The News Review:
- Fat No More: Weight-Loss Memoirs
- Health Calendar: Weight-loss surgery and more
- Weight-loss secrets, without hypnosis
- Smoking doesn’t help weight loss in teen girls
- Dieters have better luck keeping pounds off with people, not Internet,…
Fat No More: Weight-Loss Memoirs
ABC News – Mar 26, 2008
“Winning After Losing: Keeping Off the Weight You’ve Lost — Forever” by Stacey Halprin (May 2007): Actress and author Stacey Halprin shares her story of losing more than 350 pounds through surgery and offers a “unique and practical” program with advice from experts on maintaining weight loss. “Half-Assed: A Weight-Loss Memoir” by Jennette Fulda. (May 2008): Fulda, who blogs at pastaqueen. com, writes about her 200-pound weight loss.
Health Calendar: Weight-loss surgery and more
Dallas Morning News – Mar 26, 2008
Each session includes information about medical, dietary and insurance-related requirements. A bariatric surgeon, nutritionists, nurses, insurance and finance experts will answer questions. These new 90-minute sessions start at 5:30 p.
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Weight-loss secrets, without hypnosis
Roanoke Times – Mar 26, 2008
In five one-hour episodes (on Sundays at 9 p. ), the trim and popular British hypnotist promises to teach the secrets of weight loss and control “through your TV screen. ”
Now, I wouldn’t be a food writer if I truly believed that double-digit pants sizes constituted a “plus-sized” figure.
Smoking doesn’t help weight loss in teen girls
Toronto Star – Mar 26, 2008
A new study says teenage girls who smoke cigarettes are no more likely to lose weight than girls who don’t smoke, but teen boys who smoke are on average 2. 54 centimetres shorter than those who don’t. The researchers say the findings could have important public health implications, especially since many young girls who take up smoking say they do it to control their weight. Jennifer O’Loughlin of the University of Montreal says the research team was surprised there was no link between girls’ weights and their smoking habits, because they too bought into the myth that girls who smoke weigh less.
Dieters have better luck keeping pounds off with people, not Internet,…
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette – Pittsburgh Post Gazette – Mar 26, 2008
Assessing the group every six months, the investigators found that although both personal and Internet support provided modest benefits in sustaining weight loss at 24 months, at 30 months only the personal-contact group fared better than the control group, which received no support beyond printed instructions. The study, which appeared in last week’s Journal of the American Medical Association, was an attempt to shed a little light on the issue of how to keep off those hard-lost pounds. “We know a fair amount about how to help people lose weight, but we know almost nothing about how to help people maintain weight loss,” says the study’s lead author, Dr. Laura Svetkey, a professor of medicine and director of the Duke Hypertension Center at Duke University Medical Center in Durham, N. “We wanted to look at strategies that could be disseminated very broadly, that would be efficient and affordable. ”
The research took place at Duke, Johns Hopkins in Baltimore, Pennington Biomedical Research Center in Baton Rouge, La.
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