by Christopher Flaherty | Feb 27, 2023 | Weight Management
— Dawn M. Sweet, Ph.D. Diet may be a contributing factor to reducing the risk of developing diabetic retinopathy. Diabetic retinopathy, a microvascular complication that affects retinal capillaries, affects one third of patients with diabetes, and if left untreated,...
by Christopher Flaherty | Feb 1, 2023 | Blogs, Weight Management
What Challenges do People with Disabilities & Obesity Face? Twenty-six percent the adult population has a disability, and among them, nearly 40 percent have obesity. Twenty-six percent the adult population has a disability, and among them, nearly 40 percent have...
by optimizenetz | Jan 27, 2016 | Weight Management
When weight loss is recommended for a person with pre-diabetes or type 2 diabetes, it may be confusing. What should you do to start losing weight and what are the options? In 2013, the American Association of Clinical Endocrinologists (AACE) published an algorithm...
by optimizenetz | Jan 20, 2016 | Weight Management
If you took a poll asking people with type 2 diabetes what goal(s) they would like to achieve, many would respond that they would like to lose weight. Sadly, countless people struggle with weight loss. And in many parts of the world, it doesn’t help that there...
by optimizenetz | Jan 13, 2016 | Weight Management
When some Americans are asked to choose between money and weight loss to make them happy, many will choose losing weight! Many people see being overweight as the reason why they are unhappy! As a result, many are willing to do anything to get to their “ideal weight”!...
by optimizenetz | Jan 6, 2016 | Weight Management
For anyone who has tried to lose weight–myself included–we know it is easier said than done. Especially if we try to enforce an unrealistic goal where we say we want to lose a large amount of weight. Two recent systematic reviews (1,2) focused on the...
