Fat 2 Fit #110 – All Hail the Twinkie Diet

Wednesday, November 24th, 2010

The Twinkie diet has gotten a lot of press recently.  A professor at Kansas State University lost 27 lbs. on a diet consisting of snack cakes of all kinds.  He did that in 10 weeks.  While that seems like an awesome way to lose weight, there was some damage done ...

Fat 2 Fit #105 – Reversing Osteopenia

Thursday, September 16th, 2010

Rachel wrote in asking about losing muscle and losing bone.  You've all heard, probably from us, that as we get older we lose muscle.   But did you also know that we use bone? It's called osteopenia.  It's a natural part of aging, but it doesn't have to be.  You can ...

Fat 2 Fit #92 – Politics of Obesity

Wednesday, March 24th, 2010

Government is injecting itself into our lives more and more. One of those areas is our waistlines. Governments around the world understand that obesity is a major problem that is not going away by itself. They are combatting it in a few ways like education and imposing ...

Fat 2 Fit #86 – Weight Gain During Pregnancy

Wednesday, January 20th, 2010

Pregnancy is one of the times in a woman's life that gaining weight is not only encouraged, it's required.  But, how much weight should a woman gain during pregnancy?  How much is too much and what are the complications that can accompany that extra weight? In the Feature we go ...

Fat 2 Fit #81 – Medications That Make You Fat

Sunday, November 29th, 2009

In today's world where we pop a pill for this, take some medicine for that, we are introduced to all sorts of side effects. How about this side effect...weight gain. Today, in the Feature Section, Jeff has a report on medications that could be making you fat. ...

Fat 2 Fit #70 – Lifestyle Caused Diabetes

Wednesday, July 22nd, 2009

Of the 20.8 million Americans with diabetes, 90 to 95 percent have type 2 Diabetes. Of these, half are unaware they have the disease. People with type 2 Diabetes, often develop the disease after age 45, but are not aware they have Diabetes until severe symptoms occur, or they are ...

Fat 2 Fit Show #52 – More Question and Answers

Wednesday, January 7th, 2009

Another non-standard show this time.  We received a lot of questions over the last few weeks.  We've hand picked a few that represent a large portion of them. Maybe you had one of the same questions.  Here's a rundown of the questions: James has lost 45 pounds but his weight loss ...

Fat 2 Fit Show #49 – Obesity System Influences

Monday, December 8th, 2008

After 48 shows of weight loss advice and information, we decided to clearly lay out our top 5 core beliefs about successful weight loss and living a healthy lifestyle.  When we offer advice or answer listener questions, we always fall back to these core beliefs.  Many times we are tempted ...

Childhood Obesity Makes the Cover of Time Magazine

Wednesday, July 9th, 2008

Childhood obesity was the topic of Show #23, again in a post called Cutting the Cord and most recently on Show #32.  We've really given a lot of time to this important topic.  And now childhood obesity has now made the cover of Time Magazine. Check out the seven articles from ...

Are Sleep and Weight Connected?

Wednesday, April 23rd, 2008

So I'm reading the latest copy of Oprah Magazine. Don't judge me. It's open to this article called Why You Really Need Beauty Rest. Take a look at question number 4 on the sleep quiz: "If you're watching your weight, it's better to get a full night's sleep than ...