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  • A L S
    • A L S FEAR
    • ATROPHY, DENTS
    • BFS
    • EMG TEST
    • FOOT DROP
    • REASSURANCE
    • STRENGTH TESTS
    • TWITCHING BODYWIDE
    • TWITCHING LOWER BODY
      • FEET, TOES
      • QUADS, HAMSTRINGS
    • TWITCHING UPPER BODY
      • ARM, HAND, FINGERS
      • CHEST
      • EYELID
      • LIP, FACE
      • STOMACH, SHOULDER, NECK
      • TONGUE
  • CANCER
    • BLADDER
    • BRAIN TUMORS
    • CERVICAL, ANAL
    • COLON
    • LARYNGEAL
    • LYMPHOMA
    • MELANOMA
      • APPEARANCE
      • RISK FACTORS
    • OVARIAN
    • UTERINE
  • CARDIAC
    • AORTIC ANEURYSM
      • EXERCISE
      • REPAIR
    • BLOOD PRESSURE
    • CORONARY BYPASS SURGERY
    • CHEST PAIN
      • HEART CAUSES
      • NON-HEART CAUSES
    • HEART ATTACK
      • RISKS
      • SYMPTOMS
      • TESTS
    • PVCs, PALPITATIONS
      • CAUSES
      • DANGERS
      • EXERCISE
  • Headache
    • ANEURYSM
    • BRAIN TUMORS
    • MIGRAINE HEADACHES
    • ACUTE SUBDURAL HEMATOMA
  • MOLES
    • BLEEDING MOLES
    • CHANGING MOLES
    • MANY MOLES
    • NEW MOLES
    • REMOVAL
  • MOUTH, THROAT
    • BURPING
    • LPR
    • LUMP, STUCK FEELING
    • PHANTOM TASTES
      • FOUL TASTE
      • METAL TASTE
    • TONGUE PROBLEMS
    • SWALLOWING
    • VOCAL CORD DYSFUNCTION
  • Pain
    • BACK
      • HERNIATED DISC
      • OTHER
    • CALVES
    • FIBROMYALGIA
    • KNEE
    • PELVIC
    • SCIATICA
    • SHOULDER
  • STOOLS
    • BLOODY
    • COLOR
    • CONSTIPATION
    • IRRITABLE BOWEL SYNDROME
    • MICROSCOPIC COLITIS
    • PENCIL THIN

If Anorexia Nervosa Is a Mental Illness, Is Obesity Too?

Anorexia nervosa is the name of a psychiatric disorder, a mental illness, but “obesity” can be the result of certain of psychiatric disorders.  […]

ELLSSEE 2023-05-08T12:54:28-06:00 Obesity Health|

Can Fat People Have Good Bloodwork and Still Be Unhealthy ?

It keeps happening: Overweight and obese women post comments in social media that they’re healthy — because their blood work is normal. […]

ELLSSEE 2025-04-21T19:21:02-06:00 Obesity Health|

Is Social Media’s Promotion of Obesity Making America Fatter?

Every week a Facebook or Instagram image of a fat or overweight woman goes viral: The latest is an obese woman in a bikini standing beside her overweight very young daughter. […]

ELLSSEE 2023-05-08T12:49:37-06:00 Obesity Health|
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    Why Obesity Is Especially Bad for Tall People

    Obesity Health

Why Obesity Is Especially Bad for Tall People

Being obese in combination with being tall creates a potential fatal medical condition that isn't as likely in a shorter but obese individual. You can’t change your height, but you can change your body fat [...]

ELLSSEE 2023-05-08T12:51:10-06:00 Obesity Health|

Can Being Religious Lead to Obesity?

How can religion lead to obesity? Or is it that very overweight people are drawn to organized religion? What's truly going on here? The link between middle age obesity and religion has already been established. What researchers [...]

ELLSSEE 2023-05-08T12:58:15-06:00 OBESITY & EXERCISE, Obesity Health|

Thin and Active Is Healthier than Fat and Active

Skinny active beats  fat active hands-down. Oddly, the comparison typically is sedentary-thin vs. fat-active. This isn’t a fair comparison; it’s an apples to oranges comparison. […]

ELLSSEE 2023-05-08T12:53:26-06:00 Obesity Health|

Is Obesity Selfish? Is Getting Fat Not Fair to Family?

The war rages whether or not obesity is selfish. It’s like, “How can that mother allow herself to get that way? Her young kids will lose their mother early in life.” Have you heard it [...]

ELLSSEE 2025-04-18T20:44:31-06:00 Obesity Health|

Why People Should NOT Come in All Sizes: Obesity Is Unhealthy

People should NOT come in all sizes. Though height variation doesn't cause bad health, obesity does. Size variety is no excuse for accepting fat prevalence. Science does not support the mantra that "people should come [...]

ELLSSEE 2024-02-10T12:23:51-07:00 Obesity Health|

Fat Acceptance vs. Thin Acceptance: Obesity Never Healthy

Would your doctor rather you be fat or thin? Fat acceptance is wrong on so many levels. The fat acceptance movement needs to be reversed immediately. Obesity is never healthy. What is the definition of [...]

ELLSSEE 2025-04-17T20:01:41-06:00 Obesity Health|

Why It’s Okay for Obese People to Focus on Weight Loss

A growing movement insists that it’s harmful for overweight and obese women and men to focus on weight loss, but here is why they are very wrong. […]

ELLSSEE 2024-02-10T12:24:04-07:00 OBESITY & EXERCISE, Obesity Health|

Can Obesity Itself Cause a Bleeding Belly Button?

There IS a link between a bleeding belly button and being obese. The situation needs prompt treatment by a doctor. “Obesity itself does not cause a bleeding belly button, but it may contribute,” says Kathryn [...]

ELLSSEE 2023-04-10T13:56:13-06:00 Obesity Health|
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    My 600 Pound Life: Pauline Is Another Penny

    600 Pound Life, Obesity Health

My 600 Pound Life: Pauline Is Another Penny

Penny from “My 600 Pound Life” now has a twin sister, Pauline, who’s in denial and refuses to take responsibility. An episode of “My 600 Pound Life” in 2015 was viewers’ first exposure to Pauline, [...]

ELLSSEE 2023-04-10T13:57:11-06:00 600 Pound Life, Obesity Health|

How Important Is Weight Loss Before Total Knee Replacement Surgery?

If you have a total knee replacement surgery planned, you’d be doing yourself a huge favor by losing weight before having this procedure done. A report in the Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery (Oct. [...]

ELLSSEE 2023-05-08T12:53:31-06:00 Obesity Health|
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    Why Excess Fat Around the Heart Is So Dangerous

    Heart Disease Causes, Obesity Health

Why Excess Fat Around the Heart Is So Dangerous

Emory University School of Medicine cardiologists note that X-ray via CT scan can measure the size of the fat layer surrounding the heart. The fat layer around the heart is called epicardial adipose tissue. Knowing [...]

ELLSSEE 2023-03-16T08:46:55-06:00 Heart Disease Causes, Obesity Health|

Are Hoarding and Obesity Linked? Can Hoarders Self-Treat?

Is there a link between hoarding and obesity? Seems that most, if not all, hoarders are obese; you may have drawn this conclusion after seeing TLC’s “Hoarders: Buried Alive,” or even mere previews to this [...]

ELLSSEE 2023-03-16T08:47:03-06:00 OBESITY & EXERCISE, Obesity Health|
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    Hip Replacement Surgery: Obesity in Women Hampers Recovery

    Obesity Health

Hip Replacement Surgery: Obesity in Women Hampers Recovery

Not only is there nothing positive about a body that falls prey to hip disease due to obesity, but very plus-size women who undergo hip replacement surgery fare worse than do overweight men. A very [...]

ELLSSEE 2023-05-08T12:53:36-06:00 Obesity Health|
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    How Much Weight Gain Raises LDL Bad Cholesterol?

    Obesity Health

How Much Weight Gain Raises LDL Bad Cholesterol?

Even a small weight gain in fat can raise your "bad" cholesterol (LDL), and I'm talking a very small weight gain. “Interestingly, a 10 percent weight loss has been shown to significantly decrease a broad variety [...]

ELLSSEE 2024-02-10T12:25:25-07:00 Obesity Health|
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    Early Menopause, Heart Attack Risk: Thin Fit vs. Obese Women

    Heart Attack Risks, MENOPAUSE, Obesity Health

Early Menopause, Heart Attack Risk: Thin Fit vs. Obese Women

The research-verdict is out that early menopause appears to double heart attack risk and increase risk of cardiovascular disease. But does this take into consideration variables of exercise, diet, body weight and smoking history? The [...]

ELLSSEE 2023-05-08T12:53:27-06:00 Heart Attack Risks, MENOPAUSE, Obesity Health|

Can Obesity & Overweight Cause Congestive Heart Failure?

When one thinks of obesity's harm to the heart, it's usually clogged arteries. But being fat can impair the heart's pumping action: heart failure. The heart fails to pump the amount of blood it's supposed [...]

ELLSSEE 2023-03-16T08:47:22-06:00 HEART FAILURE, Obesity Health|

Why Does Being Fat Raise the Risk of Uterine Cancer ?

Being fat increases the risk of uterine cancer, plain and simple. DNA mutations that lead to uterine cancer do NOT care if you love your larger-than-life body or hate it. Fat is a risk factor [...]

ELLSSEE 2023-05-08T12:50:13-06:00 Obesity Health, PREGNANCY, UTERINE CANCER|
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    Do Fat and Sugar Feed Cancer Cells?

    Obesity Health

Do Fat and Sugar Feed Cancer Cells?

“Sugar is the main culprit to feeding cancer cells,” says Dr. Keith Kantor, a leading nutritionist and CEO of the Nutritional Addiction Mitigation Eating and Drinking (NAMED) program. NAMED treats substance abuse, mental illnesses and [...]

ELLSSEE 2024-04-04T23:15:56-06:00 Obesity Health|

Life Span of Morbidly Obese vs. Normal Weight People

More truth shows that there’s no such thing as a healthy extremely obese individual and that obesity cuts life span SHORT. People who are extremely obese (class III) are more likely to have a much shortened [...]

ELLSSEE 2023-03-16T08:48:27-06:00 Obesity Health|

Why Does Morbid Obesity Stop Menstruation?

Being morbidly obese, no matter how confident you are, can have a bad effect on your menstrual cycle. It is no secret that when a very obese woman has been unable to conceive despite a [...]

ELLSSEE 2023-03-16T08:48:52-06:00 MENSTRUATION, Obesity Health|

Why Does Gastric Bypass Surgery Cause Belly Pain?

Pain in the belly following gastric bypass surgery can have a number of causes, and it's not even that uncommon. Also keep in mind that a major cause of this is the fact that you [...]

ELLSSEE 2024-08-08T10:49:07-06:00 OBESITY & EXERCISE, Obesity Health|
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