College's Too-Fat-To-Graduate Rule Under Fire
Most college students expect to receive their diplomas on the basis of grades, but at a Pennsylvania school, physical fitness matters too....
Most college students expect to receive their diplomas on the basis of grades, but at a Pennsylvania school, physical fitness matters too....
Irene Rubaum-Keller | Posted 11.20.2009 | Living
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.
Charlotte Hilton Andersen | Posted 11.13.2009 | Living
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.
latimes.com | Thomas H. Maugh II | Posted 11.12.2009 | Living
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...
Wall Street Journal | JENNIFER WATERS | Posted 10.31.2009 | Living
In an online survey this summer of 1,200 people about food affordability, conducted by food-industry research firm Technomic, 70% of respondents said ...
Yahoo! News | David Freeman, HealthDay Reporter | Posted 10.29.2009 | Living
Letting children sleep late on weekends and holidays might help them avoid becoming overweight or obese, a new study suggests. Researchers in Hong ...
AP | HEATHER HOLLINGSWORTH | Posted 10.23.2009 | Business
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 ...
Charlotte Hilton Andersen | Posted 10.14.2009 | Media
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?
Janice Taylor | Posted 10.14.2009 | Living
As we all know all too well, the holidays present a multitude of stresses that together can create the perfect 'fat' storm.
Dr. Susan Albers | Posted 10.17.2009 | Living
Can you go a week without using the F word? If you're not sure, here is your chance to give it a try.
AP | DAVE KOLPACK | Posted 10.06.2009 | Living
GRAND FORKS, N.D. — Running a marathon, grab a carbohydrate bar. Lifting weights, gulp a protein shake. But climbing into a fighter jet? Butter-...
Erica Watson | Posted 10.06.2009 | Comedy
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?
Kim Bensen | Posted 10.03.2009 | Living
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.
Huffington Post | David Weiner | Posted 11.30.2009 | New York
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...
medicalnewstoday.com | Posted 11.16.2009 | Living
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...
John Ridley | Posted 11.11.2009 | Politics
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.
Sophie Pollitt-Cohen | Posted 11.09.2009 | Comedy
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.
Kiri Westby | Posted 10.17.2009 | Living
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?
Charlotte Hilton Andersen | Posted 10.16.2009 | Business
German researchers announced today that they found a significant link between people who are heavily in debt and people who are heavily overweight.
Ingrid Newkirk | Posted 09.26.2009 | Green
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.
Christina Pirello | Posted 09.19.2009 | Living
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...
Dr. Nicholas Perricone | Posted 09.12.2009 | Living
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.
Gail Lynne Goodwin | Posted 09.03.2009 | Living
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.
Fred Hahn | Posted 09.03.2009 | Living
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.
Wendy Diamond | Posted 08.29.2009 | Living
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.
cnn.com | Posted 12.02.2009 | Living