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Katie Hopkins tells us about her life-threatening brain surgery, and why...
One of the main things people find so unappealing about columnist and radio host Katie Hopkins is that she appears to have no sympathy for people who are suffering.In October 2015, she attacked...
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This tiny icon is actually a solution to a key problem with eating healthy
When's the last time you looked at a food's nutrition label before you downed its contents?More importantly, did the mishmash of black-and-white numbers, letters, and scientific lingo mean anything to...
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Experts find evidence that excess body fat increases the risk of certain cancers
There may be plenty of room for debate about whether some aspects of everyday life cause cancer — whether it’s drinking too much coffee, eating too much sugar or talking too much on a cell phone.But...
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Here's where obesity rates are highest in the US
There isn’t a single state in the United States with an adult obesity rate under 20 percent.Four states — Alabama, Louisiana, Mississippi, and West Virginia — have obesity rates that top 35 percent,...
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One chart shows how unrealistic Miss America has become
We've looked at how Miss America winners’ body types have evolved from 1921 to now through one GIF.The team that put together the GIF — educational website PsychGuides.com— also made a chart that shows...
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We should never have told people to stop eating fat
The decision to demonize fat for its caloric density and heart-clogging effects — a decision that drove people away from butter and cheese and toward low-fat foods that required plenty of sugar to have...
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A fiery new report makes a convincing case that Big Soda is the new Big Tobacco
From 2011 to 2015, PepsiCo and the Coca-Cola company gave money to 96 national health groups, including the American Diabetes Association and the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation, and lobbied...
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US kids are some of the least fit in the world
While the U.S. brings home more Olympic gold than any other country, many, if not most, American school kids wouldn’t even bring home a tin, if there were such a low-ranking medal.Recently, colleagues...
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Portugal is placing a sugar tax on soft drinks
Lisbon (AFP) - Portugal's Socialist government will introduce a sugar tax on soft drinks in 2017 which is expected to raise 80 million euros ($88 million) for the nation's public health service, a...
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A 27-year-old who weighed 456 pounds survived without any food for 382 days
Most people can survive without food for at least a few weeks, maybe a bit longer. Eventually, however, starvation kills.Yet the limits on how long people can go without eating are complicated; without...
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The price of digital health devices is widening the health gap
Chronic conditions such as cardiovascular disease, diabetes and chronic respiratory diseases account for more than 85 percent of all deaths in the United States. Obesity and asthma in particular are...
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A lawsuit that everyone's ignoring reveals how much influence the food...
Every five years, the US government tries to distill and articulate what's healthy and what isn't. These "Dietary Guidelines" are a big deal: They're meant to help guide America's eating choices,...
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Extra body weight could slow down your brain
If you're having trouble getting motivated to get up off the couch, eat right and lose the extra pounds, you might want to consider the effect of those extra pounds on your brain. In fact, those pounds...
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Here's why added sugar is so bad for you
Since fat became Public Enemy No. 1 in the 1970s, and Americans started abandoning it like the plague, sugar slowly snuck into our food supply to make sure low-fat food still tasted good.Today, you can...
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San Francisco just took a major step against Big Sugar
A major US city just fired a big gun in the fight against sugar — which scientists believe is likely one of the most deadly ingredients in the modern human diet.Voters in San Francisco, California on...
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Stephen Hawking: 'We eat too much and move too little'
Stephen Hawking has delivered a speech addressing the seriousness of obesity in an ad campaign to promote the work of the Swedish nonprofit company GEN-PEP, Adweek first reported Monday.The most...
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Stephen Hawking was spot-on when he said 'we eat too much and move too...
Stephen Hawking delivered a speech this week addressing the seriousness of obesity in an ad campaign for the Swedish nonprofit GEN-PEP.One of the most powerful parts of the speech, as my colleague...
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The world's largest food company is going after sugar — but it's missing the...
Too much sugar is terrible forour health, and most of us overindulgedaily.There are alternatives, of course — aspartame-sweetened diet drinks, sucralose-stuffed snacks, stevia-infused protein powders....
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Good news for American health: fewer chubby babies
CHICAGO — Chubby babies and toddlers at risk for later obesity are on the decline in a government food program serving millions of kids, a glimmer of good news in the nation’s fight to slim down.The...
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These are the 10 unhealthiest states in the US
The unhealthiest states in the country all lie in the southeast US.For the 27th year in a row, the United Health Foundation has ranked America's states based on factors including obesity, air...
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