All Blog Posts Tagged 'weight-loss' (10)

I’m very skeptical of promises that sound too good to be true. No field is as rife with these as the diet industry, where new dream diets are invented daily and claim to have found a magic trick allowing us to eat as much as we want yet lose weight. But here’s one worth checking out: Can eating more fruit help you shed weight? This diet is worth a second look because we have many other good reasons to increase our fruit consumption—fruit and vegetables are an important component of a… Continue

For those of you unfamiliar with the G4 tv show Ninja Warrior, check out the following video: video here and this one… So, do you think you could do that? My fellow blogger John at Total Tran… Continue

Bear with me for a minute, because what I am going to say next will seem, at first, to have nothing to do with supermodel, Super Mom and Olympian, Dara Torres. A friend of mine called me up on the weekend and asked me if I would help him get ‘back into shape’. Surprised? You bet. This guy never asks for advice. He is (or at least was) the guy that everyone in the gym went to for help… Continue

Q: * Which business sector saw it’s sales triple in 2007, and * Expects sales to increase at an even greater rate, and * Has a target market that is literally getting bigger day by day, and * Whose customers keeps buying their product even when they have be proven ineffective??? A: * The Obesity Drug Business According to this research paper: - An estimated 17% (… Continue

Scientists from the Salk Institute’s Gene Expression Laboratory may have discovered Big Pharma’s Holy Grail of Pharmaceuticals. A pill that would allow you to reap all of the benefits of vigorous exercise while sitting on the couch watching re-runs of Seinfeld. How about that! Scientists from the Salk Institute’s Gene Expression Laboratory have reported (in the July 31 advan… Continue

Researchers at the National Institute for Agricultural Botany in the U.K. have produced a genetically modified form of SUPER wheat. This wheat has the SUPER ability to release fewer calories into the body compared to other varieties of wheat created by God or man. Yay, scientists!!! So, how does it work? According to this article, “The new wheat has been engi… Continue

In a recent study, researchers forecast that by 2030, 86.3% of American adults will be overweight or obese. By 2048, all American adults would become overweight or obese. Total health-care costs attributable to obesity would rise to 860.7–956.9 billion US dollars by 2030, accounting for 16–18% of total US health-care costs. By 2048, that number would swell to 3.8276 tri… Continue

I had a hankering last week for jalapeño poppers. But my go-to popper stop, Sonic, is miles and miles (45 of them, actually) away. And no craving will get me to drive that far at $4.35 a gallon. So I took matters into my own hands. Lucky for me, my wallet and my waistline, the girls over at Hungry Girl had a solution—a low-cal recipe. With only five necessary ingredients (fresh jalapeños, fat-free cream cheese, chedda… Continue

I posted a new article on Almost Fit today that includes a few resources on identifying what "Real Food" is these days. It can be quite confusing with all of the bait-and-switch labeling that goes on particularly with large industrial food producers, so I'm sharing the resources… Continue

I posted the second part in the series, "Retrain Yourself on Food Portion Sizes" last night on Almost Fit (technically this morning) at around 1:30AM or so - its been a long week. My time has been stretched thinner than usual, particularly since we have a 3-1/2 year-old (pictured) with Chickenpox at home (I work at home). He's had his first inoculation (at 1 yr.), so his symptoms were reasonably minor - no… Continue