WESLEYAN STUDENT WEIGHT WATCHERS – 10-WEEK SERIES
Sponsored by the Office of Behavioral Health for Students
 
Minimum of 15 Prepaid Members Needed!
COST:  $127
(payment via cash, check or credit card; due at first meeting)
Contact Becky Gagnon (rgagnon@wesleyan.edu) or call 685-3143 today to sign up.  
Include your name and phone number and be sure to specify both day(s) [...]

From the New York Times…
Often, a visit to the doctor’s office starts with a weigh-in. But is a person’s weight really a reliable indicator of overall health?
Increasingly, medical research is showing that it isn’t. Despite concerns about an obesity epidemic, there is growing evidence that our obsession about weight as a primary measure of health [...]

From Her Active Life…
Losing weight really can be as simple as one, two, three! Just follow these three simple steps:
1.) Chose a diet that is nutritionally balanced and includes the appropriate amount of servings from each food group. Your diet should not eliminate any food groups. To stay healthy you need essential nutrients from [...]

From WebMD…
Ah, sweet sleep. We seem to get too little. Now researchers are finding that too much or too little sleep could lead to unhealthy weight gain.
Researchers at Laval University in Quebec looked at 276 people for six years who were part of a larger Canadian study. 
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Sleep duration was determined from a questionnaire [...]

From the New York Times…
If beauty is in the eye of the beholder, then try to be beheld by a feminist.
A new study finds that women who describe themselves as feminists are more forgiving than other women when assessing the attractiveness of women who are either very underweight or very heavy.
Writing in the journal Body [...]

This from the New York Times…
Worrying about weighing too much may be bad for you, no matter how much you actually weigh.
Using results from a telephone health survey run by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, researchers analyzed data on more than 170,000 men and women nationwide. Among other information about health and lifestyle, [...]