Health and Financial Costs of Being Overweight or Obese – NYTimes.com

If the trend that, since the 1970s, has led to striking increases in the proportion of Americans who are overweight or obese is not halted, about three of every four Americans will be overweight or obese by 2020.

Being Skinny, Being Healthy & Being Elizabeth Taylor

I have a big mouth. Or in this case, flying fingers. I probably should have used more discretion, but there are certain subjects that just get me going.  Recently, it was a young woman tweeting about her yearning to look hot in a bikini which, for her, equated to being “the skinny chick” for onceContinue reading “Being Skinny, Being Healthy & Being Elizabeth Taylor”

F.D.A. Fails to Approve New Diet Pill

F.D.A. Fails to Approve Contrave, a New Diet Pill – NYTimes.com. There’s good news, and there’s bad news. There is no pill, and there’s not likely to be in the foreseeable future.  And if and when there is, it will come with myriad risks to other aspects of your health. There is, however, a sure-fireContinue reading “F.D.A. Fails to Approve New Diet Pill”

Female in Your 40s or 50s?

In a culture that worships at the altar of youth, what can a woman expect once she reaches her forties, fifties or sixties? Is it true that aging means gaining weight, lost libido, thinning hair, and increasing aches, pains and physical woes? Absolutely not! This can be a wonderful time of life, if women learn to take care of themselves as well as they’ve taken care of everyone else in the decades before.