Research Articles

I have made a list of research articles and posts that I wrote over the past year.  I will post a new tip every Tuesday and Thursday until I run out of topics.  I am pretty sure you will find many of the topics helpful and many may motivate you to try harder.  If you have a topic you wish me to research, Contact Me.  

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Will sin taxes and subsidies improve healthy dietary choices? I have discussed both sin taxes and the increasing obesity epidemic in the article entitled "Food for Thought: Tax on Body Weight".  Ever expanding waistlines will have a major impact on the health care costs of the future if we…
Categories: Research, Weight Loss
Tags: Research, Taxes, Weight Loss

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Fruits and vegetables lower risk of heart disease, stroke, and cancer deaths.   Most of the world, including the United States, eats too few fruits and vegetables.  I can remember trying to get my son to eat more vegetables during his elementary school carnivore stage.  Adults are equally…
Categories: Research, Weight Loss
Tags: Diet, Food, Healthy, Nutrition, Research

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Cardiovascular risk reduction benefits may continue five years after weight loss program ends. Cardiovascular Disease Risk Factors Need another reason to lose weight.  This study evidence may motivate you to lose weight.  More motivation is a good thing, and hopefully, this will push you to success.  The bottom line is that even a small amount…
Categories: Research, Weight Loss
Tags: Cardiovascular, Diabetes, Risk Factors, Weight Loss, Why WAIT

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Sleep can help you lose weight and avoid obesity and cravings.  We all know that sleep is essential for optimal health.  We do not function efficiently without enough sleep, and we are just plain grumpy if our sleep is interrupted, but we still fail to get enough good quality…
Categories: Research, Weight Loss
Tags: Craving, Obesity, Rem, Rem Sleep, Sleep, Sucrose, Weight Loss

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Email based support may be superior for weight loss.   Support Group Weight loss is tough and difficult under even the best circumstances.  Almost every dieter is looking for that one thing to help them maximize their weight loss.  Dieters spend billions every year looking for one thing to help them lose and maintain their weight…
Categories: Research, Weight Loss
Tags: Research, Support, Weight Loss

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Obesity Tied to Secretive Eating I am not an expert on eating disorders or obesity for that matter, but as a primary care physician, I often am the first to suspect and diagnose eating disorders. The diagnosis is difficult to make, and patients and…
Categories: Research, Weight Loss
Tags: Obesity, Research

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Being moderately overweight is not protective in overall mortality. Obesity: Belly One of the problems in research is when you oversimplify or unintentionally skew your data.  When you do this sort of examination of data, you miss the proverbial forest because you are looking at all the trees.  You need to look at the right…
Categories: Research, Weight Loss
Tags: Obesity, Research

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Eating Patterns May Help Men Maintain a Healthy Weight A Family Preparing a Meal We are all looking for a silver bullet to help us lose weight and sustain the loss afterward.  To be bluntly honest, we have not found such a piece of information, and I personally doubt it exists at all.  The problem…
Categories: Nutrition, Research, Weight Loss
Tags: Research, Weight Loss

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Group support of a structured diet is a winning strategy.   Diet and Nutrition Confusion Obesity is at epidemic levels in the United States and becoming an increasing problem worldwide.  You can easily see the problem with a short trip to your local shopping center or grocery store.  Five to ten years ago, you only…
Categories: Nutrition, Research, Weight Loss
Tags: Research, Weight Loss

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Cooking at home is cheaper and healthier.   We have all heard the myth that eating at home is more expensive.  Food that is good for you is more expensive is what I have always heard, and I guess that is true if all you eat is frozen…
Categories: Nutrition, Research, Weight Loss
Tags: Myth, Research
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