How society treats overweight people can directly impact their health, according to researchers from the University of Rhode Island (URI), Kingston and the Harvard T H Chan School of Public Health, Boston. Their study reported that people who experienced weight discrimination over a ten-year period had twice the risk of high allostatic load, the cumulative…
Next Meeting When: February 24th, Durbanville Venue: Medi-Clinic, Wellington Road, Durbanville Phone: 021 975 2594 Time: 18:00 RSVP: info@bariatricsurgerysupport.co.za
We talk a lot about dieting and burning off fat, but we actually have a lot of misconceptions about weight loss. Some people think fat is converted into energy or heat—a violation of the law of conservation of mass—while others think that the fat is somehow excreted or even converted to muscle. I was told…