By Larry Marsh, Kansas City Star Midwest Voices columnist 2009
Don’t try this without your doctor’s approval, but this might be “just what the doctor ordered.”
The objective of the No-Eat-Day-Diet is to never have a no-eat day.
Here’s how it works. You set a maximum weight you don’t want to exceed. You then weigh yourself every morning. If your weight exceeds your maximum, then it’s a no-eat day.
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In televised services from Lakewood Church, Victoria Osteen smiles as if she doesn’t know how to appear any other way. She was raised to have a positive outlook and then married into a family with a similar view: that life as an optimist is a lot better than, well, the opposite. A healthy outlook isn’t just about nutrition and exercise, though, says this native Houstonian and mother of two. She recently talked with Health editor Diane Read the rest of this entry »

website urges the “Y”-chromosome impaired to “EAT for smokin’ SEX APPEAL.”
The magazine’s nutritional tips might better be called “The Electroshock Diet” because the findings will leave you depressed. After all, what’s life without Chili’s Smokehouse Bacon Triple-the-Cheese Big Mouth Burger with Jalapeno Ranch Dressing? The name alone is a mouthful, and the burger weighs in at 2,040 calories,150 grams of fat and 4,900 milligrams of sodium. Yummy!
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Ask mothers why babies are constantly picking things up from the floor or ground and putting them in their mouths, and chances are they’ll say that it’s instinctive — that that’s how babies explore the world. But why the mouth, when sight, hearing, touch and even scent are far better at identifying things?
When my young sons were exploring the streets of Brooklyn, I couldn’t help but wonder how good crushed rock or Read the rest of this entry »

With the temperature hovering at 13 degrees early yesterday afternoon, it was a perfect time to build an ice skating rink.
And that is exactly what about two dozen volunteers did from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. when they converted one of the tennis courts at Crompton Park, 55 Canton St., into a 115-by-55-foot skating rink.
Children and adult volunteers, many from Local 107 of the Carpenter’s Union, which has its headquarters in sight of the park, worked Read the rest of this entry »

STAMFORD — Family members and doctors for Charla Nash, the Stamford woman who was brutally mauled Monday by a 200-pound pet chimpanzee, thanked people Wednesday for supporting her and reported that she has made “some good, but small, progress.”
They spoke at a news conference at Stamford Hospital’s Tully Health Center on Strawberry Hill Court.
“While she remains in critical but stable condition, her vital signs are improving,” said Dr. Kevin Read the rest of this entry »

Today, Fortenberry leads an active lifestyle by staying busy with her children and grandchildren, as well as the new shop she owns with her husband Joe, called The Ironing Board in Oak Grove. She is also an assistant teacher at Oak Grove Elementary, where she says it is a true blessing to work with the kids and to feel that perhaps she is making a difference in their lives.
February, observed as National Heart Month, is an opportunity for women Read the rest of this entry »

Soon it will be another page turned on a new year again. And if you are like many out there, New Year’s fitness goals are often distant memories by mid-year. Let me give you some advice though.
Your ambitions could be well thought out, doing the Stanchart Nairobi city marathon come October, climbing Mount Longonot in April and so on. Basically for every fitness goal, the first step is to gain some physical fitness as you gouge out the practicalities Read the rest of this entry »

December 21, 2008 – December 27, 2008
December 14, 2008 – December 20, 2008
December 7, 2008 – December 13, 2008
November 30, 2008 – December 6, 2008
November 23, 2008 – November 29, 2008
November 16, 2008 – November 22, 2008
November 9, 2008 – November 15, 2008
November 2, 2008 – November 8, 2008
October 26, 2008 – November 1, 2008
October 19, 2008 – October 25, 2008
October 12, 2008 – October 18, 2008
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In the Portfolio Diet, a Combination of Foods Will Cut Cholesterol
With the free-fall of the stock market, who would want to have anything to do with a portfolio these days? Still, Dr. David Jenkins says you might want to bet on his new
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Dr. Jenkins, from the University of Toronto, goes beyond saying in his Portfolio Diet that certain foods such as oat bran (Cheerios) will help to lower your cholesterol. He has found that if we combine these Read the rest of this entry »