What Have I Been Doing
Summary of what’s been going on.
Mississippi Proposed Obesity Bill
Mississippi Proposed Obesity Bill In a bill that would be in force starting July 2008, legisators in Mississippi have suggested a bill that makes it illegal for restaurants to serve obese people. The legislators: John Read, Bobby Shows, and W. T. Mayhall, Jr. want the Mississippi health department to establish certain… weight rules. In other [...]
Restaurant Chains And Calories
New York adds calories to menus.
Fitness Predictions
Fitness Predictions The American Council on Exercise (ACE) has come up with their top 10 fitness predictions for 2008. Out of the Box Workouts – Think dancing, boxing, outdoor bootcamps – stuff that’s fun. No Equipment Workouts- Workouts that don’t use equipment, can be used anywhere. Event or Sports Specific – Marathons, golf, activities that [...]
Successful Lap Banding Story
Successful Lap Banding Story This lady lost 140 pounds and 10 dress sizes, by having lap banding surgery. Despite the rapid weight loss, surgery wasn’t an easy way out. Hill says she still has to plan her meals and eat properly, and one of the biggest downsides is that she has difficulty digesting some starchy [...]
Global Warming Diet
Cut Calories and Carbon With the Global Warming Diet I actually heard about the Carbon Diet a couple of months ago, scribbled stuff about it and promptly forgot about it. And the way gas prices are, walking is looking better and better. How? Get out of your car and walk or bike half an hour [...]
Gum Chewing
Gum Chewing The Annual Scientific Meeting of the Obesity Society did a study and found that chewing gum before snacking helps reduce hunger. Aside from the fact that I look like a cow chewing it’s cud when I chew gum, so I don’t touch the stuff, but I used to chew gum. And it never, [...]
Play An Hour A Day
Play An Hour A Day The NFL and Department of Health and Human Services, along with the Ad Council are launching a series of public service ads that are intended to fight child hood obesity, by urging families to play an hour a day. The ads will start running this week. http://www.smallstep.gov http://www.NFLRUSH.com
If You Want To Lose Weight
If You Want To Lose Weight If you want to lose weight all you have to do is “rise early in the morning; be exercised to sweating; be sparse in diet, not eating sweet things”. according to a women’s guide in 1694 that’s about to go up for auction. Sounds kind of close to our [...]
Pregnancy and Weight Gain
Pregnancy and Weight Gain I was never told how much to gain – or not to gain. When I got pregnant, I was only like 15 pounds – if that – over what I wanted to be. About 8 months pregnant – I had advanced to drinking 3 – 16 ounce glasses of full fat [...]
Between Meal Snacking
Between Meal Snacking If you ever needed a reason to eat between meals, here it is, folks! I eat, if not constantly, near constantly. For yesterdays food log (not up yet so don’t look for it), I kept track of the times I ate, and even though there is a gap in the afternoon, the [...]
Obesity Map
Obesity Map Check out CNN’s obesity map which shows the U.S. increase of obesity since 1985.
Who You Hang With May Affect Obesity
Who You Hang With May Affect Obesity I read about this at Cranky Fitness and went on to read the 2 articles she posted. USAToday “Both obesity and thinness are socially contagious,” says study co-author James Fowler, an associate professor of political science at the University of California-San Diego. Not for the faint of heart: [...]
Healthy Diets Cost More
Healthy Diets Cost More Although I think your average american has this one figured out. It’s official: A recent study confirms that healthy diets really do cost more. Read more about the study at the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition
Just Call Them Fat
Here’s one for you. One <cough>expert panel<cough> is suggesting that we not couch references regarding childhood obesity in sensitive terms. The blunter terms make sense if they motivate doctors to work with more kids who need help, “but you have to be real careful about labeling or saying it in front of a child,” Belamarich [...]