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Anti-Aging: Lower Weights May Keep You Younger

by Barbara Berkeley, MD One lovely side effect of weight loss is that it often makes you look younger. Sometimes significantly. Apart from the fact that weight loss makes women appear less matronly and men less stodgy, there seem to be other more profound links between obesity and senescence. As I wrote about in an earlier post called The Age that Counts, the type of fuels you choose to eat can affect cellular functions that age you. In particular, too... Read more →

Memory may be protected by keeping blood sugar levels low - CBS News

Keeping your blood sugar levels low might protect older adults from memory loss, new research suggests. A small study published Oct. 23 in the journal Neurology found low blood sugar levels led to memory benefits in healthy adults. "These results suggest that even for people within the normal range of blood sugar, lowering their blood sugar levels could be a promising strategy for preventing memory problems and cognitive decline as they age," study author Dr. Agnes Floel, a neuroscientist at... Read more →

23 Studies on Low-Carb and Low-Fat Diets - Time to Retire The Fad

via authoritynutrition.com Thanks to reader David Brown for this link which gives a good overview of many studies comparing low carb and low fat diets FOR WEIGHT LOSS. Remember, the issue we must focus on is NOT WEIGHT LOSS, but weight maintenance. Until we can find a way to reliably stabilize someone at a new lower weight we have not discovered much that is useful. Fortunately, continuing to eat a diet that is low in carbohydrate and high in non-processed... Read more →

A Too Fat World: One Symptom of Systemic Cultural Illness?

by Barbara Berkeley, MD When I recently had the sobering task of visiting a friend in the midst of her severe clinical depression I was struck by one thing. My friend was visibly ill, not just mentally, but physically. Even before medications were started, her skin was sallow, her weight had ballooned up and she looked like someone with a devastating bodily problem. In western medicine, we are taught to view the body as distinct from the mind. Psychological illness... Read more →

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In Struggle With Weight, Taft Used a Modern Diet - NYTimes.com

William Howard Taft, the United States' heaviest president, used a weight-loss program that researchers have found to be startlingly contemporary. On the advice of his doctor, a famed weight-loss guru and author of popular diet books, he went on a low-fat, low-calorie diet. He avoided snacks. He kept a careful diary of what he ate and weighed himself daily. He hired a personal trainer and rode a horse for exercise. And he wrote his doctor, Nathaniel E. Yorke-Davies, with updates... Read more →