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Burning The Scale - Dec 7, 2007
MSNBC has an interesting article online right now about 9 strategies to lose weight that were tested on a sample of people, and how much on average was lost. One of the tips that caught my eye was to stop drinking all …
Also tagged: overweight, uncategorized, high fructose corn syrup, weight gain, weight loss, diet soda
Burning The Scale - Dec 1, 2007
Childhood obesity is at an all-time high. With kids increasingly sedentary (MySpace, video games) and eating high-fat, high-carb diets, government programs such as We Can! (stands for Ways to Enhance Children’s …
Also tagged: activity, government, nutrition, children, uncategorized, parents, calories, childhood, sedentary
Burning The Scale - Dec 1, 2007
Sounds crazy, but I just read this article over at CBS News online. Apparently the incidence of obese - not overweight - women and men has not significantly increased since 1999-2000. I’d hardly say the epidemic was …
Also tagged: america, overweight, uncategorized, unhealthy, epidemic
Burning The Scale - Nov 15, 2007
An Australian nutritionist, Dr. John Tickell, has suggested that airlines should charge their obese passengers more for tickets. This is based on the reasoning that the more weight the plane bears, the more the cost …
Also tagged: australia, overweight, uncategorized, airlines, fuel, passengers, nutritionist
Burning The Scale - Nov 8, 2007
An article at MSNBC made my head spin - Could there be some health benefits to being slightly heavy, i.e. around 25 pounds overweight? Apparently overweight (not obese) folks are more likely to survive illnesses such …
Also tagged: health, overweight, uncategorized, fitness, weight, pneumonia, emphysema
Burning The Scale - Aug 31, 2007
You can imagine how thrilled I was to see this data come out about each state’s percentage of obese folks. Tennessee ranks fifth - with 27.8 percent of the state being obese. Mississippi takes the cake (no pun …
Also tagged: south, uncategorized, colorado, mississippi, tennessee, fried chicken
Burning The Scale - Aug 29, 2007
I went into GNC today in my local mall to have a look around - sometimes I see or read about a supplement I want to buy, so it never hurts to look. However, what caught my eye were the shelves and shelves of one diet …
Also tagged: uncategorized, gnc, diet pills