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Posted Obesity Etiquette: Is It Really Necessary? to Diet Blog
Etiquette guru Mary Mitchell says that it's not polite to tell someone they're fat. No kidding. It's also not polite to suggest ways for an obese person to lose weight, or to say, "You'd be so much prettier if you were thin." But, in a recent column at Reuters, Mitchell says that when including an obese individual in your...
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Posted Big Weight Loss Requires Big Changes to Diet Blog
The "small changes" philosophy, touted by health experts and First Lady Michelle Obama alike, took a big hit this week in Tara Parker-Pope's Well Blog post, In Obesity Epidemic, What's One Cookie?. Pope writes an essential truth the some health experts dodge, fearing it will scare people off: If you want to lose a significant amount of weight, you've...
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Posted Weight Loss: How to Eat Slowly to Diet Blog
Sometimes, often times in fact, there's truth behind an old wives' tale. Take the idea that eating slowly can aid weight loss. We've all heard the advice, and now here's the science. A new study published in the Journal of Clinical Endrocrinology and Metabolism discovered that when participants ate an ice cream over the course of 30 minutes, they...
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Posted Kevin Smith Kicked Off Flight for Being Too Fat to Diet Blog
Flickr: Kevin Smith, Twitter.com In 2008, Director Kevin Smith, a.k.a. "Silent Bob," acknowledged his weight had gotten out of control, after he broke a toilet. "I cannot cognitively reframe it and be like, 'It wasn't me -- it was the toilet.' It was definitely me," he told the Los Angeles Times. Two years later, Smith's still struggling with his weight...
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Posted More Evidence Chocolate is Good for Health to Diet Blog
I have a confession to make... just in time for Valentine's Day, I've fallen head over heels in love. While the object of my affection isn't tall and handsome, it can be dark. What's more, now there's another piece of evidence that the love of my life, chocolate, has health benefits....
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Posted Campbell's Soup Low Calorie Commercials: What Do You Think? to Diet Blog
My favorite lunch -- a bowl of romaine lettuce topped with chopped apple, grapes, cucumber, tomato, avocado, and either chopped walnuts or sliced almonds. Sometimes, I'll get a little crazy and throw in a few dried cranberries! And, I top it all off with a very small splurge of my most beloved poppyseed dressing. (Briana's, if you're wondering.) It's...
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Posted New Thoughts on School Recess: Play Then Eat to Diet Blog
Improving nutrition at the elementary school level might be as simple as making a schedule change. Most elementary schools have a pretty standard lunch schedule--fifty minutes or so to eat, then go outside to play. But, at Sharon Elementary School in Robbinsville, New Jersey, a flip in the schedule has kids eating more vegetables, drinking more milk, and wasting...
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Posted How to Set a Goal for Better Health to Diet Blog
"Set a goal," it's one of the most common recommendations given to people who want to lose weight, or improve their fitness. It's good advice, too. Having a goal gives you something to reach for, and there's just nothing like the feeling you get when you set out to do something, and then did it....
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Posted Watching TV Increases Your Risk of Early Death to Diet Blog
As if NBC's Jay Leno/Conan O'Brien fiasco wasn't enough to get you to turn off your TV for a while, a new study finds that watching TV increases your risk of early death. Couch potatoes beware, every hour spent watching TV daily increases your risk of dying from heart disease by 18 percent. Spend an average of four or...
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Posted Lose Weight and Get a Paycheck to Diet Blog
Combining financial incentives and weight loss isn't a brand-new concept. CEOs and insurance providers have been providing perks to employees who make healthy lifestyle choices for years. And, who hasn't made a side bet with a friend to motivate themselves towards fitness?...
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Posted Is Play Just As Good For Your Child's Physical Fitness? to Diet Blog
Looking to keep my kids busy over winter break, I took them to a local community center that opens up their gymnastics room to kids 6 and under for a couple of hours every day. A favorite with my girls are the enormous soft blocks, which they use to build complex climber and slide contraptions, giggling as their buildings...
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Posted Santa Too Fat to Be a Role Model to Diet Blog
The Grinch has left his lair above Whoville and, apparently, moved to Australia, where a team of researchers has determined that Santa is an unhealthy role model for children. Proving their hearts (which true, may be healthy) are three sizes too small, the team from Australia's Monash University, deduced that countries whose children are encouraged to believe in Santa...
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Posted Avoid Holiday Weight Gain With One Small Change to Diet Blog
January 1st is just around the corner, but waiting for the New Year to start your weight loss plan could mean packing on an additional one to five pounds before the holiday season is over. And, two things are going to happen to those extra pounds. Either your starting weight will be higher come New Year's Day. Or, those...
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Posted Slim Fast Recalls Ready-to-Drink Cans to Diet Blog
Unilever, the company that makes Slim Fast products, is announcing a voluntary recall of over 10 million cans of it's ready-to-drink beverage. Testing on the product found that it was contaminated with a bacteria called B. cereus, which can cause a mild case of stomach upset or vomiting....
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Posted Beware Movie Theater Foods... to Diet Blog
The Center for Science for Public Interest isn't surprising anyone with a new study that finds -- shocker! -- movie theater foods are bad for you. Let's all go to the lobby! Let's all go to the lobby! Let's all go to the lobby ... to have ourselves a heart attack. Anyone with a little common sense knows that...
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Posted Vegetarians - You Are What You Eat to Diet Blog
Although I don't agree with the sentiment behind this advertisement from the International Vegetarian Union (click for a larger image) -- that vegetables are all your body needs -- I still think it's a kick-ass, creative picture....
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Posted French Women ARE Getting Fatter to Diet Blog
The idea that French woman could live in the land of wine, cheese, and those mouth-watering pastries without gaining so much as an inch was such a phenomenon that it even spawned a best-selling book, French Women Don't Get Fat. And, yes, it may have created a little envy, too. But as it turns out, French women do get...
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Posted Plus-Sized Nightclubs: Rattle and Rolls? to Diet Blog
The name says it all - Club Bounce. And Long Beach, California folks looking to shake and rattle their rolls think that a dance club for the obese is just what doctor ordered -- for their social lives at least. Long unable to get past the velvet ropes at traditional nightclubs because of their weight, Californians with a few...
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Posted Hate Climbing Stairs? These People Don't to Diet Blog
These are the piano stairs, a fun little experiment by -- who else? -- TheFunTheory.com. The basic idea behind their initiative is that making something fun is the most effective way to change someone's behavior. Before the stairs were altered, we clearly see the majority of people using the escalator. But when the stairs become a giant, working piano,...
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Posted Fox NFL and Burger King Make Jessica Simpson Fat Jokes to Diet Blog
Jessica Simpson is yet again the butt of fat jokes, this time at the hand of Fox NFL and Burger King. During a recent pre-game show, an animated skit was aired that featured cartoon versions of Dallas Cowboy players and plenty of "boy is Jessica fat" jokes. "Man, I still can't believe Tony (Romo) dated Jessica Simpson, even after...
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Posted Michael Pollan's Rules to Eat By to Diet Blog
The interior aisles of the supermarket scare Michael Pollen. That's where the "new" food resides. Processed versions of what humans used to eat--Splenda with fiber, Froot Loops (now a Smart Choice!), frozen meals that are more chemicals than calories. Since we clearly can no longer count on manufacturers having our best interest or our health at heart, Pollan turned...
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Posted Middle-Age Spread May Reduce Chance of Long Life to Diet Blog
Lots of people think it's okay, normal even, to pack on 10 pounds or more a decade. We call it middle-age spread. But, those extra pounds may decrease a woman's risk of leading a long, healthy life free of chronic disease. Published in the British Medical Journal, this latest study to tackle the connection between weight gain and life...
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Posted Track Your Fitness Progress and See Results to Diet Blog
It takes about six weeks for a bonafide couch potato to see real results from a fitness program, though feeling the results starts to happen immediately. Unfortunately, many people just aren't that patient, and quit long before they've really even begun. Going from flab to fit can seem like a long, overwhelming process. But the truth is, every day you...
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Posted SNL's Casey Wilson Denies Being Fired Due to Her Weight to Diet Blog
imbd.com For some reason, people are mean to Casey Wilson. As a fan of Saturday Night Live, I could never figure that out. SNL might not have been the best format for her, and she wasn't always given the best roles, but she's one funny lady. Casey showed grace this week when Lorne Michaels fired her from his show, sparking...
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Posted Skinny Thighs Linked to Heart Disease to Diet Blog
Flickr: Lorena Cupcake Just when you thought the advice on protecting your heart from cardiovascular disease couldn't get any more standard, here comes a wild card study out of nowhere: People with skinny thighs are more likely to develop, and die from, heart disease. So much for that skinny jeans workout!...
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Posted Back-to-School: 3 Ways It Can Help You Get In Shape to Diet Blog
School buses, backpacks, and new lunch boxes--these are the things that mark the end of long, lazy summer days, and a return to that more structured routine of waking up early, homework every night, and early bedtimes. While many of us are busier in the fall with scheduled activities than we are in the summer months, there are ways...
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Posted Swine Flu Bringing Fitness Back to the U.K. to Diet Blog
For years, health experts warned us to wash our hands. But, up to a quarter of us didn't, even after leaving a public restroom. Then swine flu came along, and suddenly stores can't seem to keep hand sanitizer on the shelves. Swine flu's no good for anyone, but the healthy respect we have for it may end up being...
