Obesity

Feeling Overweight? Congratulations!

Kiri Westby | Posted 10.17.2009 | Living

Read More: Fat, Self-Esteem, Nepal, Paradigm Shift, Dieting, Kiri Westby, Self-Confidence, Health, Weight Loss, Obesity, Overweight, Living News
Kiri Westby

Wouldn't it be great if we looked at each others' spare-tires as signs of abundance and joy and, along the same vein, recognize that our friends who appear too thin may actually need extra moral support?

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New York Health Department Rolls Out New Anti-Soda, Liquid Calories Ads (PHOTOS)

Huffington Post | David Weiner | Posted 10.17.2009 | New York

Read More: Soft Drinks, Advertising, Soda Calories, Soda, Slidepoll, New York Subway, Are You Pouring on the Pounds, Liquid Calories, Obesity, New York Health, Subway Ads, New York Health Department, New York News

New York wants to know if you're "pouring on the pounds." On Monday, the Health Department rolled out their new ad campaign targeting liquid calori...

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Want to Lose Weight? Lose the Debt

Charlotte Hilton Andersen | Posted 10.16.2009 | Business

Read More: Debt, War on Obesity, Diet Tips, Debt Diet, Fat, Obesity, Diet, How to Lose Weight, Business News
Charlotte Hilton Andersen

German researchers announced today that they found a significant link between people who are heavily in debt and people who are heavily overweight.

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Do You Want a Health Care System or a Healing System?

Deepak Chopra | Posted 10.16.2009 | Politics

Read More: Healthcare, Type 2 Diabetes, Activity, Exercise, Obesity Epidemic, Health, Health Care Reform, Diabetes, Obesity, Outdoor Exercise, Health Care, Overweight, Exercise Tips, Childhood Obesity, Politics News
Deepak Chopra

Health care fills the news every day, obscuring a simple fact: Your health depends far more on the internal healing system than the health care system.

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Muffintop: The New Feminine?

Susan Harrow | Posted 09.29.2009 | Living

Read More: Stress Eating, Muffintop, Living News, Over-Eating, Yo-Yo Dieting, Women and Body Image, Healthy Eating, Healthy Body, Mindful Eating, Eating Disorders, Health, Anorexia, Childhood Eating Problems, Diet Advice, Diet, Wellness, Bulimia, Muffin Top, Women, Women's Health, Weight Loss, Body Image, Eating Matters, Health Tips, Eating Mindfully, Unhealthy Diets, Lose Weight, Healthy Diet, Women's Issues, Obesity, Comfort Eating, National Eating Disorders Association, Weight Gain, Eating Disorder Prevention, Living News
Susan Harrow

A woman should have a little pooch. It's part of what makes us womanly.

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Video Gamers at the End of History

Jared Gardner | Posted 09.28.2009 | New York

Read More: Depression, Mental Health, Entertainment, Ghost Busters, Health, Psychology, Video Games, Obesity, Movies, New York News
Jared Gardner

The new narrative media of video games is making us psychologically damaged goods, whose best hope is that when we die alone, the neighbors will find our body before the dogs.

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Is Your Body Burning Up With Hidden Inflammation?

Mark Hyman, MD | Posted 09.27.2009 | Living

Read More: Mark Hyman MD, Ultrawellness, C-Reactive Protein, Inflammation, Immune System, Mark Hyman, Dementia, Depression, Hidden Inflammation, Fish Oil, Obesity, Functional Medicine, Vitamin D, Autism, Cancer, Heart Disease, Living News
Mark Hyman, MD

Finding out whether or not you are suffering from hidden inflammation is critical, because almost every modern disease is caused or affected by it. If your immune system and its ability to quell inflammation in your body are impaired, watch out. You are headed toward illness and premature aging.

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That Muffin Top Is Killing You

Dr. Johnny Benjamin | Posted 09.27.2009 | Living

Read More: Beauty, Obesity, Health, Living News
Dr. Johnny Benjamin

Obesity is as deadly as cancer and a whole lot more common.

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Hide Your Body, Hide Yourself

Susan Harrow | Posted 09.26.2009 | Living

Read More: Stress Eating, Living News, Over-Eating, Yo-Yo Dieting, Healthy Body, Eating Disorders, Anorexia, Childhood Eating Problems, Diet, Wellness, Bulimia, Eating Matters, Weight Loss, Health Tips, Body Image, Comfort Eating, Eating Disorder Prevention, Weight Gain, Lose Weight, Women and Body Image, Healthy Eating, Mindful Eating, Health, Diet Advice, Women, Women's Health, Eating Mindfully, Healthy Diet, Unhealthy Diets, Obesity, Women's Issues, National Eating Disorders Association, Living News
Susan Harrow

If you're always looking for ways to not be seen, how do you speak out? How do you move through the world if you have an invisible cloak that has no magical powers other than to keep you in your own shadow?

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The Skinny on our Growing Girth

Ingrid Newkirk | Posted 09.26.2009 | Green

Read More: Fat, People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, Fat Epidemic, Obesity, Peta, Fat People, Green News
Ingrid Newkirk

People want unhealthy foods almost as much as they want health care. America is getting fatter, largely because we don't realize that killing animals and squeezing the cheese out of them, perhaps especially the cheese, is slowly killing us too.

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Food Inc: Worth Seeing, Even More Worth Believing

Maria Rodale | Posted 09.26.2009 | Living

Read More: Industrial Food System, Diabetes, Obesity, Organic Food, Food Inc., Health, Processed Food, Gary Hirshberg, Avoiding Processed Food, Stonyfield Farm, Living News
Maria Rodale

Those of us who can afford to change need to help those who can't. There is really only one thing that matters; one thing that can truly change the world... Grow, buy, eat, and serve organic food.

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Obese People Have 'Severe Brain Degeneration'

LiveScience | Posted 09.25.2009 | Living

Read More: Obesity Brains, Obesity Brainpower, Obese People Brainpower, Obesity, Living News

A new study finds obese people have 8 percent less brain tissue than normal-weight individuals. Their brains look 16 years older than the brains of le...

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Empty Wallet, Full Belly? A Radical New Approach to Help Stress Eaters, Health Care and the Economy

Dr. Susan Albers | Posted 09.24.2009 | Living

Read More: Mindful Eating, Mindless Eating, Obesity, Dr. Albers, Health Care, Dieting, Economy, Living News
Dr. Susan Albers

Could mindful eating be the answer to reducing, even by a fraction, the health care costs?

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Let's Not Forget Our Youth In This Healthcare Debate

Tina Wells | Posted 09.20.2009 | Living

Read More: Teen, Youth, Obesity, Healthcare, Health Care Reform, Health Care, Living News
Tina Wells

There's a generation of teens and tweens who will enter their adult lives more physically ill-equipped than any generation before them, ever.

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Chemicals and the World's Expanding Waistline

Nena Baker | Posted 09.20.2009 | Living

Read More: Toxic Chemicals, Biomonitoring, Obesogens, Pfoa, Kid Safe Chemicals Act, Exercise, Bpa, Bisphenol A, Diet, Obesity, Phthalates, Living News
Nena Baker

A growing stack of laboratory research suggests that some of the chemicals used in everyday items predispose an individual to the battle of the bulge, despite normal diet and exercise.

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The White House, Food, and Children

Neal Barnard, M.D. | Posted 09.19.2009 | Living

Read More: Centers for Disease Control, Fast Food, Child Nutrition and WIC Reauthorization Act, Health, School Lunches, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Obama Dc Metro, Obesity, Health Care, Barack Obama, Child Obesity, Childhood Obesity, Living News
Neal Barnard, M.D.

If Congress is going to tackle health care, it needs to understand why so many children and adults are in such poor shape. First off, every child in every school deserves a healthful lunch every day.

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Meatless Monday: Woodstock Eating

Ellen Kanner | Posted 09.17.2009 | Green

Read More: Carbon, Stardust, Obesity, Woodstock, American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, Gazpacho, Recipes, Meatless Monday, Food, Green News
Ellen Kanner

We are stardust We are golden We are billion year-old carbon And we've got to get ourselves back to the garden Woodstock, Joni Mitchell What sounded...

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This Week In Green: Obamas Park Hopping, Meat-Eating Plants, Activists Run Amok And More (PHOTOS)

Katherine Goldstein | Posted 09.14.2009 | Green

Read More: Slidepoll, Carnivorous Plants, Chevy Volt, Obesity, This Week in Green, Beer, Fast Food, Green News
Katherine Goldstein

Even though it's the slow news month of August, we had plenty going on at HuffPost Green -- It's beer month, for Godsakes. Check out my favorite stories of the week and pick your fave.

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Should Fat People Pay More For Health Insurance?

nytimes.com | DAVID LEONHARDT | Posted 09.14.2009 | Business

Read More: Health Care Reform, Should Fat People Pay More, Cleveland Clinic, Obesity, Health Care, Business News

Two years ago, the Cleveland Clinic stopped hiring smokers. It was one part of a "wellness initiative" that has won the renowned hospital -- which Pre...

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Elgin Ranked Fattest City In Illinois

CBS 2 | Derrick Blakley | Posted 09.14.2009 | Chicago

Read More: Elgin Obesity, Elgin, Fattest City Illinois, Obesity, Health, Chicago News

In Elgin, civic leaders face a weighty problem: a survey that calls their town the fattest in Illinois....

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Food Stamp Recipients More Likely To Be Obese: New Study

scientificamerican.com | OrangeSherbert at 01:55 AM on 08/12/09 | Posted 09.12.2009 | Green

Read More: Food, Obesity, Food Stamps, Obesity Epidemic, Food Politics, Green News

One out of every nine people now receives food stamps in the U.S. And two-thirds of Americans are either overweight or obese. A new scientific study l...

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People Don't Know What Healthy Eating Is

Irene Rubaum-Keller | Posted 09.10.2009 | Living

Read More: Weight Control, Healthy Eating, Shopping, Cooking, Nutrition, Weight Loss, Diet, Obesity, Processed Foods, Calorie Restriction, Whole Foods, Whole-Foods, Fresh Food, Calorie Content, Calorie Counts, Living News
Irene Rubaum-Keller

You do have to buy fresh fruits and vegetables. You can't rely on processed foods to be healthy. You have to cook, a little and learn the calories in the food you eat.

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Losing Weight, Gaining Confidence At Camp

Dr. Jon LaPook | Posted 09.06.2009 | Living

Read More: Healthcorps, Summer Camp, Camp Shane, Obesity, Obesity Camps, Child Obesity, Living News
Dr. Jon LaPook

For this week's episode of CBS Doc Dot Com, I went to Camp Shane, listed on their Web site as "the original, longest running weight loss camp in the world" at 41 years and counting.

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Is The Boob Tube Harming Your Kid's Health?

TIME | Alice Park | Posted 09.05.2009 | Living

Read More: Television, Obesity, Tv, Blood Pressure, Children, Boob Tube, Children Watching Television, Living News

It's no secret that sedentary behavior contributes to obesity and chronically poor health. But not all sedentary behaviors are created equal, accordin...

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Marriage and Health: Et Tu, New York Times?

Bella DePaulo | Posted 09.04.2009 | Living

Read More: Depression, Singled Out, Divorce, Matrimania, Marriage Movement, Media, Obesity, Policy, Myths, Marriage, Singlism, Methodological Problems, Health, Single, Health Insurance, New York Times, Discrimination, Finances, Living News
Bella DePaulo

I am disappointed with the recent Times article that claims that married people tend to be healthier than single people. Here's why the piece is misleading.

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