Posts Tagged ‘Controversy’
Dieting Blues
The American Obesity Association reports approximately 127 million US adults are overweight, 60 million are obese, and 9 million are severely obese totaling over one-third of the adult American population.Anyone who has tried to lose weight has heard the age-old formula: eat less, exercise more. This is intended to create a calorie deficit, where the body is using up more than it’s taking in.
In a study comparing an Atkins-type diet with a reduced-calorie regime, Tufts University scientists reported that low-carb diets may impair cognitive performance. According to a new poll, many dieters count calories at the expense of exercising in order to lose weight.
The demand for cosmetic surgery is on the rise, with a worsening obesity epidemic feeding a desire for quick-fix weight loss. According to the British Association of Aesthetic Plastic Surgeons.
There’s a whole lot of bickering going on over the effectiveness and potential dangers of low-carb diets, but the participants in this fight aren’t concerned about your health: they’re concerned about their profits.
The subject of dietary fat is always one of controversy - fat is good, fat is bad. Eat this fat, not that fat. And it always seems that information is changing and new opinions contradict the old. So what is true?