What if you walked up to your fridge and it didn’t open because it knew you wanted ice cream? Instead it recommends that you grab an apple. As part of its LiVe public service program, Intermountain Healthcare has installed a fake, talking vending machine at Rose Park Elementary School in Salt [...]
Posts Tagged ‘obesity’
Two Separate Studies Say Parents to Blame for Weight Gain
My mom and I both devour research on weight loss and obesity. A few weeks ago, she pointed me to a study that said a poor relationship with your mother can lead to weight troubles as teens. She apologized in advance and said she would feel guilty if I struggled with my weight. I told [...][...]
Is Your Job Making You Fat?
If you’ve ever sat at your desk, eating left over pizza from the day’s earlier meeting for dinner, then you’d probably agree with the recent editorial in the journal PLoS Medicine that says, “Unhealthy eating could legitimately be considered a new form of occupational hazard[...]
Exercise for how long to burn that?
Johns Hopkins recently conducted a very interesting study: displaying the amount of time you’d need to jog in order to burn off sugary drink calories may be the key to curbing intake. After introducing signs displaying either calorie counts, calorie counts as a percent of recommended daily ca[...]
How Did I Miss This?
Thankfully NYMag’s Vulture is doing a recap of some of 2011′s best videos, otherwise I would have completely missed this amazingness created by Beyonce to help Michelle Obama’s obesity cause. Seriously, this is probably one of the best tactics I have seen used to fight childhood ob[...]
December Challenge Kinda Falling Short
It can take quite a bit of willpower to go for the healthful food choices when everyone around you has plates filled with cookies and spinach artichoke dip. All the traveling we have done (or at least I have) in the last week didn’t really help much either. That’s not to say healthy items arenâ€[...]
Freshman 15 a Total Myth
My freshman year I went to the gym every day, sometimes for 2 hours at a time. I lived on campus it was really easy to get there (parking wasn’t an issue) and it was the first time since volleyball season that I had a gym available to me always. I was in the best [...][...]
November 13th, 2011 - 8:00 am § in obesity
Biggest Loser Criticized
At this month’s American Public Health Association meeting, Natalie Ingraham, MPH, of the University of California San Francisco told attendees that the Biggest Loser sends patients an unhealthy and unrealistic message about weight loss. I am a huge fan of BL, I watch religiously every week. F[...]
Active Commuting
One of my favorite things about working in NYC was the fact that it took me 20 minutes door to door to walk to work.  It was perfect for catching up on phone calls and an easy way to save money—it was also a built in 40 minutes of exercise. A group of researchers from [...][...]
Kitchen Tools for a Healthy Lifestyle
Studies have shown that portion control may be the single most effective thing you can do to promote lasting weight loss. Unfortunately, people don’t really know what the right portions are. Sure there are specific images like a baseball that can represent the right amount of pasta or a hockey[...]
