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Learning From Celebrity Dieting in the News

By ns | Published: August 25, 2011
Sarah Ferguson, Jason Alexander, Dan Marino, Carrie Fisher, Valerie Bertinelli, Jennifer Hudson, Marie Osmond, Carnie Wilson, and of course Kirstie Alley have all endorsed diet products. Recently The New York Times took notice of how many celebrities have lost weight using various weight loss products.
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If You Want To Quit An Addiction, Start By Properly Caring For and Feeding Your Big Dumb Pet, Your Brain!

By ns | Published: August 25, 2011
There is a reason that a multi-million dollar antidepressant industry has sprung up in the last 30 years. Masses of people have cultivated unhealthy brains that do not have enough happy neurotransmitters to help them cope with every day life. I questioned the efficacy of antidepressants for years for one very good reason: I know many people who have been “depressed” for years who have been taking antidepressants the entire time. If antidepressants worked, then wouldn’t my depressed friends be happier?
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What Fat Kids Can Tell Us About Nutrition

By ns | Published: August 24, 2011
You could be one of the over three million people who have watched the nine year old Timmy on the YOUTUBE video “Me Singing and Dancing to Bad Romance by Lady Gaga.” People are mesmerized by Timmy’s charisma. I see something else that is significant to millions of American parents. Timmy’s fat.
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Food Madness

By ns | Published: August 23, 2011
At lunch the other day, while I was enjoying a plate of chicken with saffron risotto, a friend told me about his father’s ill health and attributed it, in part, to his early diet. He was poor as a young man and often, when scrounging for what he could afford to eat, would down a box of donuts for dinner. I could not help but think that there are a lot of people out there who love to eat a box of donuts for dinner who can actually afford to eat real food. Food madness has crept into life as normal behavior. This is just a sampling of the food craziness that accelerates aging:
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News at 11: Coffee Drinking Study May Be Flawed

By ns | Published: August 22, 2011
Every so often there's breaking news about the health benefits of coffee. Recently, millions of men breathed sighs of relief over their morning papers.
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