When you are on a weight loss or weight management program, you are usually asked to carry out measurements to see how you are doing. These measurements might include the number of calories you eat each meal, the time spent exercising each day, the size of your belly, and your weight.
If things are not going [...]
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15. Phat metrics: Reading the labels
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14. Australia’s Future ‘Fat Bomb’
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Australia’s Future ‘Fat Bomb’
A report on the long-term consequences of Australia’s expanding waistline on cardiovascular disease.
Baker Heart Research Institute
April 2008
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Excerpts from the report:
“This report has been prepared by Preventative Cardiology at the Baker Heart Research Institute with the primary objective:
To provide the Australian public with an accurate description of the current weight profile of middle-aged [...]
13. Effective solutions to obesity appear to be junked
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Effective solutions to obesity appear to be junked
Victoria Macdonald
The Guardian,
Wednesday July 30 2008
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A government report says almost nine in 10 adults and two-thirds of children will be overweight or obese by 2050 unless we do something now. Photograph: PA
How fat is our nation? A doctor at a south of England hospital told me [...]
12. Greece tops fat league
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged calories, Cancer, Diabetes, diet, dieting, fast food, Fat, fitness, Food, Health, healthy choices, healthy eating, heart disease, Hypertension, Life, nutrition, Overweight, weight loss on August 2, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Greece tops fat league as diet of the Med decays
John Hooper in Rome
The Guardian
Wednesday July 30 2008
Greece, the nation that gave rise to the idea of well-formed muscular men in the name of Adonis, now has the highest prevalence of obesity in the EU, according to a report issued yesterday.
“Greece today is the [...]
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