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Jackie Conn

About Jackie Conn

Jackie Conn is married and has four grown daughters and four grandchildren. She is a Weight Watchers success story. She's a weight loss expert with 25 years of experience guiding women and men to their weight-related goals. Her articles on weight management have been published in health, family and women's magazines. She has been a regular guest on Channel 5 WABI news, FOX network morning program Good Day Maine and 207 on WCSH.

What is the scoop on sugar addiction

There is a new evil food and although it’s been around forever and we learned as children to go easy on it and the foods containing it, recently its evil-quotient has blown sky high. I’m talking about sugar You think saturated fat and trans fat is bad for you? Well, if you’re getting your nutritional information […]

Eating healthy isn’t the way to lose weight

Do you want to lose weight? You’re not going to do it by eating healthy and here is why. Let’s start to stop calling food healthy right now! You can have “healthy habits” because that’s using the word correctly. in this context the word healthy is used as an adjective adverb. Your healthy habits may include eating […]

Artificial sweeteners are linked to weight gain according to a new study

Artificial sweeteners are linked to weight gain and obesity says a new study. How new is this study? I heard these same study results in 1992. Now it’s all over the TV news and Internet and it’s presented as new information. It’s not new information because we heard it before, more than 20 years ago. […]

Will coolsculpting give you the body you always wanted

I see ads for coolsculpting. They make a promise that’s hard to ignore. “Get the body you always wanted.” They say it’s non invasive and effective. Whoa, sign me up. I was in the  Fashion Square Mall. It’s in Scottsdale, Arizona and by far the fanciest mall I ever entered. It had every high-end store […]