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A quarter tonâ?¦ Think about that for a second. That is what Grand Rapids, MI native Nancy Makin lost over the course of 3 years. In 2001, Makin weighed over 700 pounds - largely the result of emotional eating brought on by divorce and loneliness. She spent 12 years in seclusion [...]

Here’s an interesting site I stumbled across - that will help out with food ideas. Each of the main foods is surrounded by a diagram of appropriate food combinations.
Which fruits go best with cooked chicken? Which cheeses? What about the vegetables?
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A couple of years ago, news stories broke of the first boarding school geared specifically towards overweight teens. The Academy of the Sierras aims to tackle teenage obesity through a multi-pronged approach that combines a regular school curriculum with exercise, behavior modification training and a stringent nutritional regimen. Its founders have recently released [...]

Despite the various controversies surrounding nutrition - Omega 3 fatty acids are one of the few nutrients where everyone seems to be in agreement.
Omega 3 EFA’s (Essential Fatty Acids) are essential because our body is unable to manufacture them.
Food manufacturers are now ‘fortifying’ a number of different processed food products with Omega 3. However [...]

Have you ever wondered if weight gain is seasonal?
Some years ago, researchers determined that most weight gain occurs between Thanksgiving and the New Year.
Unsurprisingly, the fat doesn’t automatically drop away during the rest of the year.
Rather than trying to go on a diet every year - doesn’t it make more sense to prevent [...]

A survey conducted on 2000 young women (average age 23) revealed that every pound of weight a woman loses will cost them about £807 (approximately $1660 USD). This includes expenditures such as; gym membership, exercise DVDs, supplements and extra fruits and veggies.
The survey also uncovered other shocking (but perhaps not terribly surprising) [...]

We’re not talking about alcoholism this time, though alcohol is apparently one of the culprits. According to researchers at the University of North Carolina, the number of calories American adults get through their beverages has nearly doubled over the past 37 years.
How many additional calories does this add up to? And what are [...]

The world is a strange place - and not every country equates slimness with beauty. The Islamic Republic of Mauritania presents an opposite viewpoint to the West:
To men here, fat is sexy. And in this patriarchal region, many Mauritanian women do everything possible - and have everything possible done to them - to put on [...]

Serious Eats digs into all the the butter replacements that use the word “butter” in their name.
It’s quite entertaining.
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Itâ??s Thanksgiving in the United States, so here is a top ten list of Turkey Trivia from www.Thanksgivingworld.com and the University of Illinois
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