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What’s the key to looking and feeling better and enhancing your health? Exercise. Moderately strenuous exercise, about 30 minutes a day, can lead to enormous benefits in terms of your mood, health, weight and the ability to live an independent and fulfilling life. The exercise doesn’t need to be athletic or difficult. Studies have shown that simply walking at a brisk pace for 30 minutes or more on most days can lead to significant health improvements. [click link for full article]

All obesity research, advice on diets, and food labeling should stop and the money saved should be used to create a reliable, integrated public transport network, says a letter in the British Medical Journal (BMJ), this week’s issue. How many more studies do we need to tell us that as a nation we are too fat? Nicole Lavery, a community adviser in Northern Ireland, wonders. Lavery believes we have now reached saturation point as far as studies on this subject go. [click link for full article]

Obese people are less likely to use their seatbelts than the rest of the population, adding to the public health risks associated with this rapidly growing problem.The connection was made by Vanderbilt University psychologist David Schlundt and his colleagues at Meharry Medical College in Nashville, Tenn.”We found that when weight goes up, seatbelt use goes down,” Schlundt, associate professor of psychology and assistant professor of medicine, said. [click link for full article]

North Americans over 40 are angered at the TV, Video and Movie media’s obsession with young hard bodies.

Scale Back Alabama, the state’s comprehensive weight loss campaign, is returning for a second year with new rewards, rules and — organizers hope — results.

AFP - Britons are the world’s biggest fans of fast food, just ahead of Americans, while famously gastronomic French are the least attracted by quick meals, according to a study published Wednesday.

A Synovate study found that the British are the keenest fast food consumers in the world, closely followed by Americans. When asked to comment on the statement “I like the taste of fast food too much to give it up,” 45% of the British agreed, compared to 44% of Americans - Canada came third with 37%. At the other end of the scale 81% of the French disagreed with the statement, followed by 75% of people from Singapore. [click link for full article]

Don’t have the time, money or the desire to sign up for a gym membership? That shouldn’t keep you from making a New Year’s resolution to get fit. Colleen Greene, wellness coordinator with MFit, the University of Michigan Health System’s health promotion division, says you don’t have to invest a lot of money in a gym membership or equipment to develop a successful and sustainable fitness regimen. [click link for full article]

It’s that time of year again you have had your final glass of eggnog and your last bite of pumpkin pie. Now you are ready to start the year off right with a new exercise plan and to keep it up throughout the year so that fitness becomes a routine rather than just another resolution. [click link for full article]

INDIANAPOLIS — Some patients seeking a surgical solution to weight loss have another alternative to consider now offered at the St.