It’s no secret that as a Nation we are getting bigger. I’m not talking an increase in our height but an increase in our pant size. Did you know that the percent of Americans who are obese is 34 percent, while another 34 percent are overweight, meaning that 68% of the population are at risk for health problems directly corresponding to the size of their bodies. Obesity leads to high blood pressure, high cholesterol, diabetes, sleep apnea and other conditions that increase the risk of cardiovascular disease.
I sat down with Dr. James Zebrack a cardiologist from the Heart Center at St. Mark’s to discuss how closely related our hearts are with what we put in our mouth. This is what he had to say.
While adult diabetes used to be considered a rare disease, eight percent of Americans now have diabetes and an additional 25 percent have pre-diabetes. Treatment of cardiovascular diseases has become our number one health care expenditure, yet 80 percent of cases are preventable through proper diet, exercise and medications. Did you hear that 80 percent, meaning like, almost 100 percent of cases are PREVENTABLE! (more…)
and I almost had my moment to shine. I almost scored the role of, ”pre-op patient in bed.” As you can tell key word here is almost. They told me I resembled too much of a dead body. I tried to look more lively but apparently sitting up in the bed and waving to the camera is not their idea of ”pre-op patient” so they gave me the boot. At that moment I felt my grand acting debut slip away from me, I really think I could be the next Julia Roberts!
