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. ...

Obese Inmate's Appeal Rejected, Executed in Ohio

Richard Cooey appealed to the US Supreme Court for a stay of execution, reasoning that he was too obese to be executed by lethal injection, and his request was rejected on Monday.  Cooey was 5'7" and 267 pounds, and his appeal cited that a death by lethal injection could...

Supreme Court rejects inmate's too-fat-to-execute appeal

Oy Vey!, please someone, hand me a gun, I'll make his execution nice and painless. You have to have your brains in tact to feel pain, a 50 cent bullet will take care of that. Would he like some cheese with his whine?"COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) -- The U.S. Supreme Court has rejected...

Obesity 'raises miscarriage risk'

This research is new in that it looks at recurrent miscarriage for the first time and seems to show that obese women are in greater danger not only of miscarriage but also of having malformed babies. With obesity...

Hunger hormone suppression to combat obesity?

A new, minimally-invasive procedure has successfully minimized the appetites of pigs, and could pave the way to effectively treating obesity.  "An Indian American medical scientist has successfully suppressed levels of 'hunger hormone' ghrelin in pigs, which could pave...

Pollution can make you fat

With obesity amongst children and adults at an all time high in the western world scientists are now looking beyond the obvious causes such as overeating and lack of exercise to other factors. This new report claims...

Fat Map of Britain shows obesity spreading south

The UK north south divide in economy and health still exists but this new 'fat map' of Britain seems to indicate that the south is now succumbing the obesity problem that has seen some areas of the UK having up to...

Obese Men Have Less Semen, More Sperm Abnormalities

Obese men should consider losing weight if they want to have children. Why? Read on -"Dr. A Ghiyath Shayeb, from the University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen, UK, said that his research had shown that men with a higher body mass index (BMI) had lower volumes of seminal fluid and a...

EU to fight child obesity with free fruit plan

In an effort to fight child obesity, the European Commission has launched a €90 million a year initiative to provide school children with fresh fruit and vegetables. "The commission aims to spend 90m euros (£71m;...

Fat finding reveals why diets don't work

" Want to get rid of some fat cells as you age? Fat chance.You're stuck with the number of fat cells you have acquired by about age 20, a new study finds.Researchers have known that people gain and lose weight at...

Fat people Cause global warming

Claim: Fat people cause global Warming Over weight Folks have to go through school being heckled and abused.  Usually in Adulthood these blastings start to tapper as peole understand more about genetics and...

About 22 mln children in Europe are overweight

BRUSSELS, May 27 (Xinhua) -- Europe has almost 22 million overweight children, and a further 1.3 million will be overweight or obese by 2010, according to a report by the European Parliament's Committee on the...

World's most obese man vies for different record

Mexico's Manuel Uribe, once the world's most obese man, is now vyingfor a different record: the human who has lost the most weight."Uribe, who weighed as much as a small truck at more than half a tonne, is dieting...

The Don't Like Me 'Cause I'm Fat

See story below -- and what do you bet this cow will have all the charges dropped and/or countersue the judicuial district -- and probably win -- by claiming she is being discriominated against because she's a fat cow?   My company employed one, too, and it was only...

Canada TV Tax Credits: A Comedy of Errors

OpinionBarry Artiste, Now Public ContributorNoted Authour Michael Coren states (in Italics):"Authentic censorship is a problem in Canada"  To that I say to Michael, I do not know if we have a censorship problem...

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