Obesity: How We Got Here
I find that amongst those who do not believe obesity is a serious health problem, there are a few common misunderstandings and errors in logic.
I find that amongst those who do not believe obesity is a serious health problem, there are a few common misunderstandings and errors in logic.
Chris Reid | Posted 05.16.2012
Obese people are bullied and often treated with disrespect, even by people who are otherwise kind, considerate individuals. People like us.
Jeff Schweitzer | Posted 03.24.2012
The collective reaction to Paula Deen's diabetes announcement tells us much about our attitude toward health and nutrition. Of course nobody is shocked at the news, but many commentators missed an opportunity to make a bigger point.
Carole Carson | Posted 03.11.2012
By 2020, four out of five of your friends, coworkers, family members and neighbors will be overweight or obese, and half of them will be diabetic or prediabetic. Today's reality, however, does not dictate the future.
Judith S. Beck, Ph.D. | Posted 02.20.2012
What's your personality? Are you self-disciplined and orderly, or are you more on the indulgent and impulsive side? Recent research from the National Institute of Health suggests that these personality traits could very well help determine your weight.
Posted 10.17.2011
Fox News Latino: An estimated 50 percent of the population in Paraguay is obese and many of them don't even know it, the Ministry of Health said We...
Joanna Dolgoff, M.D. | Posted 10.01.2011
The perception surrounding obesity is that it's caused by a lack of exercise and overeating, however, the condition is often driven by other factors, one of which is bullying.
AP | Posted 05.31.2011
BELLAIRE, Ohio -- Media reports say a morbidly obese man who hadn't moved from his recliner in two years and had to be cut out of his Ohio home when h...
Carole Carson | Posted 05.25.2011
The reality is that obesity is a chronic, relapsing, neurochemical disease with a genetic basis. Simply telling an obese person to "eat less and exercise more" is overly simplistic and demonstrably ineffective
Carly Schwartz | Posted 05.25.2011
Can you fight fat with fat? If a recent study posted by our friends at io9 is any indication, researchers may have discovered a way to transform white...
Posted 05.25.2011
Pacific Islanders struggle with the highest levels of obesity around the world, according to a new GlobalPost report. Writer Emily Stone cites 201...
AP | CARLA K. JOHNSON | Posted 11.17.2011
CHICAGO — What's the magic in Oregon that keeps kids lean? It's a mystery health officials would like to solve as they admit all states are fail...
Stephen Viscusi | Posted 05.25.2011
By Stephen Viscusi Recently the headlines were filled with the story about movie director, Kevin Smith, who directed "Cop Out". He was asked to l...
nytimes.com | Gretchen Reynolds | Posted 11.17.2011
Few people, an overwhelming body of research shows, achieve significant weight loss with exercise alone, not without changing their eating habits. A n...
newsweek.com | Johannah Cornblatt | Posted 11.17.2011
With more than 30 percent of college students falling into the American College Health Association's obese or overweight categories, Yale is not the o...
forbes.com | Thomas F. Cooley | Posted 11.17.2011
Children with emotional difficulties have a greater risk of becoming obese in adulthood, new research has found....
self.com | Posted 11.17.2011
Later this week, we'll be launching our brand new Reach Your Goal 2009 program here on Self.com and in the September issue of the magazine. It's an aw...
Tony Newman | Posted 11.17.2011
By firing workers for smoking or being overweight -- and penalizing them when it comes to their health care -- we will be demonizing and marginalizing those to whom we should be reaching out.
Wendy Diamond | Posted 11.17.2011
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.
Kim Bensen | Posted 11.17.2011
Despite the fact that I lost 212 pounds, I have to admit that exercise played a barely negligible part in my weight loss.
Charlotte Hilton Andersen | Posted 05.25.2011
This is the kind of Mensa-level question posed by the D.J. on the radio show I sometimes listen to.
Leslie Goldman | Posted 05.25.2011
The opening dialogue of disFigured moves into a rare plotline that I found shockingly real, touchy, emotional, humorous and hurtful, and introspective for viewers heavy and thin alike.
Charlotte Hilton Andersen | Posted 11.17.2011
From the country who gave us both Harajuku and Ninja Warrior, we now get a new trend. Japan has an aggressive yet motherly new public health mission of reducing the national waistline.
Jeff Halevy | Posted 05.30.2012