Obesity

Persistent organic pollutants (POPs) are found to be prevalent in individuals with cardiometabolic complications…. 

  In this week’s Homerun Slides, we continue with Dr. Stanley Schwartz’s series on obesity with topics on the benefits of weight loss including: lower CHD risk, improved insulin sensitivity, lowered blood pressure, and an increase in life expectancy….

Even if their weight is under control, adults who were obese as children may be at higher risk for cardiac events and early death….

  In this week’s Homerun Slides, we continue our exploration of the current obesity crisis with a discussion of prediabetes, the conditions which can lead to prediabetes including genetic disposition, and the possibility of preventing the onset of diabetes by acting quickly…. 

Owning a TV was associated with a 39% greater risk of obesity and a 33% increased risk of diabetes on average…

  In this week’s Homerun Slides, we continue our exploration on the state of obesity in 2014 including topics on the relationship of BMI and the risk of type 2 diabetes mellitus, genes that cause or are associated with diabetes, and the two principal genetic defects in B-cells that can …

Midkine, also known as MK, a protein cytokine that promotes cell proliferation, differentiation, survival, and migration, may hold the clues…. 

  In this week’s Homerun Slides, we discuss the Health Benefits of Modest Weight Loss; review some of the causes of the modern obesity crisis; and go over some of the Medical Consequences of Obesity….

In this week’s Homerun Slides, Dr. Stanley Schwartz guides us through the basic physiology of modern obesity and the "toxic environment" of abundant cheap food and little exercise we all seem to live in….

  This week, we begin a new Homerun Slides series from Dr. Stanley Schwartz on obesity. This first set in the series includes an overview of the current situation in the U.S. as well as a discussion of the term "metabolically health obese" and why Dr. Schwartz thinks this is …