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Science says people determine your competence, intelligence, and salary based...
What factors would you consider when evaluating candidates for a job or a promotion?Their past performance? Personality?These qualities might be meaningful, but a growing body of research suggests that...
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This is what happened when 6 men ate 6,000 calories a day
Obesity is a growing problem in the US. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, more than a third of American adults are currently living with the condition — that's a shocking 80...
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This is what happened when 6 men ate 6,000 calories a day
Obesity is a growing problem in the US. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, more than a third of American adults are currently living with the condition — that's a shocking 80...
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How marketers condition us to buy more junk food
While excess weight and obesity is a growing global concern, there has been more and more advertising and promotional effort encouraging the consumption of unhealthy food.In many cases this marketing...
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Fat shaming doesn’t make people any thinner
An online video of a self-described comedian criticising obese people and actively endorsing the use of “fat shaming” to scare people into losing weight has recently gone viral.The video has posed the...
View ArticleNASA has created a fitness program for kids to train just like astronauts
In response to the child obesity epidemic, NASA has created an education challenge focusing on fitness and nutrition. In the program, children follow the same type of training as an astronaut on the...
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America’s children get a startling amount of their daily calories from fast food
The average American kid under age 19 gets 12% of his or her calories from fast food. That's the equivalent of one McDonald's hamburger, a large fries at Wendy's, or a medium chocolate-dipped cone at...
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Researchers had 6 men pretend to be obese while shopping and applying for...
Conversations about weight stigmatization typically focus on women's experiences. That's partly because women are more likely to report being the targets of weight-based discrimination, and partly...
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One chart shows how unrealistic Miss America has become
Last week, a GIF of how the Miss America winners’ body types have evolved from 1921 to now went viral.But the team that put it together — educational website PsychGuides.com— also made a chart that...
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Here's the obesity rate in every state
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recently released new data from their annual Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System (BRFSS) program, which surveys hundreds of thousands of Americans...
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A super simple trick could help you cut down on calories
Adults consume more food when it comes in bigger packages or is served on larger plates, a review of past research has found.The study team analyzed 58 studies with a combined 6,600 participants that...
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How 'portion distortion' is making Americans fat
Over the past 30 years, the amount of food that ends up on your plate—and that you end up eating—has increased significantly. It's not just fast food joints, either. Portion sizes have gone up at...
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Here’s why most Americans can’t join the military
The military has embraced openly-gay members within its ranks, and now squabbles over combat roles for women and whether to accept transgender troops, but the future may require the Pentagon to accept...
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Here are the countries that eat the most fat
America may be the world's leader in the obesity epidemic, but it's not the leader in the amount of fat we eat.In terms of overall fat consumption, we're ranked 12th on a list of the top 20 countries...
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This country is on track to dethrone the US as the most obese in the world
Brazil.We’ve all read articles about the obesity epidemic in the ‘developed countries’ like the US. Gastric bands have been offered to overweight patients on the NHS (the UK’s National Health system)...
View ArticleAn exercise scientist told us the one thing everyone gets wrong about weight...
Shawn Arent, the director of the Center for Health and Human Performance at Rutgers University, explains how weight loss shouldn't be the primary focus of your fitness routine especially if you want to...
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One of the fattest cities in America declared a war on obesity — and lost one...
When Velveth Monterroso arrived in the USA from her hometown in Guatemala, she weighed exactly 10 stone. But after a decade of living in Oklahoma, she was more than five stone heavier and fighting...
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A commonly prescribed type of medicine may be fueling obesity
There’s growing evidence of the long-term health problems linked to too much exposure to antibiotics.Not only are the drugs becoming less effective as bacteria become resistant to existing medicines,...
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Americans have been living longer and healthier lives — until now
Americans today live longer and healthier lives than ever before, and have been increasingly so for decades.But now those gains are slowing down. That's the conclusion of a sobering new study published...
View ArticleHow 5 things that happened to you in childhood shape you as an adult
Research studies have shown that your childhood has a great effect on who you are as an adult. This list might answer some questions about you today.Produced by Kevin Reilly. Original reporting by...
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