Weight Maven

So, saw this making the rounds today: Researchers from Israel have determined that more than half of liver transplant recipients develop post-transplantation metabolic syndrome (PTMS), placing them at greater risk for cardiovascular disease. Prior to transplantation only 5% of the patients were diagnosed with metabolic syndrome, but rates of obesity, hypertriglyceridemia, hypertension, and diabetes were [...]

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If I wasn’t worried about Delicious sunsetting, I’d just post this there. But given its imminent demise, I’ll probably start posting short link posts here just so I can find ‘em down the road. From Whole 9, here’s a great post on how to make your budget work at the grocery store on a paleo [...]

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A friend shared this — 5 Weight Loss Tips for Cynical Bastards — on Facebook this AM. My favorite part: Society wants you to be fat, and the weight-loss industry is part of that system. So while restaurants and grocery stores want to sell you food, remember that exercise equipment manufacturers want you constantly buying [...]

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Martin over at LeanGains has a must-read post on a new study showing that fewer meals results in better blood sugar control compared to more frequent meals. Money quote from the study Martin reviews: There has been considerable promotion both by the medical community and the lay press to consume 6 meals per day for [...]

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I’m a regular reader of Dr. Arya Sharma’s blog, but think this CBC News piece he’s quoted in could have been better edited: “I think one of the biggest misconceptions when we talk about obesity in general is that obese people are obese largely because of their lifestyles and because of the way that they [...]

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Correlation is not causation, but this is pretty striking: food deserts (2009) versus obesity rates (2007) by county: Update, 3/7: More food for thought (pun intended). Here’s the 2010 Gallup-Healthways Well-Being Index. Update, 3/25: And another from Feeding America. Related link: Newsweek’s Divided We Eat: What Food Says About Class in America

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John at Hunter-Gatherer has a very short and sweet explanation of getting healthy via paleo: Here is a simple way to understand how to be healthy. This is the shortest history of humanity you’ll ever read (three words): wild, domesticated, industrial. Wild: Humans lived as hunter-gatherers in the wild (~1-2 million years, including recent ancestors) [...]

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