National Dessert Day recipes: Sweet food swaps for deliciously diet desserts

Oct. 14 is National Dessert Day, time to celebrate sweets and treats! Here are dessert recipes to indulge your sweet tooth. But these aren't ordinary sweets: these recipes use sweet food swaps for deliciously diet (yes, both are possible) desserts.   National Dessert Day recipes: Sweet food swaps for deliciously diet desserts 

Low cal tailgate recipes for dieting football fans, healthy tailgate party foods | Examiner.com

Fall is football season and so it's also tailgate party time. Tailgate menus feature chili, hotdogs, brats, BBQs, wings, nachos and other quick comfort foods that can be served from the back of a truck. So, yummy tailgate foods are, but low calorie they're not! Tailgate entrees (read: junk food) are some of fattiest, saltiest, most high-calorie foods on the kitchen! What about the poor football fans who are watching their weight? Here are low-calorie tailgate recipes for dieting football fans. Score big with these healthy tailgate party foods at your next game gig!Low cal tailgate recipes for dieting football fans, healthy tailgate party foods.

 

Cheesiest cheese pizza recipes, diet pizza, decadent pizza for Cheese Pizza Day - Grand Rapids Holidays | Examiner.com

September 5 is all about the cheese...pizza, that is! Here are the cheesiest cheese pizza recipes for Cheese Pizza Day. Some of these recipes are decadently delish with no thought to calorie counting. But for those of you who are watching your weight or trying to lose, here are diet pizza recipes that are pretty darn delicious even though they're low calorie.Cheesiest cheese pizza recipes, diet pizza, decadent pizza for Cheese Pizza Day
 

Low-cal Labor Day picnic recipes, light grill entrees, menu pleasers for dieters

 Labor Day is the last official picnic day of summer. With everyone on some special diet--vegan, vegetarian, kosher, lactose intolerant, gluten-free, diabetic, halal--it's difficult to plan a picnic buffet that suits everyone. Throw some picky, fussy eaters (a.k.a. kids) into the party crowd and the harried Labor Day hosts are at their collective wits' end to know what to feed the hungry multitudes. Here are low-cal Labor Day picnic recipes, light grill entrees, menu pleasers that dieters and everyone else will love!Low-cal Labor Day picnic recipes, light grill entrees, menu pleasers for dieters 

US is fattest country: America has most obese adults and kids in the world

It's official--what most Americans probably already know, has been verified. The U.S. is the fattest country: North America has the most obese adults and kids in the world, said U.S. News and World Reports August 10. Now that's a weighty problem and one that's growing. Statistics says that in the last 35 years, obesity rates and doubled and in some cases quadrupled! The number of states with 25 percent or more obese residents jumped from zero to 32.US is fattest country: America has most obese adults and kids in the world 



 

Coca-Cola funds anti-diet weight loss agenda: No exercise causes fat, not sugar - Grand Rapids News | Examiner.com

Research is finding more links between consumption of sugary snacks and beverages and obesity. Now Coca-Cola funds an anti-diet weight loss agenda aimed at teaching people that lack of exercise causes fat, not sugar. CBS News reported August 11, that Coca-Cola provided $1.5 million in seed money for a non-profit Global Energy Balance Network. The goal ostensibly is to promote fitness, but in so doing, it downplays the role of diet in weight problems. No, no silly Coke, it's exercise you can skip, NOT diet. Says the girl who lost 100 pounds WITHOUT exercising. Left is me in 2010. Right is me 2014. Coca-Cola funds anti-diet weight loss agenda: No exercise causes fat, not sugar

Obesity advocates say 'Ban the F word' to stop fat-shaming and weight bias

An obesity awareness group is taking a unique route to ending what it calls "weight bias. The Obesity Action Coalition says humiliating fat people must end. In fact, the word "fat" needs to go away altogether, said PR Newswire on July 6. OAC says "Ban the F word" to stop fat-shaming and get more equitable treatment for those who struggle with weight problems.   Obesity advocates say 'Ban the F word' to stop fat-shaming and weight bias.