Carole Carson: The Skinny on Fitness Trends in 2011: Strategies for Tackling Obesity

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...

Study finds what bodybuilders have known for 60 years: Protein key in dieting
How much money must be spent on these studies before researchers start talking to the bodybuilding community that has known these facts for the better part of a century now? From the AP via The Detroit News: Study: Protein key in dieting More turkey, less white bread and mashed potatoes. Just in time for holiday feasting, a large study found that diets higher in protein and lower in Carbohydrates can help overweight adults who have managed to drop some weight keep it off...

Think portion control for healthy eating in the new year
When Mae Pike moved into an older apartment, in a house built in 1910, she had a sudden revelation about one of the most widespread problems with Americans' diet in the 21st century. "I have a normal set of contemporary dinner plates," she said. "I found that those plates didn't fit into the cabinets. "I said, 'What is going on here?' I realized that the cabinets were from an era before people started using these oversized plates for their oversized meals. That was a sort of light-bulb moment." ...

Digital tools can help put fitness goals on track
Websites, health-related applications for Web-enabled cellphones and gadgets such as heart rate monitors may help some people toward goals to improve their health. Of course, technology won't change your habits for you. Mike Krauklis, 29, of Penfield said phone apps to track Workouts and what he ate were helpful when he was doing well, but he skipped them when he didn't see significant Weight Loss. Dr. Betty Rabinowitz, medical director of the 22 Primary Care practices affiliated with University...

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 ...

An Adipost For You
Paul Mason According to the UK Sun, Paul Mason was a morbidly obese man who had tried repeatedly to get help for his Obesity from the British National Healthcare System.  Mr. Mason wanted bariatric surgery and after years of begging for it and getting the run-around, he finally had the surgery and is now at a fairly healthy weight. Mr. Mason now plans to sue the NHS for ignoring his condition for years and says he will use any proceeds from the Lawsuit to help combat Obesity in others. I have...

We're out of control . . .
Wonder why you have already broken all your New Year's resolutions? Do not blame yourself -- heaven forbid. Enlist modern sophistication, and blame your brain's frontal cortex, affluence, the Internet (the ``collapse of delay between impulse and action'') and ``the democratization of temptation.'' Those phrases are from Daniel Akst, a novelist and essayist whose book We Have Met the Enemy: Self-Control in an Age of Excess notes that the problems of freedom and affluence -- of ``managing desire ...

The inheritance of obesity: Thanks, Dad
THAT a gestating mother’s environment can have a permanent effect on the physiology of her offspring is well established. The Children of Dutch women who were pregnant during the “Hunger Winter” of 1944, for example, suffer much higher rates of Obesity, Diabetes and Cardiovascular Disease than those born a year or two earlier. Similar observations in other famines, together with experiments on rodents, suggest this is an accidental consequence of an evolutionary adaptation to f...

Most Americans Say They Eat Well, But They Don't
Like this Story? Share it: Are you eating right? See the government's guidelines, calculate your body mass index and quiz yourself on healthy food choices. Have you consumed myths about diet and nutrition? Take these quizzes to find out. (CBS) Most people at the Grocery Store like to think they're filling their baskets with healthy choices, reports CBS News correspondent Michelle Miller. "I don't buy a lot of goodies," said one customer. "I keep away from the cake and the chocolate and stuff li...

China steps up safety requirements for dairy firms
State media say China will require dairy companies to renew their production licenses or face closure in the latest bid to ensure safety following a Scandal over melamine-tainted infant formula that killed six babies. The official Xinhua News Agency says a top Food Safety official announced Thursday that all Dairy Product makers must obtain new production licenses this year or be closed down. It quoted Zhi Shuping, director of the General Administration of Quality Supervision, Inspection and Qua...

Make Restaurant Faves at Home, and Healthier
Like this Story? Share it: Searching for a new dish? Get cooking with recipes presented on "The Early Show"! (CBS) You can make dishes you love when you eat out - in - at home, that is - and make them much healthier and relatively simply. As "The Early Show" continued its weeklong "Lose It Early" series on Wednesday, registered dietician Cynthia Sass showed the way. Popular restaurant chains like Applebee's, Outback, Olive Garden and Ruby Tuesday's have delicious food that people crave, but it...

Knowing how many calories you need is what counts
Do you know your number? Not your cellphone number or Cholesterol, but the number of Calories you should be eating daily to maintain a healthy weight. A recent poll showed that about two-thirds of people can't accurately estimate how many Calories they need. But if you want to lose a few pounds this year, it's important to have a grasp of how much you should be eating. "There is no magic to Weight Loss — the key is to decrease your Calories without feeling hungry or deprived," says Dawn Ja...

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...

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 - 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...

UK 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. The U.K. has tested several programs that pay people to make healthy choices. Although the trials have been small, of...

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...

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 ...

Do Synthetic Food Colors Cause Hyperactivity?
© Chris Walker Food Dyes, under federal scrutiny for decades, have been blamed for illnesses in humans Food coloring is the reason glace cherries are red rather than beige and that Children's tongues sometimes appear freakishly blue. But man-made dyes may do more than make Processed Food look vibrant and whimsical. Some blame the additives for triggering behavioral problems in youngsters. Acting on research published in the Lancet, the European Parliament last year began requiring produc...

Fattest Man To Sue NHS For Weight Gain
From the UK Tabloid, The Sun: Fattest Man Is Suing The NHS For ‘Letting Me Grow’ By EMMA MORTON Health and Science Editor January 7, 2010 MAN mountain Paul Mason plans to SUE the NHS - claiming they ignored his plight as he rocketed towards 70 stone [980 pounds]. Paul - once the world’s fattest man - vowed to use any compo [compensation] to help other patients who need weight-loss ops. The 50-year-old, of Ipswich, said he begged his local NHS trust for...

Birch bark may contain healing benefits
SHANGHAI, Jan. 6 (UPI) -- An ingredient in birch bark may have an array of metabolic benefits, researchers in Shanghai say. Researchers at Shanghai Institutes for Biological Sciences, led by Bao-Liang Song, found the compound -- betulin -- affected sterol regulatory element-binding proteins involved in the biosynthesis of Cholesterol, Fatty Acids and triglycerides that are known as SREBPs. "Our study shows that the SREBP pathway is a good target for several metabolic diseases," Song said in a st...

At 474 pounds, Gardner fighting for survival again
FILE - In this Sept. 27, 2000, file phot, USA's Rulon Gardner waves the American Flag following his gold medal win against three-time Olympic Gold medalist Alexandre Kareline, of Russia, in the Greco-Roman 130 kg final wrestling match at the XXVII Summer Games in Sydney. Ten years after winning the gold medal at the Sydney Olympics, Rulon Gardner continued to eat as if he was still training. When his weight ballooned to 474 pounds, Garnder realized he needed to make a change. He's now competing ...

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...

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...

Dear General God
I would like to learn more about CSF. At first, I thought it stood for “congestive soul failure” until I read your informative website. There’s some heathens like Mr. Mikey Weinstein of the Military Religious Freedom Foundation and Jason Leopold of Truthout who are telling us that your CSF program was created by the same man who did a study on the psychological effects of Torture for the Bush Administration. Please, Colonel, say it isn’t so! Apparently, according to these...