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Consumer Directed Questions and Answers about FDA’s Initiative Against Contaminated Weight Loss Products FDA has developed these questions and answers (Q & A’s) to help consumers, health care practitioners, and the general public understand FDA’s actions regarding weight loss products contaminated with various prescription drugs and chemicals. Many of these products are marketed as dietary [...] Obesity and Subclinical Heart Disease When a patient meets certain set criteria for a disease or condition, we doctors say that they have clinical [disease or condition]. For example, the World Health Organization and the National Institute of Health have designated a Body Mass Index of 30 or [...] Watch Your Waist – Not Just Your Weight When we talk about obesity it seems like we’re most often talking about Body Mass Index (BMI). Certainly I’ve been doing a lot of talking and writing about it. There’s another tool that doctors use to assess weight that I’ve [...] News and articles about the Mediterranean Diet are everywhere nowadays, and a whole section of the DrGourmet.com website is devoted to this style of eating. For those who might not have been paying attention, the Mediterranean Diet is based on the pattern of eating seen in the [...] We know that maintaining a healthy weight, eating right, getting some exercise and not smoking is a good way to help reduce your risk of heart disease and diabetes. What about stroke – the third leading cause of death in the United States?
I’m sure you know that people with diabetes need to manage their diet very carefully. It’s not just to keep their blood sugars level, but also to help avoid one of the major complications of diabetes: cardiovascular disease. Those with diabetes also have an increased [...] |
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