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Why You Should Never Tell A Fat Person They're Fat
One-third of American adults are obese, a health crisis that is typically linked to eating too much food, eating the wrong kind of foods, and not getting enough exercise.But there are also...
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Professor Censured For Comment About Fat PhD Applicants
Psychology professor Geoffrey Miller has been censured by the University of New Mexico for a critical tweet about obese PhD applicants.Miller tweeted in June: "Dear obese PHD applicants: if you didn't...
View ArticleMindblowing 6-Minute Factory Farming Video Might Turn You Into A Vegetarian
File this one under things that will make you a vegetarian.This harrowing, beautifully-shot video (via Noah Smith) shows the horror of factory farmingIt's a few months old, but it's timeless. Just...
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8 Steps To Reach Your Healthiest Weight
Katherine Tallmadge, M.A., R.D., is a registered dietitian, author of "Diet Simple: 195 Mental Tricks, Substitutions, Habits & Inspirations" (LifeLine Press, 2011) and a frequent national...
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How Processed Food Makes You Eat More
By: Belinda Lennerz, fellow in Pediatric Endocrinology at Harvard University. Most people have the strong desire for a normal weight but in many developed countries such as Australia, only a minority...
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There Will Never Be A Miracle Weight-Loss Drug
I was consulted recently by a national television program (no need to say which one, but we may note that there are doctors involved) regarding a segment on the weight-loss drug, Qsymia, which was...
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Exercising Isn't The Key To Fast Weight Loss
Among the most commonly held misconceptions about obesity, perhaps none does more harm than the notion that exercise is responsible for the lion's share of weight management. Sure, it's true that...
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Why Losing Sleep Can Make You Want To Buy A Really Fattening Doughnut
When you lose out on even just one night of sleep you end up binging on food, especially high calorie food, a new study suggests. Not only does a loss of sleep decrease your self-control and...
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CHART OF THE DAY: The Moment When American Calorie Consumption Went Ballistic...
From a new Credit Suisse study "on the dietary impact of 'sugar and sweeteners' and their role in the ongoing health debate surrounding obesity and diabetes" comes this chart, which shows that calorie...
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America Drinks So Much Soda, They Literally Had To Expand This Chart To Fit...
This chart – taken from a new study by Credit Suisse titled "Sugar consumption at a crossroads"– shows a general correlation between GDP per capita and soda consumption per capita.In other words, as...
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How An Overweight Couple Lost More Than 520 Pounds Together
Justin and Lauren Shelton were both grossly overweight when they got married in 2008.Justin weighed over 450 pounds and Lauren tipped the scales at over 300 pounds.Here's a wedding photo:"It snowballed...
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Here's What The Average American Man Looks Like Compared To Other Countries
Artist Nickolay Lamm created illustrations that compare the body measurements of the average middle-aged man from the United States, Japan, France, and the Netherlands.Not surprisingly, Americans are...
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Man Goes On 60-Day Juice Fast To Save His Life
Joe Cross tipped the scale at 310 pounds when he came to a turning point: lose weight or face an early death. The Australian businessman made the life-changing decision to go on a 60-day juice fast....
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Scientists Have Found A Brain Switch That Makes Mice Stop Eating
When a particular circuit in the brain is stimulated, it causes mice to voraciously gorge on food even though they are well fed, and deactivating this circuit keeps starving mice from eating, a new...
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One Serving Of Nutella Has As Much Sugar As Five Oreos
Advertisements for Nutella suggest that "breakfast loves" the chocolate hazelnut spread and the ads seem to imply that the "94 hazelnuts" in each jar make the spread good for you.Yoni Freedhoff, a...
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Being A Little Fat Is Only A Hazard When It Is In The Wrong Places
Not everyone who smokes gets lung cancer. That doesn't exonerate cigarettes nor does it create a "tobacco paradox." There is no obesity paradox either. But given the attention the notion is getting of...
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Obese Man Says Airline Made Him Book 2 Tickets, Then Gave Him Seats 2 Rows Apart
A 43-year-old man from Wales had to book two seats on a recent flight to Ireland because airline policy requires anyone over 20 stone (280 pounds) to purchase the extra space. Price weighs 518 pounds....
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13 Nutrition Lies That Made The World Sick And Fat
Nutrition is full of all kinds of nonsense.The worst examples are listed here, but unfortunately this is just the tip of the iceberg.Here are the top 13 nutrition lies that have made the world both...
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'Eat Less, Move More' Is Still The Key To Good Health
Even proponents of the Affordable Care Act, or so-called Obamacare — and yes, I am among them — acknowledge that in all its administrivial detail, the new law is "numbingly complicated." Even a...
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5 Frightening Facts About Obesity In The US
America's bad reputation for obesity is not getting any better.The CDC just released the latest obesity data from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey — the 2011-2012 year. The survey...
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