Tag: WEIGHTLOSS

As the U.S.'s battle against the bulge intensifies, scientists and medical professionals are progressively enlisting the aid of technology to help restrain those expanding waistlines. Two new, high-tech, anti-fat systems have now earned FDA approval, and the methods employ vastly differing techniques. The Zerona tactic, which can reportedly obliterate up 1.5 inches of flab from various bodily ...

A couple of years ago, Google launched Google Health, an online forum where users can store their personal health and wellness information, and share it with others. Now, the company has just launched a new and improved version of its online health center, with an eye toward personalizing and streamlining user experience. As Google explains on its blog, the new Google Health features a more ...

As we can tell you, spending all day plopped in front of your computer can have pretty devastating effects on your physicality. According to a new study, though, logging onto the Web, under certain circumstances, can actually help people drop a few extra pounds. Researchers at Kaiser Permanente recently found that, when overweight patients used an online weight-loss support group, they ...

If other dieting solutions just haven't worked, why not try a personalized, robotic weight-loss coach? It may sound odd, but according to The Wall Street Journal, Intuitive Automata, Inc. hopes that its talking robot, Autom, can help people lose weight and lead healthier lives. Autom -- which will launch in the U.S. next year as a trial, and later for $500 plus a monthly subscription fee -- will ...

Highlights from this morning's other big tech headlines.... Apple may have to mount a wholesale offensive against Vietnam if developmental gadgets keep surreptitiously appearing in the Asian nation. An iPhone 4G recently surfaced, and now an iPod Touch with a 2-megapixel camera has materialized, as well. This begs just one important question: When can we get one? [From: Engadget] Google ...

With KFC's Double Down "sandwich" now threatening to slap quadruple chins across much of America, people may soon begin chomping at the bit for equally extreme diet solutions to counteract the havoc wreaked by the Colonel. Gelesis, a Boston-based drug company, has apparently read the grease-stained handwriting on the wall, and has just concocted a new pill aimed at helping plus-sized Americans ...

Although devices like Nike+ already exist, a new generation of "fat tech" aims to do more -- not only tracking how many minutes you work out or how much food you consume, but your location, too. Sneaking a Big Mac when you should be in the gym? Scientists will know. Getting too lazy for your own good? You'll get a text message saying as much. In a federally funded pilot project by the ...

We can't believe it took a scientific study to discover this, but apparently, you're more likely to lose weight if you own more pieces of exercise equipment than televisions. Ever heard of common sense, people? According to a transcript of Scientific American's 60-Second Science podcast, a study that appeared in the Annals of Behavioral Medicine found people who lost 10-percent of their body ...

Shame is a powerful motive. Combined with technology, it's pushing Twitter users to lose weight. A Twitter-based online food diary called Tweet What You Eat is helping users watch what they eat and count the number of calories they consume on a given day. Aside from counting calories, it also gives users extra incentive not to cheat, since the results are posted for everyone to see. There's a ...

Apparently, the United States offers you two options: Be morbidly obese, or be so healthy and weight conscious that everyone around you wants to choke you with a Big Mac. It's the only way to explain the shockingly high rate of overweight individuals in the U.S. (although that is usually measured by the rather meaningless Body Mass Index, or BMI) and the seemingly uncontrollable explosion of gyms ...

Have you ever wondered what you would look like if you lost 50 pounds? How about with a different hairstyle? We recently sat down with Dr. Parham Aarabi, president of face visualization company Modiface, who showed us some of the more interesting uses of his company's high-tech algorithms. Modiface grew out of face recognition technology developed at the University of Toronto. The technology ...

Depending on a car for transportation makes one more vulnerable to obesity, according to an article the Wired Blog found in the Journal of Physical Activity and Health. The study, conducted by University of Tennessee's David Bassett and Rutgers University's John Pucher, focused on transit and obesity figures in developed countries and determined, "Active transportation is inversely related to ...

Want to lose weight while surfing the Web? Face it, you really can't. You can, however, totally distract yourself with a useless new time waster of a weight-loss site. It's simple: Flaab has you enter how much you want to lose and then put your money where your mouth is. If you don't manage to lose the weight, you promise to send the money to one of several options, including the UN World ...

While it's amazing to think that elementary school children would ever need to send text messages, a new study says the technology can be used to help those not-so-wee tykes among them lose weight. To combat childhood obesity, a researcher at the UNC School of Medicine used texting as part of a three week family program to encourage children to use a pedometer to track their daily amount of ...

It's spring. And if you're like us, the results of your swimsuit diet aren't quite showing yet. If you've got any graduations or weddings coming up in the warmer months ahead, you're likely to get your picture taken. If the thought of a photographer makes you want to run, relax: We've found a few tips -- online, in books, from experts -- on looking thinner in pictures. 1. Use flashes in ...