It’s not a surprise that teenagers don’t listen to adults but rather are influenced by their peers.

Anne M. Fletcher, author of Weight Loss Confidential: How Teens Lose Weight and Keep It Off, a mother and a dietitian, interviewed and surveyed more than 100 teens who have lost weight and kept it off – some as much as 100 pounds – as well as their parents.

The book was inspired by her own teenage son, who lost more than 60 pounds when motivated by another boy who had lost weight. (more…)

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Weight Watchers responds:

“We appreciate Susie Orbach’s desire to educate women that there are no quick fixes in achieving long-term weight loss. But her criticism of us is misguided: Research has found our approach to be effective.

In fact, a study published in the International Journal of Obesity found that people who achieved a healthy body weight attending Weight Watchers meetings were much less likely to regain weight than the norm. (more…)

Many stars seem to banish their baby weight overnight.

But Liv Tyler says she struggled to boomerang back to her prebaby size after welcoming son Milo.

“It’s so hard to lose your baby weight!” Tyler told British Cosmopolitan in 2005.

“Everyone in magazines is so skinny three weeks later and says, ‘Oh, I’m just running around after my kid.’”

Now she boasts to the March Glamour that she recently shed 10 pounds — on her own terms. (more…)

It may be a breakthrough in the continuing democratization (some would say “downscaling”) of aesthetic procedures, but the “Water Lift” could conceivably eliminate the downtime associated with traditional face lifts.

Pioneered by Dr. R. Patrick Abergel, the technique injects a solution of pressurized saline and lidocaine between the skin and underlying facial muscles to loosen the connective tissue and eliminate extensive sub-dermal slicing.

Excess skin still ends up in the surgical waste bin, but the result, says the CA surgeon, is significantly less bruising, swelling and nerve damage. (more…)

They might make you tear up, but they’re on your side: Onions may protect you against cancer, according to a recent study in the American journal of Clinical Nutrition.

Surveys done in Italy and Switzerland found adults who ate onions seven or more times a week had less than half the chance of developing colon cancer than people who didn’t eat onions.

Research also showed people who ate the veggie had lower odds of developing ovarian, mouth, and other cancers. The benefits might be linked to all their antioxidants. (more…)

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I am pretty sure more information will surface about the “300 workout� soon, but for now here is the video in which Mark Twight, founder of the legendary Gym Jones, explains his approach to the so-called “Spartan 300 training� (a.k.a. the “Spartan 300 workout�).

UPDATE: An actual 300 Spartan Workout DVD has been released.

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Or does it? What weights more? A pound of muscle of fat? Here’s what Len Kravitz, Ph.D., and one of the leading exercise physiologists in the country has to say:

A pound of fat and a pound of muscle definitely weigh the same amount. But when it comes to body composition and how these components affect how you look, there is a world of difference.

Essentially, it’s truly all about body composition – the amount of fat versus the amount of muscle in your body. From the standpoint of mass, a pound of feathers is the same as a pound of lead bolts, but the feathers will fill up a larger volume of space than the lead bolts. (more…)