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Scotland’s Sunday Herald has a lengthy diatribe deriding the nations “over-tolerant attitude to fatness”.
This ever-expanding national girth is a reflection of our over-tolerant attitude to fatness. It is a much more comfortable social experience to be fat in the UK or the US than it is in Europe. Call it body fascism if you like, [...]

Only 38% of Britons would be motivated to do more exercise if their life depended on it. Ironically, our lives may well depend on it.
The British Heart Foundation claims that someone dies every 15 minutes as a direct result of physical inactivity.
So what percentage of people find exercise fun?
Are you ready for this?
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Food review site Iateapie.net has compiled a list of the lowest calorie breakfast cereals.
Here they are:
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It’s rare to see an author targeted by the Federal Trade Commission. Unless his name happens to be Kevin Trudeau.
Trudeau’s book “The Weight Loss Cure” has been misrepresented in a number of infomercials.
Trudeau claims that the weight loss plan outlined in the book is easy to do, can be done at home, and ultimately allows [...]

Don’t get excited, scientists haven’t invented one yet. But how many times have you heard that if they could put exercise in a pill it would be a miracle drug because of all incredible health benefits exercise provides?
It’s an interesting mental exercise to pretend that it’s already happened. Suppose there was now a [...]

The Cheat To Lose Diet is a new book from Body-for-Life Grand Champion Joel Marion.
Body-for-Life (started around 1996) in many ways marked a change in traditional dieting principles. It advocated plenty of aerobic and strength training, along with frequent higher-protein smaller meals, and - of course - the “free” or “cheat” day.
Mr Marion has delved [...]

A survey undertaken by the British Food Standards Agency highlights how confused consumers are when it comes to a “healthy” diet.
That’s because of the constant debate over exactly what constitutes healthy.
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A recent postcard on art blog PostSecret says: “My biggest fear is that if I have a daughter, she will inherit my eating disorder” (via Starling).
I will make no bones about this. Raising a child to maintain a healthy body weight AND a healthy attitude towards their body and towards food is tough.
It [...]