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Top 10 Medical Events Of The Decade

Dr. Dean Ornish | Posted 12.31.2009 | Living

Read More: Angioplasty, Limb Regeneration, Mammography, Epigenetics, Synthetic Genomics, Childhood Obesity, Stents, Globalization, Slidehuge, Dr. Judah Folkman, Obesity, Wellness, Integrative Medicine, Angiogenesis, Medical News, Dna, Breast Cancer, Prostate Cancer, Dr. Elizabeth Blackburn, Health, Dr. Dean Ornish, Genetics, Diabetes, Telomeres, Telomerase, Craig Venter, Living News
Dr. Dean Ornish

In writing about the top 10 medical events of the decade, I first began writing about the latest high-tech breakthroughs in genomics, stem cell research, angiogenesis, and so on.

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The Obesity Problem: How Did We Become So Fat?

Joshua Rosenthal | Posted 12.30.2009 | Living

Read More: Health-Costs, Nutrition School, Obesity, Weight Loss, How to Lose Weight, Living News
Joshua Rosenthal

Healthy food and lifestyle choices are the foundations of weight loss. No pill or fad diet is going to cure our country's obesity problem.

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The Decade In Health: New Bugs, Scary Food, Bad Drugs

usatoday.com | Posted 12.28.2009 | Living

Read More: Cancer Vaccine, Hormone Therapy, Health, Swine Flu, Food Supply, Sars, Vioxx, Vaccine, Cancer, Obesity, H1n1, Wellness, Living News

As the decade comes to a close, USA TODAY looks at some of the more newsworthy medical stories of the past 10 years....

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The Truth About Obesity, Weight Loss, And Fad Diets

Irene Rubaum-Keller | Posted 12.28.2009 | Living

Read More: Calories, Health, Food, Weight Loss Tips, Weight Loss, Eating, Diabetes, Diet, Obesity, Wellness, Living News
Irene Rubaum-Keller

The best selling diet books out right now want to make you think there is another way. Why? Because you want another way and those books sell.

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Healthy Cooking Tips From The Mayo Clinic

Donald Hensrud, M.D., M.P.H. | Posted 12.28.2009 | Living

Read More: Healthy Eating, Food, Diet, Nutrition, Wellness, Health, Mayo Clinic, Cooking, Vegetables, Donald Hensrud, Weight Loss, Diabetes, Obesity, Living News
Donald Hensrud, M.D., M.P.H.

Healthy cooking doesn't mean you have to become a gourmet chef or invest in special cookware. Simply use standard cooking methods to prepare foods in healthy ways.

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The Diabesity Epidemic Part III: Treating The REAL Causes Instead Of The Symptoms

Mark Hyman, MD | Posted 12.24.2009 | Living

Read More: Ultrawellness, Type 2 Diabetes, Chronic Illness, Overweight, Diabetes, Mark Hyman MD, Insulin Resistance, Blood Sugar, Obesity, Health, Living News
Mark Hyman, MD

All of the phenomenon we see in diabesity are the result of the same thing: Imbalances in the seven underlying key systems in your body that are at the root of all health and illness.

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Introducing the 2010 TED Prize Winner

Amy Novogratz | Posted 12.23.2009 | Impact

Read More: Jamie Oliver, Cdc, Childhood Nutrition, Obesity, TED Prize, Nutrition, Fifteen Foundation, Jamie Oliver's Food Revolution, Impact News
Amy Novogratz

At the heart of Jamie Oliver's work is an assault on bad food and bad eating, keys to the current worldwide obesity epidemic that is wrecking the health of adults and children alike.

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4 Steps To Ensure You'll Keep Your New Year's Resolution

Neal Barnard, M.D. | Posted 12.28.2009 | Living

Read More: Health, Vegetarian, Vegan, Fat, Obesity, How to Lose Weight, Wellness, New Year's, New Year's Resolution, Dieting, Nutrition, Exercise, Weight Loss, Balanced Diet, Plant Based Diet, Living News
Neal Barnard, M.D.

If you've made a New Year's resolution to lose weight, chances are your resolve doesn't last very long. But if you follow these simple steps, you're more likely to keep your resolution--and keep off the weight.

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Really, Santa Claus, It Is Time That You Go on a Diet and Begin Exercising

Glenn D. Braunstein, M.D. | Posted 12.21.2009 | Los Angeles

Read More: Stroke, Exercise, Santa Claus, Heart Disease, Diabetes, Obesity, Diet, Hypertension, Christmas Food, Christmas, Weight Loss, Overeating, Los Angeles News
Glenn D. Braunstein, M.D.

Dear Jolly Old St. Nick. You have a problem: You're obese.

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Jamie Oliver Wins 2010 TED Prize, Will Unveil 'Wish To Change The World'

HuffPost | Tam Vo | Posted 12.21.2009 | Impact

Read More: Healthy Eating, Jamie Oliver, TED Prize 2010, Nutrition, Ted, Wish to Change the World, Childhood Nutrition, TED Prize, Obesity, Impact News

British celebrity chef Jamie Oliver, whose School Dinners and Feed Me Better campaign pressured the UK government to invest $1 billion to ban junk foo...

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The Diabesity Epidemic Part II: Why Conventional Medicine Makes Things Worse

Mark Hyman, MD | Posted 12.24.2009 | Living

Read More: Ultrawellness, Type 2 Diabetes, Chronic Illness, Overweight, Diabetes, Mark Hyman MD, Insulin Resistance, Blood Sugar, Obesity, Health, Living News
Mark Hyman, MD

I want to share a startling new discovery with you: Lowering your blood sugar may increase your risk of death.

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Healthy Food: Where Hope Begins

Robyn O'Brien | Posted 12.18.2009 | Living

Read More: Hope, Allergykids, Asthma, Autism, Diabetes, Obesity, Pharmaceuticals, Monsanto, Shel Silverstein, Allergies, Pepsico, Food Politics, Living News
Robyn O'Brien

We consume more pharmaceutical drugs than any other country, and we consume more chemicals in our food supply than the cows in France. Our lives have been devalued.

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Are People Nicer to You When You're Thin?

Irene Rubaum-Keller | Posted 12.18.2009 | Living

Read More: Eating Disorders, Fat, Weight Loss, Diet, Prejudice, Obesity, Tyra Banks, Living News
Irene Rubaum-Keller

It may be the last vestige of overt prejudice, but fat people aren't treated well at all in our society. When I was heavy, I was either invisible or someone to look down on.

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When Calling a Woman "Skinny" Isn't a Compliment Anymore

Tabby Biddle | Posted 12.22.2009 | Style

Read More: Weight-Issues, Strong Women, Women and Weight Issues, Anorexia, Health and Fitness, Healthy Weight for Women, Health and Beauty, Skinny Women, Healthy Women, Overweight Women, Obesity, Brittany Murphy, Eating Disorders, Style News
Tabby Biddle

Being "skinny" in our culture is a little more accepted than being fat, but does this make it okay to tell a woman she looks "so skinny" when you greet her?

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Is My Asana Too Fat? Yoga For The Rest Of Us (VIDEO)

Sadie Nardini | Posted 12.16.2009 | Living

Read More: Yoga, Nardini, Personal Growth, Personal Health, Health, Fat, Weight Loss, Obesity, Sadie, Living News
Sadie Nardini

I was shocked the first time I saw Erin doing yoga. At 330 pounds, her frame was not what I was used to seeing in the classroom, but it wasn't until I saw her in action that I realized how strong my bias was...

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Infertility Inequality

Philip N. Cohen | Posted 12.15.2009 | Living

Read More: Education, Smoking, Infertility, Health, Sexually Transmitted Diseases, Obesity, Race, Surrogates, Inequality, Healthcare, Parenting, Living News
Philip N. Cohen

The haves have less infertility than the have-nots, which is not surprising considering its causes include poor overall health condition, smoking and obesity.

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3 Tips to Take Control of Fat Bottoms and Your Bottom Line!

Robyn O'Brien | Posted 12.15.2009 | Living

Read More: Bloomberg, USA Today, Cancer, Obesity, Health Care, Health, Childhood Obesity, Living News
Robyn O'Brien

As the poor are being turned away from free cancer screenings, the US is buckling under the weight of obesity. Over the past 20 years there has been a dramatic increase in obesity.

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Are Our Minds Going The Way Of Our Waists?

David Rock | Posted 12.14.2009 | Living

Read More: Cell Phones, Starvation, Hunger, Neuroscience, Twitter, Social Networks, Relationships, Brain, Human Brain, Diabetes, Facebook, Obesity, Iq, Wellness, Mind, Overweight, Attention Span, Living News
David Rock

Put together cheap resources everywhere and poor self-control, and you get a weight problem literally of epidemic proportions. The trouble is, this same phenomenon may be happening with our minds.

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The Diabesity Epidemic Part I: How Diabetes And Obesity Are Ravaging America Today

Mark Hyman, MD | Posted 12.24.2009 | Living

Read More: Ultrawellness, Type 2 Diabetes, Chronic Illness, Overweight, Diabetes, Mark Hyman MD, Insulin Resistance, Blood Sugar, Obesity, Health, Living News
Mark Hyman, MD

Do you suffer from diabetes, monitor your blood sugar all the time, have blood sugar or insulin imbalances, elevated cholesterol? If so, you may find this story of one my patient's very interesting.

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World Hunger Requires Research, Not Rancor

Allen S. Levine | Posted 12.08.2009 | World

Read More: Malnutrition, World Food Programme, Obesity, World Hunger, Famine, World News
Allen S. Levine

While many Americans are worrying about not gaining weight during the holiday season, one-sixth of our planet's population is in danger of malnutrition, not obesity.

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Obesity And Genetics Study Finds Missing DNA Can Promote Childhood Obesity

AP | MALCOLM RITTER | Posted 12.07.2009 | Living

Read More: Dna, Leptin, Britain, Research, Children, Childhood Obesity, Genetics, Obesity, Childhood, Chromosome 16, Hormones, Chromosomes, Study, Living News

NEW YORK — Some children get severely obese because they lack particular chunks of DNA, which kicks their hunger into overdrive, researchers rep...

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Weight Loss: The Fat Gap, Generation Gap And Appetite Gap

Carole Carson | Posted 12.03.2009 | Living

Read More: Healthy Eating, Weight Loss, Dr. Nick Yphantides, The Fat Gap, My Big Fat Greek Diet, Obesity Epidemic, Fat Research, Obesity, Health, Living News
Carole Carson

The fat gap, a term coined by British researchers, refers to the discrepancy between how individuals see themselves and the number on the bathroom scale.

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The College Insider: Fat Chance Of Graduating College Without Losing The Freshman Fifteen

Karen Stabiner | Posted 12.02.2009 | Living

Read More: Eating Habits, Lincoln University, Alice Waters, Obesity, Racial Discrimination, Exercise, The College Insider, Health, Living News
Karen Stabiner

Short of the television program "America's Biggest Loser," there is probably no way to undo eighteen years of overeating, or poor habits, with a single semester of exercise.

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College's Too-Fat-To-Graduate Rule Under Fire

cnn.com | Posted 12.02.2009 | Living

Read More: Lincoln University, Too Fat to Graduate, Graduation, Education, Workout, College, Exercise, Health, Fitness, Fat, Fitness Test, Obesity, School, Wellness, Living News

Most college students expect to receive their diplomas on the basis of grades, but at a Pennsylvania school, physical fitness matters too....

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Preschoolers Watch Too Much TV -- Leads To Obesity

Joanna Dolgoff, M.D. | Posted 12.02.2009 | Living

Read More: Television, Activity, Health, Sedentary Lifestyle, Childhood Obesity, Parenting, Laziness, Obesity, Bloog Sugar, Tv, Wellness, Overweight, Sugar, Living News
Joanna Dolgoff, M.D.

You send your kids to day care with the hopes that your preschooler will learn socialization skills. But a new study shows that toddlers in home-based day care may watch up to two hours of TV during their day

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