• Lose 50 pounds - but not the popcorn
  
  My mother awoke recently thinking a bear had broken into her house. Pantry doors were slamming. She swore she heard a growl.No need to call animal control. It was my father. He's a night eater. We all have our sweet or salty vices, and his is the late-night snack. It's his key diet weakness, preventing him from losing the weight that showed up when my sisters and I were born - no matter how many diets he tries. An exercise fanatic, he actually kind of looks like a bear: barrel-chested with powerful arms . . .
• Tricking your metabolism to lose more weight
  
  DEAR JIM: You mentioned in a previous column that breakfast eaters typically lose weight and maintain their weight easier than breakfast skippers, so I started eating breakfast again. It was hard at first because I hadn’t eaten breakfast regularly since I was a kid - I'm 71 now - but now I feel so much better, and I don’t know why I ever stopped in the first place. But surely there has to be more to losing weight than just eating breakfast – it can’t be that simple. DOUBTFUL IN DENVER
• Losing weight boils down to common sense!
  
  Sometimes the best advice doesn’t come from someone with a degree or lots of letters after their last name. It just may come from a person who knows first-hand about dealing with—and conquering—a personal battle.
• Weight Loss: Is There a Quick Fix?
  
  It is estimated that over $40 billion is spent on weight loss annually and that figure keeps rising. There have been countless pills, diet and exercise fads, and even natural remedies such as green tea extract, the acai berry and now african mango extract that look promising at first glance for weight loss, but do they really work and are they safe? These are questions you need to ask yourself before taking part in something that may not work and can potentially be harmful.
• Weight-loss, fitness industries feel the pain of the recession
  
  In October, Richard Polisner, a longtime Jacksonville podiatrist, opened up the Kinetic Weight Loss clinic on Atlantic Boulevard.
• Click Here Quantcast
  
  See that matchbox in the photo iluustration? That’s about the amount of salad dressing you should be tossing on to your salad when you’re dining out.