No one's blaming these compounds for the country's entire obesity epidemic fast food and lack of exercise are not off the hook but emerging research p...
Joel Epstein | Posted 11.25.2009 | Living
With the link between soda and obesity now conclusive, consider the damage being done to our children. There should be a fee on soda and other sweetened beverages.
Christina Pirello | Posted 11.23.2009 | Living
For the life of me, I can't figure out why every single American isn't eating a healthy diet. I can't believe that there's one person who wants to be fat, at risk of disease, lethargic, foggy and achy.
Darya Pino | Posted 11.20.2009 | Living
To break the cycle of conditioned hypereating we must redirect our automatic response to the kinds of foods that cause us to overeat.
Bill Maher | Posted 11.18.2009 | Comedy
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.
Dr. Erika Schwartz | Posted 11.17.2009 | Living
We are suffering ever-growing rates of obesity and worsening health caused by weight problems. Stress is a leading cause of this modern-day epidemic.
Los Angeles Times | Jeannine Stein | Posted 11.17.2009 | 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 ...
forbes.com | Thomas F. Cooley | Posted 11.17.2009 | Living
Children with emotional difficulties have a greater risk of becoming obese in adulthood, new research has found....
Ian Gurvitz | Posted 11.15.2009 | Comedy
The protesters demanded their right as hard-working Americans to be dropped by their insurance companies when they get sick, and gouged by pharmaceutical companies for the Diabetes drugs they'll soon need.
Steven Weber | Posted 11.14.2009 | Politics
It's not that people need to take back government. It's that they first have to take back themselves.
John Ridley | Posted 11.11.2009 | Politics
With all the talk -- and screaming and gun-toting -- that's going on around the health care reform debate, maybe the answer is orbiting our ever-expanding guts.
Dr. Michael J. Breus | Posted 11.11.2009 | Living
Two fascinating studies that just came out prove a link between sleep deprivation and diabetes.
Janice Taylor | Posted 11.09.2009 | Living
"The food industry has huge culpability as to why we in America find ourselves where we are," Dr. Ian said. "The food industry is not a non-profit agency. They are in it for the profits."
Ramon Resa, MD | Posted 11.08.2009 | Living
I advocate for our kids to become more balanced. Stressful organized sports take away from family time, and the experience no longer remains a simple and pleasurable experience.
Dr. Jon LaPook | Posted 10.19.2009 | Living
In a recent study, more than half the women trying to lose weight were not overweight. Why do people who are not overweight think they need to lose weight?
Helene Pavlov | Posted 10.18.2009 | Living
Why, in a time when all we hear is news about the trouble with obesity, are people NOT eating healthy?
Janice Taylor | Posted 10.18.2009 | New York
According to the American Heart Association, Americans now consume on average 22 teaspoons of sugar per day, or 355 calories.
Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand | Posted 10.17.2009 | New York
Nearly 17% of all children are obese. This is much more than an individual or family problem. It's a pressing national crisis.
Kiri Westby | Posted 10.17.2009 | Living
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?
Huffington Post | David Weiner | Posted 10.17.2009 | New York
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...
Charlotte Hilton Andersen | Posted 10.16.2009 | Business
German researchers announced today that they found a significant link between people who are heavily in debt and people who are heavily overweight.
Deepak Chopra | Posted 10.16.2009 | Politics
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.
Susan Harrow | Posted 09.29.2009 | Living
A woman should have a little pooch. It's part of what makes us womanly.
Jared Gardner | Posted 09.28.2009 | New York
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.
Mark Hyman, MD | Posted 09.27.2009 | Living
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.
planetgreen.discovery.com | Posted 11.29.2009 | Green