• Study Says Obese Friends Make You Fat - Dog Flu Diet and Diseases

Study Says Obese Friends Make You Fat
Dog Flu Diet and Diseases, Canada - 12 minutes ago
They looked at over 12000 friends and relatives between 1971 and 2003 and looked at their weight over a period of 32 years. They found that one person can ...

• Personal Trainers for Kids - 13WHAM-TV

Personal Trainers for Kids
13WHAM-TV, NY - 32 minutes ago
?You also see parents bringing their kids in here to improve self esteem, their confidence and of course weight loss with obesity,? Gibson said. ...

• Genaera Corporation Presents New Preclinical Data for Obesity ... - PharmaLiv...

Genaera Corporation Presents New Preclinical Data for Obesity ...
PharmaLive.com (press release), PA - 46 minutes ago
As previously disclosed, preclinical studies also demonstrate that MSI- 1436 suppresses appetite and causes differential weight loss in a mouse model of ...

• 3 Steps To Great Summer Legs - Easier

3 Steps To Great Summer Legs
Easier, UK - 59 minutes ago
Your legs may benefit from you losing some weight. For the first two weeks follow David's ABC's of nutrition, cutting out all (yes, all) alcohol, bread, ...

• Fitness means less belly fat at any weight (Reuters via Yahoo! News)
"Fat and fit" men are likely to have a lower risk of heart disease and diabetes because they're relatively trim around the waist, a new study shows.

• Putting on weight? Blame your fat friend (The Scotsman)
OBESITY is "socially contagious", with people who have an overweight friend facing a dramatically increased risk of becoming similarly fat.

• Your Friends are Making You Fat, Concludes New Research (Senior Journal)
July 26, 2007 - Are your friends making you fat? Or keeping you slender? Or, maybe you are the cause of your friends' body weight. This could all be true according to new research that finds obesity is "socially contagious," spreading from person to person in a social network.

• Fat friends and family increase your risk of being fat too (Times Online)
Obesity is catching, a new study has found. If your friends are fat, your chances of being fat increase by 57 per cent. Researchers studied a network of 12,067 friends and relatives between 1971 and 2003, monitoring their weight over the 32-year period.

• Beth Ditto hasn't been asked to design a clothing range - Holy Moly

Beth Ditto hasn't been asked to design a clothing range
Holy Moly, London - 16 minutes ago
... is her weight and her sexuality, flopping out her pendulous gut ad nauseam and slagging others off, safe in the knowledge that she's a big fat lesbian ...

• Nibbles: Understanding how cells store fat, and McDonald?s summer ... - Calor...

Nibbles: Understanding how cells store fat, and McDonald?s summer ...
CalorieLab Calorie Counter News, NV - 19 minutes ago
The Stomaphy X procedure is used on patients who have had bariatric surgery in the past but are gaining weight again, which happens in 15 to 20 percent of ...

• Is your pet too fat to insure? - MyFinances.co.uk

Is your pet too fat to insure?
MyFinances.co.uk, UK - 23 minutes ago
"Owners concerned about their pets' weight should consider feeding their animals from the growing range of nutritionally balanced, low-calorie, ...

• Stock fridge with healthy snacks for kids -- and grown-ups too - Flint Journal

Stock fridge with healthy snacks for kids -- and grown-ups too
Flint Journal, MI - 38 minutes ago
Too many trans fats, calories or sugars are not healthy for children and can cause them to gain weight. You don't have to stop letting your children snack, ...

• Quick fixes not sufficient for longterm weight loss (Daily Nebraskan)
Thousands of people nationwide have jumped at the chance to use diet pills, like the new Alli, to get faster weight loss results. The way the Alli works is the pill does not allow the body to absorb fat so the body loses weight. Nessie Ferguson, a University of Nebraska Medical Center diab...

• Fat might be the U.S. norm by 2015 (Los Angeles Times)
If people keep gaining weight at the current rate, fat will be the norm by 2015, with 41% obese and 34% overweight but not obese, U.S. researchers predicted Wednesday.

• Jessica Biel dying to turn ugly and fat to prove acting prowess! (ANI via Yah...
Washington, July 21 (ANI): Jessica Biel has looks that make men drool, but the actress has now revealed that she is ready to lose her sultry image and wants to turn ugly and fat. The Blade: Trinity actress recently divulged that she is desperate to turn unattractive and gain weight for a gritty f...

• Weight Expectations (Boston Globe)
Over the past several months, a few people have asked me if I'm expecting because I'm heavier than I used to be. When I tell them I'm not, instead of an apology, I get something akin to "It's too bad all the weight you gained went straight to your stomach." Naturally, hearing something like this ...