The Pleasure Trap:
Audio interview with Dr.
Goldhamer
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Do You Need to Fast?
The residential health education program of TrueNorth Health specializes in
the supervision of fasting. Fasting can be a powerful tool to regain or
maintain health.
If you are overweight, dealing with high blood pressure, diabetes, joint
pain, digestive difficulties or are ready to establish or re-establish good
diet and life-style habits and escape the pleasure trap, our program may be
right for you.
We will operate until our winter break which begins on December 20, 2004.
If you are planning on joining us this year please call and speak with Dr.
Goldhamer at (707) 586-5555 to secure your reservation.
The Center will re-open on January 17th, 2005.
We have purchased 27 acres of beautiful land in Sebastopol, Calif. We are
making excellent progress on developing a new facility that is currently
scheduled to open some time in 2006. We will be announcing more details in
our next newsletter.
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Are you too fat?
Here is a chart to help you determine your Body Mass Index.
BMI uses a mathematical formula based on a
person's height and weight. BMI equals weight in kilograms divided by height
in meters squared (BMI = kg/m2). The BMI table that follows has already
calculated this information.
Although the BMI ranges shown in the table are not
exact ranges of healthy and unhealthy weight, they are useful guidelines. A
BMI of 25 to 29.9 indicates a person is overweight. A person with a BMI of
30 or higher is considered obese.
Like the weight-to-height table, BMI does not show
the difference between excess fat and muscle. BMI, however, is closely
associated with measures of body fat. It also predicts the development of
health problems related to excess weight. For these reasons, BMI is widely
used by health care providers.
Find your weight on the bottom of the graph. Go straight up from
that point
until you come to the line that matches your height. Then look to
find your
weight group. |
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Health Effects of Obesity
Persons with
obesity are at risk of developing one or more serious medical conditions,
which can cause poor health and premature death. Obesity is
associated with more than 30 medical conditions, and scientific evidence has
established a strong relationship with at least 15 of those conditions.
Preliminary data also show the impact of obesity on various other
conditions. Weight loss of about 10% of body weight, for persons with
overweight or obesity, can improve some obesity-related medical conditions
including diabetes and hypertension.
The Complete Article
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