The numbers of obese people are climbing steeply all over the world - with obvious major consequences for their health. Due to excess food intake and a lack of physical activity, but also due to genetic factors, the risk for overweight people dying from diseases like coronary heart disease...
It's no secret that Americans are engaged in a life-and-death battle with our own waistlines. And while the reasons behind our obesity crisis are many, one of the biggest factors is that we just eat too much. Over the last few decades, our serving sizes have ballooned--something that's evidenced...
Over-use and mis-use of antibiotics has raised public consternation in recent years, and a new study isn't apt to give them a popularity boost: Apparently, they could also make you fat. According to research published in the International Journal of Obesity, babies who are given antibiotics...
I'm trying to drop my body fat percentage, because I'm around 27% at the moment. 25 years old, 5'9, male, 170lbs, sedentary lifestyle. I'm eating what I think is fairly healthily and started resistance training at the gym, but I keep getting confused at loads of things on the internet telling me...
The Spanish clothing retailer Zara has struggled in the United States—supposedly because the company won't cut their clothes to fit the "vanity sizing" we have here in America. A recent article in The Economist cites Zara's "slim fit" clothes as a reason why the store hasn't taken off stateside...
Chemists at Britain's University of Warwick have developed a way to make chocolate with half the fat, but all the taste and texture that we love. Apparently, they've done it by injecting "micro-drops" of fruit juice into chocolate to maintain the same mouth-feel and taste, lowering the calorie...
Cutting wire by hand is hard—even with a pair of light-up dikes—especially when running the fat wires that serve breaker subpanels. Milwaukee's new ratcheting power cable cutter should aid the tradesmen that spend days snipping conduit; pull the trigger, and the tool bites cords with up to 5,000...
It's not just real human models who have to slim down to be part of the fashion world; sometimes, even fictional characters, like Ursula the Sea Witch, are just too fat to sell beauty products. But luckily for Ursula, she didn't have to crash diet or logs hours in the gym to get her newly-svelte...
In mammals, most lipids (such as fatty acids and cholesterol) are absorbed into the body via the small intestine. The complexity of the cells and fluids that inhabit this organ make it very difficult to study in a laboratory setting. New research from Carnegie's Steven Farber, James Walters and...
I can't remember what series this was from. The monster in the episode was living fat (not the adipose from Doctor Who). It moved through whatever city it was through the plumbing system and attacked people while in the shower. Please help me identify the series and the episode title.
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Jenny Craig is taking France! According to an article in this weekend's New York Times magazine, the American export is gaining popularity in the land of cheese and wine, bringing pre-packaged, calorie-restricted meals to a country known for fine cuisine made of fresh food from local markets...
The latest research builds on ground-breaking new knowledge on a special 'family' of natural trans fats that are produced by ruminant animals such as dairy and beef cattle, goats and sheep, and found in the milk and meat from these animals. The findings strengthen the evidence that, unlike...
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Where do I start... Well I am currently 11% body fat 6"2 and around 165lbs and my goal is 7%. Doing brief research I thought it would be best to eat good sources of carbs during the day and none after 6 or 7pm and then jog to the gym around 8ish (every mon wed and fri) and eat my protein foods...
One airplane manufacturer, Airbus SAS, thinks they have the solution for passengers who have been told they were too fat to fly: Build a wider seat. And charge people an additional $10. It may seem like an ingenious idea, but it's actually reverse discrimination for thin people. More »Post from...
Self-professed "fat girl" and style blogger, Gabi Gregg, posted a gallery of 31 "hot sexy fat girls in skimpy swimwear" on XOJane yesterday. In it, she touts the fact that these women can rock the "fatkini". It was intended to help larger women feel empowered and sexy in their bathing suits this...
Children are more likely to have more body fat during childhood if their mother has low levels of Vitamin D during pregnancy, according to scientists at the Medical Research Council Lifecourse Epidemiology Unit (MRC LEU), University of Southampton. Low vitamin D status has been linked to obesity...