Room for Debate: Women, Weight and Wellness
What should be more important to women: A positive body image or a fit physique that is less at risk for diabetes and other health issues?
Prototype: An I.B.M. Computer Program Rewards Healthy Diets
A computer program developed at I.B.M. uses game techniques and psychology to influence dieting: eat a salad, for example, and you could win 50 cents.
Well: Weight Loss in a Pill: No Lemonade From Lemons
The weight-loss field is strewn with lemons, more so than other areas of medicine, and because of the enormous potential market for these drugs, pharmaceutical companies rush new drugs to market after conducting only small clinical trials, writes Dr. Danielle Ofri.
Well: Mixing Weight Training and Aerobics
Many competitive athletes and trainers believe that aerobic exercise and strength training should not be done in close proximity, but two new studies show that both can be done, in either order, without dampening the overall benefits of each.
Well: The Boy Who Changed His Family’s Diet
A student’s taunt prompted a 10-year-old to put himself on a diet and changed the way his whole family eats.
A Child Offers Plan on Portion Control for Dieters
After being bullied about his weight for years, a sixth grader, with the help of his mother, came up with an eating plan they called Portion Size Me.
Personal Health: Personal Health: Heavy Backpacks Can Spell Chronic Back Pain for Children
Many children are carrying backpacks that weigh as much as 15 percent of their body weight, a study finds, resulting in back pain and scoliosis.
Field Notes: Readers Respond to Brides Losing Weight for Weddings
As soon as an article about some of the diets brides use to drop 15 or 20 pounds before their weddings was posted, readers began to respond in droves.
Well: Are Most People in Denial About Their Weight?
Scientists are only now beginning to understand the complicated process in which the brain integrates signals from all the senses to form our body images.
Field Notes: Losing Weight in Time for the Wedding
Wedding photos (if not the marriage) are forever, so brides are increasingly going on crash diets, cowed by the prospect of wearing a revealing and expensive gown.