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Paid To Lose Weight And Stop Smoking
LONDON — Can people be bribed into better health? The British Government is increasingly convinced they can. For decades, doctors have tried to persuade people to quit Smoking, exercise more and lose weight. But with mixed success on the exhortation front and facing a rising Obesity crisis, British officials are slowly abandoning the health argument and fattening peoples' wallets instead. The U.K. has tested several programs that pay people to make healthy choices. Although the trials have b...

Added diet incentive: Years melt away with the pounds
Losing weight may be the new Fountain of Youth: It makes you look and feel younger. So say several dieters who have been featured in the USA Today Weight-Loss Challenge and Obesity experts who study Weight Loss. Tom Slater, 42, of Olmsted Falls, Ohio, who now weighs 162 pounds, down from a high of 288, says his face looked "swollen" when he was heavier, "almost like I had been stung by 1,000 bees. "When you have so much excess weight, your face shows it most," Slater says. He started to look you...

Four Loko to become ethanol
RICHMOND, Va., Jan. 7 (UPI) -- A Virginia company said it is Recycling the Alcohol from leftover stores of banned beverage Four Loko to make Ethanol. MXI Enterprises of Richmond said the Four Loko, which was made by Phusion Projects of Chicago and was recently banned in several states because of its combination of high Alcohol and caffeine levels, would be recycled, KSWB-TV, San Diego, reported Friday. Mike Lewis, owner of Pearson Fuels in San Diego, said it is not unusual for beverages to be re...

Goldmans Leaked Memo to Rich Investors Exposes Facebooks Actual Earnings
Source: New York Magazine Well, now we know why Goldman Sachs was so reluctant to give its Millionaire clients any concrete details about the Facebook deal (save that vague appetite-whetting pitch letter that could easily have been mistaken for an entreaty from a Nigerian prince). Leaked copies of a 101-page private placement memo Goldman hand delivered to hand-picked potential investors a little after lunchtime yesterday — probably as they were leaving the Grill Room — reveal closely guarded de..

U.K. Pays People to Slim Down, Stop Smoking
Friday, January 07, 2011 By Maria Cheng, Associated Press London (AP) - Can people be bribed into better health? The British Government is increasingly convinced they can. For decades, doctors have tried to persuade people to quit Smoking, exercise more and lose weight. But with mixed success on the exhortation front and facing a rising Obesity crisis, British officials are slowly abandoning the health argument and fattening peoples' wallets instead. The U.K. has tested several programs tha...

UK pays people to slim down, stop smoking
LONDON (AP) — Can people be bribed into better health? The British Government is increasingly convinced they can. For decades, doctors have tried to persuade people to quit Smoking, exercise more and lose weight. But with mixed success on the exhortation front and facing a rising Obesity crisis, British officials are slowly abandoning the health argument and fattening peoples’ wallets instead. The U.K. has tested several programs that pay people to make healthy choices. Although the ...

7 Steps To Living Healthy In New Year
Is exercise more one of your resolutions? (Credit: BERTRAND LANGLOIS/AFP/Getty Images) NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) - Americans are only one week into the new year, and it’s not too late to get started on New Year’s Resolutions. Furthermore, why not make the New Year’s Resolutions permanent resolutions? No matter what day it is, it’s never too late to start a healthy routine. The American Heart Association (AHA) has seven easy steps everyone can do to live a long, producti...

Overnight Open Thread
ONT rarely delves into the base political topics that the “lesser” contributors of the blog attempt to do during the daylight hours, but tonight we’ll bow to the circumstances and dip our balls in salute to a great stateswoman… A Farewell to Nancy: A grateful nation thanks you for your public service, Ms. Pelosi. More glowing tributes and heartwarming moments below the fold... Worst Domain Names Ever: So I was hanging out in/strapped to the bed last night watching tv when a commer...

U.K. Pays People to Slim Down, Stop Smoking
Can people be bribed into better health? The British Government is increasingly convinced they can. For decades, doctors have tried to persuade people to quit Smoking, exercise more and lose weight. But with mixed success on the exhortation front and facing a rising Obesity crisis, British officials are slowly abandoning the health argument and fattening peoples' wallets instead. You must login to comment. The Fox Nation is for those opposed to intolerance, excessive government control of our li...

Carole Carson: The Skinny on Fitness Trends in 2011: Strategies for Tackling Obesity
What's your reason for getting fit and dropping a few pounds? Like Ashton Kutcher, are you worried about a "massive world-crushing event" where only the fittest survive? Or are your concerns more immediate, such as an oversized number on the scale and a thinning wallet? Nearly 75 percent of Americans will be overweight or obese by 2019. That's the projection of Economists in a report, "Obesity and the Economics of Prevention: Fit Not Fat," issued by the Paris-based 33-member Organisation of E...

Health Benefits of Smoking Tobacco
Thanks to Surgeon General's Warning Labels, public Smoking Bans, strict Regulation of advertising, excise taxes, and public service messages, nearly everyone in America is fully aware of the many health risks associated with Cigarette Smoking. Ongoing research has continuously proven that smoking causes lung dysfunction, Cancer, SIDS, Heart Disease, Birth Defects, preterm birth, and other serious Health Problems. Knowing this, the idea that Cigarette smoking may offer health benefits may seem ...

UK pays people to slim down, stop smoking
LONDON - Can people be bribed into better health? The British Government is increasingly convinced they can. For decades, doctors have tried to persuade people to quit Smoking, exercise more and lose weight. But with mixed success on the exhortation front and facing a rising Obesity crisis, British officials are slowly abandoning the health argument and fattening peoples' wallets instead. The U.K. has tested several programs that pay people to make healthy choices. Although the trials have...

Kardashian boyfriend a mystery to parents
LOS ANGELES, Jan. 8 (UPI) -- Kim Kardashian may be dating New Jersey Nets Basketball player Kris Humphries, but her parents have never met him. "She's dating a lot of different people," Kris Jenner told People Magazine at a party at the winter Television Critics Association press tour in Pasadena, Calif., Tuesday. "I usually don't meet them until she gets serious and, so far, she hasn't brought him around." Jenner said her daughter has been working too hard to get involved in a serious new rela...

Creativity vs. Social Engineering
Professor Lipsman's observations when considered in light of historic fact point to an interesting paradox. One fact that has always confounded me is that the modern liberal invariably considers himself or herself to be a thinker of great ideas, and when they propose a solution to one of life's difficulties they believe that their solution is always new and revolutionary, despite the fact that the solution unvaryingly consists of massive Government Spending to back up a new bureaucrati...

Jennifer Hudson loses weight, gains youth back
Jennifer Hudson would rather talk about what she has gained rather than what she has lost since she dropped from a size 16 to size 6 by following Weight Watchers. "Instead of saying I lost this or that, I feel like I gained 10 years of my youth back. I look 10 years younger. People say to me, 'You have Jennifer Hudson's face. Are you her little sister?' " The Oscar- and Grammy-winning performer has been following Weight Watchers for a year and has been featured in the company's ads since April. ...

Judith J. Wurtman, PhD: Exercise Help: Gym Phobic?
"Just try a little, otherwise how do you know you won't like it?" "I have tried and I hate it." "But you haven't tried it for a long time and maybe this time you will like it." "No, you are not going to get me to change my mind." This conversation, between a friend and me, was about tasting sushi but it could as well been about going to the gym. There are many people whose antipathy to exercise is as deep as my friend's is to eating sushi. They would rather eat nothing but a vitamin pill an...

The Amazing RBC New Years Diet!
The Amazing RBC®©™ New Year’s Diet! Losing weight is one of the top New Year’s resolutions - justifiably so. 60% of Australians plan to lose weight (and that was before their cricket team was crushed by England in the Ashes series, gloat gloat). Eating less and exercising more is slow and boring: hence the appetite (sic) for miracle diets. Let me add one. It’s expensive, inconvenient, and I have no evidence for it: in this market, these are features not b...

Cory Booker's Newark Weight-Loss Plan Is Already Working
​What can't this guy do? Seriously. After announcing on Tuesday his new plan to lose 57 pounds by April, Newark Mayor-of-the-People Cory Booker is already being deluged with Twitter followers supporting and joining him in his efforts. Folks are kickboxing, spending practically an entire hour on the elliptical, and just generally participating and chanting "eye of the tiger" and thanking him for the motivation. It's rather amazing. ​ Is Newark becoming some sort of new digital-era h...

Riva Greenberg: A Resolution to Stick With: Be a Contribution
I have not made any new year's resolutions. I never do -- not since turning old enough to realize they're a cruel joke we play on ourselves. There are three reasons why I don't make resolutions: If I don't keep them, I'll feel like a failure. If there's something I really want to do, I'll do it. There's a much better way to make lasting changes. Last week, reporters were asking everyone on the streets of New York City, "What are your new year's resolutions?" and then experts on those same mor...

Young People Continue To Ruin America With Their Awful Dancing
Hello! Has Satan ever kidnapped you at knife-point and then imprisoned you in his favorite fire dungeon, where thousands of sweaty Young People “grind” to auto-tuned fart sounds accompanied by predictable bass lines and recycled MTV mashup samples, for the rest of eternity? It doesn’t even matter really, since these apocalyptic sex rites are performed every single night at every middle school semi-formal and yuppie “wine bar” in America. But what happens when young ...

Williamsburg Hipsters Claim Theft When They Should Have Claimed Four Loko
Photo: Brooklyn Vegan The band Titus Andronicus (think "Conor Oberst screaming from the bowels of hell") played a sold-out show on New Year's Eve at 245 Kent Avenue (think Todd P). After the Four Loko-fueled party, commenters on Brooklyn Vegan claimed they had items stolen during the event. But if the rack full of down coats, hats, a smurf-colored kaffiyeh, and a tiger-print furry thing still at the venue is any indication, they just forgot to pick them up. (The owners of the last two it...

Reasoner on the TV: Nick Gillespie on Stossel Tonight at 8pm ET
In addition to spots on Parker Spitzer, Freedom Watch, and Red Eye, Reason's Nick Gillespie also has a cameo on tonight's episode of Stossel, which airs on Fox Business at 9pm ET and again at midnight ET. Though Gillespie has never tasted Four Loko, Joose, or Moon Shot Ale, he defends your right to drink caffeinated alcoholic beverages as long as you don't wake him up drunk in the middle of the night to tell him that you really really really appreciate him for doing so. Read John Stossel's Reas...

Recycling blackouts in a can should inspire other uses for recalled food
Here in America, we don't believe in wasting food. We manage to use almost a whopping 60 percent of what we produce. (W00t!) How do we do it? well, among other things, our thrifty government buys up excess production of cheap cheese or meat to use in the National School Lunch Program. Food manufacturers and Supermarkets send their left-over, messed-up, or dented cans and boxes to food banks -- helping the poor and getting a Tax Break at the same time. And not only do we find a home for these un...

New at Reason: John Stossel on the Governments War on Caffeinated Alcoholic Drinks
Recently some college kids started drinking pre-mixed combos of Alcohol and caffeine with names like Four Loko and Moonshot '69. Naturally, hysterical news reports followed. Then, as night follows day, the Food and Drug Administration ordered beverage companies to lose the caffeine or shut down. John Stossel explains why these prohibitionists should just leave us alone. View this article. ...

Nadal, Federer struggle into Qatar semis
Roger Federer and fever-hit Rafael Nadal both had to fight their way out of trouble before reaching the quarter-finals of the Qatar Open on Wednesday. World No.1 Nadal had to survive a tight first set and the loss of his first "bagel" set in nearly two years before overcoming the inspired hitting of Lukas Lacko, the world No.83 from Slovakia, 7-6 (7-3) 0-6 6-3. Both superstars were confronted with opponents who hit hard and flat and had little to lose, enabling them to attack the ball freely. Bu...