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McDonald’s Healthy Happy Meals Good for Obese Michigan, but It’s About Choice (ContributorNetwork)

07/27/2011 majac Diets & Weight Loss

ContributorNetwork – COMMENTARY | Fast food icon McDonald’s is looking to shake its junk food image, at least with kids’ meals. The golden arches began offering apples instead of fries; now McDonald’s is auto-adding apples in Happy Meals and cutting fries. The apples are served with caramel dip, so there is some debate about their healthiness. Depending on the region, McDonald’s will be putting raisins, carrots or pineapple in its Happy Meals, too. Some progress in being made in children’s nutrition, but the going is slow.

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Can a Genetic Test Help You Lose Weight? (LiveScience.com)

07/21/2011 majac Diets & Weight Loss

LiveScience.com – Dieters can now buy genetic tests that claim to help them lose weight. The tests, which can cost $170 or more, tell people how to make their diet compatible with their genes to achieve maximum weight loss.

Exclusive: Soda makers escalate attacks over obesity (Reuters)

07/19/2011 majac Diets & Weight Loss

Reuters – U.S. public awareness campaigns about sugary soft drinks are under legal attack by beverage makers, which have sued New York City’s health department and hit local governments with requests for documents on the science behind the initiatives.

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Size Does Matter: Bigger Fork Equals Smaller Waist (ContributorNetwork)

07/19/2011 majac Diets & Weight Loss

ContributorNetwork – COMMENTARY | Thanks to a previous study, we already know that smaller plates can lead to weight loss. Another article suggests that lower light leads to overeating in restaurants. Now, another study comes forth stating that a bigger fork in restaurants is also a key to losing weight.

Hospital employees lose near 1 ton of weight to be 'Naturally Slim'

07/19/2011 majac Diets & Weight Loss

She has a history of diabetes in her family as well as her own weight-related health problems. She heard Christus Spohn was offering the Naturally Slim weight loss program and decided to give it a try. Ten weeks later she had shed 36 pounds, …
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Using Nutrition to Prevent and Manage Equine Disease

07/19/2011 majac Diets & Weight Loss

Stratton-Phelps first suggested that horses undergo a full physical examination to identify medical problems that might complicate weight loss, such as lipid metabolism abnormalities, liver disease, and laminitis. A healthy weight loss goal is 0.5-2% …
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Natalie Lahnan's Live Fit: Beware those summer barbecues

07/18/2011 majac Diets & Weight Loss

The best way to avoid weight gain during the summer — or at any time of the year, for that matter — is a sensible diet consisting of as many whole foods as possible such as lean proteins, whole grains, fruits and vegetables, combined with a regular, …
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SUCCESS STORY / Hillary Bliss, 28: From 240 pounds to 170 pounds

07/18/2011 majac Diets & Weight Loss

Bruce Labbate, her boyfriend, was her weight loss partner. She lives in Midtown. Turning point: “I had been trying to lose weight for years, but portion-restrictive diets never worked for me,” she says. “I was about to turn 25 and I knew that if I …
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5 Ways To Make Your Weight Loss Journey Suck A Little Less

07/18/2011 majac Diets & Weight Loss

He is living proof that the types of food you eat don't matter for weight loss. Bottom line: as long as you are in a caloric deficit, it doesn't matter what foods you eat. I completely understand that people want to research health and fitness …
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Pediatrician feels heat over child obesity idea (Reuters)

07/18/2011 majac Diets & Weight Loss

Reuters – Boston pediatrician David Ludwig, the center of a media firestorm this week, wants to set the record straight on his view that a state should intervene in the most extreme cases of child obesity.

David Ludwig

Want to Get Healthy? Try Switching to ‘Right’ Fats (LiveScience.com)

07/18/2011 majac Diets & Weight Loss

LiveScience.com – While the recommendation to remove fat from your diet was standard medical advice for years, a new review of published studies shows that changing the types of fats you eat will bring better results.

The study from researchers at Norwich Medical School in the U.K. looked at 48 studies spanning nearly half a century, and compared the health benefits of low-fat diets, in which saturated fats were replaced with carbohydrates, to the health benefits of what researchers call modified-fat diets, in which saturated fats are replaced with unsaturated fats, such as fish and vegetable oils. …

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Media Jumps to Erroneous Conclusion on Report About Obese Children (ContributorNetwork)

07/17/2011 majac Diets & Weight Loss

ContributorNetwork – On July 13, the Journal of the American Medical Association released its most current online edition. The commentary, “State Intervention in Life-Threatening Childhood Obesity,” appears in that edition.

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