Posts Tagged ‘exercise’

The announcement of the Apple Watch this week is one more example of how options for tracking your own physical activity are exploding. Also growing is the amount of money you can spend on a fitness tracker. And it seems that your employer’s interest in tracking you is growing, too. Apple’s Watch is pegged to be […]

Is it a coincidence that the 2015 Dietary Guidelines Advisory Committee issued their report during Fashion Week? Probably so, though it’s hard not to think about the changing fashions in nutrition advice. Coffee and eggs are definitely back in after years of being unfashionable. Added sugars and meats are decidedly out. The committee even went so […]

Let’s start with the truth of diet and exercise, which is that with careful attention to diet and exercise, most people can significantly improve their health. But the lie is that diet and exercise offers a reliable cure for obesity. In a commentary in Lancet Diabetes & Endocrinology, Christopher Ochner, Adam Tsai, Robert Kushner, and Thomas […]

People with good intentions murmuring platitudes about childhood obesity are supremely frustrating. They are frustrating because they sincerely want to help and they are sincerely misguided at times. This week, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) hosted a big media event in New York City to unveil a report that crows about “Declining Childhood Obesity […]

Television binges are gaining more and more attention. Netflix, Amazon, and other video streaming services are certainly changing the way people consume television, making binges on television more tempting than ever before. And increasingly, researchers are probing the implications of such behavior. One such study will be presented at an upcoming meeting of the International […]

How deep is the public concern about obesity? Are we more interested in health, or in the appearance of health? A quick look at what we wear versus what we do suggests that the appearance of fitness activity is more important to us than actually engaging in fitness activities. Men are more likely to wear […]

The subject of disabilities arising from obesity seems to bring out strong hostilities toward people with obesity that obscure rational thought. In a editorial on the subject, the Chicago Tribune last week argued that people who have disabilities as a result of obesity should not be protected under the Americans with Disabilities Act. The trouble is […]

It’s conventional wisdom. Ask anyone in the field and they’ll tell you they believe that exercise improves bariatric surgery outcomes. But until now, it’s only been an assumption. So it’s great to have a randomized, controlled trial that proves the point. A talented team of researchers from three research centers randomized 128 gastric bypass patients […]

Ask any hoarder. Nothing is better than their junk. And we are collecting a mountain of junk conclusions based upon junk data about dietary intake and energy expenditure — self reports that we know are inaccurate and biased. The International Journal of Obesity has just published a new report in which Obesity Society President Nikhil […]

The story of NIH spending $10 million on a video game to help kids escape fat city has something to annoy everyone. Let’s start with offensive stereotypes that promote weight bias. The game’s hero is an athletic youth who falls into a fat city — the kingdom of Diab with an evil, fat ruler who […]