Randy's Health Columns
Childhood Obesity
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Attention parents! Many of you are loving your children to death. Because you don’t want to see them unhappy in the short-term, you allow them to indulge their cravings for greasy fast food, processed junk food and high-calorie sweets and enable them to sit in front of the television, computer or video games for hours. These treats are seemingly harmless, but they’re not. Today, one in four children under the age of 10 is overweight or obese.
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The Importance of Portion Control
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Ernest Hemingway once said, "Never mistake motion for action." In recent years, Americans have mistakenly considered all the discussion, all the research and all the planning regarding obesity as action. One simple fact has been lost in the flurry of media, medical and public policy interest: individuals are acting for themselves. As a result, the percentage of the population that is overweight or obese continues to increase.
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Changing Your Mindset
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One of the first steps to losing weight is recognizing that you weigh too much. To succeed in losing weight, you have to have to know what you weigh now and what healthy weight you should strive for.
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Resting Metabolism Rate
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The truth is always harder to swallow than a French fry or a mouthful of fettucini alfredo. You’ve crunched the numbers and your Body Mass Index and Hip/Waist Ratio tell you the same thing: your health is at-risk because of your weight.
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