Most Popular New Year's Resolutions for 2013

We all know that people want to lose weight in 2013, but what are the other most popular resolutions?

Today marks the first day of 2013. And with that comes resolutions, or a clean slate, to start over and achieve something you didn't the previous year. For many, losing weight is a top goal. In 2012, the FDA approved the first weight loss drug in more than a decade. Shortly after that, it approved another weight loss drug. More so, there are stories that gym memberships boom this time of year. According to the Center for Disease and Control (CDC) website, 35.7 percent of adults - or one third of Americans - are obese. The CDC also cites that medical costs associated with obesity was around $147 billion in 2008. So yes, we're sure that losing weight is a top New Year's goal. But what about the others? Well, according to USA.gov, the "U.S. …

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Oliver P. McCracken

10:10 am on Wednesday, January 2, 2013

Heavens to Betsy, thank you! It seems that the three ghosts who visited me on Christmas Eve were successful in their attempts to turn me from a curmudgeonly windbag to an adorable and strapping buck. Perhaps if I adopt some foppish and dandy haircut, take to wearing short-pants, and practice the vocal caterwaulings of the latest Vaudevillians of the day, I will soon have throngs of screaming …   more ›

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A DHS Senior’s New Year’s Resolutions

Our high school columnist shares his list for 2011.

I'd love to reflect on 2010 but there is simply no time. A new year has begun and it is not slowing down for sentimentality. But still, there are a few things worth putting in writing for the sake of direction in the coming year. Or rather, for the rest of this school year which is just a little less than half way done. These are my New Year's resolutions, and I'm sure I share several of them with a lot of my classmates who are starting their last (half) year as full-time residents of Deerfield. Finish senior year with same effort I had as a junior In two weeks I will be a second-semester senior. I likely will contract senioritis and have trouble staying motivated and focused on schoolwork. Without few enduring consequences, I could …

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Jacob Perlson

7:32 pm on Wednesday, January 5, 2011

Thank you, Ron! I appreciate it.   more ›