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Featured Article Health 4 Life: Part 3 - Avoiding Diet Gremlins Maintaining a healthy eating lifestyle and adding exercise is not easy when diet gremlins pop up at every turn on the road. So, let's talk about identifying those gremlins, making healthy choices, and adding tools to combat them daily. You can still eat well and not spend your life in the kitchen. All it takes is a little knowledge about how to choose and eat fast foods.

Obesity, The Terror Within U.S. Surgeon General, Dr. Richard Carmona, calls obesity "the terror within." People should be as worried about the "obesity epidemic" as they are about all of the terrors swirling around our globe.			Portion Distortion! Do you know how food portions have changed in 20 years? Take this short quiz to see if you know how today's portions compare to the portions available 20 years ago.
CDC Nutrition & Physical Activity Stats How does your state compare to the U.S. average? Has health improved in recent years? What are the health differences by gender? Age? Race? Education? View statistics that answer these questions.			Healthy Weight Week Resources Easy steps for an effective Healthy Weight Week campaign.
Realistic Ideas and Information for Losing Weight and Keeping it Off At some time or other, we have all had a moment when our pants were too tight and we had to make the decision to reduce food intake and increase exercise. That, or buy bigger pants. While bigger pants is the easiest solution, it isn't a healthy one, nor is what we really want.			The Beginning of the End of Dieting The voices that speak about healthy weight loss are hard to hear...