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Mexico has asked its all private and government schools to limit sales of junk food to protect children from being overweight or obese.
About 30 percent of children and 70 percent of adults in Mexico are overweight.
The law does not ban sales.
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We’re Number #1! Now let me sit down and catch my breath.
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As Americans have grown fatter over the last generation, inviting more heart disease, diabetes and premature deaths, all that extra weight has also become a burden in...
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There used to be a time when being morbidly obese was not only atypical but also seen as freakish. That people so fat were just such an abnormality that they were seen...
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Ana Idolo may be too young to order her own food, but the 2-year-old knows what she wants. As her father Marco unpacks the Happy Meal he ordered for her at a Barcelona...
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Lincoln University students now have one more hurdle to pass before they graduate: losing weight. According to a recently instituted requirement, university students...
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Venezuela - Call it the Bolivarian battle of the bulge.
President Hugo Chavez said in a televised speech Friday that “there are lots of fat people” in...
made popular Nov 17 2009
A health care debate is going on in Japan, similar to one in the US. The Japanese lawmakers have made obese people illegal and have set a maximum waistline size for...
made popular Nov 12 2009
In Japan, being thin isn’t just the price you pay for fashion or social acceptance. It’s the law.
So before the fat police could throw her in pudgy purgatory, Miki...
made popular Nov 11 2009
Is it cruel to laugh at fat people? Some would say that it is rude and an affront to public decency. But hogwash, I say. Fat people are not the disabled. Fat people...
made popular Oct 19 2009
No more tacos for you Sr. Gordo, unless of course you have at least 3 helpings of veggies on the side.
Mexico City has announced a new program to trim the fat off...
made popular Oct 19 2009
Succulent pork tacos. Frisbee-sized disks of fried pigskin. Enchiladas smothered in cream.
Yes, the cuisine in Mexico is divine, but it is downright calorific. And the...
made popular Oct 7 2009
You have to give it up to America’s food industry. They never fail to devise new ways to maximize the fat. Americans need to butter and sugar up everything. And...
made popular Oct 7 2009
Health Care is the topic of the summer in these United States. There’s no way to avoid hearing about it. 24-hour news networks have devoted up to half of their...
made popular Aug 6 2009
The United State if officially the world’s fattest nation. More than a third of American adults are obese, with 40% of children as well. The Southern states with...
made popular Jul 24 2009
There isn’t a nation fatter than America. Americans are the most obesity-stricken people and paradoxically the most health-obsessed people in the world.
Because...
made popular Jul 14 2009
A new report has shown New Zealand to be the third fattest nation in the world, after the United States and Mexico. The Health Data 2009 report, published this month,...
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The rising numbers of fat people are blamed for global warming by the researchers at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. Each fat person is said to be...
made popular Apr 21 2009
The Economist introduces us to Hamlin, West Virginia.
Hamlin is one of the fattest, most unhealthiest towns in America where people seem to be content to eat...
made popular Mar 6 2009
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An independent study conducted by economists at the U.S. Department of Labor reports data which show that overweight women makes less than their thinner counterparts....
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To begin with, there are two basic components to lose weight: diet and exercise. You can’t take any shortcuts here; you can’t do one without the other. But...
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Are those expensive, chic-looking jeans that you used to flaunt in college just lying there in your wardrobe because they don’t fit anymore. Is it getting too...
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According to research Obesity is increasing among adult American women. About 34% of them are fighting with obesity. Researchers say there are various constant...
made popular Nov 15 2008
It is a well known fact that excess fat content in the body is the reason for putting on weight. And we also know that burning more calories than we eat is the best way...
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Nearly one in four British people is at least double the healthy weight for their height. The numbers are rising faster than anywhere else in Europe, and if the trend...
made popular Nov 1 2008
I may catch some heat for this; I`ve honestly tried to shake these horrible, politically incorrect feelings, but I can’t, I’m angry. For days now I’ve...
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An enormous coffin was made special for the tragic death of the half ton, Jose Luis Garza from Juarez, Mexico.
The funeral was delayed as cemetary workers worked...
made popular Oct 9 2008
We all want to live in a Flat world. No, I am not talking about Nandan Nielkani’s open trade opportunities for everybody. I am talking about the growing waist and...
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Scientists have found a protein that can promote the burning of body fat – a discovery that could lead to new ways to tackle obesity.
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Alabama state facing steep rise in its obese population, has decided to crack down on its state employees who are too fat. It has given its 37,527 employees a year to...
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We all like chubby kids and go gaga over the baby weight as soon as they are born. She was 4.8 Lbs! Well we do take pride in this and for many more years to come,...
made popular Aug 14 2008
Children carrying the first gene that has been clearly linked to obesity find it harder than others to tell when they are full, London-based researchers say.
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Research shows that fruit juices, regarded by many as a healthy way to start the day, raise the odds of a form of diabetes linked to poor diet and obesity by up to a...
made popular Jul 24 2008
Obese means having much of body fat that the health is at risk. Too much body fat can lead to heart diesease, diabetes, sleep apnea, high blood pressure and arthistis.
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In a study, researchers found that obese patients who had stents placed in diseased arteries had a lower incidence of adverse cardiac events than their normal-weight...
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New studies are showing how important lifestyle choices are for preventing Alzheimer’s. As demonstrated by several studies, people who were severely overweight,...
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Earlier this week the big news in Australia was how the country is now the World’s Fattest Nation:
Australia has become the fattest nation in the world, with...
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According to Canadian researchers people who had surgery for getting rid of morbid obesity had a much lower risk of cancer then the obese ones who did not go through...
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Japan wants to cut the flab. The country is taking extreme measures to restrict the waistlines to 33.5 inches for men and 35.4 inches for women. The government has...
made popular Jun 13 2008
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Biking commuter Jim Richards is shown Friday, Nov. 21, 2008, outside Mast General Store in Knoxville, Tenn. Appalachian-themed retailer pays workers like Richards $4 a day to ride, walk or catch a bus, a save-the-planet stipend that comes with a side...
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