Lose weight, make peace at Middle East diet group - Reuters India

Brian Burke confident Corey Perry can be re-signed - Los Angeles Times
While Brian Burke has given his stars Scott Niedermayer and Teemu Selanne until next month’s NHL entry draft to tell him whether they will play next season or retire, the Ducks’ general manager says he is confident that he will re-sign Corey Perry
Source: www.latimes.com

Urge to quit smoking can be contagious, researchers say - Detroit Free Press
Researchers who suggested that obesity can spread person to person now say they’ve found that smokers are more likely to kick the habit if a spouse, friend, coworker or sibling did. Also, smokers tend to quit in groups, and those who don’t stop
Source: www.freep.com

Fuel costs 16p per mile. Why? - Guardian Unlimited
Fraser Speirs with his Renault Espace, which he is selling to buy a hybrid. As a school IT teacher and software developer living in Greenock, Scotland, Fraser Speirs is skilled in making spreadsheets with colourful charts. Prompted by the “unending
Source: www.guardian.co.uk

Top ten big fat diet lies revealed - Edinburgh News

Free Weight Loss Seminar: How Men and Women Gain and Lose Weight - Forbes
PARADISE VALLEY, Ariz., May 20 /PRNewswire/ — Dr. Theresa Ramsey is holding a Free informational seminar for the public on Weight Loss: The Battle of the Bulge. Dr. Ramsey together with Dr. Jessica Marier will be examining how men and women gain and
Source: www.forbes.com

News focus: Weight loss claims - Food Navigator
The report, which dates from last March, adds more weight to the argument that ‘bogus’ weight loss supplements are damaging the overall industry. Mintel values the US weight control market - including supplements and foods - at $3.7bn. However, the
Source: www.foodnavigator-usa.com

Friends quit smoking? You probably will too - FOX News
LOS ANGELES The urge to smoke is contagious, but quitting apparently is, too. A team of researchers who showed that obesity can spread person-to-person has found a similar pattern with smoking cessation: A smoker is more likely to kick the habit
Source: www.foxnews.com

Take steps to prevent kidney stones - Detroit News
In some families, stone formation is greatly influenced by genes. If one family member has had stones, the risk for other family members having a stone is twice that of people with no family history. Even if genes are involved, your son can do much
Source: www.detnews.com

Weight loss fad catching on in Bollywood - Hindustan Times
Weight loss is not restricted to overweight celebrities any more. The fad is catching on among Bollywood stars like Kareena Kapoor, Ayesha Takia and veterans like Om Puri too. For the last few weeks, Om Puri has been regularly visiting a health
Source: www.hindustantimes.com

Wedding weight loss: How brides go to extremes - New York Daily News
Many brides-to-be resort to extreme weight-loss measures in hopes of looking svelte on their big day. The next time you’re at the gym, see if you can spot the June brides. They’re the ones doing manic crunches or panting on the treadmill, furiously
Source: www.nydailynews.com

‘Severe’ neglect blamed in death - Chicago Tribune
For the last five years, nurses, doctors, relatives and caseworkers were in and out of Jaylen Brown’s life, trusted with caring for the severely disabled 13-year-old boy. He suffered a gruesome death anyway, neglected and malnourished. His flesh
Source: www.chicagotribune.com

‘Fat School’ - Washington Post
In this video and narrated gallery, students who attend campuses of a boarding academy for overweight kids describe their fight to lose weight. For many teenagers at Wellspring Academy of the Carolinas, located at the end of a serpentine dirt road
Source: www.washingtonpost.com

Aguilera reveals her weight loss secret - Daily News and Analysis
LONDON: Pop star Christina Aguilera, who has a lot of weight to return to her pre-pregnancy look, has revealed that her secret is a 90-minute workout five days a week and not having any white bread. Aguilera gave birth to a son four months ago and
Source: www.dnaindia.com

Wedding weight loss: How brides go to extremes - New York Daily News

Gamers get on board, in shape with ‘Wii Fit’ - Baltimore Sun
If someone had pulled me away from GoldenEye 007 in the late 1990s to tell me that I’d one day be using my video-game system to get in shape, I would have likely drawn James Bond’s Golden Gun and shot a hole in that cockamamie theory. But here I am a
Source: www.baltimoresun.com

Ads touting dairy for weight loss “misleading” - Edmonton Journal

Free Weight Loss Seminar: How Men and Women Gain and Lose Weight - Forbes
PARADISE VALLEY, Ariz., May 20 /PRNewswire/ — Dr. Theresa Ramsey is holding a Free informational seminar for the public on Weight Loss: The Battle of the Bulge. Dr. Ramsey together with Dr. Jessica Marier will be examining how men and women gain and
Source: www.forbes.com

Take steps to prevent kidney stones - Detroit News

Wedding weight loss: How brides go to extremes - New York Daily News
Many brides-to-be resort to extreme weight-loss measures in hopes of looking svelte on their big day. The next time you’re at the gym, see if you can spot the June brides. They’re the ones doing manic crunches or panting on the treadmill, furiously
Source: www.nydailynews.com

Weight loss fad catching on in Bollywood - Hindustan Times
Weight loss is not restricted to overweight celebrities any more. The fad is catching on among Bollywood stars like Kareena Kapoor, Ayesha Takia and veterans like Om Puri too. For the last few weeks, Om Puri has been regularly visiting a health
Source: www.hindustantimes.com

LAWSUIT IS A REAL DOGFIGHT - New York Post
May 22, 2008 — A Manhattan man is suing a swanky Upper East Side pet spa for $200,000 after a pit bull nearly turned his schnauzer into Wiener schnitzel. The dog-almost-eat-dog tale happened last month, when Diesel, a 10-pound pooch, was staying at
Source: www.nypost.com

Shape Shifters: Actors’ Extreme Weight Changes - ABC News
Ever since Robert De Niro gained 60 pounds to play washed-up boxing champ Jake LaMotta in the 1980 film “Raging Bull,” actors have been using extreme weight loss and gain to help transform themselves into their on-screen characters. Colin Farrell and
Source: www.abcnews.go.com

Aguilera reveals her weight loss secret - Daily News and Analysis
LONDON: Pop star Christina Aguilera, who has a lot of weight to return to her pre-pregnancy look, has revealed that her secret is a 90-minute workout five days a week and not having any white bread. Aguilera gave birth to a son four months ago and
Source: www.dnaindia.com

Friends quit smoking? You probably will too - The Ledger
The urge to smoke is contagious, but quitting apparently is, too. A team of researchers who showed that obesity can spread person-to-person has found a similar pattern with smoking cessation: A smoker is more likely to kick the habit if a spouse
Source: www.theledger.com

Gamers get on board, in shape with ‘Wii Fit’ - Baltimore Sun
If someone had pulled me away from GoldenEye 007 in the late 1990s to tell me that I’d one day be using my video-game system to get in shape, I would have likely drawn James Bond’s Golden Gun and shot a hole in that cockamamie theory. But here I am a
Source: www.baltimoresun.com

Pack mentality affects smoking - Seattle Post Intelligencer
LOS ANGELES — The urge to smoke is contagious, but quitting apparently is, too. A team of researchers who showed that obesity can spread person-to-person has found a similar pattern with smoking cessation: A smoker is more likely to kick the habit
Source: seattlepi.nwsource.com

‘Fat School’ - Washington Post
In this video and narrated gallery, students who attend campuses of a boarding academy for overweight kids describe their fight to lose weight. For many teenagers at Wellspring Academy of the Carolinas, located at the end of a serpentine dirt road
Source: www.washingtonpost.com