Carole Carson

Biography: Carole Carson, author of From Fat to Fit: Turn Yourself into a Weapon of Mass Reduction, serves as the coach for the AARP Fat to Fit online community. On the brink of 60 and just 5-foot-1, Carole Carson weighed 182 pounds. Then, unbelievably, she shed 62 pounds. Next, she turned around and inspired people in her community of Grass Valley, Calif., to lose 4 tons of weight together. Now she's doing the same for AARP members with the Fat to Fit Weight-Loss Challenge.

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11 Healthiest Foods That Won’t Go to Waist

Posted on 05/10/2012 by Carole Carson | Fat to Fit | Comments

Personal HealthWhat’s in your cupboard and refrigerator? Are you regularly preparing and enjoying foods that can reduce your cholesterol along with the risk of cardiovascular diseases and cancer? Some of these superfoods can help you manage your appetite by stabilizing your blood-sugar level and can even lift your spirit. All of these benefits are critical to those of us seeking to keep our weight in check. Here are 11 of the 150 healthiest foods, according to Dr. Jonny Bowden, a nationally …

Defining Moments: The Beginning of the Thinning

Posted on 05/3/2012 by Carole Carson | Fat to Fit | Comments

Personal HealthPornography is difficult to describe but you know it when you see it. Similarly, a defining moment is hard to describe but you know it when you experience it. Defining moments are to human experience what the phenomena outliers are to researchers. Outliers are results that stand out because they are inconsistent with what has gone before and, given past events, seemingly inconsistent with what should have occurred. Like outlier statistics, defining moments are small events that change how you …

Four Lessons to Slim and Trim Your Body

Posted on 04/26/2012 by Carole Carson | Fat to Fit | Comments

Personal HealthIf we are to succeed in the lifelong quest to look and feel our best, we must become good students and learn from what others can teach us. Sometimes the instruction comes from the laboratory; other times, we learn from individuals who’ve achieved personal breakthroughs. Here are four lessons worth incorporating into your fitness program: Synthetic Fats Are Not Good for Weight Loss: A study conducted at Purdue University demonstrated that fat substitutes may cause dieters to gain weight. According …

How Our Brain Works: Unraveling the Mysteries of the Inner World

Posted on 04/19/2012 by Carole Carson | Fat to Fit | Comments

Personal HealthOur brains may be one of the last frontiers for explorers of human physiology. The past few years have seen remarkable breakthroughs in understanding how the brain works. New discoveries in the field of neuroscience are helping us understand how and what we perceive and feel, how we learn and store memories and how reasoning and decision making are processed. Here are four new insights: Concrete Thinking Treats Depression: Concrete thinking, or concreteness training (CNT), is a technique that replaces …

What Dietary Pattern Describes Your Diet?

Posted on 04/12/2012 by Carole Carson | Fat to Fit | Comments

Personal HealthResearchers have defined five dietary patterns that are influenced by age, race, region, gender, income and education in a presentation at the American Heart Association’s 2012 scientific session. The study was based on a detailed questionnaire completed by 21,636 black and white adults age 45 and over. The five dietary patterns are as follows: 1. Alcohol—proteins, alcohol (wine, beer and mixed drinks) and salads 2. Healthy—mostly fruits, vegetables and grains 3. Southern—fried foods, processed meats and sweetened beverages 4. Sweets—large …

Formula for Weight Loss: Support + Science = Success

Posted on 04/5/2012 by Carole Carson | Fat to Fit | Comments

Personal HealthThe novel notion that friends make friends fat made news when researchers analyzing data from the Framingham Heart Study found evidence that “clusters of friends appeared to ‘infect’ each other with obesity, unhappiness and smoking.” At the same time, the researchers found that good habits, such as quitting smoking, being trim and being happy passed “from friend to friend almost as if they were contagious viruses.” These groundbreaking observations were based on a long-term study established in 1948 by the …