Are you smoking to lose weight?  I have done my research on this weight loss myth to see if you can indeed “smoke your way to weight loss.”  Almost everyone you meet will agree that smoking is bad, because it is very true!  However, even some ‘bad’ things can have their advantages, and smoking is no exception here.  You may find it hard to believe, but if you are overweight then smoking can in a sense help you lose weight.  Smoking causes weight loss by one simple fact.  It will speed up your body’s metabolism.

The Downsides

Today I want to talk about a subject that has bothered me for a good while now and that is fake images in the media.  I’m sure most of you have picked up a fashion mag of some kind and right front and center there is a perfect model on the front page.

What’s wrong with that?

Over the past year the rate in obesity did not decrease in any state of the US.  The child obesity rate is now at and above 30 percent in 30 states.

These stats are from the sixth annual F as in Fat: How Obesity Policies are Failing in America, 2009 report, released July 1, by the Trust for America’s Health (TFAH) and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF).  Contained within the report are recommendations for combating obesity within health reform and a state-by—state look into the child obesity rate, as well as, adults.