Society's craze with thinness has found a new target: our babies. It is no longer just women and teens who have to be thin to be considered attractive; our babies must as well.

According to a new BBC documentary, My Supermodel Baby, many magazines airbrush their baby models to...

When you think about the Great Depression, you likely picture emaciated families subsisting on small portions of cabbage soup and beans, trying to make each dish last for as many meals as possible. Things are slightly different in this current recession. In-debt families are turning to cheap fast food restaurants...

Our worst fears have finally come true. Overweight teens are dying from heart disease. Pediatricians have long feared that the rising number of severely obese children and teens would soon start to suffer from adult complications of obesity, like heart attacks, strokes, and death. And now it is happening.

According...

New York City's Department of Education has banned bake sales, or at least limited them to once a month. While many parents and PTA members are bemoaning this new regulation, I am celebrating. The percentage of overweight and obese children is increasing at an alarming rate and we need to...

As Congress continues to fine-tune its health care plan, the cost of the obesity epidemic, in terms of both human life and dollars, is becoming more evident and severe. The doubling of the obesity rate between 1987 and today accounts for nearly thirty percent of the rise in health care...