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The Healthy Weight Network recently released its20thannual Slim Chance Awards, highlighting both the hidden dangers of diets and supplements that often contain unknowningredients and sometimes potent drugs, and the merely ridiculous.

“To call 2008 a typical year in the weight loss field would be too easy,” cites their press release. “This year’s awards go to aninfamous huckster of diet infomercials, known for Read the rest of this entry »

The Healthy Weight Network recently released its20thannual Slim Chance Awards, highlighting both the hidden dangers of diets and supplements that often contain unknowningredients and sometimes potent drugs, and the merely ridiculous.

“To call 2008 a typical year in the weight loss field would be too easy,” cites their press release. “This year’s awards go to aninfamous huckster of diet infomercials, known for Read the rest of this entry »

Recently, Marsha posted a blog surveyabout stress. What causes more stress, the economy, your family, work, school, healthor your bod? Well, unfortunately, not a big shocker; some of us would rather have our 401K sink to unbelievable lows than see ourselves naked in a mirror.

What does that say? I guess for me, it means that during tough economic times there is an argument for turning worry, stress and frustration Read the rest of this entry »

Recently, Marsha posted a blog surveyabout stress. What causes more stress, the economy, your family, work, school, healthor your bod? Well, unfortunately, not a big shocker; some of us would rather have our 401K sink to unbelievable lows than see ourselves naked in a mirror.

What does that say? I guess for me, it means that during tough economic times there is an argument for turning worry, stress and frustration Read the rest of this entry »

One of the newest so called “super foods” has found its way out of the deep, dark parts of the rain forest and now is available to work miracles for your health.

Well, with the recent hype about the acai berry, one would think this were true. So what are the facts concerning this little berry and what can be attributed to marketing hype? Hopefully this post will help you sort the fact from fiction.

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Have you fallen into the “health halo” trap? Reported on by the New York Times, the health halo is what researchers have dubbed the effect where the presence of a supposedly healthy food within a meal makes consumers judge the whole meal as healthier.

Dr Chandon, co-author of The Biasing Health Halos of Fast-Food Restaurant Health Claims had produced two questionnaires which were used by the New York Times in a survey.

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When Irecently came across a website solely devoted to rumors of celebrity weight gain, celebrity dietsand celebrity weight loss (mostly women's weight loss, of course), I was struck by the seemingly innocuousdisclaimer of the website(which I will not promote by naming).Itreads “All content on this website should be considered harmless speculation and gossip.”

Harmless?

That'scertainly debatable. Study after study Read the rest of this entry »

When Irecently came across a website solely devoted to rumors of celebrity weight gain, celebrity dietsand celebrity weight loss (mostly women's weight loss, of course), I was struck by the seemingly innocuousdisclaimer of the website(which I will not promote by naming).Itreads “All content on this website should be considered harmless speculation and gossip.”

Harmless?

That'scertainly debatable. Study after study Read the rest of this entry »

Food diets containing excessive amounts of sugar may not only affect a person’s BMI (body mass index) and fitness. High-sugar foods have also been connected to a specific type of vision impairment, as a leading cause of age-related macular degeneration also known as AMD.

AMD is an eye condition that normally affects people late in life causing a deterioration of central vision. This condition is related to the macula of the Read the rest of this entry »

Not many studies have been conducted on exercise and type 2 diabetes prevention in black women. But a recent publication in the American Journal of Epidemiology shows that severalbrisk walks per week can help to lower black women's type 2 diabetes risk.

Julie Palmer of Boston University and her colleagues reviewed data from the Black Women's Health Study which is currently following45,000 black women between1995 to 2005.

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