Marie Claire Article By Maura Kelly: Should 'Fatties' Get a Room?

The Magazine Marie Claire is Coming Under Fire For Publishing an Article By Freelance Writer Maura Kelly Called Should "Fatties" Get a Room? (Even on TV?) The article was published on October 25 and has already...

Michelle Fonville Charged Extra at Natural Nails Due to Weight

Michelle Fonville Says She Was Charged $5 Extra at Natural Nails in Georgia Because She is Overweight When she first noticed the extra charge on her bill, Ms. Fonville thought that there had just been a mistake with...

Obesity police strike again

By all measures the UK is in the grip of a growing problem of obesity. This has prompted the Government to initiate many programmes to tackle obesity and especially obesity in children and young people. 5-year-old...

Overweight Members Shunned From Dating Site BeautifulPeople.com

The exclusive dating site BeautifulPeople.com is making headlines for shunning members who gained weight over the holidays. The network has reportedly ditched 5,000 members for piling extra pounds over Christmas....

Fatty Fast Foods

This shows just how much thesetypes of fast food add to our intake of calories and fat when we eat at these places regularly. If Americans would reduce the number of times they eat junk food then one of the major...

Permanent diet may equal longer life

"With a reduced-calorie diet, monkeys were less likely to die of an age-related disease -- cancer, heart disease or diabetes, reports a study in the journal Science. ...

Supermodel Kathy Ireland’s Weight Battle - Hot to Fat to HOTTER

Kathy Ireland credits her weight loss to three one-hour workouts a week (mix of cardio and weights), not eating ice cream or cookies for breakfast (like she used to) and giving up a sandwich with fries for grilled...

Commentary - Children's obesity: we're all responsible

"American children are getting fat - and no one wants to accept the blame. National Nutrition Month is a good time to do a little self examination. Maybe it's our parenting that is at fault. I was digging through a box of old mementoes a few weeks ago and came upon a stack...

Cooking at Home Can Make You Fat

A new study reveals that fast food chains may not be all to blame for the growing middles of Americans. Cooking at home may be the culprit, according to research that compared classic recipes from cookbooks over the...

Air India sacks 10 ‘overweight’ air hostesses

Obesity is certainly a deterrent in some profession where fitness is an extremely important criteria. Airlines expect their flight attendants to be slim and fit. India's state run airlines Air India had grounded...

Fat boy executed

Good riddens"WASHINGTON (CNN) -- An Ohio death row inmate was executed Tuesday after the Supreme Court rejected his last-minute plea that he was too overweight to be put to death. ...

"Let's Go For a Million Kilos" Mexico's National Campaign to Lose Weight. A S...

First stage of this campaign has been a success!  I joined it, enjoyed it and have a couple of pounds off. The goal has been reached and surpassed. I'm part of these good statistics. Baja...

Online gamers are fitter than the average American

When we speak of online gamers, the image of a fat male slugging away on a seat in a dark damp basement comes to mind. This stereotype needs to be reworked as a test conducted shows that adult gamers are slimmer...

Over 20 percent of American adults are obese

Adult obesity has been rising at increasing rates over the past 30 years and Mississippi turns out to be the heaviest state, leading the country with a 31.7 percent obesity rate. That's a stark contrast to the...

New Orleans Schools are in a Fight Against Child Obesity And the Ochsner Medi...

It's Back to School time again and more schools are reducing or eliminating physical education programs in lieu of academic curriculum. According to a national survey, nearly 22 percent of Black and Hispanic...

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