Jessica Simpson Loses 15 lbs

Jessica Simpson has lost 15 pounds in four months according to Life & Style Weekly Magazine.She weighed 125 in January and earlier this month she was down to 110 pounds. How tall is she and is this too skinny for her height?She is 5'4" tall and is now teetering between the border of the underweight...

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A Doctor's Concern about Zetacap

ABC has a good article about Zetacap. Zetacap is being promoted as a 'gastric bypass pill'; as a far cheaper way to 'shrink' your stomach. The company selling Zetacap says it contains a secret ingredient that will form a filling gel in your stomach and make you feel very full. But Zetacap has not been tested by the FDA because it has only natural ingredients.The article suggests it would be better to just eat high-fiber foods to get the same feeling of fullness and alleviate hunger when you are...

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Karolina Kurkova Likes Her Cake

Supermodel Karolina Kurkova will debut in her first movie "My Sexiest Year" in 2007. I gather her role is a small one as the lead actress in the movie is another supermodel, Amber Valetta.One of the extras on the set had some comments about Karolina Kurkova's fondness for cake. I guess this confirms...

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Angelina Jolie's C-Section Baby

(Update: Angelina Jolie's baby was born May 27th, details below.)Angelina Jolie is scheduled to have a C-section tomorrow to deliver her first baby - as reported by In Touch Weekly magazine today.This topic is completely unrelated to weight loss, but as this baby is said to be the most anticipated birth...

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Janet Jackson is Dining Fresh

Janet Jackson has just provided a huge boost to an Los Angeles based company called Fresh Dining. A few months ago Janet Jackson weighed 180 pounds. Now she has lost 60 pounds in just four months. This weeks Us magazine has Janet on their cover, looking fantastic. And in the magazine, Jackson reveals...

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How does Elizabeth Hurley Stay in Shape?

Elizabeth Hurley was born with the best of the beauty gene. She always looks fabulous and has never been overweight in her life. That's easier for some to achieve than others, but it's usually much harder for women who have had a baby and who are over forty.Hurley is now a mother over forty. How does...

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Are you Obese or Cuddly?

When people join online dating sites, they often exaggerate their mental and physical characteristics. You don't find too many people stating they are mobidly obese on these sites.Here's what people really mean when they say certain things about themselves on the online dating sites. I found this very funny list of common embellishments at the Radar Blog.Athletic Stupid.Attractive Appealing personality, physically repulsive.Bubbly Bipolar.Cuddly/curvaceous/extra padding Morbidly obese.Down-to-earth...

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SPANX Slimming Shapewear

SPANX is a relatively new company that's seen huge success in making all sorts of shapewear or body shaper underwear that can help you look slimmer in your clothes.I was at a clothing store trying to find something nice to wear for the hot weather and aghast at seeing the rolls of fat under my arms...

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Fast Food Nation: The Trailer

The book "Fast Food Nation" came out a couple of years ago. It's an inside scoop on the fast food and meat packing industries. It's great inspiration for losing weight by getting turned off junk food. And now we have the movie. Here's a one minute trail...

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Healthy Diet Meals Delivered to your Door

At least one company is betting there is a big business in people ordering regular healthy meals to be delivered to their home. eDiets.com plan to start airing infomercials about their meal delivery service - eDiets Express Fresh Cuisine - around Memorial Day.They'll be offering two meal delivery packages....

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Extreme Weight Loss Measures

There's been a real surge in weight loss related surgeries in the last couple of years. There were over 170,000 gastric bypass operations performed last year and the number of liposuctions to suction localized fat from different parts of the body is skyrocketing each year.Some people are even taking...

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Slimming Camera Makes you Look Thinner

If you haven't lost the ideal amount of weight yet (like me) and still need to send current photos to the friends and relatives, a new digital camera has arrived to make life more pleasant and deceptively slimming for you.It's the HP Photosmart R927 digital camera and one of its fun features is the...

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Obesity and Genetics

Most people don't believe that genetics has much to do with a person being overweight or obese; that it is much more based on the environment and conditioning you grow up with and how this effects the diet and exercise lifestyle you lead.But scientists have recently found a gene 'CPTic' which makes...

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Boy Shorts in Plus Sizes

UNEASYsilence had a titillating post about a year ago stating that thongs were on their way out and boy shorts were in. We're talking about underwear for women here. (It seemed their survey was from personal experience and not necessarily scientifically statistically significant). But their certainty...

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Getting Thin - One Man's Story

Here's an excerpt from "The Fun of Getting Thin", a book written by Samuel G. Blythe about a hundred years ago (and now a Project Gutenberg eBook). It's interesting to read one man's personal weight loss story and how he went on to lose fifty pounds way back then.Fat, the doctors say, is fatal. I move to amend by striking out thelast two letters of the indictment. Fat is fat. It isn't any morefatal to be reasonably fat than to be reasonably thin, but it's adarned sight more uncomfortable. So...

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Weight Loss at Any Cost

Weight loss surgery has become one of the fastest growing elective surgeries in America. And liposuction (the suctioning of fat from specific areas on the body) is gaining popularity at an even faster rate. Some companies are now even advertising 'liposuction vacations', where you can go to the tropics...

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Digestion and Overeating

It's interesting (and sometimes comical) to look back and see what people were saying about diets and weight loss in previous generations. As one example, R.L Alsaker was the popular authority on food and health about a hundred years ago. Here's an excerpt from his book;In all my reading it has not been my good fortune to find a diet tablefor healthy people, giving moderate quantities of food. Diet lists seemscientific, so they appeal to the mind that has not learned to think ofthe subject from...

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Body Shapers: The Seamless Body Slimmer

On Oprah's show last week there was a program on how to make your butt look smaller in clothes. This is an example of the new generation of body shapers. They are made from microfiber and really help to make your butt and thighs look slimmer. They're called the 'seamless body slimmer' and the one shown...

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