Category: Losing Weight

Teens Smoke And Play Video Games To Lose Weight?

Teens Smoke And Play Video Games To Lose Weight?

That 75% of overweight and obese teenagers want to lose weight is the good news. The bad news is that some have rather peculiar ideas about how to best go about it.

SparkPeople.com: My Favorite Free Weight Loss Tool

SparkPeople.com: My Favorite Free Weight Loss Tool

A weight loss tool, for free? Is it possible? If you haven’t signed up at SparkPeople.com yet… what are you waiting for? After all, it’s FREE!

Does P90x Really Work… And Is It Worth It?

Does P90x Really Work… And Is It Worth It?

Lately I’ve been contemplating buying Tony Horton’s P90x home fitness workouts. I have a membership to World Gym that I half-heartedly use, but I need something to use in the comfort of my own home for those days when I just don’t feel like driving 40 minutes to and from the gym. Especially with winter […]

Denmark Introduces Fat Tax

Denmark Introduces Fat Tax

As a worldwide first, Denmark introduced a fat food tax – anything with more than 2.3% saturated fats will now cost extra. Denmark also has bad eating habits, but a rather  low obesity rate. Why?

More People Are Fat Than Starving

More People Are Fat Than Starving

The Red Cross reports that there are now more obese than starving people in the world. Something is going really, really wrong. Why are we able to eat ourselves to death, when for others even the tiniest morsel is an illusion?