Life Done Right™

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Models who don’t eat have to stay thin somehow. Smoking apparently is the compulsive way. I saw plenty of models smoking outside the Bryant Park tents in New York City during Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week.
Still Too Thin, and Getting Younger

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CNN has a curious map up on their site. It shows which states in America are suffering most from obesity. The southern middle states are the worst. Gee, is there a connection between poverty and obesity?

For those of you who think drinking diet soda is a better alternative than drinking the sugary real thing, take note: recent research suggests diet soda may play a role in fattening you up. Don’t bother listening to the soda pr mouths denying the claims, they have a vested interest in protecting market share. Drink [...]

Can’t get it together in the morning? Then maybe you need Diet Pepsi Max. Wake up people! It’s flavored with ginger caffeine. But before you start getting wired on this stuff, we suggest you read how fructose is allegedly responsible for obesity in the world. It just might make you think twice about whether that [...]

Leonard Nimoy may not seem of this world for those of you who have troubling separating the man from the Vulcan, but trust us, he’s of this earth. We know because we’ve had a chance to see his Full Body Project, a series of photographs that document big beautiful women in the buff.
Shooting digital [...]

One of the simplest kinds of videos you can make for your grandkids is the how-to video. Pull out that recipe file box and start cooking while your grandson or granddaughter films you. Then think up a catchy title like Feed Me Bubbe and you’re off to the Youtube film festival.

One way to live longer is to starve yourself. If that doesn’t appeal to you, then maybe you should buddy up to a researcher working with the pha-4 gene. The presence or absence of this gene appears to influence longevity, at least in nematodes. Hey, anyone want to try out for my new reality TV [...]

There’s a rule in America: if it’s on sale, then how can you resist buying it, even if you don’t need it. I mean, c’mon, fifty percent off!! The same seems to apply to eating. The bigger the plate size, the bigger the rationale for why your mind is seduced into eating far more than [...]

Most of the older scales in the bathroom have an adjustment control that keeps the initial starting point directly on zero. The newer scale models are digital and also include a body fat readout. The New York Times recently reviewed a couple of these scales. For those who can’t seem to keep an accurate eating [...]

Beauty may be in the eye of the beholder, but according to Bobbi Brown it also requires one additional ingredient…you must be living! Why go under the knife once to combat signs of aging when you can spend money on cosmetic products every month. It’s the rent versus buy model of beauty being applied to [...]

I’ll admit it: as a kid, my friends and I used to visit the local variety store and steal candy. The check out counter had rows and rows of candy just waiting for our itchy hands. We wouldn’t steal a lot, just enough to satisfy the needs that went unmet by our grouchy mothers. The [...]

Diets are like dogs, they’re your best friend until they pee on the carpet. This business of losing weight has become a global obsession. The simple answer for obesity is corporate food production. When you have companies in the business of cutting costs in order to sell more food, guess what, the food suffers while [...]

When you make a bet, you better be ready to pay up. Kirstie Alley struts her figure on Oprah.

New Book Just Released:
The Sugar Solution: Balance Your Blood Sugar Naturally To Beat Disease, Lose Weight, Gain Energy, And Feel Great
by Sari Harrar and Julia Vantine
An easy-to-follow, drug-free program that can bring blood sugar into balance in just one month. As many as 16 million Americans are living with high-normal blood sugar. They arent [...]

US Weekly has a cute contest where they mask the faces of famous celebrities and ask you to guess their age. Number four from the left just might surprise you…unless you subscribe to US Weekly. Of all the tabloids, I like this one best.
CAN YOU GUESS THEIR AGE?
When leading ladies of every age diet, get [...]

If you thought age brings maturity, forget it. There’s a stunning study out that says women in their 40’s HATE their bodies. Baby Boomers are going to do for plastic surgery what the intermittent windshield wiper did for cars…wipe away all those tears.
Women in their 40s are developing eating disorders because they hate the way [...]

If you have a few thousand dollars and a week of free time, Canyon Ranch is offering an Optimal Aging workshop. Be prepared for words like longevity, biological, balanced, and vital to make their way into our psyche. Like any behavior modification therapy, repetition is the key.

The Pitch:
Canyon Ranch Optimal Aging
September 10 through 17, 2006
LIVING [...]

It’s one thing to die from an accident, but yikes, to read that 41 % of American adults either smoke or are overweight is like watching people jump off the Brooklyn Bridge for Sunday afternoon entertainment. No wonder the Bush administration is so out of control, they’re merely reflecting the anxiety and disconnect people have [...]

Dr. Dennis Villareal of Washington University in St. Louis recently shared research that says if you’re in your 60s or 70s and obese, then moderate weight loss through exercise and diet helps fight frailty and improve your body’s ability to physically function. This required a study?
His other insight: “successful weight loss is difficult to [...]

It’s pretty common to read about scientists who make stunning discoveries by chance. While investigating one problem, they turn and accidentally spill a beaker across the counter and bingo bango, an insight flashes through their head and they wind up patenting crazy glue.
With the rate of obesity and diabetes in the world climbing exponentially, [...]