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Fire up your TiVo, clear your schedule and get ready to see double. NBC’s Biggest Loser Season 5 premieres January 1 and is bringing two-times the excitement as usual. This season, couples are taking on the weight loss challenge. Ten teams of two, including a mother/daughter, divorced husband/wife, married husband/wife, best friends, former football teammates and one team of complete strangers, will battle the scale and the bulge for a chance to win $250,000.
Jillian Michaels and Bob Harper will both return to coach teams in season 5; Kim Lyons is departing to focus her efforts on family and the release of her new book.
Stay tuned to Diets In Review for complete Biggest Loser updates.
Do you feel that exercise is tough to get around to because you just work too much? Between that and all your other responsibilities, it’s just too overwhelming?
You probably aren’t just making up a lame excuse.
According to an interesting study, people who have flexible work schedules tend to gravitate towards healthier behaviors. Now, whether your employer will listen to your request for flex hours is a whole other story.
What makes men MEN! may just make us long-living men. Testosterone seems to be linked with longevity. That, according to this study led by a professor of clinical gerontology at the University of Cambridge School of Clinical Medicine. The study, led by Dr. Kay-Tee Khaw, warns that you shouldn’t think it’s a license for testosterone supplementation.
According to a new survey, people are exercising more, but still not enough. The devil is in the details, though. The survey is based on what people say they are doing. So, then you have to deal with the psychology of people being surveyed. Do they tell the truth? Or do they prefer to stretch it a little.
“People with more education were more likely to say they got regular exercise,” says the article on CNN.com.
So, do well-educated people exercise more, or did all that higher education teach them to be a little “creative” with the truth? I hate to be cynical, but if people are exercising more than before, why are we still so out of shape as a nation?
A recent poll shows that parents think they know a heavy child when they see one… just not when it’s their own. Maybe their just blinded by their love. Or is it simple ignorance of what is a healthy or unhealthy weight?
Eight-four percent of the parents indicated that they think it’s ‘very important’ for doctors to address obesity with adolescents during checkups. What the other 16 percent were thinking is a bit confounding.
File these findings under “C” for Confusing. While Americans’ waistlines are expanding and general health is spiraling out of control, somehow cholesterol levels are improving better than expected. Go figure.
There are many reasons to not be obese. Now, it may be important if you want to have a child. The more obese you are, the less likely you are to become pregnant.
Cynics, listen up! For those of you who think of meditation as something just for the hippy dippy types, it’s time to wake up and smell the incense. It’s not new news, but here’s more on how meditation can be good for your health.
This story on MSN.com was of particular importance to me, because I have coughing issues. I’ve been diagnosed with mild asthma and possibly an allergy of some sort. It’s a life-altering condition, because when a cough attack comes on, it can be uncontrollable and breathtaking, in the most literal sense.
Not to get too much into my psyche and the opinion I have of HMOs, doctors, etc., but I definitely want to be treated and diagnosed by specialists. I just feel like the diagnosis is based on very minimal inquiry. I got a breathing test to see what my lung capacity is, a steth0scope to the chest and back, and that’s it.
Maybe that’s all that can be done. But, I feel like the docs are just sort of guessing based on minimal testing and then treating symptoms with a pill. Again, maybe that’s all that can be done. But if there’s a natural way of treating it (like avoiding something I may be allergic to) or even an alternative like acupuncture, I’m game.
More cancer prevention news: Apparently green tea can help ward off colon cancer.
