Poll: 90% of Americans Think They Eat Healthy!
Are people in America fooling themselves or is all the health data pumped out by the government a pile of lies?
According to a recent Consumer Reports survey, 9 out of 10 Americans said that they eat a healthy diet with the recommended servings of fruit and vegetables!
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Fat Kids Get Less Help Buying Cars
For a teenager, buying your first car is a huge deal. It's your first big step towards independence.
But parents dread the day. Most teens are dopey, so who knows what could happen with a 17 year old piloting a ton of metal, traveling at 60 miles per hour.
And a new study takes a unique look at that parent-first car connection. Parents are less willing to give their child money to buy a car, if the kid is overweight or obese.
“Huge” and a Look into Teenage Body Image
ABC's comedy "Huge" made its TV debut recently. "Huge" centers on a summer weight loss camp for teens. Intrigued about the show's premise, I managed to catch the first episode. Here are my thoughts:
Why Muscular Men Don’t Appeal To Women
How many guys out there have obsessed about six-pack abs? Come on you know who you are. You've read the magazines, spent hours online and entirely too much money on supplements. You've spent so much time at the gym you might as well live there... all for some rippling abs and pulsating pecs.
Maybe it's not the great turn on you thought it would be?
3 Steps to a Healthier Body Image
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Here on Diet Blog our aim is to promote positive body image. As one of our forum posts rightly pointed out recently, the message is "Eat Right. Get Healthy," not "Get Anorexic."
If you're a regular reader on our forum though, you may have noticed the number of posts from readers who appear to have disordered eating or obsessive behaviors surrounding dieting. It makes for pretty sad reading at times.
But, why is that some people -- especially young women -- will go to any lengths to achieve what they perceive as the "perfect" body image?