Charlotte runs the popular health and fitness site The Great Fitness Experiment. She was featured on ABC's 20/20 and interviewed on Fox's Morning Show with Mike & Juliette. Her writing can be found on the Washington Post online, Fox News online, LiveStrong, and iVillage as well as many other health, fitness and body image sites.

Currently her day job is grading the essay portion of the SAT. Her fondest dream is to move from grading bad writing to doing some of her own;)

Blog Entries by Charlotte Hilton Andersen

The Top 10 Worst Top 10 Lists of 2008

Posted December 30, 2008 | 06:22 PM (EST)


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Nothing says another year is coming to a close like the sudden springing forth of Top 10 lists as if David Letterman developed split personalities. And Tourette's. At the same time. A good top 10 list is relevant, a little nostalgic and interesting. But...

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Indie Rock Gives Men Eating Disorders

21 Comments | Posted December 17, 2008 | 01:01 PM (EST)


Just like you can't go to a Melissa Etheridge concert without seeing an abundance of pit hair, these days you can't go to an indie...

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Naked Dead Women Are Hawt!

8 Comments | Posted December 12, 2008 | 12:30 PM (EST)


New York Magazine, following the print mandate to produce year-end lists, came up their best and worst in pictures. There are some gems, such as "The Most Brooding Spread" that warrant a second look. There are some controversial ones -- remember the underage naked shots of sexy-and-seventeen model Ali...

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The Recession Makes People Eat Less Meat, But More Fast Food

3 Comments | Posted December 3, 2008 | 12:53 PM (EST)


Too bad Johnathan Swift died before the Internet came about.


This will thrill PETA right out of their...

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Obama's Armageddon Evidenced by Increased Gun Sales?

12 Comments | Posted November 17, 2008 | 04:05 PM (EST)


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Anarchy. Guns. Armageddon. Conspiracy theories. Typical fodder for conservative talk radio shows, I was surprised to hear these topics broached by the mostly inane but slightly left-leaning morning radio show on KDWB (Minneapolis) this morning. And not only were these topics discussed but...

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Sex Deficit Disorder: The New Male PMS?

4 Comments | Posted November 12, 2008 | 05:58 PM (EST)


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PMS, the pre-menstrual version, has long been the domain of the females of the species. The menstrual cycle itself has been both loved and hated but I think everyone is agreed that the PMS in the seven or so days...

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Lindsay Lohan Calls Obama "Colored" (Video)

164 Comments | Posted November 11, 2008 | 02:51 PM (EST)


In a move that inspired forehead smacking that could be heard across the country, Lindsay Lohan, America's favorite (little g) gossip girl, called Barack Obama "colored." In an interview with Access Hollywood's...

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Confessions of a Paid Voter

1 Comments | Posted November 3, 2008 | 05:58 PM (EST)


The Democrats are trying to buy my vote -- literally -- and I think it might have worked.

It all started out so innocently. A phone call from a marketing group that I have worked for previously doing awesome things like taste-testing pizza and craptastic things like testing out...

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Anorexic "Tips" from the Biggest Loser

12 Comments | Posted October 21, 2008 | 01:21 PM (EST)


Here's a diet tip for you: Eat with a bear. I bet you eat less. Just try it and see.

"She is...

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Wanted: Only Uber-Thin Women With Ginormous Breasts Need Apply

14 Comments | Posted October 14, 2008 | 06:29 PM (EST)


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Katie Green has a spectacular rack. Everyone agrees. At least enough people voted her -- and her...
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Japanese Women Don't Get Fat?

8 Comments | Posted October 9, 2008 | 02:39 PM (EST)


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One upping the slightly disingenuous French Women Don't Get Fat, The latest incarnation in the Healthier Than Thou diet-book genre is Japanese Women Don't Get Old or Fat by Naomi Moriyama. In it, Moriyama attempts to discover the secrets to the Japanese peoples'...

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Restricting Food By Any Other Name is Still A Diet

5 Comments | Posted October 1, 2008 | 06:30 PM (EST)


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By most accounts, our economy is in the crapper, and yet the day after President Bush revealed his "bailout" plan, Google Search trends reported that "cupcakes" was a more popular search term than "financial crisis," "bailout," or even "economy in the crapper." In case...

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McCain Plays the MILF Card -- Will it Work?

12 Comments | Posted September 29, 2008 | 04:47 PM (EST)


There has been plenty of commentary about what Governor Sarah Palin's hotness factor brings to the McCain-Palin ticket, but thus far the RNC has kept the dialogue on a professional level. Until it was discovered yesterday that the McCain campaign owns voteforthemilf.com. The URL was purchased via the...

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Can You Tell If Someone is Obese Over the Phone?

Posted September 23, 2008 | 04:03 PM (EST)


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This is the kind of Mensa-level question posed by the D.J. on the radio show I sometimes listen to in the A.M. It piqued my curiosity because just mere minutes before there was a commercial for a bariatric surgery clinic that went like this:

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Remember When Kate Moss Was Skinny?

Posted September 18, 2008 | 07:45 AM (EST)


Well she's not now. Don't get your Calvin Klein's in a bunch, it's not like anyone is calling K. Mo. fat. (Hmm... K.Mo. Yeah, okay, I can see why that never caught on.) But in today's game of anorexic roulette, the Waif herself comes out looking rather... normal.

Take...

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Venus and Serena Williams Endorse Oreos; Meth Next

Posted September 11, 2008 | 01:12 AM (EST)


You are the current U.S. Open Champion and her equally-as-talented sister. People the world over adore you. You've made unprecedented strides in both of your athletic careers and at the same time managed to keep your personal lives on an even keel. Kudos all around. So what do you do?...

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Sarah Palin Bikini Pictures: Fake Photos Hit The Web

Posted September 2, 2008 | 05:40 PM (EST)


By now you have surely heard of Sarah Palin. If it wasn't because of her reproductive escapades or her daughter Bristol's, then maybe you heard her name mentioned a time or two as McCain's choice for VP? I know, she was inescapable this weekend. As the media is wont to...

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The Naked Cowboy Rides Again

Posted August 27, 2008 | 05:22 PM (EST)


Anyone who has been to Times Square in the past 10 years has seen him. Naked save for some tighty-whites, emphasis on the tight, and cowboy boots and hat, this street performer makes his living singing mediocre songs and grabbing tourists' butts for pictures. Not a bad gig if...

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The High Cost Of Low Fashion

Posted August 23, 2008 | 07:00 AM (EST)


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It was a black halter dress bedecked with very '50s red cherries and matching piping. Flattering in that fit-and-flare way that has me wishing I was born in an earlier era, the dress was a vintage dream.

"Where did you get that?" I...

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Backside Billboards

Posted August 17, 2008 | 08:12 AM (EST)


"Love Old." It's not a sentiment I'm used to hearing from a teenage girl in our society. Actually it's not a sentiment one hears much at all in our botoxed, knee-lifted, 50-is-the-new-30 society. So you can understand why I was intrigued when I saw this phrase splayed in bright green...

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