Weight Loss and Exercise Stories from the front lines

University of Washington School of Medicine researchers in Seattle report it may be that the high amounts of protein, rather than the lack of carbohydrates, that fuel success for the fad low-carb diets. They suspect one result of high protein levels is a reduction in appetite, causing people to feel full sooner and consequently [...]

From the BBC News website, a simple scorecard to identify junk foods has been proposed by the food watchdog:
Under the FSA system, which did not name any particular products, any food with more than four points and drink with more than one per 100g is rated as unhealthy.
Each product is given a rating out of [...]

MedicineNet publishes an article about how Weight Loss Takes Load Off Knees:
WEDNESDAY, July 27 (HealthDay News) — Losing just one pound of body weight results in a four-pound reduction in the load placed on the knee joint each time a person takes a step, according to a new study of overweight and obese people.
The findings [...]

Chef Kathleen Daelemans is the author of “Getting Thin & Loving Food, 200 Easy Recipes to Take You Where You Want to Be” (Houghton Mifflin, 2004) and host of “Cooking Thin with Kathleen Daelemans” on the Food Network. You can talk to her live and swap recipes at chefkathleen.com. Recently a viewer asked her [...]

We run, bike, lift weights, and work to burn the calories, but how many do we really burn? I’ve read that it doesn’t matter if you walk a mile or run a mile, the number of calories burned is the same! How can this be? Well, the web site caloriesperhour.com has a [...]

Shiny promises of fast and easy weight loss: this is something that crosses our lives so often, what with advertisements, websites and various other means, that perhaps it’s not so hard to see through it anymore. Exercise, though… I have the feeling that somehow, things are more blurred on that side of things, and that [...]

New research from the National Weight Control Registry — a database of 4,000 people who have shed an average of 73 pounds and kept it off for more than five years — is revealing the secrets of keeping the pounds at bay. One surprise was that scientists discovered that it gets easier over [...]

Top nutrition and weight-loss experts answer the most burning questions about weight-loss in this Health and Fitness News Service article by Sandra Gordon. Covering everything from “Is there one small diet fix that will help me lose weight?” (opt for low- or no-calorie beverages such as tea, water, seltzer and skim milk) to [...]

This article from Raphael Calzadilla (eDiets Chief Fitness Pro) has caught my eye. For anyone who, likes me, still tends to view exercising/”burning calories” as an all-or-nothing process, it’s good to find such little tricks, that can be useful and provide a certain dose of activity, even if it’s not “one full hour of cardio” [...]

It’s been scarcely a month since I wrote about Xenical for Teens, and I found this really good article on helping teenagers stay on a diet at UK paper Telegraph’s website: Junk the Bad Habits and Glow With Teen Spirit.
Bryony Gordon examines their nutritional needs and steers parents through the minefield of faddy diets [...]