Is it possible to eat cookies and lose weight?  Well, Dr. Sanford Siegal would certainly like you to think so.  After all, at $56 for a week's supply, Dr. Siegal is going to make an estimated $18 million this year selling his weight-loss cookies.   It's called The Cookie Diet, and if you like cookies it may sound like a great way to lose weight.  But is it?

I'll let you in a secret: I Strength Train.

What's an actress to do when the part of Laurie in Oklahoma! or the chance to disrobe while weightless in space have gone to a younger woman? If you are Florence Henderson or Jane Fonda, the answer is to keep shining with as bright a light as ever.

One of the best things about being a contributing editor for BlogHer, is being able to showcase other women bloggers.  So today, I thought we could take a look at some blogs about nutrition, weight loss, and fitness. In no particular order, here are eighteen health and fitness blogs that I think you might like.  I hope you enjoy checking them out as much as I did. All You Can Do Is Tri...

I know triathlons are all the rage these days but have you heard of these triathlons for kids?Sarah Bowen Shea from Marathon Moms had an article in the New York Times this week called "See Jane Run, Bike and Swim". She talks about Children's Triathlons which features athletes ages 3 - 15.

The other day I started thinking about school tests and standardized test and suddenly a nightmare memory popped into my head: the mile run for the Presidential Physical Fitness Test.

If I were outdoors and happened to see someone leaping over park benches, dangling from tree branches, and balancing precariously on things that most people wouldn’t think to bother with, I’d probably think they were a little bit crazy. Or at least I would have thought they were crazy before I heard about a sport called parkour.

I love Tai Chi. I enjoy the classes, the movements, and the benefits. I don't want to be a martial artist. But I do like staying limber. Tai Chi helps with that. I need to improve my balance. Tai Chi helps with that. I need weight-bearing exercise for my bones. Tai Chi helps with that.

I don’t like to take pills if I don’t have to. Normally this aversion is fine; I haven’t had any ailments or deficiencies in quite some time that have required me to take any pills on a daily basis. I do take a daily multivitamin and other vitamin supplements (if I remember), and I’m on birth control, but that’s generally about it.

I have no idea what it takes to plan a conference. I’ve planned meetings and taken care of various types of logistics at my job, but that’s on a pretty small scale compared to organizing something of this magnitude. First you have to think about big-picture things, such as choosing a city and the venue. You have to decide on an agenda, and whether you’ll serve food, and how much you have to charge attendees in order to make sure you can pay for everything. Will there be sponsors? Who will be your speakers? And most importantly, will anyone register?

The first time I went to a BlogHer conference in the summer of 2007, I did a lot of walking. The conference venue in Chicago wasn’t close to the location where I was staying (it was a friend’s apartment, which means it was free), so I used a variety of means to get to where I needed to go -- there was public transportation, too, but I remember there was quite a bit of walking involved.

Did you know that one in every three adults has high blood pressure? Are you one of them? I had some good news the other day. It seems that all of my hard work trying to eat healthy and lose weight is finally paying off. For the first time in years my blood pressure is actually normal. Yaaay! This is just the kind of validation I was looking for when I began my journey of weight loss and healthy living. If you have high blood pressure or know someone who does, here are some tips that can help lower blood pressure naturally.