Eating Blindfolded is Catching On
Filed under: Food and Nutrition , Diet and Weight Loss People who eat more slowly tend to be thinner. We’ve heard that one for a long time and now there’s some proof it works. Of 3,300 Japanese adult participants in one study, those who ate fast were nearly twice as likely to be overweight,...
Michelle Obama - Could You Hang With the Fit First Lady?
Filed under: Fitness , Celebrities and Entertainment Do you have a list of celebrities you’d like to work out with? I definitely do. I think it would be cool to do some watersports with Cameron Diaz, and I’d love to go for a run with Matthew McConnaughey. You know, because he’s a good...
Are You an All-Or-Nothing Thinker?
Filed under: Diet and Weight Loss Here at That’s Fit, we’re constantly telling you what we think about things, but sometimes it’s nice to know what you think. So from time to time, we’ll ask you a question. Don’t be afraid to speak up — we love feedback. So you’re...
Smoking 3-Year-Old, Train Station Dance Parties and More - January 20 to January 27
Filed under: Fitness , Food and Nutrition , Diet and Weight Loss As fabulous as we at That’s Fit think this blog is, the truth is there are hundreds of wonderful blogs on healthy living to be seen all over the blogosphere. So in this feature, Fit Links, we’ll introduce you to some that have...
America Takes It Off: Shrink a Size - Monday Challenge #4
Filed under: Fitness , Food and Nutrition , Motivation and Inspiration , Diet and Weight Loss This is bittersweet. It’s our last challenge for America Takes It Off: Shrink a Size , and that’s kind of sad. But it’s happy too, because those who have been participating for the month of...
Inauguration Day Workouts, Mickey Rourke and Fitness DVDs - Week in Review - January 19 to January 25
Filed under: Fitness , Diet and Weight Loss If you missed our daily postings this past week, we invite you to take some time to catch up on our prior week’s news and gear up for a new week of healthy living information and inspiration. Bringing your workout inside for the winter or too frugal...
Smoking May Be Hazardous to Your Weight
Filed under: Diet and Weight Loss Lemondrop has a series of old advertisements for smoking . They’re humorous in an I-can’t-believe-they-said-that kind of way. A couple of the ads focus on how smoking can help keep you thin. Yeah, good idea. You’ll have stinky breath, smelly clothes...
America Takes It Off: Shrink a Size - Friday Results for Wednesday Weigh-In #3
Filed under: Fitness , Food and Nutrition , Motivation and Inspiration , Diet and Weight Loss Last Wednesday, you weighed in for the third time since our America Takes It Off: Shrink a Size initiative launched on January 1. This week, 36 of you stepped on the scale and told us what it revealed. I’ve...
Exercise DVDs - This is What You Should Be Buying
Filed under: Fitness Last week I noticed there was an article about “the top ten most searched exercise DVD titles” posted on the AOL homepage. You should know that I am the unofficial queen of exercise videos. I try out at least three new releases a week, and sometimes as many as 10, and...
Woman Goes to Rehab for Soda Addiction
Filed under: Food and Nutrition , Diet and Weight Loss One of the easiest ways to cut calories and sugar from your diet is to give up your soda habit. But for one Swedish woman, asking her to quit drinking Coke is like asking her to quit breathing. She took drinking soda to an entirely new level —...
Body Image - Be Happy With Health, Not Perfection
Filed under: Motivation and Inspiration When you look in the mirror, what do you see? A little extra padding in the rear? Thighs that remind you of certain electrical weather conditions? Upper arms that continue to wave long after your hand is done waving? Most of us (me included) have a bad habit of...
Diabetes
- Achieving Healthy Pregnancy Despite DiabetesAmong diabetic pregnant women, the most common problem when it comes to their baby’s health is the condition called “macrosomia” or having a baby with large body. This is because the blood of the mother with diabetes is interchanged with that of the baby inside the womb. As a result, the baby will produce insulin to be able to glucose and t […]
- Are You Suffering From Diabetes?People who are prone to diabetes—especially those who have the disease in their family’s history—should consider that there is a great possibility that they or their kids might inherit the illness. So, the best way to go about it is become very informed about the condition. The following are some the things that people who are prone to diabetes mus […]
- An Explanation of DiabetesIf you think that you are prone to diabetes, the first thing that you need to know is to understand what is the illness all about. Experts say that diabetes is a chronic disease, which develop among people who have the inability to utilize the glucose in their food to be used as energy. The illness develops when the accumulated glucose stays in the person […]