Obesity

Health Care Savings May Start In Employee Diets

nytimes.com | Melanie Warner | Posted 11.30.2009 | Living

Read More: Healthy Food, Diets, Cafeteria, Obesity, Eating Healthy, Wellness, Safeway, Stroke, Dieting, Health, Health Care Reform, Full Yield, Food, Medicare, Health Care, Heart Attack, Living News

A company called Full Yield is undertaking its own version of health care reform by using a low-tech premise: Eat healthier food and you'll become hea...

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The World's 10 Fattest Countries

GlobalPost | Laurie Cunningham | Posted 11.26.2009 | World

Read More: Globesity, Fattest Countries, Obesity, Fat Countries, World News

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

Read More: Childhood-Hunger, Hunger, Obesity, Thanksgiving, Childhood Obesity, Thanksgiving Commentary, Living News
Mark Shriver

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.

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Weighing College Students: Discrimination Or Life Saving?

Dr. Susan Albers | Posted 11.25.2009 | Living

Read More: Dr. Susan Albers, Lincoln University, Mindful Eating, Obesity, Diet, Eating Mindfully, Health, Living News
Dr. Susan Albers

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.

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Too Fat To Graduate? Lincoln University's BMI Requirement Causes Uproar

Posted 11.24.2009 | Living

Read More: Lincoln University Fat, Lincoln University, Lincoln University Bmi, Obesity, Obesity Epidemic, Lincoln University Too Fat to Graduate, Living News

Lincoln University students now have one more hurdle to pass before they graduate: losing weight. According to a recently instituted requirement, uni...

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What Ails Black Women, Part 2: Health and Life

Philip N. Cohen | Posted 11.27.2009 | Living

Read More: Black Women, Women, Michelle Obama, Smoking, Washington DC, Obesity, African Americans, Infant Mortality, Inequality, Breast Cancer, Health, Living News
Philip N. Cohen

Even controlling for income, education, obesity, smoking, and some diseases, Black infant mortality is significantly higher. This presumably indicates worse healthcare.

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Is Binge Eating A Psychiatric Disorder?

latimes.com | Melissa Healy | Posted 11.23.2009 | Living

Read More: Psychiatric Disorder, Self Control, Anorexia, Health, Anorexia Nervosa, Willpower, Eating, Consumption, Obesity, Overeating, Bulimia, Wellness, Binge Eating, Living News

Psychiatrists must decide whether "binge eating disorder" stands alongside anorexia nervosa and bulimia nervosa as a separate psychiatric condition --...

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How To Avoid Holiday Overeating

latimes.com | Rosie Mestel and Ben Harder | Posted 11.23.2009 | Living

Read More: Holidays, Turkey, Thanksgiving, Gravy, Diet, Alcohol Consumption, Obesity, Feasting, Overeating, Wellness, Overweight, Holiday, Calories, Health, Willpower, Nutrition, Alcohol, Holiday News, Living News

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...

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What You Don't Know About Osteoporosis -- Part 3

Joseph Sciabbarrasi, M.D. | Posted 11.20.2009 | Living

Read More: Osteoporisis, Bones, Women's Health, Health, Bone Health, Vitamin D, Calcium, Cancer, Obesity, Wellness, Living News
Joseph Sciabbarrasi, M.D.

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.

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What Did You Eat Today?

Irene Rubaum-Keller | Posted 11.20.2009 | Living

Read More: Weight Control, Diet Tips, Dieting, Weight Gain, Food, Weight Loss Tips, Fat, Weight Loss, Eating, Obesity, Diet, Health, Living News
Irene Rubaum-Keller

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.

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Death By Movie Popcorn? Possibly

Ashley Koff | Posted 11.20.2009 | Living

Read More: Obesity, Movies, Nutrition, Health, Living News
Ashley Koff

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.

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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

Read More: No Health Insurance, Ada Webb, Greenwood County, Daniel Webb, Home Recliner, Obese Man, Obesity, Home News

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...

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Eight Steps Obama Could Take to Save Food

Robyn O'Brien | Posted 11.20.2009 | Green

Read More: Siddi, Elizabeth Warren, Food, Diabetes, Cancer, Obesity, Health Care, Susbidies, Barack Obama, Allergies, Green News
Robyn O'Brien

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.

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The Obama Health Initiative Should Start With The Right Example In The White House

Daniel Amen, M.D. | Posted 11.18.2009 | Living

Read More: Health Care Reform, Obesity, Health Care, Nutrition, Living News
Daniel Amen, M.D.

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.

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Begin Health Care Before the Beginning

Heidi Murkoff | Posted 11.17.2009 | Living

Read More: Preventative Healthcare, Health Care Reform, Pregnancy, Diabetes, Obesity, Health Care, Living News
Heidi Murkoff

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.

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America's Health Rankings 2009

americashealthrankings.org | Posted 11.17.2009 | Living

Read More: Therapy, Health Rankings, Smoking, America's Health Rankings, Health, Well-Being, Treatment, E-Rankings, Cancer, Heart Disease, Obesity, Wellness, Living News

America's Health Rankings: select a core or supplemental measure to view the result for all states for the 2009 Edition....

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Put the Obesity Epidemic at the Top of the Agenda

Kenneth Thorpe | Posted 11.17.2009 | Politics

Read More: Health Care Reform, Obesity, Chronic Disease, Health Care, Politics News
Kenneth Thorpe

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.

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'Socially' Acceptable Medicine

nytimes.com | Posted 11.15.2009 | Living

Read More: Friendship, Friends, Social Networks, Social Networking, Health, Siblings, Obesity, Health Care, Happiness, Living News

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...

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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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Point 4: Americans Are Obese And Inert -- Resulting In Huge Health Care Costs

George Halvorson | Posted 11.12.2009 | Living

Read More: Dementia, Personal Health, Universal Healthcare, Weight, Kaiser Permanente, Obesity, Obama Health Care, Childhood Obesity, Overweight, Weight Control, Health, Obesity Epidemic, Health Care Reform, Universal Health Care, Alzheimer's, Causes of Dementia, Diabetes, Health Care, George Halvorson, Living News
George Halvorson

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.

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The Minimum Wage Obesity Link

Grist | Posted 11.11.2009 | Green

Read More: McDonald's, Minimum Wage, Obesity, Poverty and Obesity, Food Politics, Green News

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 ...

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Wii: An Indoor Fix To Childhood Obesity

Dr. Cara Natterson | Posted 11.09.2009 | Living

Read More: Obesity, Video Games, Health, Exercise, Childhood Obesity, Living News
Dr. Cara Natterson

The fact that parents don't let their kids play outside has translated into an ever-growing epidemic of childhood obesity.

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Coke Bribes Family Physicians Association for Cheap

Hemi Weingarten | Posted 11.06.2009 | Living

Read More: Douglas Henley, Contra Costa, Coca-Cola, Bribe, American Dietetic Association, Coke, American Academy of Family Physicians, Physician, Aafp, Obesity, Walter Willett, Sugar, Northern California, Living News
Hemi Weingarten

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.

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Why Doesn't Exercise Lead To Weight Loss?

nytimes.com | Gretchen Reynolds | Posted 11.06.2009 | Living

Read More: Healthy Eating, Obese, Dieting, Health, Exercise, Healthy Diet, Metabolism, Weight Loss, Diet, Obesity, Overweight, Living News

Few people, an overwhelming body of research shows, achieve significant weight loss with exercise alone, not without changing their eating habits. A n...

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Don't Tax Soda, Tax Fat Soda Drinkers

Steven R. Gundry | Posted 11.02.2009 | Politics

Read More: American Health, American Obesity, Soda, Health Care Reform, Soda Tax, Obesity, Health Care, Beverage Industry, Sugar, Politics News
Steven R. Gundry

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.

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