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Diets don’t work, conventional wisdom says. Statistics seem to back that up: 92 percent of people who diet do not lose weight, and 18 percent actually wind up heavier.
Maybe the reason is that dieters are eating more than they believe. A wide-ranging British study turns up a lot of unpleasant details about what people do when they diet.
Remember Donna Simpson, the “Fattest Mom in America”? At 520 pounds, she held the record for heaviest woman to give birth after the birth of her daughter. And now she’s trying to reach 1,000 pounds. On purpose. Not everyone thinks this is a good idea, however. At least one doctor is not only speaking out against Simpson’s goal but is also putting up the money to get her to stop.
Michelle Obama rolled out Let’s Move, her new program to combat childhood obesity, today. Continue reading »
We might still be debating whether OctoMom’s stretchmarks could magically disappear without surgery, but there’s no doubt Kourtney Kardashian had some work done to get down to a twig post-baby.
At least, her photos had some work done – Kardashian is crying foul after OK! ran photos of a svelte postpartum bod she says is not even hers.
And can we say, Kourtney, we’re with you? Continue reading »
If you thought the big news for Maurice Sendak fans was the upcoming Spike Jonze recreation of his classic, Where The Wild Things Are.
You’d only be half right. The book that’s soon to be a flick is also about to hit advertising venues everywhere to fight something even bigger: childhood obesity. Continue reading »
Former New York Times food critic and professional fat guy Frank Bruni asks in a recent Times piece what role parents play in raising unfat kids. Should they closely monitor every meal and snack, or let kids make their own choices? Should parents speak up about bulging waistlines and after-workout ice cream or keep their mouths shut? Is modeling desired behaviors (translation: regular exercise, healthful meals) the key?
Yes and no and, maybe, actually, none of the above.
The thing is, researchers, experts, parents — even former fat kids — can’t agree on what’s making kids fat. Nobody knows how to prevent childhood obesity (though commenters on Bruni’s article, Kate Harding’s Broadsheet post on the topic, and commenters on my recent piece, certainly believe they do, usually amounting to, “Fat is a personal, moral failure. Do better.” Um, okay.) Continue reading »
So Melissa Joan Hart packed on the pounds during her pregnancy. That makes her different from any other pregnant woman in America, how?
The former Sabrina the Teenage Witch star showed off her bikini-worthy bod in People last week, but it was her words that cut deep into the psyches of moms everywhere. Continue reading »
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