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Scientists Find The 'Fat And Happy' Gene
Perhaps there is a bit of truth to the stereotype about being fat and happy — new research finds that people who have a gene linked with obesity may have a slightly lower risk of depression.People who...
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See The Obese Mannequin That 'Horrified' People On Reddit
An obese mannequin went viral on Reddit after one user posted a photo with the caption "anyone else horrified they make obese mannequins now?" More than 200 people commented on the photo of the...
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Man Says His Wife Died After Airlines Said She Was Too Fat To Fly Home
A 425-pound woman died last month in Hungary after three airlines allegedly told her she was too fat to fly back to America.Janos Soltesz plans to sue Delta, KLM, and Lufthansa next month, claiming the...
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The Most Expensive Snacks In America
Obesity is sometimes blamed on the high price of healthy foods compared to junk food. But it may be time to stop complaining.The USDA's economic research service has put together a handy presentation...
View ArticleDoctor Goes On An Epic Rant Against The Food Industry
When Yoni Freedhoff, a doctor and professor at the University of Ottawa, was uninvited to a food industry breakfast three days before it was slated to happen, he got a little upset.So, instead of...
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New Report Shows American Lives Are Longer, But Sicker
As a part of their annual survey of the unhealthiest states, the United Health Foundation just released their annual findings, not just for each state, but for the US as a whole. In part, they found...
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The 25 Unhealthiest States In America
The United Health Foundation just released their annual America's Health Rankings for 2012.See the list >The good news: As a whole, Americans are living longerThe bad news: A growing number of...
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Salt Could Be What's Making Kids Fat
This article was originally featured on The Conversation and has been re-printed under the Creative Commons license.Sugary drinks may get most of the attention in discussions about Australia’s obesity...
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Tech Finally Tackles The Fat Problem
Anyone who's tried to shed pounds knows this statistic: 95% of diets don't work.That's what Jeff Hyman learned when his wife dragged him off to a weight-loss resort.Hyman, then working at Sterling...
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Businesses Are Testing Out Paying Employees For Going To The Gym
Rising healthcare costs are a threat to the country through our growing debt, and to companies through their bottom line. One of the most effective ways to bring down costs is to eliminate preventable...
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How Calories Are Calculated
The latest episode of ChemMatters by Bytesize Science, is all about nutritional facts — how they are determined and placed on a label and what they mean for you. With more than one-third of U.S. adults...
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Big Food Corporations Are Making The World Fat
NESTLE, THE WORLD’S biggest food company, has creative ways to reach far-flung corners of the world. One of them is to work through people like Flavia Medeiros, a microdistributor in São Paulo. She...
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Retailers Can't Ignore 100 Million Plus-Size American Women Forever
We all know, understand and have opinions on one simple fact: America’s getting bigger. Regardless of the passion or rage or ambivalence directed toward this reality, it is simply that: a reality.To...
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The Tidal Wave Of Childhood Obesity May Finally Be Receding
About one in three children in the U.S. are now overweight, and since the 1980s the number of children who are obese has more than tripled.But a new study of 26.7 million young children from low-income...
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The Problem With The 'Overweight People Live Longer' Study
The counterintuitive findings that people who are overweight live longer, published today in the Journal of the American Medical Association, couldn't have been more perfectly timed, coming as it has...
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The UK Has A Plan To Cut Obese Peoples' Benefits If They Refuse To Exercise
London's Westminster Council has come up with a drastic plan to help end the UK's growing obesity problem: cutting benefits for any obese person who refuses to exercise.Under the proposals, doctors...
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Being Overweight Isn't Always A Health Problem
Being fat is bad for you. That, at least, is the received wisdom.In reality the picture is more complex, because the prevailing measure of fatness, weight in kilograms divided by height in metres...
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Study Reveals Juries Discriminate Against Overweight Women
A jury is more likely to believe an overweight woman is guilty than a lean one, a new Yale University study suggests.The Yale Rudd Center for Food Policy & Obesity conducted a mock trial online and...
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The 10 US Cities Where It's Hardest To Lose Weight
Losing weight is the #1 New Year's resolution, yet only 41% of U.S. adults were able to stick with that goal last year. And even though there are a ton of ways to help yourself reach those fitness...
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Here's What You'll See In Coca-Cola's Obesity Ad
Coca-Cola became one of the world's most powerful brands by equating its soft drinks with happiness.Now it's taking to the airwaves for the first time to address a growing cloud over the industry:...
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