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May 21, 2012
New Yorkers Think Skinny People Are Happier And More Successful Than Fatsos, Poll Shows
Bad news, fatsos: according to the vast majority of New Yorkers, you are more miserable and less successful than non-fatsos. That's according to a recently released Marist/NY1 poll, anyway, which shows that more than 70 percent of New Yorkers think fat people are more unhappy and less successful tha ... More >>
Blogs
April 25, 2012
Parents Now Pushing Unneeded Surgeries on Obese Kids
We're guessing that Dr. Ben Spock wouldn't suggest this... The New York Times reports that parents of obese kids are increasingly treating gallbladder ailments by having their children undergo invasive operations to remove the organ. Here's the thing: Most of the time, the kids don't need surgery ... More >>
Blogs
April 3, 2012
Hey, Ladies: Biking Might Make Your Crotch Numb!
Bicycling is fun, but going numb in your ladyparts is not fun. Like, at all. As has been recently reported, spending time in certain cycling positions doesn't just cause erectile dysfunction in men: It might mess up ladies' sex lives, too. Anyway, here's what's up: if you have ever been on a bik ... More >>
Blogs
January 19, 2012
Junk Food in Schools Doesn't Make Kids Fat: Study
Junk-food-loaded school vending machines, long said to lure the nation's youth to dietary debauchery, might not be making them fat, a new study finds. At least 33 percent of kids are overweight, the New York Daily News reports, but access to unhealthy snacks -- such as sugary candy, salty chips, a ... More >>
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January 17, 2012
Did Paula Deen's Diet Cause Her Diabetes?
This article delves into the possibilities, wondering, "How can bacon-doughnut egg burgers possibly be good for you?"
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December 23, 2011
More Fast Food, More Fat People: Study
Time for more health research that basically states the obvious. In a study published in December's Critical Public Health, officials looked at the International Monetary Fund's listing of the 26 richest countries to track the relationship between eating habits and weight. Then, using Subway ... More >>
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November 29, 2011
Snacks Make Women Fat: Study
Hey, ladies: Scientists have found another thing that might make us fat -- mid-morning snacks.
Blogs
November 2, 2011
Life, Not College, Is What Makes You Fat
Today in news you can use to remind yourself that you're not in college anymore (unless you are, in which case, hooray!), MSNBC reports that the cursed, vile freshman 15 is actually not true, at least, so says a new study, which found that most college students don't actually gain 15 pounds i ... More >>
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September 4, 2011
Pot Smokers are Less Likely to be Fat than Non-Smokers, Pretty Chill Study Says
A study conducted by French scientists says that people who don't smoke marijuana are more likely to be obese than their stoned counterparts. The Daily News reports the researchers found that "between 22% to 25% of participants who didn't smoke pot were obese." Only 14% to 17% of people who s ... More >>
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July 18, 2011
Sitcoms Know the Secret to a Happy Marriage, Says Science
Our good friend science has made another groundbreaking discovery about human relationships. This time it's that "marriages are more satisfying when the wife is thinner than the husband." What? Yes. Actual researchers followed actual newlywed couples for four years, checking up on them every ... More >>
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July 7, 2011
"1 Tip For a Tiny Belly" Ad on Internet is a Scam, Obviously
Do not clickThe advertisement to the right, which everyone who uses the internet ignores on a daily basis, leads those hapless enough to click on it into a large-scale web of bullshit diet products -- including "pills made from African mangoes" and "potions made from exotic acai berries" -- w ... More >>
Blogs
July 7, 2011
New Yorkers Cannot Escape the Creeping Fatification of America
New Yorkers are known for many things, some true, some not. Like, being rude (even though, really, on a one-on-one basis we're quite friendly, as long as you don't stop us on our way to work with some idiotic question). And, being skinny (because we walk so much, and so fast, that we don't ha ... More >>
Columns
June 29, 2011
'Hot In Cleveland' Gals Sex Up NYC!
Sitcoms' oldies talk about their new golden years on TV Land
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April 6, 2011
New York City Considers Fast-Food Toy Ban, Cites Happy Fat Kids
Ladies and gentlemen, a photo of the world's only Filet-O-Fish Happy Meal.Gather round, children, and listen to a tale of the evil New York City Council attempting to take your Happy Meal toys away. Yahoo reports that the dastardly City Council Deputy Majority Leader Leroy Comrie, who comes f ... More >>
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March 30, 2011
Obese Man Found Fused to Chair
There aren't many times in life that you get to fuse a man to furniture in a headline, so we're taking this opportunity. Say of us what you will. Here goes: In a case that the Daily News describes as "horrific," an obese man had to be cut out of his "living room chair" that he'd sat in for tw ... More >>
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March 21, 2011
Top Ten Fattest States: Is Yours on the List, Fatty?
Americans are the most obese people in the world. Big whoop, if Swedes had the option of eating a Baconzilla at 2a.m. from Checkers' late-night drive-in, those furniture-building fjord jockeys would have some extra winter weight too. Behind eating, Americans' second favorite pastime is readin ... More >>
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March 8, 2011
New York Times Covers Worst Diet Ever
Happy International Women's Day! Count your blessings that we have advanced to a stage in which women who hope to lose weight can now pay money to inject themselves with a pregnancy hormone and subsist on 500 calories a day (the average person eats from 1,800 to 3,000), because that is sane a ... More >>
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February 20, 2011
Obese Monkeys Extraordinarily Depressing
Leah Nash/NYTThere are more rhesus monkeys than you'd think out there getting fat. Getting really fat. And it's not their fault; it's because they're being used as research subjects in studies about obesity and diabetes. At the Oregon National Primate Research Center, scientists are keeping a col ... More >>
Film
February 16, 2011
Big Mommas: Martin Lawrence’s Sky-High BMI Equals More Malnourished Jokes
Leah Nash/NYTThere are more rhesus monkeys than you'd think out there getting fat. Getting really fat. And it's not their fault; it's because they're being used as research subjects in studies about obesity and diabetes. At the Oregon National Primate Research Center, scientists are keeping a col ... More >>
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February 10, 2011
Victor Natanzon, Citytime Scammer, Pleads Guilty
Victor Natanzon, one of six people accused of defrauding the city of $80 million as part of the CityTime fiasco, pleaded guilty today to bribery and other charges, the New York Times' William K. Rashbaum reports. CityTime of course is the much maligned 14 year effort to automate the city's payroll ... More >>
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January 4, 2011
Newark Mayor Cory Booker Vows to Lose 57 Pounds, Will Facebook and Tweet All About It
Just a week ago Newark Mayor and "social media darling" Cory Booker was digging out his own citizens a tweet at a time, subsisting on Diet Coke and Advil, and becoming the hands-down hero of Snow-pocalypse 2010. Now he's taken to Facebook and Twitter with another cause: He plans to hit 240 ( ... More >>
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December 27, 2010
Jessica Simpson Is The New Aretha Franklin
That's pretty much what a friend told me the other day, and before you reach for the straitjacket, let me inform you that he's an educated and quite savvy person who does leave the house a lot. "I am blown away by the Jessica Simpson Xmas special on PBS," he texted me, ecstatic and totally s ... More >>
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October 25, 2010
D'Agostino's Gets Carpeted; Pinkberry Gets Pumpkin
Four D'Agostino supermarkets in the city have covered their store floors with carpet in order to create a more enjoyable shopping experience. [NY Times] A new study suggests that obesity in America can't be blamed on fast-food restaurants because obese people "also eat more when they eat at ... More >>
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September 29, 2010
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September 28, 2010
Oh, America: New Study Concludes We Are the Fattest People in the Democratic, Market-Driven World
American splendor?Not only are Americans getting too fat to go to the theater and too fat to fight, we have now beat out 32 other countries for the dubious honor of being the fattest people in the democratic, market-driven world.
Blogs
September 2, 2010
Steve Cuozzo Has a Weight Loss System of His Own
Caitlin Thorne HerseySteve Cuozzo, crap-free.A couple weeks after Our Man Sietsema published his 10 easy diet rules, the Post's Steve Cuozzo has followed suit with a column detailing the weight loss that followed his diagnosis with Type 2 diabetes. Basically, he cut all of the crap out of h ... More >>
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August 30, 2010
Mika Brzezinski's Deprivation Diet Attracts 60 Comments on Grub Street
Grub Street, Melissa HomWe always look forward to Grub Street's New York Diets, in which a celeb or cultural figure recounts a week's worth of eating. And commenters always have a lot to say about these posts, whether that person eats a lot, a little, dully, or extravagantly. But Morning Joe' ... More >>
Blogs
August 21, 2010
Dieting, Twitter, and Accountability: or, How to Tweet Yourself Skinny
Traditionally, trying to lose weight involves dieting and exercise. But what about Tweeting the entire process, including your weight and how much you ate on a given day? New York Times media reporter Brian Stelter is doing just that. And it's a far cry from the old days, when dieting was something ... More >>
Blogs
August 12, 2010
Half of American Women Would Give Up Sex to Avoid Gaining 10 Lbs.
A survey by Nutrisystem reiterated what we already know -- that many Americans are unhealthy and unhappy with their weight -- and upped the ante with what's essentially a weight-related game of "Would You Rather" transferred into a study. They found some surprising and downright horrifying sacrif ... More >>
Blogs
August 6, 2010
New NYC Pretzel Ads Still Offensive to Non-Anorexics
Have you been following the controversy over the too-skinny pretzel ads plastered about New York City? Well, we have! In brief, Pretzel Crisps created these rather humdrum ads for their flat, waify treats proclaiming "You can never be too thin," and put them up in bus shelters and phone booth ... More >>
Voice Choices
August 4, 2010
BIG ISLAND SOUND
Dan Kois tells the story of Israel "Iz" Kamakawiwo'ole
Blogs
August 3, 2010
Americans Getting Fatter, More Honest
Surprise, surprise: Americans have not conquered that unfortunate weight problem that doctors are always harassing us about. According to a government study released today that surveyed adults about their weight by telephone (great way to encourage exercise!), the obesity rate is at nearly 27 ... More >>
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July 13, 2010
Americans Getting Too Fat for Theater Seats
Obesity again takes center stage.Oh, America: not only are we getting too fat to fight, we're getting too fat to go to the theater.
Blogs
July 2, 2010
Soda Tax Dies As Beverage Industry Outspends Health Groups
Don't make him angry!When New York lawmakers finally passed the budget on Wednesday, Governor Paterson's tax on sodas and other sugary drinks was not included. The proposal would have taxed sweetened beverages--not diet sodas--at a penny per ounce, or 12 cents on a can of soda. The governor a ... More >>
Blogs
June 7, 2010
Today in 'Duh': A List of 40 Desserts That Are Really, Really Fattening
Applebee's chocolate chip sundae: not recommended for weight loss.Taking a page from Men's Health, The Daily Beast has thoughtfully published a list of the 40 restaurant desserts most likely to cause death among those who consume them.
Blogs
May 4, 2010
Whoa, Kids Are Getting, Like, Orca Fat
The Archives of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine has released a new study analyzing the respective fatness of the nation's progeny in 2003 and 2007, and the results aren't pretty, at least if you consider thin to be "pretty." (Personally, who wants a skinny baby? Have you seen one of those? T ... More >>
Blogs
May 4, 2010
The Juice Press Will Open Thursday, With Weight Control and Raw Dessert Classes to Follow
The Juice Press details its plans for liquid domination.A stroll this morning by the Juice Press turned up this sign in the window informing passers-by that the incipient 1st Street juice bar will open on Thursday, May 6. But that's just the first phase of its opening.
Blogs
April 21, 2010
New First Street Juice Bar Is Called the Juice Press; Will Be an Orthorexic's Paradise
A one-stop weight loss shop?Here's some more information about the juice bar on 1st Street between First and Second Avenues that's supposedly opening on May 15.
Blogs
April 21, 2010
When the Children Are All Obese, We Will Finally Have Peace
Good in McDonalds. Bad in war.No, this is not Runnin' Scared's second entry into Mayor Bloomberg's "Poetweet" contest. It's actually a thing. For real. Mission: Readiness, a nonprofit group of retired military leaders, is very concerned about kids becoming "too fat to fight." So concerned tha ... More >>
Blogs
April 20, 2010
Oh, America: Military Recruiting Hampered by Obesity
This we'll defend?It looks like deep-fried butter and McDonald's Extra-Value Meals are doing what anti-war protesters in the '60s could have scarcely dared to dream would one day be possible: They are making people too fat to serve in the military.
Blogs
March 17, 2010
Apotheke Shakes Up Master Cleanse Potion for $10
Imagine my surprise when, reading over the menu at Apotheke last night, I came upon a drink called the Master Cleanse, referencing that starvation regimen of water, maple syrup, lemon juice and cayenne that makes you lose weight because, well, you're starving. It must be a take-off, I thought ... More >>
News
October 27, 2009
Bake Sale Crackdown
The Department of Education says its bake sale policies will help combat obesity, but students worry they'll be left starved for funds
Voice Choices
February 11, 2009
Antony & the Johnsons
The Department of Education says its bake sale policies will help combat obesity, but students worry they'll be left starved for funds
Voice Choices
September 10, 2008
Flannel Tongue
The Department of Education says its bake sale policies will help combat obesity, but students worry they'll be left starved for funds
NYC Life
June 12, 2007
Big Girls, Don't Cry
The fight for the right to be fat, queer, and proud
People
January 3, 2006
Exercise, You Lazy Shit
Diet books to get you—or frighten you off—your New Year's resolution
News
May 18, 2004
No Sex, Please. We're Eating
Feds say teens are screwing less but gaining more weight. Is there a link?
News
January 27, 2004
The F-Word
Today's special: Diet-guru crash course—with a side of celeb-chef comfort food
Columns
February 15, 2000
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Today's special: Diet-guru crash course—with a side of celeb-chef comfort food
NYC Life
January 4, 2000
Weigh of All Flesh
Monica Lewinsky's the New Jenny Craig Spokeswoman. Motivated?
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