• Cover Girl Culture

    Updated: 2010-08-31 15:59:44
    Cover Girl Culture

  • Are You Ready for A Higher Love?

    Updated: 2010-08-31 15:59:44
    Are You Ready for A Higher Love?

  • Four Graphic Examples of Portion Distortion – You’ll be Shocked

    Updated: 2010-08-31 15:26:10
    One of the most important pieces of information in a nutrition label is the serving size. Many people look at the calorie count, and are happy to see low numbers. But what they don’t notice is that they are consuming twice or more than the stated serving size. Which means twice the calories, twice the [...]

  • Read It Before You Eat It

    Updated: 2010-08-31 12:38:49
    Last May I received an email from Bonnie Taub Dix, a dietitian based in New York, complimenting Fooducate on the information presented in the blog about nutrition labels and how to decode them. She told me she was writing a book on reading food labels, and a beautiful friendship ensued. Today, Bonnie’s book, Read It Before [...]

  • Forbidden Paintings: Graffiti Art

    Updated: 2010-08-31 07:08:37
    Laurie Says: Artist and Curator of the Impossible d’Arci Bruno does work I admire.  This is a video of her exploration of huge graffiti pieces in an enormous decaying warehouse in Alameda that will soon be condemned. She’s a great tour guide showing exciting work that is about to disappear forever. As she says, It’s not [...]

  • Brain Food

    Updated: 2010-08-30 15:48:47
    It makes perfect sense that foods we eat affect our bodies, including our brains.  With so many older adults diagnosed with dementia and Alzheimer’s disease daily, researchers continues to try pinpointing which foods or individual nutrients have protective effects on the brain.  Remember, it’s based to get these nutrients through food rather than supplementation as [...]

  • What Do People Look For on Nutrition Labels?

    Updated: 2010-08-30 01:09:45
    Earlier this month, The NPD Group, a market research firm, released a report on consumer trends in reading Nutrition Labels. Hey, that’s our favorite subject matter, so we were eager to take a look. Top 5 items consumers are most interested in (ranked from highest down): total calories total fat calories from fat sugars sodium Top 5 items consumers want maximize [...]

  • Bisquick – A Shortcut Loaded with Trans-Fat

    Updated: 2010-08-29 15:14:30
    We got the following question from Lanette: I do much of our cooking from scratch and am trying to eliminate processed  foods.  I have found several ‘recipes’ for make-your-own-baking-mix but they all call for shortening.  I don’t know which is worse!  I’m wondering if you could do a post on Bisquick vs. Homemade options.  I use it [...]

  • Over 45 yrs old? Try the “Water Before Meal” Diet

    Updated: 2010-08-28 22:39:22
    Here’s yet another potential diet. Drink 2 glasses of water before every meal, and you’ll lose weight. That’s what a 12 week study has shown in middle aged people. They lost more weight than a control group that did not drink water. Both groups lost weight as they were instructed to follow a low fat, [...]

  • Cartoon Characters Coaxing Kids to Choose Chips and Candy?

    Updated: 2010-08-27 22:14:00
    Home BLOG LIBRARY TOOLS OUR CAUSE CONTACT What We Stand For The Stand Up Eat site is an educational and participatory site to help people balance the calories they eat with the calories they burn each day by making active living and healthy eating choices . MORE . CALORIE NEEDS What is your calorie need JOIN THE BURN WHAT'S IN Calories in eating . Articles , downloads , and links to help you make the most of the calories that you eat . Check out the latest resources in our What's In , Healthy Eating Library WHAT'S OUT Calories out physical activity . Articles , downloads , nbsp and links to help you find ways to stand up and move more . Check out the latest resources in our What's Out , Active Living Library THE COOPER INSTITUTE BLOG Cartoon Characters Coaxing Kids to Choose Chips and

  • Should We be Happy? It’s Not Our Personal Fault We’re Fat

    Updated: 2010-08-27 01:18:25
    You know an article is important when you get links to it in multiple emails, tweets and facebook updates. We got numerous links to Saturday’s Fixing a World That Fosters Fat, in the business section of the New York Times. And it truly is an interestin g piece, touching upon a critically important question: WHY IN [...]

  • Soy & Breast Health

    Updated: 2010-08-26 19:46:49
    Soy lattes, soy milk and tofu are all delicious treats, but they’re also controversial when it comes to breast cancer.  I can’t tell you how many times my patients ask me if they can eat soy, recently I got a similar question from a viewer. Hi Dr. Coomer, I am a 56-year-old woman going through [...]

  • What health brand marketers can learn from The Grateful Dead

    Updated: 2010-08-26 12:57:33
    Zig (meaningfully) when others Zag. This is the one overriding lesson for health brand marketers to take away from David Meerman Scott and Brian Halligan’s book “Marketing Lessons from the Grateful Dead: What Every Business Can Learn From the Most Iconic Band In History.” Early on in their careers, The Grateful Dead decided the [...]

  • Consiousness & Breast Milk Audio

    Updated: 2010-08-26 08:35:08
    Consiousness & Breast Milk Audio

  • Is Chocolate Milk Losing Ground in School Lunches?

    Updated: 2010-08-26 01:39:53
    Chocolate milk contains way too much sugar. An 8 fl oz serving (the standard carton served in schools) contains 3 teaspoons of added sugar! That sounds more like a treat than a healthy drink. Not something kids should be getting with their lunch at school on a daily basis. The New York Times ran an article [...]

  • Burger King's Pizza Burger: Worst Burger Ever?

    Updated: 2010-08-25 06:00:00
    : En Español AOL.com MAIL That's Fit Main Diet Diet Diet Reviews Recipe Rehab with Tanya Zuckerbrot Too Good To Be Food with Keri Glassman Jonny's Take Best Life with Bob Greene SELF Meal Plans Fitness Fitness Workouts Fit or Fiction Fit After 40 Fit Family Fit Travel Men's Fitness Running Walking We Tried it Yoga Your Personal Trainer : Joe Dowdell Celebrity Celebrity Interviews Biggest Loser Success Motivation Success Motivation Success Stories Tipping the Scales America Takes It Off Experts Denise Austin Jonny Bowden Joe Dowdell Keri Glassman Liz Neporent Tanya Zuckerbrot Tweetmixx Send Feedback Burger King's Pizza Burger : Worst Burger Ever Posted on Aug 25th 2010 12:00PM by Martha Edwards Filed Under : Diet Weight Loss Print Eater.com The KFC Double Down was bad enough . The

  • Another Health Halo Shattered – Bottled Teas Contain Virtually no Antioxidants

    Updated: 2010-08-25 01:19:01
    Tea is the world’s most widely consumed beverage, not coffee. Just in the US, the market last year stood at $7 Billion in sales of tea bags and bottles, including iced tea. The industry has quadrupled itself since the early 1990’s partly due to the health halo tea , and especially green tea, enjoy. Scientists [...]

  • More Brutal Honesty

    Updated: 2010-08-24 11:57:36
    More Brutal Honesty

  • Four Cheese Pizza – DiGiorno’s vs. Newman’s Own

    Updated: 2010-08-24 01:34:07
    Everyone loves pizza. It’s the #1 looked up entry in yellow pages and very popular in google searches as well. While dining at a pizzeria or getting delivered to your home are the most popular consumption modes, people are going to want this goodness on call in their freezer as well. There’s an entire section [...]

  • To Ipod or Not?

    Updated: 2010-08-23 13:00:00
    Home BLOG LIBRARY TOOLS OUR CAUSE CONTACT What We Stand For The Stand Up Eat site is an educational and participatory site to help people balance the calories they eat with the calories they burn each day by making active living and healthy eating choices . MORE . CALORIE NEEDS What is your calorie need JOIN THE BURN WHAT'S IN Calories in eating . Articles , downloads , and links to help you make the most of the calories that you eat . Check out the latest resources in our What's In , Healthy Eating Library WHAT'S OUT Calories out physical activity . Articles , downloads , nbsp and links to help you find ways to stand up and move more . Check out the latest resources in our What's Out , Active Living Library THE COOPER INSTITUTE BLOG To Ipod or Not August 23, 2010 07:00 by Sue Beckham PhD

  • Good Art From Bad Diet Books

    Updated: 2010-08-23 07:23:13
    Lynne Murray says: I first heard of feminist artist Brenda Oelbaum’s Venus of Willendorf sculptures made from diet books through the fat activist mailing list. She explains in more detail about the work on her blog. This is a Venus from 2009.  The present project sculptures are much smaller but this image was irresistible. Lots more images [...]

  • The importance of your blog to your healthcare social media strategy

    Updated: 2010-08-23 02:56:47
    Companies are finding that blogs fill a specific niche that other forms of social media do not, says eMarketer senior analyst Paul Verna in this article appearing in CMO.com. eMarketer forecasts continued growth in company use of blogs for marketing purposes. While just over one in three companies today have a public-facing blog used for marketing, [...]

  • Nothing Special About Added Fiber in Special K Cereals

    Updated: 2010-08-23 01:11:50
    Kellogg’s Special K line of cereals has quietly been upgraded nutritionally. Sort of. The company has added 1 gram of fiber to the Special K’s, excluding the original flavor. One gram doesn’t sound like a lot, but it’s 50% more than the 2 grams already present. And more importantly, it takes the fiber content to [...]

  • What's for Lunch?

    Updated: 2010-08-20 14:12:00
    Home BLOG LIBRARY TOOLS OUR CAUSE CONTACT What We Stand For The Stand Up Eat site is an educational and participatory site to help people balance the calories they eat with the calories they burn each day by making active living and healthy eating choices . MORE . CALORIE NEEDS What is your calorie need JOIN THE BURN WHAT'S IN Calories in eating . Articles , downloads , and links to help you make the most of the calories that you eat . Check out the latest resources in our What's In , Healthy Eating Library WHAT'S OUT Calories out physical activity . Articles , downloads , nbsp and links to help you find ways to stand up and move more . Check out the latest resources in our What's Out , Active Living Library THE COOPER INSTITUTE BLOG What's for Lunch August 20, 2010 08:12 by Rachel Huber

  • Fit Links: Pesticide Perpetrators, Kangaroo Jumping and More

    Updated: 2010-08-17 16:00:00
    : , En Español AOL.com MAIL That's Fit Main Diet Diet Diet Reviews Recipe Rehab with Tanya Zuckerbrot Too Good To Be Food with Keri Glassman Jonny's Take Best Life with Bob Greene SELF Meal Plans Fitness Fitness Workouts Fit or Fiction Fit After 40 Fit Family Fit Travel Men's Fitness Running Walking We Tried it Yoga Your Personal Trainer : Joe Dowdell Celebrity Celebrity Interviews Biggest Loser Success Motivation Success Motivation Success Stories Tipping the Scales America Takes It Off Experts Denise Austin Jonny Bowden Joe Dowdell Keri Glassman Liz Neporent Tanya Zuckerbrot Tweetmixx Send Feedback Fit Links : Pesticide Perpetrators , Kangaroo Jumping and More Posted on Aug 17th 2010 10:00AM by Martha Edwards Filed Under : Diet Weight Loss Print There are hundreds of wonderful sites on

  • Exercise for Weight Maintenance: How Long??

    Updated: 2010-08-16 13:00:00
    : Home BLOG LIBRARY TOOLS OUR CAUSE CONTACT What We Stand For The Stand Up Eat site is an educational and participatory site to help people balance the calories they eat with the calories they burn each day by making active living and healthy eating choices . MORE . CALORIE NEEDS What is your calorie need JOIN THE BURN WHAT'S IN Calories in eating . Articles , downloads , and links to help you make the most of the calories that you eat . Check out the latest resources in our What's In , Healthy Eating Library WHAT'S OUT Calories out physical activity . Articles , downloads , nbsp and links to help you find ways to stand up and move more . Check out the latest resources in our What's Out , Active Living Library THE COOPER INSTITUTE BLOG Exercise for Weight Maintenance : How Long August 16,

  • Orlando Health calls on its patients to create e-scrapbook on Facebook

    Updated: 2010-08-16 01:50:32
    I was proud to see this article from a couple weeks ago in HealthLeaders Media, because we are fortunate to be the agency working with the Orlando Health corporate marketing team on this “Family Is” campaign. You can read about the specifics of this campaign by clicking on the above link. But here’s a summary [...]

  • Is Gulf Seafood Safe?

    Updated: 2010-08-13 14:47:00
    Home BLOG LIBRARY TOOLS OUR CAUSE CONTACT What We Stand For The Stand Up Eat site is an educational and participatory site to help people balance the calories they eat with the calories they burn each day by making active living and healthy eating choices . MORE . CALORIE NEEDS What is your calorie need JOIN THE BURN WHAT'S IN Calories in eating . Articles , downloads , and links to help you make the most of the calories that you eat . Check out the latest resources in our What's In , Healthy Eating Library WHAT'S OUT Calories out physical activity . Articles , downloads , nbsp and links to help you find ways to stand up and move more . Check out the latest resources in our What's Out , Active Living Library THE COOPER INSTITUTE BLOG Is Gulf Seafood Safe August 13, 2010 08:47 by Rachel

  • Registered Dietician Jayson Hunter on How Much Protein You Need

    Updated: 2010-08-12 17:57:21
    The biggest barrier to increased protein consumption is that some people are just not big meat and protein eaters, which is perfectly fine. It does make it harder to get in the suggested quantities of protein to help with your weight loss, but there are solutions.

  • The Best and Worst Multivitamins

    Updated: 2010-08-10 21:00:00
    En Español AOL.com MAIL That's Fit Main Diet Diet Diet Reviews Recipe Rehab with Tanya Zuckerbrot Too Good To Be Food with Keri Glassman Jonny's Take Best Life with Bob Greene SELF Meal Plans Fitness Fitness Workouts Fit or Fiction Fit After 40 Fit Family Fit Travel Men's Fitness Running Walking We Tried it Yoga Your Personal Trainer : Joe Dowdell Celebrity Celebrity Interviews Biggest Loser Success Motivation Success Motivation Success Stories Tipping the Scales America Takes It Off Experts Denise Austin Jonny Bowden Joe Dowdell Keri Glassman Liz Neporent Tanya Zuckerbrot Tweetmixx Send Feedback The Best and Worst Multivitamins Posted on Aug 10th 2010 3:00PM by Martha Edwards Filed Under : Diet Weight Loss Print Getty With a culture that revolves around convenience , it's not surprising

  • Fit Links: How Celeb Moms Get Fit, Healthy Chip Alternative and More

    Updated: 2010-08-10 16:00:00
    : , En Español AOL.com MAIL That's Fit Main Diet Diet Diet Reviews Recipe Rehab with Tanya Zuckerbrot Too Good To Be Food with Keri Glassman Jonny's Take Best Life with Bob Greene SELF Meal Plans Fitness Fitness Workouts Fit or Fiction Fit After 40 Fit Family Fit Travel Men's Fitness Running Walking We Tried it Yoga Your Personal Trainer : Joe Dowdell Celebrity Celebrity Interviews Biggest Loser Success Motivation Success Motivation Success Stories Tipping the Scales America Takes It Off Experts Denise Austin Jonny Bowden Joe Dowdell Keri Glassman Liz Neporent Tanya Zuckerbrot Tweetmixx Send Feedback Fit Links : How Celeb Moms Get Fit , Healthy Chip Alternative and More Posted on Aug 10th 2010 10:00AM by Martha Edwards Filed Under : Diet Weight Loss Print There are hundreds of wonderful

  • The benefits of your blog to your healthcare organization (and your audiences)

    Updated: 2010-08-10 12:14:59
    The future of marketing is about doing things and saying things with people. Building relationships that are collaborative, helpful, personal and honest. Requiring your healthcare organization to expose a lot more of its humanity, because customers trust each other/trust people more than they tend to trust your organization. Blogging gives you that ability. The ability for [...]

  • Look At the Label!

    Updated: 2010-08-06 14:05:00
    Home BLOG LIBRARY TOOLS OUR CAUSE CONTACT What We Stand For The Stand Up Eat site is an educational and participatory site to help people balance the calories they eat with the calories they burn each day by making active living and healthy eating choices . MORE . CALORIE NEEDS What is your calorie need JOIN THE BURN WHAT'S IN Calories in eating . Articles , downloads , and links to help you make the most of the calories that you eat . Check out the latest resources in our What's In , Healthy Eating Library WHAT'S OUT Calories out physical activity . Articles , downloads , nbsp and links to help you find ways to stand up and move more . Check out the latest resources in our What's Out , Active Living Library THE COOPER INSTITUTE BLOG Look At the Label August 6, 2010 08:05 by Rachel Huber

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