Most young kids’ play is sedentary A study looking a three-, four- and five-year-olds enrolled in community-based preschool programs found that 89 percent of the kids’ physical activity could be described as sedentary activity, while 56 percent of activities were sedentary during outdoor playtim...

Men seem to switch off thoughts of food When volunteers didn’t eat for a day and then were asked to suppress thoughts of food, men reported fewer cravings and less feeling of hunger than women did, according to a report in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. When given brain scans...

Thou shalt not take so damned many second helpings I am indebted to University of Iowa sociology professor Christine B. Whelan for calling attention to the growing number of persons with weight problems who are turning to religion for moral and spiritual support, and the growing number of religions ...

Fytte magazine, a diet, beauty and health monthly for Japanese women, recently asked their readers to choose the weight loss diets that they think are the most effective. Fytte reports on the results in their July issue, with ten diets and diet techniques, many of which are unknown in the United Sta...

Doctors share the truth about weight loss The June issue of Allure magazine takes a pretty brilliant approach to the typical diet tips article. The magazine interviewed diet experts who aren’t out to hawk their latest books. You’ve probably never heard of these people, but their advice i...

First female “Biggest Loser” talks to Ellen Ali Vincent celebrated being the first ever female winner of “The Biggest Loser” by appearing on Friday’s “Ellen” show. Vincent said she’s proud to be the first but not surprised it’s taken this long fo...

GA_googleFillSlot("cl_news_well_top_300x250"); What’s this? A diet book with no recipes? Reinhard Engels, mastermind of the No S Diet (and author with Ben Kallen of a new book by the same name), says that the recipes usually found in diet books are “pretty disgusting” and that R...

"); //-- CalorieLab spoke with Reinhard Engels on the occasion of the publication in book form of his runaway internet diet plan success story, “The No S Diet,” soon to be a Woman’s World cover diet. CalorieLab previously described the No S Diet in a September 2006 post, and Calori...

How real women have lost big Good Housekeeping’s March issue looks at women who have lost big. Five women profiled in the issue have lost a total of more than 400 pounds. Donna Lennart, who lost 83 pounds and has kept it off for five years, said she treated losing weight like a job. She used W...

OKC mayor talks up weight loss This week a repeat of the “Ellen” show aired that featured Oklahoma City mayor Mick Cornett. As you’ll recall, after OKC was named one of America’s fattest cities, the mayor called for the city’s citizens to lose one million pounds this ye...