Weight Loss

Study Concludes Sex Only Burns 21 Calories Per Encounter, And An Average of Six Minutes Burning Those Calories

We're actually not sure which is the most depressing revelation of the study published in the New England Journal of Medicine: That sex for the typical American only burns 21 calories or that it only burns 21 calories because Americans only have sex for an average of six minutes an "encounter." Just ... More >>

Consider the Hapifork: A Fork That Vibrates To Keep You From Overeating

The Hapifork is a bluetooth enabled phone fork that vibrates when it detects you're eating too quickly. No word as to whether it also yells at you to get your elbows off the table and we like to think that it vibrates so hard that it causes you to fling food across the table. This latest weight loss ... More >>

5 Fad Diets to Avoid in 2013

With the holidays coming to a close it's time to step up to the scale and assess the damage. If the numbers on the scale are much larger than you remember it's possible that a diet may be in order. But don't panic! Rushing into a fad diet is at best not along term solution and at worst might actuall ... More >>

Chow Bella Weighs in on Martin Cizmar's New Diet Book, Chubster

​Remember Martin Cizmar? He was our music critic at Phoenix New Times (left last year, he's now at the Willamette Week in Portland, Oregon) and he also kicked up some dust in the Phoenix food community. As you might recall, Cizmar got into a bit of a tiff with Earl's BBQ (there's still a "Wanted" ... More >>

Casa Grande Fatso Wants to Be Fattest Woman in the World

www.susanneeman.com Susanne Eman is on her way to her goal weight of 1,600-plus pounds.​A woman in Casa Grande has a goal: she wants to be the fattest woman in the world.That stunner to the right is Susanne Eman, and according her website -- which you can check out here -- she is trying to ... More >>

Big Out

Wannabe losers try to elbow out the competition

Chubster: A Weight Loss Guide For Hipsters Written By One of New Times' Own On the Way

Kirsten Veng-PedersenMartin Cizmar...or at least what's left of him.​Music Editor Martin Cizmar is a larger than life personality. The same can not be said about his stature, however. For nearly two years now, I have consorted with Mr. Cizmar both as a colleague and a friend and frequently sharin ... More >>

Biggest Loser Auditions Coming to Valley; Bad News, Chubsters: You Have to Get Off Your Couch to Try Out

www.nbc.com​ Any Valley fatties lookin' to shed a hundred pounds may be in luck -- NBC is looking for a new group of chunkers for its popular weight-loss reality show, The Biggest Loser, and the network is coming to the Valley to hold auditions.Casting agents from The Biggest Loser will be i ... More >>

Using Fatties in Marketing Campaigns Unlikely to Work, ASU Study Finds

Kirstie Alley's Jenny Craig ad campaign. Looks like someone took a wrong turn after Cheers​A researcher at Arizona State University found that ads featuring plus-sized models are unlikely to work on their intended audiences: fatties.Sorry, Kirstie Alley, the Jenny Craig endorsement buffet ma ... More >>

Hungrygirl.com Offers Ideas to Tip the Scales in Your Favor

You can try that one foot on the scale trick, but you're not fooling anyone.​Valentine's Day has come and gone and you've whole heartedly abandoned your New Years diet by professing your undying love to a giant box of chocolates.  Your jeans still don't fit and those crafty Girl Scouts will b ... More >>

Ali Vincent: Before She Appears in Mesa, the Biggest Loser Winner Talks About Creating Her Own Destiny

​Ali Vincent has energy -- lots of it. The Mesa native lost 112 pounds to become the first female winner of The Biggest Loser, snagging the $250,000 prize. Now, she is an inspirational speaker, spokeswoman, author, and soon-to-be creator of her own charitable foundation. Chow Bella had a chanc ... More >>

Eat More Bananas, Lose Weight?

​That's the message Dole wants to convey. The company recently launched a "banana diet" plan that includes lots of consumption of the yellow fruit in hopes of trimming down waistlines of consumers. According to www.dolebananadiet.com, bananas are high in resistant starch, which boosts fat b ... More >>

Before You Go Out, Think About Making These Meals Yourself

Planet Green​Grabbing to-go food might not be the healthiest choice, but it's often a heck of a lot easier than busting out cooking utensils, going shopping for ingredients and trying to make bean burritos and pad Thai ourselves. But with New Year's resolutions of losing weight staring us do ... More >>

Winged Victory

Chicken-gnawing contest’s as American as a snout full of RedHot

Scottsdale Weight Loss Docs Release Smart Phone Application That Rates Nutritional Value of Our Food; Is there Anything an iPhone Can't Do?

www.mapds.com​As if our double chins and beer guts weren't painful enough of a reminder as to how unhealthy we all are, now our iPhones can scold us into healthier eating habits, too. Two Scottsdale weight loss doctors have created a smart phone application that gauges and rates the nutrition ... More >>

Winged Victory

Chicken-gnawing contest’s as American as a snout full of RedHot

Winged Victory

Chicken-gnawing contest’s as American as a snout full of RedHot

Winged Victory

Chicken-gnawing contest’s as American as a snout full of RedHot

Winged Victory

Chicken-gnawing contest’s as American as a snout full of RedHot

The Thin Commandments

Novel explores the insidious nature of anorexia, bulimia

Enviga Tea by Coca-Cola and Nestle Forced to Back Off Health Claims by Arizona and Other States

Thanks to a settled lawsuit brought by Arizona and other states, cans or bottles of Enviga, a green tea made by Coca-Cola and Nestle, must now include a disclaimer to let people know the product won't cause weight loss. Arizona Attorney General Terry Goddard joined fellow top cops in ... More >>

Arizona Court of Appeals Mercifully Rules Against a State Agency That Told a Poor Woman She Didn't Need Dentures, That She Could Just Exist on a Liquid Diet

Some years ago, Bridget Sharpe became eligible for AHCCCS, the state's health-care program for the needy. She enrolled with the program's Mercy Care Plan to receive medical services.  What remained of Sharpe's teeth were in a state of "rampant decay," according to an Arizona Co ... More >>

Jessica Simpson's Weight Gain Makes Three Magazine Covers, and the President Is Speaking Out

Do you think Jessica Simpson is fat? The not-so-talented Jessica Simspon graces the cover of three celebrity weeklies today, according to celebrity gossip blogger Perez Hilton. Simpson, who has been all over the news lately because of her recent weight gain, will appear on the cover of People, Us W ... More >>

The Skinny: Cafe Rio's Barbacoa Pork Salad

The Skinny: Breakfast at Acacia Café

The Skinny: Going au naturel at Indigo Joe's

The Skinny: Keegan's Grill & Taproom

The Skinny: 75 Thai Taste

The Skinny: Child's play at Darcy McGee's

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