How to fight obesity. It’s a formidable challenge. Intervention is usually aimed either at preventing people from becoming overweight or fighting obesity for  people who already have a weight problem . There is no simple solution. Attempts to prevent obesity that are targeted at groups of people ...

Why People Get Fat? I had a neighbor whose car never seemed to run very well. It was always lurching and coughing down the street. He kept trying one gasoline after another in search of the perfect fuel to make the car run better . Finally I ...

Specific fiber supplements have an additional dimension of effectiveness on obesity by reducing excess insulin levels and actually reducing the number of calories absorbed. Perhaps the best example is guar gum, a water soluble fiber derivative of the Indian cluster bean. Ten grams of guar gum twice ...

Obesity is a veritable epidemic in the western world. In the United States, more than 30 percent of all men and women are seriously overweight. What i find to be particularly alarming is the fact that nearly 25 percent of all teenagers are obese, which places them at ...

A strategy to prevent overeating involves using odors that keep us in a alert, wakeful state because we are better able to use our intellectual, logical capacities when we are not tired or even drowsy. I once attempted a small weight loss study whose only rule was: no ...

Many overweight people describe themselves as depressed, even to the point of being suicidal. However, often they are not taken seriously because their depression isn't "classic", meaning that it doesn't fit the textbook definition of the illness and depression is truly an illness. In classic depression, loss ...

You have no doubt heard women say, "It's so infuriating. He eats one piece of toast instead of two, switches light beer, cuts his snacks in half, and he loses weight. I practically starve myself to get rid of one lousy pound, and he is boasting about ...