obesity
Science

New Zealand Woman’s Death Blamed On Coca Cola Addiction

It always seemed like a scare tactic that fat-fearing parents would tell their sugar-loving kids: if you drink too much Coke, you could die! (OK, maybe in a not so morbid way.) However, a coroner really has found that a New Zealand woman’s death is the result of an eight-litre-per-day Coke habit.

3 January 2013

Science

This Is Why You Can’t Stop Eating

High fructose corn syrup is in practically everything we eat these days, and doctors and health nuts have been waxing poetic about its dangers for years. Now, a new study from Yale University School of Medicine may finally prove them the right: fructose is making us fat.

3 October 2012

Science

Why Fat People Can’t Help Getting Even Fatter

Put down those bear claws. No, both of them! Researchers at Trinity College Dublin have found that once you’re fat, you’re probably just going to get fatter.

11 July 2012

Science

Being Obese Is Better Than Being Underweight

Modern society is obsessed with weight: everyone longs to be skinny, and obesity is demonised. But while being overweight does carry health risks, a new study suggests that being underweight is far more dangerous than being obese.

19 June 2012

Science

How Much Does Everyone On Earth Weigh?

How much does everyone on Earth weigh if you add it all together? That’s the question a team of UK researchers have asked, and after many calculations, they have the answer.

2 May 2012

Science

Too Little Sleep Activates Genes That Make You Fat

People that sleep a lot are fat and lazy, right? Nope: toss that old idea out right now, because a new study suggests that sleeping for less than seven hours promotes genetic influences associated with weight gain.

15 March 2012

Science

Is CO2 Making You Fat?

There’s a never-ending stream of scientific explanations for obesity. The latest suggests that carbon dioxide contributes to our weight gain, and that as we pump more of it in to the atmosphere, the fatter we become. But can that really be the case?

9 March 2012

Science

Stop Complicating A Simple Obesity Solution: Eat Less, Exercise More

Today an article in The Atlantic discusses “obesogens:” environmental contaminants that some researchers believe are making people fat. Obesogens? Great, another meaningless buzzword we can discuss at dinner parties instead of facing facts: eating too much and not exercising enough is what’s making us fat. Period.

22 December 2011

News

Americans Are So Fat, Washington State Ferries Have To Carry Less Of Them

America’s gotten significantly heavier over the past 20 years and we should have seen this coming. First Kevin Smith gets booted off that flight, then that guy sues White Castle for not having plus-sized booths. Now, one of the nation’s largest ferry systems is obligated to carry fewer people on each trip.

25 August 2011

Science

Too Many Antibiotics Are Making You Fat

By age 18, most people have had up to 20 doses of antibiotics. And that might be making us fat.

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