Posts Tagged ‘food’

Jennifer’s Journal: Week One. Part 4

Tuesday, June 5th, 2012

The food records will force you to take a close look at what you eat, and the circumstances around your food choices. As you become accountable for each meal, each day, each week, you start making changes and seeing results. If you do not write it down, somehow it does not count. (more…)

Type 2 Diabetes on the Rise in Children, Part 1

Friday, May 25th, 2012

Cases of children and adolescents acquiring type 2 diabetes (or adult-onset diabetes) were unheard of 20 years ago. Steven Ponder, M.D., had never seen a 347-pound, 11-year-old boy until recently either. “I didn’t see this kind of morbid obesity 10 to 15 years ago,” said Ponder, director of the Diabetes and Endocrine Center at the Driscoll Children’s Hospital in Corpus Christi, Texas. (more…)