LAS VEGAS, March 8, 2011 /PRNewswire/ — The Rock ‘n’ Roll Marathon Series, a musical format that revolutionized the running industry, has surged to the front of the pack once again by announcing the first ever nighttime start for the 2011 Zappos.com Rock ‘n’ Roll Las Vegas Marathon & 1/2 Marathon to Benefit the Crohn’s & Colitis Foundation of America.

Runners will span across all eight lanes of Las Vegas Boulevard on Sunday night, December 4, exclusively shutting down the neon-lit Strip in epic fashion and instantly becoming the World’s Largest Nighttime Running Event™.

YES and NO. The correct answer to this question is dependent on what kind of fat we’re talking about. Certain fats are in fact important for so quite a few important bodily functions, but the wrong type of fat can lead us down an unhealthy path to weight gain and a long list of diseases.

Fat to Prevent:

Hydrogenated Oils

You’ve most likely already heard in the media or just about anyplace that hydrogenated oils are detrimental to your health so to stay away from them at all costs. But what precisely are they?

Food for many has become a battleground; it exists in a way beyond nourishment into fulfillment. Sometimes we actively eat to satiate something other than hunger. We eat to feel better, to forget, to be in control, to relax and let go. The list goes on. It is when we for anything other than hunger that we have created this struggle, this battle with food. It is a habit formed to help ourselves to deal with something bigger, more “powerful”, than we can cope with. So we resort to food as a way to put it off. Food is not the problem; it is not bigger than what it is. It is what we have allocated to eating; it is the power we have given it in our lives.

Food exists simply to nourish our bodies; it is when we replace that by emotions and thoughts that we lose the simplicity of it. Have you ever found yourself eating simply to eat?