The News Review:
- ABC News: Hayek: Nurse and Lose Weight? ‘It’s a Lie!’
- ‘The Biggest Loser: Couples’ cuts no one, reveals viewer…
- College community gets slim and trim
- Obesity Costs US Companies as Much as $45 Billion a Year, The…
- Potential for harm in dietary supplements
- Living and coping with cancer
- 11 Alive News anchor loses it at boot camp
ABC News: Hayek: Nurse and Lose Weight? ‘It’s a Lie!’
ABC News – Apr 9, 2008
But those who work with nursing mothers say the issue is more complex and argue that in the long run, breastfeeding does contribute to overall fitness. Salma Hayek Weighs InJust this week sexy actress and new mother Salma Hayek told Oprah in animated tones, “It’s a lie! It’s not true! I’m going to say something. Except for a couple of exceptions, the only reason people lose weight like that when they’re breastfeeding. It’s that they’re not eating and they’re breastfeeding… One year after delivery, Socci made little progress in getting back to shape. But now – two years after delivery – the 36-year-old, first-time mother, who is still nursing her daughter Margarita, has lost 40 pounds. She attributes the eventual weight loss to running around after a toddler, not to breastfeeding.
‘The Biggest Loser: Couples’ cuts no one, reveals viewer…
Reality TV World – Apr 9, 2008
“Now I have to hope that my case is better than Roger and America picks me as the third finalist. ”
The contestants then packed, shared an emotional goodbye and left the campus for home. After the identity of the third finalist is revealed during Tuesday night’s live finale broadcast, all three finalists will participate in one last weigh-in. The finalist who posts the highest weight-loss percentage since the start of the competition will claim the show’s $250,000 grand prize. In addition, the previously eliminated contestant that posts the highest weight-loss percentage since the start of the competition will be crowned the fifth-season’s “at home” champ and receive a $100,000 consolation prize. OTHER RECENT ENTERTAINMENT NEWS HEADLINES•. php’>'Dancing with the Stars’ eliminates Rocco DiSpirito and Karina Smirnoff•.
College community gets slim and trim
Roanoke Times – Apr 9, 2008
FERRUM — Graham Rountree paced nervously back and forth Tuesday night in the downstairs lobby of Franklin Hall at Ferrum College anxiously awaiting the final weigh-in of Ferrum’s version of “The Biggest Loser” competition. After stepping on the scale and realizing that he had lost 16 pounds and nearly 4 percent of body fat, Rountree pumped his fists victoriously in the air. Although Rountree knew his weight loss probably wasn’t the greatest of the participants in the competition, it was a new beginning for him. “I had wanted to lose 7 [percent] or 8 percent” of body fat, Rountree said. “But this is a start in the right direction. It’s the beginning of a roller coaster ride. ”
More than 25 students, faculty and staff participated in the competition, which will award $300 to the participant who lost the highest percentage of body fat.
Obesity Costs US Companies as Much as $45 Billion a Year, The…
Earthtimes – Apr 9, 2008
– The jury is still out on the costs and benefits of paying for employees’ weight-loss surgeries. While obese employees medically eligible for bariatric surgery (about 9 percent of the workforce) have sharply higher obesity-related medical costs and absenteeism, some say companies are unlikely to recoup surgery costs before these employees have left for other jobs. — How employers communicate a wellness or weight-loss program is as important as how they design it. Companies should involve employees in planning health initiatives, rather than working from the top-down, and should make sure personal privacy is protected. The report includes three case studies: Public Service Enterprise Group (PSEG), a large self-insured utility with high BMI and low turnover, targets obesity as a major plank in its multifaceted wellness initiatives. H-E-B, a Texas-based retail chain, believes retail’s high turnover can make it all the more important to catch employees, from checkout clerks to executives, under the wellness umbrella.
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Potential for harm in dietary supplements
International Herald Tribune – Apr 9, 2008
It involves abusing legally sold dietary supplements — vitamins, minerals, herbals and homeopathic remedies — all of which can be sold over the counter without prior approval for safety and effectiveness. Although there was much publicity about the hazards of ephedra, once widely used as a weight-loss aid until it was found to be deadly, many other heralded dietary supplements have the potential for harm, especially when taken in large doses or in various combinations with one another or with medically prescribed prescription drugs. Still other problems can arise when these poorly regulated supplements are taken by people with known or hidden health problems or when patients fail to report their use to health professionals who treat them. For example, Richard Nathan, a dental surgeon in San Francisco, wrote in January about a patient who needed a tooth extracted and minor periodontal surgery. She told Nathan that she was taking two drugs, for cholesterol and blood pressure, neither of which he said would present a problem to safe surgery and normal healing. Thus, Nathan was perplexed when the patient returned five days later unhealed, with an unattached flap of tissue, severe bleeding and an infection.
Living and coping with cancer
Jamaica Gleaner – Apr 9, 2008
A swelling, unexplained weight loss, loss of appetite or another problem. Edward went to discuss the results of a blood test with his doctor. The doctor (a woman) hesitated. Tears were in her eyes.
11 Alive News anchor loses it at boot camp
Atlanta Journal Constitution – Apr 9, 2008
We’ll go downstairs in the basement; we’ve got weights and a treadmill. It works for me if I can involve them because then I feel like I’m not leaving them to go work out,” she says. Advice: Even though she’s passionate about her boot camp workout, her road to weight loss wasn’t easy: “It wasn’t overnight. If you want overnight, that’s not going to happen. MORE ABOUT BOOT CAMPThere are so many different boot camps that you won’t be able to use the excuse that there’s not one close to you. Plus, most are at different times of day so there goes that excuse. Check out one of these:•.
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