Assessing Weight: Pounds, Percent or Inches?
by tbroadbent@robard.com | Feb 1, 2023 | Health, Food, Blogs
Assessing Weight: Pounds, Percent or Inches? Given the health risks associated with being overweight or having obesity, and because many of them can be avoided or even reversed with weight loss, it is important for all of us to monitor our weight regularly. Obesity is challenging to deal with on many levels. Anyone who has struggled with their weight knows...
How Economic Pressures Affect Physical Health
by DiabetesCare.net | Sep 23, 2015 | Health
With the passage of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act into law more people, especially low-income people, have access to health care. However, having health care doesn’t guarantee good health. Economic instability, racial inequalities in health care treatment, and cost shifting by insurance companies, conspire to affect chronic disease...
De-Liver Us From Evil: Help Your Liver To Help You
by DiabetesCare.net | Sep 18, 2015 | Health
I can’t get no respect.” It’s an often-quoted line from a famous comedian, but it could be something that the liver would say if it could talk. While the brain and heart get plenty of attention, and deservedly so, the liver at times appears to get lost in the shuffle. But it isn’t the largest organ in the body for nothing, and it can’t (and won’t) be...
How a Balloon Can Aid Weight Loss
by DiabetesCare.net | Sep 9, 2015 | Health
Weight loss using a balloon? If you have not heard, the ReShape Integrated Dual Balloon System has recently been approved by the FDA. The ReShape is the first non-surgical weight loss procedure for people with mild-to-moderate obesity. Feel uneasy about the idea of having balloons in your belly? Rest assured, balloons have been used in...
Reinvent Your Diabetes Life
by DiabetesCare.net | Aug 27, 2015 | Health
Change is difficult. Not changing is fatal. Are you willing to try something new? Are you willing to fail in the process? Diabetes is no different from any other aspect of life when it comes to trying and failing. (In fact, I had a high school teacher who said that trying is failing and we just have to do it.) So reword the first question–are you willing...
Back to School, Back on Track
by DiabetesCare.net | Aug 26, 2015 | Health
Usually we wait for January to make or renew our commitments to improve ourselves in some way, but why wait another four months? Kids are readying themselves now for the upcoming school year, why not join them in the excitement of this new year? We all have childhood memories of getting ready for the new school year: new shoes, clothes, pens, notebooks,...
