Year: 2013

LONDON (AP) — He's been turned down by planes, trains and even a cruise ship in his quest to return home — and his family says it's because he has been deemed too fat to travel.

Got a success story of your own? Send it to us [email protected] and you could be featured in ourI Lost Weight series! Name: Cayla Duncan Age: 26 Height: 5'0"Before Weight: 247 pounds How I Gained It: I was not aware of howmuch I was eating, and I rarely exercised. I went from being veryactive in college to being not active at all afterwards. I gained agood 100 pounds in the course of three years after college. Iwasn't depressed, I didn't have low self-esteem; I was just lazyand ate everything in sight. I

LONDON (AP) — He's been turned down by planes, trains and even a cruise ship in his quest to return home — and his family says it's because he has been deemed too fat to travel.

I cannot even begin to try to explain how difficult it is for men over the age of 25 years-old to cultivate friendships with fellow men.

By Kathryn Doyle NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – About a third of the calories kids eat at school, at fast food restaurants and from grocery stores are “empty calories” that should be targeted for reduction, according to a new study. “Although fast foods are generally recognized as less healthful, our study found that foods consumed by U.S. children from grocery stores and schools were similar in empty calorie content to fast foods,” author Jennifer M. Poti said. Poti is a doctoral candidate in nutritional epidemiology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Added sugars are incorporated during food processing, preparation or at the table, but do not include the natural sugars in fruit or milk, Poti said.

By Andrew M. Seaman NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – The likelihood of a woman remaining childless at age 35 increases with each year spent in a temporary position, a new Australian study finds. “This is an important topic to study because the majority of people living in Western countries want to have children as part of leading a fulfilling life,” Vivienne Moore, the study’s senior author, wrote in an email to Reuters Health. Moore is a professor in the discipline of public health and the Robinson Institute at the University of Adelaide in Australia. Moore said her team’s study cannot determine why temporary jobs are linked to being childless later in life.

It's not often that we advise readers not to try a workout at home.But this is one of those times. Daredevil Alexander Rusinov, aRussian gymnast and Parkour enthusiast, takes extreme workouts to awhole new level by performing his handstands and other acrobaticson some of his hometown's most dizzying architecture. Drawinginspiration from Parkour videos, Rusinov started practicing hisstunts on a local playground and was soon posting videos to YouTubeof his extreme antics, the Daily Mail reported. In the descriptionfor his most recent clip, he said it proves "that I can trust inmyself