Weight Loss and Exercise Stories from the front lines

A British study that monitored 22,000 people over five years found that vegetarians and vegans gained the least weight over that time.
People who switched from a meat-eating diet to a vegetarian diet also gained less weight. Those who exercised as well did better than those who had little physical activity.
On average, everyone in [...]

A new study sought to fid out the mechanism that seems to make people lose more weight when they consume a lot of dairy products.
The study, published in The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, found that high dairy diets allowed women to burn more fat and calories after a meal than those who consumed [...]

Everyone knows this is the worst time of year for people trying to lose weight, and even for people trying not to gain weight. Food service giant Sodexo offers 10 tips for maintaining your weight during the holiday eating season.
1. Eat breakfast. It jump starts your metabolism and provides you with fuel [...]

A recent study from Brown University found that stepping on the scale every day can help people who have lost weight to keep it off. Sixty-one percent of those monitored who lost weight kept it off when they weighed themselves daily, while only 32 percent who weighed less frequently kept the weight off.
I don’t [...]

I was just listening to an interesting phone call about health coaching and helping others to lose weight and live healthier lives. The conversation involved what the speaker called “Five Steps to Health,” which should be beneficial to anyone, regardless of whether they have a coach to help them along.
1. Hydration: We all know [...]

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. [...]

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 [...]

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