Posts Tagged ‘ healthcare ’

Obesity vs Smoking: Obesity Pulls Ahead

Posted Feb 26th, 2010 and has No Comments »

Well, it appears to be official:  Obesity has edged out smoking in terms of health hazards.  According to a study performed by Columbia University and the City College of New York and published in the American Journal of Preventive Medicine, being obese, defined by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) as having a Body Mass Index or BMI of 30 …



The Cost of Not Reforming Healthcare

Posted Oct 1st, 2009 and has No Comments »

Unless you’ve been living under a rock, there’s no way you could have missed the marches, the protests, and the Town Hall meetings discussing whether or not we should reform healthcare, and if so, to what extent. Now this is a fitness and health site, not a political one, so I really don’t want to get into the many, many …