Book Offers Novel Approach to Weight Loss (MedicineNet.com)
Title: Book Offers Novel Approach to Weight Loss Category: Health News Created: 10/5/2008 2:00:00 AM Last Editorial Review: 10/6/2008
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Youth lit used as weight-loss tool (USA Today)
Here's a novel approach for motivating girls to lose weight: Have them read a novel with an overweight heroine. That's what Duke University scientists did, and it worked.
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Challenging the Common Misconceptions of Diets and Weight Loss (PRWeb via Yahoo! News)
Many people resort to various, stringent, diets in order to lose weight. The Fat Loss Shocker is a new program that exposes the shortcomings of such diets and reveals how weight loss does not require starving oneself.
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New Non-Scripted Reality Series Follows 500-Pound Ruby Gettinger's Unforgettable Journey to Lose Weight and Inspire ... (PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance)
Savannah resident Ruby Gettinger is beautiful, charming, charismatic and weighs a life-threatening 500 pounds. This November, Style's cameras will follow Ruby's personal journey to lose weight, get healthy and battle discrimination on the new and highly-anticipated reality series "Ruby."
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Winning at Weight Loss Takes Team Effort (Carteret County News-Times)
(ARA) - Many overweight individuals try to lose those extra pounds on their own, instead of finding help that can teach them how to get and stay healthy.
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Lighten Up 4 Life: Program aims to help community lose weight (Asheville Citizen-Times)
Diane Crowe was simply tired of being overweight when she signed up to compete in Mission Hospitals’ Lighten Up 4 Life weight loss challenge in January.
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Empatic™ Shows Long-Term Weight Loss, Improved Quality Of Life Contrave(R) Reduces Rate Of Metabolic Syndrome By Half (Medical News Today)
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Some worry reality contest 'Biggest Loser' sets unrealistic weight-loss expectations (Southeast Missourian)
When the sixth season of NBC's dieting reality show, "The Biggest Loser," started, Beth Bushnell Danielson of Elk Grove, Calif., was in front of the tube.Bushnell Danielson has drawn inspiration from "The Biggest Loser.
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Imran helped me in losing weight: Minissha Lamba (New Kerala)
New Delhi, Oct 8: Actress Minissha Lamba worked really hard to shape up to carry off a bikini with panache in Sanjay Gadhvi's Kidnap, but she credits co-star Imran Khan for helping her maintain her weight.
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Reading a book can help obese children to lose weight (Daily Mail)
Reading books can help children lose weight, scientists have discovered. In a study of 45 girls, those who read a book which promoted exercise and a healthy lifestyle saw their body mass index drop.
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