Etiquette guru Mary Mitchell says that it’s not polite to tell someone they’re fat. No kidding. It’s also not polite to suggest ways for an obese person to lose weight, or to say, “You’d be so much prettier if you were thin.”... 

Researchers believe that being obese at age 18 may be linked with developing multiple sclerosis (MS) as an adult. Continue reading… View original here:  Is Teen Obesity Associated With MS Later In Life?  Read More →

imotion.com BMI gets a lot of flack. The gripe you hear most is it doesn’t consider muscle mass. Let’s say you’re short and have big muscles, your BMI will call you obese. It’s happened to me for years. Experts say a similar glitch... 

South Park Studios You don’t have to be a doctor to suspect an overweight or obese person is going to have some health problems–sometimes it obvious. Nowadays you hear a lot of reports about healthy-looking people getting heart disease, hypertension... 

How many times have we started a new diet with the very best of intentions? We know we picked a good program, we're excited, we've stocked up on the essentials. We might even manage to do well for a few days. Then the shoe falls. Our resolve... 

If you want to become one of those people than have no worries about weight, or at least they don’t show that they do, you really have to build up some healthy eating basic habits. In the end, it is all about habits and about things we consider normal... 

He sent the T-1000 to a molten grave, he killed a terrorising predator, he took down the snake cult, and he dealt with having made “Jingle all the Way”. But, the “Governator” now faces a truly insurmountable foe in the lifestyle... 

Have you noticed that fad diets rise and fall in popularity like the latest fashions or current pop songs? We’ve seen (and seen off) the soup diet; the grapefruit diet; the no carbs diet; the only carbs diet and so on. I remember as a teenager eating... 

by Cynthia A Williams Using Self Hypnosis for weight loss is very easy because we all go in and out of trance regularly on a daily basis. Examples of when you experience trances include watching an interesting movie, finding your way home and not really... 

by Owen Jones When I first came across an Atkins Diet book, I was working in an office in south Wales. I had been working there for five or six years and had accumulated quite a bit of excess weight. I had never enjoyed participating in sport, but my...