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College's Too-Fat-To-Graduate Rule Under Fire

cnn.com | Posted 12.02.2009 | Living

Read More: Lincoln University, Too Fat to Graduate, Graduation, Education, Workout, College, Exercise, Health, Fitness, Fat, Fitness Test, Obesity, School, Wellness, Living News

Most college students expect to receive their diplomas on the basis of grades, but at a Pennsylvania school, physical fitness matters too....

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What Did You Eat Today?

Irene Rubaum-Keller | Posted 11.20.2009 | Living

Read More: Weight Control, Diet Tips, Dieting, Weight Gain, Food, Weight Loss Tips, Fat, Weight Loss, Eating, Obesity, Diet, Health, Living News
Irene Rubaum-Keller

What I ask people to do is to get on the scale every day. Yes, every day. Write down your weight each day and average it out over the course of a week. This keeps you awake and aware to what is going on.

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Curing The Obesity Epidemic One Beatdown At A Time

Charlotte Hilton Andersen | Posted 11.13.2009 | Living

Read More: Woman Gaining Weight, Obesity Crisis, Women and Weight, Gaining Weight, Health, Robert Verdi, Food Obesity, Food, Fat, Fashion, Obesity, Marsha Coupe, Living News
Charlotte Hilton Andersen

As a woman of normal -- sometimes even "low" -- weight, I live in constant terror that were I to gain weight, I would no longer be deserving of love.

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Weight Gain Linked To Bacteria In Intestines

latimes.com | Thomas H. Maugh II | Posted 11.12.2009 | Living

Read More: Intestines, Stomach, Health, Weight Gain, Fat, Science, Food, Digestion, Bacteria, Wellness, Living News

A high-fat, high-sugar diet does more than pump calories into your body. It also alters the composition of bacteria in your intestines, making it easi...

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Report: More Americans Gaining Weight, Eating Poorly During Recession

Wall Street Journal | JENNIFER WATERS | Posted 10.31.2009 | Living

Read More: Candy, Diets, Popcorn, Natural, Economy, Burgers, Poor Eating Habits, Fat, Cheap Food, Recession, Potato Chips, American Eating Habits, Cookies, Refined Starches, Unemployment, Value, Microwave, Cheap Meals, Nutrition, Fast Food, Food, Snacks, Refined Sugars, American Diets, Health Food, Living News

In an online survey this summer of 1,200 people about food affordability, conducted by food-industry research firm Technomic, 70% of respondents said ...

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Let Kids Sleep Late On Weekends To Fight Fat

Yahoo! News | David Freeman, HealthDay Reporter | Posted 10.29.2009 | Living

Read More: Children, Health, Fat, Weight Loss, Obesity, Sleep Deprivation, Children's Health, Childhood Obesity, Sleep, Overweight, Living News

Letting children sleep late on weekends and holidays might help them avoid becoming overweight or obese, a new study suggests. Researchers in Hong ...

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Ambulances Charging Extra For Obese Patients

AP | HEATHER HOLLINGSWORTH | Posted 10.23.2009 | Business

Read More: Fat, Obesity, Mordibly Obese, Health Care, Health Care Costs, Amublances, Ken Keller, Business News

TOPEKA, Kan. — The memory still bothers Ken Keller: A panicked ambulance crew had a critically ill patient, but the man weighed more than 1,000 ...

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Fox Sports, Burger King Sell Hamburgers by Calling Jessica Simpson Fat

Charlotte Hilton Andersen | Posted 10.14.2009 | Media

Read More: Obesity Crisis, Tony Romo, Jessica Simpson, Football, Burger King, Baywatch, Fox News, Nicole-Eggert, Fat, Funny or Die, Obsesity, Bad Advertising, Media News
Charlotte Hilton Andersen

Is Burger King, of all companies, allowed to make fun of anyone for being fat seeing as they're half the reason for the obesity crisis in this country?

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The Holiday Cure: How To Wake Up Thinner

Janice Taylor | Posted 10.14.2009 | Living

Read More: Janice Taylor, Health, Weight Gain, Compulsive Overeating, The Christmas Diet, Fat, Weight Loss Tips, Weight Loss, Overeating, Wellness, Holiday Overeating, The Holiday Diet, Living News
Janice Taylor

As we all know all too well, the holidays present a multitude of stresses that together can create the perfect 'fat' storm.

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A Week Without the "F" Word: 5 Ways to End Fat Talk

Dr. Susan Albers | Posted 10.17.2009 | Living

Read More: Mindful Eating, Eating Mindfully, Dieting, Body Image, Fat Talk, Dr. Susan Albers, Fat, Dove Self Esteem, 50 Ways to Soothe Yourself Without Food, Self-Esteem, Living News
Dr. Susan Albers

Can you go a week without using the F word? If you're not sure, here is your chance to give it a try.

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Study: Pilots On Fattiest Diets Perform Best

AP | DAVE KOLPACK | Posted 10.06.2009 | Living

Read More: Biscuits, High Protein, Butter, Brownies, Pizza, Lobster, Science, Fat, Nutrition, Fatty Foods, Air Force, Diet, Fatty Acids, Protein Diet, Low Carb Diet, Army, Gravy, Ntsb, Performance, Food, Military, Protein, Flight, High-Carb Diet, Navy, Carbohydrates, Landing, Mayo, Mre, Living News

GRAND FORKS, N.D. — Running a marathon, grab a carbohydrate bar. Lifting weights, gulp a protein shake. But climbing into a fighter jet? Butter-...

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Comical View: Fat Is the New Black!

Erica Watson | Posted 10.06.2009 | Comedy

Read More: Regina Benjamin, Black Women, Political Comedy, Politics, Comedy and Satire, Plus Size, Political Humor, Satire, President Obama, Dr. Regina Benjamin, Surgeon General, Fat, Size-Acceptance, Bbw, Comedy News
Erica Watson

I chose comedy because everyone knows that sassy, fat black women are funny. Being the butt of the joke is what we do best, right?

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"He chose poorly..."

Kim Bensen | Posted 10.03.2009 | Living

Read More: Weight Loss Advice, Fast Food, Skinny, Pounds, Healthy Lifestyle, Weight Loss Tips, Fat, Obesity, Diet, How to Lose Weight, Motivation, Weight Watchers, Calories, Exercise, Lighten Up, Kim Bensen, Weight Loss, Drive Thru, Living News
Kim Bensen

After a day full of choices, most good, one or two which could have been better, that movie line from Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade really hit home.

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Sweet Scam Group Hits Back At New York Health Initiatives (VIDEO)

Huffington Post | David Weiner | Posted 11.30.2009 | New York

Read More: Nyc Health Department, New York, Lobbying, Michael Bloomberg, New York City, Non-Profit, Fat, Obesity, When Did Big Apple Become Big Brother, Junk Food, Sugar, Center for Consumer Freedom, Video, Advertising, Health, Sweet Scam, New York News

In light of all of Mayor Bloomberg's recent health initiatives, the non-profit Center for Consumer Freedom is asking, "When did the Big Apple become B...

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Fats Affect Brain Signals And Diet, Study Suggests

medicalnewstoday.com | Posted 11.16.2009 | Living

Read More: Fat, Food, Diet, Nutrition, Health, Insulin, Living News

Findings from a new UT Southwestern Medical Center study suggest that fat from certain foods we eat makes its way to the brain. Once there, the fat mo...

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Forget a "Fat Tax." Tax the Fat.

John Ridley | Posted 11.11.2009 | Politics

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John Ridley

With all the talk -- and screaming and gun-toting -- that's going on around the health care reform debate, maybe the answer is orbiting our ever-expanding guts.

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Large and in Charge

Sophie Pollitt-Cohen | Posted 11.09.2009 | Comedy

Read More: Depression, Colonialism, Hawthorne, Fat, Strunk and White, My Friend Baker, Glamour Magazine, Girls Body Image, Women and Body Image, Natives, Body Image, How-to-Speed-Up-Metabolism, Christianity, Religious Conversion, Metabolism, Poor Richard's Almanack, My Friend Emily, Chinese Food, Benjamin Franklin, Comedy News
Sophie Pollitt-Cohen

Whether you're colonizing natives in the New World or trying to keep women down without actually having to do anything, it's always good to make the people you control feel that everything is their idea.

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Feeling Overweight? Congratulations!

Kiri Westby | Posted 10.17.2009 | Living

Read More: Fat, Self-Esteem, Nepal, Paradigm Shift, Dieting, Kiri Westby, Self-Confidence, Health, Weight Loss, Obesity, Overweight, Living News
Kiri Westby

Wouldn't it be great if we looked at each others' spare-tires as signs of abundance and joy and, along the same vein, recognize that our friends who appear too thin may actually need extra moral support?

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Want to Lose Weight? Lose the Debt

Charlotte Hilton Andersen | Posted 10.16.2009 | Business

Read More: Debt, War on Obesity, Diet Tips, Debt Diet, Fat, Obesity, Diet, How to Lose Weight, Business News
Charlotte Hilton Andersen

German researchers announced today that they found a significant link between people who are heavily in debt and people who are heavily overweight.

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The Skinny on our Growing Girth

Ingrid Newkirk | Posted 09.26.2009 | Green

Read More: Fat, People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, Fat Epidemic, Obesity, Peta, Fat People, Green News
Ingrid Newkirk

People want unhealthy foods almost as much as they want health care. America is getting fatter, largely because we don't realize that killing animals and squeezing the cheese out of them, perhaps especially the cheese, is slowly killing us too.

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Why It's So Hard Not To Be Fat

Christina Pirello | Posted 09.19.2009 | Living

Read More: Fat, Weight Loss, Sugar, Pesticides, Fast Food, American Diet, Prevention-Magazine, Steroids, Weight Loss Tips, Herbicides, Fast Food Industry, Weight, 1950s, Papa-Johnss-Pizza, Salt, Wendy's, McDonald's, Marketing, Processed Food, Losing Weight, Food Marketing, 1950s-Housewife, Canned Foods, Growth Hormones, Weight Gain, Blackberry Addiction, Pollan Food, Food Labels, Weight Control, Michael Pollan, Dr. Mehmet Oz, Kentucky Fried Chicken, Health, Real Food, Toxic Waste, Consumer Protection, Heart Attack, Living News
Christina Pirello

Fat, sugar and salt; the triple threat to our waistlines... and health. Mere decades ago, the food industry made a conscious choice to seduce the Amer...

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10 Dirty Little Secrets About Body Fat

Dr. Nicholas Perricone | Posted 09.12.2009 | Living

Read More: Paul McCartney, Body Fat, Healthy Eating, Health, Fat, Eating, Visceral Fat, Sub-Cutaneous Fat, Endocrine System, Living News
Dr. Nicholas Perricone

This past decade has seen a turn around in the way scientists regard white adipose tissue -- better known as body fat -- perhaps two of the most dreaded words of our generation.

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Getting Into My Pants - Weight Loss Solutions with Dr. Leslie Van Romer

Gail Lynne Goodwin | Posted 09.03.2009 | Living

Read More: InspireMeToday.Com, Fat, Weight Loss, Getting Into Your Pants, Dr. Leslie Van Romer, Weight, Hope, Gail Lynne Goodwin, Living News
Gail Lynne Goodwin

Since I was a young girl I have had an issue with my weight. Although I've never been more than 25 pounds overweight other than when I was pregnant, I've never been thin either. More importantly, no matter if it was up or down, I've always felt fat, even when I wasn't.

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How Do We Become Fat?

Fred Hahn | Posted 09.03.2009 | Living

Read More: Leonard Lopate, Fat, Wnyc, Carbohydrates, WNYC Public Radio, Gary Taubes, Please Explain, Weight Gain, Insulin Resistance, Obesity in America, Weight Loss Tips, Losing-Weight-by-Sleeping, Obesity Research, Obesity Epidemic, Insulin, Living News
Fred Hahn

You can't exercise your fat away ladies and gentlemen. You have to speak the correct language to your body if you wish it to release fat from your fat cells.

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Top 5 Tips for a Healthier, Happier Pet

Wendy Diamond | Posted 08.29.2009 | Living

Read More: Over, Lucky Diamond, Animal Fair, Treat, Pets, Lifestyle, Entertainment, Activity, Fat, Cat, Toy, Diet, Obesity, Weight, Wendy Diamond, Nutrient, Fit, Prevent, Gain, Obese, Play, Exercise, Health, Tips, Pet, Fitness, Fashion, Dog, Vet, Lose, Celebrities, Living News
Wendy Diamond

We are the sole controllers of what go into our pet's mouths so we must govern what we feed our pets and how to help them control their weight.

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