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How I Learned To Stop Fearing My Reflection

JJ Keith | Posted 05.25.2012

Read More: Women Body Image, Empowerment, Fat, Baby Weight, Parenting, Body Image Issues, Weight, Diet, Women and Body Image, Acceptance, Positive Thinking, Body Acceptance, Body Image, Exercise, Becoming Fearless, Fitness and Exercise, Weight Loss, Female Empowerment, Becoming-Fearless, Healthy Living News
JJ Keith

Accepting our bodies -- and meaning it -- is harder than it seems. I don't want to live my life always five or 10 or 30 pounds away from being okay with myself.

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What Weight Watchers Meant To Women In The '60s

TresSugar | Posted 05.15.2012

Read More: Betty Draper, Weight Watchers, Health, Fat Betty Draper, January Jones, Mad Men Season 5, Diet, Weight, Physical Appearance, Women News

This week on Mad Men's "Dark Shadows" episode, Weight Watchers serves as a type of therapy for Betty Francis, who can definitely use it. Boredom, jeal...

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Catherine Pearson

Better Than BMI? Study Promotes Alternate Measure

HuffingtonPost.com | Catherine Pearson | Posted 05.12.2012

Read More: Waist Circumference, Bmi, Video, Obesity, Weight, Weight Measurements, Healthy Living News

For all we know about the complex relationship between obesity and health, experts still face a fundamental problem: The tools used to measure body fa...

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Reclaim Your Time And Energy: 5 Ways To Take Your Life Back From Food

Michelle May, M.D. | Posted 05.08.2012

Read More: Energy, Mindful Eating Retreat, Diets, Mindfulness Tips, Guilt, Time Management, Food, Intuitive Eating, Mindful Eating, Eating, Weight Loss, Weight, Productivity, Gps-Soul, Mindfulness, Diet and Nutrition, Healthy Living News
Michelle May, M.D.

You have a choice: Reclaim your rightful ownership of your time and energy or continue to waste it thinking about food.

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Catherine Pearson

Most Moms Wrong About Babies' Body Size

HuffingtonPost.com | Catherine Pearson | Posted 05.07.2012

Read More: Weight Perception, Body Image, Children's Weight, Kids Weight, Baby Weight, Children Weight, Weight, Obesity, Video, Parents News

When it comes to truly seeing their toddlers, many moms fall short. That's according to new research that finds 70 percent of moms inaccurately gauge ...

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Meanness Isn't Motivation

Kate Fridkis | Posted 04.30.2012

Read More: The Right Reasons to Exercise, Body Image, Career Anxiety, Self Acceptance, Kate Fridkis, Beauty, Weight, Eat the Damn Cake, Negative Thinking, Women News
Kate Fridkis

We need to stop believing that meanness is motivation.

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My Wish: To Be A Professional Pinup Model

Alicia Leeman | Posted 05.03.2012

Read More: Buried Life, The Buried Life, Bucket List, Weight, Body Image, Health, Books News
Alicia Leeman

This is one of ten shortlisted entries for our Things To Do Before You Die contest. We will try to make the winning idea happen. The entries on the ...

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The K-E Diet: Weight Loss Lunacy

David Katz, M.D. | Posted 04.23.2012

Read More: Healthy Living Health News, Katz, Eating Disorders, Nasogastric Tube, Ketogenic, Ketosis, Diet, Weight, Obesity, K-E Diet, Atkins Diet, Calories, Nutrition, Dr. David Katz, Ethics, Weight Loss, Bulimia, Dukan Diet, Wedding Diet, Feeding Tube Diet, Crash Diets, Healthy Living News
David Katz, M.D.

What makes the K-E diet truly appalling is that it transforms a medical therapy into the indulgence of a short-term, short-sighted, vanity-driven whim. It opens up a whole new world of shockingly bad ideas.

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Are we Guilty of Starving our Teens?

Barbara Greenberg | Posted 04.09.2012

Read More: Stress, Models, Depression, Style, Anorexia Nervosa, Body Image, Mommybloggers, Eating Disorders, Parenting, Fashion, Body Distortions, Weight, Bulimia, Parents News
Barbara Greenberg

Yes, Americans, Israel has just followed in the footsteps of India and Italy by banning underweight models. No more being in ads or strutting the catw...

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'My Mom Is Obsessed' With Her And My Weight

Posted 04.06.2012

Read More: TV Canada, Discovery Fit and Health, Video, Reality TV, Obsessive Compulsive Disorder, Ocd, My Mom Is Obsessed, Tv Replay, Bathroom Scale, Weight, TV News

Tamara's obsession with her own weight spilled into how she was raising her daughter Alizabeth on "My Mom Is Obsessed" (Thu., 10 p.m. ET on Discovery ...

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Our Dangerous Dependence on Foreign Chocolate

Ernest Istook | Posted 04.04.2012

Read More: Candy, Energy, Green Jobs, Humor, Solyndra, Obama, Subsidies, Weight, Subsidy, Imports, Trade, Chocolate, Political Humor, Satire, Oil, Environment, Political Satire, International, Foreign Oil, Oil Imports, Cocoa, Politics News
Ernest Istook

Mr. Obama is using flimsy and misleading numbers to justify his anti-oil and gas energy policy, and his mega-billion dollar subsidies for "green energy" and "green jobs." So perhaps it's time for him to pivot to another basic necessity, like chocolate.

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Hunger Games: In Defense of Dara-Lynn

Amanda Guinzburg | Posted 04.01.2012

Read More: Women, Women's Issues, Women's Health, Body Image, Dara-Lynn Weiss, Vogue Magazine, Motherhood, Parenting, Weight, Healthy Body Image, Weight Loss, Women News
Amanda Guinzburg

Is it really so shocking and unforgivable that Dara-Lynn Weiss makes poor judgments and fails in various ways to guide her daughter to a place of healthy self-love when it is her task to be the shepherd of that child's weight loss? Can you find no compassion for her story?

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Facebook Study Shows Surprising Link Between Social Media, Self-Esteem

Posted 04.02.2012

Read More: Social Media, Video, Anorexia, Sel-Conscious, Fat, Eating Disorders, Psychology, Facebook, Obesity, Weight, Bulimia, Internet Research, Science News

By: Leslie Meredith Published: 03/30/2012 05:16 PM EDT on TechNewsDaily   "Do I look fat?" The answer is a resounding yes if you're on ...

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What The Criticism About Jennifer Lawrence's Body Really Tells Us

Salon | Posted 03.30.2012

Read More: Hollywood and Body Image, Jennifer Lawrence, Katniss Everdeen, Body Image, Female Body Image, Weight, The Hunger Games, Women and Body Image, Women News

Jennifer Lawrence's body -- her perfectly lovely, slender-but-not-rail-thin, able body -- is presenting more complications than it rightfully should. ...

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Is There Hidden Sugar in Your Child's Diet?

Michael Feigin, M.S., C.S.C.S. | Posted 03.20.2012

Read More: Fitness Guru, Kids, Exercise, Health, Nutrition, Fitness, Food, Obesity, Weight, Mcdonalds, Sugar, Michael Feigin, Parents, Video, Parents News
Michael Feigin, M.S., C.S.C.S.

What happens when it turns out that one of those "healthy" buzz words is actually packing more sugar than you know what to do with?

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BUSTED: 7 Diet Half-Truths, Explained

Robert J. Davis, Ph.D. | Posted 05.12.2012

Read More: Vegetarian, Cholesterol, Gluten Intolerance, Weight, Diet, Gluten, Green Tea, Gluten-Free, Chocolate, Vitamin C, Coffee Is Good for You, Myths About Food, Diet Myths, Health Myths, Food Myths, Diet and Nutrition, Diet Food Myths, Slidepollajax, Healthy Living News
Robert J. Davis, Ph.D.

Hardly a day goes by without a headline trumpeting what we should or shouldn't eat. But often these snippets about diet and nutrition are only half true: They're partly supported by science, but overall they're misleading because they come with big caveats.

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Why Body Types Should Never Be 'Fads'

Shayna Zamkanei | Posted 05.06.2012

Read More: Women, Fashion, Weight, Beauty, Fashion Week, Adele, Women-Authentic-Beauty, Spanx, Crystal Renn, Authentic Beauty, Christina Hendricks, Body Image, Andrej Pejic, Women News
Shayna Zamkanei

While celebrating larger models such as Adele can help diversify our conception of beauty, weights and figure shapes shouldn't be fads.

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Margaret Cho Opens Up About Karl Lagerfeld and Weight Issues (VIDEO)

Shira Lazar | Posted 04.18.2012

Read More: Margaret Cho, Video, Adele, Fat, Karl Lagerfeld, Weight, Shira Lazar, Interview, What's Trending, Entertainment News
Shira Lazar

2012-02-17-Screenshot20120217at11.45.02AM.png Lagerfeld called Adele "a little fat," and made headlines elsewhere for his offensive remarks. Why did she get so fired up about his comments?

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Chew Your Way to Losing More Body Fat

Georgianna Donadio, MSc, Ph.D., D.C. | Posted 04.17.2012

Read More: Eat, Energy, Meal, Stomach, Body, Excess, Metabolic, Fat, Digestion, Weight, Loss, Obesity, Hormones, Overweight, Nutrition, Food, Metabolism, Eating, Lose, New Research, Weight Loss, Healthy Living News
Georgianna Donadio, MSc, Ph.D., D.C.

Three research studies from the last few years have explored an interesting tool that could potentially be used to combat the obesity epidemic in our culture.

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The Not So Sweet News About Sugar

David Katz, M.D. | Posted 04.09.2012

Read More: Healthy Living Health News, Public Health, Nuval, Weight, Sweeteners, Diet, Fructose, Sugar, Health, Nutrition, Dr. David Katz, Diabetes, Sugar Regulated, Regulate Sugar, Sugar Should Be Regulated, Sugar Regulation, Diet and Nutrition, Is Sugar Toxic, Sugar Toxic, Healthy Living News
David Katz, M.D.

Even if we were to isolate sugar as public health enemy number one, its regulation would draw us into challenging subtleties.

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Can You Really Be Addicted To Sugar?

Michael Feigin, M.S., C.S.C.S. | Posted 04.03.2012

Read More: Fitness Guru, Exercise, Health, Nutrition, Fitness, Weight Loss, Weight, Michael Feigin, Sugar, Sugar Weight Loss, Sugar Free Diet, Weight Loss Foods, Low Sugar Diet, Sugar Calories, Video, Health and Fitness News
Michael Feigin, M.S., C.S.C.S.

The benefits of getting out of the addictive sugar cycle are SO many: more energy, healthier moods, healthier skin, greater focus and, yes, the pounds will start to come off.

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Traci Flips When Toni Tells Her To Lose Weight On 'Braxton Family Values'

Posted 03.28.2012

Read More: TV Canada, Video, Therapy, Canada Tv, Reality TV, Traci Braxton, We, Toni Braxton, Braxton Family Values, Tv Replay, Weight, TV News

During a family therapy session on "Braxton Family Values" (Thu., 9 p.m. EST on WE), Toni got very candid about her sister Traci's weight. Therapy is ...

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Small And Steady Wins The (Health) Race

Joanna Dolgoff, M.D. | Posted 03.17.2012

Read More: Changes, Weight, Health, Good Health Tips, Losing Weight, Tips for Health, Personal Health, Healthy-New-Year, Fitness Tips, Diet-and-Nutrition, Weight Loss, Health Tips, Healthy Tips, Diet-and-Nutrition-Custom, Slidepollajax, Healthy Living News
Joanna Dolgoff, M.D.

The surest way to succeed in keeping your health goals is by making small changes. Think in terms of manageable baby steps, like swapping the half-and-half in your morning coffee for fat-free or low-fat milk.

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Are You Healthy....Really?

Erica Smith | Posted 01.12.2012

Read More: Waist-Size, Bmi, High Blood Pressure, Health, Fitness, Health Post50, Weight Loss, Weight, Blood Pressure, Fifty News

The majority of us have developed a love/hate relationship with our scales. Whether traditional or digital, they all seem to deliver rather disappoint...

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Our Bodies: With Us Or Against Us?

David Katz, M.D. | Posted 03.05.2012

Read More: Ghrelin, Dr. David Katz, Weight Loss, Genetics, Obesity, Tara Parker-Pope, The-Fat-Trap, Conditions, Personal Health, Weight Gain, Weight Lose, The Weight, Diet, Weight, Healthy Living News
David Katz, M.D.

Can we prevent weight gain and obesity? The answer is self-evident in our rear-view mirror.

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