What Betsy found she’s struggling with this week is food. Always a source a frustration! Here’s a few quick tips to keep your food intake in check.

Should health insurers charge people more money if they’re overweight? They want to.

A rather provocative headline isn’t it? There is a little ripple going around foodie circles right now though that states just that. Let me state that these are progressive, liberal people making this claim and they actually have a bit of a point.

Most of us want to lose weight and it seems there are as many diets as there are people willing to try them. They all come down to a balance between fat, proteins and carbohydrates, the basic components of food. But what if science could help you determine your best diet, whether it’s the Zone diet or Weight Watchers approach.

You’re gazing down at the muffin top feeling defeated. You tell yourself it’s “diet time.” A quick hop onto the internet doesn’t help much. There are so many diets out there and the calorie counts range from zero for those detox cleanses up to 2,000 calories per day. How on earth do you figure out what you need?

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The faster you lose weight may determine your ability to keep it off and how much you lose. That’s the result of a new study published last week in the International Journal of Behavioral Medicine.

You know you shouldn’t watch as much TV as you do. We come home from a long day and just veg out in front of the tube. It’s definitely one of the biggest contributing factors to obesity, here’s some stats …