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Does Obesity Further Complicate H1N1? With Flu season upon us, it's off to the doctor we go to get a flu shot. But is there something else we could do to avoid another outbreak of the H1N1 virus? Maybe - I'm of coarse talking about losing weight. Today I watched a clip of The Early Show taped back in November 2009, where Dr. Holly Phillips, of WCBS-TV, and Early Show co-anchor Harry Smith, sat down to discuss the connection between obesity and the complications it can cause in conjunction the H1N1 virus. This is what Dr. Phillips had to say about it... "Of the 268 hospitalized patients for whom we had weights, actually 58% of them were obese. And 25% of that group were considered morbidly obese. Now, that's more than 100 pounds overweight, so they were significantly overweight and they were at five times increased risk of complications from the H1N1 flu than the general population." I too thought this was very alarming. So I wanted to go ahead a...

What are the signs of obesity? Many people seem to think that being overweight and being obese, are the same thing. In fact, I would bet that there are a large number of overweight and obese people that don't even know there's a difference. The truth is that there is a big difference between the two. Here on the HCG Diet 411 Blog , I have done blog posts on the 3 kinds of fat and the different causes of obesity . Today I want to discuss the... Signs And Symptoms Of Obesity Here is what Dr. Simeons says about it... The bodily signs may be divided into such as have developed before puberty, indicating a strong inherited factor, and those which develop at the onset of manifest disorder. Early signs are a disproportionately large size of the two upper front teeth, the first incisor, or a dimple on both sides of the sacral bone just above the buttocks. When the arms are outstretched with the palms upward, the forearms appear sharply angled outward from the upper arms. The...

As you can probably imagine the life of an obese person is anything but easy. They are teased, starred at, and most of the time it is not even their fault that they are overweight. Many people I know have had to endure this because a lot of my family is overweight. Dr. Simeons calls this... Injustice To The Obese "When then obese patients are accused of cheating, gluttony, lack of will power, greed and sexual complexes, the strong become indignant and decide that modern medicine is a fraud and its representatives fools, while the weak just give up the struggle in despair. In either case the result is the same: a further gain in weight, resignation to an abominable fate and the resolution at least to live tolerably the short span allotted to them - a fig for doctors and insurance companies. Obese patients only feel physically well as long as they are stationary or gaining weight. They may feel guilty, owing to the lethargy and indolence always associated with obesity. T...

If you are looking for Dr. Simeons' book, Pounds and Inches, look no further!   Like I mentioned yesterday , I will be breaking up the next few blog posts into a 3 part series. Now keep in mind that this isn't the entire book - but rather 3 important parts of the book that I think most people will be interested in reading. So today you will be getting the second installment. In this post, Dr. Simeons talks about what to expect from the book and about all of the research that went into creating the HCG Weight Loss Program. Dr. Simeons Pounds And Inches part 2 Dr. A.T.W. Simeons writes... " To me this requirement seems basic, and it has always been the center of my interest. In dealing with obese patients it became a habit to register and order every clinical experience as if it were an odd looking piece of a jig-saw puzzle.  And then, as in a jig saw puzzle, little clusters of fragments began to form, though they seemed to fit in nowhere. As the years passed...