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Here’s How Fast Food Can Affect Your Body
Hitting the drive-thru multiple times a week can take a toll on your body. Here’s how fast food can affect your heart, your mood and your overall health.
Here’s Why Losing Weight Is the Key to Losing Joint Pain
Losing as little as 10 pounds can have a big impact on protecting your joints from osteoarthritis.
5 Best Tips to Help You Mentally Prepare For Bariatric Surgery
If you’re considering bariatric surgery, a good mental attitude is one of the keys to success. Make sure you are on the right path with these five tips.
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5 Ways to Boost Breast Health
Not only is exercise and a healthy diet a great way to boost your overall health, but this powerful duo also lowers your risk of developing breast cancer.
Does Being Overweight Affect Your Chances of Getting Pregnant?
Excess weight may be the reason you’re having trouble getting pregnant. Learn why being overweight can prevent ovulation and how losing weight before pregnancy can increase fertility and your odds for a healthy pregnancy.
Overweight? Here’s Why Those Extra Pounds Are Hard on Your Heart
Think the number on the scale only matters for how you look? Your heart begs to differ. Preventive cardiologist Haitham Ahmed, MD, explains why carrying around too much weight is bad for your heart health.
Can Long-Term Stress Make You Gain Weight? Study Finds a Link
You probably know how stress can affect your mood and often your eating choices — comfort food, anyone? — but can long-term stress actually make us gain weight? A recent study says it may be so.
Obesity Is Now Considered a Disease
Obesity isn’t just about being overweight anymore. It’s about life, health, and now, it’s about changing people’s attitudes. Obesity now considered a ‘disease’ The American Medical Association (AMA) has officially recognized obesity as a chronic disease. Defining obesity as a disease should spur physicians and patients — and insurers— to regard it as a serious … Read More
