by Dr. Bill Wilson | Apr 7, 2014 | CARB Syndrome - Articles
I want to apologize to the regular readers of my blog for the lack of any posts for the past six weeks. My wife Irene and I have experienced a minor interruption in our hectic lives and her name is Rafaella Avge Tsirozidou. She was born on February 28th, 2014. She...
by Dr. Bill Wilson | Feb 14, 2014 | Blog Articles, CARB Syndrome - Articles
A recent study titled “Incidence of Childhood Obesity in the United States” recently published in the NEJM has sent obesity experts around the world scrambling. The study took a longitudinal view of over 7,000 kindergarten children and followed their weight and height...
by Dr. Bill Wilson | Jan 27, 2014 | Blog Articles, CARB Syndrome - Articles
It’s the beginning of a new year, so it’s out with the old and in with the new. Let’s start with the most common disease in our modern world—type II diabetes mellitus. I like descriptive names but the term “diabetes mellitus” just doesn’t do the trick for me. For my...
by Dr. Bill Wilson | Dec 11, 2013 | Blog Articles, CARB Syndrome - Articles
A recent news article caught my attention where some students in New Orleans now eat breakfast, lunch and dinner at school. This is apparently part of the Federal Healthy, Hunger Free Kids Act, a program geared at eliminating hunger and improving nutrition in school...
by Dr. Bill Wilson | Nov 29, 2013 | Blog Articles, CARB Syndrome - Articles
The concept of aging has many dimensions. The simplest parameter we can measure is chronlogical age, the number of years you have spent on this earth since your birth. This is your so-called birthday age. Physiological aging is a much more nuanced yet more important...
by Dr. Bill Wilson | Nov 20, 2013 | Blog Articles, CARB Syndrome - Articles
The Gallop Well-being poll has been tracking obesity rates since 2008 and so far this year the rate has increased from 26.2% to 27.2%, the largest increase since they starting tracking obesity in adults. Obesity rates also vary by race and this year 35.7% of blacks...
