It’s Healthbolt Carnival Time again. So grab a coffee and start clicking…

Madeleine Begun Kane from Mad Kane’s Humor Blog entertains us with Multi-Task Madness.

Orna Ross suggests people should F-R-E-E-Write Your Way to Wellness?.

To help you learn more about the Vegan lifestyle, Piotr Stepien from we overstep provides a list of Inspiring Vegan Links.

C. Myers from Mind Mart suggests several natural remedies for Boils in Boil, Boil, Toil and Trouble.

Tami Blodgett from Online Wellness: A Safe Haven offers a review of the book FAMILY MATTERS the Soul of a Family.

Dan Abshear from Informaproject reports on The Power Of Bacteria.

myln from ManageYourLifeNow.com …read more

Sugar.
It’s everywhere.
In fact, it’s almost impossible to avoid and according to Dr Scott Olson, in his book Sugarettes, it’s as addictive as cigarettes.

I’ve just finished reading Sugarettes and I got to say, it was a real eye opener. Who knew that sugar was so prevalent in society today? Seems that everything we eat and drink has sugar in it and the more processed the food, the more the sugar content. 
In Sugarettes, Scott Olson looks at how sugar affects the body and why we should look at it as an addiction and a leading cause of not only obesity but also …read more

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Allow me to piggyback on Liz’s post from earlier today and explore another possible reason for the obesity epidemic (one that’s probably a very likely part of the equation) – The Great American Buffet Table.
According to my local newspaper, there is a new study out which suggests that sitting too close to the buffet table at a restaurant can lead to overeating. They learned some other nifty things when they divided study subjects into an “overweight” group and a “normal” group, too. Take a look:

Heavy customers sat an average of 14 feet closer to the fixins …read more

Bad news if you’re overweight and are employed by the state of Alabama. If you don’t ease up on your Southern-fried favorites and hit the gym a bit more, you’ll end up paying $25 a month for insurance that is otherwise free to the un-fat folk.
That’s right, in an unprecedented move to encourage state workers to slim down, Alabama will be the first state in the nation to charge overweight workers who don’t make the effort to lighten up.
This $25 insurance fee will join the already-in-place $24/month fee that ‘Bama employees are charged for smoking. The state says it’s …read more

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You think you have weight loss goals? Well, I’m guessing Manuel Uribe has you smoked. His goal is to be able to walk down the aisle at his own wedding. And we’re betting he’ll do just that.
The 43-year-old Uribe has dropped an astonishing 550 pounds over the last two years after breaking the Guinness World Record of 1,235 pounds. He’s now down to about 700 pounds and has dreams of whittling down further.
Currently living in Northern Mexico, Uribe attributes his obesity to the American way – a nonstop diet of …read more

Okay, so enough with what the scientists are saying about ‘obesity and global warming’. I want to hear what the man on the street blogosphere has to say about it all.
Luckily, I’ve found just the man.
Israel over at Fatman Unleashed was ahead of the game on this one. He weighed in on the subject last month with this post  ‘Fat People Cause Global Warming: Fat Isn’t Very Green.’ 
Lately, we have noticed an increasing push for “going green.” We have seen changes in everything from transportation to food preparation to the internet. This got me thinking about how I could make my life greener. My …read more

Okay, don’t shoot the messenger but the word out on the streets is that ‘obesity is to blame for global warming.’
So is there merit to this hypothesis or is it just one more way of laying a guilt trip on those who are overweight?
Let’s look at the facts.
This recent discussion relating obesity to global warming started when The Lancet published a letter by two British scientists that stated the obese population consumes 18% more food energy than the normal weight population. And as a result…
“…more transportation fuel energy will be used to transport the increase mass of the obese population, …read more

How about this for the office of the future – a combined treadmill / computer. What a great idea. Sure might help all of us ‘glued to the computer’ bloggers get some exercise on the job.
The brainchild of Mayo Clinic endocrinologist Dr James Levine, this ‘vertical workstation’ offers exercise for both the mind and the body.
Levine’s team enlisted 15 clinically overweight people to participate in a study using the vertical workstation. The exhaled breath of the volunteers was measured to determin how many calories they burnt while walking on the treadmill and doing office work. The results showed that on …read more

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Ladies, turns out it might not be your fault if you can’t lose weight no matter how much exercise or dieting.
It could be that you are simply missing the ‘lean gene’.
A collaborative study between Tel Aviv University in Israel and Kings College in England has determined that ‘thinness, like your smile or the color of your eyes, is an inheritable trait.’
These findings are based on a study they conducted with more than 3,000 middle-aged British women who belonged to either an identical or fraternal twin pair, measuring their ‘total lean mass’ (one of the three major components of body weight) …read more

Concerned about your growing weight? Then maybe it’s time to do the hara hachi bu. Practiced by the Okinawan people for generations, it simply means ‘to eat until you are 80% full’.
Now, Okinawa has one of the healthiest and longest living populations in the world, so there must be something to this.
Let’s face it, eating less is not a practice done in most Western societies. We are given plates piled high with food and then expected to empty them. I don’t know about you, but as a child I wasn’t allowed to leave the dinner table until the plate was …read more