If you’ve lost a lot of weight only to gain it back again, you’ll be able to relate to this new book.
Angry Fat Girls by Frances Kuffel is the memoir of five women struggling with losing weight and gaining it back again. The author’s life was transformed when she lost 188 pounds. That story was documented in Kuffel’s book, Passing for Thin.

Angry Fat Girls, to be released in January, deals with how Kuffel’s life changed yet again when she gained back more than half of the weight she lost. But the book is about more than the physical and psychological …read more

I don’t want to believe this study. I really don’t.
For me, late night is largely empty of distractions. If I don’t turn on Skype or Facebook, I can pretend the whole world is asleep while I write. Even my cat will not bother me while I work at night.
I see few problems with this habit of working late at night as I believe I’m just naturally tuned to stay up. (And I still get eight hours.) To me, the only bad thing about staying up late is that I get hungry. Apparently, that’s bad.
A new study involving mice who ate …read more

I picked up my son from preschool the other day and overheard a woman say, “I gained 40 pounds when I was pregnant.” I did too. So, I naturally glanced over and gave her the once-over. She was stunning with a beautiful little tyke propped on her hip. I don’t look anywhere near that great. She obviously didn’t have any problem melting away those L-bees.
I remember when I was pregnant wigging out about being so big and my friend Robin, who is some kind of maternal-child health expert with the March of Dimes, reassured me that even though my child …read more

Obesity (higher body mass index or BMI and weight gain) increases the risk of death from prostate cancer but no association was found between BMI or weight gain and the development of cancer.

The researchers found that higher BMI and weight gain since the age of 18 were associated with significantly higher risk of death from prostate cancer. As BMI increased, so did the relative risk of death.
Men who were overweight (BMI 25-29.9) had a 25 percent higher risk, mildly obese men (BMI 30-34.9) had a 46 percent higher risk, and severely obese men (BMI greater than 35) had a 100 …read more