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This show is a re-broadcast. These days obesity and its related health problems are a national obsession for doctors, politicians, and public health officials. Childhood obesity has reached epidemic proportions in the U.S. in recent years, with obesity rates sharply increasing for children as young as six months old. With higher obesity rates more prevalent […]

What we choose to eat is a personal, and increasingly political, decision. For decades food and politics intersected in debates about factory farming methods, the environmental hazards of pesticides, and the relationship of people to animals. But, the rising obesity epidemic in the US coupled with skyrocketing health care costs has cast overweight Americans as […]

A study by the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine on the effects of a low-carbohydrate, high-fat diet on heart health confirmed the increasingly popular notion that dietary fat intake does not increase the risk of heart disease. The study was conducted on 46 people trying to lose weight. They were split into two groups, […]

These days obesity and its related health problems are a national obsession for doctors, politicians, and public health officials. Childhood obesity has reached epidemic proportions in the U.S. in recent years, with obesity rates sharply increasing for children as young as six months old. With higher obesity rates more prevalent among poorer Americans, obesity, and […]

McDonald’s stockholders yesterday rejected a proposal to issue a report on the role it plays in childhood obesity, which includes the pervasive advertizing of its unhealthy fast food to kids. At the fast food giant’s annual meeting, McDonald’s Chief Executive Jim Skinner said to an enthusiastic room full of stock holders, “This is about choice […]

It’s been a couple of years since soda was banned from California public school campuses in an effort to curb childhood obesity. Now concerned parties are targeting another sugary drink – chocolate milk. Chocolate adds about 60 more calories to an 8oz serving of plain milk. And it comes with a lot more sugar and […]