Thursday, March 11, 2010

Can Exercise Really Make You Fat?

February 10, 2010 by Ann Liu  

Share Can exer­cise make you fat? Should you use honey or sugar? Can you wreck your metabolism? The weather here is not pleas­ant at all, extremely cold (for me) and out­side is snow­ing now, very heavy and also very windy too. I haven’t been liv­ing in this kind of weather for so long time, and I find my body is hard to adopt into it. Any­way,... Read more...

Healthy Eating Trends and Myths

January 27, 2010 by Ann Liu  

Share Savvy mar­keters under­stand that being part of a healthy lifestyle solu­tion reflects pos­i­tively on almost any brand or retailer. Retail­ers can fur­ther lever­age and deepen their rela­tion­ship with shop­pers through dif­fer­ent kind of pro­grams. With no short­age of news sto­ries on child obe­sity, fam­i­lies will... Read more...

3 Reasons Why Obesity is Not a Disease?

January 4, 2010 by Ann Liu  

Share I bet you didn’t know this, Obe­sity, even being over­fat is a dis­ease. No, not really. At least that’s what sev­eral social groups wish you to believe. “Suf­fers Of Obe­sity” is just one of those groups. Their entire stance is obe­sity (which, btw, can be only 30lbs or so over your ideal body weight) is an actual disease. Well,... Read more...

6 Strange Dietary Bedfellows

January 2, 2010 by Ann Liu  

Share What do these six things have in common? * McDon­alds * Renee Zell­weger * Epilep­tic chil­dren * Yours truly * Most body­build­ing and fit­ness com­peti­tors * Kiefer Sutherland Give up? All the above employ the strate­gies of the low-carb diet plan. Read more…  Read More →

Emotional Eating

October 1, 2009 by Ann Liu  

Share Apolo­gies for the super-short arti­cle today but I just saw this and had to share it with you. Ready? “A study in Psy­cho­so­matic Med­i­cine has con­firmed that peo­ple tend to con­sume food in order to self-medicate their feel­ings of stress or anx­i­ety. They call it “emo­tional eating.” I know… it’s a real shocker.... Read more...

Understand The Fat Burning Basics

July 29, 2009 by Ann Liu  

Share If you’re over­weight, you are not a bad per­son. You’re sim­ply over­weight. But it’s impor­tant to lose the extra pounds so you’ll look good, feel health­ier and develop a sense of pride and self-esteem. Once you’ve lost the fat, you’ll need to main­tain your weight. In the next few days, you’ll dis­cover how to lose... Read more...

Obesity and Swine Flu

July 21, 2009 by Ann Liu  

Share Well, it is hap­pen­ing: Swine flu is begin­ning to really take hold. Not just in the United States, but all over the world. But that’s not the scary part, the scary part is the fact that being obese OR over­weight has now been directly linked to DYING from the swine flu. Jon Ben­son (Every Other Day Diet) put together a 5 Minute... Read more...

5 Sleep Myths Busted

May 12, 2009 by Ann Liu  

Share It accounts for a third of your life and a big chunk of your health and longevity. So why aren’t you sleep­ing enough? — By Jim Gor­man, Men’s Health What a night. The woman of your dreams appeared. Your pulse raced. Heavy breath­ing ensued. You do remem­ber it, right? Oh, wait, you were asleep. And that’s not all you missed. Under... Read more...

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