Mollie Kamm is less than half the woman she used to be.
The 45-year-old mom tipped the scales at 350 pounds just four years ago.
Now the five-foot-five inspiration weighs a svelte 160.
Do the math. That's a whopping 190-pound weight loss.
"I feel like a whole new person," Kamm tells Sun Media from her home in Dryden, Ont. "A lot more energy, of course, and I'm a bit more outgoing."
But attorneys doubt the case will open the door to the state's paying for similar procedures.
Ed Sprague injured his knee in 1976 while working at a bakery in Eugene. Over time, Sprague gained weight and developed arthritis in his injured knee.
Although the organic movement has certainly started to influence how Americans think about their food, it is still no match for the American fast food industry, which continuously finds creative new ways of piling sugar, salt and fat on a plate and charging customers $4.99 for the privilege of eating it.
The 14,300 students served by the public school cafeterias in Lee's Summit, Mo., have delicious yet healthy options.
Among the menu items are fresh watermelon, fresh carrots with low-fat ranch dip, baked chicken nuggets, chilled (frozen) strawberries, low-fat mashed potatoes with non-fat gravy, and pizza with whole grain crust and low-fat cheese. They even enjoy roasted, shredded pork sandwiches with homemade whole grain rolls dressed in a low-sodium barbecue sauce--perhaps no surprise for a district that resides in the Kansas City metropolitan area.
Obesity has been linked with a variety of serious health problems, and the latest one to add to the list is Alzheimer’s disease. A new study available on the online edition of the journal Human Brain Mapping reports that obese and overweight people have less brain tissue than people of normal weight.
An analysis of healthcare spending in the U.S. reveals the most likely victims of medical care rationing if healthcare reform necessitates it: those Americans who already receive a disproportionate share of spending.
The elderly, the obese, and those who identify themselves as unhealthy totaled one-third of the population in 2006, but they accounted for nearly 60 percent of spending, according to the Department of Health and Human Services' Medical Expenditure Panel Survey.
Extremely obese people — those who are 80 or more pounds over a normal weight — live three to 12 fewer years than their normal-weight peers, a new study shows.
