On the heels of my post about mice getting the benefits of dieting without the diet, I came across this site: Turn Fat People Into Mice Mostly, there’s a bunch of posts about medical research involving mice. I think the doctor writing the blog thinks they should be doing the research on humans: Since we are experts ...
Discovery News reported earlier this month that scientists were able to remove a single gene to extend the life span and quality of life of female mice. The most popular diabetes drug in the United States, metformin, targets the same proteins produced by the deleted gene, raising the possibility that millions of ...
Knowledge @ Wharton published an article last week about a company that is avoiding rising health insurance premiums by creating incentives for employees to lose weight. They use a BMI of 30 as the discriminating factor between employees that pay a lower insurance premium and a higher insurance premium, and incentivize employees to make progress during ...
Peter Bregman, in To Change Effectively, Change Just One Thing on the Harvard Business Blog pointed me to a study published in the New England Journal of Medicine that concluded Reduced-calorie diets result in clinically meaningful weight loss regardless of which macronutrients they emphasize. When I state that I am agnostic with regard to weight loss programs, ...
I read a story on a news site about a guy that weighed almost exactly what I weighed two weeks ago. Nine months ago. Today he weighs 120 lbs less. Awesome! Meet Tyler. Inspirational because he’s doing what works for him, not a program or fad diet, and getting the results. Look forward to joining you in the not-obese ...
I’ve written about how I really like the Wii for a substitute exercise from time to time. Yesterday, Diet-Blog posted about the upcoming WiiFit, which promises to extend the exercise and fitness options to Wii owners. The base games provided with the Wii is the WiiSports package, which includes tennis, boxing, baseball, golf, and bowling. Most ...
Wow. Kirstie Alley and Jenny Craig have parted ways, and now Kirstie may develop her own weight loss program. Um, ok Kirstie, but didn’t you lose 75 lbs on Jenny Craig? So, why should anyone pay you for an unproven weight loss program? Or, will it be so similar to Jenny Craig that price wars break ...
Remember Billy Bob in Varsity Blues? Man, I really liked that movie. It reminded me a lot of the town where I went to high school. The atmosphere back home has changed a bunch in the past 25 yrs, but back then, yeah, it was that kind of place. Anyway, the intarwebs are all abuzz today about ...
eDiets published an article about Texas Agriculture Commissioner Susan Combs, who has been successful in eliminating junk food from schools in Texas. Despite opposition from lawmakers, administrators, and even parents, she has eliminated the sale of junk food from vending machines and the cafeteria, and put restrictions on bake sales at ...