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• Daily Duh: Less junk food leads to weight loss

  In Philadelphia, land of the cheese steak, five elementary schools participated in a program where candy and soda were eliminated from the vending machines, and kids were rewarded with raffle tickets for "making healthy food choices." And guess what?   Read More... Posted Apr 11 2008, 03:00 PM by Brett Singer with | with 2 comment(s) Filed under: food, school, Philadelphia, eating, junk food, diet, studies, snacks, calories, sugar, daily duh

• Girl Scout Cookies--Now With Calorie Burning Tips!

  Hey, guess what? The Girl Scouts are going to start putting out cookies in 100 calorie packs. That's okay, right? I mean, that's like one Samoa per package... Oh, but wait: The 5 Resolutions Blog just alerted us that the packs are also going to have tips for girls to burn calories. Well, thank god, because I so want my daughter to know exactly how to obliterate the potential weight she might put on from those Thin Mints. Never to young to start counting calories, right? Sigh. Think I'm overreacting? Well, the packages say things like... Read More... Posted Mar 14 2008, 05:06 PM by Kelly Mills with | with 6 comment(s) Filed under: activities, nutrition, sports, obesity, girls, media, diet, self-esteem, weight, body image, calories, Girl Scouts, gymnastics, 5 resolutions blog

• Pregcellent: Eat This, Not That

  Sometimes I wonder why I get so pissy about stuff when everybody does it, but I do. Take the diet/nutrition book, "Eat This, Not That" now in a pregnancy edition. It's pimped on the Today site right now. So the original, non-pregnancy version of the book was all over Today and msnbc, three times I believe. Hmmm, it's by the editors of Men's Health--could there be a connection between that mag and Today? Yeah, yeah, nothing new, I know. And the book made dubious claims about nutrition as a way to target belly fat. Again, not unheard of for a diet book to make lame and questionable promises. And I noted that some of the caloric amounts for the "bad" food choices were pretty high, like perhaps they had chosen the worst possible offender and generalized. No, that's not unique. So, how does the expecting mom version stack up? Well... Read More... Posted Feb 27 2008, 08:32 AM by Kelly Mills with | with no comments Filed under: food, health, pregnancy, nutrition, fat, diet, calories, pregcellent, msnbc, eat this not that, resources, mens health, today, expectant moms

• What Your Kid Does to Burn 150 Calories

  So we all know and agree now that kids today are getting fatter and fatter. So it follows that getting your kids off the couch and doing something is good for them, right? There are a lot of things they probably already do that will easily burn off that handful of Doritos or Oreos, fun things like roller skating or throwing a ball around that they already enjoy. It's a little-known fact, then, that there are a whole lot more things your kids are already doing that burn off enormous amounts of energy, if only the energy that is expended when you reach for another Sibling Rivalry. Each of these activities is worth approximately 150 calories: whining, 17 minutes repeating "Are we almost there?" 113 times (in a 22-minute period) pinching of sibling, 11 reps arm-twisting of sibling, 4 reps dumping out all the Legos stepping around Legos without picking any up, 3 days repeating, "...but he started it!" 8 times screaming, 1 minute  I'm guessing your kids are actually in better shape than you had thought.  I know mine are. Posted Jun 03 2007, 02:03 PM by Karen Murphy with | with no comments Filed under: kids, sibling rivalry, staying fit, repetitive activities, calories