I've had it up to here with this Kate Upton character. You've heard of her, right? You know, that ridiculously voluptuous 19-year-old who everyone and their mother are talking about since she landed the cover of this year's Sports Illustrated swimsuit issue? Yeah, it's not even 48 hours after the issue hit newsstands, and I'm over it.

What I'm NOT over, though, is her diet leading up to her SI photo shoot. The cover girl told Us Weekly that she didn't do anything "drastic." Wait. REALLY? This bombshell does nothing drastic, looks naturally amaze, and WAM BAM whaddyaknow she's a cover girl? Man, her life must just be peachy effin' keen.

She did mention that she cut down on splurges to once a week, though. "It could be a cupcake, it doesn't matter!"

Hmmm. I can respect that. In my opinion, if you don't break down and eat something you REALLY love every once in a while, there's no way in hell you can stay on the healthy kick.

It sounds too good to be true: Eat dessert with breakfast and lose weight! You freakin' wish! I yell back at my laptop. Which cannot hear me. But I saw the words "researchers at Tel Aviv University" and decided this wacky story needed a second look.

Shockingly enough, it sounds like it's legit. They compared people who ate a 600-calorie breakfast with people who ate a low-carb, 300-calorie breakfast. Both groups consumed the same total number of calories per day, it's just that the 600-calorie group front-loaded theirs. And those breakfasts included cake, cookies, and other treats. Not only did the big-breakfasters report feeling more satisfied, long-term they also lost more weight. Like, a lot more.

No matter how hard we try to sit down and enjoy a breakfast with our entire family, some days we just have to eat on the run. Think early school assembly, PTA meeting, basically any old Tuesday. So it's necessary to have a few breakfast bites in your repertoire. Food you can hold in your hand, and eat while moving forward.

Instead of heading to the drive-thru where they wrap it up in that thin paper so nicely for you, consider doing something better for yourself and your health. Here are five handheld breakfast bites that actually will give you some necessary nutrition to start your day.

Let's be real: The Super Bowl makes most of us feel super sized. These days, it seems like the big game has become yet another occasion where it's socially acceptable to throw all diet rules out the window, and binge eat, and be completely unhealthy.

I think it's safe to assume that today, most football fans are feelin' a little on the pudgier side. Hell, I know I do. After consuming one-too-many wings, a handful (or three) of Doritos, and enough buffalo chicken dip to feed an entire village at last night's party, I feel like swearing off eating for days.

If only it were that easy. Clearly, not eating isn't a realistic fix for dropping those few extra pounds, and neither is hitting the gym for four straight hours during a busy work week.

However, there are a few easy, quick tweaks you can add to your daily routine this week to help beat the Super Bowl. Starting with drinking water, and lots of it!

First they came for your trans fats. (Gross.) Then they came for your soda. (Whatever, water's cheaper anyway.) But now a group of scientists has a food ingredient in its sights that will really hit a lot of us where it counts: sugar.

Researchers at University of California, San Francisco, say sugar's damage goes way beyond making us fat through empty calories -- that it's actually toxic, leading to metabolic changes that can cause diabetes, heart disease, cancer, and other deadly diseases. Eating sugar to excess, they say, is like drinking to excess. Consequently, they suggest, public health policy should be reshaped to control sugar the way it does alcohol and tobacco: possibly by boosting sales taxes on sugary products, controlling access to them, and changing licensing requirements on vending machines. 

Every time I have a big night with the girls coming up, I sorta kinda dread it. Not because I don't wanna see them, but because I just know that bad eating is going to be involved. Get-togethers and calories, they're practically synonymous! Surprisingly according to science, they actually are.

In a recent study, 70 pairs of women were set up to eat together. Under observation, it seemed that the women mimicked one another with their eating habits, and tended to take bites of food at roughly the same time. The reason? Those science-types believe it was to make a more favorable impression on one another. In other words, if your friend is eating a lot, then you probably are too.

BAH. Finally! We can blame random spurts of overeating on friends. I see where they're coming from with the "favorable impression" bit, but I think it depends on who's involved. Plus, getting together with your girls doesn't necessarily have to derail your whole diet. Follow me on this one ...

Processed meat in a can, sometimes known as "Spam," might skeeve you out, but in reality, it's one of the most common foods on Native American reservations and a popular choice in various populations -- like lower-income, rural communities and even on Hawaii, where they make Spam sushi! But a new study found that Native Americans who often ate Spam had a two-fold increased risk of developing diabetes over those who ate little or none. Eeeek!

I guess it should really come as no real surprise, given how unhealthy this sort of food is. As the researchers acknowledged, people who eat the most processed meats tend to be heavier, with larger waistlines, raising the possibility that the foods contribute to obesity, a major risk factor for diabetes.

Wow, Paula Deen might just be the new poster lady for anyone who ever felt like denouncing a healthy lifestyle. After revealing that she's had type 2 diabetes for the past three years -- you know, only once she had nailed down a biz deal to represent a drug for the condition -- she was spied the other day enjoying a cheeseburger with a plate of fries, while dining aboard her annual "Party at Sea" Caribbean cruise. Haaa ...

Well, given that she told the TODAY show that she doesn't want to "let diabetes stand in the way of enjoying [her] life," I guess we shouldn't be all that surprised that Paula is, in fact, enjoying her favorite way of life. If you know anything about Paula, you know the Southern chef is a big fan of butter, cheese, meat, fried foods, and mountains of refined carbs and sugar. Oh, and butter, did I mention that ... boatloads of butter?