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Obese People Have ‘Brain Degeneration’

August 26, 2009 by

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with thanks to Jodee McDowell (Aug. 25) – A new study finds obese people have 8 percent less brain tissue than normal-weight individuals. Their brains look 16 years older than the brains of lean individuals, researchers said today. Those classified as overweight have 4 percent less brain tissue and their brains appear to have aged […]

Sheri’s Rants #23: The Binge and the Payback

August 26, 2009 by

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My friend Jeannette went for a 15 mile hike this last weekend with a group of friends she’d not seen in years.  When she came out of the woods, she headed to the local mini-mart and bought a Big Gulp diet coke and sloshed it down because “I was really thirsty.”  Her first diet coke […]

Obesity a Key Link to Soaring Health Tab as Costs Double

July 28, 2009 by

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By Nanci Hellmich, USA TODAY WASHINGTON — As Congress searches for ways to control health care costs, a new report provides a sizable target: obesity. Americans who are 30 or more pounds over a healthy weight cost the country an estimated $147 billion in weight-related medical bills in 2008, double the amount a decade ago, […]