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Nigerian physician and politician, Dr Doyin Okupe, in an interview with AJIBADE OMAPE, opens up about his remarkable weight loss journey and health transformation Speaking in an interview recently, you said that losing weight was a blessing in disguise. At what point did you start gaining weight? I have always been overweight. I started gaining weight steadily after I got married in 1977. I mean, I got so big I was almost like a buffalo, weighing more than 147kg. After I got COVID, it was a life-threatening ordeal, but God was kind and spared my life. After the COVID attack,…
Elite sport has long been consumed with the idea of the superhuman. Pushing the capabilities of the human body to its extremes in the hopes of uncovering the blueprint to engineer bodies that can jump higher, run faster and endure longer. And, as professionalism has increased, so too has the optimisation of athletes’ bodies in the quest for peak human condition.But recent revelations that former Australian women’s cricket captain Meg Lanning cut her international career short due to struggles with disordered eating have exposed some of the cracks that have long been forming in the elite sport system.According to research…
Jillian Shea Spaeder at opening night of the 24th annual Beverly Hills Film Festival at TCL Chinese … [+] Theatre in Hollywood, California (Photo by Michael Tullberg)Getty Images In a new short film titled The Noise, Disney’s Godmothered actress Jillian Shea Spaeder shares her story of struggling with an eating disorder. The Noise was screened at the Beverly Hills Film Festival on Wednesday, where Spaeder introduced the film alongside A Dog’s Purpose actor Bryce Gheisar, who directed the short. “Our film is about a personal story of mine of struggling with anorexia,” said Spaeder. “The goal was to make audiences…
By: Taylor Ashley (she/her) RP, CCTP-IIStarting in 1992, International No Diet Day was established as a way to promote body acceptance, celebrate body diversity, and bring attention to society’s unhealthy obsession with diet culture and thinness. The idea that thinness is an accurate indication of health has led us to participate in extreme measures to meet this societal expectation. But instead of creating ‘healthier’ people, it has perpetuated unhealthy behaviors and relationships with food and our bodies; and if we are truly aiming for ‘health’ as we claim, isn’t this the opposite of what we want to achieve? An influencer…
Reading Time: minuteEach May, the State of California and County of San Diego join community partners in celebrating CalFresh Awareness Month. It is an opportunity to promote this resource to families and provide those who qualify with access to healthy, nutritious food. Dozens of community events are scheduled throughout the month to share information about CalFresh and offer free, in-person help to eligible people and families. A full list of the free events is available online on the County’s CalFresh website. “Enrollment is at a record high, so we know we have great need in our community right now,” said Rick…
The American Red Cross has identified Atlantic County, New Jersey as one of 15 front-line communities across the country that are often impacted by climate-related disasters. Families in this county struggle with chronic social issues such as less access to food, health care and housing assistance. To help, the Red Cross is building partnerships with organizations like the Friends of Jean Webster Food Pantry in Atlantic City, an organization that feeds hundreds of families each week. By forging new partnerships with local nonprofits that provide services related to health, hunger and housing, the Red Cross Community Adaptation Program (CAP) seeks…
When Lay’s chips used the slogan “no one can eat just one” in a commercial, the company meant to convey just how good the product tastes. The chips are so delicious, even someone with the discipline of a professional athlete lacks the strength to stop at just one. But new research published in the British Medical Journal finds that when it comes to certain foods, willpower doesn’t matter much — even if you’re Canadian hockey great Mark Messier. Ultra-processed foods may disrupt the body’s signals of feeling full, its ability to absorb nutrients and digestion. Those disruptions can make it…
Reading Time: minuteEach May, the State of California and County of San Diego join community partners in celebrating CalFresh Awareness Month. It is an opportunity to promote this resource to families and provide those who qualify with access to healthy, nutritious food. Dozens of community events are scheduled throughout the month to share information about CalFresh and offer free, in-person help to eligible people and families. A full list of the free events is available online on the County’s CalFresh website. “Enrollment is at a record high, so we know we have great need in our community right now,” said Rick…
If your fitness plan is spot on and you’ve got your cardio versus strength training in sync, maybe it’s now time to do the same with your diet.We get, life is hectic, and if you’re like us, running from work to the gym, and have social plans in between, you probably don’t have time to perfect your diet or even meal prep. So a healthy food delivery service is an easy way to stay on track – whether you are looking to lose weight, you’re training for a race, like a marathon, or you want to build muscle. Many of…
“You are what you eat” isn’t just a cheeky phrase used by doctors and health experts to trick us into eating a healthy diet: It’s actually very, very true. If you feed your body nourishing foods, your inner workings will have a greater opportunity to flourish, and so will you—but if you fill it with junk, your internal systems will falter, and your health will start to reflect that.That’s why “it’s never too late to start eating healthier. The changes you make at any age can elevate your health,” says William Li, M.D., a physician and the author of Eat…