Reuters - To shed excess pounds, forget expensive commercial diets or diet pills; most successful dieters lose weight on their own, largely by eating right and exercising regularly, according to a survey by Consumer Reports.
I am a healthy 35-year-old woman who has been approximately 25 pounds overweight my entire adult life. I work out at my gym for an hour a day, five or six days a week doing various cardiovascular and weight-bearing exercises. I think I am more fit than I have ever been, but even though I [...]
HealthDay - TUESDAY, Jan. 13 (HealthDay News) — Components of metabolic
syndrome that appear in children should be treated by doctors who also
must encourage them to improve their diet and exercise routines, a new
report says.
AFP - Iraq's health ministry on Tuesday issued a warning that a popular brand of toothpaste made by consumer products giant Unilever contains diethylene glycol, a chemical used in car anti-freeze.
When it comes to fitness equipment, I think that most of us are probably looking for something that is simple and easy to set up and use, and something that doesn’t take a big chunk out of our wallets. With those criteria in mind, I did my research and learned that one of the most [...]
AP - Sam Silverman is co-captain of his high school football team — a safety accustomed to bruising collisions. But that’s nothing compared with the abuse he gets for being a vegetarian.
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Losing weight and getting healthy isn’t easy, but it’s often the little things that add up over time. Here are some things you may want to avoid and some you should include in your diet if your resolution is to lose weight and feel fine in 2009.
Four years ago, when Oprah managed to get down to a trim and fit 160 pounds, she thought she’d hit on a foolproof formula for permanent weight loss. Then life –in the form of a thyroid problem and a killer schedule– intervened. Last year she was back up to the 200-pound mark and knew something [...]
In April, at age 34, Giyen Kim dropped a 60-hour-a-week job to follow her childhood dream of becoming a writer. Now, she’s primed to clear her next personal hurdles: making money from writing, and losing weight.
After shedding 20 pounds last year, she signs on for another year with the company