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Obesity Crisis

Curing The Obesity Epidemic One Beatdown At A Time

Charlotte Hilton Andersen | Posted 11.13.2009 | Living

Read More: Woman Gaining Weight, Obesity Crisis, Women and Weight, Gaining Weight, Health, Robert Verdi, Food Obesity, Food, Fat, Fashion, Obesity, Marsha Coupe, Living News
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.

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

Charlotte Hilton Andersen | Posted 10.14.2009 | Media

Read More: Obesity Crisis, Tony Romo, Jessica Simpson, Football, Burger King, Baywatch, Fox News, Nicole-Eggert, Fat, Funny or Die, Obsesity, Bad Advertising, Media News
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?

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

Bill Maher | Posted 11.18.2009 | Comedy

Read More: Obesity Crisis, Teabaggers, Health Care Debate, Burger King, Health, Fast Food, Health Care Reform, Obesity, Health Care, Surgeon General, Comedy News
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.

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Put In Those Earbuds And Watch The Scale Numbers Go Down

Los Angeles Times | Jeannine Stein | Posted 11.17.2009 | Living

Read More: Obesity Crisis, Lifestyle, American Obesity, Obesity Research, Exercise, Obesity Epidemic, Health, Obesity in America, Weight Loss, Weight, Physical Exercise, Obesity, Podcast, Living News

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 ...

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How Heavy is Your Fitness Footprint?

Carole Carson | Posted 09.17.2009 | Living

Read More: Lifestyle, Longevity, Environmental Footprint, Fitness, Green, Green Living, Fitness Footprint, Carbon Footprint, Nutrition, Exercise, Childhood Nutrition, Physical Exercise, Outdoor Exercise, Childhood Obesity, Exercise Tips, Titanic, Dr. Andrew Weil, Healthcare Debate, Obesity Crisis, Obesity Epidemic, Food-Production, Healthcare Reform, Living News
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.

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Is The Recession Making Us Fatter?

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

Read More: Obesity Crisis, Economic Crisis, Exercise, Health, Fat, Obesity, Diet, Recession, Wellness, Living News

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

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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

Read More: Obesity Crisis, Climate Change, Heart Disease, Obesity Epidemic, Disease, Health, Onesity, Living News
George Spyros

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

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Obesity Crisis or Cognitive Crisis?

Alvaro Fernandez | Posted 09.24.2008 | Living

Read More: Healthy Eating, Obesity Crisis, Mental Health, Cognitive Therapy, Cognitive Science, Judith Beck, Health, Obesity Epidemic, Cognitive Skills, Brain Training, Health Care, Childhood Obesity, Living News
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.

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

Charlotte Hilton Andersen | Posted 08.12.2008 | Living

Read More: Mice, Aicar, Research, Health, Exercise, New Research, Fitness, Pills, Salk Group, Exercise in a Pill, Medicine, Studies, Gnc, Obesity Crisis, gw1516, Weight Loss, Living News
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...

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Trans Fat: Public Enemy #1

Joel Schwartzberg | Posted 08.05.2008 | Living

Read More: Obesity Crisis, Trans Fats, Trans Fat, Trans Fat Ban, Trans Fats Ban, Fries, California Trans Fats Ban, Fast Food Calories, No Trans Fat, Obesity, Restaurant Association, Food, Living News
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).

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Gasp: Jillian Michaels Hates Exercising

Charlotte Hilton Andersen | Posted 05.30.2008 | 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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