Rick Santorum has brilliant plan to stop the obesity epidemic: Stop giving poor people food!Speaking in Le Mars, Iowa on Monday, Rick Santorum promised to significantly reduce federal funding for food stamps, arguing that the nation’s increasing obesity rates render the program unnecessary ( Read more... )

U of A study rewrites the book on obesity

Being big is not a risk for certain people

By Jodie Sinnema, Edmonton Journal

New research from the University of Alberta shows some obese people are as healthy as and have no higher risk of death than their thinner counterparts.

Some may not even benefit from losing weight - including a significant number ( Read more... )

Westerners 'programmed for fatty foods and alcohol"

Westerners could be genetically programmed to consume fatty foods and alcohol more than those from the east, researchers have claimed.

Scientists at the University of Aberdeen say a genetic switch - DNA which turns genes on or off within cells - regulates appetite and thirst.

The study suggests it is ( Read more... )

CHICAGO (AP) - Should parents of extremely obese children lose custody for not controlling their kids' weight? A provocative commentary in one of the nation's most distinguished medical journals argues yes, and its authors are joining a quiet chorus of advocates who say the government should be allowed to intervene in extreme cases.

It has happened ( Read more... )

To Fight Obesity, Even Babies Should Exercise
Source - AP News
This article was written by Maria Cheng
Jul 11th 2011 9:00AMLONDON (AP) - In a new campaign against obesity, the British government issued guidelines on Monday saying that children under the age of five - including those who can't even walk yet - should exercise every day ( Read more... )

 ​In the 1990s when I was producing a print 'zine called FAT!SO?, a friend and contributor who provided brilliant stories that got reprinted in cool places like the Utne Reader always wanted her bio say, "Betty Rose Dudley is a fat, working-class dyke from Missouri."
I'm thinking about Betty a lot because she died last week. Betty lived in a state ( Read more... )

GOP pushes back on effort to limit kids' food ads
By Mary Clare Jalonick
Associated PressWASHINGTON - House Republicans are siding with food companies resisting the Obama administration's efforts to pressure them to stop advertising junk food for children ( Read more... )

Are Georgia's anti-obesity ads unfair to fat kids?


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The Fight Against Government Flab Is Personal for These Politicians

House Republicans Sweat Over DVD; 'I Couldn't Move the Next Day'

MARCH 16, 2011
By ELIZABETH WILLIAMSON And PATRICK O'CONNOR

WASHINGTON-Congress's new Republican leaders want smaller government, less spending, lower taxes...and sculpted abs, bulging biceps and flexibility they ( Read more... )

Too few docs tell patients they're overweight

Many people who are overweight and obese either don't realize it or are in denial -- and too few doctors are setting them straight, according to a new study in the Archives of Internal Medicine.Researchers analyzed data on roughly 5,500 people who took part in government health surveys between 2005 and ( Read more... )