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The 10 Fattest Countries In The World
The number of overweight and obese people has skyrocketed over the past thirty years, jumping from 857 million in 1980 to more than 2 billion in 2013. That's approximately a third of the world's...
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Science Finds Key Brain Mechanism Behind Our Addiction To Sugar
British scientists have found a brain mechanism they think may drive our desire for glucose-rich food and say the discovery could one day lead to better treatments for obesity.In experiments using...
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85% of LL Bean Call Center Workers Are Overweight
Obesity is such a problem in America that some companies are now getting more involved in their employees' health and encouraging them to lose weight.When L.L. Bean realized that 85% of the employees...
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The 10 Fattest Countries In The World
The number of overweight and obese people has skyrocketed over the past thirty years, jumping from 857 million in 1980 to more than 2 billion in 2013. That's approximately a third of the world's...
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15 Terrible Things That Happen When You Eat Too Much Sugar
How much sugar is too much sugar?Even one pack of M&M's may be more than you should eat in a day, newly drafted guidelines from the World Health Organization suggest.The WHO used to recommend that...
View ArticleThe Simple Science Behind Weight Loss
There are thousands of diet plans out there with lots of different approaches to achieving the same goal: trim the fat.Are there universal truths about weight loss that we can all learn? The answer is...
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Here's A Psychological Explanation For Why The Average American Eats 2,000...
The average American eats a ton of food each year. Literally — it's a shade under 2,000 pounds.Social scientists have provided many explanations for all that eating, including our increasing dependency...
View ArticleTurns Out Exercise Might Not Be A Cure For Weight Gain
According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, nearly 35% of Americans are obese. That's 78.6 million people.We talked to Gary Taubes, an expert on obesity who wrote the best-selling book...
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Dirty Drinking Water Is Driving Obesity And Diabetes In California
A lack of access to clean drinking water in rural California farm communities is leading residents to turn to sugary drinks and soda, contributing to obesity and Type 2 diabetes, researchers said in a...
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The Most Obese Countries In The World
Obesity has been steadily increasing in countries all over the world — and as of 2014, more than half a billion adults worldwide are classified as obese. That is more than double what the rate of...
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This miracle berry could replace sugar
Of all our senses, taste is the one that people associate most strongly with expectations of pleasure.But indulgence comes at a cost. Almost 45 percent of the American population will be clinically...
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Here's how school lunch in the US stacks up against what's served in the rest...
It's estimated that 30.6 million students in the US get their lunches in the school cafeteria versus bringing it from home. And that's a problem: It's been found that students who eat school lunches...
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We should never have told people to stop eating fat
The place of fat, which spent decades being maligned for its caloric density and heart-clogging effects, is being reconsidered — and a new study argues that there wasn't enough evidence to curb our...
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New research on ‘fat genes’ may classify some obesity cases as a disability
The research is expected to fuel moves to categorise obesity as a disability and could change thinking in the UK's National Health Service about how the condition is treated.Fat genes are to blame for...
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Why we’re losing the fight against obesity
What causes obesity? Advertising junk food to kids? Cheap soda? The demise of physical education in public schools? Too much screen time? Or maybe, it’s one of the little boxes in this Obesity System...
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Obesity, not alcohol, could become the number one cause of liver problems
Today, up to 25 percent of people in the U.S. are living with non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD), according to the American Liver Foundation.NAFLD is a medical condition associated with obesity...
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We are approaching the obesity epidemic in the completely wrong way
With obesity rates continuing to rise around the globe and the majority of Americans now obese or overweight, it's easy to see that we are losing the battle of the bulge.Aside from isolated areas of...
View ArticleThis one ingredient is making a lot of Americans fat
We talked to Gary Taubes, an expert on obesity and author of the book "Why We Get Fat." He already explained that exercise definitely isn't the only cure for obesity. We asked him about the main...
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The FDA voted to approve a drug that reduces 'double chin'
There's a big story in cosmetic health care today.A Food and Drug Administration panel has voted – unanimously – to recommend approval of a double chin-reducing injectable drug, the The Wall Street...
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There's a burgeoning obesity crisis in Europe
LONDON (Reuters) - Europe will face an obesity crisis of vast proportions by 2030, according to new World Health Organization projections, with many countries likely to see far more than half of adults...
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