Obesity

Obesity is an excessive accumulation of fat that presents a risk to one’s health. In 2017, according to the World Health Organization, over 4 million people died as a result of being overweight or obese. Obesity is a risk factor for other diseases including heart disease, stroke, and diabetes, and is associated with a number of cancers, including breast, ovarian, prostate, and colon cancers. The good news about obesity is that most of the causes are preventable and reversible, even though the chief culprits in the rise in obesity are the changes in our diets in recent years to more foods high in fat and sugar and decreases in physical activity. We now know what to do: changing our diet by reducing fats and sugars and increasing the amounts of fruits, vegetables, and whole grains, and increasing our levels of regular physical activity can make a difference. The challenge is maintaining these behavior changes.

Monitoring Heart Rate Variability: A Key to Longevity
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On this Living to 100 Club podcast, we invite Dr. Torkil Faero to discuss the value of monitoring our heart rate variability. Dr. Faero’s latest best-selling book, The Pulse Cure,…

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How Obesity Leads to Higher Risk of Frailty in Older Adults
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Ellie Rahman Contributor In 2019, frailty was declared a medical condition characterized by a progressive decline in physiological function and increased vulnerability to adverse health outcomes. Alarms were raised after…

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Genetic Testing for Obesity: Are You Wasting Your Time?
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Dr. Philip Ovadia, Guest Author ifixhearts.com Is obesity genetic or environmental? If you ask a lot of conventional doctors, genetics may be their first response. After all, some ‘skinny’ people…

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What is Autoimmune Disease and How Does Functional Medicine Help?
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What is Autoimmune Disease and How Does Functional Medicine Help? Our guest on this Living to 100 Club Podcast is a Functional Medicine Certified Health and Wellness Coach. In this…

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The Latest Lessons about Eating Well
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The Latest Lessons about Eating Well We now know a lot about living longer and healthier. And we are learning more very day. For the Living to 100 Club’s first…

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Help Your Heart, Help Your Brain: A Culinary Nutrition Perspective
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Our guest for this episode of the Living to 100 Club podcast is Brigid McVaugh. Brigid is a nutritionist who has worked with patients with a range of medical illnesses.…

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Am I Hungry? — Eat What You Love, Mindfully
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Dr. Michelle May is a former family physician and yo-yo dieter. Many of you may not be physicians but might be able to relate to the yo-yo dieting. Dr. May…

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Diet and Good Nutrition: What Are We to Believe?
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Living to 100, or at least the mindset to live longer and healthier, requires us to make decisions every day about what behaviors – like eating, staying active, maintaining social…

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No Gimmick, Lasting Weight Loss
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Read Full Article A dietician shares what she has learned over the years about weight loss, and how we can keep the weight off.It is an easy to follow list,…

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Discomfort Might Extend Our Lifespan
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Read the Full Article Harvard Medical School professor of genetics, David Sinclair, PhD, discusses how our genes influence our aging experience.He further explores how lifestyle and activities can influence your…

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Which Diet Boosts Longevity?
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Read the Full Article Citing a JAMA Internal Medicine journal’s study, this article jumps right into the middle of the low-carb vs. low-fat debate.Which is healthier, or leads to better…

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Movement is Medicine: Why Exercise is So Important with Advancing Age with Dan McFarlane
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The older we get, the more important exercise becomes. Our guest, Dan McFarlane, has performed over 15,000 in-home therapy sessions, primarily with older adults and primarily for patients with “generalized,…

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