AOL.com MAIL That's Fit Main Diet Diet Diet Reviews Recipe Rehab with Tanya Zuckerbrot Jonny's Take Best Life with Bob Greene Fitness Fitness Workouts Fit or Fiction Fit After 40 Fit Family Fit Travel Guys' Guide Men's Fitness Running Walking We Tried it Yoga Your Personal Trainer : Joe Dowdell Celebrity Celebrity News Interviews Biggest Loser Success Motivation Success Motivation Success Stories Good , Fat and Hungry America Takes It Off Experts Jonny Bowden Joe Dowdell Bob Greene Liz Neporent Tanya Zuckerbrot Send Feedback Lighter Portions Helped Kristie Lose 60 Pounds Posted on Mar 19th 2010 1:00PM by Martha Edwards Filed Under : Motivation Success Stories Print Email More Every week , we introduce you to bloggers who share their weight-loss journeys and hefty doses of inspiration with their readers . This week's featured blogger is Kristie from Lighter Portions : Name Kristie Kinch : Age 21 Start weight : 163 Current : weight 113 My weight loss : approach About four years ago I got tired of being unhealthy and unhappy with myself . I knew I wanted a complete lifestyle change a change I could keep up with and maintain for the rest of my life , meaning no crash diets no quick
A priest and an atheist were sitting next to each other on a flight. They spent most of the time arguing their respective positions when suddenly the captain notified the passengers that the engines are burning and the plane is about to crash. As the plane nosedived, the priest began to fervently pray. He couldn’t [...]
Is this the First Lady Food PR Effect? Michelle Obama’s recently launched “Let’s Move” campaign is racking up corporate support from manufacturers and retailers. On Tuesday it was PepsiCo’s announcement, and yesterday Kraft Foods excitedly shared plans to reduce sodium in all its brands by 10% on average in the next 2 years. Here’s an [...]
By Deirdre Imus
In the 1930’s, a bone disease caused by vitamin D deficiency called rickets, was recognized as a serious health problem. It is the reason many of us grew up with mothers who constantly nagged us to drink our milk.
To combat rickets, most of the country’s milk supply was fortified with vitamin D, [...]
PepsiCo announced yesterday that it will stop selling sugary soft drinks to schools worldwide. The company will
stop sales of full-sugar soft drinks to primary and secondary schools by 2012. The industry-leading policy establishes for the first time a consistent global approach to the sale of beverages to schools by a major beverage [...]
Longtime Fooducate readers know that one our first recommendations for nutrition newbies is to cut down on soda and juice consumption. These are useless, empty calories that cost families loads of money and provide only negative nutritional value. Here are two trending stories on this subject matter.
1. Soda tax directly linked to improved health. The [...]
Marketing genius or smoke and mirrors? Triscuits, those slightly salty wheat thins, are being sold with a small surprise inside. No, not a toy from China, rather a small bag filled with … seeds!
Kraft is encouraging its customers to connect with real, natural, local food by no less than growing it at home or at [...]
1. Potato Chips date back to 1853. An unhappy customer at a restaurant in Saratoga Springs, NY kept returning his fried potatoes to the chef, requesting they be prepared much thinner. The chef sliced them so thin that they could not be eaten with a fork, and thus was born the potato chip.
2. It wasn’t [...]
This is a guest post by Lisa Cain, PhD, a.k.a Snack-Girl
Do you have a food fight with your child after school?
Is he starving because he tossed out his uneaten lunch? Was he having too much fun in the school cafeteria and simply forgot to eat?
You’re not the only family where this happens. That’s why the [...]