Tag Archives: obesity

NY Gov. David Paterson’s controversial beverage tax, which is meant to fight obesity (and help balance the budget), is facing vigorous opposition from soft drink manufacturers. The astroturf group New Yorkers Against Unfair Taxes has been running the below ad on NYC television every hour for the last few days. The proposed tax is one cent per ounce of sugared …

Consumerist reports that KFC’s mythical Double Down is no longer mythical. For those coming late to the story, it’s bacon and cheese sandwiched between two pieces of fried chicken. And now, many months later, I’ll finally be able to get my hands on one. KFC announced the decision to go live with the Double Down yesterday, but we weren’t sure …

Mayor Bloomberg’s office is getting local heat and national press for the below television campaign to convince New Yorkers to drink less soda. It’s really really disgusting. You have been warned.

A new study that measures the amount of the American food supply and what is actually eaten claims that we throw out 40% of the food we purchase. U.S. residents are wasting food like never before. While many Americans feast on turkey and all the fixings today, a new study finds food waste per person has shot up 50 percent …

From Strange Maps: Mississippi is the fattest state in the Union, with 30.1% of Mississippians being obese. That’s almost one in every three inhabitants. Not that the Magnolia State (in red on this map) should be singled out for its massiveness. It is surrounded by four of the eight other fattest US states (in brown on this map): Tennessee (29.0%), …

Oh, this is just fucking great. Middle-aged people with excess visceral fat – usually apparent in the thick waist or pot belly of an apple-shaped body – are nearly three times more likely to suffer from dementia in their 70s and 80s than people with little to no belly fat, according to a study of Kaiser Permanente patients. Researchers have …

Louisana researchers have found that a common cold virus, adenovirus-36, can cause stem cells to turn into fat cells, lending credence to the oft-disputed theory that some people become fat due to being infected with a fat-causing virus. This discovery fuels speculation that obesity may one day be at least partially preventable with a vaccine, although lifestyle causes would remain. …