Top 10 Health and Wellness AC Content of 2006

Each year, Americans learn more and more about the risks of being overweight or obese. It's a controversial, emotional issue for many people to discuss, but content producers on Associated Content have managed to broach the subject, guns blazing. From a healthy mix of tips for eating well and exercising more to arguments for and against why fat people are destroying America, here's my list, for better or worse, of the top 10 health and fitness AC content of 2006.

10. Fitness Tips: Mindset

This article describes how getting into the right mindset can set you up for success when approaching fitness as a weight-loss solution. A good read for anyone whose list of New Year's resolutions include getting fit or losing weight. Bottom line: don't set yourself up for failure by exposing yourself to temptation. Be reasonable about your weight-loss goals.

9. Simple Steps to Successful Weight Loss

This weight-loss article gives common sense but helpful tips on how to approach weight loss. I especially liked the writer's mention that in order to lose weight, dieters do not have to starve themselves. Less is certainly more, but it's easy to figure out what proper portions should look like in the dieter's quest for weight loss.

8. Power Walking - Exercise for the Mind and Body

Finally, someone else who recognizes that fitness and weight loss can come at the hands of such easy exercise as walking. As one of the cheapest but most effective weight loss methods out there, power walking is good for things like mental health and diabetes, something the writer of this article definitely mentions.

7. Burn More Calories - and Lose Weight - Every Day!

I loved this article that lists easy and totally doable ways to incorporate fitness into our daily lives. As a full-time college student who works three jobs, I was definitely excited to read the suggestion of incorporating fitness into social events, something my friends and I have recently started doing. A game of three-on-three basketball with your friends can be just as fun as dinner or watching a movie, and you get to incorporate fitness and weight-loss at the same time.