What’s going on in the Dieting World? First of all there are 10 worthless sites for every 1 with something interesting.
At CalorieLab Calorie Counter News (Weight loss, diet, nutrition, and food news and information)
They’re talking about Setting Weight Loss Goals:
Keep your goals simple and realistic. If youire commitment phobic, it sometimes helps to set extremely short-term goals, to be accomplished within a matter of hours rather than within a day or a week.
And this scary (but not really surprising) news:
Outlook murky for the obese. Inlook even worse.The problem, quite simply, is that an increasing number of patients are literally too oversized to fit into scanners, and/or are so layered with fat that X-rays and sonograms can’t pass through it to inner tissues and organs.
The official term for this diagnostic roadblock among radiologists is “body habitus,” meaning “body build,” a phrase whose appearance in radiology reports doubled in frequency from 1989 to 2003 as a confounding factor in attempts to use X-rays, CT scans, MRI imaging or PET technology to spot tumors, blood clots, fractures and other ailments and injuries.
This last story was also reported at Livin’ La Vida Low-Carb, Airplane Seats, Restaurant Booths And X-Rays? Check out the UPDATEs to read correspondence with Dr. Raul Uppot, one of the authors of the study under discussion.
And there’s always a lot to read at Healthacker.com. It was their link to a story at Livin’ La Vida Low-Carb about the Weight Loss Buddy Site that brought me to the article I linked to above this.
This isn’t an easy cruise, there is a lot of hooey along the way . . .
The Road to Reduction – An Integrated Strategy for Sustainable Weight Loss. He’s got some links to sites for do-it-yourself dieters (a link to The Hacker’s Diet helped me find this one.). And I love his evaluation of a guy featured in this New York Times story. This The Road to Reduction appeals to me and I’ll come back.
This is it — 3 hours of hammering on the Internets and I’m out of here!
3 Comments
I feel you. I did the same thing, and was amazed by the lack of quality. There are plenty of blogs of people sharing their weight loss story as they go through the process, but there aren’t many blogs on the topic of weight loss that are noy consistent in providing quality posts. Healthhacker is an exception. Good stuff there.
I’m going to build a section for diet/health blogs, but it may be slow going. I don’t want to add blogs to the list just because they exist. I want them to really be blogs I visit daily. I’d appreciate it if you could point me to any others that you think are useful and/or interesting.
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