Category: health
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Most Fat People Don’t Get Diabetes?
50 comments on Most Fat People Don’t Get Diabetes?I’ve had it banged over my head for decades that “OMG you’re going to get diabetes!!!!”, so when I read this I was a bit flummoxed: Roughly 20% of the people with Type 2 diabetes are thin, and 75% of obese people never get it. All those years of worry, of dieting to try to avoid diabetes, of being told that I ABSOLUTELY would get diabetes if…
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Thankful Thursday
1) Back at the gym with its many different sorts of weight and cardio machines … 2) … and my knees are NOT hating me. :) 3) Not getting embarrassed when I start sweating and breathing hard before my workout partner (who’s on the next treadmill over). 4) A good weekend away from work. 5) The man of the house…just because.
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Notes on Sunday’s Web-Surfing
A few notes on things I ran across on the web. Note 0: Fat asthmatics may need weight-based dosing. Suddenly I don’t feel guilty that I sometimes need 3 inhaler puffs instead of 2. Note 1: “The Drink-8-Glasses-of-Water-a-Day is a myth” story has hit Fark. Maybe doctors will get it soon? Note 2: Some of these other medical myths are interesting, too. Note 3: And exercise…
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My Dentist Doesn’t Blame Tooth Problems On My Fat
She doesn’t blame my fat for my grinding my teeth at night. She just ordered a custom bite guard. Or for my needing crowns (she blamed them on my grinding my teeth at night!) Or for my 20-year-old fillings needing replacement (they’re old!) Or even for my coffee-dulled teeth! (She offered to “whiten” them.) I’m not sure if dentistry as a whole is behind the times…
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Thankful Thursday
[Another weekly exercise in gratitude.] 1) Started doing full squats again* – not very many, and not using any extra weights, but even so, I am pleased with this progress. ;) 2) Finished a big rollout at work, which has seriously reduced my stress. 3) Three-day weekend coming up. 4) The insurance company finally approved the prescription antihistamine, which combined with the Advair seems to be improving…
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Thankful Thursday
This is one of those weeks where I’d rather be venting about the stressy stuff and not looking for things to be grateful for. But … that’s also part of why I do it, to focus on the good instead of the bad. 1) New CPAP mask arrived from cpap.com. 2) A friend asked to borrow Lessons from the Fat-o-Sphere. 3) Advair (new preventative asthma drug…
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Thankful Thursday
[A weekly exercise in gratitude.] 1) Had a good doc appt today, have new treatment plan for allergies & asthma. 2) The other day I had the mini-gym at work to myself, so I didn’t have to keep myself from singing along to my iPod while I was on the treadmill :) 3) The wonderful relaxation I get from stretching. 4) Hearing Carrie Fisher state that one of…
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Fun with Breathing
Manufacturer’s pic of my CPAP mask Sunday night (and Monday morning) I kept waking up due to my CPAP mask blowing a stream of cold air on my lip. I thought it was perhaps an inadequate seal between the rubbery “nasal pillows” and my nostrils, but futzed around and eventually got back to sleep. Monday night as I took my book to bed, I…
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Hydroxycut, FDA, and “Diet Supplements”
Hydroxycut, produced by Iovate Health Sciences of Oakville, Ontario, is the latest diet supplement that has been volunarily recalled at the urging of the US FDA. In all, the Food and Drug Administration said it had received 23 reports of significant adverse health effects in people who used Hydroxycut, including one person who required a liver transplant. Other complications included heart problems and a kind of muscle damage that…
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Using Colonics to Avoid Flu?
Laurel has a post today on this topic and why it’s insane. [H]ave we not given up on the idea that flushing warm water up your backdoor does nothing but clean out feces that was on its way out anyway, just a bit faster? And that for some people, it’s actually bad to persist in high pressure “colonic irrigation” (diverticulitis, IBS, Crohn’s, Coeliac) because it can cause…
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Thankful Thursday
Today I am thankful for… 1) Antihistimines and my inhaler. They help me enjoy spring and not feel like I’m sick all the time. 2) Sunshine. It is a nice change after the dark-by-4:30pm winter. 3) It appears that most of the garden survived the winter. 4) Going for a walk on a stressful day…yes, it helps me unwind. 5) Watching Matt dance. Somewhere between the music…
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More: How Very Obese People Are Almost Completely Sedentary…
Or rather, on how the “almost completely sedentary” in “Very Obese Adults Almost Completely Sedentary” is defined. The full text of the study isn’t freely available, but the abstract is linked in here. The results include: On average, subjects took 3,763 ± 2,223 steps. That implies a range between 1,430 and 5,986 steps a day. That’s a pretty wide range of data, and makes me…
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Pollen Sucks
Seriously. Nose running, eyes itching, I take extra antihistimines – and then nibble on chocolate-covered coffee beans* to compensate for the resulting drowsiness.** I’m coughing up the occasional bit of phlegm, too, and my lungs feel fullish. The one good thing is that even though I feel sick, I’m probably not actually contagious. How’s hayfever season going for y’all? *Use with caution. **Yes, I…
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Very Obese Adults Almost Completely Sedentary?
For all the freaking out in the media about the obesity crisis, there’s not much research on folks who are very fat. So a study on folks with an average BMI of 53 shows some promise…right? Sorry. The headline: “Very Obese Adults Almost Completely Sedentary“. I’m not sure how many people are going to read beyond that, but if they do, here’s what they’ll find: Only 10 participants.…
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What I’m Reading…
An article on public policy vs academic research tackles salt, but I wonder if the same thing could not be said about dieting. If you were an academic researcher, you’d have to persuade your institutional review board that you had considered the risks and obtained informed consent from the participants. […] But if you are the mayor of New York, no such constraints apply. You can simply…
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Knee Rehab: Feeling Good :)
Well, not completely. I am a bit amused that I can work up to a brisk, steady clip on the treadmill in my office building’s mini-gym with no limp, then limp as I’m walking to my office. I think it’s partly that I am usually walking a bit slower when I’m off the treadmill…and that the treadmill is level. I used to think of sidewalks and streets as…
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Thankful Thursday
My knee doesn’t really hate me anymore. It’s just occasionally crotchety. New shirt from Ulla Popken arrived and fits nicely. Sunny days lasting til 7pm seems to be counteracting my SAD a bit. Taking time to stretch. A weekend with nothing scheduled and nowhere I had to be. :)
Living ~400lbs 