8 stars who gained, lost, firmed up on film

- Charlize Theron
- Christian Bale
- Sylvester Stallone
- Renee Zellweger
- Hilary Swank
- Will Smith
- Matt Damon
- Adrien Brody
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What's on your top 10 list of I know I shouldn't have it but I want it so badly foods? For me, movie popcorn ranks pretty highly on the roster. It's difficult to go to a show without getting a big bag of salty goodness, the more buttery the better. It's expensive and it probably has a million calories, but once I smell that popcorn smell, I feel like I have to have it, sometimes even when I'm not hungry.
But we know that kind of buttery indulgence is going to cost us in the calories department -- well, if we get butter anyway. Popcorn itself is considered a whole grain, and whole grains are good, right? So, theoretically, if we don't pile on the calories by adding butter, we should be ok. Right?
Continue reading How Many Calories ... in popcorn without butter?
She may be committed to fitness, but overall, she doesn't have the healthiest habits. Eva Mendes recently revealed that despite her svelte figure, she's not adamant about watching what she eats. Says the gorgeous starlet: "I'd shock you at how much I could eat. Any kind of dessert is fantastic. It's gross, but I also love cup noodles. I'll eat two at a time because the salt really does it for me. They're so cheap so they can't be that good for you, but they're yummy!"
Mendes, 34, adds that the only time she is careful about eating well and exercising is when she is filming: "f I have a shoot I'll work out more and watch what I eat, but if I don't I'll let myself go. I'm addicted to bread. I want it constantly so, right now, I'm letting myself have more of it but when I start my next movie I'll cut down."
Why does she rely on junk food? Mendes also admitted that she is a terrible cook -- so bad, in fact, that she's given up trying to prepare meals.
(via Calorie Lab)
I remember watching Ice Castles as a kid and wanting nothing more than to be an ice skater. (Preferably without a terrible accident that caused blindness, though.) So maybe the movie is a bit cheesy and admitting that I had a little crush on Robby Benson certainly dates me as a child of the '70s, but it motivated me into trying something I'd never tried before. And that's exactly what a great sports movie can do.
Friday night usually means there's a new movie to check out at the local theater. Sometimes that new release is a great flick, while other times you wonder why you bothered to leave the house. I don't know about you, but if I eat concession stand food and a movie isn't very good, I feel even worse about eating it -- as if the movie didn't make the calories worthwhile. A ridiculous way of thinking? Oh, absolutely.
Three quarters of a million teenage girls will get pregnant in 2008. That's a statistic coming from this article by CBS trying to uncover how the media is influencing the depiction of sex among teenagers.
Did you get a chance to see the hit movie Cloverfield on opening weekend? The home camera look really made the film stand out from other monster flicks. But if you're like some people with uneasy stomachs, then motion sickness might have followed the jerky camera movements.
I've always thought how great it would be to have a job that naturally keeps you in shape, and of the jobs in the world that do that being a celebrity is at the top of the list. Starring in an action movie often means months of vigorous training and workouts before filming even begins, and a star like Matt Damon would know that better than anybody with his third Jason Bourne movie, The Bourne Ultimatum, out this summer.Continue reading Workplace Fitness: Matt Damon on balancing career, fitness, & family
Michael Moore's recent documentary, Sicko, is a damning indictment of the United States health care system (or lack there of). But, while there's a number of things people can do over the long-term to tackle the issues he addresses, what about the people who are being denied treatment today?
In a recent interview on MSNBC's Hardball, Moore proposed an interesting solution:
"...what I tell people is, if you're having trouble right now with your insurance company, and they won't pay for something, go ahead and use my name ... Say that I'm coming, that you have talked to me personally. You have my permission to do that."
Plus, just to make you seem more authentic, Moore created a Sicko insurance card that you can print out from his website, laminate, and use to threaten any doctor who refuses treatment.
How did he come up with such an ingenious idea? Apparently people have already been doing it without his permission, so -- rather than try and stop them -- Moore decided to make it easier.
Not that I'd normally advocate blackmail, but if you've run out of options, this seems like it might actually work.
Rigel did a post a while back on the the 300 Workout -- a workout regime that's based on the popular movie. It got me thinking -- we're always trying to steal celebrity workout secrets, so why isn't there more talk of using movies for inspiration to get active? I know that when I see a movie with a particularly ripped female lead who is doing a lot of ass-kicking (literally or figuratively) it inspires me to get my butt to the gym and start toning up.Continue reading Fit Factor: The Films that inspire us to get moving
Sometimes it is all those little distractions during the day that we curse under our breaths. But distraction is a good method to relieve pain. People use this method without even realizing it when they watch TV or listen to the radio to take their minds off of worry or their pain. Distraction may be used to manage mild pain or used with medicine to help manage episodes of severe pain.
Andy Garcia has been physically active his entire life, playing basketball and baseball as a teen, even with hopes of possibly turning professional one day. Life had a different direction in store for him, however, and today he's a Hollywood celebrity starring in blockbuster movies like The Untouchables, The Godfather: Part III, and the Ocean's trilogy. At 51 years old he's staying active and looks great, which he attributes to his Pilates workout routine. He says the core strengthening he gets from his Pilates regimen is not only great for keeping in shape, but it's been the best thing for relieving some of the back and disc problems he's had over the years (not to mention his golf game).
My first reaction to reading about the world's smallest wearable TV was something like "how desperate are we to watch TV? Now we have to wear it and take it with us everywhere?" Yep, apparently having videos on an iPod wasn't enough, after all you do have to hold the iPod to view it. That's too hard! We want to wear our televisions! On our faces!!
How many times have you been watching an action movie when one of those chase scenes comes up that makes you think "yeah right!" as the hero miraculously leaps from rooftop to rooftop and hoists himself into a helicopter after dangling by just one pinky finger. Oh whatever, that is soooo unrealistic!
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