The British supermodel Kate Moss has been criticized for one of her favorite mottos that she shared in a recent interview with the fashion website WWD. The straightforward interview was simply revealing Kate’s fashion sense and views on celebrity but when asked what’s her favorite motto she replied,

“There are loads. There’s ‘Nothing tastes as good as skinny feels.’ That’s one of them. You try and remember, but it never works.”

Well, the poor girl stuck her foot in her mouth because that motto had previously been adopted by pro-anorexia websites. Therefore, eating disorder nonprofit groups are in a rage saying that Kate is promoting anorexia. To credit Kate, it was originally a quote from a dieting club and it wasn’t until later that the pro-anorexia sites got their hands on it. The eating disorder charity Beat says that since the supermodel is a role model and many young girls look up to her it could be harmful to someone’s health. Susan Ringwood, Beat’s chief executive said,

“So for her to even inadvertently legitimize something that could be potentially so harmful is regrettable.”

Surely if we wait a few days Kate will most likely issue an apologize stating she doesn’t endorse anorexia nor any other eating disorder.

Celeb Diet Doc…
A simple unintentional mistake.. let’s move on.

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One of the New Moon hunks from the Twilight series was crowned People Magazine’s Sexy Man of the Week, and yes Alex Meraz is definitely sexy. Unlike co-stars Taylor Lautner and BooBoo Stewart who had to prepare for their roles, Alex has been in good athletic shape since he was a kid. Growing up he was involved in dance and martial arts such as karate and MMA style of fighting. While on the Rachel Ray Show last week he revealed a bit about his martial arts and how he correlates it to his character Paul in the movie New Moon.

“I’m a huge MMA fan, like cage fighting, things like that so I did a lot of that….Paul, he’s volatile, he’s scrappy he just carries his weight differently, you know he’s a fighter so I thought it was just so appropriate with my background and what I’ve been doing.”

Meraz and Rachel Ray went on to discuss how things coincidentally become aligned and it wasn’t just a fluke that he got the part as Paul. Meraz went on to say that it was his birthday the day of the audition and it was also the biggest full moon of the year, hence New Moon, and over the two weeks he was waiting to hear rather or not he got the part he often found hawks circling overhead. Hmmm, well, so Meraz may be a mystic but we can still appreciate his martial arts-masterd physique.
New Moon premieres November 20th.

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The hunkish Taylor Lautner is on the cover of the December issue of Men’s Health Magazine. Inside, he gives a detailed account of how he packed on 30 pounds of pure muscle over the past year. We recently reported that he had to up his daily calorie intake to 3,200 calories a day in order to not lose weight since he was working so hard. In Men’s Health, he also explains that he had to cut back his cardio workouts because he was losing weight. He said,

“I was exercising so hard that I began to lose weight.”

His trainer Jordan Yuam also added that anyone can put on muscle just like Taylor. Inexperienced people can actually gain muscle mass more quickly than your typical seasoned body builder because you start out with less muscle mass. What’s surprising is that Taylor said he wants to gain even more weight:

“My character continues to grow, so I’d like to pack on at least a few more lean pounds.”

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Supermodel and actress Veronica Webb is now 44 years of age, but that didn’t stop her from training for the New York City Marathon in only 12 weeks. She decided to run at the last minute in order to raise money for an AIDS service provider, Harlem United. Before training for the marathon she was still doing a lot of physical activity and exercising. She told Self Magazine what her normal workout entails,

“I love kettlebells, yoga and Capoeira.” [Brazilian martial arts]

When it came to training for the marathon she switched to the Jeff Galloway Run-Walk-Run method; a program that takes you through the weeks leading up to the event where you run and walk your way up to the full length of a marathon. As for her diet she considers herself a ‘consistent’ eater but she allows herself one weekend a month to indulge in whatever she likes. When asked about a typical diet she replied,

“I like Greek yogurt for breakfast. I eat two giant salads a day, a broiled meat or fish, and a dark green vegetable at every meal. I ate a lot more potatoes, brown rice, and lentils while I was training.”

We haven’t see Webb on the big screen for quite sometime. Her last film was the 2006, Dirty Laundry, but these days she is a devoted mother of two daughters.

Celeb Diet Doc..
Veronica looks absolutely fantastic… You want to know her anti-aging secret? Dial up the Greens!!

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The World Champion athlete and boxer Laila Ali is dedicated to ‘knocking out’ childhood obesity. Most recently she has worked with the Live Like A Champion Tour which is an award-winning initiative based out of California.   The tour encourages kids to get active by teaching them interactive games and sports-themed activities.  Ali is one of the newest council members and she was at Kentwood elementary last week showing the kids conditioning exercises.  She said,

“It is an honor to take on this role with the Governor’s Council and Live Like a Champion Tour. I am committed to promoting healthy eating and active lifestyles and hope that children learn the importance of exercise and a balanced diet through the Champ Corner.”

In the Champ Corner (see photo) kids do sit-ups, push-ups, jump roping and they use a speed bag.  Other celebrities athletes in the tour are Jerry Rice and Misty May-Treanor.  The tour will focus on reaching the state of California’s under served communities and will visit schools, community centers and associations such as the YMCA and the Boys and Girls Clubs.

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Grammy Award winner Christina Aguilera is releasing her third and latest fragrance, Christina Aguilera By Night. She recently spoke with the Daily Mail about her new perfume and her transformation from teen pop idol to a matronly mom. As a self-confessed junk food fanatic she has no plans on remaining stick thin like other celebrities because she doesn’t like going on strict diets and she has more important things to worry about. However, she does workout so that she can eat what she wants. She explained,

“I make healthy choices when I can, because it’s very important for me to have moments where I can let go, have a great dinner and not care so much about the carbs. I work out five days a week – and I hate working out in the moment, I truly do. But the aftermath is so great, and it helps you feel good – not only physically, but mentally.”

The 28-year-old gave birth to her first child in January of 2008 and she has since become a dedicated mother who’s learning to wake up in the mornings and perfect the balancing act of mothering her child and allowing herself times to be creative and work on her music. Considering that other teen stars like Lindsday Lohan and Britney Spears are such train wrecks you’ve got to admire Christina’s calm, cool and collected style after years of being in the limelight.
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Jillian Michaels, fitness guru and trainer for the show The Biggest Loser receives the deserving title as America’s Healthiest Body in the November issue of Health Magazine.  With a new reality show in the works and tons of exercise DVDs and books it’s no surprise this wonder woman is being acknowledged by the magazine. Michaels said she was very flattered by the recognition but she admitted that she too struggles just like the rest of us.  She explained,

“I’m totally flattered. But I just think, ‘God, if people had any idea of the stuff that goes on behind closed doors: the struggles in the middle of the night in front of the refrigerator, the weeks on end I can’t get my ass to the gym!’ But, in reality, there’s a part of me where it makes perfect sense.”

Michaels also gave some tips on healthy eating and lifestyle choices by promoting an organic diet that’s free of chemicals and to strive to reach our full potential when it comes to exercise.  She also noted that to be healthy doesn’t mean that the person is necessarily skinny.  Smokers and drinkers can be very thin but are waiting for diseases to attack at any time.  Instead, a healthy person is someone who is disease-free.

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It’s hard to believe, but the 43-year-old supermodel Cindy Crawford doesn’t think she has the body for the contemporary modeling world. Back in the 90s her curvaceous figure is what made her an international modeling sensation but these days cover girl’s look a lot different. She told Germany’s Bunte Magazine that she looks too healthy and that the industry is no longer looking for,

“A body like mine with big breasts, normal thighs and toned upper arms.”

The mother of two went on to say that she likes being in her 40s because she is at peace with herself and she knows that being pretty isn’t her only or best strength.

Cindy quit modeling in 2000 has launched a furniture line called the Cindy Crawford Home Collection.

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Across the pond there’s another celebrity profiting from a fitness website; Sky Sports presenter, Georgie Thompson. She follows in the footsteps of other celebs like Jillian Michaels with loads of fitness products,  Tracy Anderson with a fitness website offering exercise tips and products to buy, as well as Gwyneth Paltrow who has a site with fashion, diet and exercise tips. Georgie teamed up with personal trainer Cat Dugdale to create a website for lazy girls who prefer cocktails to cardio, iamsuperchick.com.

The site already has approximately 10,000 members from the US, UK and Australia who each pay a monthly fee to get access to workout videos and exercises that incorporate household chores. One such exercise can be seen above where Dugdale is doing lunges while sweeping. Thompson said,

“It’s much harder during the winter to motivate yourself up off the sofa and out of the house to do any form of fitness. That’s why we devised a way for women to hibernate and get fit at the same time using our home training videos.”

This affordable and assessable website is cheaper than a gym membership and who wouldn’t want to bake a cake and get a good chest workout at the same time? A clean home means a fit woman.

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This week the First Lady invited 100 local school children to the White House for a Healthy Kids Fair.  During the event kids were taught exercise, healthy eating habits and watched food demonstrations on how to make healthy snacks. But Mrs. Obama stole the show when she hula-hooped 142 swivels before the hula-hoop hit the ground.  She explained to the press that the event was to teach kids how to eat and exercise and she considered it a call to action because one out of three kids in the US are overweight or obese.  She said,

“One of our goals was to focus on the importance of educating our kids about healthy eating,”

The pictures of the First Family hula-hooping in the law will definitely spark a resurgence of this fun retro activity.  There’s a gym in Los Angeles that leads a class called Hoopnotica and now that the Obamas hula we’ll all be signing up for classes sometime soon!  Supposedly you can burn 100 calories in 10 minutes so break out the hula-hoop.

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