FitnessMantra Weekend: The Science Of Appetite

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Time - Science OF Appetite When something gets so important that Time Magazine issues a Special Health Report about it, you just know the details will be worth the effort. That is precisely the case with The Science Of Appetite. A multi-part article about all things related to appetite including the how and why of eating habits and weight gain.

It all begins with a quick 7-slide presentation about How To Curb Your Appetite with such tips as increasing fiber and eating more slowly so the brain can get signals about how full you are.

A New Diet Equation (strongly reminiscent of A Beautiful Equation I have written about) begins with the eternal words:

No diet has ever been able to defy the laws of thermodynamics. Whether you go low carb, low fat, low this or low that, the only way to lose weight is to burn more calories than you consume.

As regular readers are well aware, Those are the very cornerstones of the FitnessMantra way. Other stories like What The World Eats (a beautiful photo-essay) and What Makes You Eat More Food (increased evidence of the mind’s big role in weight-management) all make for one heck of a great read!
Read the rest of the week’s top health and fitness stories:

Obesity surgery safer for kids than adults: Adolescents are less likely to suffer complications from obesity surgery than adults
Chefs don’t count calories, so it’s up to you: In many restaurants, a pasta bowl can hold 2 pounds. A plate of steak or fish weighing more than a pound is not unusual. Even sandwiches can contain more than 1,000 calories.
Some skipping insulin to slim down: She focused on this: Skipping insulin equals weight loss. For the next 17 years, diabulimia was her compulsion.
The Way We Eat - The Science of Appetite: Nature prefers you fat, but you can take control. New research could explain better approaches to dieting and how to curb your appetite.
Studies Bring New Hope for Obese: Two new studies show that adolescents and seniors, two age groups that have traditionally been urged to shy away from bariatric procedures, can actually benefit from surgical intervention.
Heart study suggests an upside to obesity: Among nearly 6,900 male veterans assessed for symptoms of heart disease, the obese were less likely to die over the next seven-and-a-half years. The study does not, however, mean that obesity is a health boon - obesity is linked to a higher risk of develo
Kellogg to boost nutrition in cereal, snacks: Kellogg Co. said Thursday it will increase the nutritional value of the cereals and snacks targeted at children or else stop marketing those products to them altogether
Child obesity ‘a form of neglect’: Some doctors now believe in extreme cases overfeeding a young child should be seen as a form of abuse or neglect.
Infants being treated for obesity: Doctors say they are now seeing children as young as six months old in their obesity clinics.
Canadians in big, fat denial over obesity: Fat Canadians are in deep denial when it comes to their own risk of heart disease and other serious obesity-related sicknesses, a survey of nearly 5,000 men and women in six major Canadian cities suggests.
For Your Other 600 Muscles: The People Who Know What’s Good For Us have made life progressively difficult, moving from general recommendations such as “maintain ideal weight” to detailed orders for 60 to 90 minutes of exercise every day.
A Fitness Icon Keeps His Juices Flowing: “If man made it, don’t eat it,” Jack LaLanne used to say, decades ahead of the popular movement to eat more whole foods.
Diet and Exercise Are Not Always Enough: Until the age of 30 or so, diet and exercise can build bone mass. After that, what they do is less a matter of preventing inevitable age-related bone loss than keeping it from accelerating further.
Diabetes Cuts 8 Years Off Life: A diagnosis of diabetes means losing an average of eight years from your expected life span, new research shows.
Sweeteners, trans fat creating ‘toxic food environment’: Trans fats, certain sugars and fried foods may be undermining the health of Canadian youngsters.
Docs Need To Call Fat Kids ‘Obese’: Doctors ought to quit using fuzzy terms to define children’s weight problems and instead refer to truly fat kids as overweight or obese, a committee of medical experts recommended.
Lifestyle changes help obese breast cancer women: Even if they remained obese, women who survived breast cancer cut their risk of dying from a recurrence of the disease if they had a diet rich in fruits and vegetables and exercised moderately, a study found on Friday.
Vitamin D shown to cut women’s cancer risk - Cancer - MSNBC.com: Building hope for one pill to prevent many cancers, vitamin D cut the risk of several types of cancer by 60 percent overall for older women in the most rigorous study yet.
Moderate Exercise May Slow Progression of Lou Gehrig’s Disease: Doing moderate strengthening exercises may help people with early-stage amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) maintain physical function and quality of life for a longer period of time, a new Canadian study says.
Fidgeters ‘likely to be thinner’: Scientists working in Germany and the US say they have found a “fidget” code and if you have it in your genes you are less likely to be fat.
Did microwaves ’spark’ obesity?: Microwaves may be to blame for kick-starting the obesity epidemic, a UK scientist suggests.