Obesity Crisis

Curing The Obesity Epidemic One Beatdown At A Time

Charlotte Hilton Andersen | Posted 11.13.2009 | Living


Charlotte Hilton Andersen

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.

Fox Sports, Burger King Sell Hamburgers by Calling Jessica Simpson Fat

Charlotte Hilton Andersen | Posted 10.14.2009 | Media


Charlotte Hilton Andersen

Is Burger King, of all companies, allowed to make fun of anyone for being fat seeing as they're half the reason for the obesity crisis in this country?

New Rule: You Can't Complain About Health Care Reform If You're Not Willing to Reform Your Own Health

Bill Maher | Posted 09.19.2009 | Comedy


Bill Maher

Unlike most liberals, I'm glad all those teabaggers marched on Washington last week. Because judging from the photos, it's the first exercise they've gotten in years.

Put In Those Earbuds And Watch The Scale Numbers Go Down

Los Angeles Times | Jeannine Stein | Posted 09.17.2009 | Living


Successful weight loss may be just a podcast away. But what's on that podcast could make the difference between losing a modest amount of weight and ...

How Heavy is Your Fitness Footprint?

Carole Carson | Posted 09.17.2009 | Living


Carole Carson

We need to figure out how to reduce lifestyle-related diseases that trigger the need for expensive medical care in the first place. We need to lighten our fitness footprint.

Is The Recession Making Us Fatter?

blog.newsweek.com | Kate Dailey | Posted 07.03.2009 | Living


Could the plummeting economy be contributing to expanding waistlines? Something is: new data released exclusively to NEWSWEEK from Gallup-Healthways s...

Climate Change May Spread 'Deadly Dozen' Diseases, HHS Releases New Fitness Guidelines, Obese People's Behavior at Buffets VIDEO >>

George Spyros | Posted 11.14.2008 | Living


George Spyros

Insider Medicine reports: • From Barcelona » According to experts from the Wildlife Conservation Society climate change may allow the spread of d...

Obesity Crisis or Cognitive Crisis?

Alvaro Fernandez | Posted 09.24.2008 | Living


Alvaro Fernandez

The ability to self-regulate behaviors is not a genetic given, but learnable and trainable. If adults cannot regulate their own eating and exercise habits, half the battle is lost.

It's Like a Free Lunch -- But Without the Calories

Charlotte Hilton Andersen | Posted 08.12.2008 | Living


Charlotte Hilton Andersen

"It's a little bit like a free lunch without the calories," says Dr. Ronald Evans, lead researcher of the Salk group. It's a bird, it's a plane, it's... exercise in a pill! Wait -- we've been promised this before...

Trans Fat: Public Enemy #1

Joel Schwartzberg | Posted 08.05.2008 | Living


Joel Schwartzberg

Trans fats lurk in cookies, crackers, pizza dough, fried foods, donuts... hell, let's just say if it tastes great and you feel guilty eating it, it could have trans fat written all over it (in grease pen, natch).

Gasp: Jillian Michaels Hates Exercising

Charlotte Hilton Andersen | Posted 05.30.2008 | Living


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."