CalorieLab Calorie Counter News (Free subscription) | 07/11/2009
People under stress are more likely to eat junk food, and even kids aren't immune to feeling stressed out these days. Plus, the top junk foods for stress eating. From the RSS feed of CalorieLab News (REF3076322B7) Another likely cause of obesity: Stress
Iowa Avenue (Free subscription) | 07/11/2009
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Business Wire (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
LOS ANGELES--(BUSINESS WIRE)--In today’s landmark hearings called by State Senators Alex Padilla (D-Pacoima) and Elaine Kontominas Alquist (D-San Jose), representatives from the soda industry failed to acquit themselves of a growing body of research implicating sugar-sweetened beverages as the leading culprit in the obesity epidemic. “The science presented today was clear...
Business Wire (Free subscription) | 05/11/2009
--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Senate hearing on November 5: WHAT: With a growing body of research implicating soda as the leading culprit in the nation’s costly obesity epidemic, the California legislature will begin investigating the soda/obesity link in a landmark Senate hearing. For the first time both sides of the issue – representatives of the big three soda companies and...
The Daily Gazette stories (Free subscription) | 03/11/2009
Banning food advertising in children’s television programs and eating more meals as a family are just two of the ideas state officials are suggesting to combat the state’s obesity epidemic.
DietsInReview.com Diet Blog (Free subscription) | 03/11/2009
The role of first lady is whatever she wants to make of it. Some prefer to stay pretty much invisible, while others like to take proactive roles with issues they are passionate about. One of Michelle Obama ’s passions in the first year of her husband’s term is promoting healthy eating… something that has become a sort of national emergency. Now she’s concentrating on childhood obesity . “Nearly...
FuturePundit (Free subscription) | 03/11/2009
This result strengthens my suspicion that high fructose corn syrup is to blame for the obesity epidemic. Decreased physical activity may have little to do with the recent spike in obesity rates among U.S. adolescents, according to researchers at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. Prompted by growing concern that the increase was due to decreased physical activity...
best4fitness.co.uk (Free subscription) | 01/11/2009
Everywhere you look, you'll see the signs of an obesity epidemic in the United States. Adults struggling with their weight, levering themselves into and out of cars. Many so morbidly obese that they'll circle a parking lot four or five times before parking rather than be forced to walk an extra hundred feet.
Government Bytes (Free subscription) | 6 hours ago
... payout to study the relationship between the relationship between "fat taxes" and obesity. To be clear, this is not a fair and balanced study. One of the co-investigators, Frank Chaloupka, co-authored a report for the New England Journal of Medicine last month extolling the virtues of targeted tax increases on sugary beverages. Chaloupka argues that "taxes on beverages that...
Treehugger (Free subscription) | yesterday
Americans Against Food Taxes It didn't take long. Shortly after several leading health researchers published a paper in the New England Journal of Medicine calling for a tax on sugar sweetened beverages as a means of stemming American obesity, an immense lobbying effort to defeat the measure began in Wash... Read the full story on TreeHugger
Movie City Indie (Free subscription) | yesterday
... Bollendorff. The Big Issue invites users to confront the multiple factors causing the modern obesity epidemic.
Creative Class (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
Paul Kennedy famously argued that imperial overstretch — that is devoting too much money and resources to military uses — plays a central role in the decline of great powers, including the United States. But it looks like America’s growing obesity epidemic is reducing the pool of capable recruits, according to this story in The [...]
Connecting the Dots in the New World Order (Free subscription) | 07/11/2009
... enough levels of antibodies to produce the desired response. The moment evidence was found that obesity may be linked to a virus, opportunistic drug company researchers dove into developing an “obesity vaccine.” Now researchers say their obesity vaccine could be ready for market in five years. Searching for genetic clues to the obesity epidemic, in...
Defending the Truth (Free subscription) | 07/11/2009
... enough levels of antibodies to produce the desired response. The moment evidence was found that obesity may be linked to a virus, opportunistic drug company researchers dove into developing an obesity vaccine. Now researchers say their obesity vaccine could be ready for market in five years. Searching for genetic clues to the obesity epidemic, in the hopes of...
Booster Shots (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
Now that public officials and health authorities have recognized the growing problem of obesity, the question is what to do about it. Today, over several hours, California legislators heard testimony about sugar-sweetened soft drinks as they consider possible legislation. It...
