Facebook maybe bad for your body

Facebook fat people

Facebook is a craze, not a necessity. Now it seems, Facebook followers may be falling flat on their face and fat bodies. According to a report by The Center for Eating Disorders at Sheppard Pratt in Maryland, Facebook may be fueling the fire of Body and weight obsession. 

The Center’s survey found that a vast majority of Facebook users feel they are fat compared to the pictures of their friends on Facebook.

Ice Cream Bar for Health and Fitness – StrongBody Bars

StrongBody Bars

Health and fitness enthusiasts can now have their ice cream bar and eat it guilt free without worrying about excessive junk calories.

StrongBody Bars is a Health & Fitness ice cream product developed by Booozah LLC, in partnership with Royal Ice Cream of Manchester CT. This product will provide good calories and would appeal to people concerned about  obesity, weight management, health and fitness.

StrongBody Bar has only about 130 calories and weighs 4 oz (82g) which

Healthy Vending Machines of Santa Monica

Healthy vending machines

Obesity is a problem in the U.S. and it can lead to several health problems such as diabetes. The problem is worldwide and even countries like Brazil and China have begun to experience the issue of obesity and its adverse consequences.

A Santa Monica company, H.U.M.A.N. Healthy Vending, is taking a healthy look at food vending machine business. H.U.M.A.N. in company name stands for helping unite man and nutrition (h.u.m.a.n.). The company states its mission is to eradicate childhood obesity through education and healthy eating and 10% of profits are donated to charities that fight obesity and malnutrition.

The company claims, traditional Vending machines in schools usually only sell foods high in sugar, fat, and sodium--which leads to worse-

Weight loss drug Qnexa wins support of FDA advisory panel

Qnexa, Vivus

Weight loss drug, Qnexa won strong recommendation from the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) advisory panel despite being potentially risky for heart and birth related issues. The FDA is expected to make its decision in April.

According to the developer:

“Qnexa [kyoo-nek-suh] is an investigational drug candidate being developed to address weight loss, type 2 Diabetes and obstructive sleep apnea. Qnexa is a once-a-day, proprietary, oral, controlled-release formulation of low-dose phentermine and topiramate, which is designed to decrease appetite and increase satiety (the sense of feeling full), the two main mechanisms that impact eating behavior.”

Kim and Khloe Kardashian may lose some weight over QuickTrim legal issues

QuickTrim, Kardashian

Kardashians always seem to find some way to stay in the news and make money because of it. It turns out this time Kim and Khloe Kardashian will be tossed around by the lawyers because of their involvement with weight loss product QuickTrim. Kim and Khloe Kardashian have done paid endorsement for QuickTrim and claimed to have lost a lot of weight because of it. Up coming legal workout will make them lose weight for real.

Quicktrim International’s website and products show pictures of Kim and Khloe Kardashian. The website claims:

Roseanne Barr, the Presidential candidate, on food, fitness, health and well being

Roseanne Barr

Roseanne Barr is running for president as a Green Party candidate. Roseanne, 60, is known as a comedian. However, most people may not know that Roseanne is very thoughtful and eloquent and actively blogs on a variety of issues.

Here are a few gems from Roseanne as related to the subject of food, fitness, health and general well being:

mechanical fitness boot camp in Tarzana by Servando Dominguez

Hello, Southern California people, you don’t have to be in the westside of Los Angeles or near beach communites to exercise and look great. Here is something that will interest people of San Fernardino Valley (SFV), CA.

mechanical fitness boot camp

The Mechanical Fitness Boot camp in Tarzana is run by fitness expert Servando Dominguez who himself is a resident of SFV. The program is primarily a fitness boot camp for women but not exclusively for women.

This boot camp can help you:

Finally LOSE weight

SHAPE up your thighs & hips

FLATTEN your stomach

TONE your arms

LOSE inches off your waist to fit back into those old jeans

Have more ENERGY

REDUCE FAT by eating all day in my "No Hunger Meal Plan"

& Have FUN while working out at your FITNESS LEVEL

LOCATIONS

The classes take place in 3 locations: 

Tarzana

Chatsworth

Porter Ranch

The popular HOURS are:

Mon Wed Fri   6AM, 9AM, 7PM

Tue Thurs         6:30 PM

What kind of guarantee?

Apparently, this is the only women's boot camp in Chatsworth, Tarzana and Porter Ranch with a 100% Money Back GAURANTEE. According to Servando:

 “I am so confident that my personal fitness program, my unique boot camp formula, can help YOU look and feel great that if for ANY reason YOU are unsatisfied in the first 30 days of the boot camp Program… I'll give you a FULL refund plus $50 CASH!”

So, there is no need to wait. About 500 people a month inquire about this fitness program. If you are in  San Fernardino Valley (Tarzana, Encino, Sherman Oaks, Chatsworth, Granada Hills, Northridge, Porter Ranch, Reseda, West Hills, Woodland Hills and Simi Valley),  you may want to check out Mechanical fitness boot camp.

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Contact for more information:

www.mechanicalfitness.com/

servando@mechanicalfitness.com

Tel: (818) 314-2775.

Not much fat among America’s top female celebrities

hollywood fitn

I found a list that is almost two years old. There were not any real fat among a list of  47 female celebrities. In fact some of them appear to be under weight. The lightest one was Calista Flockhart (97 lbs.) and the heaviest one was Mariah Carey (140 lbs.)/ I am sure there are many heavy weight celebrities but they just were not included in this list.

Calista Flockhart	5'6"	97 lbs.	Actresses
Nicole Richie	5'1"	98 lbs	Actresses
Kirsten Dunst	5'4"	100 lbs.	Actresses
Christina Aguilera	5'2"	100 lbs.	Musicians
Madonna	5'4"	100 lbs.	Musicians
Eva Longoria	5'2"	104 lbs.	Actresses
Miley Cyrus	5'4"	104 lbs.	Actresses
Hillary Duff	5'1"	105 lbs	Actresses
Lindsay Lohan	5'5"	105 lbs.	Actresses
Pam Anderson	5'7"	105 lbs.	Actresses
Kate Moss	5'7"	105 lbs.	Models
Britney Spears	5'5"	105 lbs.	Musicians
Fergie	5'2"	105 lbs.	Musicians
Shakira	5'2"	105 lbs.	Musicians
Penelope Cruz	5'6"	109 lbs.	Actresses
Jennifer Aniston	5'6"	110 lbs.	Actresses
Jessica Biel	5'8"	110 lbs.	Actresses
Paris Hilton	5'9"	110 lbs.	Actresses
Sandra Bullock	5'8"	110 lbs.	Actresses
Naomi Campbell	5'10"	110 lbs.	Models
Carrie Underwood	5'3"	110 lbs.	Musicians
Gwyneth Paltrow	5'9"	112 lbs.	Actresses
Adriana Lima	5'10"	112 lbs.	Models
Meghan Fox	5'6"	114 lbs.	Actresses
Kate Beckinsdale	5'8"	115 lbs.	Actresses
Kate Hudson	5'6"	115 lbs.	Actresses
Salma Hayek	5'2"	115 lbs.	Actresses
Scarlett Johansson	5'4"	115 lbs.	Actresses
Gisele Bundchen	5'11"	115 lbs.	Models
Gwen Stefani	5'6"	115 lbs.	Musicians
Jessica Alba	5'7"	118 lbs.	Actresses
Katie Holmes	5'9"	118 lbs.	Actresses
Cameron Diaz	5'9"	120 lbs.	Actresses
Cate Blanchett	5'8"	120 lbs.	Actresses
Nicole Kidman	5'10"	120 lbs.	Actresses
Heidi Klum	5'9"	120 lbs.	Models
Faith Hill	5'8"	120 lbs.	Musicians
Jessica Simpson	5'2"	120 lbs.	Musicians
Taylor Swift	5'10"	120 lbs.	Musicians
Reese Witherspoon	5'6"	122 lbs.	Actresses
Blake Lively	5'9"	123 lbs.	Actresses
Drew Barrymore	5'4"	125 lbs.	Actresses
Julia Roberts	5'10"	125 lbs.	Actresses
Jennifer Lopez	5'6"	125 lbs.	Musicians
Catherine Zeta Jones	5'8"	130 lbs.	Actresses
Beyonce Knowles	5'5"	130 lbs.	Musicians
Mariah Carey	5'9"	140 lbs.	Musicians

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Jennifer Aniston stays fit by daily exercise, yoga and healthy diet with salad

jennifer aniston

Jennifer Aniston was married to Brad Pitt and got divorced in 2005. Now, Jennifer Aniston, at 41, looks pretty. fit and in bikini shape. Aniston was the oldest woman to make the Top 10 on Women’s Health magazine’s ‘Best Summer Bodies of 2010′ list,

Jennifer Aniston keeps her body in a great shape by working out every single day, yoga and running. A longtime follower of  the Zone Diet, Aniston eats a healthy, high-protein, low-carb diet and salad. In fact, while working on Friends, Jennifer Aniston, along with Lisa Kudrow and Courtney Cox ate lunch together and ate a Cobb salad every day for 10 years.

Jennifer was heavier during her Friends days but has gotten fitter and slimmer now. Her advice “just stop eating sh*t every day.”

Jennifer Aniston says “I feel more comfortable today than I ever did in my 20s or early 30s,” she says. “I’m healthier. I’m more at peace in my mind and with my body. I’m startin’ to live. It’s good!”

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Weight management and negative calorie foods

negative cal

One of the major problems faced by people trying to lose or maintain weight is how not to starve and, at the same time, how not to consume too many calories.

While no food is calorie free, there are a number of foods that are very low in calories and they are called “negative calorie foods.”  In fact their calorie content is so low that, the body has to spend more calories in ingestion, digestion and elimination, the net calorie consumption is negative.

For this reason, much less of these calories can possibly turn into fat in negative calorie foods as fewer calories are actually available to the body, assuming we don’t add calories with dressing, frying oil etc. This gives these foods a tremendous natural fat-burning advantage. We all should incorporate such foods into our diet whether it is for weight loss or weight management purpose.

Most of negative calorie foods are plant based, water vegetables and water fruits, and they commonly contain a lot of water locked in fibrous matrix.

You may be familiar with some healthy negative-calorie foods, such as:

variety of negative calorie foods

• Celery

• Grapefruit

• Kelp noodles 

• Lettuce, onions and greens
• Pickles, kimchi and sauerkraut

There are a large number of fruits and vegetables that are considered negative calorie foods. Here is a list provided by fatfreekitchen:

Negative calorie Foods

Negative Calorie Vegetables
Asparagus Beet Root Broccoli Cabbage Carrot Cauliflower Celery	Chicory Hot Chili Cucumber Garden cress Garlic Green Beans	Lettuce Onion Radish Spinach Turnip Zucchini
Negative Calorie Fruits
Apple Blueberries Cantaloupe Cranberry Grapefruit	Honeydew Lemon/Lime Mango Orange Papaya Peach	Pineapple Raspberry Strawberry Tomato Tangerine Turnip Watermelon

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Jane Fonda, 73, is still selling fitness videos

Jane Fonda fitness dvd

If you need some motivation to keep up with your new year resolution to stay fit, listen to Jane Fonda. Jane Fonda, 73, says that it is never too late and you can start working out in your 70s and 80s.

She recently released two new exercise DVDs for Baby Boomers, seniors and people who are out of shape:

Jane Fonda Prime Time: Fit and Strong

Jane Fonda Prime Time: Walk Out

She is still physically active, but not in the same way she used to be. She doesn't run anymore, but walks instead. She does a lot of walking, brisk but doable. Fonda doesn't lift heavy weights anymore but uses 3- to 5-pound hand weights. To sty on track, she also uses services of a personal trainer.

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RevAbs, Beachbody’s 90 days weight loss and fitness challenge

RevAbs from www.beachbody.com

Earlier this month, I came across an Ad in the Craigslist, Los Angeles looking for volunteers who want to get a lean, sexy, six pack Abs in just 90 days.

I responded to the Ad and, surprisingly, got a response three days later. I thought there would be hundreds of people interested and, since I noticed the ad three days later, I would not get any response. Anyway, it turned out the Ad was placed by Santa Monica based fitness products marketing company, BEACHBODY.

They asked me for more personal physical and lifestyle information and then I was invited for a meeting on Monday, December 13, 2010 in a Santa Monica office. There were a number of people but none of them looked extremely overweight or out of shape. Meeting was almost like an audition. It required filling questionnaire on paper followed by seeing three people in a room, in front of a camera. They took a few pictures of me without shirt and asked a few questions about my diet and why I want to participate in the program. The meeting was video taped.

The workout will start on January 10 and the program will last 90 days. Those selected will be notified. I don’t know whether I will be selected because I, although not muscular, am in a descent, active shape already and may not be a good case subject. However, if possible, I will still follow the program and report its outcome in 90 days.

The details of the Ad were as follows:

Want to SHRED YOUR ABS and get a lean, sexy, SIX PACK IN JUST 90 days? (Santa Monica)
Date: 2010-12-03, 3:49PM PST

Attention, Men, Women, Couples (athletes, former athletes, couch potatoes). We are looking for REAL people (not actors) because you are going to get REAL results.
This is your once in a lifetime opportunity to literally TRANSFORM YOUR ABS (AND YOUR BODY) working out with a top fitness program that has proven results!

You can finally get those washboard abs that you will be PROUD TO SHOW OFF and get that FLAT LEAN Stomach you haven’t been able to achieve in the past. Plus, LOSE POUNDS AND INCHES ALL OVER YOUR entire BODY AT THE SAME TIME!

We are looking for FUN and ENERGETIC MEN AND WOMEN from the ages of 26 – 60 to participate in this incredible opportunity! This training program is FREE to select qualified participants. That’s right – FREE DAILY FITNESS TRAINING and FREE DELICIOUS FOOD DELIVERY!

You will receive a delicious protein shake in the morning, 2 healthy meals a day plus 2 snacks everyday for 90 days!
This is a real workout program that requires effort! Participants must be:

* Highly motivated and dedicated!
* Willing to change their current lifestyle with a brand-new, healthy and innovative program
* Attend 5 mandatory fitness classes per week at a location in Santa Monica, CA – you must attend ONE class per day Monday through Friday at one of the following times:

7:00 – 8:00 am
12:30 – 1:30 pm
5:30 – 6:30 pm

You must work out at home using a DVD on a weekend day each week.
* Follow the nutrition guidelines (including supplements) and delivery meal service.
* MUST be willing and available to be interviewed for a direct response TV commercial on dates the week of March 28th.

Camera shy need not apply!

Interested applicants please send a recent photo of yourself in street clothes (shot from head to toe) as well as some info about you and why you should be considered for this excellent opportunity. Please leave a number where you can be reached for a brief phone interview.

If you are committed to changing your abs, your body and your life…we want to hear from you today!!
Location: Santa Monica
Compensation: We cannot compensate testimonials but the value of the package: $2100 in free food PLUS $1500 in training for 90 days!

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FYI

Beachbody, based in Santa Monia, creator of the nation's most popular in-home fitness and weight loss solutions, was founded in 1998 by Beachbody, LLC, of Los Angeles. Beachbody's many programs—including P90X®, Slim in 6®, INSANITY®, Turbo Jam®, Hip Hop Abs®, Body Gospel®, Yoga Booty Ballet®, Kathy Smith's Project:YOU! Type 2®, and ChaLEAN Extreme®—combine challenging DVD-based home fitness programs with easy-to-follow diet guidelines, superior nutritional supplements, and an unparalleled online support system. Offering the most innovative, results-oriented programs and skilled, motivational trainers, Beachbody's core purpose is to help people achieve their goals and enjoy a healthy, fulfilling life.

http://www.beachbody.com/