“We’ve seen how you can gain weight with eating fast food, but what about the other end of the spectrum? Can you lose weight with fast food? Yes: We think of choices in terms of the major ones: what job should I take? Who should I marry? Each choice we make moves us down one road or another.

It’s the little choices we make day in and day out that dictate the kind of life we live and ultimately, the kind of health we enjoy. Food is vital for life to make energy. If your body were a temple, you would not put poisons or anything toxic in it. You would think carefully and choose with tremendous diligence what you put into it. Your body is given to you so that you can make careful choices about what you put into it. You really are what you eat. Your mid section can be a lean cut of beef or a doughy roll. Your but can be shaped like an onion or a bunion. What you ingest has an impact that can add or subtract years to your life. Fortunately, you have the power to pick and choose what foods will fuel your body.

No longer just a tool for overconnected teens, the micro-blogging service Twitter has emerged as a powerful tool for communication, networking, and now… weight loss?

That’s right – with the newly launched TweetWhatYouEat.com, Twitter users can track their food intake and weight from their mobile phone, instant messaging, or the Web.

Best of all – you don’t even have to know the calories of the food you’re eating – TweetWhatYouEat’s proprietary CrowdCal database will automatically fill calories in for you!

In 2001, a study showed that mothers’ eating habits significantly influence how their daughters eat. Even more than anything these mothers do to directly control the eating behavior of their daughters.

If that’s true, have you ever wondered how your dieting behavior affects your kids?

Before you choose a new diet plan, here are some things you might want to do for your kids’ sakes as well as your own:

1. Avoid perfect diets.