Philippines launches inquiry into formula milk firms targeting poor

Health department to investigate after Guardian exposed illegal marketing methods


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Make Them Eat Cake
How America is exporting its obesity epidemic.

With this summer's news from the United Nations that Mexico has surpassed the United States in adult obesity levels -- one-third of Mexican adults are now considered extremely overweight -- U.S. foreign policy has come into sharper, or perhaps softer, focus. Despite first lady ( Read more... )

Authorities in New Zealand have told a South African chef he is too fat to be allowed to live in the country ( Read more... )

The American Medical Association has officially recognized obesity as a disease, a move that could induce physicians to pay more attention to the condition and spur more insurers to pay for treatments.

“Recognizing obesity as a disease will help change the way the medical community tackles this complex issue that affects approximately one in three ( Read more... )

WATCH: Michelle Obama mom-dances with Jimmy Fallon for ‘Let’s Move’

Morgan Whitaker (Source)
First lady Michelle Obama showed off her sense of humor and her dance skills on her appearance on the Late Night with Jimmy Fallon show Friday night.

In a sketch airing before the first lady’s sit down interview with Fallon, the two-with Fallon in a wig and ( Read more... )

The Extraordinary Science of Addictive Junk Food
Source - NYTimes
By MICHAEL MOSS
Published: February 20, 2013On the evening of April 8, 1999, a long line of Town Cars and taxis pulled up to the Minneapolis headquarters of Pillsbury and discharged 11 men who controlled America’s largest food companies. Nestlé was in attendance, as were Kraft and ( Read more... )

Yesterday Anna Soubry, Minister for Public Health, made some comments. As is the fashion these days, they were directed at poor people. Or rather, they were directed at rich people, who like to read about poor people and nod along ( Read more... )

One bioethicist's modest proposal to combat obesity through socially motivated self-hatred

People don't hate being fat enough, basically, according to Hastings Center bioethicist Daniel Callahan. In an editorial published in the Hastings Center Report, he argues that nothing -- not diets, drugs, sugeries, nor appeals to our health -- is working, ( Read more... )

Jennifer Livingston, a local news anchor in La Crosse, Wisconsin, responded to a viewer's outrageous attack on her appearance on Tuesday morning ( Read more... )