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obesity stories: 206 news summaries

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 Obese? Court Backs 
 Two Seats for 
 One Fare 

Those 'functionally disabled by obesity' get fare break in Canada

Nov 21, 08 3:36 AM CST
(Newser) - Obese air travelers in Canada who need two seats must be given the extra seat for free, Reuters reports. The Supreme Court of Canada has refused to hear an appeal from Air Canada and two other airlines after they failed to win a lower court appeal on the fare issue.... More »

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obesity • disabled • obese • Air Canada • airline passengers • airline seats • Candadian Transportation Agency • Federal Court of Appeal • Supreme Court of Canada

 Healthiest US City Gets Moving 

Burlington, Vt., tops list due to active citizens; Huntington, W.Va., is unhealthiest

Nov 17, 08 2:27 PM CST
(Newser) - Burlington, Vt., is America's healthiest city, with 92% of residents reporting that they're in good or great health. A number of factors account for the gap between Burlington and Huntington, W.Va., which brought up the rear in the CDC's healthy-city rankings, the AP reports. Burlington's residents are younger on... More »

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obesity • health • diabetes • Centers for Disease Control and Prevention • obesity epidemic • diet • fast food • poverty • Burlington, Vermont • economy • Huntington West Virginia • Lake Champlain • health food

 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

 Obese Kids Have 
 Middle-Aged Arteries 

Scientists warn childhood obesity epidemic may lead to much shorter lifespans

Nov 12, 08 4:19 AM CST
(Newser) - Arteries of seriously overweight teenagers are as clogged as those of middle-aged people, according to US News & World Report. Researchers used ultrasound to measure the neck arteries of chubby kids at risk of heart trouble and were alarmed to find that their "vascular age" was an average of... More »

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obesity • childhood obesity • children • American Heart Association • pediatrics • arteries • heart health


 Beefy Brits 
 to Get Paid 
 for Walking 

England allots $47M
to tackle obesity 'epidemic'

Nov 10, 08 7:05 PM CST
(Newser) - Fat people in Manchester, England will soon be paid to go outside and walk around, the Daily Mail reports. Part of a $47 million national plan to tackle obesity, the scheme will reward walkers and joggers with free gym time and healthy food. But critics say people are bound to... More »

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obesity • health • England • exercise • Manchester

 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

Diabetes in US Nearly Doubles in 10 Years

South is hardest hit,
as obesity and lack of exercise fuel surge

Oct 30, 08 4:13 PM CDT
(Newser) - The nation's diabetes epidemic shows no signs of slowing, Reuters reports. Almost twice as many people were diagnosed with the disease between 2005 and 2007 as between 1995 and 1997. Nearly all of the new cases are Type 2, which is linked to obesity and lack of exercise. Nine of... More »

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obesity • diabetes • Centers for Disease Control and Prevention • epidemic • American Diabetes Association • excercise • South • Southern United States

 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

Eating Too Fast Makes You Fat

Men who scarf their meals are 84% more likely to be obese; women even more so

Oct 22, 08 12:52 PM CDT
(Newser) - When your mom said to slow down and chew your food, she may have been more right than she knew: Speedy eating can double your risk of being overweight, according to a new study. Japanese scientists compared hundreds of food-savoring people to their sprinter counterparts, and found a striking correlation... More »

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obesity • eating • overweight • scientific research

(Newser) - New research takes an accepted truth about obese people and flips it upside down: They may, in fact, get less pleasure out of eating than people of normal weight, the LA Times reports. Researchers found that people who have weaker reward circuitry in the brain tend to overeat. Thus, while... More »

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obesity • food • obesity epidemic • dopamine • overeating • high calorie diet

Weight Can Increase Risk
of Breast Cancer

But side effects of treatment can make it harder to shed pounds

Oct 8, 08 3:44 PM CDT
(Newser) - There may be a direct connection between weight and breast cancer in women, MSNBC reports. Overweight women “have more exposure to estrogen,” one doctor said, "which we think increases their risk of several different cancers.” Breast cancer patients across the country are now coupling their therapy... More »

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obesity • breast cancer • weight loss • estrogen • cancer research • body image • postmenopausal women

Half-Ton Mexican Man Dies
After Pleading For Help

Man had gone on TV to ask nation for assistance in solving his weight problem

Oct 8, 08 2:25 AM CDT
(AP) - A bedridden 990-pound man who had appealed on Mexican television for help tackling his weight problem has died of heart failure, AP reports. Emergency officials had to knock down Jose Luis Garza's bedroom wall and hoist him onto the back of a friend's pickup truck to take him to the... More »

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obesity • Mexico • weight loss • heart failure • obese • Manuel Uribe

Genetic Hiccup Causes Obesity In Mice: Study

Evolutionary relic in humans could be fixed by drug or gene therapy

Oct 2, 08 5:07 PM CDT
(Newser) - Scientists have discovered an immune system pathway in the brain that they think is the root cause of diseases related to obesity, Reuters reports. When mice were overfed, the hypothalamus secreted a compound that suppressed the conversion of food into energy, and led to inflammation associated with heart disease and... More »

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obesity • diabetes • chemicals and obesity • heart disease • gene therapy • immune system • scientific study • genetic engineering • hypothalamus

 World's Most Obese Man to Wed 

Fianceé helped Uribe trim 550 lbs. off record weight of 1,230

Oct 2, 08 1:34 PM CDT
(Newser) - Manuel Uribe, once the world's heaviest man, is being swept away to the chapel—quite literally. The 43-year-old will be towed through the streets to his Oct. 26 wedding in Monterrey, Mexico, on a customized bed, reports the AP. More »

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obesity • Mexico • world record • wedding • obese • Manuel Uribe

 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

Americans Lose Love for Dieting

More people accept their extra weight,
focus on eating
better-quality food

Sep 21, 08 4:39 PM CDT
(Newser) - Americans are obsessed with dieting, right? Well, not anymore. A new survey indicates that only 26% of US women and 16% of men are on diets, the Boston Globe reports—the lowest numbers in 2 decades. And there are plenty of reasons why. More »

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obesity • food • health • dieting • Atkins diet • South Beach diet

Inmate Too Fat to Execute:
Just Shoot Me

Cooey says that he didn't intentionally
pile on the pounds

Sep 17, 08 12:54 PM CDT
(Newser) - Convicted killer Richard Cooey knows there have been jokes at his expense. But he insists he’s not afraid to die— just too fat for lethal injection. At 5’ 7”, 267 pounds, Cooey is so rotund that it’s nigh-impossible to find a vein. “It's hard getting access to... More »

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obesity • death penalty • capital punishment • Richard Wade Cooey III

Surgeon General Targets Killer Blood Clots

Easily treated 'silent' condition kills about 100,000 each year

Sep 15, 08 5:08 PM CDT
(Newser) - An easily treatable complication related to blood clots kills 100,000 Americans every year, but a new federal awareness campaign aims to change that, the AP reports. Although deep vein thrombosis affects up to 600,000 people a year, "I don't think most people understand that this is a... More »

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obesity • public health • deep vein thrombosis • Surgeon General • pulmonary embolism • awareness campaign • sedentary behavior

 Exercise Trumps Obesity Gene 

Active lifestyle defeats fat-driving genes, study finds

Sep 9, 08 8:40 AM CDT
(Newser) - Regular exercise and an active lifestyle can defeat the so-called obesity gene, which predisposes millions of people to be overweight, reports WebMD. Researchers found that people with variations of the gene were more likely to be overweight, but that the gene had no effect on those who included three to... More »

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obesity • genetics • exercise • University of Miami • FTO gene • Evadnie Rampersaud • University of Maryland School of Medicine

UK Weighs Taking Fat Kids From Parents

Dangerously chubby children may end up in social service system

Aug 16, 08 5:47 AM CDT
(Newser) - Local government leaders in Britain warn that they may need to take drastic action to protect the health of dangerously overweight children—including taking them away from their parents, the Independent reports. They predict that a million British children will be clinically obese within four years, and that the social... More »

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obesity • parenting • childhood obesity • United Kingdom • obesity epidemic • children • child neglect • Britain

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