Gemma Ward Retires From Modelling After Comments About Weight

After being declared the youngest "it girl" in the modelling industry at merely 16 years-old in 2003 by Vogue, Gemma Ward has decided to retire from the industry after media reports jeered her for gaining...

The Fountain of Weight Loss

Due to the varying and sometimes misleading information about weight loss and healthy eating habits that is circulating around the internet, I will try my best to distribute my knowledge from my own personal experience as well as information I have researched about healthier...

Lizzi Miller: Plus Size Model Bares All

A picture of the 180-pound model Lizzi Miller in the September's issue of Glamour has recently created a buzz on the internet, and more significantly, shaken up the fashion industry that has always been claimed by slender, leggy supermodels only. Meet Lizzi Miller: a...

Countries Go Vegetarian

In a clear message to the rest of the world - Belgium heeds government and UN calls to go Veg to the save the world. "Starting this week there will be a regular weekly meatless day" ""This is pretty special,...

Oprah only has 3 years to live says the National Enquirer

The oh so reliable National Enquirer 'newspaper' is claiming today that Oprah Winfrey only has three years to live according to some 'medical experts' who have looked at her medical history. These experts claim that...

Robot model makes a runway appearance at the Tokyo fashion week

The audience at the Tokyo fashion week witnessed an unconventional model take to the runway. The HRP-4C humanoid robot dressed in black and silver appeared on the stage, bowed to the audience and made a brief...

All Diets Work if you Count Your Calories and Eat Less

The effectiveness of four major kinds of diets was probed in a recent study, which found that all diets work - they key to success is simply sticking with your diet, and eating less. The Harvard School of Public...

Beware The Stingray!

Stingrays will always remind us of Steve Irwin, the 'Crocodile Hunter,' won't they? Here is a story of a record-breaking stingray. " A record-breaking stingray capture, by the numbers: 1 rod and line 90 minutes...

Doctors call for Weight Loss Industry Regulation

Governments should be regulating the diet industry, to help keep Canadians from falling prey to all the misleading claims of fad dieting, says this week's Canadian Medical Assiciation Journal.   "Although...

US Weekly: The Diet Secrets of Jennifer Aniston

Recently in US Weekly, everyone’s favorite good girl Jennifer Aniston revealed her “exact weight plan.” I’m going to save you four dollars and tell you the exact exercise and diet secrets of Jennifer...

The Best, Healthiest Diet for 2009

For me, the word "diet" has an ugly connotation to it.  Setting a goal to adopt a healthier lifestyle is an admirable personal mission, but dieting in order to lose weight often involves desperately seeking...

Open Case: Mary Badaracco

" DPS Search: State of Connecticut Department of Public...

Oprah Discusses Weight Gain Guilt After Falling off the Diet Wagon

Daytime talk show host Oprah Winfrey comes clean on her guilt over her battle with weight gain over the past 2 years, saying that she's "fallen off the wagon" and "embarrassed" that she let it happen...

New players challenge world order

[New players challenge world order Brazil, Russia, India and China, the so-called Brics, are predicted to emerge as major world players by 2050. In this,...

Pelosi supports new help for ailing US automakers

The US has been rife with specualtion over whether the US government would inject huge amounts of money into the US auto industry in order to keep it afloat or let it die. Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi...

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