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I've got a bridge in Brooklyn ...

Kim Bensen | Posted 11.17.2011 | Healthy Living
Kim Bensen

You CAN lose weight - and KEEP it off. Do you believe that? If you do, I've got a bridge in Brooklyn ... No, seriously. Here's the story of that famo...

Butter vs. Margarine: Is One Healthier

The Kitchn | Posted 05.25.2011 | Home

The butter-margarine debate is not a new one. People believed we found a healthier alternative to butter when margarine came along. After all, the maj...

A Fresh Start

Kim Bensen | Posted 11.17.2011 | Healthy Living
Kim Bensen

Why does a new notebook feel so good? (Or maybe you can relate better to a brand new food journal.) It's more than just a clean writing space ... it'...

WATER, WATER EVERYWHERE AND WE DON'T DRINK ENOUGH!

Kim Bensen | Posted 11.17.2011 | Healthy Living
Kim Bensen

Seventy Percent! That's the number to remember this week. If something makes up 70% of your body, you'd think it was pretty important. Yup. This week'...

Practice. Practice. Practice

Kim Bensen | Posted 11.17.2011 | Healthy Living
Kim Bensen

You've done it before a million times. Maybe you're presenting at a meeting or confronting a co-worker on an issue. You run through it in your mind,...

Of Junk Food and Junk News

Tina Dupuy | Posted 05.25.2011 | Media
Tina Dupuy

Watch your average for-profit 24-hour station for one hour. It's all high-fructose hyperbole all the time.

Jay Rayner: Cannibalism Explains Greatness Of Fat

eater.com | Posted 05.25.2011 | Home

Critic and Top Chef Masters judge Jay Rayner wrote a piece about eating fat that went in a somewhat unexpected direction! Cannibalism. ...

Frustrations in Chip Counting

Kim Bensen | Posted 11.17.2011 | Healthy Living
Kim Bensen

Ever since I started writing my blog I vowed I would write about counting potato chips. Some of you will think this is "over the top", but others will...

Junk Food Crackdown: Feds Draw Up Strict Standards For Marketing To Kids

Posted 05.25.2011 | Home

Is the federal government preparing to impose strict new standards on the food industry and how it markets junk food to kids? On Wednesday, BNET po...

Facebook Allows Hate Speech Against Fat People

Laura Beck | Posted 05.25.2011 | Technology
Laura Beck

If Facebook is in the business of deciding what constitutes hate speech, they must be evenhanded about it. The cruelty of many extant groups cannot go unchecked, and we must all remind Facebook of this until they're gone.

Guacamole: Now Inside the Quesadilla

Big Girls, Small Kitchen | Posted 05.25.2011 | Home
Big Girls, Small Kitchen

2010-07-06-bgskpull.jpg There's something in the promise of a perfectly balanced bite of tortilla, avocado, and cheese.

Who Are You Calling a Fat Pig?

Elissa Stein | Posted 11.17.2011 | Healthy Living
Elissa Stein

Each think square brick is wrapped in hot pink foil, on top of that, a hot pink wrapper imprinted with a pig's snout. So, should you want to be cute, you hold the bar up to your face and boom: insta-pig.

Vitamin E Shows Promise For Treating Liver Disease

AP | ALICIA CHANG | Posted 11.17.2011 | Healthy Living

LOS ANGELES — People with a common, obesity-related liver disease that has no known treatment got a surprising benefit from vitamin E pills, res...

Ask Michael Cohen: Mile High Club

Michael Cohen | Posted 05.25.2011 | Style
Michael Cohen

At first, all I read was 'private, jet, single, gay' and I knew this column would pay off. That was until I read your entire question.

Obesity & Military: Almost 30 Percent Of Young Americans Too Fat To Fight, Generals Say

McClatchy | Patrick Donohue | Posted 05.25.2011 | Home

A group of more than 50 retired generals and admirals says a growing number of young Americans are too fat to fight. A study released last week by Mi...

Bricks, Goals and Will Smith ... Say WHAT?

Kim Bensen | Posted 05.25.2011 | Home
Kim Bensen

Goal setting. You hear the phrase all the time. "Set your goals and you will have a better chance of achieving them." I have to be honest. I was nev...

Here's the Skinny: I Don't Want My Kids Eating a "Lowfat Diet"

Susan Weissman | Posted 11.17.2011 | Healthy Living
Susan Weissman

Instead of telling our children that 'too much fat is bad' and 'being fat is bad,' maybe our message should be "Eat good fat."

The Last Meal

Barry Bortnick | Posted 05.25.2011 | Comedy
Barry Bortnick

Everyone knows bread is as deadly as a black mamba. That's why the boys at KFC replaced it with two massive slabs of deep fried chicken.

Lose 10 Pounds Instantly

Rajiv Narayan | Posted 11.17.2011 | Healthy Living
Rajiv Narayan

For most people, the ultimate goal of weight-loss is to look better. That's what it means to be healthy. Ideally, people want to feel better too, but that's more secondary of a goal.

Michael Pollan On Jonathan Safran Foer, Food Trucks, Nose-To-Tail, Salt, Sugar, His Last Three Meals, And More In Exclusive Interview (PHOTOS)

Colin Sterling | Posted 05.25.2011 | Home

Michael Pollan On Safran Foer, Nose-To-Tail, Food Trucks, Salt, Sugar His Last Three Meals, And More (PHOTOS)

We Get What We Think About - Day Three

Esmeralda Williamson-Noble | Posted 11.17.2011 | Healthy Living
Esmeralda Williamson-Noble

Ok, from studying the Law of Attraction I understand that there is more to it than getting a car, or a million bucks. No, the Law of Attraction gove...

It's Not the Weight: Why 'Fat is Beautiful' is Not the Answer

Adia Colar | Posted 05.25.2011 | Style
Adia Colar

While I appreciate the culture's desire for larger women, I hope for a culture that appreciates women just as we are.

Fat Is Beautiful

Dr. Susan Albers | Posted 05.25.2011 | Entertainment
Dr. Susan Albers

Jessica Simpson seemed to really like a country that appreciates a woman with curves. It was the bugs and the creepy crawly things in Uganda that she could do without.

Advice From 4-Year Olds

Rajiv Narayan | Posted 11.17.2011 | Healthy Living
Rajiv Narayan

Stanford University professor Michael Mischel's marshmallow test fits well with weight loss. The solution to restraint is easy: be a 4-year old. Adopt the same strategy the self-disciplined children did and find ways to distract yourself.

What's Missing From Weight Loss: Self Love

Irene Rubaum-Keller | Posted 11.17.2011 | Healthy Living
Irene Rubaum-Keller

Each day you eat healthy and exercise goes into your bank of feeling hopeful and good about yourself. As you add to that bank, your self-esteem will escalate.