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Cities try to cut the fat with weight-loss programs
Los Angeles Times: Ten pounds can seem like a hundred when you’re trying to lose weight. So just think how Oklahoma City residents must feel. They’re looking to lose a million. Across the country, mayors
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This Stigma of Obesity
Linda Bartoshuk University of Florida In the food and health sciences, the medical effects of obesity are well-documented and well-publicized. But, just as obesity may be associated with a variety of health issues, it
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The “Obesity Epidemic”
Understanding food behavior and the “obesity epidemic” requires accurate data on weight. This month Katherine Flegal tells us about how these data are collected and what they show. Flegal is a Distinguished Consultant at the
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Eating into the Nation’s Obesity Epidemic
“What product does the slogan ‘Melts in your mouth, not in your hand’ belong to?” Kelly Brownell challenged his listeners. They chuckled and shouted in unison “M&Ms.” The audience hadn’t expected a pop quiz when
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A History of Eating: The Movement to Suppress Passive Eating and the Risks of Side-plate Food
JULY 15, 2010: With the conquest of the cigarette hazard well in hand in the late 1990s, the attention of American health reformers turned to the next treatable threat to immortality: obesity. Though it was
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A Growing Crisis of Overfeeding
The opening to Kelly D. Brownell’s recently published essay “Overfeeding the Future.” In its peak year, the primary U.S. government nutrition education program (called 5 a Day) was given $3 million for promotion. The food
