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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 foods. Lap band … [Read more...] about Successful Lap Banding Story

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 instead of driving. And while you're at it, … [Read more...] about Global Warming Diet

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 mean never, helped with appetite control and weight … [Read more...] about Gum Chewing

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 … [Read more...] about Play An Hour A Day

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 might consider the goose grease remedy … [Read more...] about If You Want To Lose Weight

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 milk, in an iced glass no less - a girlfriend informed me that I shouldn't be eating more than 500 … [Read more...] about Pregnancy and Weight Gain

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 pretty much represent how I eat. Right up until I … [Read more...] about Between Meal Snacking

Obesity Map Check out CNN's obesity map which shows the U.S. increase of obesity since 1985. … [Read more...] about Obesity Map

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: … [Read more...] about Who You Hang With May Affect Obesity

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: http://www.ajcn.org/cgi/content/full/79/1/6 … [Read more...] about Healthy Diets Cost More