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 words, they want the […]
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Restaurant Chains And Calories
If you live in New York and visit chain restaurants like Burger King, you’ll be able to see how many calories an item
has simply by looking at their board.
Chain restaurants already must make the calorie counts of their menu items publicly available, but beginning March 31 they will have to put the […]
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 […]
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 a day […]
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, and I […]
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
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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 diets now. Although I […]
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
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 evening hours […]
Obesity Map
Check out CNN’s obesity map which shows the U.S. increase of obesity since 1985.
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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:
Scientific Paper
Methods: We evaluated a […]
Childhood Obesity And Abuse
Well, duh! They’re just now coming up with this? Apparently, not one of them has had a kid with a weight problem.
“The stigmatization directed at obese children by their peers, parents, educators and others is pervasive and often unrelenting,” researchers with Yale University and the University of Hawaii at Manatoa wrote […]
