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Gut Bacteria Protect Your Mental Health. Learn How to Protect Your Microbiome
Imbalanced gut bacteria may increase your risk of anxiety, depression, obesity and a host of other diseases. Learn how digestive bacteria can cause anxiety and find out how dietary changes can help you instill or protect an optimal balance of beneficial bacteria.
Chronic Stress Leads to Obesity – Cut the Stress to Shed the Pounds
Chronic stress causes brain changes that lead us to crave comfort foods and to actually strive to increase abdominal fat stores – it’s our unconscious mind working against our best intentions! Learn more about how and why stress leads to weight gain and get some tips on things you can do right now to reduce your stress load.
The Behavioral and Neurological Evidence for Food Addiction
An overview of some of the evidence supporting the still controversial concept of food addiction – evidence from behavioral studies as well as from animal model and neurological research.
The 10 Principal and Sometimes Sneaky Causes of Obesity
Are you overweight? You surely know that by eating less and exercising more you’d probably lose weight – but are you aware of the more subtle causes of weight gain – like your sleeping habits, the medications you use and your sex and age? Read on to find out what’s making you fat and get a better sense of what’s needed to lose those extra pounds.
For Parents: 7 Ways to Help Your Child Overcome Obesity Stigma
Is your son or daughter overweight or obese? If so, then you’ve got to be on the lookout for weight-based victimization and do your best to counteract the stigma of obesity with proactive measures in the home and within the family. Here are 7 ways to get started.
Obesity Statistics: The Scale of the Problem and Its Consequences
Obesity had nearly tripled in the last few decades and if you’re an adult in America today that’s not overweight or obese…you are in a real minority. Read on to see more obesity statistics and to learn more about the consequences and incidence rates of one of America’s greatest health challenges.
Quick Food Addiction Self Test
Worried about the compulsive nature of your relationship to food? Take this very quick quiz and see if you might meet the diagnosis for food addiction.
Are You Obese, Overweight or at a Healthy Weight? Calculate Your BMI Score Here to Find Out
Learn how to calculate your BMI Score. Although far from perfect, the Body Mass Index (BMI) score is used to determine what obesity category you fall into.
Childhood Obesity - How Parents Can Safely Encourage Weight Loss
Obese kids should be encouraged to lose weight for greater physical and often mental health. Learn how to encourage weight loss, without increasing the risk of an eating disorder.