I am 56 and weigh 225 pounds. I spent many decades and tens of thousands of dollars trying to be a thinner person. Every single program, plan, and diet that I tried to follow was recommended by and monitored by a doctor.
A new study seems to prove the old yarn that claims people let themselves go once they marry.
Researchers who followed 6,949 U.S. adolescents into young adulthood found that those who married were more than twice as likely to become obese than those who just kept dating.
NEARLY one in ten children in Southampton is clinically obese when they start primary school, new figures reveal.
Health bosses have warned that these youngsters are so overweight that they are putting their lives at risk.
They are also far more likely to suffer from heart disease, diabetes, strokes and cancer in later life.
To make matters worse, the city’s children also do less physical activity at school compared to the national average, according to latest Department of Health figures.
Diabetes Mellitus is a disease in which blood sugar (glucose) levels are abnormally high because the body does not produce enough of the hormone insulin or the body fails to respond to insulin.
How many times a day do you think about your weight?
I believe there are people out there who can honestly say they never, or at least rarely, think about how much they weigh. I have several friends whose weight doesn't seem to fluctuate, who appear to eat when they're hungry and stop when they're full, and who never ever bring up the topic of weight in conversation.
I would like to become one of those people.
