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Hooray!  R ecent studies have indicated that many people with B.M.I. levels at the low end of normal  are less healthy than those now considered overweight , blogs Jane E. Brody at The New York Times. And some people who are overly fat according to their B.M.I. are just as healthy as those considered to be of normal weight, as discussed in a new book, “The Obesity Paradox,” by Dr. Carl J. Lavie, a cardiologist in New Orleans, and Kristin Loberg, she reports. My B.M.I. has long been too high so I've never paid too much attention to it, losing 20 pounds recently and upping my exercise quotient significantly.  So what if the number's too big? Now it looks like some pros are agreeing with me.   Recent studies have " prompted many to question the real meaning  of B.M.I. and to note its potential drawbacks: labeling some healthy people as overweight or obese who are not overly fat, and failing to distinguish between dangerous and innocuous distributions of bod...

Eat an egg.  Chew a cheese stick.  Swallow a hunk of steak.  Then, go exercise. Experts are now promising that some women who do this will lose more weight, or lose it faster.   According to newswise.com, "A  high-protein meal followed by 30 minutes of moderate exercise is an effective way of burning calories, especially when compared to exercising on an empty stomach." I was actually told this several years ago when I had a trainer for three months.  He suggested I eat something, anything, before I went for my jog.  I usually picked fruit and I can't say it helped me lose much weight (maybe I chose the wrong thing).  The idea? You will exercise longer and tire less, if you have food in your stomach.  But this new study found something else. “We looked at the effects of protein consumption alone on total energy expenditure, and protein consumption combined with exercise,” newswise quotes  Ashley Binns, a doctoral student in kine...