obesity

finally, an article that talks about all the issues that contributes to america's obesity problem, and doesn't just randomly point fingers. ultimately, the last sentence wisely says, it's up to consumers.

Quoted: It’s tempting to blame big food companies for America’s big obesity problem. After all, they’re the folks who Supersized our fries, family-portioned our potato chips and Big Gulped our sodas.

I had to dot it, weight.com. And a map that changes color as America gets fatter.

Quoted: "The vibration changes the fat distribution. We're not sure what the mechanism is. The stem cells aren't getting to the fat depots," said Clifford Rosen, one of the mice study's authors and an osteoporosis clinician and researcher at The Jackson Laboratory and at the Maine Medical Center Research Institute in Scarborough.

Quoted: It has become common knowledge that childhood obesity rates are increasing every year. But the rates continue to rise. And between busy work schedules and ...

interesting...

Quoted: UW researchers have found that the strongest predictor of obesity rates in King County ZIP codes isn't income or education, but property values. It's further evidence that obesity isn't just about individual willpower.

The packaging looks like an ipod

Quoted: In studies, about half of those taking Alli in combination with a diet and exercise plan lost 5 percent or more of their body weight ...

Isn't that what's supposed to happen with "a diet and exercise plan" anyway? Oh, and you get "occasional loss of bowel control" too...

Quoted: To Mauritania’s men, fat is sexy, so women resort to force-feeding and steroid use in pursuit of obesity.

Never ask a woman her age and her *weight*...or should you?

Quoted: Quoted: The implications were clear. There is a reason that fat people cannot stay thin after they diet and that thin people cannot stay fat when they force themselves to gain weight. The body’s metabolism speeds up or slows down to keep weight within a narrow range.