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Parenting Study Finds Kids’ Financial Health is More Important Than Physical...
(CC) woodleywonderworks/Flickr The YMCA recently published the findings of its Family Health Snapshot parenting survey, which polled 1,630 parents of young children to discover their priorities on...
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Top 10 CalorieLab Blog Posts of April 2011: The Best Exercise Ever, Doritos...
(CC) Joe Shlabotnik/Flickr This article features the top 10 CalorieLab Blog Posts of April 2011. This month, our readers were most interested in the single best exercise, an art robot that doodles on...
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Obesity’s Impact on Health Care Costs: Could it Actually Lower Them?
(CC) Seattle Municipal Archives/Flickr Bear in Mind, the Downside is a Lot of Premature Deaths It is generally assumed, and has been widely reported, that obesity imposes billions of dollars in added...
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Calorie Control Council Releases National Weight Loss Statistics
(CC) malias/Flickr A survey commissioned by the Calorie Control Council and published this week details nationwide weight loss statistics that are, by and large, quite promising. Chief among them is...
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Harris Poll Results: “No Significant Change” in Unhealthy Behavior or Lifestyles
(CC) malias/Flickr The latest Harris Interactive poll sheds new light on last week’s statistics from the Calorie Control Council, which indicated that 54 percent of Americans are on a diet: There’s no...
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Does Capitalism Make People Fat?
(CC) Stewart Butterfield/Flickr When in Doubt, We Pig Out According to a study by Oxford researchers, the more free-market a society is, the more likely its inhabitants are to be obese, while the more...
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Upcoming Study Hopes to Solve the Post-Gastric Bypass Weight Gain Conundrum
(CC) xJasonRogersx/Flickr An upcoming study out of Wake Forest University hopes to prove that a proper diet and exercise can prevent patients who have undergone gastric bypass surgery from regaining...
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Fake Fat Consumption Leads to Real Weight Gain
(CC) espensorvik/Flickr Olean isn’t all it’s cracked up to be, according to a recent Purdue University study. Researchers fed lab rats potato chips that contained Olean, a fake calorie-free fat source,...
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Cavemen, Competitive Eating and What it is Doing to Us
Contributor: “Dr. J” Dr. J offers his irreverent, slightly irrelevant, but possibly useful opinions on health and fitness. A Florida surgeon and fitness freak with a black belt in karate, he runs 50...
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Random Numbers: Ladies Who Skip Lunch; Porcine Preschoolers; July is Junk...
Diet Data (CC) USA Today One of the rather startling, or perhaps sobering, revelations from a recent survey conducted by Wakefield Research was that for every American woman who has never gone on a...
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Bad News for the Red States in General and Arkansas in Particular: You’re...
(CC) emilio labrador/Flickr The South Would Like to Rise Again, But it Takes Too Much Effort Men’s Health magazine has come out with a list of America’s 100 most sedentary cities. The magazine based...
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The Hottest New Concept in Appetite Control, and Do You Have a “Fat...
(CC) John Winkelman/Flickr One Weight-Loss Ploy That You Will Definitely Warm To Scientists at Purdue University have come up with an exciting new food seasoning that not only damps down the appetite,...
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Beware the Ramadan Diet, and Heavier Wives Mean Less-Happy Husbands
(CC) Tony Alter/Flickr You Can’t Spell “Fasting” Without “F-A-T” More evidence that skipping meals all day and eating only after 6 p.m. or so is counterproductive as a weight-loss regimen: the Ramadan...
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10 Tips to Prevent Child Obesity
(CC) Sandra Cohen-Rose and Colin Rose/Flickr An Ounce of Prevention Now is Worth 80 Pounds of Liposuction When They’re 35 You’ve probably seen the statistics on childhood overweight, but if not, here...
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Random Numbers: The “Giant Economy Size” Curse; Young Diners Order More...
(CC) greenwenvy08/Flickr Being Penny Wise and Pound(age) Foolish The next time you’re doing your grocery shopping and figure to save some money by buying your various food items in the Economical Fork...
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Fast Food and Poor People: Not a Match, and Junk Food as Male Contraceptive
(CC) Erik Abderhalden/Flickr In Some Neighborhoods, the Burger King is Where They Hold Banquets Which economic bloc in America is the most likely to eat a regular diet of fast food? If you said some...
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Which One Makes Us Fatter: Alcohol or Marijuana?
(CC) Samantha Cohen/Flickr It’s the Beer Belly Versus the (Pun Alert!) Pot Belly Let me begin by saying I don’t have the answer to the question above. But I’ve run across enough evidence to convince me...
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Exercise is Valuable, Even if it Doesn’t Make You Thin
(CC) Brandon Schabes/Flickr It Can Help Your Heart Survive Your Beer Belly The grim prediction issued by the Centers for Disease Control that by the year 2030 some 42 percent of adults in the U.S. will...
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The New Diet Math
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Betting on Obesity
Contributor: “Dr. J” Dr. J offers his irreverent, slightly irrelevant, but possibly useful opinions on health and fitness. A Florida surgeon and fitness freak with a black belt in karate, he runs 50...
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