Weight of the nation posts
Business Insider Losing weight is hard — keeping it off is harder.
Myths about weight loss that could actually make you gain more weight [VIDEO]
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There are certain weight-loss myths that, unfortunately, may lead to long-term weight gain. Losing weight is about creating new habits and sticking to them.
105 months ago
Entertainment Weekly The Birth of a Nation is an ambitious film, heavy with the weight of history.
'The Birth of a Nation': EW Review
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The film's rapturous early acclaim and the recent controversy over unearthed 1999 rape charges against Parker are unavoidably part of the narrative now.
113 months ago
The New York Times - Well - Health Exaggerated estimates of fetal birth weight may be playing a role in the nation’s high cesarean section rates.
High Birth Weight Predictions Are Often Inaccurate
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Research showed that mothers who believed they were having large babies were nearly five times more likely to ask for a scheduled C-section.
122 months ago
Salon "Dieting and losing weight cause biological changes that make it extremely difficult to continue taking weight off, and too easy for lost weight to return."
Sorry, but you’re not going to lose weight this year
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The odds are against your losing weight and keeping it off, so how about setting a different goal this year?
122 months ago
NPR For anthropologist Susan Greenhalgh, one of the most surprising findings in her research was that what we might think of as a positive — the standard-issue compliment about weight loss.
"Such compliments, which signal social approval, make people Read more ... even more obsessed about their weight," she says, "and they often convince people who are already on a weight loss program to up the ante, to try even harder, even though they may already be dangerously thin."
Is The War On Fat Harming Our Children?
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Anthropologist Barbara J. King interviews Harvard University's Susan Greenhalgh, author of the new Fat-Talk Nation, who says one surprise is that compliments on weight loss may do more harm than good.
130 months ago
Upworthy The Carry That Weight protests involve mattresses. But they're so much more than that. - Andrea Garcia-Vargas
She carried her mattress to protest her rape. A nation joins her — for the second time.
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Together, they're carrying the weight.
132 months ago
MSN News It's very simple.
Why Mississippi has the nation's best child vaccination rate
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It’s tough being a child in Mississippi. The state has the nation’s worst rates for infant mortality and low-weight newborns. Its childhood poverty rate ranks as the nation’s second worst. Overall, the residents of Mississippi are the unhealthi Read more ... est in the country.But there is one notable exception to…
134 months ago
The New York Times - Well - Health If you recently lost weight through dieting, you may want to consider adding some weight training to your exercise routine.
It may help you keep those pounds off.
How Weight Training Can Help You Keep the Weight Off
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Exercise can help keep the pounds off after weight loss, and weight training may be particularly beneficial, a new study shows.
134 months ago
CNNMoney Please lose weight. We'll pay you.
That's one nation's plea to its people. http://cnnmon.ie/1yrZ1LA
Brits to get paid for losing weight
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It's being called the "pounds for pounds" program.
134 months ago
Los Angeles Times Science and Health Would you let surgeons implant this device in your abdomen to help you lose weight?
FDA approves a device for weight loss
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In a bid to increase treatments for the nation's 79 million obese adults, the Food and Drug Administration has approved U.S. marketing of an implantable device that stimulates weight loss by manipulating key appetite signals passing between the brain Read more ... and the gut.
134 months ago