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 W.Va. Town 
 Is Nation's 
 Tubbiest 

Economic troubles, lifestyle traditions distract from rampant obesity

Nov 16, 08 2:34 PM CST
(Newser) - Dietary tradition helps make Huntington, W.Va., the nation's most obese and unhealthy city, the AP reports. The five-county area, where poverty rates are high, boasts many pizza and hot dog joints—but Huntington's mayor will not follow the lead of New York City and ban trans fats in restaurants.... More »

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obesity • health • diabetes • obesity epidemic • heart disease • diet • fast food • West Virginia

 Rabid Fans Have Bad Diets 

Sports fanatics less healthy than non-fans, study finds

Nov 14, 08 4:46 PM CST
(Newser) - This just in: Sports fanatics like beer and fatty food. A University of Arkansas study has found that rabid fans are less healthy than people who don't care about sports, the Los Angeles Times reports. And the bigger the fanatic, "the more likely they are to consume more... More »

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diet • fast food • health study • body mass index • sports fans • University of Arkansas

Higher Blood Pressure Kills 8,000 Black Americans a Year

Extent of deadly racial disparity surprises researchers


Nov 11, 08 5:00 AM CST
(Newser) - Some 8,000 lives a year are being lost because blacks suffer from higher blood pressure than the white population, surprising new research has discovered. "We expected it to be big, but it was even larger than we anticipated," said a researcher of the racial disparity. Some 40%... More »

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African Americans • diet • blood pressure • exercise • Surgeon General • Imperial College London • high blood pressure • Annals of Family Medicine • Feinberg School of Medicine • Dr. David Satcher

 Naked Chef 
 on Obesity: 
 No One Knows 
 How to Cook 




Jamie Oliver, grilled on epidemic, rips lack of cooking skills

Nov 6, 08 4:50 AM CST
(Newser) - Celebrity chef Jamie Oliver, widely known as the "Naked Chef" after his hit TV series, blames the obesity crisis on schools for failing to teach students how to cook. Oliver told a British government panel exploring the growing crisis that the inability to cook has driven families to turn... More »

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obesity • education • diet • fast food • junk food • cooking class • Jamie Oliver • School Food Trust • school lunches

Eating Fish May Cut Diabetics' Kidney Risk

Fish twice a
week linked to
healthier organs

Nov 3, 08 2:00 PM CST
(Newser) - Eating fish twice a week could help diabetics avoid life-threatening kidney diseases, reports the Washington Post. A British study discovered that diabetics who ate fish less than once a week were four times more likely to have protein in their urine—an early warning sign of kidney disease—than people... More »

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diabetes • diet • fish • kidney • kidney disease

 Calorie Counting 
 Makes a Comeback 

Get ready for sticker shock, as nutrition info hits menus

Oct 29, 08 11:25 AM CDT
(Newser) - Thanks to new laws, calorie counting is back in vogue and bigger than ever, writes the New York Times. After decades of diets that focused on the balance of fat, protein, and carbs, “More and more, people are looking at calories in, and calories out,” a doc tells... More »

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obesity • food • diet • restaurant • calories • food industry • calorie-posting law

 Friends Say LiLo's Too Skinny 

Actress has dropped 14 pounds, and 6 dress sizes, while seeing Ronson

Oct 28, 08 1:00 PM CDT
(Newser) - Lindsay Lohan's dropped 14 pounds, and friends worry her skinny-mini girlfriend might be the reason, the Boston Globe reports. “Since falling in love with Samantha Ronson—who is naturally very slim—Lindsay seems desperate to lose more weight,” a source says. But Lohan, who's denied eating disorder rumors... More »

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Lindsay Lohan • weight • diet • celebrity • eating disorder • Samantha Ronson

opinion

 Preggo? It's OK 
 to Have a Little Vino 

Gourmet foods are safer than most assume

Oct 18, 08 2:23 AM CDT
(Newser) - Pregnant gourmands can stop panicking about sipping on the occasional—heck, daily—glass of wine, writes Lesley Porcelli in Gourmet. “The health people have not been talking to the food people,” and many warned-against drinks and dishes are fine in moderation. Porcelli’s research freed her to enjoy... More »

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pregnancy • coffee • wine • diet • caffeine • cheese • healthy eating • sushi

GLOSSIES

 Eat Your Way Out 
 of Addiction: Experts 

Foods that help make neurotransmitters may assist treatment

Oct 17, 08 8:14 PM CDT
(Newser) - Good grub may be enough to rewire an addict's brain. The trick is to serve up meals that revive pleasure-inducing neurotransmitters disrupted by addiction, neuroscientists say. Foods as simple as steak, milk, and nuts can boost the brain's production of serotonin or glutamine, both of which help addicts recover. But... More »

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drug addiction • gambling addiction • diet • addiction • neurotransmitter • biochemistry

Fad Banana Diet Finds
Mass A Peel in Japan

Regimen claims to fuel weight loss with just banana, water for breakfast

Oct 17, 08 5:30 PM CDT
(Newser) - A penchant for fad dieting is making Japanese consumers ripe for a new weight-loss scheme starring bananas, Time reports. Since a popular actress lost 26 pounds on the Morning Banana Diet, the fruit has been hard to come by. “There are no bananas on the shelves,” complained one... More »

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Japan • diet • Bananas • fad diets

Recruit Drops and Gives
the Army 100 ... Pounds

263-pound woman lost weight to enlist

Sep 30, 08 5:15 PM CDT
(Newser) - A Texas woman shed 113 pounds to join the Army, saying she was startled into action after being told she was too heavy to qualify. “I’ll never see her again,” a recruiter says he thought on meeting 263-pound Ashley Barrett-Carter, the Dallas Morning News reports. Now in... More »

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Texas • weight loss • diet • exercise • military recruits • US Army Air Force

Eight Terrible, Tasty Ways to
Start the Day

Worst breakfasts include 'stacked and stuffed hotcakes'

Sep 25, 08 3:55 PM CDT
(Newser) - Breakfast isn’t just the most important meal of the day—for many Americans, it’s the most fattening. The worst breakfast in the nation, nutritionally speaking, is the Stacked and Stuffed Caramel Banana Pecan Hotcakes at Bob Evans, experts tell MSNBC. Here are some other bad breakfast foods:
... More »

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health • diet • breakfast • IHOP

 Fast Food Pounds 
 Mediterranean 

Mediterranean diet dumped for fast food and growing girths

Sep 24, 08 5:52 AM CDT
(Newser) - The much-vaunted Mediterranean diet is falling out of favor fast around the Mediterranean —and obesity rates are rocketing, the New York Times reports. Greek men are now the fattest people in Europe by far as the traditional diet high in vegetables and fish but low in meat is replaced... More »

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obesity • childhood obesity • diet • Greece • Mediterranean diet

OLYMPICS

Gold-Mining Phelps Eats
12K Calories a Day

Olympic swimmer gorges on 4K calories at each meal

Aug 13, 08 1:48 PM CDT
(Newser) - Olympic swimmer Michael Phelps gorges on 12,000 calories a day—pounds of pasta, trios of fried-egg sandwiches, and an entire pizza—to keep his body fueled for his gold medal performances, reports the New York Post. "Eat, sleep, and swim. That's all I can do," said Phelps,... More »

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food • Michael Phelps • diet • 2008 Beijing Olympics • calories

 LA Backs Fast Food Moratorium

City Council bans junk food in area where 30% of adults are obese

Jul 30, 08 6:35 AM CDT
(Newser) - Los Angeles city officials have voted to ban fast food restaurants from opening in an impoverished section of the city where 30% of adults are obese, AP reports. The City Council unanimously approved an ordinance that places a year-long moratorium on fast food restaurants in South Los Angeles, where the... More »

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obesity • health • Los Angeles • diet • fast food

Soy-Based Foods Might Be Reducing Sperm Count

Western men consuming more of cheap protein; effect worst on those with low count

Jul 24, 08 12:13 PM CDT
(Newser) - Soy-based foods could be the root of lower sperm counts in men, a new study finds. Men who consumed more than two portions of soy-based foods a week had, on average, 41 million fewer sperm per milliliter of semen than men who avoided such products. The cheap source of protein... More »

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fertility • diet • sperm count • Soy • infertile • soya

 We Are What Our Moms Ate 

Health problems may stem from mom's junk food diet, study says

Jul 1, 08 9:18 AM CDT
(Newser) - Long-term health problems such as obesity, diabetes, and heart disease may begin in the womb with mothers who eat junk food during pregnancy, the Guardian reports. A new study suggests expectant mothers who eat unhealthy diets not only risk the health of their newborns, but may set the child up... More »

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obesity • pregnancy • diabetes • diet • mothers • baby • junk food • breast feeding • Stephanie Bayol • fetal health

 Your Body Wants You to Stay Fat 

Keeping weight off made much tougher by brain, hormone cues to get it back

Jun 3, 08 12:34 PM CDT
(Newser) - Your body doesn't want you to lose weight, scientists say, and makes it tough to keep off pounds lost. Scientists tell the Los Angeles Times that brain and hormone cues increase post-diet as natural processes try to get that old figure back. And while research into the heavy issues is... More »

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obesity • fat • weight loss • diet • diet pills • exercise • metabolism

Want a Skinny Kid? Don't Tell Her She's Fat

Chunky teens pushed by parents to diet fare worse than peers

Jun 2, 08 4:18 PM CDT
(Newser) - A new study of obese teens has produced a counterintuitive indication: Parents should under no circumstances tell pudgy youngsters to diet, the Minneapolis Star-Tribune reports. A group of teens correctly identified by parents as overweight and encouraged to diet were more likely to still be chunky 5 years later than... More »

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parenting • children • diet • obese • teen health • scientific study • teenager

 McCain's 'Real Age' Is 63 

Expert calculates candidate's years in biological time

May 25, 08 2:22 PM CDT
(Newser) - McCain may be 71.8 years old on paper, but his biological age is a youthful 63.7, according to the physician who wrote You: The Owner's Manual. Dr. Michael Roizen made the estimate based on McCain's recently-released medical records (though some details on the candidate's dietary and exercise... More »

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cancer • John McCain • health • Body Mass Index • age • diet • blood pressure • exercise • longevity • heart health • McCain 2008 • medical records

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