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Its official, Jessica Simpson will be the new spokeswoman for Weight Watchers.

The singer made the announcement on Twitter today: So excited to be a part of the @WeightWatchers family!

The new mother is adding to her coffers with a reported $3 million deal from Weight Watchers to lose the baby weight

Weight Watchers said in a statement, Were thrilled that Jessica Simpson has chosen to join Weight Watchers to adopt a healthier lifestyle and inspire others to do the same.

Simpson just released her first photographs with daughter Maxwell Drew in the latest issue of People magazine.

She told the magazine that giving birth to her first child May 1 has changed her life forever.

When I look at her my heart melts, Simpson, the pop star-turned-fashion designer, said in an interview appearing in the June issue of People magazine. I didnt realize how much love I could have.

Maxwell, known as Max or Maxi, arrived two weeks early, by C-section. She weighed 9 pounds, 13 ounces.

As one of the nurses exclaimed when Max was born, Shes a chunk, People magazines Suzanne Zuckerman told Good Morning America. But she is a beautiful baby.

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Fat women are subjected to the painful stigma of obesity, even after they lose their weight, revealed a latest study on the subject.

An international team of researchers have found that fat women prejudice persist even after their weight loss.

The finding was the result of a study among a group of young women and men which examined whether anti-fat prejudice against women persisted even after they lost significant weight and became thin.

The participants were asked to answer a questionnaire about a group of women who had either lost weight (70 pounds/32 kilograms) or had remained weight stable.

The team found that participants in the study expressed greater bias against obese women, who had currently lost her weight compared to women who had chosen to remain stable.

"We were surprised to find that currently thin women were viewed differently depending on their weight history. Those who had been obese in the past were perceived as less attractive than those who had always been thin, despite having identical height and weight," said Dr Janet Latner, researcher at the University of Hawaii.

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One of the more disturbing findings from the study, the researchers noted, was that negative attitudes towards obese people increase when participants are falsely told that body weight is easily controllable.

"The message we often hear from society is that weight is highly controllable, but the best science in the obesity field at the moment suggests that one's physiology and genetics, as well as the food environment, are the really big players in one's weight status and weight-loss," said Dr Kerry O'Brien, researcher at the University of Manchester's School of Psychological Sciences and Monash University in Melbourne, in a statement.

"Weight status actually appears rather uncontrollable, regardless of one's willpower, knowledge, and dedication. Yet many people who are perceived as 'fat' are struggling in vain to lose weight in order to escape this painful social stigma. We need to rethink our approaches to, and views of, weight and obesity," he added.

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SAN FRANCISCO, May 30, 2012 /PRNewswire/ --Office workers are getting fatter, not fitter, according to recent reports showing obesity rates skyrocketing.

But a new wireless phone headset can help office workers lose weight simply by walking around when talking on the phone. The average person who adds 1,500 steps a day can lose up to 500 calories a day, which translates into 1 pound a week or 50 pounds a year when they use the OfficeRunner Wireless Headset System from Sennheiser.

"The less you sit, the happier and healthier you'll be," said Mike Faith, president of Headsets.com, America's leading provider of office telephone headsets for large companies and small businesses. "The Office Runner makes staying in shape simple and natural for people who use the phone every day."

To see Mike exercising effortlessly with the Office Runner, check out this video.

"If you're like me, you find it hard to go to the gym every day. But it is easy to walk around and lose weight if you aren't chained to your desk by a corded phone. With the Sennheiser Office Runner, you can make and receive calls up to 400 feet from your desk -- and the battery lasts 12 hours, so you can walk around wherever you want in the office," he said.

Many people say they get bored by exercising at the gym, but nearly everyone finds walking easy. And most people have to talk on the phone. By combining both of these fun activities, people stand a fighting chance to lose weight, improve posture and be more productive, he said.

Headsets.com is sponsoring a contest with winners receiving a Fitbit Ultra, the market-leading wireless all-day fitness tracker that also monitors sleep. The Fitbit Ultra monitors all-day activity to provide real-time feedback on steps, distance, calories burned, and stairs climbed to encourage people to walk more and be more active.

"We want to find -- and reward -- the fittest office worker. This gives new meaning to people who can walk and talk at the same time," he said. "For people who want to lose weight, this is a chance for them to walk their talk."

Having an office staff that is physically fit can also lead to a healthy bottom line.

A research report by Richard Yonge, Ph.D. entitled "Movement in the Workplace -- Ideas for Boosting Health and Profits" shows, "There is increasing evidence that prolonged physical inactivity is not just bad for health it is also bad for the bottom line."

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Titans' Shaun Smith teaches yoga: Titans defensive tackle Shaun Smith teaches a yoga class Tuesday at Hot Yoga Plus, where the temperature was 101.5 inside. Titans defensive tackle Shaun Smith, right, teaches a yoga class to raise money for charity on Tuesday. / jaE S. LEE / THE TENNESSEAN STACKED POSITION

Defensive tackles competing to win roster spots with the Titans: Shaun Smith. Now surrounded by talented youngsters, the veteran Smith needs a solid offseason in order to stick. Jurrell Casey. A third-round pick last year, he was a big impact player on run defense. Karl Klug. A fifth-round pick last year, he has a knack for getting to the quarterback. Hes looking to improve his run defense. SenDerrick Marks. Heading into his fourth season, hes in a battle to make the roster. Zach Clayton. He was inactive for most of his rookie season, but will get more chances in Year 2. Lamar Divens. The former Lincoln County standout will try to stick with the Titans after several other NFL stops. Mike Martin. A third-round pick this year, the Titans expect him to be a force immediately. DaJohn Harris. Was regarded as a potential mid-round pick before medical questions kept him from getting drafted.

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You might want to lose weight, but the noticeable benefits seem so far off in the future that you continually procrastinate. You need a reason to get more fit right now - how about money?

A new study in the journal Archives of Internal Medicine reinforces this idea that if money were on the line, you might start on a healthier path. Web and mobile tools are cropping up to help you do this yourself - but first, a word about the study.

The study offered as much as $175 for people who met their goals during the intervention to which they were assigned. Researchers also offered a 20-week followup period, during which time participants could earn $30 to $80 if they kept on recording and sending their information. Money may have been a motivator, although the study did not examine this directly.

Researchers looked at 204 people who had several indicators of a need to change habits: They had low physical activity and a lot of sedentary leisure time. Their intake of saturated fat was elevated, and they had a low intake of fruits and vegetables.

Each person was randomly assigned a treatment: (1) increase fruits and vegetables, (2) decrease fat and leisure time that's not active, (3) lower fat and sedentary leisure, (4) eat more fruits and veggies and lower nonactive leisure time. Digital assistant devices helped participants monitor their activities. The study made use of mobile technologies and remote coaching for all participants.

Researchers found that the intervention resulting in the best healthy lifestyle benefits was the simultaneous increasing of fruits and vegetables and lowering of leisure time spent sedentary.

All participants got the same offer of money, so the central research question wasn't to see whether money would help people lose weight. But after the interventions ended, many participants continued improving during the five-month follow-up period, even though they were not asked or encourage to stay healthy during that time. About 87% of the 185 people who gave exit interviews said they "definitely" or "somewhat" tried to maintain their goals, the study said.

In fact, there's other evidence to suggest that money does matter. A 2008 study in the Journal of the American Medical Association found that financial incentives did get people to lose weight.

So how can you get money for losing weight if you're not part of a study like this?

Some companies offer incentives to employees for losing weight and doing some healthy interventions.

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By Elizabeth Landau, CNN

You might want to lose weight, but the noticeable benefits seem so far off in the future that you continually procrastinate. You need a reason to get more fit right now how about money?

A new study in the journal Archives of Internal Medicine reinforces this idea that if money were on the line, you might start on a healthier path. Web and mobile tools are cropping up to help you do this yourself but first, a word about the study.

The study offered as much as $175 for people who met their goals during the intervention to which they were assigned. Researchers also offered a 20-week followup period, during which time participants could earn $30 to $80 if they kept on recording and sending their information. Money may have been a motivator, although the study did not examine this directly.

Researchers looked at 204 people who had several indicators of a need to change habits: They had low physical activity and a lot of sedentary leisure time. Their intake of saturated fat was elevated, and they had a low intake of fruits and vegetables.

Each person was randomly assigned a treatment: (1) increase fruits and vegetables, (2) decrease fat and leisure time thats not active, (3) lower fat and sedentary leisure, (4) eat more fruits and veggies and lower nonactive leisure time. Digital assistant devices helped participants monitor their activities. The study made use of mobile technologies and remote coaching for all participants.

Researchers found that the intervention resulting in the best healthy lifestyle benefits was the simultaneous increasing of fruits and vegetables and lowering of leisure time spent sedentary.

All participants got the same offer of money, so the central research question wasnt to see whether money would help people lose weight. But after the interventions ended, many participants continued improving during the five-month follow-up period, even though they were not asked or encourage to stay healthy during that time. About 87% of the 185 people who gave exit interviews said they definitely or somewhat tried to maintain their goals, the study said.

In fact, theres other evidence to suggest that money does matter. A 2008 study in the Journal of the American Medical Association found that financial incentives did get people to lose weight.

So how can you get money for losing weight if youre not part of a study like this?

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Would You Lose Weight If Money Were at Stake?

May 28, 2012 11:19am

If most personal trainers spend hours in the gym to achieve a tone-perfect body that their clients will idolize, then Paul PJ James is not your typical personal trainer.

Instead, the Australian-born, former swimsuit model went the complete opposite direction, spending hours outside the gym and inside the kitchen to pack on 90 pounds in six months.

James had not fallen off the bandwagon, however, but gained the weight with a very clear purpose.

The reason for doing it was to better understand and empathize with my personal training clients, said James, of Melbourne, Australia. Theres a lot of people who cant come into the gym for the first time because they feel embarrassed and they really appreciate someone to walk a mile in their shoes.

The6 foot 2 inch James spent two months at his max weight of 264 pounds, and then spent six months whittling his waistline back down to a more swimsuit-model-friendly weight of 176 pounds.

I think what I totally underestimated was the actual emotional side of things, James said. Initially, it was fun to break from the routine, but then when you start to get a look at the way you feel and the way your body looks, things turned south very quickly.

James reclaimed his chiseled abs by following an eating and fitness plan explained in his new book, Take it Off, Keep it Off.

James appeared on Good Morning America today to share the books KO-90 plan and his three key tips for losing weight and keeping it off.

1) Cardio Before Breakfast, Every Day - Its called fasting cardio because your 15 minutes of cardio is actually burning stored fat, James explained on GMA. Its tapping into your stored fats and starting your day off positive.

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May 26 2012 By Richard Smith

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BRITAIN'S fattest teenager was yesterday warned by doctors to lose weight or die.

Sixty-three stone Georgia Davis, 19, is in hospital where she is believed to be suffering from diabetes, kidney disease, spinal problems and respiratory failure.

A team of 40 rescuers had to tear down two walls at Georgias home in Aberdare, Wales, before she could be carried out of her bedroom on a stretcher.

She was taken to Prince Charles Hospital, Merthyr Tydfil, where she was yesterday on a drip and her heart rate and blood pressure were monitored.

Georgias Body Mass Index is 142.3 people with a BMI of over 30 are classed as obese.

One doctor said: At 63 stone and 5ft 6in, she needs to lose 50 stone to stand a chance of living much beyond her 20s.

And Dr Matthew Capehorn, director of the National Obesity Forum, said: At that weight Georgia is drastically shortening her life expectancy.

She could have a stroke or a heart attack tomorrow, you just dont know.

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Sara asks, "Why is it more difficult for women to lose weight than men?"

This goes back to the age old question: what's the difference between the sexes? We have for centuries compared male verses female, and attempted to explain the difference in just about every category. We've seen the rise of feminism, and have established equality (in theory) in every aspect of human life. But, there really is a difference between the sexes, and it has to do with the basic functions for each through evolution. By evolution, I don't mean the evolution from lower species to a higher species, but by evolution for survival. Females ensure the survival of the species by the ability to reproduce. Males, while also necessary for that process, were necessary for protection, hunting and gathering. These basic roles allowed our species to evolve, and prosper. Each generation of offspring, naturally selected for the best possible options for each of the roles per gender. Meaning that the females that were the most fertile, and the males that were the most effective in hunting and protection, had the best chances of survival. So let's break down the basic differences between the sexes from a medical point of view. I am only going to compare the body in relation to weight. I will leave the more complicated and politically charged areas for those much smarter than me!

Men vs. Women

15% more weight - M>F

6inches taller - M >F

Larger chest, heart, lungs, and blood volume - M>F

Skeleton denser - M>F

Higher % of body fat - F>M

Higher estrogen content - F>M

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With Memorial Day weekend kicking off the unofficial start to the summer season, it's once again time to break out the bathing suit and hit the beach. It also means that it's probably too late to drop the extra pounds you packed on during the winter if you haven't already.

Although it's never a bad time to adopt a healthy lifestyle with a well-balanced nutrition plan and an exercise program under the supervision of a trained medical professional, anyone who wanted to lose a significant amount of weight in a healthy way should have started months ago. That won't stop many from going on potentially dangerous crash diets in a desperate bid to shed pounds.

If you believe that your diet scheme is somehow different, guess again. For decades, self-appointed diet experts have come up with all sorts of methods for slimming down. Many of them are simply ridiculous gimmicks that give false hope to the naive or misinformed. Some are just plain stupid. Others, however, can be downright dangerous, and those are the ones that dieters really need to watch out for.

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The Tapeworm Diet: Anyone who has ever had the misfortune of coming into contact with a tapeworm will tell you that these parasites are just gross. So it may come as a surprise that, in the name of losing weight, some less-than-health-conscious dieters have tried the so-called tapeworm diet to lose weight.

The concept is pretty simple, albeit entirely flawed. The dieter ingests a tapeworm, which will then turn that person's insides into a cozy home, growing larger everyday on the food that person ingests. By nurturing this parasite, you're not digesting the calories that would otherwise go straight to your thighs -- at least that's the idea.

Yes, the diet will undoubtedly cause weight loss. It can also lead to nutritional deficiency and result in cysts on the brain, eyes, liver and spinal cord. Selling tapeworms is illegal in the United States, but the parasites can still be acquired in Mexico.

Fen Phen: If you lived in the United States during the mid-1990s and happened to turn on a television or radio during that time, chances are at one point or another you heard an advertisement for fen-phen. Fen-phen was probably the most notorious catastrophe of the diet pill craze in the 1990s.

Widely prescribed and easily available, fen-phen was among the most popular anti-obesity drugs of its time. It was also one of the most dangerous, causing potentially fatal heart valve problems. This spawned a torrent of lawsuits, and the drug was taken off the market in 1997.

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