Tag: weight loss
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Viewing Obesity as a Chronic Disease
Asthma, diabetes and cancer. They’re all chronic diseases. But what about obesity? Is it a disease, or something else? According to the American Medical Association and the Canadian Medical Association it is. But not everyone feels that way. The American Heart Association lists obesity as a behaviour (although this may change). At first glance, the…
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Health Benefits of High Intensity Interval Training (HIIT)
We’re all wanting to do more in less time. And exercise is no different. We often use a lack of time as a reason not to exercise. Or try to figure out how to squeeze a full workout in between other obligations while still getting the benefits. But what if you could exercise less and…
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I want to eat healthy, so why can’t I?
Most of us have a good idea of what a healthy diet is. We may be short on a few particulars, but in general, we know eating fruits and vegetables are good for us, complemented by dairy, fish and meats. Diets that emphasize a variety of foods as close to their natural state as possible…
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Preventing Diabetes with a Healthy Lifestyle
We’ve made great strides in a lot of diseases. Over the years death rates from heart disease continue to go down. Survival from cancers is going up. But one disease still keeps climbing and that’s diabetes. The prevalence of diabetes is between 7% and 9% in adults. And it increases with age such that 1…