That mass of Clubcard data Tesco has on you and your shopping preferences might soon be put to good use, as the shopping giant is considering a mobile advice system that gives buyers tips on healthy choices. Perhaps it could use GPS to set off an alarm should you wander within 10 metres of the Dairy Milk. Read More >>
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! (okay, maybe in a not so morbid way) But a woman actually died from drinking too much Coke. The coroner blamed the 30-year-old woman's 10L-a-day Coke problem — as in Coca Cola — as the reason for her death. Read More >>
Featured comment by bazinga:
"Agreed, however i was talking in general as to how a lot of fat people have the attitude to weight of it cant be lost waa waa waa, for example.
Al..." More »
Modern society is obsessed with weight: everyone longs to be skinny, and obesity is demonised. But while being overweight does carry with it health risks, a new study suggests that being underweight is far more dangerous than being obese. Read More >>
Featured comment by TankBoyBen:
"im just happy that im now slowly turning from the guy on the left to the guy on the right (minus the hair) i doubt ill ever be considered too skinny t..." More »
For many people, a decision to lose weight isn't just made because of the obvious health advantages, but to change the way people think about them. So it's a shame that new research suggest that, in the minds of friends and family, a fat person is always fat, regardless of how much weight they lose. Read More >>
It is hard to believe this exists, but then again this has come from America, home of the idiot food. It is Burger King's latest innovation in the land of the bulging elasticated waistband, a pudding with bacon in it. Read More >>
A new review of over 240 peer-reviewed studies has shown that there’s a link between some chemicals used in the plastics that make up food containers, packaging and household items, and obesity and diabetes. The plastic your food comes in might be making you fat. Read More >>
Featured comment by Will.King.London:
"So lets put some money into examining their heads. Psychotherapy, hypnotism, drug induced brain washing. Every jobless fat person can be a test pati..." More »
There's a never-ending stream of scientific explanations for obesity. The latest suggests that CO2 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? Read More >>
Featured comment by justbekky:
"This only seems to state correlation with a loose theory of causation. Wouldn't it bw far more logical to assume that people living in cities (where C..." 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 them fat. Period. Read More >>
Featured comment by midnightz:
""...eating too much and not exercising enough is what’s making them fat. Period."
The earth is flat. Period.
Although your point has some meri..." More »
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