Study finds what bodybuilders have known for 60 years: Protein key in dieting

Baby Fat May Predict Childhood Obesity
(CANVAS STAFF REPORTS) - The fight against Childhood Obesity may begin as early as when the child is an infant, according to a new study. WebMD Health News recently reported that the study concluded babies who weighed the most at 9 months old were usually among the heaviest when they reached 2 years old. Head researcher Brian Moss of Wayne State University in Detroit said that doesn't mean overweight babies will be obese adults. He said, though that it could predict Obesity later in childhood. D...

Jeffry Life, M.D., Ph.D.: 10 Ways to Reach Your Personal Best at Any Age
After a month of office parties, holiday open houses, family dinners and even a possible indulgent Vacation, it's time to face those New Year's resolutions, yet again. Never mind what happened last year: Now is the time to start. No matter what you've heard or ever rationalized, it's never too late to begin the journey to better health and optimal fitness. The latest research shows more clearly than ever before that how you look and feel right now -- meaning your weight, musculature, bone dens...

Don't worry, we'll die early
Don't Worry, We'll Die Early by digby For those who continue to believe that people are unexpectedly liking longer than the creators of Social Security ever imagined or that there will never be enough workers to support all those hundred and twenty year old Retirees this article explains why raising the Retirement Age is an important benefit cut for working people. But this is something I hadn't considered. In the next 25 years, the number of Americans living with Diabetes will nearly double...

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...

The Best ThingYou'll Read All Day
"I think one of the biggest misconceptions when we talk about Obesity in general is that obese people are obese largely because of their lifestyles and because of the way that they live," Dr. Arya Sharma of the University of Alberta, told CBC News. [Sharma is the chair of Obesity research and management at the University of Alberta and medical director of the Weight Wise program at Edmonton's Royal Alexandra Hospital.] Sharma points to studies where people's eating and activity are carefully mon...

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 ...

Chad is world leader in chest pain
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - A new survey of Chest Pain reports worldwide finds that the most afflicted country is the African nation of Chad, where 24 percent of the population has chest pain. The study, which included 52 countries, also showed that the fatter you are, the more likely you are to develop chest pain, or angina pectoris. Angina shares the same Risk Factors as other types of Cardiovascular Disease, such as stroke and Heart Disease, and is itself a risk factor for Heart Disease, stu...

Thinking beyond pilaf _ a chicken Marsala quinoa
This Dec. 12, 2010 photo shows Marsala chicken quinoa casserole in Concord, N.H. Quinoa, a grain with a nutty flavor that has recently been gaining in popularity, contrasts with the sweet flavors in this casserole recipe. Despite quinoa's rise in popularity, most people still are trying to figure out what to do with it. Most recipes call for using it in pilafs and salads. But we wanted to offer up something a little different. Its nutty flavor and grain-like texture are a nice contrast to the e...

New Alzheimer's law aims to coordinate efforts, strategy
Alzheimer's disease, already a national epidemic according to experts, got a lift this week. On Tuesday, President Obama signed the National Alzheimer's Project Act (NAPA) into law. NAPA's aim is to create a coordinated national strategy that deals with Alzheimer's, a brain-wasting condition projected to leap from 5.3 million cases this year into the double digits by mid-century. No. 6 on the list of top 10 causes of death in the USA, Alzheimer's is the only one without an effective way to preve...

Fat Babies Are Offending the Dietitians of America
​Nobody likes a skinny baby. Babies are supposed to be cute and chubby, the perfect size for stashing in medium-sized flowerpots! There's a reason the phrase "baby fat" exists as its own pudginess qualifier, and it's also why there's no need to categorize "adult fat." Adult fat = bad. Baby fat = good. To a point. But as we trend toward an increasingly obese, and Obesity-paranoid, society, chubby babies have come under fire as a new scourge of these modern times. According to the latest ...

Depression, diabetes, heart disease linked
BOSTON, Jan. 4 (UPI) -- Women with depression and Diabetes have a higher risk than others of death from Heart Disease, a six-year study found, U.S. researchers say. Study leader An Pan of the Harvard School of Public Health in Boston and colleagues said the study indicated women with depression had a 44 percent increased risk of death, those with Diabetes had a 35 percent increased risk of death and those with both conditions had approximately twice the risk of death -- vs. women who had neither...

Kristof: Low-Income Americans Are Like Cocaine-Snorting Monkeys
Most people don’t stay up nights seething over the fact that some people are wealthier than they are. Good thing Times columnist Nicholas Kristof is there to bleed on their behalf. The issue of Income Inequality in America reliably sends Kristof off the deep end. The latest demonstration in his Sunday column on the soul-killing “polarizing inequality” of today’s United States: “Equality, a True Soul Food.” Kristof is serious about the soul-killing part, as it...

No More Mister Nice Blog
WHERE'S THE NUTRITION CERTIFICATE!?!!! Lead story earlier this morning (and still one of the top stories) at The Blaze, Glenn Beck's discussion site: Yup, this is what Glenn thinks should be the next big Scandal Shave-Ice-Gate! The Obamas give their kids the occasional treat! On Vacation! Well, we know that Glenn shares Sarah Palin's disdain for Michelle Obama's nutrition talk; apparently the recent criticism of Palin by right-wing commentators isn't scaring Back off. But if you go into the Bla...

Obesity: A national security threat?
Is the Childhood Obesity epidemic in the U.S. a threat to National Security? "Oh, yes," said Maj. Gen. Paul Monroe, retired from the U.S. Army. CNN Radio's Jim Roope talked with Monroe and an Army recruiter to examine the issue. Monroe, with the group Mission: Readiness, released a study saying the Obesity rate among Children and teens - one in three according to the CDC - is a threat. "The Military found that one in four recruits are not eligible because of weight," he ...

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...

Two tickets to share $335M lottery win
BOISE, Idaho, Jan. 5 (UPI) -- The two winning lottery tickets that will share in a Mega Millions $335 million pot were sold in Idaho and Washington State, lottery officials said Wednesday. The tickets matched all five numbers and the mega ball number in Tuesday's drawing, ABC News reported. Mega Millions is played in 41 states, the District of Columbia and the U.S. Virgin Islands. "Idaho is a very lucky place," Idaho Lottery Director Jeff Anderson said in a release. "We are encouraging everyone ...

Michelle Obama Taps Tina Tchen as New Chief of Staff
First Lady Michelle Obama is naming Tina Tchen her new Chief of Staff, picking a Chicago attorney already in the White House to replace Susan Sher. Mrs. Obama said in a statement provided to Politics Daily, "I am thrilled to welcome Tina to my team." Tchen and Sher will work together this month during a transition that will include a State Dinner on Jan. 19 for Chinese President Hu Jintao. Sher, whose departure was announced last year, had long planned to move back to Chicago, where her husband,...

George Zaidan: I'm 25-Years-Old and My Hair Is Falling Out
I am 25-years-old, and my hair is falling out. Granted, this according to my mother, who also thinks I should wear woolly sweaters until mid-May and that the amount of food on my plate is never quite enough... but I can't help feeling that this time, she may be right. Hair loss is supposed to be hair-editary (sorry), but both my parents are still actively sprouting, and my Dad is in his seventies. What gives? Well, thanks to research conducted by Ellen Langer, Professor of Psychology at Harvar...

New Year's resolutions? Brain can sabotage success
WASHINGTON (AP) — Uh-oh, the new year's just begun and already you're finding it hard to keep those resolutions to junk the Junk Food, get off the couch or kick Smoking. There's a biological reason a lot of our bad habits are so hard to break — they get wired into our brains. That's not an excuse to give up. Understanding how unhealthy behaviors become ingrained has scientists learning some tricks that may help good habits replace the bad. "Why are bad habits stronger? You're fighting...

Brains Hard-Wired to Fail New Year Resolutions
Like this Story? Share it: Psychologist Dr. Jennifer Hartstein and author Gretchen Rubin offer advice on the best ways to make your new year's resolutions stick. Dr. Jennifer Hartstein has tips on how to teach your brain to form new habits to help keep those new year's resolutions. (AP) WASHINGTON - Uh-oh, the New Year's just begun and already you're finding it hard to keep those resolutions to junk the junk food, get off the couch or kick Smoking. There's a biological reason a lot of our bad h...

New Year's resolutions? Brain can sabotage success
Uh-oh, the new year's just begun and already you're finding it hard to keep those resolutions to junk the Junk Food, get off the couch or kick Smoking. There's a biological reason a lot of our bad habits are so hard to break — they get wired into our brains. That's not an excuse to give up. Understanding how unhealthy behaviors become ingrained has scientists learning some tricks that may help good habits replace the bad. "Why are bad habits stronger? You're fighting against the power of a...

New Year's resolutions? Brain can sabotage success
WASHINGTON (AP) - Uh-oh, the new year's just begun and already you're finding it hard to keep those resolutions to junk the Junk Food, get off the couch or kick Smoking. There's a biological reason a lot of our bad habits are so hard to break—they get wired into our brains. That's not an excuse to give up. Understanding how unhealthy behaviors become ingrained has scientists learning some tricks that may help good habits replace the bad. "Why are bad habits stronger? You're fighting again...

New Years resolutions? Brain can sabotage success
WASHINGTON (AP) — Uh-oh, the new year’s just begun and already you’re finding it hard to keep those resolutions to junk the Junk Food, get off the couch or kick Smoking. There’s a biological reason a lot of our bad habits are so hard to break — they get wired into our brains. That’s not an excuse to give up. Understanding how unhealthy behaviors become ingrained has scientists learning some tricks that may help good habits replace the bad. “Why are bad h...

Mayor Nutter, food police continue war on soda
Apparently Warning Labels on soda will lead to higher crime. At least that's the way Philadelphia's idiotic Mayor Nutter and his cronies attack the sugary beverage: like it's some kind of poison elixir that is our #1 priority in ridding Philadelphians of drinking. According to Margie King of Examiner.com, Nutter and his buddies in such dopey groups like "Shape Up! America", the Philadelphia Department of Health and the California Center for Public Health recently sent a letter to the Food & ...

Food diary a great tool for losing weight, expert says
The pen may be mightier than the scale when it comes to losing weight, experts have found. Keeping a daily journal of snacks and meals is one of the best methods used by successful dieters, according to Dr. Christopher J. Mosunic, a weight management and Diabetes specialist at Greenwich Hospital in Greenwich, Conn. "Keeping a food diary is like exercise; it will always help you lose (weight) if you do it consistently," he said in a hospital news release. "I can split my patients into two groups....