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It Happened This Week: Women & Chocolate, Sleep Problems & Weight Gain, and More on the Media

July 9, 2010

Salon.com explores why women like chocolate and men like beer.  Is it nature or nurture?  Nurture might win as what women and men like seem to change both within and among cultures. More and more evidence is cropping up that sleep problems contribute to weight problems.  This time, researchers found that middle-aged women who report [...]

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Weighing Our Lives

June 29, 2010

My stepfather died a few weeks ago and I flew to California to help my mom begin to gather together her belongings, in preparation for moving back to Texas to be closer to family.  She’s 82 years young, and while still very capable of being independent, she needs to be around loved ones if she [...]

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Sitting Out The Summer — A Diet From Fun?

May 25, 2010

It’s ironic that so many of us yearn for old man winter to take a hike, only to trade in some low-grade depression with our disappointment over the decision to sit out another summer. There’s no bigger bummer than sitting in your house all summer long because you feel fat. Yet year after year, too many women refuse to enjoy [...]

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It Happened This Week: Jillian Michaels’ Yoga Credentials and Jenny Craig for Men

May 21, 2010

That’s Fit wonders whether celebrity trainer Jillian Michaels knows anything about yoga and fact checks the claim that her new yoga DVD can make make you lose five pounds a week. Jan Shepherd offers an insightful look into what triggers a binge. Consumer Reports goes nuts for nuts. Dineen at Eat Without Guilt weighs in [...]

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The Comparison Game

May 19, 2010

Why can’t I have Gwen Stefani’s abs, or Jennifer Aniston’s chin, or my co-worker’s clear complexion????  Well, basically the answer is, because I’m not them.  My genes are different; my lifestyle is different, so of course we don’t look the same.  While it’s common knowledge that we all are different, why is it so easy [...]

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Fat Kids Number One Target For Bullies

May 4, 2010

US News & World Report reports on new research which suggests that being an overweight kid at school increases the risk of being bullied. My first reaction? Was research really necessary to prove such a claim? I guess the most telling result of the study proved that being a fat kid trumps all other reasons kids get [...]

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It Happened This Week: Depressing Chocolate, Lane Bryant’s Victory, and the Fat Trap

April 30, 2010

In “Depressed People Eat More Chocolate,” NPR reported that “researchers have connected chocolate to a person’s darker moods, but possibly as a cause, not a cure.” Wow, feeling down makes women eat more? Since when is that news? Small victory: The controversial Lane Bryant ad for “plus-sized lingerie” that Cindy wrote about finally aired this [...]

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Network Execs Act Like Boobs Over Boobs

April 27, 2010

Some of you may have already heard all the fuss around a Lane Bryant lingerie ad which didn’t hit the airways last week because it was deemed to be of an inappropriate nature.  ABC pulled the ad (which was to run during “Dancing With The Stars”) and FOX demanded “excessive edits” for the ad which [...]

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What The Heck Is Self-Acceptance?

April 26, 2010

Last summer Karen C.L. Anderson of the blog Why Weight: A Real Life “Before” and After Story shared on A Weight Lifted a story of her personal journey towards self-acceptance.  Her post today looks at how things have changed in a little less than a year.  What a difference a year makes…. We’re excited for [...]

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It Happened this Week: Carrie Underwood, “The Fat Trap,” and The War on Salt

April 23, 2010

A refreshing idea came from Country Music Award winner Carrie Underwood (pictured): she is not going on a pre-wedding diet. Instead, she stresses feeling good above all. “I’m taking care of myself, which is what I always hope to do.” For the first time ever, the FDA is close to instituting legal limits on the [...]

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