Archives: September 2005
Mon Sep 26, 2005
Hypertension
A fair number of patients coming for obesity treatment have high blood pressure. If their blood pressure is over 140/90 on the initial visit, I defer starting phentermine for medicoLEGAL reasons. More...
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Tue Sep 20, 2005
Obesity, the U.S. and World GNP
Previously I said that the fact that 24% of the U.S. population still smokes is connected to our obesity problem. If you know what I mean, you know what I mean. If you don't get it, you don't get it. Here are more factoids. More...
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Wed Sep 14, 2005
The Poverty Line
As said before, almost all the people rescued from New Orleans were obese. In the current issue of TIME magazine, devoted to the Big Easy, there is a single lean woman on page 28 and one cachetic old lady, but EVERYBODY else in the zine is obese. More...
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Fri Sep 09, 2005
Things that drive me crazy
Here are seven things that drive me crazy. If any of them makes sense to you, you should seriously get your IQ checked. More...
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