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...done," says Marion Nestle, a nutrition professor at New York University and the author of What to Eat. "It's hard to think of some new gimmick in dieting." Have no fear. Each year as the New Year's resolution season draws near, the publishing industry dreams up novel weight-loss schemes to entice the ever plumper U.S. population, nearly two-thirds of which is overweight. The new crop of diet books recommends everything from treating meals as mood medicine to eating dinner for breakfast. Here's a sampler. The Best Life Diet By Bob Greene...
...sites that tell you how to go on a diet, and still others with carbon-dieting support groups, like those found on the Sierra Club site. Terrapass, a company that sells carbon-offsetting investments to individuals, sends an email to 19,000 people a week with carbon pound weight-loss tips. They also have an active blog where people post their own tips, vote on their willingness to make certain changes (like purchasing a solar-powered water heater) and share their dieting experiences (like their laments about living in an apartment where putting up clotheslines outside is prohibited...
...Shubentsov’s been in the quitting game, but according to his press materials, he’s cured thousands of people, among them Billy Joel, Courtney Cox, Drew Barrymore, and Amy Tan. His self-proclaimed success rate is 98%, and in addition to cigarettes, he can do weight-loss, drugs, phobias, and alcohol. I’d had my last cigarette back in the Square, while sitting outside of Boylston Hall and reading some books in the nice fall weather. Two hours later, when I walked into Dr. S’s office, I greeted the receptionist...
...green or clean." One such holding is Fuel Tech, which supplies pollution control and cleaning equipment to those nasty coal-fired power plants. Robinson also maintains stakes in the healthy-living sector, owning companies like Whole Foods Market and even the controversial HerbaLife, a maker of nutrition and weight-loss products. He's not averse to financial, biotech or telecom stocks either, stretching the notion of eco-friendly. Last year he made a killing off a telecom stock, Redback. "They're helping networks to move data faster, reducing the use of paper," he says. By that measure, though, almost...
...months, 15,000 people have joined a weight-loss website founded by four Harvard alums. The site, Traineo.com, lets users track what they eat and what they do to exercise. It also calculates the number of calories they burn and gauges their progress. Traineo CEO Aladair McLean-Foreman ’05 said the site’s users include “loads of college students.” McLean-Foreman, along with schoolmates Jennifer Y. Lee ’04, James J. Albertine ’04, Devin Lyons-Quirk ’05 created the site, which...