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Fat owners linked to fat dogs--but not fat cats
Booster ShotsMany thanks to the Lempert Report for alerting us to a piece of pet-obesity news. A study published in the journal Public Health Nutrition investigated the relationship between body weight in pet owners and body weight in their pets. Its...... -
'The Biggest Loser': The worst-case scenario
Show TrackerThe unthinkable happened: Father and daughter fell below the yellow line. Together. Before we get to that, the contestants faced a Texas-sized challenge â raising awareness about obesity in the Lone Star State, which lays claim to five of the...... -
Controlling cholesterol in children
Doctors may not agree on the need to screen children for high cholesterol, but those who do will likely want to treat kids with abnormal results.
Lifestyle interventions, especially dietary changes, form the foundation of any lipid treatment plan. Fat...Tags: Children, Pharmaceuticals, Diets and Dieting, Heart Disease, Physical Conditions
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Vegetarian kids
Toddlers who refuse to eat furry animals; teenagers who suddenly hate everything their parents cook; children of vegetarian parents. Whether it's your choice or theirs, raising a vegetarian kid can be a challenge.
Along with the power struggles --...Tags: Children, Burger King, Death, Infants, Diets and Dieting
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Is binge eating a psychiatric disorder?
Rina Silverman's refrigerator is almost always empty. She keeps it that way to avert episodes of frantic food consumption, often at night after a full meal, in which she tastes nothing and feels nothing but can polish off a party-sized bag of chips or a...Tags: Anorexia, Advice Columns and Columnists, Television, Social Sciences, Columbia University
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HCG diet was largely discredited long ago
A long-ago discredited fad diet has been getting increased attention lately, thanks to Web chatter and the claims of a bestselling author. The so-called HCG diet's recent popularity is a bit surprising -- and not just because research suggests it doesn'...Tags: Science, Physiology, Diets and Dieting, Health, U.S. Army
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Bullying in a good cause?
Opinion L.A.As any viewer of morning television knows, the perennial campaign to "save the children" is being fought on two fronts. One is the war on bullying. The other is the crusade against childhood obesity. But suppose the two causes are in conflict. U.S. News... -
U.S. obesity rates reaching a resting point, studies show
Americans may not be collectively doomed to die in their recliners after all, one hand in the chips bag, the other stretching for the remote. Obesity levels seem to be leveling off or slowing across most of the population, according to two new...Tags: Children, Education, Health, Landforms, Adults
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Plus-size furniture grows with America's girth
It can be a bit delicate to ask a furniture shopper: "Oh, sir, um, maybe, ah, you'd like to see something a bit, hmmm, sturdier?"
We are, as a people, as a sitting-in-chairs public, big. Bigger than we ought to be, health authorities frequently tell us....Tags: IKEA, Alvar Aalto, Companies and Corporations, Furniture
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Exercise vs. Counting Calories
As a nation, we are obviously getting fatter and fatter. Not only are we ever more confused about how to lose weight, we're particularly fuzzy on the question of how big a role exercise plays and whether we just have to count calories.
So, here's the...Tags: Health Organizations, Social Issues, Death, Hormones and Metabolism, Education
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Fat American Children: Many Causes, a Lifetime of Effects
The percentage of American children who are overweight or obese has been growing for decades, and now nearly one in three has a body mass index that's greater than normal. Although evidence suggests that obesity rates are leveling off overall, for some...Tags: Children, Social Issues, Minority Groups, Television, Entertainment
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Blood pressure: weight loss
As people gain weight, their blood pressure tends to go up. Fortunately, as they lose weight, their blood pressure tends to go down -- but only so far, says Dr. Karol Watson, co-director of preventive cardiology and director of the hypertension clinic...Tags: Weight Loss, High Blood Pressure, Low Fat Diet, University of Southern California, Education
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