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http://community.bellasavio.com/Home/14415 How to Cut Calories from Your Diet tweetmeme_source

How to Cut Calories from Your Diet

by Becky Rose on 05/10/2011 02:57 PM   0 comments , 77 views
Categories: Food Choices, Calorie Intake, For the Office, For the Home, Portion Control, Functional Foods/Beverages, Water, Articles

Cut back on your calorie intake and lose weight – it all sounds so simple! Unfortunately, however, it’s often the most difficult thing any of us try to do.

Using Substitutions, Supplements and Tricks to Assist You

It’s not that overweight individuals can’t make sacrifices in what they eat and even how much they eat. It’s more that trying to stay full and satisfied on a calorie-counting plan can be painful! You don’t know just how quickly ...

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http://community.bellasavio.com/Home/14414 New Media Analysis Shows Room To Improve When Communicating About Weight And Health tweetmeme_source

New Media Analysis Shows Room To Improve When Communicating About Weight And Health

by Becky Rose on 05/10/2011 01:36 PM   0 comments , 84 views
Categories: Food Choices, Family Health, Calorie Intake, Obesity/Disease, Social / Community Sites, News/Press Releases, Articles, Links

 

Unrealistic and uninformed media portrayals of weight not only can negatively influence individual behavior, but can impact how policymakers approach issues of weight and health. The result, according to experts from the Strategies to Overcome and Prevent (STOP) Obesity Alliance and the National Eating Disorders Association (NEDA), is a continued belief that these issues are largely a matter of personal responsibility and that little can ...

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http://community.bellasavio.com/Home/14413 Free Health Calculator - Calculate your BMI, Ideal Body Weight, and Basal Metabolic Rate tweetmeme_source

Free Health Calculator - Calculate your BMI, Ideal Body Weight, and Basal Metabolic Rate

by Kim Collins on 02/28/2011 10:06 AM   0 comments , 132 views
BMI - The Body Mass Index is a statistical measure of the weight of a person scaled according to their height. Your BMI will determine whether you're at a healthy weight, overweight, obese or even underweight. It's important to know and understand your BMI because if it is too high, you may be at risk of obesity related diseases.

BMR - The Basal Metabolic Rate determines just how many calories are necessary for your body to perform each day. Someone in a weight maintenance phase will require far more calories than someone trying to lose weight.

IBW - The Ideal Body Weight helps you to identify a healthy weight goal based on body type, gender, age and fitness level. You'll be given a weight range based on four formulas representing specific body types or gender
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http://community.bellasavio.com/Home/14410 Take health care into your own hands tweetmeme_source

Take health care into your own hands

by Kim Collins on 02/28/2011 09:13 AM   0 comments , 131 views
Categories: United States, Text Documents, Links
Custom Topics: health care, insurance, healthcare.gov, medical needs, hospitals, medical facilities, affordable care act, federal government, u.s. department of health & human services
Visit HealthCare.gov to find health insurance that's affordable and meets your medical needs. You can also use this website to compare hospitals and other medical facilities, learn about preventive services to help you stay healthy, and read about the Affordable Care Act.
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http://community.bellasavio.com/Home/14409 Calculate Calories in Alcoholic Drinks tweetmeme_source

Calculate Calories in Alcoholic Drinks

by Vicki Tambellini on 02/16/2011 07:02 AM   0 comments , 129 views
Categories: Counting Calories, Calorie Intake, Text Documents, Links
Custom Topics: calories, alcohol, alcohol calorie calculator, beer, hard alcohol, calories consumed
If you're curious about the calories in a glass of wine, a beer, a margarita, and other common drinks, check out the Alcohol Calorie Calculator. Keep in mind that the "serving" size used for these calculations may be smaller than what you typically consume in one drink. 
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http://community.bellasavio.com/Home/14408 Calorie counts don't stop kids from pigging out tweetmeme_source

Calorie counts don't stop kids from pigging out

by Vicki Tambellini on 02/15/2011 06:56 AM   0 comments , 141 views
Categories: Kids' Health, Kids' Obesity, Research Reports/Surveys, Articles, Text Documents, Links, Blog
Custom Topics: study, teens, kids, calorie counts, challenges, mandatory menu labels, fighting obesity, u.s. researchers
Study challenges effectiveness of mandatory menu labels in fighting obesity
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http://community.bellasavio.com/Home/14406 150 years of diet fads and still no quick fix to get skinny tweetmeme_source

150 years of diet fads and still no quick fix to get skinny

by Vicki Tambellini on 02/11/2011 01:21 PM   0 comments , 114 views
Categories: United States, Articles, Text Documents, Links
Custom Topics: low-carb diet, dr. atkins, william banting, library of congress, clemson university, ellen granberg, history of dieting
It turns out our obsession with weight and how to lose it dates back at least 150 years. And while now we say "overweight" instead of "corpulent" — and obesity has become epidemic — a look back at dieting history shows what hasn't changed is the quest for an easy fix
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http://community.bellasavio.com/Home/14404 American Council on Exercise Reveals Findings on Hula Hooping Workouts tweetmeme_source

American Council on Exercise Reveals Findings on Hula Hooping Workouts

by Kim Collins on 02/10/2011 09:50 AM   0 comments , 151 views
Categories: Types of Exercise, News/Press Releases, Text Documents, Links
Custom Topics: fitness, american council on exercise, reveals finding, hula hooping workouts, nonprofit fitness certification, cedric x. bryant phd, university of wisconsin, la crosse
The American Council on Exercise, America's leading authority on fitness and the largest nonprofit fitness certification, education and training organization in the world, today announced exclusive study findings that conclude hula hooping workouts offer substantial and positive results.
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http://community.bellasavio.com/Home/14405 Medical Treatment, Out of Reach tweetmeme_source

Medical Treatment, Out of Reach

by Vicki Tambellini on 02/09/2011 11:00 PM   0 comments , 138 views
Categories: United States, Articles, Text Documents, Links
Custom Topics: medical treatment, out of reach, biosensors international, medical device company, food and drug administration, jeffrey b. jump, mexico, canada
Late last year, Biosensors International, a medical device company, shut down its operation in Southern California, which had once housed 90 people, including the company’s top executives and researchers.
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http://community.bellasavio.com/Home/14400 Daily diet soda tied to higher risk for stroke, heart attack tweetmeme_source

Daily diet soda tied to higher risk for stroke, heart attack

by Vicki Tambellini on 02/09/2011 08:42 AM   0 comments , 144 views
Categories: Food Choices, For the Home, Research Reports/Surveys, Articles, Text Documents, Links
Custom Topics: study, diet soda, stroke, higher risk, heart attack, 61% higher risk, american stroke association's international stroke, hannah gardener, university of miami miller school of medicine
Just as you were starting to feel virtuous for having switched from sugary sodas to low- or no-calorie substitutes, a new study comes along suggesting that diet sodas might be bad for your head and your heart.
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