The Diet Logs

My friend is a diet fanatic. Everytime I see her, she has a new book on the latest diet. She is fit, lean, and energetic. When I asked her why she continues reading diet books when she is already in such great shape, she told me she wants to be sure there [...]

I know, I know, this won’t help anyone to lose weight, but it’s so ironic that I couldn’t resist the “pleasure” of posting it here. As read on the BBC News today (and in another source that I unfortunately can’t remember off the top of my head now), McDonald’s puts fat facts on food:
Fast food [...]

A new partnership between Nickelodeon (the children’s television network), The William Jefferson Clinton Foundation and the American Heart Association seeks to stem the increasing incidence of childhood obesity.
The newly formed Alliance for a Healthier Generation seeks to empower children and families to be agents of change in their communities and to live healthier lives. [...]

You do all you can to stick to your diet, eating right and exercising regularly. Then you have to go on a business trip or try to plan a vacation and all your good work goes down the drain because you can’t get access to a good workout room.
The Fit Hotel Directory can help. [...]

“How long should I wait to exercise after I eat?” This is a question asked to Liz Neporent on iVillage, and one which answers can be pretty useful to many of us. As a matter of fact, the general answer goes as follows:
Depending on how heavy a meal you eat, you should wait 30 minutes [...]

Dr. Joseph Chemplavil of Hampton, Va., was frustrated that his patients continued to gain weight even as he advised them of all the health problems associated with being overweight. So he devised a program where patients would enroll in a special weight loss program. If they lost weight, he would pay them; if they gained, [...]

The Partnership for Essential Nutrition is teaming up with U.S. Surgeon General Richard H. Carmona to promote the basic dietary principles that allow people to lose weight in a healthy way.
As more than 65 percent of all Americans are overwieght or obese, and there seems to be a new “can’t fail” diet plan on [...]

One problem that I am sure many of us face is that we don’t feel like we have enough time to exercise. Working days, cleaning and cooking nights, and then you’re so tired that you don’t want to move, let alone get up and do anything.
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Something that just occured to me: how many people actually stack candies for Halloween, but end up having to buy it again because they pick in said stack way before the day itself?
Halloween isn’t a tradition in my country—some tried to implement it, but it was so blatantly obvious that it was only for the [...]

This I’ve been wondering about, because I must admit, as much as I’m reluctant to, that the past few weeks have been hard. Since outside temperatures started to drop—and they did as early as middle-August this year, with a nasty see-saw effect between cold and hot days to top it all—I’ve been having quite a [...]