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NEWS ABOUT: obesity

obesity stories: 208 news summaries

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(Newser) - As couples grow more committed to each other, their waistlines often grow as well, Time reports. During their first few years of matrimony, couples are twice as likely to become obese as their dating peers, according to a new study being published next month. If they merely move in... More »

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obesity • obesity epidemic • marriage • dating • relationship • women's issues

(Newser) - A few extra pounds can actually be good for you, the Globe and Mail reports. A recent long-term study of Canadian health records shows that people classified as overweight—with a Body Mass Index of 25 to 30—are 17% less likely to die than those with “normal”... More »

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obesity • Body Mass Index • public health • overweight • mortality • longevity • scientific study • BMI • longitudinal study • women's issues

(Newser) - Being a touch on the heavy side could help you live an extra few years, Japanese researchers say. People who were a little overweight at 40 lived 6 to 7 years longer than those who were very thin at that age, AFP reports. The very thin had a life expectancy... More »

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obesity • study • obesity epidemic • life expectancy • overweight • thin

(Newser) - So-called “passengers of size” have been irritating fellow airline passengers for decades, but lately the scales have tipped decisively against them, the Wall Street Journal reports. Many airlines now require wider travelers to buy two seats, a solution that pleases the skinny, but miffs advocates for the obese.... More »

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obesity • airline industry • obese • airplanes

 Gain Less Pregnancy 
 Weight If Obese: Docs 

New guidelines say rising obesity puts mom, baby at risk

May 28, 09 2:44 PM CDT
(Newser) - Obese women should gain between 11-20 pounds when pregnant, new guidelines urge; the figure is about half what’s recommended for women of normal weight, HealthDay News reports, and reflect concerns about the effect of rising obesity rates on mother and child. More »

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obesity • pregnancy • childhood obesity • weight gain • guidelines

Heart and Gum Disease Linked by Gene: Study

Periodontitis patients should cut out risk factors, scientists say

May 26, 09 3:25 PM CDT
(Newser) - Scientists have identified a link between gum disease and heart disease, the BBC reports, finding the same genetic variation in a group of patients with heart disease and a group with severe periodontitis. “Now we know for sure that there is a strong genetic link, patients with periodontitis should... More »

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obesity • genetics • diabetes • dental health • heart disease • smoking • genes • genetic research • gum disease • gene mutation

OPINION

 Soda Tax Makes Good Sense 


May 20, 09 10:49 AM CDT
(Newser) - The soda tax is a great idea, and its probable death at the hands of lobbyists serves to highlight all the problems with our tax system, writes David Leonhardt in the New York Times. The current system doesn’t raise enough money, and it’s “complex in all the... More »

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obesity • health care costs • taxes • diabetes • public health • soda • sugar • lobbyists • corn syrup • soda tax

Obese People Have More Flu Complications

In H1N1 patients, fat had same effects as diabetes, heart disease

May 20, 09 8:42 AM CDT
(Newser) - Scientists at the CDC have noticed a new trend in cases of swine flu: "We were surprised by the frequency of obesity among the severe cases that we've been tracking," says an epidemiologist, adding that it might be cause to make obese people a priority for a... More »

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obesity • pregnancy • California • diabetes • Centers for Disease Control and Prevention • heart disease • epidemiology • swine flu • H1N1 virus

(Newser) - Vogue's editor-in-chief gave Oprah Winfrey some advice before she graced the mag's cover in 1998: Lose some weight, babe. Like 20 pounds. "It was a very gentle suggestion," said Anna Wintour in an unaired portion of her 60 Minutes segment last night, Us reports. "I said... More »

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obesity • Oprah Winfrey • Vogue • Anna Wintour • magazine cover

Taller Workers Top Pay Ladder

Extra 4 inches adds 2%-3% in hourly wages for women and men, Aussie study says

May 17, 09 7:52 PM CDT
(Newser) - Taller workers have a leg up when it comes to paychecks, AFP reports. An Australian study has found that every additional 4 inches of height adds 3% to a man's hourly wage and 2% to a woman's. Five inches of extra height earns a man the salary of a worker... More »

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obesity • workplace discrimination • discrimination • weight • height

Saudi Crackdown Sends Female Gym Rats to Sidelines

Religious leaders say sports are unfeminine

May 14, 09 3:51 PM CDT
(Newser) - Though obesity and diabetes are on the rise in Saudi Arabia, officials there are cracking down on women-only sports clubs because they lack licenses—which no government body will actually issue. Leaders say their opposition is based on Islam, but, Caryle Murphy writes for GlobalPost, it stems as much from... More »

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obesity • sports • Islam • Saudi Arabia • diabetes • women's rights • athletics • fitness • Jay-ZTV

 Congress Weighs Soda Tax 

A few cents on every can could improve health

May 12, 09 7:41 AM CDT
(Newser) - With health care reform expected to run the government around $1.2 trillion, Congress is looking for ways to pay for it. A new idea bouncing around Capitol Hill is a soda tax, reports the Wall Street Journal. “Soda is clearly one of the most harmful products in the... More »

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obesity • Congress • health care costs • taxes • soda • sugar • Jay-ZTV • soda tax

(Newser) - It seems the French excel at more than kissing—they spend more time eating and sleeping than citizens of other developed countries, a new report finds. The survey of 18 nations, released today, says the French average nearly 9 hours a day in bed and spend 2 full hours eating... More »

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obesity • sleep • France • healthy eating

INTERVIEW

 Why Our Brains Want 
 What's Bad for Us 


Apr 30, 09 1:46 PM CDT
(Newser) - Former Food and Drug Administration chief David Kessler thinks Americans are victims of “conditioned hyper-eating,” and he’s written a book about it: The End of Overeating: Taking Control of the Insatiable American Appetite. The Wall Street Journal poked him for some answers about how food can “... More »

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obesity • FDA • fat • fast food industry • sugar • overeating • salt • Food and Drug Administration • David Kessler

 Weight a Minute! 
 Fatties Hurt Earth 

Heavier people weigh on planet by excess eating, driving

Apr 20, 09 1:55 AM CDT
(Newser) - People's carbon footprints grow as their weight increases, Reuters reports. By eating and tending to drive more than average, the world's billion overweight people each create an extra ton of carbon emissions annually,  a recent study has calculated. "When it comes to food consumption, moving about in a... More »

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obesity • environment • greenhouse gases • overweight • scientific study • carbon emissions

(Newser) - United Airlines is coming down hard on its chubbier passengers with a new rule requiring those who can’t fit into one seat to buy another ticket, MSNBC reports. “Seatmates of size” are defined as the unlucky passengers who can’t buckle their seatbelts—even with an extension—or... More »

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obesity • United Airlines • air travel • airline seats • extra baggage

(Newser) - Scientists have found a potential new tool to help people lose weight—an unusual form of fat found inside the body. A new batch of studies shows that adults have stores of so-called brown fat, which actually burns calories and generates heat, the New York Times reports. Scientists have... More »

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obesity • health • fat • diet • calories

(AP) - A striking new study says almost 1 in 5 American 4-year-olds is obese, and the rate is alarmingly higher among American Indian children, with nearly a third of them obese. Researchers were surprised to see differences by race at so early an age. Obesity is more common in Hispanic and... More »

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obesity • childhood obesity • obesity epidemic • children • obese

(Newser) - Coke has to run a series of we-goofed ads in Australia after asserting in a recent campaign that the soft drink doesn’t rot teeth, make you fat, or contain much caffeine, the Australian reports. “The moment we saw the ad our eyebrows were raised and that turned... More »

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obesity • Australia • advertising • Coca Cola • caffeine • teeth • retract • dental hygiene • print advertising • corrective

Student Obesity Jumps in Schools Near Fast-Food Joints

Rate 5% higher when kids can walk to outlet

Mar 23, 09 12:20 PM CDT
(Newser) - Students are more likely to be obese when their schools are located within a tenth of a mile of fast-food restaurants, researchers found. In a study of more than a million California ninth-graders over 8 years, they found that the incidence of obesity at schools near the restaurants was 5.... More »

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obesity • high school • childhood obesity • fast food • fast food industry • school lunches

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