For some people, the diet started the first day of the new year. For others (like me) it starts today. Yes, today is the first day of the rest of my life! ... Lighten Your Attitude and Your Physique Obesity not being properly diagnosed in kids |
Very few people realize the profound effect that weight and obesity have on diabetes. Even instances of gestational diabetes are much higher in patients that are overweight than in those that are not. Type 2, or adult onset diabetes is most common with overweight people than those that are within their ‘ideal’ weight ranges. In fact, nearly 90% of those with Type 2 diabetes are overweight. If you are suffering from Type 2 diabetes, the best gift you could possibly give yourself just might be the gift of getting your weight under control.
Almost 40% of those individuals that suffer from Type 2 diabetes also have high blood pressure, which is another condition that is believed to be exacerbated by excess weight. Being overweight may also lead to a condition known as insulin resistance in which the body no longer responds to the insulin that is needed to assist the body in using sugar and glucose as fuel on a cellular level. (more…)
There is no better reason to diet than for your personal health and wellness. Those of us who are overweight know better than most the risks and possible consequences that may result because of our obesity. However, much like smokers, the risks do not always seem quite so cut and dry until we reach our very own turning point. Whether your eating habits are born of an addiction to certain foods, an emotional need, or years of learned behavior and conditioning things will not change until you totally adjust your eating habits and your lifestyle choices.
Dieting for many of us has become a lifestyle in and of itself - rapidly flip-flopping or yo-yoing from one diet to another with little success and with a growing despair over a sheer lack of results. The truth is that until you decide to forgive yourself for your dieting failures and get right back on the wagon, so to speak, after falling off no diet program is going to be successful. A simple diet isn’t going to make the pounds magically disappear. And, always depriving yourself of those things you enjoy most may have a more detrimental than a positive effect. (more…)
