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Obesity
If Only There Were a Keto Flu Shot Memories of my first encounter with ketosis.
health concerns
3/26/2018
Three Healthy Behaviors Linked With a Longer Life A new, complicated study on lifestyle and longevity.
weighty matters
12/14/2016
Here’s a Little Good News About Obesity in America This is still a crisis, but in a few states things are actually improving a bit.
The Biggest Loser Is Organized Fat-Shaming, So How Is It Still on TV?The show perpetuates the notion that people are obese because they’re lazy.
weighty matters
5/16/2016
Why the Conversation About Obesity Needs to Change Struggling to lose weight doesn’t make you a failure.
This Is Why So Many Labrador Retrievers Are So Very Fat Genes found in obese Labs may help scientists better understand how to help some obese humans.
What Your Body-Shape Trajectory Says About Your Health It’s not just whether you’re an unhealthy weight at a given point, suggests a new study — it’s the trajectory you’re on.
Skipping the Most Important Meal of the Day Could Have Some Ugly Consequences Kids who eat two breakfasts are more likely to avoid obesity than those who eat none.
Can Mindfulness Reduce Mindless Eating? A new study offers some promising hints about how to get people to stop eating all the chips.
Health Concerns
3/29/2016
Sad Study Discovers Newborns Are Living on Junk Food One infant’s teeth reportedly came in black because it was fed bottled soda.
You Can Blame Genetics for Your French-Fry Habit A new study says certain people are “hardwired” to crave fatty, sugary foods.
More Bad News for Fans of Menu Calorie Counts A new study gives even more reason to be skeptical that they can nudge people from cheeseburgers to salads.
Weight Discrimination Might Be Deadly Just another sign of the depressing amount of damage that can be done by bullying-related behaviors.
A Sneaky Experiment About Calorie Counts It complicates the current thinking about the best way to nudge people to make better food choices.
Study Shows One Third of American Kids Eat Fast Food on Any Given Day A new report by the CDC says it accounts for 12 percent of kids’ total calories.
Let’s All Remember That Fat-Shaming — Which Is Mean — Doesn’t Even Work People who argue in favor of the tactic say it guilts the overweight into eating less. It doesn’t.
What It’s Like to Lose 350 Pounds And be blind. And be a carnival worker.
Unrealistic Beauty Standards Making Dogs Fat Fat-shaming your dog is the new fat-shaming your kid.
More Proof That Gluttony (and Restraint) Are Contagious A new rundown of studies shows that your best bet for eating less may be to dine with friends who can control themselves.
‘You Can’t Outrun a Bad Diet,’ Argue Researchers They think we need to put much more of the blame on what we’re eating, which is hurting people of all shapes and sizes.
It Looks Like L.A.’s Fast-Food Ban Didn’t Work And there are lots of reasons why it didn’t work.
social psychology
1/21/2015
Feeling Fat Is a Self-Fulfilling Prophecy Normal-weight 16-year-olds who believed they were overweight were 40 percent more likely to become obese before they turned 30.
Going From Extremely Lazy to Pretty Lazy Could Be Lifesaving In a European study, the biggest gap in mortality risk was between “inactive” and “moderately inactive” folks.
Does ‘Healthy Obesity’ Actually Exist? Healthy today (probably) doesn’t mean healthy tomorrow.
Scientists Discovered a Food Additive That Might Make You Feel Fuller We’re still waiting on an additive to make broccoli taste like pizza.
Don’t Fall Into This Thanksgiving Fitness Trap We think mild exercise doesn’t matter if we’re gorging ourself, but that’s probably incorrect.
The Photographer Who Captures Fat-Shaming on Camera Talking to Haley Morris-Cafiero about her powerful photographs of strangers reacting to her body.
Fat-Shaming Doesn’t Work, Is Mean Non-breaking news from a recent study.
Obese People May Enjoy Food Less But they also may be more susceptible to its initial pull.
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