New study: Obesity reduces US life expectancy by one year

January 17 2018 by in The obesity epidemic

A new distressing report finds that life expectancy in the US has likely been reduced by about one year, due to increasing obesity rates.

Increases in obesity, according to the paper, slowed gains in mortality rates by 0.54% between 1988 and 2011, shaving an estimated 0.9 years off the national life expectancy at age 40 and resulting in as many as 186,000 additional deaths in 2011 alone.

Want to learn more about a low-carb real-food strategy to halt the obesity epidemic? See the links below.

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Weight loss

How to maximize fat burning
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Dr. Fung's fasting course part 2: How do you maximize fat burning? What should you eat – or not eat?
"I'll do this or I'm going to die trying"
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Kristie Sullivan struggled with her weight for her whole life in spite of trying every diet imaginable, but then she finally lost a 120 pounds and improved her health on a keto diet.
The 5 common mistakes on LCHF
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Is it hard to reach your goal weight, are you hungry or do you feel bad? Make sure you're avoiding these mistakes.
Diet Doctor Podcast #28 – Amy Berger
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Amy Berger has a no nonsense, practical approach that helps people see how they can get the benefits from keto without all the struggles.
Pie-making champion goes low carb
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Learn how this pie-making champion went low carb and how it changed his life.
How to make keto sustainable
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How can you make the transition to a low-carb or keto diet as smooth as possible?
How to motivate your patients
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In this presentation from Low Carb Denver 2019, Drs. David and Jen Unwin explain how physicians can finetune the art of practicing medicine with strategies from psychology to help their patients reach their goals.
How to think about how to eat — Gary Taubes
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In this presentation from the Low Carb Denver conference, the amazing Gary Taubes talks about the conflicting dietary advice we are given and what to make of it all.
Will a low carb diet shorten your life?
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In this highly insightful presentation from Low Carb Denver 2019, Robb Wolf takes us through studies which can help us better understand weight loss, food addiction and health on a low-carb diet.
Part 8 of Dr. Jason Fung's diabetes course
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Dr. Fung gives us an in-depth explanation of how beta cell failure happens, what the root cause is, and what you can do to treat it.
My success story with Chuck Hicks
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At nearly 500 lbs (230 kg) Chuck could barely move at all anymore. It wasn’t until he found a keto diet that thing started to change.
My success story with Kenneth Russell
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When Kenneth turned 50, he realized that he wouldn't make it to 60 the way he was going.
What's it like being a low-carb doctor on TV?
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What’s it like working with patients and giving controversial low-carb advice in front of a TV audience?
Carb-Loaded
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This may be the best (and funniest) low-carb movie ever. At least it's a strong contender.
The pathways of insulin resistance
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Are we chasing the wrong guy when it comes to heart disease? And if so, what is the real culprit in the disease?
Insulin toxicity — Dr. Jason Fung's diabetes course
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Dr. Fung looks at the evidence on what high levels of insulin can do to one’s health and what can be done to lower insulin naturally.
My Big Fat Diet
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What would happen if an entire town of First Nation people went back to eating the way they used to? A high-fat low-carb diet based on real food?
How to formulate a low-carb keto diet
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Low-carb pioneer Dr. Eric Westman talks about how to formulate an LCHF diet, low carb for different medical conditions and common pitfalls among others.

Dietary guidelines

Tim Noakes on trial
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In this mini documentary of the Tim Noakes trial, we learn what led up to the prosecution, what happened during the trial, and what it has been like since.
The human body needs good saturated fats — Dr. Ken Berry
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In part 2 of this interview with Dr. Ken Berry, MD, Andreas and Ken talk about some of the lies discussed in Ken's book Lies my doctor told me.
How to prevent chronic disease – Dr. Trudi Deakin
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In this interview, Kim Gajraj interviews Dr. Trudi Deakin to learn all about her and other health care professionals work at X-PERT Health, a registered charity in the UK.
Did the introduction of the dietary guidelines start the obesity epidemic?
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Did the introduction of the dietary guidelines start the obesity epidemic?
What about fiber on a low-carb diet?
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What about fiber? How much do we need? What are the origins of the idea that it is good for us. What is the totality of the evidence? What are the claimed mechanisms by which fiber could be of benefit? When did all of this start?
The carbohydrate-insulin model of obesity — Dr. David Ludwig
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In this presentation from the Low Carb Denver 2019 conference, Dr. David Ludwig walks us through the latest discoveries on how weight gain and weight loss actually work in practice.
A global food revolution
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The mistakes behind the obesity epidemic and how we can fix them together, empowering people everywhere to revolutionize their health.
The unknown story of vegetable oils
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Nina Teicholz on the history of vegetable oils – and why they are not as healthy as we've been told.
A low-carb diet for T2D reversal – Dr. Sarah Hallberg
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What is the best approach to type 2 diabetes reversal? In this presentation, Sarah takes us on a deep-dive into the matter and she puts studies and evidence under the microscope.
"Just stop demonizing real food"
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Is saturated fat bad? What does science say? And if saturated fat is not dangerous, how long will it take for our guidelines to change?
"Dietary guidelines for whom?"
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It's time for a major change when it comes to dietary guidelines.
Diet Doctor podcast #15 with Prof. Andrew Mente
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As an epidemiology study, how much faith can we place in the results, and how do these results fit into to our current knowledge base? Professor Mente helps us make sense of these questions and more.
Professor Noakes on trial
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Dr. Zoe Harcombe and Nina Teicholz were expert witnesses at the Tim Noakes trial back in October and this is a bird's-eye view of what went on at the trial.
Creating change in public health
17:20
How is the organization Public Health Collaboration UK contributing to changing the dietary guidelines?
Nutrition nuggets to combat conventional dietary advice
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The Big Fat Fix
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Donal O'Neill and Dr. Aseem Malhotra star in this excellent documentary about the failed low-fat ideas of the past and how to really get healthy.
Diet and exercise for a healthy heart
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What can you do to have a healthy heart? In this interview, engineer Ivor Cummins asks cardiologist Dr. Scott Murray all the essential questions about heart health.
Why our dietary guidelines are wrong
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How can experts keep saying that butter is dangerous, when there's no scientific support left?

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