Bob Greene's New 'Best Life Diet' Motivates Beyond the Book.
Greene's Counsel is Reinforced on the Web and in Grocery Aisles Nationwide THE VILLAGES, Fla., Dec. 29 /PRNewswire/ -- Bob Greene, best selling author, exercise physiologist and personal trainer best known for helping Oprah achieve her dramatic weight loss, reveals his practical and effective eating strategies in...

Nutrition knowledge among adolescent high school female athletes.
INTRODUCTION North Americans have become more physically active and are participating in exercise and diet programs for health, recreation, and well-being purposes. It has become important to clarify and quantify the specific elements which lead to health and fitness. According to the Position Papers of the American Dietetic...

Lose Weight Over the Holidays? It's Possible, and Here's How.
IRVINE, Nov. 9 /PRNewswire/ -- Forget about adding pounds to your waistline this holiday season. With a few simple lifestyle adjustments, you actually can lose weight -- and still enjoy the festivities. Although it's commonly asserted that on average people put on at least 5 pounds between...

Get a Good Start in 2007: Ring in the New Year with FoodFit's Seven Steps for Healthy Living.
ARLINGTON, Va., Jan. 3 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- As the holidays come to a close and regular routines start again, it can be difficult to find time to stay true to New Year's resolutions. Recently acquired by TheHealthCentralNetwork.com, FoodFit.com, a healthy eating and active living Web site, consulted nutrition, health and...

A healthy lifestyle program for Latino daughters and mothers: the BOUNCE overview and process evaluation.
ABSTRACT Background: Few family-based healthy lifestyle programs for Latinos have been conducted, especially family programs targeting mother-daughter dyads. Purpose: To assess the acceptability and feasibility of the Behavior Opportunities Uniting Nutrition Counseling and Exercise (BOUNCE)program designed for Latino mother-daughter pairs. Methods: 92 participants (46 mother-daughter pairs) were...

Innovation in the food industry: personalised nutrition and mass customisation.
ABSTRACT Human beings are not created equal, at least not in terms of nutritional needs. Nutritional needs are dictated by a mixture of genetics, epigenetics, personal history and lifestyle. Obvious cases of genetically-based or genetically-predisposed special nutritional needs are well known; insulin-dependent (Type 1) diabetes mellitus and...

SparkPeople.com Launches Free '2007 Fast-Break' Plan: Expert Guidance, Tools, Tips and Community to Help People Keep Their Diet Resolutions.
CINCINNATI, Dec. 19 /PRNewswire/ -- SparkPeople.com is launching the "2007 Fast-Break Plan" -- all the tools needed to set and achieve healthy weight- loss goals. SparkPeople members can quickly find features such as a calorie tracker, meal planner, nutrition guide, customized fitness plan, and more. Visit http://www.sparkpeople.com/newyear...

Achieving the perfect body: nutritional behaviors of nonprofessional, regional female dancers; Trying to balance good nutrition with the demand for a lean body poses a serious challenge for dancers.
Dance is a performance art and a lifetime physical activity. Dancers gain cognitive, affective, and psychomotor development by participating in dance activities. Proper dance training also enriches the growth and development of young aspiring dancers. For females, however, dance imposes a strict body image regimen and fitness standards, which...

'Sizing up' your calorie intake.
The traditional Middle Eastern diet which relies heavily on lean meat, salads, vegetables and fruit is a healthy one, if consumed in moderation. However, in the oil rich countries of the Gulf as in the West, waistlines have been increasing steadily For many years : the reason is simple--we...

Fight the fat: an after-school program to prevent obesity.
Today's generation of young people could be the first generation of Americans to have shorter life expectancies than their parents (American Obesity Association, 2006). Walk into any classroom, in any school, in any state, and one may find that one out of three children is overweight (American Obesity Association)....