6.3 Diet and Weight Management

EBM Tools for Practice: Weight Management: Evidence-Based Nutrition Strategies

Introduction: Obesity is a complex multifactoral chronic disease that develops from an interaction between genetics and the environment. The development of obesity involves the integration of social, behavioral, cultural, physiological, metabolic and genetic factors. Treatment of obesity should... more

Specialty Corner: Abdominal Obesity and the American Diet—A Closer Look at High Fructose Corn Syrup

In keeping with the theme of this issue of Lipid Spin, I have chosen waist circumference as the physical finding that can lead us to so much more in terms of atherosclerosis risk assessment. As we know, nearly 80 million Americans have metabolic syndrome, and enlarged waist circumference is the... more