Being overweight or obese can present a serious threat to our health. In regard to our relationship with food God wants to empower so that we overcome our unhelpful thinking and are set free from the emotional attachments which could cause us to eat inappropriately. He wants us to have a ‘Spirit-controlled’ appetite.
Every single day that I sit at my surgery desk, at least one patient – and usually a lot more than one – will sit with a resigned expression, sigh and say ‘I know I need to lose weight, you don’t need to tell me’. They say it in a number of predictable situations; sometimes…
Ah, the menopause, such a mixed blessing for most of us. There exists the wonderful realisation that those pesky monthly bleeds are now the stuff of nostalgia and contraception never needs to be an issue ever again, but there can be a heavy price to pay in terms of the hot flushes, mood swings, short…
We are constantly being bombarded by the media and health professionals (and health websites!) about the perils of being overweight or obese – the statistics are that at least two thirds of the UK adult population is now in one of these categories, and I now find myself having to use the term ‘healthy weight’…
A few years ago much excitement ensued in both the medical and the general press surrounding the possible discovery of a ‘fat gene’ – for the first time in history we as a medical profession were to reassure the larger of our patients that there now existed incontrovertible evidence that their overweight was not their…
It will come as no surprise to most readers that I spend a great deal of my working life talking about weight issues or their consequences, and as we continue to career headlong further into our obesity epidemic I can only assume that this aspect of my work is, sadly, only going to increase. Most…
