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City Residents Slimmer Than Rural Ones
 City Residents 
 Slimmer Than 
 Rural Ones 
study says
Sep 14, 2012 11:10 AM CDT

City Residents Slimmer Than Rural Ones

Manual labor is down, but diets haven't changed, says study

(Newser) - In the US, there's plenty of obesity to go around, but the problem is significantly worse in rural areas compared to urban ones, a new study finds. Some 39% of rural Americans are obese, versus 33% of urbanites, a researcher tells ABC News . Rather than depending on self-reporting, researchers...

Jerry Brown to Christie: A Push-Up Wouldn&#39;t Kill Ya
Jerry Brown to Christie:
A Push-Up Wouldn't Kill Ya
SUNDAY TALK SHOWS
Sep 9, 2012 10:21 AM CDT

Jerry Brown to Christie: A Push-Up Wouldn't Kill Ya

California governor hits back after Christie disses him as 'old retread'

(Newser) - Jerry Brown might be an "old retread" in Chris Christie's book, but he's a feisty old retread, thank you very much. The California governor today fired back at the New Jersey governor's criticism today on State of the Union, reports Politico . “Yes, well, I'm...

Eyes Settle, Once Again, on Christie's Weight

Obesity a challenge for governor

(Newser) - GOP conventioneers might have been transfixed by New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie's hard-hitting speech last night, but there was something else they couldn't help noticing: He seemed larger than ever. The portly politician has said in the past he needs to do something about his weight, but he'...

Yo-Yo Dieter? You Can Still Lose Weight
 Yo-Yo Dieter? 
 You Can Still 
 Lose Weight 
study says
Aug 16, 2012 10:23 AM CDT

Yo-Yo Dieter? You Can Still Lose Weight

New study finds no lasting negative effects of 'weight cycling'

(Newser) - Heartening news: No matter how many times you've lost and then re-gained weight, a new study suggests it's never too late to shed the pounds once more. Previous studies have found that so-called "yo-yo dieting" can have a negative impact, but the new study of overweight and...

Obesity as Bad for Planet as Overpopulation

And North America is the biggest culprit

(Newser) - We may worry that too many people are draining the planet's resources—but in fact, "it's not how many mouths there are to feed, it's how much flesh there is," a researcher says. His study shows that if every country in the world were as...

Exercise Does Little to Fight Black Girls' Obesity

Health advocates may need to change their message: experts

(Newser) - While exercise is a great way for white girls to fend off obesity, it's hardly effective among blacks, a study finds. Researchers reviewed 1,148 adolescent girls, comparing their physical activity and obesity rates. They found that white 12-year-olds who moved more—falling into the top half of researchers'...

Fat? People Will Always See You That Way

Even after you lose weight, a new study finds

(Newser) - If you're female and overweight, we have bad news: Even if you lose weight, your friends will likely always think of you as fat. A new study finds that women have a hard time shedding the stigma of obesity, notes EurekAlert.org . Young men and women read about a...

Why Food Must Be Regulated Like Tobacco

David Lazarus: It's time to stop the obesity epidemic

(Newser) - The obesity news just keeps getting worse, the latest example being the study warning that 4 in 10 American adults could be obese in less than 20 years. "Americans eat too damn much," writes David Lazarus in the Los Angeles Times . And though it may be distasteful to...

42% of Americans Will Be Obese by 2030
42% of Americans Will Be Obese by 2030
STUDY SAYS
May 8, 2012 1:01 AM CDT

42% of Americans Will Be Obese by 2030

But growth in obesity rate has slowed down significantly

(Newser) - The once-explosive growth in the proportion of Americans who are obese has slowed, but it's still expected to grow to 42% by 2030, according to the latest Centers for Disease Control study. The study found that if the obesity rate stays at the current level—34%—then some $550...

Why We&#39;re Losing the Obesity Fight
 Why We're Losing 
 the Obesity Fight 
OPINION
Apr 17, 2012 1:01 PM CDT

Why We're Losing the Obesity Fight

Frank Bruni says we're not appreciating the gravity of our weight problem

(Newser) - It's time to stop sneering at the morbidly obese as "the undisciplined miscreants of modern American life," writes Frank Bruni in the New York Times ; they're just doing what comes naturally. Bruni, riffing off the upcoming book and HBO documentary The Weight of the Nation, argues...

Overweight? Blame It on CO2

 Overweight? 
 Blame It on CO2 
study says
Mar 15, 2012 4:53 PM CDT

Overweight? Blame It on CO2

Research points to emissions' effect on our bodies

(Newser) - Why are we fat? It's just something in the air, researchers say—namely carbon dioxide. A Danish researcher found that subjects' weight gain over two decades matched the increase in carbon dioxide over the same period, the Daily Mail reports. What's more, between 1986 and 2010, American obesity...

Black Women Heavier, Happier With Bodies
 Black Women 
 Heavier, Happier 
 With Bodies 
survey finds
Feb 28, 2012 6:31 AM CST

Black Women Heavier, Happier With Bodies

66% of overweight or obese black women report having high self-esteem

(Newser) - Hefty can be heavenly. That seems to be the feeling of many black women. While they tend to be heavier than white women, they're significantly happier with their bodies, a Washington Post /Kaiser Family Foundation survey has discovered. While only 41% of average-sized or thin white women report having...

US Obesity Rates Leveling Off
 US Obesity Rates Leveling Off 
Jan 18, 2012 9:32 AM CST

US Obesity Rates Leveling Off

After 30 years on the rise, rates appear to be stabilizing

(Newser) - After rapidly rising for three decades, obesity rates in the US are apparently stabilizing—finally, the Los Angeles Times reports. New data shows just a slight rise in obesity rates since 2005, and many experts say this flattening reflects the success of efforts such as healthier school lunches and nutritional...

15 Things That Will Make You Fat

Holidays, relationships, and quitting smoking among the dangers

(Newser) - With Americans continuing to get bigger and bigger , we need all the help we can get to stay healthy—so the Daily Beast offers a warning on 15 things that might cause you to pack on the pounds:
  • Holiday season: With all the food, stress, and booze associated with Thanksgiving,
...

Would We Ever Elect the Fat Guy?

Americans find hefty politicians hard to swallow

(Newser) - Is Chris Christie too fat for the White House? His extra girth could serve him well in an election—to a point. It makes him look like one of the gang, if the gang is the growing number of obese Americans. And his pounds prove he's a guy not...

Woman Dies After Lap-Band Procedure—5th So Far

Her outpatient center calls story 'premature'

(Newser) - Lap-Band surgery appears to have claimed another victim. A woman in Orange County, Calif., died earlier this month after undergoing the procedure, the fifth to expire since the 1-800-GET-THIN advertising campaign started two years ago, the Los Angeles Times reports. Paula Rojeski, 55, was 5 foot 5 and weighed around...

US Exports Its Fat-Is-Evil Perception Around the World

Anthropologists see stigma showing up in other nations for first time

(Newser) - Nice job, America. Your obsession with body weight is now making people in other countries feel bad. So say anthropologists who surveyed attitudes about weight around the world and found that a "fat stigma" is showing up for the first time in places such as American Samoa, Puerto Rico,...

Churchgoers More Likely to Be Obese

 Churchgoers 
 More Likely to 
 Be Obese 
study says
Mar 25, 2011 11:25 AM CDT

Churchgoers More Likely to Be Obese

Researchers suspect all those church functions are to blame

(Newser) - Achieving inner peace comes with a price, apparently. People who go to church regularly are more prone to pack on the pounds, reports Time . In one analysis, researchers at Northwestern University found that those who attended church or some kind of church function a minimum of once a week were...

Fat Americans Need More Space on Buses: Feds

...and feds think bus-testing regulations need to change to reflect this

(Newser) - As Americans get heftier, bus bosses are scrambling to support the extra weight. The Federal Transit Administration wants to tweak its bus-testing regulations so that they better reflect the people that will likely be riding those buses. It has proposed raising the average bus-passenger weight from 150 to 175 pounds,...

5 Not-So-Obvious Reasons We're Fat

Looking beyond lack of willpower

(Newser) - The number of overweight Americans keeps, umm, ballooning, but why? LiveScience looks past self-control issues and too little exercise to some less-discussed factors. So many of us are fat because of:
  1. The government: 29 million Americans instantly became overweight in 1998 when the government lowered the overweight threshold from a
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