The Biology of Weight Loss
Susan McQuillan, MS, RDN, CDN Reviewed by QualityHealth’s Medical Advisory Board What actually happens in your body when you try to lose weight? At one time, it was believed that weight control was simply a matter of balancing the amount of food you ate with the amount of exercise you got. Upsetting this balance resulted […]
Type 2 Remission: 6 Tips to Get There
By Rosemary Black Reviewed by QualityHealth’s Medical Advisory Board “Kind of a long-term assumption really is that once you have diabetes there’s no turning back on it, and there’s no remission or cure,” said Edward Gregg, lead author on the report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Reuters. However, the study reinforced […]
Is Fat Really Bad for You?
Susan McQuillan Reviewed by QualityHealth’s Medical Advisory Board Throughout the 1980s and ’90s, dietary trends led to the promotion of low-fat, higher carbohydrate diets as the healthiest way to eat. But statistics later revealed that as Americans adopted these lower fat diets, rates of overweight and obesity climbed. The number of people with diabetes, a […]