The #1 Habit Making You Fat: You Use Artificial Sweeteners

From Dr Oz:  The average American consumes 24 pounds of artificial sweeteners each year, a habit that could actually be making you heavier. Studies show how these substances may confuse the body’s regulatory systems that control hunger. Whenever you eat, your body is trained to expect calories, but it’s not getting them when you eat [...]

Natural Fat Burning Remedies

Wouldn’t it be great if you could take a supplement and your excess weight would just melt away? Doctors, scientists and companies specializing in weight loss have been looking for a magic pill for forever. The truth is that there is no magic pill. The REALLY good news is that there are natural fat burning [...]

Sleep Your Way to Skinny – How Good Sleep Helps You Burn Fat

Sleep affects your weight and people who get better sleep weigh less. Studies have actually shown that by taking measures to improve your sleep can help you lose weight. Why Sleep Matters While we are sleeping, our bodies are recovering from the day. Our organs, hormonal systems and cells take this down-time to regroup. If [...]

What Causes Obesity?

You or someone you know may be struggling with obesity. It affects one in three adults in the United States, and is increasing in every country. Many consider the rise in obesity an epidemic. Along with weight gain, obesity brings with it a whole host of health problems. These problems range from depression and poor [...]

Fake Blueberries in Cereals, Bagels, and Other Everyday Food Products

CLICK HERE TO VIEW THE VIDEO: http://naturalnews.tv/v.asp?v=7EC06D27B1A945BE85E7DA8483025962   You can send this video to your friends on your social networking/bookmarking sites by clicking on any of the icons below. And thanks for passing it on… . If you liked that post, try these…7 Fat-Burning Foods That Help You Lose WeightYou have to eat, but if [...]

Five Surprising Effects of Obesity

What are these surprising effects of obesity? Most people know that obesity is the leading cause of type 11 diabetes. They may also know that it causes many types of cancer. It causes heart disease, stroke, high blood pressure and death. All in all, obesity causes a lot of health problems. However, you might be [...]

Dr Robert H Lustig, UCSF Random Thoughts on Obesity

We all weigh 25 pounds more than we did 25 years ago. No one chooses to be obese. Leptin is a hormone that comes from your fat cell that tells your brain, ‘I’ve had enough. I don’t need to eat anymore’. One can of soda a day = 150 calories x 365 days/year + 3500 [...]

No High Fructose Corn Syrup

If you liked that post, try these… Sleep Your Way to Skinny – How Good Sleep Helps You Burn Fat Sleep affects your weight and people who get better sleep weigh less.America’s Silent Killer: Diabetes .Are you concerned about the amount of sugar in milk? Here’s a great milk alternative. Bookmark on Delicious Digg this [...]

Preventing Childhood Obesity

You may have heard about childhood obesity and have some concern about your own children. If they do not have a weight problem now, that’s really good news. But, you can be proactive to prevent obesity from ever happening in your family. Children are impressionable. They learn most of their habits from their parents. This [...]

Getting Help for Obese Children

The treatment for children who are obese lies in changing habits and learned behaviors. Of course, the sooner in life that these changes are made, the faster the results happen.  Some of these steps towards a healthier life are immediate, while others are a lifetime commitment. You, as a parent, may not be able to [...]

Obese Children in Society – How to Ease the Stigma

Being overweight has always been a stigma in society. Those who are chubby are passed over for jobs, thought to be sloppy or unclean, and the list goes on. Those same unfounded and hurtful thoughts will be conveyed to your children if they are obese. Society’s Changing Fads Let’s talk about fads. A fad is [...]

Risks Associated with Childhood Obesity

You might dismiss extra weight on a three-year old, thinking they will grow out of it in time. However, there are risks that come with carrying extra weight, even on a three-year old. To understand how serious a problem it is, study the following risk factors. A chubby baby may be cherubic and cute, but [...]

Does Family History Play a Role in Childhood Obesity?

Part of finding a solution to the obesity epidemic that is plaguing our society is to determine the causes.  The first place we often look is within the family itself. Does family history, or genetics play a role in a child’s obesity? Family Behavior Let’s examine the parents. Before we go further let’s just say [...]

Causes of Childhood Obesity – Psychological Issues

Many people jump to an obvious, and often wrong, conclusion when they see a child who is obese. “The parents are letting those kids eat anything they want.  “If those parents would just stay home with the kids they wouldn’t snack so much.”  “A little self discipline is all those kids need.”  “Those parents must [...]

Eco Vitamin Drink not so Body Friendly

Well, we hit a wall.  What the heck do we drink on hot days now that soda and fruit juices are out of the question (full of Sugars, Artificial Sweeteners, and High Fructose Corn Syrup). But then we came across EcoDrink Complete Multivitamin at Costco the other day. It cost $19.99 for 30 packets — [...]

Are you concerned about the amount of sugar in milk? Here’s a great milk alternative

I’m looking at a container of 2% milk right now and the Nutrition Facts say that there are 12 grams of sugar in one cup of milk.  That is equivalent to almost 2 1/2 teaspoons of sugar.  Can you see yourself pouring a glass of milk and then putting 2 1/2 teaspoons of sugar in [...]

Sugar May Be Bad, But This Sweetener is Far More Deadly

View this incredible video presentation by Robert H. Lustig, MD UCFS Division of Endocrinology and Metabolism. It is about 1.5 hours in duration, but if you want the truth about High Fructose Corn Syrup, this is the presentation to see. If you liked that post, try these…3 Easy Ways to Prevent Childhood Obesity Overview .Are [...]

Obesity & Starvation Forum assesses a recent hypothesis on obesity, and how sugar may trigger a starvation reaction in the brain

Host: Michael Krasny Guest: Robert Lustig, author of the hypothesis, which was published last week in Nature Clinical Practice: Endocrinology and Metabolism, professor of clinical pediatrics, and director of the Weight Assessment for Teen and Child Health (WATCH) Program at UC-San Francisco’s Children’s Hospital Click the link below to listen to or download the recording: [...]

UCSF’s Lustig Discusses the Role of Fructose in Pediatric Obesity

9 July 2007 ABC (Australian Broadcasting Corporation) Radio National’s The Health Report, with Norman Swan, MD, features an interview with UCSF pediatric endocrinologist Robert Lustig, MD, who argues that the reason for the obesity epidemic is more than just the calories we eat and lack of exercise. Rather, it’s due to the wide use of [...]

America’s Silent Killer: Diabetes

If there were a deadly disease raging through your body, wouldn’t you want to know how to stop it? Unfortunately, more than 6 million Americans are walking around with a silent killer eating away at their health—and they have no idea they’re even at risk. That silent killer is diabetes, the fastest-growing disease in history. It’s [...]

Dr Oz and Jorge Cruise talk about sugar

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Why you need the hormone Leptin in order to lose bellyfat

If you liked that post, try these…9 Ways to Boost Your Metabolism to Help You Burn Fat and Lose Weight Fast.America’s Silent Killer: Diabetes .Belly fat in women: How to keep it offBelly fat hasn’t always been your problem — you’ve worried more about hips and thighs. Bookmark on Delicious Digg this post Recommend on [...]

Is Your Shampoo and Conditioner Interfering With Your Hormones and Making You Fat?

The EPA has found synthetic hormone-disrupting chemicals in shampoo preservatives and any of them can be found in products that claim to be ‘natural’ and ‘organic.’ The most disturbing of these is antimicrobial preservatives called parabens which have proven to disrupt your endocrine system. So what is an endocrine disruptor and why should it concern [...]

Worst Drinks in America 2010

Find this complete article here:   Worst drinks in American 2010 20. Worst Water Snapple Agave Melon Antioxidant Water (1 bottle, 20 fl oz) 150 calories 0 g fat 33 g sugars Sugar Equivalent: 2 Good Humor Chocolate Éclair Bars While “Worst Water” may sound like an oxymoron, the devious minds in the bottled beverage [...]