So Weight Watchers Isn’t Paying Their Employees…

And it’s not because they don’t have the money to do so.  According to an article in last Sunday’s Times, WW ‘lavishes millions of dollars on celebrities to promote its weight loss program’. Well, that’s not surprising.  Big name celebrities always get large endorsements for lending their likeness to advertising campaigns for major brands while […]

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Just Not Enough Time for Healthy Food or Exercise?

    “It’s an important question for American families and the nation as a whole: Why do so many kids weigh too much?” was the opening line on a piece the other day on NPR. One in every three American kids is overweight or obese was the first shocking statistic referred to; shocking not because […]

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Let’s Be Reasonable…

Why are so many of the articles we read, gadgets we buy and apparatus (for lack of a better way to categorize ‘slimming’ garments) we wear aimed at the very bare minimum? Statistics, if that’s what they are, or perhaps I should call them ‘tips’, that tell us things like, “people who watch horror films can […]

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How Has (What Should Be) Common Sense Become Headline News?

In the Times today, there was a short article discussing how fitness may lower dementia risk.  A few key comments from the piece include: “After adjusting for age, smoking, diabetes, cholesterol and other health factors, the researchers found that compared with those in the lowest 20 percent for fitness in midlife, those in the highest […]

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