Natural Weight Loss Coach

262,085 miles since Dec 31st, 1989.
Pictured here is one of the best material investments I’ve ever made since migrating to the US.
I bought this car brand new on New Year’s eve and she’ll probably run until 350,000+ miles, without any major work.
But what has this car got to do with health?!?!?
I’m getting there in a [...]

This a followup post to 2 previous discussions I’ve had regarding counting calories as a MISLEADING technique for weight loss.
If you haven’t read those, I suggest that’s where you start –> Danger of counting calories.
For many, many, many years I thought that I was eating healthy since I would have oatmeal for breakfast every day. [...]

An inflammatory factor already linked to several diseases, including pulmonary disease, lung cancer, and arthritis, may also be responsible for the insulin resistance that comes with obesity, according to a new study.

Researchers have found that the inflammatory chemokine known as CXCL5 rises and falls along with obesity and weight loss in humans. They also found evidence tying the inflammatory factor, which is secreted at high levels by fat tissue, to insulin resistance in mice.

Treatments designed to block CXCL5 were found to improve the animals’ sensitivity to insulin.

CXCR5 affect a variety of cells including muscle cells, cells that line blood vessel walls and cells in the lung and intestine. This means that increased CXCL5 circulating levels, as observed in obesity, could also lead to other problems such as atherosclerosis and other inflammatory diseases.