
The Effects of Obesity on Back Pain, Blood Pressure, Cancer, and Diabetes
Losing weight can reduce sciatica, hypertension, and cancer risk, and reverse type 2 diabetes.
Losing weight can reduce sciatica, hypertension, and cancer risk, and reverse type 2 diabetes.
Is there a nonsurgical alternative to knee replacement surgery that instead treats the cause and offers only beneficial side effects?
An entire issue of a cardiology journal dedicated to plant-based nutrition explores the role an evidence-based diet can play in the reversal of congestive heart failure.
Does walking with poles, also known as Nordic walking (“exerstriding”), beat our regular walking for depression, sleep quality, and weight loss?
Drink two cups of water and you can get a surge of the adrenal hormone noradrenaline in your bloodstream, as if you just smoked a few cigarettes or downed a few cups of coffee.
Astonishingly, a baby with a heavy surrogate mother and a thin biological mom may harbor a greater risk of becoming obese than a baby with a slim surrogate mom and a heavy biological one.
Buchinger modified fasting is put to the test.
Where did the idea of therapeutic fasting come from?
The most effective diet for weight loss may also be the healthiest.
Many doctors mistakenly rely on serum B12 levels in the blood to test for vitamin B12 deficiency.
The first study in history on the incidence of stroke of vegetarians and vegans suggests they may be at higher risk.
We need to reform the food system before it’s too late.
Implausible explanations for the obesity epidemic, such as sedentary lifestyles or lack of self-discipline, serve the needs of the manufacturers and marketers more than the public’s health and the interest in truth.
Like the tobacco industry adding extra nicotine, the food industry employs taste engineers to accomplish a similar goal: maximize the irresistibility of their products.
How the power of the “eat more” food environment can overcome our conscious controls.
We all like to think we make important life decisions like what to eat consciously and rationally, but if that were the case we wouldn’t be in the midst of an obesity epidemic.
The unprecedented rise in the power, scope, and sophistication of food marketing starting around 1980 aligns well with the blastoff slope of the obesity epidemic.
Why are U.S. taxpayers giving billions to support the likes of the sugar and livestock industries?
The rise in the U.S. calorie supply responsible for the obesity epidemic wasn’t just about more food but a different kind of food.
We have an uncanny ability to pick out the subtle distinctions in calorie density of foods, but only within the natural range.
Rather than being some kind of disorder or failure of willpower, weight gain is largely a normal response, by normal people, to an abnormal situation.
The big fat “fat gene” accounts for less than 1% of the differences in size between people.
The common explanations for the cause of the obesity epidemic put forward by the food industry and policymakers, such as inactivity or a lack of willpower, are not only wrong, but actively harmful fallacies.
How to treat the cause by preventing the emergence of pandemic viruses in the first place (a video I recorded more than a decade ago when I was Public Health Director at the HSUS in Washington DC).
A review of reviews on the health effects of tea, coffee, milk, wine, and soda.
A list of “specific recommendations for the prevention of obesity by improving the circadian system health.”
Randomized, controlled trials of phototherapy (morning bright light) for weight loss.
What shift workers can do to moderate the adverse effects of circadian rhythm disruption.
Bright light exposure synchronizes the central circadian clock in our brains, whereas proper meal timing helps sync the timing of the clock genes throughout the rest of our body.
The same meal eaten at the wrong time of day can double blood sugars.
Why are calories eaten in the morning less fattening than calories eaten in the evening?
Harness the power of your circadian rhythms for weight loss by making breakfast or lunch your main meal of the day.
Given the power of chronotherapy—how the same dose of the same drugs taken at a different time of day can have such different effects—it’s no surprise that chronoprevention approaches, like meal timing, can also make a difference.
Breakthroughs in the field of chronobiology—the study of our circadian rhythms—help solve the mystery of the missing morning calories in breakfast studies.
Is the link between breakfast skipping and obesity cause-and-effect?
Why we may want to strive not to exceed the recommended intake of protein.
Are there any safe and effective dietary supplements for weight loss?
Only 2 out of 12 supplement companies were found to have products that were even accurately labeled.
Calories eaten in the morning count less and are healthier than calories eaten in the evening.
Are there benefits to giving yourself a bigger daily break from eating?