The Checkup Archive: Me Minus 10
Why do women hate their bodies so much?
I just read an unsettling article in Glamour that said 97 percent of 300 young women surveyed by the magazine reported having multiple negative thoughts about their own bodies in a given day. The average number was 13; many women said they had as many as 35, 50 or 100 such thoughts per day. So I'm sitting here thinking mean thoughts about my thighs and wondering, why do we do this to ourselves?
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Jennifer LaRue Huget
| February 24, 2011; 7:00 AM ET |
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Life's Big Questions, Me Minus 10, Nutrition and Fitness, Psychology, Weight loss, Women's Health
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What's up with Weight Watchers?
At the end of November Weight Watchers switched up its popular weight-loss system, moving from the now-familiar Points program, wherein every food was assigned a value mostly according to the number of calories it contains, to the new PointsPlus program. What's the diff? Under PointsPlus, points are assigned according to a formula that takes into account not just calories but the mix of key nutrients a food contains and other, harder-to-quantify values.
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Jennifer LaRue Huget
| December 21, 2010; 7:00 AM ET |
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Me Minus 10, Nutrition and Fitness, Obesity, Weight loss
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Losing weight is (mostly) great
Now that I'm 50 and about 14 pounds lighter, I've found that, yes, losing weight was a good thing to do. But as I write about in this week's "Eat, Drink and Be Happy" column, it hasn't been as purely positive as I anticipated. From flaps of extra skin to being forced to face things I was using food to hide from, there have been plenty of down sides to my downsizing.
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Jennifer LaRue Huget
| December 7, 2010; 7:00 AM ET |
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Me Minus 10, Nutrition and Fitness, Obesity, Women's Health
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Babies on diets? Now I've heard it all.
Recent news stories have called attention to a phenomenon -- without saying how widespread it is -- in which parents restrict their babies' diets to ward off chubbiness. Apparently for some it's a matter of aesthetics; one story cites a father who raves about how skinny his infant daughter is. Others, though, restrict their babies' food intake so the children won't go on to be chubby children -- or overweight adults.
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Jennifer LaRue Huget
| December 2, 2010; 7:00 AM ET |
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Childhood obesity, Eating disorders, Family Health, Infant health, Kids' health, Me Minus 10, Motherhood, Nutrition and Fitness, Obesity, Parenting
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Protein-rich, low-GI diet protects weight loss, study finds
The latest salvo came late last week when the New England Journal of Medicine published a European study showing that folks who followed a diet in which higher-protein, lower-glycemic-index foods prevailed were better able to maintain their recent weight loss than those who ate less protein and higher-glycemic-value foods. And those who followed a low-protein, high-glycemic-index diet were more likely to regain their lost weight.
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Jennifer LaRue Huget
| November 30, 2010; 7:00 AM ET |
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Diabetes, Me Minus 10, Nutrition and Fitness, Obesity, glycemic index
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Thanksgiving's slippery slope
When my day is arranged in such a way that it can't accommodate my daily workout or when I can't stick to my normal food regimen, I feel apprehensive about the prospect of losing momentum and even gaining a pound back. Which, given the way Thanksgiving is shaping up for me this year, is entirely possible.
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Jennifer LaRue Huget
| November 23, 2010; 7:00 AM ET |
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