Do You Want The Government All Up In Your Junk Food?
Over 60 percent of Americans are overweight or obese. Most of us can agree that’s high. But we don’t agree how to fix it, nor can we agree on who is responsible for the problem. Is it time for the...
View ArticleChildhood Obesity, Thoughts On Ramadan, And Radio Retrospective
Coming up on Weekday, August 8 at 10:00 a.m.Childhood Obesity Declining Among America’s PoorestSince the mid 1970’s, childhood obesity rates in America have doubled. In recent years however, the tide...
View ArticleInsecticide Exposure Could Make You Fat, Washington Researchers Say
Even if you haven’t been exposed to DDT in your lifetime, researchers say it could still have an effect on you – and your weight.
View ArticleHow Limitations Of Self Control And Corporate Marketing Set Us Up For Obesity...
Ross Reynolds talks with Dr. Deborah Cohen about her new book, “A Big Fat Crisis: The Hidden Forces Behind The Obesity Epidemic – And How We Can End It."She says there are two reasons for the obesity...
View ArticleMichelle Obama Lobbies Congress Over School Lunch Program
Transcript STEVE INSKEEP, HOST: It's MORNING EDITION from NPR News. I'm Steve Inskeep.RENEE MONTAGNE, HOST: And I'm Renee Montagne. President Obama is having a group of teachers over for lunch today....
View ArticleIs Obesity A Disease?
Last year the American Medical Association voted to recognize obesity as a disease. In a June 18, 2013, press release, AMA board member Dr.
View ArticleWhat Makes Us Fat: Is It Eating Too Much Or Moving Too Little?
We're constantly hearing messages that we're eating too much and not moving around enough. Now researchers suggest that we're actually not eating more than we did 20 years ago, it's that we're much...
View ArticleOne Step To Combat Obesity: Make Stairs More Attractive
If there's a single invention that helped shape New York City, literally, it might be the elevator. Along with steel frame construction, the elevator allowed New York City to grow up.But according to...
View ArticleIdaho Most Obese State In The West, Rate Continues To Climb
New figures on weight show Idaho stands out among Western states -- but not in the way public health officials would like.
View ArticleYour Chair Is Killing You (Literally)
Ross Reynolds speaks with Dr. James Levine about his book, "Get Up! Why Your Chair is Killing You and What You Can Do About It." Dr. Levine treats obesity at the Mayo Clinic and he’s the inventor of...
View ArticleNew Crash Test Dummy To Gain Pounds To Reflect Fatalities Among Obese
More than one-third of Americans are obese, and one recent study showed that obese drivers are more likely to die in a car crash.
View ArticleCan Family Secrets Make You Sick?
In the 1980s, Dr. Vincent Felitti, now director of the California Institute of Preventive Medicine in San Diego, discovered something potentially revolutionary about the ripple effects of child sexual...
View ArticleWhy Los Angeles' Fast Food Ban Did Nothing To Check Obesity
There's a researcher at the RAND Corporation who has been building a reputation as a curmudgeonly skeptic when it comes to trendy ways to fight America's obesity epidemic.First, Roland Sturm took aim...
View ArticleUW Study Links Obesity To Socioeconomic Status
For years, researchers have been connecting the dots between socioeconomic status and obesity rates. A new study from the University of Washington makes those connections even stronger.The study,...
View ArticleDemand For Organs To Grow As Hep C, Obesity Increase
Nearly 10,000 Americans got organ transplants this year. They’re the lucky ones; there are more than 10 times that number waiting for an organ. That gap between supply and demand is only expected to grow.
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