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Calorie-Count Information On Restaurant Menus Affect Eating Habits
Since this past summer, New York City requires restaurant chains with 15 or more outlets to post calorie count information right on their menus next to the price. Looks like the effect has been nothing short of eye-opening (and mouth-closing!). The New York Times, in a recent article titled “Calories Do Count“, reports that the [...]
Exercise Can Beat The Obesity Gene
If you were to see an article from the Archives of Internal Medicine titled “Physical Activity and the Association of Common FTO Gene Variants With Body Mass Index and Obesity“, I would not blame you if you didn’t read it all the way to its conclusion! But while most arcanely titled pieces of text are [...]
Michael Phelps’ 12000 Calorie Diet
While the world’s abuzz with the super-human and historic achievements of ace American swimmer, Michael Phelps, few know what it took to keep him going at the blistering pace he managed to maintain (8 Gold medals in the Beijing 2008 Olympics in 5 individual and 3 team events).
He not only beat mark Spitz’s 36-year-old record, [...]
One Man’s Secret To Weight Loss
“The Secret To Weight Loss” - just the very thought of it is enough to create multi-billion dollar exercise or drug companies out of thin air. Lose weight while you sleep? Painless weight loss? Nah, this little post is about none of that.
Losing Weight On A “McDonald’s Diet”
In an age when fast-food joints like McDonald’s and Burger King immediately bring to mind a picture of unhealthiness and obesity, the story of a man who actually lost 80 pounds on a “McDonald’s Diet” is a real breath of fresh air.
Chris Coleson, a 42-year old businessman from Virginia, who weighed almost 280 pounds just [...]
