After the White House: A Retirement Plan for President Bush
As President Bush leaves the White House and returns to Texas, we can only hope for him what we want for ourselves; to learn from our mistakes and to do good in the world with the time.
As President Bush leaves the White House and returns to Texas, we can only hope for him what we want for ourselves; to learn from our mistakes and to do good in the world with the time.
Margo G. Wootan | Posted 01.16.2009 | Politics
Over the last two decades, rates of obesity have tripled in children and adolescents, and that increase has been linked to soda intake and the sale of junk food in schools.
Christiana Wyly | Posted 12.26.2008 | Living
What are we starving for? We are addicted to corn like we are addicted to sugar like we are addicted to oil. It's the cheap oil that enables the production of the cheap corn in the first place.
Bryan Young | Posted 12.15.2008 | Entertainment
Killer at Large examines the rapidly increasing level of American obesity from a public health and policy perspective, and we hope it will blow your hair back.
AP | MARILYNN MARCHIONE | Posted 12.12.2008 | Living
NEW ORLEANS — Obese children as young as 10 had the arteries of 45-year-olds and other heart abnormalities that greatly raise their risk of hear...
Philip Howard | Posted 10.19.2008 | Living
Almost 80 million Americans have obesity-related diseases -- resulting annually in over 86,000 foot or leg amputations.
Charlotte Hilton Andersen | Posted 10.11.2008 | Living
Is it responsible to link a junk food of such notoriety to sports?
Alvaro Fernandez | Posted 09.24.2008 | Living
The ability to self-regulate behaviors is not a genetic given, but learnable and trainable. If adults cannot regulate their own eating and exercise habits, half the battle is lost.
Dr. Michael J. Breus | Posted 08.13.2008 | Living
The American Academy of Pediatrics released new guidelines this week, recommending some children as young as 8 take cholesterol-fighting drugs to ward off future heart problems.
Dr. Jonny Bowden | Posted 08.05.2008 | Politics
To really get "serious" in the war on obesity is a revolutionary act. The bad actors are the very folks who hold the GDP in their hot little corporate hands.
AP | CARLA K. JOHNSON | Posted 03.28.2008 | Living
Here's another reason to get the kids to bed early: More sleep may lower their risk of becoming obese. Researchers have found that every additional ho...
Washington Wire | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics
A group working to combat childhood obesity is using -- of all things -- Sen. Larry Craig's (R., Idaho) men's room incident to raise awareness on how ...
New York Times | Andrew Martin | Posted 03.28.2008 | Business
As students return to school this week, some are finding unusual entries on the list of class rules: fewer fried foods, smaller servings and no cupcak...
Dr. Stephen Forman | Posted 02.27.2009 | Politics