All Entries Tagged With: "Healthcare Reform"
Americans Living Longer but Obesity Rising
Americans are living longer even though obesity is rising thanks to prescription drugs and medical care. Unfortunately, fewer people can afford the healthcare required. The rising costs of healthcare are estimated at $190 billion per year and this preventable epidemic is bankrupting us as a nation. Slender For Life™ offers real solutions for ending the [...]
Fat Future: 42% of Americans May Be Obese by 2030
42% of all Americans are projected to be obese by 2030. Other studies suggest that 100% of all Americans will be overweight by 2050. The cost of obesity is ballooning along with our waistlines. It’s no secret that health care costs are getting higher and higher. Obesity costs account for about 9% of annual medical [...]
Food Revolution Day
Jamie Oliver’s Food Revolution Day is Saturday, May 19. This is your chance for you to help put an end to childhood obesity and an end to the preventable obesity epidemic that is escalating healthcare costs and budget deficits worldwide. You can make a difference by connecting with your community through events at schools, restaurants, [...]
Fast Foods Saltier in U.S. Than Overseas?
Countries overseas have been demanding that US fast foods be less saltier. So, why wouldn’t McDonald’s and Subway offer the same food here? It only makes health sense that they would do that. If you have followed my posts, you know that I am passionate about healthcare reform and that I believe that I believe [...]
The Heart Disease Trifecta
The heart disease trifecta can be prevented with each of us taking personal responsibility for our own health care. We are killing ourselves and our nation with obesity and its related preventable diseases. Hypnosis can be easy for you to learn and easy for you to use. Self hypnosis is the ultimate display of control [...]
Fed Up With Obesity?
Are you fed up with obesity? You should be. Americans are the fattest people on earth. At a time when our nation is in a financial crisis and is in desperate need for healthcare reform we are making ourselves sicker and poorer with the food that we eat. For most of us, obesity and its [...]
Paula Deen ~ A Sad Missed Opportunity
Visit msnbc.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy How sad that Paula Deen, the queen of fat food comfort eating missed an opportunity to start talking about healthy eating. Deen confirmed to Al Roker on January 17, 2012, that she has type-2 diabetes. Rumors that the 64-year-old Southern cook suffers from [...]
Healthcare Reform: When Will We Get It?
Visit msnbc.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy When will we get it that we must have healthcare reform? We are bankrupting our nation with unnecessary healthcare costs that result from lifestyle choices of unhealthy eating and lack of exercise. Healthcare reform begins with each one of us individually taking responsibility [...]
Got ‘Bad’ Genes? A Healthy Diet May Help
Did you know that a healthy diet can help you overcome bad genes? Just because you are genetically predisposed to a disease or to obesity does not mean that you have to have the illness or become overweight. Even if you have the disease or if you are obese, a healthy plant-based diet can help [...]
Overweight Kids Risk High Blood Pressure
Overweight kids risk having high blood pressure now – not just later on in life, but now. Being overweight, not just obese, can cause damage to the heart, blood vessels and kidneys. Childhood obesity is for the most part preventable and from my perspective it is unconscionable that in 2011 we are feeding our kids [...]
One Word Can Save Your Life: No!
For years I have said that saying “no” to your doctor can save your life. I think that John McDougall, MD , is right on with this one. To this day I still get shocked when I hear clients tell me about the visits to their MD from a simple cold to an ache or [...]
8 People Are Dying per Minute from Diabetes
It is alarming that 8 people are dying per minute from diabetes. And, in many cases it is preventable. Today, as a result of childhood obesity, children are being diagnosed with adult diseases such as diabetes. Politicians are posturing over the economy and healthcare reform and accomplishing little. Our nation is broke and we simply [...]
Sex, Drugs Easier to Discuss Than Weight Control
Sex and drugs are easier for parents to talk about than weight. Can you believe it? I know many of my clients, especially women, have shared that they group up always being criticized for their weight by their mom. Today, when they look at childhood photos, they realize that they were not overweight at that [...]
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