Health

Personally, I don’t think an American citizen should have to be employed by a company in order to get good health insurance. But at the moment, that’s the way the system works. And I believe we give adequate tax benefits and incentives to large companies so that they are able to provide good health insurance […]

I’ve always heard, and firmly believed, that there is 3500 calories to a pound. However, studies show that when people are fed the same amount of extra calories, they gain differing amounts. Widely differing amounts, anywhere from 9 to 29 pounds in one study! It might be that 3500 calories is not always a pound.

Here’s an article in the New York Times, Weight Loss Surgery May Soon Be Paid by Medicare, that also questions the effectiveness of dieting and losing weight. “The problem with weight loss, researchers say, is that the advice so often given, eat less and exercise more, has not been much help.” There’s a national registry

This article,How not to buy happiness, suggests that it can if you use the extra money to shorten a commute or otehrwise alleviate stress in your life. “… if we use an increase in our incomes, as many of us do, simply to buy bigger houses and more expensive cars, then we do not end

If you were a woman and you were told there was a 100% chance that you would develop breast cancer if you didn’t undergo a full mastectomy, would you? How about if there was a 90% chance? Or a 25% chance. What if there was a 90% chance you would get kidney disease if you

Way cool. A video game – that kids like – that involves “dancing” and eventually helps many lose weight. There’s an online casino game called Lose Weight, that, you guessed it, helps the players lose weight! The game is hooked up to the scale at the gamblers home. When the person loses more weight, they

Yahoo! News – Diet Device Makes You Take Smaller Bites A $400 device that enforces Small bites-just like your mom taught you! What people will do to try to lose weight!

So while I believe that the ideal woman’s body portrayed in magazines and television is way too thin, unhealthy and unrealistic, I also believe the large number of studies that have found a correlation between obesity and disease. I also believe that anybody who’s not healthy and able to participate in a minimum amount of