Saturday, October 27, 2012

Double Standard: Women Must Typically Work Harder to Lose Weight

Double Standard: Women Must Typically Work Harder to Lose Weight
Food Consumer
In a Time article, fitness trainer Bob Harper, who appears on the weight-loss reality show The Biggest Loser, explains that 60% of the winners on the show – those who were able to lose the most amount of weight in a defined period of time – were men ...

Weight Loss News: The Surprising Thing That May Lead to Belly Fat
Glamour (blog)
Diet soda? You may love it, but many experts say it could be adding a little extra insulation to your belly. NBC recently took a look at the surprising health problems with diet soda (even just one can a day), including how this fizzy favorite messes ...

Glamour (blog)

Cleveland Clinic Confirms Heart-Health Benefits of Weight Loss Procedures
Sacramento Bee
The board certified bariatric surgeon notes the life-changing, health-improving benefits in everyweight loss procedure, no matter vertical sleeve gastrectomy or lap band. "I've found my patients tend to not only lose weight, they notice an improvement ...

Do online weight loss programs really work?
VOXXI
It seems that with each additional million obese adults, we see another diet craze appear—from gadgets that promise effortless weight loss, to diet books, and weight loss supplements. We obviously have a penchant for easy solutions. But as the growing ...

Woman Spends $7800 Trying to Lose the Baby Weight Like a Celebrity
ABC News (blog)
... in the weight-loss spotlight. Simpson, 32, signed an endorsement deal to become the celebrity face of Weight Watchers, and since giving birth to daughter Maxwell Drew in May, she's had her every appearance and photo scrutinized by tabloids ...

If you get too fat, losing weight permanently may become impossible, says study
Examiner.com
It would explain why many people who diet and lose weight, recover their lost weight within a short period of time after they cease dieting and eventually lose heart and stop making an effort to eat a healthy diet and get regular exercise. ... The ...

Matthew Fox on 'Alex Cross' weight loss: "I f**king hated it"
Digital Spy
Fox told Men's Health about the intense diet and training regime he undertook for the part, including a strict diet of chicken breasts, steamed broccoli and protein shakes. In describing the physical effect he was hoping to achieve, the 46-year-old ...

Diet soda consumption on the rise, most people unaware of health risks
VOXXI
About 20 percent of United States residents over the age of two drink diet beverages on a daily basis, states research from Tala H.I. Fakhouri, Dr. Brian K. Kit and Cynthia L. Ogden of the National Center for Health Statistics. Among that 20 percent ...

I don't belieeeeeve it!
Saga Health News
Avoid the expensive added-value junk such as biscuits, pastries, puddings and confectionery. Weight loss and cash savings will happen. In just the same way, I wonder at the brains of people who go to an expensive health spa to starve, or go on pricey ...

Saga Health News

Jessica Simpson Weight Loss: Dropped 60 Pounds In Five Months, Shares ...
Enstarz
(Photo : USmagazine.com) Jessica Simpson. After famously being slammed by the media for gaining 70 pounds during her pregnancy, Simpson has shed an astounding 60 pounds in five months thanks to Weight Watchers. Simpson fronts the cover of the latest Us ...

Enstarz

Weight-Loss 101 - To Your Health
No matter which diet or combination of programs you choose to help you lose weight, there are a few common threads linking all effective diets and weight-loss ...
www.toyourhealth.com/tyh/20121023/3.php

Health care fraud costs taxpayers $60 billion a year
NBCNews.com
Federal agents are accusing six people in Queens, N.Y. of health care fraud, alleging they have ripped off nearly $12 million in taxpayer money, but these suspects are not alone. Federal agents arrest health care fraudster nearly every day, charging ...

NBCNews.com

7 Things That Drive Up Your Health Care Costs – AARP
By Kaiser Health News
By Julie Appleby, Staff Writer, Kaiser Health News This story was produced in collaboration with PBS NewsHour There is no one villain in the battle against rising health care costs. Currently, the United States spends more on health care services than any other country, exceeding $2. ... We get tax breaks on buying health insurance — and the cost to patients of seeking care is often low. The majority of people with insurance get it through their jobs. The amount employers pay toward ...
AARP

Obama hits Supreme Court -- on health care
USA TODAY
Chief Justice John Roberts, you'll recall, broke with fellow court conservatives to uphold the health care law -- but under Congress' power to tax, not under the Obama administration's claim that the law was justified by the Commerce Clause power to ...

Health Care Concerns Play Big Among Swing State Voters
Kaiser Health News
It's hard to find an issue on which President Obama and GOP challenger Mitt Romney disagree more than health care. The 2010 Affordable Care Act is considered President Obama's signature legislative achievement, as well as something Romney has ...

The price of the Supreme Court health care decision: $53.3 billion
Washington Post (blog)
Those who would have had their bills paid by the federal government (under Medicaid) could now have the costs covered by local governments and hospitals, which tend to foot the bill for many of the health care services that go unpaid. The Congressional ...

Health Care Reform impact: Fewer ER trips, more home hospitals
Lincoln City News Guard
LINCOLN CITY - As the move to reform health care in Lincoln County and across the nation quickens with the establishment of coordinated care organizations, the face of the medical industry is changing. “We are going to be moving from a health care ...

Health care reform, job growth topics in 2nd District Congressional Race
StandardNet
The race for an open seat in the 2nd Congressional District is not your classic Republican vs. Democrat showdown. Call it more of a contest between a moderate and a conservative. Author Chris Stewart, a Republican from Farmington, faces former state...

StandardNet

Army expands telebehavioral health care in Afghanistan - Nextgov ...
By Bob Brewin
The Army has developed and deployed technology to deal with the two signature wounds of the Afghanistan and Iraq wars -- post-traumatic stress disorder and traumatic brain injury, Army Surgeon General Lt. Gen. Patricia Horoho told ...
Nextgov - All Content

Lower Health Care Claims Send Aetna Earnings Higher « CBS ...
By WTIC News
Aetna Inc.'s third-quarter earnings rose 2 percent as lower-than-expected health care use and revenue gains helped the insurer trump Wall Street expectations.
CBS Connecticut

Health Care in Rural Namibia (Video) | UN Dispatch
By Mark Leon Goldberg
One of the greatest global health challenges is providing adequate health care to hard to reach rural communities in poor countries around the world. Cities and towns may have decent hospitals, but when you go out to villages only the most ...
UN Dispatch

EWU | Health Care in Spokane
"Health Care in Spokane: the good news" Free Public Forum - Tuesday, Nov. 13, 5:30 p.m. - Spokane Convention Center. Spokane, Wash.-Noted journalist and author T.R. Reid returns to Spokane to lead a panel of local, regional and ...
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