Stress is a fact of life. Chronic high stress can cause surges in your cortisol levels. Hi cortisol levels will contribute to weight gain and to your difficulty in losing weight. Effective stress management can help reduce your cortisol levels. Lower cortisol levels … [Read more...]
Weight Loss and Willpower – Fight Obesity with God’s Help
This week, Jane Brody, a health columnist at the New York Times, wrote an article about obesity - Many Fronts in Fighting Obesity. She addressed many issues that in fact play a role in one's ability to win the battle with weight loss: Caloric consumption Portion … [Read more...]
Is Your Eating Behavior Sinful?
Your Relationship with Food. Struggle with your relationship with food? Love God? Desire to change your food habits? This 15 minute Family Life Today audio broadcast is excellent! Scroll down to Date 1/4/13. Is My Eating Sinful? Author and Biblical Counselor … [Read more...]
The Eden Diet – A Christian Weight Loss Book
Hope that you each had a wonderful Christmas! Rita Hancock is an M.D. who's recently written a book that I think you'll appreciate. The Eden Diet is a Christian approach to weight loss. Dr. Hancock has Ivy League diet and nutrition training and has personally lost 75 pounds … [Read more...]
The Bible, God and Weight Loss
Do you struggle in your relationship with food and in losing weight? This morning I read a short article in our local newspaper, the Charlotte Observer, that was reprinted from when it originally appeared in the July 6, 2012 issue of the Washington Post. Carla Broyles is on … [Read more...]
The Weight of Our Nation – Film Series
Many of you will be interested in a film series that highlights the work of a recent initiative that I blogged about last week - Obesity Prevention: How NOT to Solve the Weight of Our Nation - titled The Weight of the Nation. As you review the films and written material I urge … [Read more...]