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What exact role do sugar laden beverages such as Coca Cola, Vitamin Water, and others play in a healthy lifestyle? None. You don't need an educational program to figure that one out.
What exact role do sugar laden beverages such as Coca Cola, Vitamin Water, and others play in a healthy lifestyle? None. You don't need an educational program to figure that one out.
nytimes.com | Gretchen Reynolds | Posted 11.06.2009 | Living
Few people, an overwhelming body of research shows, achieve significant weight loss with exercise alone, not without changing their eating habits. A n...
Steven R. Gundry | Posted 11.02.2009 | Politics
There are two ways to slow obesity: One, limit where and when simple carbohydrates can be used (it worked in World War II). Or two, tax the consequences of their overuse.
forbes.com | Posted 11.02.2009 | Living
Though someone is diagnosed with diabetes every 20 seconds, many Americans lack basic knowledge about the potentially life-threatening disease, accord...
Grist | Posted 10.31.2009 | Green
With the rumors swirling that Michelle Obama is a big fan of former FDA Commissioner David Kessler's new book The End of Overeating, it seems reasonab...
AP | MIKE STOBBE | Posted 10.30.2009 | Living
ATLANTA — Sleepless in Seattle? Hardly. West Virginia is where people are really staying awake, according to the first government study to monit...
Alan Miller | Posted 10.30.2009 | Living
It has become increasingly the case that the sentiment is one that people generally are irresponsible and in need of supervision from bureaucratic politicians. This is extremely dangerous.
Connie Bennett | Posted 11.02.2009 | Living
Even though sugary temptations abound, make sure to focus often on your goal of weight loss, health, happiness and freedom.
Stephen Josephson | Posted 10.29.2009 | New York
Most of the people who "sleep well" are either depressed, on medication, not from New York or sleep apneic.
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 | BETH DeFALCO | Posted 10.29.2009 | New York
HACKENSACK, N.J. — A man accused of running up and down a flight of stairs to kill a former son-in-law is offering a novel defense: At 5 feet 8 ...
Joanna Dolgoff, M.D. | Posted 10.23.2009 | Living
There is no reason that debt needs to lead to obesity. Families in these dire situations need to make health a priority. Just think about how much money you will save on medical bills.
Kari Henley | Posted 10.24.2009 | Living
Here are three classic fitness profiles of everyday folks who need a little change in their health and fitness routines, as well as a few expert tips.
Mark Morford | Posted 10.23.2009 | Comedy
In an unselfish effort to help you reduce -- but not eliminate because that would be un-American and possibly communist -- your intake of our sugary poisons, we are introducing a brand-new product.
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 ...
Irene Rubaum-Keller | Posted 10.17.2009 | Living
The average woman in the U.S. is 5'4" and around 142 lbs. She is not modeling anything.
Posted 10.13.2009 | Living
First Lady Michelle Obama is stressing small changes in diet and exercise habits as a good way to improve health and fitness....
Vivien Lesnik Weisman | Posted 10.13.2009 | Politics
We live in a country where 400,000 people die every year not from a disease, but from what they eat -- and this is not considered relevant to health care reform?
Joanna Dolgoff, M.D. | Posted 10.12.2009 | Living
Pediatricians have long feared that the rising number of severely obese children and teens would soon start to suffer from adult complications of obesity, like heart attacks, strokes, and death. And now it is happening.
LAT | Jerry Hirsch | Posted 10.12.2009 | Local
Links found by researchers between snack foods and obesity in poor communities are prompting new calls for more regulation of convenience stores in So...
AP | TOM BREEN | Posted 10.09.2009 | Entertainment
CHARLESTON, W.Va. — Weary of being stuck with what they call the false label of America's unhealthiest city, Huntington residents are offering a...
Keli Goff | Posted 10.08.2009 | Politics
Obesity costs us as much as $147 billion per year, and smoking costs taxpayers a whopping $300 billion annually, or 1,000 times the amount of the AIG bonuses.
Wall Street Journal | MUHTAR KENT | Posted 10.08.2009 | Green
Obesity is a complex issue, and addressing it is important for all Americans. We at the Coca-Cola company are committed to working with government and...
Jeffrey Smith | Posted 10.07.2009 | Business
Would Eli Lilly consciously risk our health just to increase their profit? What kind of company are they, and can we trust them with our food?
Joanna Dolgoff, M.D. | Posted 10.06.2009 | New York
The percentage of overweight and obese children is increasing at an alarming rate and we need to do all we can to stem the flow of this obesity epidemic.
Hemi Weingarten | Posted 11.06.2009 | Living