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THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 26, 2009
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NEWS ABOUT: obesity

obesity stories: 208 news summaries

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 Time-Starved Working 
 Parents Eat Poorly: Study 

Low-income work schedules make healthy eating difficult

Sep 10, 09 2:59 PM CDT
(Newser) - The nature of low-income employment promotes unhealthy eating, Time reports. Over half of working parents in low-to-moderate income communities relied on dietary “coping” measures when their schedules couldn’t accommodate a full meal, according to a new Cornell University study. Those strategies included skipping breakfast or family meals,... More »

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obesity • parenting • health • obesity epidemic • public health • diet • unemployment • Cornell University • healthy eating • job • dinner

OPINION

 To Cut Health Costs,  
 Fix the Food Industry 

Obesity 'accounts for nearly a tenth' of health-care spending

Sep 10, 09 1:32 PM CDT
(Newser) - There’s an “elephant in the room” when it comes to health care reform: American health care costs a bundle in large part because we’re so fat, writes Michael Pollan for the New York Times. President Obama has touched on the issue, but the country hasn’t, and... More »

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obesity • food • health care costs • health insurance • diabetes • obesity epidemic • public health • health care reform • Michael Pollan • food industry

 Nighttime Snacks  
 Worse Than We Thought 

Mouse study shows weight gain more than doubles on opposite schedule

Sep 5, 09 1:55 PM CDT
(Newser) - Eating when you should be sleeping—the proverbial midnight snack, say, or the meals of night-shift workers—could put you at higher risk of obesity, Time reports. A new study fed two groups of mice the same high-fat diet on opposite schedules; the group that ate during “normal”... More »

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obesity • hormones • eating • scientific study • circadian rhythms • lab mice • midnight snack • chemical imbalance

(Newser) - If so many people are fat in this country, why is there so much venom against the overweight? Part of it can be chalked up to "self-loathing," write Kate Dailey and Abby Ellin in Newsweek. We're conditioned to consider extra pounds unattractive, and we get ticked off when... More »

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obesity • genetics • psychology • anger • overweight • World War I • thin • women's issues • hatred

(Newser) - Americans eat more than twice as much added sugar as doctors recommend, and they should cut back to battle obesity, hypertension, diabetes, and heart disease, researchers say. Added calories from processed sugar should total no more than 150 for men and 100 for women, the American Heart Association said today.... More »

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obesity • nutrition • hypertension • diabetes • obesity epidemic • heart disease • diet • sugar • American Heart Association • high blood pressure • women's issues • Sugar Association

 Obesity May Shrink Your Brain 

Study finds cognitive regions smaller in obese elderly

Aug 24, 09 9:38 AM CDT
(Newser) - Important cognitive brain regions are smaller in older obese people than fit ones, scientists have found. Shrinking brains are tied to dementia, so the discovery fuels the notion that obesity can raise the risk of the cognitive disorder, New Scientist reports. In a review of 94 brain scans, subjects with... More »

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obesity • dementia • cognitive decline • overweight • scientific study • brain scans

(Newser) - PETA has rolled out a new ad campaign that does not sit well with the more portly among us, the Huffington Post reports. A billboard in Jacksonville, Fla., features a cartoon of an overweight woman in a bikini with the message: “Save the whales, Lose the Blubber: Go Vegetarian.... More »

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obesity • women • PETA • vegetarianism • overweight • swimsuit • People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals • Tracy Reiman • beach body

 Food Stamps Make You Fatter 

Limited budget may promote unhealthy choices

Aug 12, 09 2:40 PM CDT
(Newser) - Barack Obama might like to think that the down-and-out are using food stamps to buy arugala at Whole Foods, but as Science Daily reports, people tend to gain weight on food stamps. The average benefit of $81 a month doesn't go a long way toward nutritious foods, researchers suggest in... More »

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obesity • poverty • healthy eating • food stamps • public assistance • grocery shopping

(Newser) - Overweight kids eat more when they eat with their overweight friends, Newsweek reports. A new study tested a child's consumption of healthy snacks and junk food while in the company of a friend or stranger who was either fat or lean. Overweight kids eating with a chubby buddy ate more... More »

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obesity • obesity epidemic • fat • children • junk food • obese • overweight • best friend

glossies

Hefty Credit Card Debt Fattens You Up


Aug 7, 09 6:46 PM CDT
(Newser) - Heavy credit card debt can take a toll on your waistline, Gourmet reports. A German study of 9,000 people found that 25% of those in debt were obese, compared to 11% not in debt. "In the situation of over-indebtedness, eating can become a compensation and gratification," the... More »

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obesity • credit card

OPINION

 Slimming Down US 
 Won't Cut Health Costs 

Or reject 'collectivist thinking' and let people make own choices

Aug 5, 09 2:00 PM CDT
(Newser) - The Obama administration claims the anti-obesity bent of its health care plan will lower overall costs by making America thinner. “It won’t,” Jacob Sullum writes in Reason. Even if the government succeeds in slimming down the US—unlikely in Sullum’s opinion—the longer-lived result will... More »

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obesity • eating • health care reform • Obama administration • President Obama • personal choice • Jacob Sullum • collectivism

analysis

 Why Congress Won't 
 Face the Fat Problem 

Lawmakers fear giving US 'bad news'—especially while munching Doritos

Jul 30, 09 11:10 AM CDT
(Newser) - Congress is “in denial” on one key health issue: obesity, writes Lisa Lerer for Politico. Obesity-related illnesses reportedly cost $147 billion, or 10% of medical spending, last year—and lawmakers say they’re focused on cost-cutting. But, experts say, “no one wants to tell Americans the bad news.... More »

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obesity • health care • Congress • health care costs • obesity epidemic • Senate Finance Committee • health care reform • Doritos • beef jerky • potato chips • personal responsibility

(Newser) - The medical cost of obesity has almost doubled over the last decade to $147 billion annually, a new study finds. Treating obesity-related disorders now accounts for almost 10% of the total spending on health care, reports Bloomberg. Each obese person costs the government or insurers an average of $1,429—... More »

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obesity • health care • health care costs • Centers for Disease Control and Prevention • RTI International

OPINION

Let's Do to Big Food
What We Did to Big Tobacco

'Big Food' and 'Big Tobacco' have a lot in common

Jul 24, 09 11:30 AM CDT
(Newser) - After decades of anti-smoking campaigns, Big Tobacco has been brought low and ashtrays have “gone the way of spittoons,” writes Ellen Goodman of the Boston Globe. It’s high time we gave Big Food the same treatment. “Now that two-thirds of Americans are overweight, the lethal... More »

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obesity • food • obesity epidemic • cigarettes • fast food industry • food industry • Big Tobacco

 Fat TV Is Ratings Heavyweight 

Dance Your Ass Off is latest weight-centric hit

Jul 22, 09 2:57 PM CDT
(Newser) - As American waistlines continue to expand, a crop of fat-centric TV shows has emerged to cater to viewers who struggle with their weight, CNN reports. From NBC’s The Biggest Loser, to Lifetime’s Drop Dead Diva, Style’s Ruby, and Fox’s upcoming More to Love, networks have embraced... More »

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obesity • television • NBC • fat • Fox • Oxygen Media • Lifetime • the biggest loser • More to Love • Dance Your Ass Off • Style Network

GLOSSIES

 I Think, 
 Therefore 
 I Overeat 

New fleet of books tries to explain American obesity

Jul 18, 09 8:09 PM CDT
(Newser) - As the waistlines of Americans continue to expand, so is the genre of literature seeking to explain why, Elizabeth Kolbert writes in the New Yorker, profiling no fewer than seven books on the subject—including one that endorses “fat power.” The Fat Studies Reader argues that the real... More »

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obesity • obesity epidemic • fat • overweight • book • weight gain

OPINION


 Can a Size 18 
 Surgeon General 
 Inspire a Fat Nation? 

No: Benjamin can inspire those of above-average weight

Jul 15, 09 12:47 PM CDT
(Newser) - Regina Benjamin is supremely qualified to be surgeon general—except on one count, argue some: “The anti-fat brigade wonder if a country plagued by obesity should have an above average-weight woman speaking to public health,” writes Frances Kissling in Salon. Yes, we should, Kissling says. Countless Americans are... More »

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obesity • public health • Surgeon General • overweight • Regina Benjamin

(Newser) - Researchers couldn't understand why the pedometers they had attached to obese children showed they got plenty of exercise—until they realized they were counting dog steps, reports the BBC. Several of the London 11- and 12-year-olds taking part in the study simply attached the devices to their pets' collars. More »

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obesity • childhood obesity • fat • obese • pedometer

(Newser) - The American South is the most obese region in the country because of a “perfect storm” of factors, Claire Suddath writes for Time. Mississippi, whose 33% adult obesity rate makes it the fattest state, is also the poorest, with 21% of people living under the poverty line. That... More »

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obesity • heat • Mississippi • poverty • public transportation • excercise • South • Southern United States • physical activity

 Mississippi Still Porkiest, 
 but Alabama Closing In 

Obesity up in 23 states: report

Jul 1, 09 12:17 PM CDT
(AP) - Mississippi's still king of cellulite, but an ominous tide is rolling toward the Medicare doctors in neighboring Alabama: obese baby boomers. It's time for the nation's annual obesity rankings and, outside of fairly lean Colorado, there's little good news. Obesity rates among adults rose in 23 states over the past... More »

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obesity • baby boomer • obesity epidemic • Medicare • fat • Alabama • Mississippi • Colorado

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