Tag: weight loss

• Just how bad is sugar?

  

  Still nibbling chocolate from Easter (yes, we still have some) or even Valentine’s Day? Munching packaged cereals, pancakes or muffins for breakfast? Enjoying a lunch of processed meats and bread, sweetened pasta sauce, or even a salad drenched in dressing? Sugar makes all of these foods delicious. It is also an important energy source for…

  Dr. Scott Lear

  Lifestyle, Nutrition

  candy, diabetes, diet, donuts, doughnuts, fructose, glucose, healthy eating, healthy living, heart disease, junk food, lifestyle, nutrition, nutrition labelling, obese, obesity, pop, soda pop, sucrose, sugar, sugar tax, sweet, taxes, weight, weight loss

• Obesity: What is it and why should we care?

  

    We can’t pick up the paper, go online or turn on the TV without hearing about obesity. Our society is obsessed with it. There is no end to the number of programs willing to take your money with promises of melting fat away without doing anything. So much so that in the United States…

  Dr. Scott Lear

  Lifestyle, Uncategorized

  abdominal obesity, fat, food, health, lifestyle, nutrition, obese, obesity, sleep, waist circumference, weight, weight loss