GNOC Banquet
Gerhardt Neighborhood Outreach Center Annual Banquet November 2nd, 6-8 pm at Shadow Lake GNOC is our partner in ministry on Rochester’s Northeast Side where our Joy Family Medicine office is located. Help us support our brothers and sisters!...
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A Healthy Heart Needs a Normal Body Weight In this week’s Medscape advisor primary care news story, we’re asking the question: Is “fat but fit” a myth? A new study challenges the idea of “healthy obesity.” An analysis of more than half a million people in Europe with 12 years of follow-up showed that compared with normal-weight individuals, overweight and obese patients had a higher risk for heart attacks, regardless of their metabolic health (lipids, glucose, and blood pressure). The study also found that metabolically unhealthy persons are at a higher...
Read MoreSlow weight loss
Slowly But Steadily Shedding Pounds Each Week May Be More Beneficial For Long-Term Weight Loss, Study Indicates. CNN (8/28, Howard) reports research indicates that “slowly but steadily shedding pounds each week can be more beneficial for long-term weight loss than seeing…weight drastically drop, only to rise again.” The findings were published online in the journal Obesity. Also covering the story are the New York Daily News (8/28, Dziemianowicz), Forbes (8/28, Lee), and HealthDay (8/28,...
Read MoreCCHF 2017 Conference
CCHF Conference Recap Thanks to all who attended, and to all who shared their experiences and ideas. We have already started working on CCHF Conference 2018. We are putting together a prayer team now for next year’s conference. Prayer is our priority, and prayer makes a huge difference as we plan and produce the conference. We want Christ at the center throughout every aspect. He is the Alpha and Omega, and we want to honor Him as such in the conference. If you are willing to be part of the prayer team, let us know by dropping us an email at:...
Read MoreHelp for Obesity
Eating Large Meals Earlier In The Day May Help Prevent Obesity On the front of its Science Times Section, the New York Times (8/22, D1, Rabin, Subscription Publication) reports a recent review of 50,000 adult Seventh Day Adventists over seven years offers the latest evidence that “we should front-load our calories early in the day to jump-start our metabolisms and prevent obesity, starting with a robust breakfast and tapering off to a smaller lunch and light supper, or no supper at all.” In the article, Mark P. Mattson, chief of the National Institute on Aging’s laboratory of neurosciences,...
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