Drugs used to treat brittle bones could reduce the risk of breast cancer by almost 40%. In a study by researchers from the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Centre in Seattle, Washington found a strong association...
created by Paul Conneally | 1 year ago | updated 1 year ago 490 views | 16 recommendations | 4 comments
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...
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" Do over weight people have to be attacked from all angles? The usually half naked protesters for vegetarianism decide to beat up on the Obese folks in our society who struggle each day trying to lose weight. ...
opinion by Albert Milliron | 2 years ago | updated 2 years ago 2574 views | 14 recommendations | 15 comments
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...
"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. ...
"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...
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Comedian Ricky Gervais makes an uncompromising attack on the overweight in his new audiobook The Ricky Gervais Guide to Medicine. The Office writer and star uses a string of expletives to attack fat people and...
created by Paul Conneally | 2 years ago | updated 2 years ago 300 views | 10 recommendations | 3 comments
Despite concerted efforts in the classroom and through the media childhood obesity in the UK continues to grow with almost a quarter overweight when they enter primary school and a third are too fat when they leave...
created by Paul Conneally | 3 years ago | updated 3 years ago 402 views | 52 recommendations | 10 comments
Daytime talk show host Oprah Winfrey comes clean on her guilt over her battle with weight gain over the past 2 years, saying that she's "fallen off the wagon" and "embarrassed" that she let it happen...
created by Terri Potratz | 3 years ago | updated 3 years ago 812 views | 11 recommendations | 5 comments
Has the world gone totally mad (other than just Canada.....this is insane (they should not be let on planes either)"What is the world coming to….I’m off to have ten Big Macs for lunch, then book an dual...
created by matte | 3 years ago | updated 3 years ago 428 views | 0 recommendations | 4 comments
"Thirty-six out of every 100 Korean male adults are obese, according to a report Monday. The consumption of high calorie foods and less physical exercise are responsible for the emergence of the overweight adults, the Korea Center for Disease Control and Prevention said. It...
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. ...
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...
created by Terri Potratz | 3 years ago | updated 3 years ago 116 views | 0 recommendations | 0 comments
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...
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...
created by Paul Conneally | 3 years ago | updated 3 years ago 12939 views | 5 recommendations | 1 comment