I admit, sometimes I have a hard time getting motivated to exercise in the winter. Actually, I have a hard time doing much of anything in the winter.

But Rebecca over at Does This Blog Make Us Look Fat? apparently has a hard time exercising during ALL the seasons… and has many other reasons she avoids [...]

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Want to lose weight and help feed the hungry? The Pound for Pound Challenge can help you do both.

Tags: coupon, Feeding America, Food & Nutrition, food bank, general mills, hungry, lose weight, The Biggest Loser, weight

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Go guiltless! Using fat-free egg product, flour tortillas and Cheddar cheese instead of their full-fat cousins set this recipe apart.

Tags: breakfast, eggs, Food & Nutrition, Healthy Recipes, Mexican Breakfast Wraps, recipes, wraps

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Children who regularly eat cured meats like bacon and hot dogs may be more at risk for leukemia, says a new study in the online journal BMC Cancer.
When researchers looked at 515 Taiwanese children and teenagers with and without acute leukemia, they found those who ate cured meats and fish more than once a week [...]

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It looks like the salmonella/peanut butter outbreak could have been easily avoided. The Food and Drug Administration says the company linked to a nationwide outbreak of salmonella knowingly shipped tainted peanut products.

Tags: georgia plant, peanut butter, peanut butter outbreak, Peanut Corporation of America, salmonella, salmonella peanut butter

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As if we haven’t had enough problems with our food lately with the salmonella/peanut butter outbreak. Now, two new studies find mercury – a metal that is toxic to humans – in nearly half of the samples of commercial high-fructose corn syrup (HFCS) they tested. It was also in about a third of 55 popular [...]

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Out of the 501 people who have gotten sick during the salmonella/peanut butter outbreak, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) says half of them are children – 280 victims are under 18 years old, including some infants.

Tags: CDC, FDA, peanut butter, recall, salmonella, salmonella outbreak

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Looking for the best light beers? A few good brews that are light on calories and cost? Taste-testers at Consumer Reports (CR) now have a list of their favorites.

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Do you like to listen to music when you workout? Need some tunes to really get you going? This very cool pair of MotoRokr S9-HD Wireless Stereo Headphones from Motorola could take your listening experience (and workout) to a whole new level!

Tags: giveaway, headphones, MotoRokr, Motorola, wireless stereo headphones

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Congrats to FatFighterTV members – Azar and This Mama Cooks! On a Diet – for winning last week’s giveaway for the new book, Your Big Fat Boyfriend – How to Stay Thin When Dating a Diet Disaster. Enjoy! Oh, and if you haven’t already checked out the hilarious comments about how boyfriends/husbands/etc. make us fat, [...]

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