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Obesity: How We Got Here

Jeff Halevy | Posted 05.30.2012

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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.

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The Fight Against Obesity Starts With Respect!

Chris Reid | Posted 05.16.2012

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Obese people are bullied and often treated with disrespect, even by people who are otherwise kind, considerate individuals. People like us.

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Southern Fried Pancreas

Jeff Schweitzer | Posted 03.24.2012

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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.

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Fitness and Obesity Trends to Watch for in 2012: It's Not a Small World After All

Carole Carson | Posted 03.11.2012

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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.

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How Personality Can Influence Your Weight

Judith S. Beck, Ph.D. | Posted 02.20.2012

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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.

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Where 50% Of The People Are Obese And Don't Know It

Posted 10.17.2011

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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...

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When Bullying Takes A Toll On Children's Health

Joanna Dolgoff, M.D. | Posted 10.01.2011

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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.

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Obese Man Who Hadn't Moved From Recliner In Two Years Dies

AP | Posted 05.31.2011

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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...

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Obesity: Character Flaw Or Neurochemical Disease?

Carole Carson | Posted 05.25.2011

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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

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BREAKTHROUGH: Can 'Brown Fat' Injections Combat Obesity?

Carly Schwartz | Posted 05.25.2011

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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...

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World's Fattest Countries 2010 (PHOTOS): GlobalPost Report

Posted 05.25.2011

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Pacific Islanders struggle with the highest levels of obesity around the world, according to a new GlobalPost report. Writer Emily Stone cites 201...

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Oregon Has Lowest Rate Of Childhood Obesity

AP | CARLA K. JOHNSON | Posted 11.17.2011

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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...

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"Up in the Air" Overweight! Then Chances Are You Need Two Seats On Southwest Airlines! What Are Your Chances of Landing a High Paying Job?

Stephen Viscusi | Posted 05.25.2011

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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...

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Why Doesn't Exercise Lead To Weight Loss?

nytimes.com | Gretchen Reynolds | Posted 11.17.2011

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Few people, an overwhelming body of research shows, achieve significant weight loss with exercise alone, not without changing their eating habits. A n...

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Weight Loss In College: No More Freshman Fifteen

newsweek.com | Johannah Cornblatt | Posted 11.17.2011

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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...

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Obesity Risk In Adulthood For Anxious Kids

forbes.com | Thomas F. Cooley | Posted 11.17.2011

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Children with emotional difficulties have a greater risk of becoming obese in adulthood, new research has found....

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5 Things To Do Before You Diet

self.com | Posted 11.17.2011

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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...

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Is It Okay to Fire People Who Smoke or Are Obese?

Tony Newman | Posted 11.17.2011

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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.

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Top 5 Tips for a Healthier, Happier Pet

Wendy Diamond | Posted 11.17.2011

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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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Lighten Up: Step It Up!

Kim Bensen | Posted 11.17.2011

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Despite the fact that I lost 212 pounds, I have to admit that exercise played a barely negligible part in my weight loss.

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Can You Tell If Someone is Obese Over the Phone?

Charlotte Hilton Andersen | Posted 05.25.2011

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This is the kind of Mensa-level question posed by the D.J. on the radio show I sometimes listen to.

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Can an Anorexic Woman and an Obese Woman Be Best Friends?

Leslie Goldman | Posted 05.25.2011

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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.

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Does Fat By Any Other Name Still Look Bad In Lycra?

Charlotte Hilton Andersen | Posted 11.17.2011

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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.

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