If you got an e-mail with tips on how to eat healthier foods and suggestions on how to exercise more often, do you think you’d be healthier? Some participants in a new study got e-mails with small goals, like eating fruit for a snack three times a week, walking for 10 minutes a day at [...]

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If you’re overweight before you get pregnant, you may be more likely to have a child with asthma, according to a new study. Researchers found the the risk of asthma is 65 percent higher among children born to overweight mothers if one or both of the child’s parents have a history of the disease.
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You may be holding off on buying some items in this tough economy, but are there other things – maybe treats of sort – that you still buy for yourself? A new report shows some of the products flying off store shelves during this recession:

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Memorial Day weekend is this weekend (ALREADY??!!) and you know what that means – it’s the unofficial start of summer… and summer travel… and trying to exercise while traveling… You [...]

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Congrats to FatFighterTV members – Christal P, lisaray, and Gossipista – for winning last week’s giveaway for the ecosumo water bottles. Enjoy!

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Is it easier to drop a stone than to drop a pound? See what they’re saying about that over at Does This Blog Make Us Look Fat? Guaranteed to make you smile. Happy Weekend everyone!

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It’s back. A bill Sen. Tom Harkin (D-IA) and Rep. Rosa DeLauro (D-CT) introduced that would require nutrition labeling on chain-restaurant menus across the country was reintroduced today. If the Menu Education and Labeling (MEAL) Act passes, fast-food and other chain restaurants would have to post calories on menu boards and list calories, saturated fat, [...]

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Chicago has passed a measure that makes it the first city in the U.S. to ban the sale of baby bottles and sippy cups made with a chemical that some studies say can make us sick. Bisphenol-A, or BPA, is commonly used to harden plastic. Over time, BPA can leach into the contents of a [...]

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Don’t these look divine? And can you believe they only have 54 calories each? I am practically drooling just from this picture of Devin Alexander’s Chocolate Chocolate Brownie Cups from her cookbook, The Most Decadent Diet EVER!

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The maker of Cheerios got a warning letter from the Food and Drug Administration. The FDA says General Mills has made inappropriate claims about how the popular cereal can lower cholesterol and treat heart disease. General Mills says the health claims on Cheerios have been approved for 12 years and the FDA’s complaints are about [...]

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