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Caroline Cederquist, M.D.'s Articles

  • Life Lost To Obesity: Not Just Quality
    With two out of three Americans overweight today, we’re learning more and more about the numerous ways that carrying excess weight can really affect our health and diminish our quality of life.

    But you may not have heard the hard facts about how overweight and obesity can diminish your quantity of life.

    Simply put, overweight people die younger. On average, they lose as many years to their excess weight as smokers lose to their cigarettes.

    It stands to reason, doesn’...
  • Healthy Relationship: Is It Possible To Have A Normal Relationship With Food?
    Do you sometimes feel like food is the enemy? If you’re overweight, the odds are high that you view food with deep suspicion. But even if you’re not overweight, you might have the same dim view. Many normal weighted people do.

    Defining food as the enemy can only lead to unhappiness and problems, according to obesity experts. When you think about it, it’s to your advantage to put a friendly face on food because you can’t get away from it. You need food to live. Food is ener...
  • The Glycemic Index: Good Carb, Bad Carb
    If you’re one of those people who can’t stand all the counting and tracking and adding and charting that some diets require, you could find a refuge in one simple numerical scale: the glycemic index. On the other hand, you might find it another maddening way to complicate the simple act of eating.

    The glycemic index is a measure of the quality of carbohydrate foods. It’s kind of a good carbs/bad carbs thing, based on how they affect your blood sugar. Though it’s not new, i...

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