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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...

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...

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." ...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Delivery vs. DIY: A simple take on cashew chicken
This Dec. 12, 2010 photo shows homemade cashew chicken in Concord, N.H. This is an easy dish that dirties just one pan and one bowl and comes together in just about 20 minutes. For homemade to best takeout, it needs to be not just better, but also just as fast and create little mess. So that was our goal when we set out to create a version of the classic American-Chinese dish — cashew chicken. The result is an easy meal that dirties just one pan and one bowl and comes together in about 20...

Does 'Psshh' mark the spot for Super Bowl glory? Orlando man hopes so
"Psshh" – pass it on. You might help an Orlando man get his commercial featured during the Super Bowl. Brandy Gill made a commercial called "Zero Calories? Psshh," and it's now one of 10 finalists in the Crash the Super Bowl Challenge. The Psshh spot cost $30 to make. Gill, 36, directed his co-workers over a lunch hour, and co-worker Wes Sumner shot the commercial. "It took about an hour to shoot, and we did the editing in an hour on my Mac," Gill said. "Start to finish, we were done in t...

For nights when a slow simmer needs to speed up
This Nov. 28, 2010 photo shows black bean and spicy sausage stew over brown rice in Concord, N.H. A simmering pot of stew is just right for a cold winter night and this recipe will heat you up without taking too much time in the kitchen. A nice pot of chili or stew, slowly simmering on the stove is a heartwarming thought. But it's a dinner that requires forethought. What about the wintery day you walk in late from work but still want a meal that will take the chill off? We've got you covered wi...

When It Comes to CBO Reports, Trust but Verify
It’s not secret that the first big target on the new Republican majority’s Hit List is ObamaCare. The Democrats who passed it have already begun their defense in the form of a report from the Congressional Budget Office that says an Obamacare Repeal will add $145 billion dollars to the Deficit over the next eight years. Rep. Paul Ryan, the Chair of the House Budget Committee has countered with a report of his own, using the Democrats’ own CBO report, that says Obamacare, if lef...

Fruit fly droppings give insight into human gut problems
© Dr Irene Miguel-Aliaga Clues about how the human gut helps regulate our appetite have come from a most unusual source - fruit fly faeces. Scientists at the University of Cambridge are using the fruit fly to help understand aspects of human metabolism, including why pregnant women suffer from bloating and constipation, and even the link between a low calorie diet and longevity. Although scientists have known for some time that there are as many as 500 million nerve cells in our gut, th...

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...

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 ...

Daniels has been a big ethanol booster
Sad, bad news for those of us looking to the Governor of Indiana as potential nationally. He's backing away from it now, presumably given his concern about our spending and Debt. Even so. I so hate Ethanol. Iowa--you have got to swear this stuff off. You may like the profits for corn growers but it's destructive to The Economy to waste resources like this in subsidies. We've already seen quite a run--commodity and corn prices may be headed higher, impacting food and Gas Prices, a ripple effect....

Energy debate breaks out in Senate hallway
Senators have already begun debating Energy Policy, sort of. On Thursday, Sen. Jay Rockefeller (D-W.Va.) was fielding reporters’ questions in the Capitol about his bill to delay Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) greenhouse-gas rules for coal-fired Power Plants and other industrial emissions sources. Sen. Tom Harkin (D-Iowa) — a staunch Ethanol supporter — walked by and jokingly lobbed a question himself. “How do you feel about corn?” Harkin asked. “How do you feel a

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...

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...

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...

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 ...

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...

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...

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...

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. ...

Conn.-Bound Flight Safely Lands At MacArthur Airport
NEW YORK (AP/CBSNewYork) — A passenger jet with 35 aboard landed safely at MacArthur Airport after being struck by lightning. The Federal Aviation Administration and an airline spokesman said U.S. Airways Express flight 4507 from Philadelphia to New Haven, Conn., was diverted to the airport in the Town of Islip Friday afternoon as a precaution. FAA spokeswoman Arlene Salac said the pilot reported Electrical Problems with the Aircraft after the Lightning Strike. The plane had originally bee...