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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. Biography of VADM Richard H. Carmona, M.C., M.P.H., F.A.C., U.S. Surgeon General			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.
"Slimming Slippers" Tops the Year's "Worst" Diet Products Women in the media are extremely thin, hollow-cheeked, and seem to all look alike. It's a stereotype that sets nine-year-olds dieting and tells teenage girls...			Make Healthy Weight Week the Beginning of the End for Dieting! The voices that speak about healthy weight loss are hard to hear...