide who suffer overweight (body mass index [BMI], calculated as a person’s weight in kilograms divided by the square of their height in meters, ≥ 25) and obesity (BMI ≥ 30) is staggering at 1.7 billion people. The United States has the...
Currently the U.S. childhood obesity rate is 18.5% among 2 – 19 year olds, with the rate of obesity increasing as age increases. Statistically one out of every six children of the more than 12 million children living in the U.S. are obese. Furthermore, research shows...
Post-surgery patients focus on supplemental calcium, vitamin D, iron and the Vitamin B-complex as it is crucial in preventing malnutrition/absorption conditions such as scurvy, beri beri, anemia, rickets or pellagra. For patients, what is important to understand is...
Obesity is a major risk factor in the development of many diseases. New research suggests that greater than 2/3 of the United States of America’s population is either overweight or obese. Controlling the underlying cause (obesity) is instrumental in the treatment and...
By William Cabot, M.D., FAAOS. THE GROWING PROBLEM OF OBESITY The past half-decade in the United States and elsewhere has seen what can only be described as an astronomical increase in the numbers of obese people in our general population. It is also true that...
Written by Jeffrey Bernstein, BS Nutrition Obesity is clinically defined by the CDC by a person’s body mass index (BMI), which is calculated as weight in kilograms divided by height in meters squared (kg/m2). BMI is an indicator of body fatness1. Between 2000 and...