Yahoo! News - Food Variety May Increase Consumption
Yahoo! News - Food Variety May Increase Consumption
According to this article, even if you are full, if you are offered a new food, you will probably eat some more.
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Yahoo! News - Poll: Many in U.S. Underestimate Weight
Yahoo! News - Poll: Many in U.S. Underestimate Weight
"Only one-quarter of those who are obese consider themselves very overweight, according to the poll conducted for the AP by Ipsos-Public Affairs."
The New York Times > National > Dieter Sues Atkins Estate and Company
The New York Times > National > Dieter Sues Atkins Estate and Company
Who is responsible for a person's heath when they are following advise in a book? This dieter is suing because his cholesterol went up while he was on Atkins and that caused serious medical problems for him.
Yahoo! News - Children's menus hold the fries, dish up the broccoli
Yahoo! News - Children's menus hold the fries, dish up the broccoli
Restaurants are offering healthier choices for kids!
Demonizing Fat in the War on Weight
So while I believe that the ideal woman's body portrayed in magazines and television is way too thin, unhealthy and unrealistic, I also believe the large number of studies that have found a correlation between obesity and disease. I also believe that anybody who's not healthy and able to participate in a minimum amount of activity, like walking, misses out on a lot of opportunities in life. All that said, I think it's only fair to also point out that there is another side. This New York Times article, Demonizing Fat in the War on Weight, describes the other viewpoint. The author believes that our current obsession with obesity and dieting is a craze created by the media and unfairly creates discrimination particularly against certain minorities. It was an interesting article, and I do believe that discrimination against overweight people is an issue, but the article dismissed a lot of scientific study that correlates obesity to disease without offering any scientific backing of its own.
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