Obesity

Many Americans Are Content With Early Death Due to Inactivity

Jill Lawson | Posted 05.31.2012

Read More: Thomas Jefferson, Heart Disease, Exercise, Sedentary-Lifestyle, Health, Albert Einstein, Death, Fitness and Exercise, Personal Health, Fitness, Weight Loss, Obesity, Diet, Wellness, Healthy Living News

Many of us know, yet few are willing to admit, that sitting, being sedentary, and living a computer-bound life lead to early death. These facts are so startling, yet there are still so many struggling with adopting an active lifestyle.

Read Post

Unjunking Ourselves!

David Katz, M.D. | Posted 05.31.2012

Read More: Healthy Living Health News, Preventive Medicine, Unjunk Yourself, Soda Tax, Obesity, Physical Activity, Childhood Obesity, Junk Food, Turn the Tide Foundation, Unjunk-Junkfood, Chronic Disease, Nutrition, Dr. David Katz, Diabetes, Heart Disease, Public Health, Nyc Soda Tax, Healthy Living News

We are, no doubt, all familiar with the expression "you are what you eat," but given how most of us eat, it's quite clear we don't take it very seriously.

Read Post

Homelessness Myth #23: They Have Too Much Food to Eat

Christine Schanes | Posted 05.30.2012

Read More: Obesity, Homelessness, Healthy Food, Homeless People, Homeless People Food, Homeless People Healthy Food, Homeless Obesity, Impact News

Sadly, in all of that time, I have never known a homeless person who was able to eat three healthy meals a day. Really.

Read Post

People and Pets Need Help With Weight Issues

Dr. Richard Palmquist | Posted 05.30.2012

Read More: Cats, Healthy Living, Weight Loss, Veterinary Medicine, Obesity, Dogs, Health, Pet Health, Healthy Living News

We should not wait until our pets or our loved ones are overweight to begin eating healthier. The truth is that eating properly should begin at birth and continue through their lives. This is so important.

Read Post

Losing Weight, Hate and Obesity Bias

William Anderson, MA, LMHC | Posted 05.30.2012

Read More: Weight Loss, Obesity, Lose Weight, Losing Weight, Gender Bias, Weight Loss Success, Obesity Epidemic, Weight Loss Tips, Obesity Bias, Weight Loss Motivation, Success and Motivation, Obesity Discrimination, Obesity Stigma, Healthy Living News

We need to stop blaming, hating and discriminating against obese people, but equally important, we need to use what we know to solve obesity and the obesity epidemic. That is the real solution to the evil of obesity bias.

Read Post

The Political Economy of the Obesity Epidemic

Jared Bernstein | Posted 05.29.2012

Read More: Obesity, Obesity Epidemic, Childhood Obesity, Politics News

Assuming we someday get back to making useful national policy, personal nutrition is an area where we could make a big positive difference both to people's lives and to society's balance sheet.

Read Post

835-Pound Teen Cut Out Of House, Rolled Down Scaffolding To Get Outside

AP | Posted 05.27.2012

Read More: Aberdare, Anatomical Wonders, 60 Stone Teen, Obese Woman Cut Out of House, Obesity, Childhood Obesity, Georgia Davis Obese Teen, Video, Georgia Davis, Obese Teen Cut Out of House, 840 Pound Teen, Aberdare UK, Weird Photos & Videos, Extreme Weight Gain, Georgia Davis UK, Cut Out of House, Weird News News

LONDON -- Emergency workers who needed to take an obese teenager from her home to a hospital in Wales had to break through a wall of the residence to ...

Read Whole Story

Lose Weight, Gain Body Confidence? Not Necessarily, Says Purdue Researcher Sarah Mustillo

Jean Fain, L.I.C.S.W., M.S.W. | Posted 05.24.2012

Read More: Healthy Living Health News, Healthy Living, Losing Weight, Self-Compassion, Purdue University, Body Image, Fat, Self-Esteem, Obesity, Body Image Confidence, Women Body Image, Self Confidence, Body Image Media, Emotional Wellness, Healthy Living News

What is it about our culture that makes it so darned hard for girls to have good body image? Why, in fact, does bad body image plague America's great, multi-generational sorority?

Read Post

Startling New Stats About Homelessness And Obesity

Joel John Roberts | Posted 05.24.2012

Read More: Fat, Whole Foods, Richard Simmons, Hunger, Poverty, Obesity, Homelessness, Third World America, Overweight, Impact News

How can people struggling with an impoverished life on the streets, not even knowing when or where their next meal will be, also battle with obesity? How can hungry homeless people be fat?

Read Post

How 1 State Is Scaling Back Both Hunger And Obesity

Tamara Sandberg | Posted 05.23.2012

Read More: Kentucky Association of Food Banks, Michelle Obama, Hunger, House Agriculture Committee, Food Stamps, Let's Move Campaign, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, Kentucky, Child Hunger, Obesity, Food Insecure, Childhood Obesity, Impact News

Protecting our children from obesity requires more than increased physical activity and access to healthy food at school. It also compels us to do all we can to be sure they aren't coming home to poorly stocked kitchen cabinets. Childhood obesity and hunger are related and real problems -- and both are also really solvable.

Read Post

INFOGRAPHIC: Portion Sizes Today vs. In The 1950s

Posted 05.23.2012

Read More: Portion Size, Portion Sizes 1950s, Video, Cdc, Portion Sizes Now, Portion Sizes Growth, Portion Sizes, Diet and Nutrition, Obesity, Healthy Living News

The average restaurant meal is four -- four -- times larger than it was in the 1950s. In fact, 96 percent of entrees at chain restaurants exceed dieta...

Read Whole Story

Salk Study: Eating for Eight Hours Reduces Obesity and Diabetes Risk

Garth Sundem | Posted 05.22.2012

Read More: Weight Loss Sleep, Burning Calories, Weight Loss Metabolism, Time Weight Loss, Metabolism, Diabetes, Obesity, Eating Time of Day, Reducing Obesity Risks, Reducing Diabetes Risks, Science News

Let's get this out of the way: No one's recommending you sit down and eat for eight hours. But a study shows that if you condense the total time you eat each day to only eight hours, you can prevent weight gain and reduce diabetes risk.

Read Post

WATCH: This Is Your Liver On Obesity

Posted 05.22.2012

Read More: Video, The Fat Show, Weight of the Nation, The View Obesity, The View Fat Episode, Health, The View Fat Show, The View, Diabetes, Obesity, Healthy Living News

According to a recent report, 42 percent of Americans are projected to be obese by the year 2030, with 11 percent of adults close to a full 100 pounds...

Read Whole Story

The Evil Gender Bias of Obesity and Weight Gain

William Anderson, MA, LMHC | Posted 05.21.2012

Read More: Lose Weight, Losing Weight, Success and Motivation, Weight Loss, Weight Loss Motivation, Weight Loss Success, Weight Loss Tips, Obesity, Obesity Epidemic, Obesity Bias, Gender Bias, Healthy Living News

The obesity bias is far nastier for women than men -- overwhelmingly so. It is insidious and needs to be pointed out and stopped.

Read Post

The Condition Nearly 1 In 4 Teens Are Being Diagnosed With

HuffingtonPost.com | Catherine Pearson | Posted 05.21.2012

Read More: Video, Diabetes on the Rise Among Teenagers, Teen Diabetes, Teen Obesity, Teenage Obesity, Diabetes Rates, Obesity Rates, Diabetes, Prediabetes, Obesity, Cdc Obese Study, Childhood Obesity, Healthy Living News

The number of teens in the U.S. with diabetes or prediabetes has skyrocketed in the last decade, jumping from 9 to 23 percent, new data finds. Othe...

Read Whole Story

What's Behind Emotional Overeating?

Lisa Firestone | Posted 05.20.2012

Read More: Nutrition, Addiction, Weight Loss, Self-Esteem, Obesity, Diet, Overeating, Lisa Firestone, Emotional Wellness, Stop Emotional Eating, Emotional Health, Emotional Eating, Emotional Binge Eating, Healthy Living News

By taking action on a physical level and taking interest on an emotional level, we can re-establish our relationship with food, with our bodies, with our past, and with ourselves as a whole.

Read Post

HLN's Jane Velez-Mitchell Is Still an Addict and Has "Issues" With John Edwards

Tanya Young Williams | Posted 05.20.2012

Velez-Mitchell's balanced, yet, "no-holds bar" style attracts a loyal audience. She has an obsession for, and an addiction to making a real and measurable impact in the world. She is addicted to the notion that she can always do more.

Read Post

The Problem With Our Approach To The Obesity Epidemic

David Katz, M.D. | Posted 05.19.2012

Fundamentally, we have converted a world in which calories were relatively scarce and hard to get and physical activity unavoidable into a world where physical activity is scarce and hard to get and calories are unavoidable.

Read Post

We Need a Stronger Message in the Fight Against Obesity

Robert Doar | Posted 05.18.2012

Read More: Healthy Eating, Sugar-Sweetened-Beverages, Type 2 Diabetes, Food Stamps, Diabetes, Sugary Drinks, Obesity, Adult Onset Diabetes, Childhood Obesity, New York News

Taxpayers should not be forced to subsidize the consumption of sugar-sweetened beverages. It is time for the federal government to take a second look at this issue.

Read Post

Weight Loss and the Solution to the Obesity Epidemic

William Anderson, MA, LMHC | Posted 05.16.2012

Read More: Lose Weight, Losing Weight, Weight of the Nation, Weight Loss Success, Obesity Epidemic, Weight Loss Tips, Obesity Bias, Weight Loss, Weight Loss Motivation, Obesity, Wotn, Healthy Living News

To solve the obesity epidemic, the most important thing you can do is to solve your own weight problem for your own reasons.

Read Post

Graduate Economics: Balancing the Budget Without Benefit Cuts or Tax Increases

Mark R. Kennedy | Posted 05.16.2012

Read More: Graduation, Safeway, Economics, Obesity Epidemic, Budget, Incentives, Obesity, Health Care, Healthcare, Politics News

Providing incentives to my children helped me to balance my checkbook. By doing the same, America could remain solvent with a lot less pain to beneficiaries and taxpayers.

Read Post

This Is Why You're Fat: The 2012 Farm Bill and the Real Obesity Lobby

Suzanne Merkelson | Posted 05.16.2012

Read More: U.S. Senate, Farm Bill, Obesity Crisis, 2012 Farm Bill, Lobbying, Obesity, Beverage Industry, Monsanto, Childhood Obesity, Food Industry, Farm Subsidies, Politics News

The food and beverage industry has been relentless in Washington lately, more than doubling their spending in Washington during the past three years, completely outpacing public interest groups looking out for children's health.

Read Post

A Matter of Weight

Dr. Gregory Jantz, Ph.D. | Posted 05.15.2012

Read More: Fat, The-Weight-of-the-Nation, Weight Loss, Obesity, Airlines, Hbo, Healthy Living Health News, Obesity Crisis, Weight of the Nation Conference, Childhood Obesity, Weight of the Nation Documentary, Healthy Living News

As difficult as it is to accept, this obesity epidemic requiring a national conversation has to be done person by person by person, with as much collective compassion, creativity, insight and patience as humanly possible.

Read Post

The Weight of the Nation

Susan Blumenthal, M.D. | Posted 05.15.2012

Read More: Healthy Food, Michelle Obama Let's Move, Weight of the Nation, Obesity, Childhood Obesity, Healthy Living Health News, Obesity Crisis, Obesity in Childhood, Weight of the Nation Conference, Obesity America, Public Health, Weight of the Nation Series, Weight of the Nation HBO, Childhood Obesity Statistics, Healthy Living News

We now must act boldly to combat the obesity epidemic. There are many opportunities across the lifespan, but it will require a shift in social norms and an unprecedented social movement for obesity prevention.

Read Post

Highlights From Our 'Weight Of The Nation' Twitter Chat

Posted 05.15.2012

Read More: Weight of the Nation, Obesity Epidemic, The Weight of the Nation, Weight of the Nation Documentary, Weight of the Nation HBO, Slideexpand, Obesity, Healthy Living News

To win, we have to lose. So reads the slogan of "The Weight Of The Nation," the four-part documentary that premiered on HBO last night, and continues ...

Read Whole Story