Track-It Obesity epidemic

Girls and obese children are likelier to take advantage of this knowledge Source: HealthDay Related MedlinePlus Pages: Child Nutrition, Food Labeling, Obesity in Children

Parents have long urged kids to finish their food. But new research suggests parents’ best intentions may be feeding bad habits. Brigham Young University sociology professors Drs. Ben Gibbs and Renata Forste found that clinical obesity at 24...

Research shows that clinical obesity at 24 months of age strongly traces back to infant feeding patterns.

Researchers analyzed meals from independent and small-chain restaurants, which account for approximately 50% of the nation’s restaurant locations. They found that the average single meal contained two to three times the estimated calorie needs...

Just one meal often provides most of the daily recommended amounts, encouraging obesity Source: HealthDay Related MedlinePlus Pages: Dietary Sodium, Nutrition

A new study suggests that the American obesity epidemic may have something to do with the rapidly rising number of sleep apnea cases.  Sleep apnea is a condition in which people have trouble staying in deep sleep because their throats close,...

The foundation is funding public screenings of Weight of the Nation, the award-winning HBO documentary series, to educate people on the obesity epidemic and get them talking about it.

Researcher calls troubled sleep an 'uncalculated cost' of America's weight epidemic Source: HealthDay Related MedlinePlus Pages: Obesity, Sleep Apnea

America hates fat people. There, I said it. I'll say it again: America hates fat people. We make America feel uncomfortable. We require attention. You cannot ignore us as we walk down a street, or sit in our car, or dare to enter a mall. We are...

Most people don't think about fat insects or hibernating animals when they talk about the cause of obesity, so it's refreshing to see a book that tackles obesity as a normal process that all animals have learned. In his new book The Fat Switch,...