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McDonald's Employee Fired For Letting Adrian Peterson Pee
Obesity Costs the United States $270 Billion a Year
Big Breakfasts Don't Help Weight Loss
Free Giveaway: Healthy Eating Handbook

McDonald's Employee Fired For Letting Adrian Peterson Pee

Posted: 21 Jan 2011 05:43 AM PST

I would have fired her for being a Vikings fan, plus letting some dude use the bathroom late at night.

But despite her poor choice of football teams, an assistant manager at McDonald's was fired for letting Minnesota Vikings "star," running back Adrian Peterson, use the restroom after hours.

Here's the problem. It was 3 a.m. and only the drive-thru was open, the rest of the "restaurant" was closed. So by letting AP go pee-pee she broke the rules. Its clear cut to me.

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Obesity Costs the United States $270 Billion a Year

Posted: 21 Jan 2011 02:08 AM PST

Obesity-related healthcare and loss of productivity at work costs the United States and Canada $300 billion a year, reveals a new study.

The United States accounts for the lion-share of the money at $270 billion. Canada spends $30 billion

According the World Health Organization (WHO), in 2005 1.6 billion adults, ages 15 and older, were overweight and at least 400 million adults were obese, especially in developed countries.

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Big Breakfasts Don't Help Weight Loss

Posted: 21 Jan 2011 01:53 AM PST

Somewhere down the line you may have heard that the key to weight loss is to; "Eat breakfast like a king, lunch like a prince, and dinner like a pauper".

But, if you do eat like a king for breakfast, you may be royally ticked at your lack of progress, according to a study in the Nutrition Journal.

Volker Schusdziarra, MD, of the Else-Kr�ner-Fresenius Center of Nutritional Medicine in Munich, conducted a study on 380 normal weight and obese people who were asked to log what they ate.

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Free Giveaway: Healthy Eating Handbook

Posted: 20 Jan 2011 09:06 AM PST

Before I begin my review, I must come right out and confess that the Healthy Eating Handbook is my own product. I'll try to be objective, but you'll understand if I'm a little biased!

It's easy to get lost in the sea of diets available these days. It can be really disconcerting, in fact. And for some of you, perhaps you just want to eat healthy, no more dieting. But where to begin?

This is exactly why I've written the Healthy Eating Handbook -- it is for those of you who are simply fed up with fad dieting, and failed weight loss attempts.

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