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Oversharing?
So for those of you that see patients, do you share your own weight loss stories/tips with your overweight/obese patients when counseling about risk reduction for obesity/hypertension/diabetes?
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500 lb weight loss!!
Amazing story on Good Morning America. http://gma.yahoo.com/video/health-26594251/melissa-morris-reclaims-her-life-28105592.html I would really be interested in how her friends/family felt about their role in enabling her unhealthy diet (since she depended on them to bring food to her).
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JAMA Article on impact of calories vs. protein for weight ga
"...calories alone account for the increase in fat; protein affected energy expenditure and storage of lean body mass, but not body fat storage." I think we kinda knew that, but more data to support. Here is the JAMA article: http://jama.ama-assn.org/content/307/1/47.full And here is a list of low calorie (fat loss!), high…
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NY Times article on the biological basis of weight loss
Fascinating and frustrating: http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/01/magazine/tara-parker-pope-fat-trap.html
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Alcohol Consumption and Weight Loss
I stayed in on New Year's Eve and cleaned my car, home, and body from top to bottom and thereby skipped a champagne toast. I was curious to see if alcohol counted as "carbs", and found some interesting reading on the caloric content and metabolic impacts of alcohol.…
