Healthy Mind

Are your New Year’s resolutions usually defeated by February? Find out how to keep them and achieve your new diet and fitness goals.

People with goals succeed because they know where they are going.

The mystery of why some obese people think that they look good in Lycra has been solved.

Think of the day when you decided on a life change.

It’s very easy to talk yourself out of doing something healthy.

All the traps and pitfalls in life, self esteem is the deadliest and hardest to overcome.

I have no full-length mirrors in my house, except for one which I have to open a closet to get to.

Sara Bird was suffering with “fatorexia”. She was overweight, but saw herself as thin. How common is the condition and how does it develop?

Just a few years ago, photoshopped images were something of a novelty.

From new research in the Journal of Consumer Research:

“We recommend that overweight consumers attempt to avoid looking at ads with any models, thin or heavy (perhaps by avoiding women’s magazines),”This study looked at the way individuals of differing BMI’s responded to pictures of thin or heavy models.

Got a fitness freak or health nut in your life?

In a destination-focused world we often ignore the importance of the journey.

Your goals are the road maps that guide you and show you what is possible for your life.

The world is a strange place – and not every country equates slimness with beauty.

The UK Independent reports on an interesting “discovery”:

…the immune system can be triggered into action at the sight of obesity because it doesn’t like the look of what it sees, and associates it with infection.

Obesity often has many root emotional causes. Here are some tips to improve your relationship with the food you eat.

15 year old Chelsea feels gross and overweight.

Blogs are huge.

A small study has concluded that women who ‘eat intuitively’ are healthier than those who diet.

Pediatrics Journal has published a study from Sweden that links shame and depression with fat teenagers.