Many overweight individuals ask: are there foods that can change your metabolic rate? The answer is NO. There are no foods that can change your genetically set metabolic rate. Some agents like caffeine or stimulant medications can only briefly, very temporarily and slightly increase your current metabolism, but then after stopping them, the metabolic rate returns to your normal rate. Marketing and advertising promote agents that can burn fat quickly and without effort, but these agents ...

Obesity is a complex biological and socioeconomic condition that causes overweight individuals’ unnecessary pain, disability, low self-esteem and increased medical expenses. The use of groundbreaking medications, GLP-1s, can dramatically help with weight loss, but their use does not necessarily mean that they must be used for extended periods of time, such as months or years. However, long term weight management requires long term changes in one’s eating behaviors. This is a major reason why...

While obesity is associated with many chronic metabolic diseases, it is also linked to the development and progression of numerous cancers. Overweight and obesity are associated with higher rates of cancer and account for 10% of new cancers each year in the United States. Obesity is linked with 12 types of cancers; colorectal, endometrial, postmenopausal breast, gallbladder, kidney, liver, esophagus, ovarian, pancreas, multiple myeloma and thyroid cancers. When fat cells become too enlarged...