The World's 10 Fattest Countries
If you tend to pack on a few pounds over the holidays, blame it on globalization. As the world has grown smaller, we've all grown larger -- alarmingly...
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Serving Healthy Thanksgiving Plates, Not Just Full Ones
Mark Shriver | Posted 11.25.2009 | Living
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Are America's children suffering from too much food or too little? They answer is: both. Children in low-income families are simply getting too little of the right foods and too much of the wrong foods.
Weighing College Students: Discrimination Or Life Saving?
Dr. Susan Albers | Posted 11.25.2009 | Living
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Lincoln University,
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While well meaning in nature, we have to consider that obesity is incredibly complex and has multiple origins. Therefore, interventions are likely to be as complex in nature.
Too Fat To Graduate? Lincoln University's BMI Requirement Causes Uproar
Posted 11.24.2009 | Living
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Lincoln University students now have one more hurdle to pass before they graduate: losing weight. According to a recently instituted requirement, uni...
What Ails Black Women, Part 2: Health and Life
Philip N. Cohen | Posted 11.24.2009 | Living
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Even controlling for income, education, obesity, smoking, and some diseases, Black infant mortality is significantly higher. This presumably indicates worse healthcare.
Is Binge Eating A Psychiatric Disorder?
latimes.com | Melissa Healy | Posted 11.23.2009 | Living
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Psychiatrists must decide whether "binge eating disorder" stands alongside anorexia nervosa and bulimia nervosa as a separate psychiatric condition --...
How To Avoid Holiday Overeating
latimes.com | Rosie Mestel and Ben Harder | Posted 11.23.2009 | Living
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Fill up on the vegetables. Skip the pumpkin pie, or at least the whipped cream. Forgo the gravy; go really easy on the stuffing. And just say no to al...
What You Don't Know About Osteoporosis -- Part 3
Joseph Sciabbarrasi, M.D. | Posted 11.20.2009 | Living
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In this, our final segment on Osteoporosis, let's take a closer look at some of the myths and legends of the effects of eating meat, minerals and proteins and quaffing a pint or two.
What Did You Eat Today?
Irene Rubaum-Keller | Posted 11.20.2009 | Living
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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.
Death By Movie Popcorn? Possibly
Ashley Koff | Posted 11.20.2009 | Living
This week the Center for Science in the Public Interest updated the findings of its' historic study about the caloric and fat overload found in many a movie-goer's favorite treat -- popcorn.
Daniel Webb Dead: Obese SC Man Died After 8 Months In Home Recliner, Didn't Have Health Insurance
AP | JEFFREY COLLINS | Posted 11.19.2009 | Home
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COLUMBIA, S.C. — When an ambulance brought Daniel Webb home from the hospital after he hurt his knee in March, paramedics warned the then 550-po...
Eight Steps Obama Could Take to Save Food
Robyn O'Brien | Posted 11.20.2009 | Green
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Elizabeth Warren,
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In the face of current rates of cancer, diabetes, obesity, Alzheimer's and allergies, our families are no longer guaranteed a healthy livelihood. We need a new food system. It's our health on the line.
The Obama Health Initiative Should Start With The Right Example In The White House
Daniel Amen, M.D. | Posted 11.18.2009 | Living
There are a number of reports of unhealthy eating habits in the White House. You must be kidding! These are the folks who are trying to bring us health care.
Begin Health Care Before the Beginning
Heidi Murkoff | Posted 11.17.2009 | Living
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Want to close the healthy baby gap -- and lower costs -- even further (and who doesn't)? Let's start even sooner. Let's begin health care before the beginning.
America's Health Rankings 2009
americashealthrankings.org | Posted 11.17.2009 | Living
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America's Health Rankings: select a core or supplemental measure to view the result for all states for the 2009 Edition....
Put the Obesity Epidemic at the Top of the Agenda
Kenneth Thorpe | Posted 11.17.2009 | Politics
Obesity is historically linked to about one third of the increase in domestic health spending since the mid-1980s and is a key factor in the rise in private insurance premiums, Medicare and Medicaid spending.
'Socially' Acceptable Medicine
nytimes.com | Posted 11.15.2009 | Living
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While there have been plenty of studies of how pairs of people, especially spouses, affect each others' health, there have been far fewer studies of h...
Curing The Obesity Epidemic One Beatdown At A Time
Charlotte Hilton Andersen | Posted 11.13.2009 | Living
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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.
Point 4: Americans Are Obese And Inert -- Resulting In Huge Health Care Costs
George Halvorson | Posted 11.12.2009 | Living
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Health Care Reform,
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George Halvorson,
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We will spend about 17.6 percent of our GDP on health care expenses this year in America, primarily because we are not healthy in some very key areas.
The Minimum Wage Obesity Link
Grist | Posted 11.11.2009 | Green
In other words, the more you make, the more calories you're getting from fast food, which has in turn gotten cheaper thanks to a falling real minimum ...
Wii: An Indoor Fix To Childhood Obesity
Dr. Cara Natterson | Posted 11.09.2009 | Living
The fact that parents don't let their kids play outside has translated into an ever-growing epidemic of childhood obesity.
Coke Bribes Family Physicians Association for Cheap
Hemi Weingarten | Posted 11.06.2009 | Living
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Walter Willett,
Sugar,
Northern California,
Living News
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.
Why Doesn't Exercise Lead To Weight Loss?
nytimes.com | Gretchen Reynolds | Posted 11.06.2009 | Living
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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...
Don't Tax Soda, Tax Fat Soda Drinkers
Steven R. Gundry | Posted 11.02.2009 | Politics
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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.
Americans Get Failing Grade On Diabetes Awareness
forbes.com | Posted 11.02.2009 | Living
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Though someone is diagnosed with diabetes every 20 seconds, many Americans lack basic knowledge about the potentially life-threatening disease, accord...
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