Diabesity

Boy do we love neologisms.

No, that is not something that happens in the bedroom - although it could!

It simply refers to the formation of new words.

Here are a couple of other personal favorites.

Benifer. Who could forget the torrid love affair between Ben what-was-his-name and Jennifer Aniston.

Now we have Brangelina.

If you ask me Brad Pitt got the short end of that deal. We can tell from the amount of letters in the name who wears the pants in that family!

Then there is Gen XXL, which describes the current propensity for large numbers of our under 21 crowd to be morbidly obese and energetic slugs.


Diabesity refers to my generation, however: the Baby Boomers.

We have (simply put) set new standards for getting fat, staying fat and getting all the diseases that go with it.

I have told you about cancer, diabetes, heart disease and stroke.

Some of you still haven't heard.

When I told you you could go numb below the waist, however, and become worthless in bed, then some of you perked up so to speak and listened.

I remind you that in a recent study, both men and women said they would rather have sex with someone who had a sexually transmitted disease than someone who was fat.

If that doesn't grab you nothing will.

If you are in the fat crowd pause and think about that when you lay down next to your spouse.

What’s that you say, he or she is fat too?

Oh that makes it all better.

Ok now that I have railed at you for your own good, here is something you might hear about soon.

When I was graduating Med School back around the time of Thomas Edison, a test known as the BMR or Basal Metabolic Rate was falling into disfavor.
We were told to forggedaboutit since it was worthless.

Well in one of those marvelous medical turnabouts that seems to happen every other day these days what is old is new again.

Of course we don't call it BMR because that would be admitting we were wrong 25 years ago.

Now it's called RMR for resting metabolic rate.

Some medical whiz kids have decided that gosh, your metabolic rate might be important and you might want to measure it so you could see if you need to do more to lose weight.

Here are a few tips for those whiz kids.

1) If you are over weight and not losing, you need to do more to lose weight.

You do not need a measurement to prove this.

2) Anyone who wants to lose weight would do well to increase their metabolic rates, decrease their appetites and up their energy to improve their exercise response.

To that end I have designed 2 supplements, Fabulous Fat Furnace and Ultra Strength Fat Furnace, a protein powder and a series of revitalizing exercises to help you in your quest for the best body.

It’s not rocket science but it has helped me and many others immensely!

Doc