Obesity in the United States has finally reached the point where it is competing with smoking as a cause of death? A study by researchers at the University of Illinois was looking at how health care providers counseled their patients. More specifically – did they provide primary prevention of overweight and obesity?
The researchers looked […]
Although not in the same words, I’ve written about this concept several times. I called it a ‘daily tally of the foods and calories you eat’. Yahoo this morning had an article about food diaries. Those who kept a diary lost about twice as much weight as those who didn’t.
The diary can be as simple […]
Yesterday I wrote about the glycemic index (GI) and its possibilities for use as a tool in helping dieters. Instead of counting calories one could use the GI of the food. Well, upon reading further there appears to be a few problems with the GI. I ended yesterday by writing that the GI had some […]