Obesity

Apple "Fries" Versus Frosting Shot: Which is the Better Invention?

Leslie Goldman | Posted 07.22.2008 | Business

Read More: Fruit, Delicious, Invention, Dessert, Frosting, Food, Apples, Fries, Obesity, Shot, Sugar, Business News
Leslie Goldman

Which is better? Taking my favorite dessert, distilling it down to the very essence of its being and serving it in a shot glass, or a mass-produced fast food snack that gets children psyched about eating fruit?

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Most Obese States: The South Wins Again!

AP | MIKE STOBBE | Posted 07.17.2008 | Living

Read More: Most Obese States, Obesity, Most Obese States 2008, Cdc, Centers for Disease Control, Living News

ATLANTA — The South tips the scales again as the nation's fattest region, according to a new government survey. More than 30 percent of adults ...

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The Ban on Trans Fats in Restaurants: How About a Ban on SuperSize Portions?

Donna Fish | Posted 06.21.2008 | Living

Read More: Weight Loss, Obesity, Ban of Transfats, Supersized Portions, Restaurants, Living News
Donna Fish

Does it take a degree in nutrition, or advanced food additives, for us to finally realize that the amount of food we eat is out of the ordinary?

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Some Kill with a Six Gun, Others with a Frying Pan: We Must Take Better Care of Ourselves

Harold Pollack | Posted 06.19.2008 | Living

Read More: Public Health, Cheesesteak, Obesity, Tim Russert, Health, Living News
Harold Pollack

What's happening to our kids mostly reflects what is happening among adults. We are becoming too fat and too sedentary, with large and growing gaps along lines of race, income, and schooling.

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

Charlotte Hilton Andersen | Posted 06.16.2008 | Living

Read More: Ninja Warrior, David Spade, Tommy Boy, Metabo, Obese, Metabolic Syndrome, Public Health, New York Times, Weight Loss, Obesity, Japan Waistlines, Chris Farley, Harajuku, Living News
Charlotte Hilton Andersen

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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Would You Vote For Obama If He Was Obese?

Irene Rubaum-Keller | Posted 06.10.2008 | Living

Read More: Fitness, Obama, Obesity, Weight Gain, Voting, Living News
Irene Rubaum-Keller

I'm extremely curious about what you think about this issue. I was trying to think back to a time when we had an obese president. I couldn't.

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Attention Jet Setters Who Snore

Dr. Michael J. Breus | Posted 06.02.2008 | Living

Read More: Air Travel, Obesity, Obstructive Sleep Apnea, Snoring, Living News
Dr. Michael J. Breus

Air travel just got more dangerous. A new report just came out indicating that flying strains the hearts of people with sleep apnea.

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Sorry, but We Really Are, Just Too Fat

Donna Fish | Posted 06.02.2008 | Home

Read More: Childhood Obesity, New York Times, Childhood Nutrition, Obesity, Home News
Donna Fish

Today's article in the New York Times, speaks of the dangers we are facing in terms of a national health crisis for our children, if we do not reverse...

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Obesity Battle Among US Children May Have Peaked

AP | LINDSEY TANNER | Posted 05.28.2008 | Living

Read More: Children and Obesity, Obesity, Living News

CHICAGO — The percentage of American children who are overweight or obese appears to have leveled off after a 25-year increase, according to new...

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Childhood Obesity Rate Stabilizes For The First Time In 25 Years, Report Says

AP | LINDSEY TANNER | Posted 05.27.2008 | Living

Read More: Obese Children, Obesity, Obesity Rate, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Living News

CHICAGO — The percentage of American children who are overweight or obese appears to have leveled off after a 25-year increase, according to new...

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Starvation & Obesity: Two Sides of the Same High Fructose Corn Syrup Coin

Max Keiser | Posted 05.26.2008 | Business

Read More: High Fructose Corn Syrup, McDonald's, Starvation, Obesity, Bearstearns, Business News
Max Keiser

The global matrix of food price manipulation and subsidies has produced two casualties; a billion starving people and a billion people eating themselves to death in countries like America.

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Lose Weight, Sleep Tight

Dr. Michael J. Breus | Posted 05.22.2008 | Living

Read More: Weight Loss, Obesity, Sleep Deprivation, Obstructive Sleep Apnea, Health, Sleep, Diets, Living News
Dr. Michael J. Breus

Waist size affects sleep quality. But "short sleepers" are also more likely to be obese. So we should focus on the things we can do to reach our ideal weight and maintain it.

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Gasp: Jillian Michaels Hates Exercising

Charlotte Hilton Andersen | Posted 05.22.2008 | Living

Read More: Cage Fighting, Dodgeball, Dodgeball Movie, Obesity Crisis, Self Magazine, Fitness in the Park, Exercise, Biggest Loser, Fitness, Obesity, Jillian Michaels, Self Challenge, Personal Trainers, Julianne Moore, Living News
Charlotte Hilton Andersen

This perception of exercise as an odious thing that one must do if one wants to be a responsible member of society is one of the main factors in our "obesity crisis."

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Post Traumatic Oil Price Disorder

Max Keiser | Posted 05.18.2008 | Business

Read More: Peak Oil, Krugman, Oil, Obesity, Ptsd, Business News
Max Keiser

What happens when too many dollars chase too few barrels of oil? Well, believe it or not, the price of oil goes up.

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Is Obesity Bad For The Environment?

abcnews.com | Dan Childs | Posted 05.16.2008 | Living

Read More: Obesity Environment, Obesity Global Warming, Obesity, Global Warming, Living News

Obesity experts overwhelmingly condemned a letter in the medical journal the Lancet Thursday that suggested growing rates of obesity pose a threat to ...

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Who'll Cure Our Kids, Big Pharma Or Small Farmers?

Kerry Trueman | Posted 05.15.2008 | Living

Read More: Sustainable Agriculture, School Food, Baum Forum, Diabetes, Obesity, Prescription Drugs, Hilary Baum, Living News
Kerry Trueman

Our culture treats our children like cattle, fattening them up on corn and soy by-products. If we love our kids so much, why have we let Big Food turn them into cash cows for Big Pharma?

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India Blames Fat Americans For High Food Costs

New York Times | Heather Simmons | Posted 05.14.2008 | Business

Read More: Food Crisis, India, Food Prices, Obesity, Business News

Instead of blaming India and other developing nations for the rise in food prices, Americans should rethink their energy policy -- and go on a diet. ...

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New Jersey Thinks You Look Fat In Those Pants

Charlotte Hilton Andersen | Posted 05.12.2008 | Living

Read More: Taxes, Britney Spears, Entertainment, New Jersey, Health, Fast Food, Tax Law, Obesity, New Tax, Fast Food Tax, New York, Living News
Charlotte Hilton Andersen

Because obesity and taxes are two of the best subjects to get people all riled up, New Jersey decided to propose a new tax on fast food.

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Chunky Monkeys as Metaphor for Life

Leslie Goldman | Posted 05.08.2008 | Living

Read More: Cats, Feeding, Zoo, Eating Disorders, Obesity, Weight, Animals, Monkeys, Dogs, Pugs, Animal Pics, Fat Animals, Fat Monkeys, Living News
Leslie Goldman

I'm saddened to say that chubby puppies are no longer alone when it comes to the scourge of animal kingdom obesity.

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Can City Farmers Stand in for Supermarkets?

Tracie McMillan | Posted 05.08.2008 | Living

Read More: Making Cities Sustainable, Sustainable Food, Food Access, Obesity Epidemic, New York City, Eating Locally, Food, Urban Agriculture, Obesity, Supermarket Chains, Locavore, Local Farmers, Michael Pollan, Living News
Tracie McMillan

While urban farmers often share the ethos championed by Michael Pollan, they're getting their hands dirty for a more pragmatic reason: They can't find quality, fresh food close to home.

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Growing Up Green! - Fulfilling a Mission and Empowering Parents for a Healthier Next Generation

Deirdre Imus | Posted 04.22.2008 | Living

Read More: Healthy Toys, Pesticides, Depression, Deirdre Imus Environmental Center for Pediatric Oncology, Adhd, Learning Disorders, Toxic, Baby, Imus Cattle Ranch for Kids With Cancer, Healthy Kids, Heart Condition, Bipolar, Growing Up Green, Imus Ranch, Obesity, Vaccines, Toxins, Green This, Hackensack University Medical Center, Child, Severe Allergies, Asthma, Ocd, Pdd, Living News
Deirdre Imus

If most childhood diseases are preventable...why are so many on the rise? Because toxic chemicals are everywhere and not enough attention is being given to prevention.

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Does Obesity = Suicide?

Leslie Goldman | Posted 04.15.2008 | Living

Read More: Ads, Suicide, Obesity, Overweight, Obese, Advertising, Body Image, Living News
Leslie Goldman

Is it right to equate being obese with killing oneself? Is this a clever ad campaign or an offensive slight to those struggling with depression/suicidal thoughts and their loved ones?

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Your Baby Could Become Obese If...

Dr. Michael J. Breus | Posted 04.09.2008 | Living

Read More: Childrens Health, Obesity, Sleep Deprivation, Health, Childhood Obesity, Living News
Dr. Michael J. Breus

Babies and toddlers who sleep fewer than 12 hours a day have a doubled risk of being obese at age 3 than the other children.

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It's Not Weightism. You're Just Obese.

John Ridley | Posted 04.06.2008 | Living

Read More: Americans With Disabilities Act, Video, Plus Size, Obese, Body Image, Weightism, Plus Sized, Weight Loss, Obesity, Living News
John Ridley

Why in the world would we choose to mollycoddle with laws which encourage the obese to continue to both live an unhealthy lifestyle and stick us with the bill?

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How Sitting Next To A Fat Person Can Make You Fat

The Weighting Game | Leslie Goldman | Posted 03.13.2008 | Living

Read More: Fat, Obesity Research, Obesity, Obesity Epidemic, Living News

"I've been on buses that filled to an inhumane capacity, with commuters packed in like desperate refugees or sows to the slaughter. Still, the seat be...

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