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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
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    Fat and Can Touch Your Toes? Does This Mean You’re Healthy?

    OBESITY & EXERCISE

Fat and Can Touch Your Toes? Does This Mean You’re Healthy?

Fat acceptance influencers show how “healthy” they are by posting their flexibility. […]

9 9 2025-03-20T12:26:20-06:00 OBESITY & EXERCISE|
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    If You Waddle You’re Not Healthy

    OBESITY & EXERCISE, Obesity Health

If You Waddle You’re Not Healthy

Some say weight doesn’t determine health. But what if someone’s so heavy they waddle? […]

ELLSSEE 2025-02-23T23:37:07-07:00 OBESITY & EXERCISE, Obesity Health|
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    Purpose of Your Body Isn’t Relationship; It’s Health, Fitness

    OBESITY & EXERCISE, Obesity Health

Purpose of Your Body Isn’t Relationship; It’s Health, Fitness

I finally decided to shred an influencer’s repeated mantra that “the purpose of your body is relationship, not perfection or thinness.” […]

ELLSSEE 2025-02-03T19:14:54-07:00 OBESITY & EXERCISE, Obesity Health|
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    Morbid Obesity, FUPA and the Inner Thigh Machine

    OBESITY & EXERCISE

Morbid Obesity, FUPA and the Inner Thigh Machine

Here’s why using the inner (and outer) thigh machine is a total waste of time if you’re morbidly obese and have a FUPA. […]

ELLSSEE 2025-05-08T18:52:49-06:00 OBESITY & EXERCISE|
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    Belly Fat of Active Obese People vs. Sedentary: Comparison

    Burn Belly Fat, OBESITY & EXERCISE

Belly Fat of Active Obese People vs. Sedentary: Comparison

Ever wonder if there’s a difference in the belly fat of obese people who exercise and those who don’t? Is it true or false to say that all belly fat is the same, that belly [...]

ELLSSEE 2024-12-18T18:47:34-07:00 Burn Belly Fat, OBESITY & EXERCISE|
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    Does Excess Weight Impair Cardio Exercise Effort?

    OBESITY & EXERCISE

Does Excess Weight Impair Cardio Exercise Effort?

Are you so overweight that you’re reluctant to take up cardio exercise because you believe your size will interfere with getting any results? […]

ELLSSEE 2024-12-18T07:11:53-07:00 OBESITY & EXERCISE|
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    Are More People in the World Obese or Starving?

    OBESITY & EXERCISE, Obesity Health

Are More People in the World Obese or Starving?

While around 800 million people worldwide face chronic hunger from food shortages, just how many people in the world are obese? […]

ELLSSEE 2024-05-27T15:28:21-06:00 OBESITY & EXERCISE, Obesity Health|
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    10 Exercises that Are Not Safe for Morbidly Obese People

    OBESITY & EXERCISE

10 Exercises that Are Not Safe for Morbidly Obese People

If you’re at least 100 lbs. overweight (morbidly obese), here are 10 exercises that you should avoid, because gravity is a real thing. […]

ELLSSEE 2025-03-09T23:31:50-06:00 OBESITY & EXERCISE|
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    Will Lifting Weights Make Morbidly Obese Women Bigger?

    OBESITY & EXERCISE

Will Lifting Weights Make Morbidly Obese Women Bigger?

Wondering if lifting weights will make you bigger especially if you’re morbidly obese?  […]

ELLSSEE 2025-02-13T13:33:10-07:00 OBESITY & EXERCISE|
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    Swimming Not Always the Best Weight Loss Exercise for Obesity

    OBESITY & EXERCISE

Swimming Not Always the Best Weight Loss Exercise for Obesity

Not every morbidly obese person “belongs in the pool” or “should be swimming,” as some weight loss coaches insist. […]

ELLSSEE 2024-07-06T11:40:05-06:00 OBESITY & EXERCISE|
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    Should Obese People Do Sled Workouts for Exercise?

    OBESITY & EXERCISE

Should Obese People Do Sled Workouts for Exercise?

What are the pros and cons of sled workouts for obese, even morbidly, individuals? […]

ELLSSEE 2025-05-06T15:30:35-06:00 OBESITY & EXERCISE|
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    How to Lose Weight if You’re too Big to Do Cardio Exercise

    OBESITY & EXERCISE, Strength Training

How to Lose Weight if You’re too Big to Do Cardio Exercise

If aerobic exercise is too uncomfortable due to your size, you can still effectively lose weight with another form of exercise that’s much easier on your joints. […]

ELLSSEE 2023-05-08T12:56:29-06:00 OBESITY & EXERCISE, Strength Training|

Does Doing the Splits Mean a Morbidly Obese Woman Is Fit?

Have you seen a morbidly obese woman doing the splits and were amazed? […]

ELLSSEE 2024-05-03T10:44:31-06:00 OBESITY & EXERCISE, Obesity Health|
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    How to Track Calories if You’re Obese or Overweight

    Nutrition, OBESITY & EXERCISE, Obesity Health

How to Track Calories if You’re Obese or Overweight

Here's how to track calories if your weight is in the obese range. Calorie tracking can be your best friend if you're ready to lose a lot of weight and keep it off. For whom [...]

ELLSSEE 2023-05-08T12:57:24-06:00 Nutrition, OBESITY & EXERCISE, Obesity Health|
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    Biggest Stroke Risk Factor: Smoking, Obesity or Hypertension?

    BLOOD PRESSURE, OBESITY & EXERCISE, Stroke, TIA

Biggest Stroke Risk Factor: Smoking, Obesity or Hypertension?

Perhaps you already know that three big risk factors for a stroke are obesity, smoking and high blood pressure. […]

ELLSSEE 2023-05-08T12:49:37-06:00 BLOOD PRESSURE, OBESITY & EXERCISE, Stroke, TIA|
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    Can Fat Be Healthy just Because Thin People Get Heart Attacks?

    BODY IMAGE & POSITIVITY, OBESITY & EXERCISE, Obesity Health, SKINNY FAT

Can Fat Be Healthy just Because Thin People Get Heart Attacks?

When a superstar influencer gets an Instagram comment of “Obesity isn’t healthy,” defensive followers post back, “Thin people die of heart attacks all the time.” […]

ELLSSEE 2023-05-08T12:57:34-06:00 BODY IMAGE & POSITIVITY, OBESITY & EXERCISE, Obesity Health, SKINNY FAT|
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    Is “Obese” a Medical Term or a Fat Shaming Slur?

    OBESITY & EXERCISE, Obesity Health

Is “Obese” a Medical Term or a Fat Shaming Slur?

The latest in the fact-denying movement is that “obesity” is an insulting word and should not even be used by doctors as a medical term. […]

ELLSSEE 2021-11-25T15:56:36-07:00 OBESITY & EXERCISE, Obesity Health|
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    Ask Your Doctor if Obesity Is Right for You

    OBESITY & EXERCISE, Obesity Health

Ask Your Doctor if Obesity Is Right for You

If obese people can be fit and healthy, then why don’t doctors ever advise their normal-weight patients to pack on some pounds? […]

ELLSSEE 2023-05-08T12:58:21-06:00 OBESITY & EXERCISE, Obesity Health|
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    10 Things Obese People Blame Their Pain on Other than Weight

    OBESITY & EXERCISE, Obesity Health

10 Things Obese People Blame Their Pain on Other than Weight

Many obese women in the “healthy at any size” camp claim to be healthy and feel great. But is this actually an issue of being habituated to aches and pains and not really knowing what [...]

ELLSSEE 2023-05-08T12:58:06-06:00 OBESITY & EXERCISE, Obesity Health|
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    Yes, You CAN Tell a Person’s Health Only By Their Size

    OBESITY & EXERCISE, Obesity Health, Walking, Weight Gain

Yes, You CAN Tell a Person’s Health Only By Their Size

If we can’t tell a person’s health by their size, does this mean a 600 pound person can be healthy? Does it mean a 75 pound woman can be healthy? […]

ELLSSEE 2025-03-03T11:23:29-07:00 OBESITY & EXERCISE, Obesity Health, Walking, Weight Gain|
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    Angie J. of “600 Pound Life” Makes Jeanne Look Like an Angel

    600 Pound Life, OBESITY & EXERCISE, Obesity Health

Angie J. of “600 Pound Life” Makes Jeanne Look Like an Angel

Just when you thought Jeanne took the cake (no pun intended) for the Nasty Award on “My 600 Pound Life,” Angie J. comes along & makes mincemeat out of her. Poor Daisy, Angie Johns’ granddaughter. [...]

ELLSSEE 2022-12-22T15:09:47-07:00 600 Pound Life, OBESITY & EXERCISE, Obesity Health|
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    What Causes High Blood Pressure in Skinny Adults?

    BLOOD PRESSURE, OBESITY & EXERCISE, Obesity Health

What Causes High Blood Pressure in Skinny Adults?

There’s a simple reason why many thin people have high blood pressure, but this reason is no excuse for obese people to deny the dangers of excess weight. […]

ELLSSEE 2023-04-02T19:26:17-06:00 BLOOD PRESSURE, OBESITY & EXERCISE, Obesity Health|
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    Fat & Healthy for How Long? Obesity Thickens Heart in Young Adults

    OBESITY & EXERCISE, Obesity Health

Fat & Healthy for How Long? Obesity Thickens Heart in Young Adults

If you consider yourself healthy despite obesit ... high blood pressure and a thickened heart muscle may be lurking around the corner – EVEN if you have normal blood pressure and blood sugar now. Obese [...]

ELLSSEE 2023-05-08T12:53:10-06:00 OBESITY & EXERCISE, Obesity Health|
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    Why People Only 30 Lbs. Overweight Should Lose Weight Now

    OBESITY & EXERCISE, Obesity Health, Weight Gain

Why People Only 30 Lbs. Overweight Should Lose Weight Now

If you’re overweight even by 30 pounds and think you’re healthy due to normal blood work, you still should lose weight because down the road, your excess fat may catch up to you and cause [...]

ELLSSEE 2023-05-08T12:51:02-06:00 OBESITY & EXERCISE, Obesity Health, Weight Gain|

10 Exercises Fat People Can Do As Well As Thin People

If you think you’re too fat to work out at the gym, you’re so wrong, as there are 10 REAL exercises that very big people can do as well as thin people. […]

ELLSSEE 2025-04-27T19:13:11-06:00 OBESITY & EXERCISE|

If Obese People Can Be Healthy, What’s the Weight Cutoff for Unhealthy?

At some point obesity has to be unhealthy despite claims by plus-size people that they are healthy. At what weight, then, does obesity go from being potentially healthy to always harmful? When very overweight people [...]

ELLSSEE 2023-05-08T12:51:03-06:00 OBESITY & EXERCISE, Obesity Health|
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    Why the Word “Fat” is Nothing to Be Body Positive About

    BODY IMAGE & POSITIVITY, Bodyfat Levels, OBESITY & EXERCISE

Why the Word “Fat” is Nothing to Be Body Positive About

Fat SHOULD be something to fear -- when there's too much of it in your body. This isn't phobia. It's medicine. It's facts. Do not be "Factphobic." Plus size women who campaign for body positivity [...]

ELLSSEE 2025-03-17T14:50:59-06:00 BODY IMAGE & POSITIVITY, Bodyfat Levels, OBESITY & EXERCISE|

Do Plus Size Women Work Out Only to Lose Weight?

Why do some people assume that when an overweight woman works out, it’s ONLY because she wants to lose weight?  I’m a former personal trainer and group fitness instructor who was inspired to write this [...]

ELLSSEE 2023-05-08T12:52:38-06:00 OBESITY & EXERCISE|

Death Risk from Normal Weight but Fat Belly vs. Fat All Over

Which is unhealthier and more likely to kill you: having a normal BMI but most of your fat in your middle or being obese evenly all over? […]

ELLSSEE 2023-05-08T12:50:56-06:00 OBESITY & EXERCISE, Strength Training|

Why Are Most Women in Water Aerobics Classes Obese?

Why are most women in water fitness classes always obese? I’ve always noted this phenomenon, but finally decided it would make for an interesting article after I caught this exact question in a fitness forum. [...]

ELLSSEE 2023-05-08T12:50:19-06:00 OBESITY & EXERCISE|
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    Feel too Fat and Clumsy to Exercise? Solutions You’ll Love

    OBESITY & EXERCISE

Feel too Fat and Clumsy to Exercise? Solutions You’ll Love

If you feel too fat & clumsy to exercise & have NO idea where to start, there are several kinds of exercise where you won’t have to worry about falling or stumbling. […]

ELLSSEE 2025-04-19T12:56:42-06:00 OBESITY & EXERCISE|

Is an Obese Person Healthy Just Because They Exercise?

Exercise is great for any body, thin or obese. But an obese person is NOT healthy just because she or he exercises. One day on the  “Dr. Drew” show, Jeannette DePatie, a NAAFA member who [...]

ELLSSEE 2023-05-08T12:52:32-06:00 OBESITY & EXERCISE|
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    Cause of Eating Too Much: Fewer Brain Pleasure Receptors

    Nutrition, OBESITY & EXERCISE

Cause of Eating Too Much: Fewer Brain Pleasure Receptors

Wow, could it be true, that something called "pleasure receptors" could be a leading cause of eating too much, of downing a whole box of donuts or quart of ice cream in one sitting? So [...]

ELLSSEE 2024-04-05T20:26:52-06:00 Nutrition, OBESITY & EXERCISE|
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    HIIT Guidelines for Very Overweight People

    High Intensity Interval Training, OBESITY & EXERCISE

HIIT Guidelines for Very Overweight People

High intensity interval training (HIIT) isn’t reserved for just thinner people; obese or very overweight women and men are much capable of employing this method of exercise. […]

ELLSSEE 2025-04-19T12:38:00-06:00 High Intensity Interval Training, OBESITY & EXERCISE|

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|

Motivation for 300-Pound Women for Losing Weight

Yes, you can do it–lose over 150 pounds if you’re 300 pounds or more–without risky surgery, starving yourself or hating on yourself. […]

ELLSSEE 2023-04-10T14:01:09-06:00 FAT LOSS, OBESITY & EXERCISE|

Should Plus Size People Use Barbells or Machines?

If you’re obese or overweight and are wondering which is better, barbells or machines for fat loss, fitness and toning, I have the perfect answer for you. […]

ELLSSEE 2023-05-08T12:49:47-06:00 OBESITY & EXERCISE|

The Best Barbell Routines for Obese Beginners

When an obese person starts working out with barbells, something magical happens: dramatic weight loss and a change in body shape. And isn’t that what you want? […]

ELLSSEE 2023-05-08T12:50:12-06:00 OBESITY & EXERCISE|

Why Some Fat People Can’t Lose Weight Despite Diet & Exercise

Don’t blame “fat genes” if you’ve “tried everything” & still can’t lose weight. There’s a humbling reason for your chronic weight loss failure. The good news is that you can solve this problem! [...]

ELLSSEE 2023-04-10T14:01:19-06:00 OBESITY & EXERCISE|

How to Make Walking Undo Obesity Genes and Burn Fat

Not just any ordinary walking can reverse the effect of an obesity predisposition, because the walking must be done with rhyme and reason. A person may have a tendency to become overweight under certain circumstances, [...]

ELLSSEE 2023-05-08T12:52:46-06:00 High Intensity Interval Training, OBESITY & EXERCISE|
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