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Obesity
A New Study Suggests Everyone Loses With Massive Restaurant Portions The fuller a food makes us, the less likely we’ll be to seek it out in the near future.
By Jesse Singal
Parents Think Their Obese Kids Are Healthy Even when they’ve enrolled them in an obesity clinic.
By Jesse Singal
A Strange New Insight Into Female Obesity Women who are obese don’t accurately respond to certain food-related cues.
By Jesse Singal
A Week in the Life of 50 Overweight Women Researchers investigate weight stigma in everyday life.
By Melissa Dahl
It Hurts More to Be Obese in Skinny Places Obese people report less of a dip in life satisfaction when they are surrounded by other obese people.
By Jesse Singal
Hefty Retired Cop Sues NYPD Over Slim Pension Says the job, not his weight, caused heart condition.
By Adam Martin
Deterrence
Sept. 24, 2013
By Belle Cushing
Harvard Study Links Obesity to the Sexual and Physical Abuse of Women There might be a link between childhood abuse and obesity in men, too.
By Sierra Tishgart
scents of things
Mar. 27, 2013
Obesity Has a Scent Top notes of methane and hydrogen.
By Maureen O'Connor
Health Concerns
Jan. 18, 2013
Obesity Rates Rise For L.A.’s Poor Preschoolers Our dependence on cars and cultural demographics are both blamed in a new CDC study.
By Hadley Tomicki
Watch the ‘Honest’ Version of Coca Cola’s Anti-Obesity “If you choose to live a healthy lifestyle, you should not be drinking any of our products.”
By Hugh Merwin
War on Soda
Jan. 14, 2013
Coca-Cola Admits That It Makes Americans Fat in New Ad And teaches you how to burn off the “140 happy calories.”
By Sierra Tishgart
Health Concerns
Jan. 2, 2013
Overweight People Somehow Less Likely to Die Than Skinnier People A new study says overweight people aren’t any more likely to die than anyone else.
By Sierra Tishgart
Health Concerns
Dec. 11, 2012
Weight Lost: Number of Obese Kids Dropping in Some Cities Researchers are left scratching their heads while trying to determine a cause for the drop in obesity rates.
By Collin Keefe
Junk Food Ruining America’s Military A group of retired military leaders are warning that the majority of today’s seemingly eligible recruits are simply too fat for combat.
By Collin Keefe
Video Feed
Sept. 20, 2012
It’s a Bad-News Day for Fat Kids Don’t even think about drowning your sorrows in sugar.
By Jenny Miller
other states’ embarrassments
Aug. 14, 2012
By Brett Smiley
Lonesome, Ladies? Eat up! Eat with abandon and you, too, could land a guy on the verge of a breakdown.
By Kara Baskin
Presidential Eats
June 25, 2012
Chef Keeps Menu at $40K-Per-Plate Obama Fund-raiser a Secret He will dine at Hamersley’s Bistro, known for its roast chicken and neutrality.
By Kara Baskin
Americans’ Big, Fat Appetites Putting the Rest of the World at Risk The United States, which makes up only 5 percent of Earth’s population, accounts for nearly a third of all the word’s weight.
By Collin Keefe
nanny state
June 19, 2012
By Margaret Hartmann
the third terminator
June 4, 2012
By Brett Smiley
the third terminator
May 31, 2012
By Margaret Hartmann
Publicity Stunts
May 16, 2012
Fat Guy Upset That Restaurant Didn’t Keep Pandering to His Gluttony One man pickets an all-you-can-eat restaurant after they cut him off at twenty servings of fried fish.
By Alan Sytsma
Tertulia’s New Late-Night Hours; Musicians Headline New Food Truck Plus: an ancient ales dinner, an all-fast-food study seeking participants, and more of today’s leftovers.
Fat People More Likely to Die in Car Crashes Than Skinny People As if diabetes, heart disease, impotence, and gout weren’t enough to worry about.
By Collin Keefe
Quote of the Day
May 9, 2012
Todd English Is So Over the Concept of ‘Meals’ The celeb chef says that multi-course meals are passé for diet-savvy diners.
By Kara Baskin
Health Concerns
May 9, 2012
California’s Improved School Lunches May Actually Be Working! A new study reveals that the state’s high school students are consuming 158 fewer calories than their counterparts.
By Hadley Tomicki
NJ Cheesemakers Made Cheese with Condemned Raw Milk; What Makes Taco Trucks’ Plus: It’s boom time for the U.S. agricultural industry; and there’s a possibility that your co-workers and their chocolate chip cookies are making you fat, all in our morning news roundup.
Hershey Achieves Zero-Waste-to-Landfill Status; Less Than Cost-Effective Plus: Revel plans a two-month preview period; and Lemonheads inventor passes, all in our morning news roundup.
Politicians Line Up to Blast Corbett Over Food Stamp Assets Tests; Don’t Plus: USDA’s gardeners’ guide shows warm zones have drifted North; and Burger King’s latest concoction packs more than 1,000 calories, all in our morning news roundup.
Department of Human Services Can and Will Remove Obese Children From Their Plus: Veggie burgers just want to be meat; and police stage their first ever prostitution raid on Bethlehem Sands casino, all in our morning news roundup.
Don’t Smile and Don’t Say Cheese A nonprofit has started a war on cheese.
By Alyssa Shelasky
Tony Luke Shed 100 Pounds; Cracker Barrel Founder, Danny Evins, Passed Away Plus: Weight Watchers is booming; and Grandma and Grandpa represent the largest binge drinking demographic, all in our morning news roundup.
Ohio Embraces Yuengling; Chinese Cheese Is a Thing Plus: Retailers struggle with the logistics of shipping everything from bacon to live lobsters; and disposable aluminum roasting pans are prone to tearing, and severely burning cooks, all in our morning news roundup.
‘Morally Bankrupt’ Restaurant Blogger Can’t Get a Job; Snacks Plus: Fat people actually eat fewer meals than normal-weight folks; and world food demand will likely double by 2050, all in our morning news roundup.
Pundits Size Up Chris Christie’s Girth; Four Loko Labels Get Revised Plus: Listeria-tainted lettuce reached Pennsylvania; and Guy Fieri sets his sights on Carnival Cruise ships and New York, all in our morning news roundup.
the national interest
Sept. 30, 2011
Chris Christie Is Fat. So What? ’The Obesity Myth’ is the essential text to understand the currents of cultural prejudice that will be marshaled against Chris Christie.
By Jonathan Chait
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