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I'll give you some insight into my thought process.
I've spent most of the morning reading weight-loss studies, learning (among other things) that if you give women at Curves more food than they can burn off, they'll still lose weight and body fat, and will have reduced...
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A small study is getting a lot of attention the past couple of days, as do most recent studies of calorie restriction.
This Reuters report has a pretty good summary of the findings:
Eating less and exercising more are equally good at helping take off the pounds,...
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Lots of things drive me nuts in my field. I'm predisposed to excitability anyway, so I confess I'm easily worked up. But this is the type of media report that's worth the cortisol I generate when I criticize it:
Women who are clinically obese don't need to...
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Rannoch Donald, our linkmaster in Scotland, sent along this article from an Australian newspaper, which profiles a pair of weight-loss researchers in Canada. I'm not great at geography, but I think that's three continents in two different hemispheres to reveal one simple truth:
Long-term weight loss is...
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Normally, studies about fidgeting drive me up a wall. (Then again, since I'm a natural-born fidgeter, everything drives me up a wall; I couldn't sit still if my life depended on it.) Each new study seems to show about the same thing: People who fidget are...
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When I was blogging this morning about the new study showing the dangers of drinking too much water, I almost made a smart-ass remark along the lines of, "Good thing we banned ephedra."
Meaning: Lots of things in life are more dangerous than the once-popular over-the-counter weight-loss...
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Most of us could guess that obesity would hold someone back in the business world. Companies today are addicted to young, slim, good-looking spokesmodels, and the effect snowballs.
Good-looking executives want to hob-nob with other good-looking executives, and it all becomes one big daisy chain.
(Major...
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