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Fat Toddlers Are a Tiny Problem That's Getting Huge
The World Health Organization says the number of children under the age of five-years old who are overweight or obese is now 41 million. That’s 6.1 percent of all infants and toddlers worldwide.
This Study Says Daydreamers Could Be More Likely to Get Fat
A new study from Vanderbilt University School of Medicine has found that those who daydream may have a higher risk of obesity, due to the way their brains are wired.
This Study Says Being Served By Fat Waitstaff Makes You Order More Food
According to new research from Cornell University, being served by overweight front-of-house staff can impact the amount of food we order in restaurants.
It’s Not Junk Food, It’s You
A study published today in Obesity Science & Practice says that efforts to steer eaters away from junk food have been far too simplistic. In fact, for roughly 95 percent of Americans, junk food consumption plays little to no role in their body mass...
A Bad Relationship Can Make You Gorge Yourself
I can already imagine the David Lynch adaptation of this study, where a suburban couple drowns their sorrows in coffee and a lap pool filled to the brim with rum-raisin ice cream and crushed Valium.
Is Obesity a Psychological or Physical Problem?
How does someone become morbidly obese? Are people genetically predisposed to it, or is it a case of nurture over nature?
Chinese Grandparents Are Making Their Grandchildren Fat
China's youth now has a growing obesity epidemic. The primary culprit? Their sweet old grans, according to a new study.
Scientists Have Figured Out Why Some Teenagers Binge Eat
New research from University College London has identified the genetic variations that may cause certain teenagers to binge eat.
Fat Cartoons Are Turning Your Children Into Butterballs
According to new research from Colorado State University, merely exposing children to a plus-sized cartoon character can cause them to overeat.
Substantia Jones's Body-Positive Photos of 'Fat' People
Jones's photography is "part fat, part feminism, part 'fuck you,'" and aims to counter the popular media's narrow representations of body types.
Chinese Restaurants Are Weighing Customers and Giving the Fat Ones Free Food
In Chongqing, southwest China, two restaurants are luring portly men into their venues by weighing them and offering discounts and free meals based on how heavy they are. Women, however, can only claim discounts if they are under a certain weight.
Eating with Fat Friends Is Making You Fat
Researchers at Cornell University have conducted a study that suggests physically fit people change their eating habits when dining with overweight friends. But I've got news for this scientific study: "never trust a skinny chef."