Healthy Food Chart

A new report has found that UK motorists scoff almost 4,000 calories of junk food while at the wheel. To put that in perspective, an extra 3,500 calories would mean a 1lb weight gain. Favorite foods were chocolate, candy and soda, with the average behind-the-wheel snack touting up to 410 calories….

The Llama Butchers “I’ve had it with these bleep-bleep’n peanuts, on this bleep-bleep’n plane!” Yeah, “Peanuts on a Plane” isn’t as cool as Samuel L. Jackson going all Pulp Fiction on Snakes on a Plane, but today nuts are just about as evil as snakes. And since now a kid can drop dead from eating a single nut, some concerned…

AquaBounty What do you get when you take an Atlantic salmon, splice in a gene from a Chinook salmon, plus a gene from an ocean pout? You get a farm raised salmon that grows twice as fast and can be in your sushi in 16 months instead of the normal 3 years!…

VGmoz No real shocker here. Kids like watching cartoons. Kids like junk food and snacks. Put the two together and WHAM you’re a marketing genius! And its not just little kids. Cap’n Crunch has a stranglehold on older kids too. I knew a guy in college who used to eat Crunch Berries and hotdogs for dinner. His name was Stu…

Flickr: little blue hen Trying to kick your french fry habit? Here’s a delicious, but also nutritious, alternative: baked sweet potato french fries. — That’s Fit Canada Here’s an awesome solution for all you forgetful cyclists out there: Wordlock bike locks. Rather than trying to memorize a random set of numbers, you only have to remember a simple word. Yuck….

Forum Post: I am a camp counselor at a regular camp (not a Fat Camp) and I really need to lose about 15-20lbs. I really want to eat healthy and stay fit because those are two major requirements for my job (not…

It’s been a couple of years now since I felt the need to vent about the stupidity of Gwyneth Paltrow’s fad diets. Well, it looks like her dieting practices may have caught up to her as she was recently been diagnosed with oseopenia – a precursor to osteoporosis — at the age of 37….

Forum Post: I have been through 5 years of diets, weight and food obsesssion which have led me to low self esteem, insecurity in the romatic area and Body Dysmorphic disorder. I have tried everything in order to loose weight: from cabbage…

Forum Post: Hello! I’m a 21 year old female, about 5’9″ looking to go from 186(ish) down to about 145(ish). Plan? I’m still in my early stages of planning. I want to get the GoWear Fit (numbers really motivate me) and start…

Obesity has always been touted as one of the biggest controllable risk factors for heart disease and diabetes. While that’s still true, researchers are discovering that a small portion of obese people manage to avoid the associated risks. Conditions like high blood pressure and high cholesterol sometimes go hand in hand with obesity. Those conditions put a person in…