Health Column
When researchers go looking for trends that might explain the nation's obesity epidemic, most agree on at least one thing: Americans have a drinking problem. Calorie in alcohol is something we all need to watch.
12:29 Oct 13, 2006
Tall and short, dark and light, freckled and tanned, we come in myriad packages with myriad features, most of them determined by our genetics before we ever draw breath.
16:14 Oct 11, 2006
There was a time when doing the housework really meant some hard work, and those day-to-day labors were part of what kept people fit.
09:16 Sep 26, 2006
When it comes to childhood miseries, there is little more tragic than the woe of the overweight child.
02:44 Sep 13, 2006
Ah, the good life. Dining out, shopping for clothes, dining out, shopping for clothes, dining out, shoping for clothes, wait a minute. Is there a pattern here?
10:02 Sep 5, 2006
Typically, the main reasons for wanting to lose weight are to feel better and look better, but the nuances to those motivations are as varied as the people who have them.
03:34 Aug 16, 2006
We've discussed the role parents should take in helping younger children lose weight and develop healthy eating habits, and for parents, managing or supporting a child's weight loss program is never an easy job
17:43 Aug 8, 2006
If you're one of those people who can't stand all the counting and tracking and adding and charting that some diets require, you could find a refuge in one simple numerical scale: the glycemic index.
17:04 Aug 1, 2006
Doctors and other health professionals often hear their patients complain of a slow metabolism, certain they're just not burning calories as efficiently as others who eat the same amount.
09:09 Jul 18, 2006
There's an old proverb that counsels, 'Make your words soft and tender, lest you should later be obliged to eat them.'
18:04 Jun 27, 2006
A 3fatchicks' co-founder tried Diet To Your Door's home diet delivery program for the first time and offered her honest, detailed review to her online community of diet savvy readers.
15:41 Jun 8, 2006
For years, the conventional wisdom about adolescent body image has been that we have a nation of youngsters obsessing about their bodies, panicked that they might be toting a couple extra pounds.
18:41 May 11, 2006
Obese American males lose and average of six years of life expectancy to their excess weight. Six birthdays, six family Christmases, six Super Bowl Sundays.
18:24 Apr 26, 2006
We can stop wondering. It looks like an olive a day is really what keeps the doctor away, or the oncologist, at least.
09:44 Apr 22, 2006
We can stop wondering. It looks like an olive a day is really what keeps the doctor away, or the oncologist, at least.
05:04 Apr 11, 2006
People in a rush often skip breakfast and then later rationalize that it's okay, telling themselves they didn't need those calories anyway.
18:55 Apr 5, 2006
When one of the first words to come out of your daughter's mouth is 'chips' (and she's too young to know who Erik Estrada is), you begin to wonder what kind of eating habits lay ahead for her.
05:10 Mar 22, 2006
Back in the bad old hunter-gatherer days, the human species got a lot of use out of the hormone cortisol. That's the stress hormone activated during the fight-or-flight response...
04:59 Mar 16, 2006
You sit up to the table, mouth watering, and she serves you a plate with a heaping pile of white sugar, another of pile bleached flour, a scoop of lard and a meatball between a couple chunks of diced tomato.
05:45 Mar 7, 2006
As more long-term data become available about the generally positive outcomes for bariatric surgeries, more consumers are opting for these procedures than for any other non-cosmetic elective surgery.
05:00 Feb 21, 2006
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