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How to Talk to Your Children about Putting on Weight
From Jamie Oliver’s 'Food Revolution' to the first lady’s national crusade, it seems that the issue of child obesity is everywhere. Clearly a major health issue, it is also a major self-esteem issue...
View ArticleDIY Checkup: Longterm Priorities for a Healthy Life
How do we plan for a longer, healthier life? According to an Annals of Internal Medicine study, there are four simple priorities people need to have in order to get healthy: quit smoking; eat five...
View ArticlePublic Debate Over a Controversial Childhood Obesity Campaign
Approximately one-third of adults and 17 percent of children in the U.S. are obese. While this public health crisis has spawned a billion dollar diet industry, reality shows dedicated to weight loss,...
View ArticleToo Fat to Work as a Health Professional?
Citizens Medical Center is, by most measures, a respected and respectable hospital. A non-profit, their mission is to serve their community of South Texas. And in their mission, they’ve been mostly...
View ArticleAshley Judd's Puffy Face: Why Do We Care?
Actress Ashley Judd is again in the media spotlight for slamming the media spotlight. This week, Judd penned an article in Daily Beast about her appearance — specifically her so-called "puffy face" —...
View ArticleThe Obese American Future
A new study predicts that 42 percent of American adults will be obese — a category beyond overweight — by the year 2030.Keith Davis is working to accommodate America's bigger, more obese future. He's...
View ArticleConfronting Misconceptions About Race, Weight, and Body Image
Yesterday, we discussed a new study that predicts 42 percent of American adults will be obese by 2030. We're continuing that conversation today, with a look at race, weight, and commonly held...
View ArticleA Mathematician's Take on America's Obesity Epidemic
A new study predicts that 42 percent of American adults will be obese by 2030. And all this week we’re looking at that prediction with people we might not normally think of as obesity specialists —...
View ArticleMoving Beyond Calories In, Calories Out
According to a new study, 42 percent of American adults will be obese by the year 2030. And all this week, The Takeaway looks at that prediction with people we might not normally think of as obesity...
View ArticleListener Stories of Overcoming or Accepting Their Extra Weight
According to a new study, 42 percent of American adults will be obese by the year 2030. All this week, The Takeaway looks at this prediction with a wide range of specialists — from city planners to...
View ArticleC-Sections May Lead to Childhood Obesity
When it comes to childhood obesity, there are a lot of factors that have been blamed: processed food, portion sizes, and poverty, to name just a few. But what if childhood obesity isn’t simply about...
View ArticleObesity Intervention from Your Doctor
How would you react, if during a regular doctor’s checkup, your physician told you that you were obese? That’s what the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force has suggested in a new set of...
View ArticleHow John Manrique Is Getting Better
John Manrique is a Takeaway listener who lost over 70 pounds three years ago and has kept it off. He wrote a book about his journey called “Hey Fat Ass: A Guy’s Guide to Losing Weight and Getting Right.”
View ArticleIs Obesity a Disease?
Doctors deal with obesity and its consequences every day. It's an increasing concern for individual patients and as a matter of public health for the entire population.This week, the American Medical...
View ArticleOpen Phones: Weight and Responsibility
This week on ABC News Governor Chris Christie talked about his weight problem. At the same time, the soda industry began firing back against Mayor Bloomberg’s beverage size regulations. Is YOUR weight...
View ArticleEvery Night You Lose More Than A Pound While You're Asleep (For The Oddest...
Editor's Note: Robert has added an update to this post. Scroll down to read it.Here's a simple question: Why do you weigh more when you go to sleep than when you wake up? Because you do. In the video...
View ArticleCrazy Over Fat
Harriet Brown, an associate professor of magazine journalism at Syracuse University and the author of Brave Girl Eating: A Family's Struggle with Anorexia and Body of Truth: How Science, History, and...
View ArticleThe "Osama bin Laden Sure Read Boring Books" Edition
Emily Bazelon, David Plotz, and John Dickerson discuss Osama bin Laden's reading list, Emma Sulkowicz's Mattress Performance, and the refusal by some male lawmakers to meet alone with female staffers....
View ArticleThe Sleeve Makes the Man
Ed speaks with Megan Kate Nelson about the proliferation of so-called “empty sleeve” narratives in poems, stories, songs, and artworks that glorified amputee veterans returning home after the Civil War.
View ArticleAndy Richter Bought A Midlife Crisis Fridge
Conan’s sidekick tells us why he chose a really nice refrigerator over a sports car. And he traces his issues with weight back to a childhood ice cream outing with his grandmother.Please subscribe to...
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