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The NWCR takes the names and info of people who’ve lost more than 30 pounds and kept it off, and tracks how they did it. The research is available to academics who use it, but it’s also very inspiring.
If you’ve done this, consider telling your story there. It will help researchers, as well as help [...]

There’s a great podcast fitness show called ‘The FitCast.’ You can download and listen to this show via Odea, or even subscribe to it via iTunes.
A must listen.

An interesting article here points to a study dune by Duke University Medical Center that treated depressed patients with a regimen of Zoloft, or exercise, or a combination of the both.
At the end of the four-month treatment period, all three groups exhibited similar results: significantly lower rates of depression.
What was interesting was that [...]

3 Fat Chicks on a Diet is an awesome website and resource to check out, and are where we’re pointing to the recipe of the week:
4 skinless boneless chicken breast halves (about 1 pound)
1/4 teaspoon salt
1/4 teaspoon pepper
3 ounces Cheddar cheese or use Monterey Jack cheese with jalapeño peppers
1 tablespoon margarine or butter, melted
…
Click [...]

Diet-Blog has a great list of some free fitness tools linked today.

With a lot of lip service to worries about obesity and health from politicians, I still read and hear stories from teachers about playground time and recess being cut from schools.
I couldn’t imagine being young and full of energy and never have a chance during the day to run it off. This can’t help kids [...]

This comment on Diet-Blog was interesting to me:
I recently returned from Ukraine where I spent five weeks on an adoption trip. I was struck by the differences in lifestyle and incidence of overweight and obesity.
Most of the people there had, from what I could observe, a normal BMI. In the areas of Kiev and Odessa [...]

Dr. Mercola points out that there are a huge number of benefits to playing soccer for young women, above and beyond all sorts of other healthy activities.
Nothing helps young girls build strong bones better than the running and jumping associated with playing soccer, certainly in comparison to weight-lifting and swimming. LSU scientists put their hypothesis [...]

A bunch of web comic artists are all working on losing weight at the Biggest Web Comic Loser.
They are blogging their progress, often including funny drawings of the process.
All of the participants are taking money for UNICEF and are using this both as a motivation for themselves, and as a way of getting money [...]

One of my favorite authors is coming out with a new book. Eric Schlosser, author of ‘Fast Food Nation,’ is back with a new book called ‘Chew on This.’
This book is aimed at children, to help teach them about the goings on of the fast food industry and how harmful it can be. Eric’s books [...]