The estimate of the COST of obesity is worth commenting on. The seven figure Kimkins scam is small potatoes compared to the $2.1 BILLION that State officials have estimated obesity costs Georgia every year. I haven’t formed a solid opinion on this type of statistic. I would be interested to see what other people have to say.

I don’t know if this successful dieter is a celebrity. I do know that the prizes are tempting, and the contest is very easy to enter for anyone with a blog. Check out the post at Half of Me. I am meeting the qualifications, but I have decided not to enter. This improves your chances

That may be an exaggeration, but there certainly is less going on on the blogosphere. A result in the proceedings will probably get some people talking for awhile, maybe even the media. Personally, I think the media is done with this human drama.

Here it is… if you were a bodybuilder and you discovered that your personal coach was wearing one of these fake muscle suits, would you still trust him?

I am not trying to be funny, this is an analogy that is meant to be helpful, ok?

If you have a burning desire to open up a restaurant, be sure that you don’t bite off more than you can chew. Restaurant Funding from Advance Restaurant Finance is kinda self explanatory, but I think using a sector specific finance company might help you avoid some of the common pitfalls. And you will need money, too.

If you are sensitive to criticism, here is a dose of perspective for you. This video features Aishwarya Rai, who is considered by many to be the most beautiful woman in the World. She has recently been the subject of some very harsh criticism in the Indian media. This criticism is about her weight.

As an actress, she is asked to lose 10 or more pounds for movie roles on occasion. I think that is a reasonable request. Actors often take it upon themselves to gain or lose significant amounts of weight. I remember Tom Hanks looking lanky for Philadelphia and Castaway. Some actors and actresses gain weight on purpose for roles. George Clooney was supposedly thrown into a state of depression after he gained 30 pounds for a role.

Anyway, the Indian actress should not have to suffer the derision of the tabloids over a little bit of belly fat.

A few diet vLoggers have started adding kimkins as a keyword to unrelated videos, which is fine. This is how I discovered YvesMetamorphosis. Her weight loss journey is not a remarkable success or failure. She is not selling anything. What makes her channel worth mentioning is just the fact that it is a very public accounting of her 10 week effort. I wish her well.

I am more familiar with leek and potato soup, which would be verboten for those following a strict low carb diet. If you find a soup recipe that works for your diet, be sure to keep track of your sodium intake as some recipes are on the high side. I think spinach it a great food to experiment with.

What makes www.foodconnect.com so great? These and many other features:

- Free nutritional analysis, for all recipes on the site and every recipe you submit.
- Share your recipes with your friends and other foodies.
- Discuss recipe ideas and techniques.
- Plan your meal and easily print off your shopping list.
- Create the perfect dinner party

All of this and much more and best of all its all free. Get to foodconnecct.com to get started today.

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The above press release gives you the gist of what FoodConnect.com is all about. I have visited the site a few times and I find it to be quite entertaining. I haven’t come away with any must make recipes yet. As often as not, I am vicariously entertained by websites about food. I have a pretty stable diet that I don’t deviate from that much. I am thinking about submitting a few recipes to see what dietary values are spit out. You really have to take some of the values with a grain of salt because they are dependent on user inputs. I actually find the cocktails to be the most entertaining, or more accurately I find the people who leave comments after trying out drink recipes to be a hoot. Here is a recipe for Captain Morgan’s Steamy Applecolada Dream.