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Startling New Stats About Homelessness And Obesity

Joel John Roberts | Posted 05.24.2012

Read More: Fat, Whole Foods, Richard Simmons, Hunger, Poverty, Obesity, Homelessness, Third World America, Overweight, Impact News

How can people struggling with an impoverished life on the streets, not even knowing when or where their next meal will be, also battle with obesity? How can hungry homeless people be fat?

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Tipping the Scales for Equal Access: The Fight to Bring the Latino Community Out of an Obesity Crisis

Sylvia E. Meléndez-Klinger | Posted 05.14.2012

Read More: Hbo, Calorie Consumption, Weight of a Nation, Obesity, Overweight, Latino Obesity, Latino Voices News

And when HBO airs its documentary this week, it will be clear that obesity does not only weigh on the hearts of mainstream America - but it also tips the scales as the Latino community's most daunting health problem.

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Managers Who Think Highly Of Themselves Likely To Discriminate: Study

The Huffington Post | Emily Cohn | Posted 05.02.2012

Read More: Workplace Productivity, Discrimination Against Obese People, Workplace Discrimination, Obesity, Health Care, Obese Women, Overweight, Money News

Who's most likely to discriminate against obese workers? Managers who think they're good looking. That's one finding of a new study in the Internat...

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Becoming A Regular Size

Will Holt | Posted 05.03.2012

Read More: Buried Life, Healthy, Overweight, Books News

I have been overweight all my life. I started getting larger when I was in kindergarten. I am about to turn 32 years old and would like to have the experience of being a regular, healthy sized person.

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Consider Isolation Therapy for Type 2 Diabetes: It's Not as Crazy as It Sounds

Milt Bedingfield | Posted 04.20.2012

Read More: Isolation Therapy, Health and Wellness, Type 2 Diabetes, Diabetes Medications, Modern Way of Eating, Overweight, Weight Management Issues, Healthy Living News

What do you think would happen if someone that is overweight with Type 2 diabetes that has a difficult time making wise food choices and getting exercise, is taken to a relatively secluded island for two months in the summer where they have to hunt, pick or pull from a tree their food.

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Is Eating Fat Chickens Making Us Fat?

Food Republic | Posted 04.04.2012

Read More: Sustainable Chicken, Obesity Epidemic, Chicken, Overweight, Sustainable, Food, Organic, Local Food, Organic Chicken, Overweight Chicken, Health, Fat Chicken, Obesity, Food News

Is it possible that the white lean meat we've been told is better for us than heart attack-inducing red meat is actually full of fat? According to some -- yes.

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How Your Weight Can Affect Your Split

Henry Gornbein | Posted 05.21.2012

Read More: Overweight Husband, Overweight Children, Overweight Wife, Divorce, Health Issues Caused by Weight, Overweight, Divorce News

Weight is often an issue in divorce. I have had clients who have come to me seeking a divorce from a spouse because the husband or wife was vastly overweight and any physical attraction was long gone. Is that a basis for divorce?

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The Fight Against Obesity Starts With Respect!

Chris Reid | Posted 05.16.2012

Read More: Judging, Empathy, Shaming, Obese, Fat Shaming, Mindfulness, Respect, Obesity, Compassion, Overweight, Healthy Living News

Obese people are bullied and often treated with disrespect, even by people who are otherwise kind, considerate individuals. People like us.

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Is Fat-Bashing Ever Okay?

Kristen Houghton | Posted 05.12.2012

Read More: Women, Prejudices, PETA Ads, Mike-and-Molly, Fat, Fat-Bashing, Overweight Women, Fat-Jokes, Overweight, Women-Authentic-Beauty, Women News

Fat jokes, demeaning comments delivered in a sarcastic tone, are a staple on comedies but despite the tired laugh-track, they're not at all funny.

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Better Nutrition, Healthier Communities

Vicki B. Escarra | Posted 05.12.2012

Read More: Feeding America, Diabetes, Hunger, Healthy, Low-Income, Public Health, Garden, Food, Obesity, Overweight, Health, Obesity Epidemic, Nutrition, National Nutrition Month, Impact News

How can someone who faces hunger also be obese? The fact is that the two can and do co-exist.

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Obese American Children Outgrowing School Desks

The Huffington Post | Laura Hibbard | Posted 02.17.2012

Read More: Child Obesity in Schools, American Obesity, Overweight Children, Children Obesity, School Nutrition, Student Health, Obesity, Child Obesity, Overweight, Video, Education News

Schools across the country are pioneering big changes in the classroom -- to accomodate the 17 percent of U.S. children who are overweight or obese, a...

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Chew Your Way to Losing More Body Fat

Georgianna Donadio, MSc, Ph.D., D.C. | Posted 04.17.2012

Read More: Eat, Energy, Meal, Stomach, Body, Excess, Metabolic, Fat, Digestion, Weight, Loss, Obesity, Hormones, Overweight, Nutrition, Food, Metabolism, Eating, Lose, New Research, Weight Loss, Healthy Living News

Three research studies from the last few years have explored an interesting tool that could potentially be used to combat the obesity epidemic in our culture.

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A Hormonal Mess: How An Everyday Chemical May Be Making Us Fat And Sick

HuffingtonPost.com | Lynne Peeples | Posted 02.16.2012

Read More: Bpa, Endocrine Disruptors, Obesogens, Type 2 Diabetes, Insulin Resistance, Bpa Baby Bottles, Diabetes, Bpa Canned Food, Obesity, Hormones, Phthalates, Overweight, Childhood Obesity, Bpa Water Bottles, Insulin, Green News

The modern lifestyle of super-sized french fries and couch potatoes often takes the blame for the rising rates of obesity and diabetes in the U.S. -- ...

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My Biggest Fear: Becoming Obese... Again

Will Aguila, M.D. | Posted 04.11.2012

Read More: Weight Loss, Self-Esteem, Obesity, Motivation, Exercise, Weight Gain, Self-Help, Overweight and Obesity, Overweight People. Being Overweight, Overweight, Healthy Living News

Those of us who have overcome our battle with weight always tuck away in the back of our minds the fear that it can happen again. It keeps us in check, but it is ever-present.

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New Study Suggests Surprising Cause Of Obesity

Posted 02.03.2012

Read More: Mice, Video, Infectious Diseases, Obesity Epidemic, Yale University, Fat, Obesity, Bacteria, Germs, Overweight, Rodents, Science News

By: Rachael Rettner, MyHealthNewsDaily Staff Writer Published: 02/03/2012 09:08 AM EST on MyHealthNewsDaily We've heard obesity can be "sp...

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How Personality Can Influence Your Weight

Judith S. Beck, Ph.D. | Posted 02.20.2012

Read More: Personality, Obesity, Cognitive Behavior Therapy, Overweight, Body Weight, Personal Health, Personality and Weight, Obese, Personality and Obesity, Emotional Intelligence, Obesity and Overweight, Healthy Living News

What's your personality? Are you self-disciplined and orderly, or are you more on the indulgent and impulsive side? Recent research from the National Institute of Health suggests that these personality traits could very well help determine your weight.

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Why Those Extra 10 Pounds May Be Good For You

www.aarp.org | Posted 11.22.2011

Read More: American Obesity, Avoiding Holiday Weight Gain, Osteoporosis, Health, Holiday Weight Gain, Moderation, Fitness, Health Post50, Obesity, Body Mass Index, Overweight, Fifty News

The day after Thanksgiving, a collective groan goes up when millions of Americans step on the bathroom scale. Most of us who won't see 40 again are fa...

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Expanding Americans

Grace Nasri | Posted 01.03.2012

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The good news: America is no longer the fattest country in the world. The bad news: Americans are fat, and they're getting fatter.

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How To Talk To Your Doctor About Your Weight

Posted 12.23.2011

Read More: Weight Loss, Healthy Living, Talk Doctor About Weight, Healthy Living Body, Weight, How to Talk to Your Doctor About Weight, Overweight, Healthy Living News

By Rachel Grumman Bender for YouBeauty Talking about weight issues and eating problems can be a little uncomfortable. But having a conversation wit...

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From Overweight to Obese

Bruce A. Barron | Posted 12.14.2011

Read More: Stroke, Cardiovascular Disease, Diabetes, Adult Obesity, Weight Loss Diets, Childhood Obesity, Overweight, Healthy Living Body, Diet and Nutrition, Weight Loss, Healthy Living News

Based on current trends, unless there are major changes in our eating habits and level of physical activities, half of the adults in the United States will be obese by the year 2030.

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Your No. 1 Financial Liability? Numbers On The Scale

Flourish Over 50 | Barbara Grufferman | Posted 11.29.2011

Read More: Financial Liability, Columbia University, Financial Risk, Health Post50, Financial Crisis, Overweight Americans, Weight Loss, Obesity, Weight, Overweight, Fifty News

What is the #1 financial risk as we age? The answer, according to a new study, is clear: obesity. According to a report by Claire Wang -- researc...

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Whose Weight Is It Anyway?

Kristen Houghton | Posted 11.19.2011

Read More: Normal Weigh, Weight, Dieting, Dukan Diet, Brooke Elliott, Overweight, Women News

It was true; I had been dieting throughout all my teen and adult life. My weight, it seemed, was never what other people thought it should be.

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Arrest the Fat Police

Daylle Deanna Schwartz | Posted 09.25.2011

Read More: Fat Police, Fat Issues, Overweight, Women News

I rarely meet someone who is completely happy with his or her body. With the media setting higher and higher standards for perfection as celebrities g...

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Kids Who Eat More Candy Weigh Less -- Or Do They?

Bonnie Modugno, M.S., R.D. | Posted 09.18.2011

Read More: Candy, Usda, National Confectioners Association, Environment, Metabolic Obesity, Health at Every Size, Diabetes, Cardiovascular Disease, Hypertension, Child Obesity, Overweight, Candy BMI, Healthy Living Body, Nutrition, Healthy Living News

A USDA funded study with partial support by the National Confectioners Association recently published remarkable findings. Kids who eat candy are thinner and have lower BMIs than kids who don't.

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Better Body Image Aids In Weight Loss, Says New Study

Posted 09.17.2011

Read More: Improved Body Image, Body Image, Girls and Body Image, Female Obesity, Weight Loss, Technical University of Lisbon and Bangor University Body Image Study, Improved Eating Habits, Obesity, Girls and Weight Loss, Overweight, Women News

It's no secret that many women are unsatisfied with the way their bodies look, but new research says that developing a better body image can help you ...

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