Want to rile up a Malthusian?...  ...weight, and 3.5 million tonnes due to obesity . Using World Health Organization data fr...  ...ccounts for 13% of the weight of the world due to obesity . One of the authors of the paper, Prof I...

Americans, take heart (and take a seat) - all those years of squeezing one's bottom into the torture device also known as an airplane seat is not your fault: In 1962, the U.S. governm...

This is why we're fat, says the CDC: "Portion sizes have been growing. So have we. The average restaurant meal today is more than four times larger than in the 1950s....

Americans have been wringing their...  ...ve been wringing their hands about the problem of obesity for decades (for some of us, while munchi...  ...said that "[he] knew almost nothing of obesity . [He] didn't even know what a calorie w...  ...jumped by about 20 pounds and the nati...

Don't blame me for the title, bu...  ...sis showed that maternal prepregnancy obesity was negatively associated with math and reading...  ...ed that these effects of prepregnancy obesity were equivalent to a seven-year decrease in...

"Want to end obesity ?" asks Philip James of the London School of...  ...he International Study for the Study of Obesity . "Then talk to the ministries of finance, no...  ...Janeiro on how to end the rising global obesity :...

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Our health care professionals have been haranguing us for years to lose a few pounds - so is it fair for us to expect that people working for the hospital to be, well, not fat? Citize...

Yes! Thank you, science! If you...  ...e intake and body mass index (BMI) - a measure of obesity . It found those who ate chocolate a few...

Bioethicist and philosopher Peter Singer was in an airport when he noticed that a slender lady with an overweight suitcase has to pay, whereas a fat man with a regular suitcase didn't have t...