Professional and student researchers at Cal Poly’s Center for Health Research are seeking volunteers to participate in a weight loss pilot study that incorporates virtual reality.
Making a change: the psychology behind New Year’s resolutions
Sam Gilbert is a journalism sophomore and Mustang Daily health columnist. Remember at the start of 2012 when you swore you’d stick to your resolution to lose five pounds or to take up a new hobby? Yeah, we remember too.…
Keep your New Year’s resolution? There’s an app for that!
Aryn Sanderson arynsanderson.md@gmail.com The easiest part of New Year’s resolutions? Making them. The hardest? Keeping them. Today is National Ditch Your New Year’s Resolution Day. But if you haven’t broken your 2013 resolution yet, these smart phone apps — and…
When being thin equals being perfect
With its slogan, “It’s great to be thin!” Zantrex isn’t just stuffing its product down viewer throats — it is slapping us with an idea that makes people sick and kills thousands a year.