diet-blog
http://www.diet-blog.com

2007.1.3

community sties mentioned in comments
www.mindoverfatter.co.za

2006.12.29

Social Networking and Peer Support Sites
There is a growing number of superb websites offering innovative ways to connect with a support network of people who are interested in fitness or weight loss.

• Weight Loss Buddy - Devoted to matching up weight loss buddies based on a number of criteria.
• Weight Circles - Blogs and “circles” (like-minded support groups). New.
• Losing It - Social Networking.
• Extra Pounds - Blogging and Tracking.
• SparkPeople - Popular weight loss program with many social networking features.
• Diet.com - Began as the “personality type diet” - but now offers a number of ways to connect with others.
• Traineo - Popular fitness site with ability to get others to motivate you.
• Gimme20 - Fitness tracking with blogs.
• FitLink - New. Fitness themed with ability to find training partners.
• WalkingSpree - New. Emphasis on walking and linking with pocket pedometer. Blogs and journals.
• PeerTrainer - Many social networking features. Fitness emphasis.
• Fat Secret - Offers a good way to collectively compare diets.

http://www.diet-blog.com/archives/2006/12/28/social_networking_and_peer_support_sites.php

10 Diets That Work
Forbes magazine has a health feature describing the ten diets that work. From the article we can presume that a “working” diet is one that causes weight loss. I would add that a working diet is one that leads to optimum health.
http://www.diet-blog.com/archives/2006/03/16/10_diets_that_work.php
http://www.forbes.com/health/2006/03/07/diet-trends-weightloss-cx_sy_0308feat_ls.html

Special K Diet: Cereal for Weight Loss?
http://www.diet-blog.com/archives/2006/03/09/special_k_diet_cereal_for_weight_loss.php
background study journal article
http://www.jacn.org/cgi/content/full/21/6/570/

Review: Curves Diet Plan: Set-Point Theory Repackaged
http://paperfrigate.blogspot.com/2005/09/review-curves-diet-plan-set-point.html
As a recent Curves member, I found this review interesting. I may have to read the book.

Belly Laughs at Early Fad Diets
http://www.diet-blog.com/archives/2006/02/01/early_fad_diets_belly_laughs.php
which links to
http://abcnews.go.com/Entertainment/WolfFiles/story?id=1537630

links

• Diet Facts (nutrition info)
• Nutrition Data,
• Diets (encyclopedia)

blogs

• Stumptuous
• Weight of the Evidence
• I Ate a Pie
• CalorieLab
• Fast Food News
• Starling Fitness
• Health Pundits
• iFitandHealthy

Nonprofits have to be careful how they describe their activities and expenitures. “Getting attention’ is nonprofit-speak for marketing, promotion and PR activities.

MySpace is in the news these days. Here is a good article about noprofit use.

Nonprofit Do’s for My Space Success — How-Tos for Raising Awareness
and Promoting Advocacy
http://www.gettingattention.org/my_weblog/2006/12/nonprofit_dos_f.html

Learn more…
resources that can be useful when working on getting attention

Getting Attention
http://www.gettingattention.org/

This is a wonderful collection of Web 2.0 tools that have academic applicaation for teachers and students. Specific services include: organizers, gradebooks, research tools, document managers, diagrams, and more.

Back to School with the Class of Web 2.0
http://www.solutionwatch.com/512/back-to-school-with-the-class-of-web-20-part-1/

Learn more…

Web 2.0

Hypoglycemia - hy-po-gly-ce-mi-a (n.)
An abnormally low level of sugar in the blood.

Hypoglycemia is the body’s inability to properly handle sugar consumed. It’s an overload of sugar, alcohol, caffeine, tobacco and stress.

Functional hypoglycemia is the oversecretion of insulin by the pancreas in response to a rapid rise in blood sugar or “glucose”.

http://www.hypoglycemia.org/hypo.asp

Hypoglycemia in People Who Do Not Have Diabetes
Two types of hypoglycemia can occur in people who do not have diabetes: reactive (postprandial, or after meals) and fasting (postabsorptive). Reactive hypoglycemia is not usually related to any underlying disease; fasting hypoglycemia often is.
http://diabetes.niddk.nih.gov/dm/pubs/hypoglycemia/

Learn more…

National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK) - hypoglycemia
http://diabetes.niddk.nih.gov/dm/pubs/hypoglycemia/

Association for Women in Mathematics
to encourage women and girls to study and to have active careers in the mathematical sciences, and to promote equal opportunity and the equal treatment of women and girls in the mathematical sciences.
http://www.awm-math.org

list of resources for students and educators in the mathematical sciences.
http://www.awm-math.org/education.html