Logging the Miles, Blogging the Calories

Logging the Miles, Blogging the Calories
ABC News (blog)
Noone said her blog has played a huge part in her successful weight loss. "That simple commitment made a world of difference. Something happened. Something clicked," she said. "The goal of blogging weekly was something completely in my control.

ABC News (blog)

How to Lose Weight with Common Sense and a Few Simple Tricks
JustLuxe.com
There are a lot of fad diets out there that will promise you the world, and this makes it oh-so-easy tolose track of the simple rules we all know we need to follow to really lose weight and get healthy. Simple biology and your metabolism is all you ...

1Body4Life Medical Weight Loss & Wellness Center
Rockford Register Star
At 1Body4Life Medical Weight Loss and Wellness Center we believe doctors should partner with their patients, listen, consult and customize programs/treatments aimed at prevention, thus improving patients overall wellness and quality of life. With this ...

Healthful Diet Should Be A Top Lifestyle Goal After Breast Cancer Treatment
Hartford Courant
A healthful diet, physical exercise and proper body weight contribute to well-being at any age. These lifestyle goals are particularly important during and after treatment for most health problems, including breast cancer. "A lot of the same [nutrition ...

How to Get Lean: 25 Ways to Lose Fat Faster
Men's Fitness
Not seeing the results you want with your current diet and weight-loss regimen? Try these expert tips to lose ... Whether you're stuck at a weight-loss plateau, or you just need to lose a few extra pounds for that wedding in a few weeks, we're here to ...

Men's Fitness

Surgery is an option to achieve weight loss
The Augusta Chronicle
Weight-loss surgery should not be taken lightly and is by no means an easy way to lose weight. Even after the surgery, patients will need major changes to their diet and lifestyle. However, patients with a body mass index greater than 35 should talk ...

Weight Loss for the Long Haul with The Digest Diet
Diets In Review (blog)
I just couldn't stick to the diet. I'm actually not as upset as I thought I'd be. I didn't lose any moreweight, probably from the uptake in sodium from eating/drinking out two nights in a row, but haven't gained any either. I fit into a pair of pants ...

Seven Healthy Foods that Might Surprise You
Medical Daily
Fad diets, such as South Beach, Atkins, and Low Carb, have gained renewed popularity in recent years because of their promise to help dieters quickly lose weight. Unfortunately, not only do these types of diets offer only short-term results, they have...

Medical Daily

Gluten-free diet: Should you try it?
Toronto Star
The Gluten-Free Edge by Peter Bronski and Melissa McLean extols the virtues of going gluten free to athletes, while WheatBelly: Lose the Wheat, Lose the Weight and Find Your Path Back to Health by cardiologist William Davis captures a lot of attention ...

Toronto Star

'Changing Room' pics show more than weight loss
HLNtv.com
Artist Julia Kozerski didn't expect her personal weight-loss journey to become a piece of art in itself. When she began a self-guided program of diet and exercise in 2009, she wanted to just be healthier and find a new relationship with her body. It ...

Fat Loss Meal Plans - Diet for Weight Loss ... - Muscle and Fitness
By By Eric Falstrault
Let's say you lose 10 pounds. You could lose 10 pounds of fat or muscle mass, but on the scale, it still comes out to 10 pounds, but with very different health consequences. Losing 10 pounds of lean mass means inflammation and higher cortisol, lowered metabolism rate and, most probably, fat ...Although some people will say we still need fat to be healthy, if you stay within the range of 10 to 15 percent, you won't have any problem gaining lean mass and maintaining a healthy lifestyle.
Muscle and Fitness

A Duty of Health Care Workers
New York Times
Health care workers should know better than anyone that it is important to get vaccinated against the flu virus to protect their own health and prevent the possibility of infecting patients. There were some encouraging signs in an analysis issued ...

State House News -- Health care scholars critique Romney, draw skepticism
Wicked Local
Gruber said he helped Romney with the numbers associated with the health reform and was a Romney appointee to the Commonwealth Health Insurance Connector Authority. Altman has been involved in health care reform for decades, telling reporters that ...

Murdock: Leveling the health care playing field in Michigan
The Detroit News
Let's level the health insurance playing field and create real competition in Michigan. Michigan's health insurers strongly support the concept of creating a level playing field for all health ... Blue Cross — and all insurers — should be required to ...

Where is Republican anger over Obama's health-care law?
Washington Post
But as the presidential campaign enters the home stretch, health-care reform is the dog that has not barked. Polls still show that a plurality of Americans favors repealing the Affordable Care Act(ACA). But the political fury has faded. The shift in ...

Guards turn away health-care petitions
Columbus Dispatch
Lawyers representing Hobby Lobby this month sued the federal government claiming it should not be forced to provide workers with health insurance that covers the morning-after and week-after contraceptive pills. Some say the drug's ability to prevent a ...

Read health care act, then we'll talk
South Bend Tribune
19) about his vote for President Obama. This is the link to the full Affordable Health Care Act that is 906 pages long or more depending on the size of the lettering. Download the act from www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/PLAW-111publ148/pdf/PLAW-111publ148.pdf.

State's health-insurance exchange beginning to take shape
The Durango Herald
The exchange system is an integral component of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, signed into law by President Barack Obama in March 2010. Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney has pledged to repeal the law, often called ...

Sears Holdings moves to private exchange for health insurance
Chicago Tribune
The Hoffman Estates-based retailer has moved from a self-funded health plan, in which a company puts aside money to pay for employees' health care claims, to a fully insured plan where Sears has joined a private insurance exchange to cover employees...

Chicago Tribune

Informed Patients Will Improve Health Care
The Atlantic
Here's the icing on the cake in terms of health care spending: Patients also tend to choose less invasive (and therefore less expensive) treatment options. Even after those impressive results, shared decision making hasn't reached universal adoption.

The Atlantic

Obama dominates Romney on health-care issues, poll says
MarketWatch (blog)
The poll from the Kaiser Family Foundation also finds — in what may surprise many — that on handling the future of the controversial health-care overhaul bill, President Barack Obama holds a 53% to 33% lead despite trepidation among the population ...

Romney: My Health Care Law Proves I Care About the 47 Percent ...
By Blue Texan
And since he's arguing that there's nothing that "shows more empathy and care about the people of this country" than extending health insurance to all of its citizens, Romney just gave tacit approval to ObamaCare. Popcorn futures are going ...
Crooks and Liars

Krugman: Health care, social issues helped Obama take lead ...
By John Aravosis
Krugman argues that social issues, paramount among them health care reform, but also reproductive rights, has helped to make this an election where we on the left are mobilized while the right is in shambles. How did that happen? Partly it's ...
AMERICAblog

Employers Offer Buffet Of Health Care Coverage Choices -- But With ...
Some companies are offering employees a set amount to spend during the next open enrollment period for health insurance and making the employees choose coverage themselves -- instead of offering one or two plans to them. ... More companies are expected to adopt the model as health care reform gets under way and as they face higher health care coverage expenses as long as they run their own medical insurance programs (Guy and Knowles, 9/27). In the meantime, a report ...
Kaiser Health News Daily Health...

Analysis: Access to Health Care Starting to Resemble Access to Air ...
By webadmin@kqed.org (NCPB, Inc.)
How the Washington rollout of health care reform is changing the landscape of health care in California ... Some recent data and reactions to the provisions of the Affordable Care Act reinforce the trend. Here's an overview: ... That decision could void tickets to health insurance for an estimated three million people, says the Congressional Budget Office and Joint Committee on Taxation, and possibly a lot more, according to ED Newsa critical analysis by two liberal legal experts. A ticket isn't the ...
State of Health Blog from KQ

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Genuine fat loss is not a fast process

Fitness Matters: Genuine fat loss is not a fast process
Post-Bulletin
Incorporating healthy choices over the long haul will allow you to lose weight over time, and adapt healthy habits to maintain your weight loss. Evolving your life one small step at a time IS effective for improving health and weight loss. Being able ...

Post-Bulletin

Local health experts: gluten-free diet treats medical conditions, not weight loss
LubbockOnline.com
It's really not something that's going to help them lose weight.” As a dietician, Hawkins said she can't say eating gluten-free is scientifically proven to help with weight loss. As a person with celiac disease, she said the gluten-free diet trend is ...

Weight Loss Market's Untapped Niches Could Add $2.4 Billion
Equities.com
Marketdata Enterprises is a 33-year old market research firm that has tracked the U.S. weight loss market and published in-depth studies about it and all its market segments since 1989. “Marketdata's research shows that there are several untapped but ...

Why Would You Need a Shrink to Lose Weight?
Huffington Post
Is weight loss psychological? Is it something that a shrink can help you with or not? Have you tried hard to lose weight on diet programs and not been successful? Do you know why that is? I believe that weight loss is complicated, individual and has ...

WATCH: The Biggest Mistake When Trying To Lose Weight, From Rocco DiSpirito
Huffington Post
Celebrity chef and author, Rocco DiSpirito, warned that depriving yourself of food won't help you lose weight in the long run. When he joined me on Mondays With Marlo, Rocco promoted making healthy lifestyle changes to ensure long-term weight loss.

As Kansas obesity numbers rise, one KU junior shares her battle with weight-loss
University Daily Kansan
Today, she's 90 pounds thinner and proudly strides up stairs, loving the dose of cardioexercise. ... America's obesity rates, along with health issues, are expected to dramatically increase over the next 20 years, according to a recent study, “F as in ...

University Daily Kansan

Weight loss plan for pet obesity: raising awareness for healthier pets and ...
La Jolla Light
Therefore, in order to ensure a long and happy life for your pet, it is important to keep track of your animal's weight, prevent excessive weight gain, and visit a local veterinary hospital for preventative health care and weight-loss management advice ...

La Jolla Light

Ask Ally: Help with weight loss
SHSU Houstonian Online
Everyone is giving me advice on how to lose weight, but it just doesn't work for me. Can you help me ... You do this by counting the calories you take in and subtracting the calories you burn off through exercise. The average ... Those numbers might ...

Can a good night's sleep help your diet?
RedOrbit
153 (7), 435-41) looked into whether shorter-sleep times compromised the effect of a reduced-caloriediet on excess adiposity (fat!). The participants were given a similar calorie-restricted diet to encourage weight loss and were assigned to a group ...

Bristol Palin Offers Surprisingly Good (And Simple) Weight Loss Advice
BlissTree
Back for her second turn on the show (it's the all-stars season), Palin shared her one easy weight loss tip with Us Weekly backstage. And guess ... There it is. No miracle pills, no crazy diets (unlike DWTS competitor Kirstie Alley and her Scientology ...

BlissTree

Romney touts his health-care law, bashes Obama's law
Washington Post (blog)
One hundred percent of the kids in our state had health insurance. I don't think there's anything that shows more ... “I will repeal Obamacare and replace it with real health care reform,” Romney said at the rally. “You see, Obamacare is really Exhibit ...

Affordable Care Act will limit insurance costs passed to workers
Tampabay.com
WASHINGTON — Small-business owners who have hiked deductibles or out-of-pocket costs for their employees in order to continue providing health insurance are facing a new challenge. The federalhealth care law places new limits on the costs employers ...

Poll: Most believe health care law here to stay
Worcester Telegram
Only 12 percent expect the Affordable Care Act — “Obamacare” to dismissive opponents — to be repealed completely. The law — covering 30 million uninsured, requiring virtually every legal U.S. resident to carry health insurance and forbidding ...

How to maximize your savings through smart health care benefit decisions
Washington Post
WASHINGTON — Employers will soon be offering workers their yearly opportunity to make changes to their health care benefits. All too often this open-enrollment period has required combing through pages and pages of confusing insurance terms. But this ...

ObamaCare triumph: health insurance premiums skyrocket $3000
Human Events
The Council for Affordable Health Insurance found more than 2,200 state benefit mandates, which add from 10% to 50% to the cost of coverage. “One of the biggest cost drivers in our health caresystem is the steady proliferation of federal and state ...

Health care fate up to election
Asbury Park Press
The Legislature already passed a health insurance exchange bill but Gov. Chris Christie vetoed it in May, partially because of constitutional concerns — but that was before the U.S. Supreme Court ruled on the Affordable Care Act. The Legislature next ...

Viewpoints: Obama, Romney Pitch Health Care Plans In NEJM
Kaiser Health News
But for years you have faced a health care system that was increasingly fractured. ... But after a century of trying, a broad coalition of doctors, nurses, hospitals, businesses, AARP, and patients helped me sign into law the Affordable Care Act ...

Hoover's Founder Launches Online Health Care Concierge Service ...
By Leena Rao
Hoover's co-founder Patrick Spain launched a new venture today, aiming to provide an online, subscription health care service to the U.S. First Stop Health provides individuals and families immediate, 24/7 phone access to its more than 250 ...
TechCrunch

Health care law will be implemented, most say in poll | NOLA.com
By The Associated Press
Only 12 percent expect the Affordable Care Act — "Obamacare" to dismissive opponents — to be repealed completely. The law — covering 30 million uninsured, requiring virtually every legal U.S. resident to carry health insurance and ...
New Orleans Metro Real Time News

The Benefits of Ideal Health Insurance | Psychology Today
By John C. Goodman, Ph.D.
Three features of ideal health insurance would make it especially superior to the health insurancearrangements that prevail today, as I outline in my recent book, Priceless: Curing the Healthcare Crisis. Ideal Health Insurance Is Patient ...
Psychology Today Blogs

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Unexpected foods to help you lose weight

Unexpected foods to help you lose weight
Fox News
Contrary to popular belief, weight loss is not just about exercising vigorously or eating a diet of solely fruits and vegetables. Whether it's because they speed up your metabolism or because they keep you feeling full, there are some foods that can ...

Beat the winter blues with hearty soups, says Diet Chef
RedOrbit
25, 2012 /PRNewswire-iReach/ — Diet Chef is encouraging people who struggle to stick to theirweight loss plan during winter to choose warming, hearty soups at lunchtime. Over the summer people often find it much easier to lose weight as they can get ...

Weight Gain After Bypass Not Affected by Diet
MedPage Today
Note that in this prospective study none of the evaluated lifestyle measures (diet, physical activity orfitness) at 2 years after surgery predicted 6-year weight change. However, fat free mass and resting energy expenditure were related to ... The ...

Top 10 diet foods that can make you fat
Free Malaysia Today
You've cut back on chocolate, chucked out the biscuits and raided your nearest health food store, so why aren't you losing those pounds? Unfortunately, even with the best intentions, you could be sabotaging your weight loss with the wrong foods. They ...

5 superfoods for weight loss
indiatvnews.com
New Delhi, Sep 26: Having a healthy body is all about feeling great, having more energy and keeping a balanced diet. Yet in a culture centered around computers, technology and targets, it's no wonder that health seems to take a backseat. To gain a ...

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Red wine key to longevity?
India.Com Health
A new study suggests that could red wine could decrease your appetite, facilitate weight loss and prevent diabetes! According to the findings published in the journal Aging, red wine could help you live longer. Resveratrol, a compound found in red wine ...

Local woman a weight-loss success
Bennington Banner
The Mount Anthony Union High School teacher has lost 120 pounds in the past year through diet and exercise. ... With a new confidence and excitement from seeing the numbers on her scale continue to count down, Pierce joined Anytime Fitness in ...

Weight-Loss Benefits from Cutting Out Sugary Drinks Short-Lived
770kob
Overall, those who were part of this group weighed an average of 4 pounds less and gained weight at a slower rate than their peers who continued to consume sugary drinks. Sugary drinks -- such as sodas, sports or energy drinks, and sweetened coffees ...

Health care reform: Caring about costs, too
Baltimore Sun
Greater spending on health care has led to substantial increases in the price of health insurance. A recent Commonwealth Fund study found that between 2003 and 2010, Maryland employers experienced more than a 50 percent increase in insurance ...

Understanding US Health Insurance Access: It's Like an Airplane
The Atlantic
Recent data and reactions to the provisions of the Affordable Care Act reinforce the trend. While the number of Americans left standing at the gate because they can't afford a health insurance "ticket" is declining, the scheduled takeoff in insurance ...

The Atlantic

Obamacare Poll: Most Americans Expect To See Affordable Care Act Implemented
Huffington Post
The law — covering 30 million uninsured, requiring virtually every legal U.S. resident to carry health insurance and forbidding insurers from turning away the sick — remains as divisive as the day it passed more than two years ago. After surviving a ...

Why the Health Care Tax Credit Eludes Many Small Businesses
CNBC.com
... economy, and couldn't be located much further apart geographically — but they do have one thing in common: Though all three have fewer than 25 employees, not one has qualified for the tax credit in the Affordable Care Act that was intended to help ...

CNBC.com

Fact check: Mitt Romney health-care ad's claims are questionable
Poughkeepsie Journal
KEY IMAGES: “Some think 'Obamacare' is the same as free health care, but nothing is free,” a male narrator says as a graphic of two pills forming an “equals” sign between the words “Obamacare” and “Free Health Care” fills the screen. “Obama is raiding ...

Arkansas governor changes course on health care
San Jose Mercury News
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. -- President Barack Obama's health care overhaul has never been popular in Arkansas, a state where even most Democrats regard the law as politically toxic. But with a quarter of the state's working-age population uninsured, a governor ...

Minnesotans split on Affordable Care Act
Sacramento Bee
A Star Tribune poll shows 46 percent of likely voters support keeping the Affordable Care Act, while 47 percent believe the law should be rescinded. About one in five voters polled cited health care as the most important issue in determining their vote ...

Health care reform spurring N.J. physicians to consider large group practices
Newsworks.org
Some New Jersey physicians may not think all that favorably of the Affordable Care Act, but they are looking to one of its mechanisms to deal with rising overhead, changing reimbursement rates, and other issues. That's one of the findings of a survey...

Newsworks.org

Emergency Rooms: The Poor Man's Health Insurance?
Burnt Orange Report
Despite Mitt Romney's formerly reasonable stance on health care, the candidate told 60 Minutes on Sunday that we do actually provide care for everyone in America - it just sometimes happens that the only care anyone can get is in an emergency room ...

Branding Health Care Exchanges To Make The Sale
NPR (blog)
The exchange will have a website where people can buy private health insurance, and many consumers will have government subsidies to help them purchase the insurance. Planners hope at least 3 million customers will enroll for benefits starting in 2014.

Why the Health Care Tax Credit Eludes Many Small Businesses ...
By By ROBB MANDELBAUM
The credit was aimed squarely at the smallest companies, which rarely offer health insurance to employees. However, as we reported two weeks ago, it appears not to have persuaded very many to start offering insurance. The most recent study of employer health insurance from the Kaiser Family Foundation found that just half of all companies with fewer than 10 employees offered insurance, a share that has not moved much since 2005. .... Looking to the Affordable Care Act For Help ...
You're the Boss

Branding Health Insurance Exchanges To Make The Sale - Kaiser ...
By Pauline Bartolone, Capital Public Radio
As states work to comply with the federal health care law, many are designing their insurance exchanges, where people will be able to shop for coverage. But just the word "exchange" sounds to many like off-putting government-speak, and ...
All Kaiser Health News

Sabra Health Care Acquires Asset - Zacks.com
By Zacks Equity Research
Sabra Health Care REIT Inc. recently acquired a 249-unit independent living facility in Frankenmuth, Michigan for $26.5 million.
Zacks Investment Research - All...

Why care under the Affordable Care Act will be unaffordable ...
By UnBylined
Several recent articles should dispel any remaining notion that care provided under the so-calledAffordable Care Act will in fact be affordable. Just the ... In the few areas of health care where it has been allowed to flourish, it has done just that.
Bangor Daily News

University unveils new student health insurance plan | The ...
By Marshall Schmidt
Rapp served on the Student Insurance Advisory Committee to the Kansas Board of Regents, which was tasked with making a student insurance plan that complied with the health care reform. Because most students just need prescription drug ...
The University Daily Kansan

Health care law ensures consumers get clear, consistent information ...
Because of the health care law, millions of Americans will have access to ... are now required to provide consumers in the private health insurance market with a ...
www.hhs.gov/news/press/2012pres/09/20120924a.html

FactCheck.org : Overselling the Affordable Care Act
... Clinton went too far when he suggested that the Affordable Care Act was the reason the growth in health care spending has been low in the past two years.
factcheck.org/2012/09/overselling-the-affordable-care-act/

Romney and Health Care
Look, it doesn't make a lot of sense for us to have millions and millions of people who have no health insurance and yet who can go to the emergency room and ...
thepage.time.com/2012/09/24/romney-and-health-care/

What Is Driving U.S. Health Care Spending? America's ...
Sept. 20, 2012. This background paper provides a basic overview of the drivers of health care cost growth, and serves as an analytical starting point for BPC's ...
bipartisanpolicy.org/.../what-driving-us-health-care-spending
What Is Driving U.S. Health Care Spending?


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7 Surprising Food Portion Comparisons video

What do a compact disc, a deck of cards, and a lightbulb head have in common? Believe it or not, it's all about food portion size! Nationally recognized nutrition expert and author Keri Glassman is the founder and president of Keri Glassman, Nutritious Life, a nutrition practice based in New York City. For years Keri has been a leader in advancing a "whole person" approach to health and wellness.

Weight-Loss Benefits From Cutting Out Sugary Drinks Short-Lived
ABC News
"Permanent environmental changes are necessary for permanent weight loss." According to the researchers, one drawback of their study was that they basked the participants to report their caloric intake, which often leads to underestimating food and ...

7 Steps to Healthy Weight Loss, Without Dieting
Huffington Post
We begin strict diets with the best of intentions, but they ultimately result in feelings of failure as we boomerang back to our original weight, or -- even worse -- gain more. This lifestyle is unsustainable, unnerving and, frankly, unfulfilling. We ...

Gluten-free diet beneficial for possible weight loss, long-term health
The University of Alabama Crimson White
The latest gluten-free diet craze, intended for individuals diagnosed with Celiac disease and gluten allergies, is receiving praise for its weight loss and health benefits from celebrities and everyday Americans. Gluten-free ... Yet, many people ...

For weight loss, less exercise might be more: Study
TODAYonline
Multiple studies have found that without major changes to diet, exercise typically results in only modest weight loss at best. Quite a few exercisers lose no weight. Some gain. But there is encouraging news about physical activity and weight loss in a ...

Ear Stapling is Another Unfounded Weight Loss Craze
Diets In Review (blog)
Eating baby food, Shake Weight, limiting calorie intake, and so much more. But, have you heard of stapling a part of your ear to help lose weight? It's becoming more popular as the rumor says ear stapling can help with weight loss. Ear stapling stems ...

Spare the spuds, lose the weight
UW Badger Herald
Last week, while perusing a popular health magazine for new recipe ideas, I came across an article titled “Five top foods for weight loss (and five that will make you gain).” This in itself wasn't a surprising title; it seems every other day a new food ...

Ask the Diet Doctor: Is It OK to Graze?
Shape Magazine
To muddle things even more, there's uncertainty in the scientific community about the role and impact of meal frequency on health and weight loss. Despite all this befuddlement, grazing is okay, as long it's not done mindlessly. You need to find a ...

Shape Magazine

Teasing obese kids doesn't help them lose weight. It can backfire.
Philadelphia Inquirer (blog)
Some people believe that stigma is helpful for motivating weight loss - that making it uncomfortable or undesirable to be overweight will somehow help people lose weight. But a body of research - and common sense - disputes this notion. Studies show ...

Philadelphia Inquirer (blog)

Rapid Weight Loss Diets | Health

Rapid Weight Loss Diets. Now a day our life style is such that it is not easy to loose weight instantly. So many weight loss programs are working. The person ...

Health-Care Price Rise Poses Challenge for US Overhaul
Businessweek
“It's a big problem for the Affordable Care Act.” The overhaul law may be contributing to higher costs, said Martin Gaynor, an economics professor at Carnegie Mellon University and chairman of the Washington-based Health Care Cost Institute. The act ...

Health insurance costs grew slowly for two years. Now, they're speeding up.
Washington Post (blog)
The culprit, a new study suggests, is not Americans seeking more treatment but rather rapid growth in the price of medical care. Spending for private health insurance surged by 4.6 percent in 2011, according to a report from the Health Care Cost Institute.

Health Care Is Poised For Disruption And Data Scientists Can Be Part Of It
Forbes
Health care appears immune to disruption. It's a space where the stakes are high, the incumbents are entrenched, and lessons from other industries don't always apply. Yet, in a recent conversation between Tim O'Reilly and Roger Magoulas it became ...

Health Care Price Increases Put An End To Spending Slowdown
Slate Magazine (blog)
Delving into the details of the report makes me yearn once again for people to drop the vague and imprecise language around health care costs. That's because what's particulalry disturbing here isn't the increase in aggregate expenditure, it's what ...

Letters | Health care, the presidential race, pets
Kansas City Star
He conveniently omitted the more important proposal to amend the Kansas Constitution, the KansasHealth Care Freedom Amendment, which would have allowed a vote on this measure. The amendment was held up for three years in the Senate Judiciary Committee ...

How Private Health Saved One Journalist's Life
Diets In Review (blog)
She reported that Private Health is among a growing group of premium health care providers that's rising up out of the medical care ashes to provide superior care. In her opinion, this is good news as President Obama's Affordable Care Act may not fix ...

Health care, defense may be casualties of fiscal cliff
Deseret News
In this image released by the U.S. Department of Defense and taken Monday, Aug. 20, 2012, Army Gen. Martin E. Dempsey, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, prepares to board a CH-47 at Kabul International Airport in Kabul, Afghanistan. The Defense ...

Deseret News

Health Insurance Costs Rise, Driven By Higher Hospital, Doctor Prices
Kaiser Health News
Spending for private health insurance surged by 4.6 percent in 2011, according to a report from theHealth Care Cost Institute. That growth rate is faster than the rest of the economy and higher than the previous year, which had 3.8 percent growth ...

Health care proxy, living will, and power of attorney: Complete them now
newjerseynewsroom.com
The purpose of this document is to appoint someone to step in and make health care decisions for you. It usually goes into effect if you become too sick or cognitively unable to make proper health care decisions for yourself. The health care proxy ...

Best Health Care Brands Are Nonprofit: Survey
By The Huffington Post News Editors
The best private health care plans in the United States are run by nonprofit organizations, according to the latest survey published in the November issue of Consumer Reports.
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Consumer Reports: Selecting Health Care Coverage « CBS Pittsburgh
By angelakdka
This is the time of year when many organizations ask employees to pick their health insurance for 2013. But it's not easy to compare health plans -- although Consumer Reports says a new requirement of Obamacare may help.
CBS Pittsburgh

VIDEO: SelectCare Opposes Pangelinan's Health Insurance Choice ...
By Clynt Ridgell
Guam - Calvo's SelectCare was the only health insurance provider to testify in opposition to a bill that would allow GovGuam employees to pick their health insurance provider from a list of qualified companies. Bill 513 which is sponsored by ...
From Broadcast To Broadband -...

Thanks, Obama! Health Insurance Premiums Are Up $3,000! | The ...
By Lonely Conservative
Hey, does anyone remember how many times President Obama promised that under his plan health insurance premiums would go down by about $2500 per family...
The Lonely Conservative

The Health Care Reform Reference Post - Forbes
Health care and the Affordable Care Act are very complicated subjects with many moving parts. My goal is to bring ... Preventive care. Is There Good Health In Health Care Reform? ... Should states really regulate health insurance? - states set ...

www.forbes.com/sites/.../the-health-care-reform-reference-post...

Health care law's impact on businesses varies – USATODAY.com
Companies specializing in driving down health care spending are big winners from the ... Cignahealth insurance began moving toward accountable-care ... which are included in the Affordable Care Act. Private businesses have been working ...
www.usatoday.com/money/story/2012/09/24/health.../1

Health Insurance Coverage of Young Adults Aged ... - Census Bureau
 . . . targets only private health insurance plans, one. 1 National Center for ... 3 Cohen, Robin A. and Micheal E. Martinez, Health Insurance. Coverage: Early ...
www.census.gov/prod/2012pubs/acsbr11-11.pdf

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Two New Drugs May Help In Fight Against Obesity

Two New Drugs May Help In Fight Against Obesity
NPR (blog)
Most of us who have tried to lose weight are familiar with that: Hormones are released to stimulate appetite, and metabolism slows down in order to conserve energy, adding up to an unfortunate recipe for regaining weight. ... "Patients must ...

Emotional readiness is key to lifestyle change for weight loss
Grand Forks Herald
Emotional readiness is key to lifestyle change for weight loss. To drop unwanted pounds, you have to be ready to make the changes that are needed to lose weight and keep it off, according to a nutritionist at Altru Health System in Grand Forks. And ...

How to lose weight, start the diet on a Monday
FemaleFirst.co.uk
Losing weight is something that most of us will go through at some point or another, and new research has revealed that starting a diet on a Monday may just be the answer to weight loss. The survey, commissioned by LighterLife has illustrated that 54 ...

FemaleFirst.co.uk

12-Week Christmas Party Diet
Huffington Post UK
A diet beginning on September 24 allows party-goers sufficient time to lose weight the healthy and sensible way over a 12-week period, so by the time Christmas celebrations are in full swing, they will have achieved their winter weight-loss goals ...

Alec Baldwin Lost Weight To Curb Pre-Diabetes, Not To Impress At Emmys
BlissTree
alec baldwin emmys weight loss Were we the only ones who noticed how great Alec Baldwin looked at the Emmys last night? Alec's commitment to his diet and exercise plan has certainly paid off: he's lost 35 pounds in an effort to become healthier. With ...

Diet Pills can reduce life instead of weight loss
Obesity Campaign UK
Nowadays more and more women are buying diet pills online in a hope to lose weightbut unfortunately many don't realise that they are playing with their health. In a recent such case, lady named Michelle was using drug called Ephedrine to speed up her ...

Obesity Campaign UK

The Checkup: Want to Lose More Weight? Exercise Less
Philadelphia Magazine (blog)
Sure, an hour or more of slogging on the Schuylkill is good for your health, but new research shows that to maximize your weight loss, less may be more when it comes to exercise. A team at the University of Copenhagen used a group of sedentary ...

Philadelphia Magazine (blog)

Women Over 40: Are You Doing All the 'Right Things' but Still Not Losing Weight?
Huffington Post UK
Of course, exercise has many health benefits, but if you are relying on exercise alone to lose weight, you will be sorely disappointed. ... Most people stop the diet and they gain back theweight. For many ... More weight-loss tips from HuffPost UK ...

Debt and diet: Don't let your money go to waist
Chicago Tribune
According to the "F as in Fat" report by the Trust for America's Health, Michigan is the fifth fattest in the nation with 31.3 percent of us obese, with a body mass index of more than 30. On the other hand, a 2011 analysis of ... If you've managed to ...

Liking It or Not, States Prepare for Health Law
New York Times
Given that the health care overhaul remains a lightning rod — just last week, Oklahoma revised a lawsuit against it — even the most tentative discussions about carrying it out in Republican states tend to take place behind closed doors or ...

New York Times

Romney and Health Care
TIME
MITT ROMNEY: Oh, sure. Look, it doesn't make a lot of sense for us to have millions and millions of people who have no health insurance and, yet, who can go to the emergency room and get entirely free care, for which they have no responsibility ...

Prescription for health insurance
NorthJersey.com
Patient Protection/Affordable Care Act was a waste of time as it failed to deal with the real cost ofhealth care. I recently came across a plan, which is as follows: (1) Providers would have to publish prices charges and reimbursements from insurance ...

Health care law's impact on businesses varies
USA TODAY
WASHINGTON -- Companies specializing in driving down spending on health care, whether through electronic records, preventive care or consolidating services, are turning out to be the biggest winners from the 2010 health care law. Investors, analysts ...

Calculating The Cost Of Health Care Premiums
Forbes
As you can see, implementation of the insurance part of health care reform will be a complicated mess. The only happy people will be the ... Despite this worry, implementation of the Affordable Care Act needs to continue. Why? I mention the “good parts ...

Rationing Health Care to Control Costs
New York Times
The Affordable Care Act deserves a solid “A” for including virtually every cost control idea anyone has come up with — limits on tax breaks for employer-sponsored health insurance, accountable care organizations, bundled payments, comparative ...

States Opposing Obama Health Care Law Prepare For Its Implementation
Huffington Post
An organized group of people went to the home of the President of Anthem in VA and thanked him for the rebate checks they got...his neighbors called the police and told them HE didn't want those kind of people in his neighborhood...there it is "Those ...

Health care law ensures consumers get clear, consistent information about ...
The Herald | HeraldOnline.com
Insurance companies and employers are now required to provide consumers in the private health insurance market with a brief summary of what a health insurance policy or employer plan covers, called a Summary of Benefits and Coverage (SBC).

Health insurance contributions at the heart of Chicago Symphony Orchestra ...
The Classical Review
Management is holding firm to their demand that CSO musicians increase their contributions to their health insurance. Currently CSO musicians pay 5% of their health care premiums while the Chicago Symphony Orchestra Association picks up 95%.

The Classical Review

Mitt Romney, On 60 Minutes, Cites Emergency Room As Health Care
By The Huffington Post News Editors
WASHINGTON -- Downplaying the need for the government to ensure that every person has health insurance, Mitt Romney on Sunday suggested that emergency room care suffices as a substitute for the uninsured. "Well, we do provide care for people who don't ... Getting rid of high numbers of inefficient emergency room visits was actually a key goal of Romney's health care reform in Massachusetts, as he noted in his book "No Apology": After about a year of looking at data -- and not ...
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Mitt Romney: Don't Have Health Care? Call Ambulance and Hope ...
By Adele M. Stan, AlterNet
The CBS News program featured interviews with both Romney and President Barack Obama about their visions for the country. (Video on the last page of this story.) While Obama took some lumps at the hands of interviewer Steve Kroft for ...
Alternet

Romney: Health care 'through emergency rooms' is sufficient | The ...
By Kay Steiger
On a Sunday interview with CBS' “60 Minutes,” Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney claimed that the poor already have health insurance because emergency rooms are obligated by law to treat anyone who comes in. “Does the ...
The Raw Story

Medical liability and health care quality - Overlawyered
By Walter Olson
Medical liability and health care quality. by Walter Olson on September 24, 2012. New research by Michael Frakes of Cornell: “I estimate a small and statistically insignificant relationship between malpractice forces and two metrics of ...
Overlawyered

Access to Women's Health Care | Think | KERA
By Jeff Whittington
How important is healthcare for women to the welfare of the nation? We'll spend this hour with women's health advocate Sandra Fluke.
KERA

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The drugs don't work: a modern medical scandal

The drugs don't work: a modern medical scandal | Ben Goldacre | Business | The Guardian: "How does this happen? How do industry-sponsored trials almost always manage to get a positive result? Sometimes trials are flawed by design. You can compare your new drug with something you know to be rubbish – an existing drug at an inadequate dose, perhaps, or a placebo sugar pill that does almost nothing. You can choose your patients very carefully, so they are more likely to get better on your treatment. You can peek at the results halfway through, and stop your trial early if they look good. But after all these methodological quirks comes one very simple insult to the integrity of the data. Sometimes, drug companies conduct lots of trials, and when they see that the results are unflattering, they simply fail to publish them. Because researchers are free to bury any result they please, patients are exposed to harm on a staggering scale throughout the whole of medicine. Doctors can have no idea about the true effects of the treatments they give."

Eating for Health, Not Weight
New York Times
Some diets that may help you lose weight may be harmful to your health over time. A widely publicized study earlier this year showed that a ... They also engaged in moderate exercise and stress-management techniques, and participated in a support group ...

New York Times

Want to lose weight? Be sure to get enough sleep, experts say ...
Weight loss: Lack of sleep can undermine efforts to lose weight, multiple ... say sleep should be factored into weight-loss plans along with diet and exercise.
www.latimes.com/.../la-heb-obesity-weight-loss-sleep-201209...

Starbucks diet credited for woman's 75-pound weight loss
VOXXI
The credit for her weight loss though probably doesn't really belong to a 'Starbucks diet'. Rather, it just further proves that counting calories is an effective way to lose weight. According to the Daily News, a new study published in Agricultural ...

One company claims 15 lbs of weight loss is possible in two weeks!
RedOrbit
Weight Loss is Canada's premiere whole-foods-based weight-loss and lifestyle-change system. The company has helped over 3,000 people successfully lose weight. “Our 15 lbs in two weeks program is personalized, which is why it works,” said Lori Kennedy ...

Has Jennifer Connelly taken her weight loss diet too far?
FansShare
Has Jennifer Connelly taken her weight loss diet too far? Jennifer Connelly has sparked weight loss concerns among fans, following the release of new photographs which show the actress looking painfully thin. The 41-year-old was recently photographed ...

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Eating For Health, Not Weight
Huffington Post
McDonald's, for instance, is now posting them. But our widespread hope for weight loss makes us vulnerable to all kinds of promises, even ones that aren't true, when it comes to food. Read the whole story at www.nytimes.com. Contribute to this Story ...

Red carpet diet secrets of Emmy nominees Zooey Deschanel and Julianna ...
Examiner.com
Allergic to wheat, Zooey focuses on eating right by buying her food at a health food store, she toldHealth magazine. Describing herself as "really disciplined" when it comes to her diet, Zooey eats primarily "vegetables, fruits, lean meat and nuts" to ...

7 simple diet swaps
Fox News
... a large fries to small fries. You just saved 270 calories. 6. Happier trails. Switch from trail mix to dried fruit. You just saved 61 calories. 7. Say no to salad. Switch from a taco salad to a taco. You just saved 396 calories. This originally ...

Florida conflict on health care law divides voters
Orlando Sentinel
Voters have a clear choice between Obama, who counts the Affordable Care Act as his signature legislative achievement, and Romney, who vows to try to repeal the law starting "on day one" while retaining some of its most popular provisions. Florida ...

Health care law's penalty worries some
CNN
Add to. Share Flag as inappropriate. Loading... Alert icon. Sign in or sign up now! Alert icon. Loading... Published on Sep 22, 2012 by CNN. Lisa Sylvester reports on patients who fear they won't be able to afford the costs involved in the new health ...

Health care debate to have major impact on America
LubbockOnline.com
Janis Haddon of Atlanta holds a glove with a message outside the Supreme Court in Washington as the court concluded three days of hearing arguments on the constitutionality of President Barack Obama's health care overhaul. Back | Next. Republican ...

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