obesity

How to lose weight and prevent diabetes in 6 minutes a week

December 13, 2010 in Diabesity | 38 comments

I believe regular movement and exercise is essential to health. As Stephan Guyenet pointed out in a recent blog post, our paleolithic ancestors had a different word for exercise: "life". They naturally spent a lot of time outdoors in the sun, walking, hunting, gathering, and performing various other physically-oriented tasks. They had no concept of this as "exercise" or "working out". It was just life.But while exercise contributes to health in several ...
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How toxins are making us fat and diabetic

November 5, 2010 in Diabesity, Toxins | 6 comments

Each year the toxic burden in our air, food and water - and thus our bodies - grows higher than ever before. Companies manufacture 6.5 trillion pounds of 9,000 different chemicals each year. That's about 3.25 billion tons - enough to fill an ocean supertanker. And the same companies release over 7 billion pounds of 650+ different pollutants into the atmosphere and water.A recent study by the Environmental Working Group (EWG) found the ...
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A healthy gut is the hidden key to weight loss

October 29, 2010 in Diabesity | 32 comments

In a previous article in this series on diabesity I briefly mentioned the role of gut health in obesity and diabetes. I'd like to go into more detail on that subject here, especially since it's not a very well known relationship.Our gut is home to approximately 100,000,000,000,000 (100 trillion) microorganisms. That's such a big number our human brains can't really comprehend it. One trillion dollar bills laid end-to-end would stretch from ...
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10 ways stress makes you fat and diabetic

October 22, 2010 in Diabesity | 17 comments

In the first part of this series on diabesity, we "got under the hood" to look at the underlying mechanisms of both obesity and diabetes. We've now moved on to discussing the environmental and lifestyle risk factors that drive these conditions. In the last article we learned about the top 3 dietary causes of diabesity. In this article, we're going to see how stress can independently cause both obesity and diabetes.A huge - ...
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