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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
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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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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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 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 >>
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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 >>
Blogs
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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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 >>
Blogs
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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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 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.
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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 >>
Voice Choices
August 4, 2010
BIG ISLAND SOUND
Dan Kois tells the story of Israel "Iz" Kamakawiwo'ole
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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.
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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 >>
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May 19, 2010
Pot-Smoking Chefs Fuel Stoner Cuisine Movement; P.F. Chang Launches Private Wine Label
When "infamously gluttonous" Mario Batali jumps on the Meatless Mondays bandwagon, you know the campaign has legs. [Washington Post] The trend toward over-the-top fatty, carb-heavy foods may be fueled in part by chefs who smoke weed and the munchies marijuana induces. [NY Times] P.F. Chang' ... More >>
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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 >>
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April 26, 2010
Bronx Soda Buyback Event Not Exactly a Hit
On Saturday, the Alliance for a Healthier New York and SEIU 1199's Healthcare Education Project held a soda buyback event at Richard R. Green Middle School in the Bronx to support the soda tax. "We will be disposing any of the sodas we get," said Andy King, an AHNY organizer. "We are not re ... More >>
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 >>
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February 10, 2010
Dongbei Cuisine Gets Respect in Queens; What Foods Are Good at Turning You On?
Susur Lee, of Shang, once was stopped at immigration when flying in from Toronto to compete against Bobby Flay on Iron Chef America. His special corn starch and herbs were riffled through until ruined, and his stock was confiscated. With it, he believes, he could have won. [NY Times] Kraft F ... More >>
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January 21, 2010
Fat People Will Have To Pay Double To Fly!
via The Sydney Morning HeraldDon't you just hate it when you're seated on a flight next to a morbidly obese person, and their rolls of flesh spill onto your lap and interfere with your coffee drinking? Or perhaps you're a morbidly obsese person and you feel wildly embarrassed when your own b ... More >>
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January 15, 2010
The U.S. Gets a Food Czar; Americans Stop Getting Fatter
Jason Wong, who transformed his Brooklyn vegetarian restaurant, Red Bamboo, into a place that serves meat, is among those who have changed their ideas about eating meat since sustainably and ethically raised livestock has become more widely available. [NY Press] The Obama administration has ... More >>
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November 2, 2009
Newark Grocers Push Fruits & Veggies; Jonathan Safran Foer Asks, 'Why Not Eat Dog?'
Costco will start accepting food stamps nationally after it started to accept them in New York earlier this year. The program should be operational in half the company's 407 warehouse-style stores by Thanksgiving, according to company officials. [NY Times] Small corner grocery stores in Newa ... 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
Blogs
October 6, 2009
Food Network to Go Global; Daniel Joins Michelin Three-Star Club
A group of food corps is launching the Healthy Weight Commitment Foundation, a national, multi-year campaign to help reduce obesity -- especially childhood obesity -- by 2015. [PR Newsire] A study reveals that customers at fast-food chains, such as McDonald's, Wendy's, Burger King, and KFC, ... More >>
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September 9, 2009
'Smart Choices' Not So Smart; Bruni Trashes Ninja
President Obama told Men's Health magazine that taxing soda and other sugary drinks is an idea worth exploring. "Every study that's been done about obesity shows... a correlation between increased soda consumption and obesity," he said. [NY Daily News] The proposed Kraft Foods takeover of Ca ... More >>
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September 3, 2009
Junk Food Tax Endorsed by the Institute of Medicine of the National Academies
The notion of a junk food tax being bandied around several states, including New York, got a shot in the arm this week, when the Institute of Medicine of the National Academies recommended that a tax on sodas could help curb childhood obesity. Experts say that a 10 percent increase in the price of a ... More >>
Blogs
August 24, 2009
Vets Get In On Food Cart Wars; Mercury Poisoning Spreading
A veteran with a food cart in front of the Met, who doesn't pay for his permit in accordance with a law that allows veterans special access to steet vending, has led to other vets setting up shop in the coveted spot. [NY Times] Every fish tested at nearly 300 streams across the country was f ... More >>
Blogs
July 29, 2009
Marion Nestle on Calorie Counts, 16 Months In
When the New York City Department of Health regulated that chain restaurants must post calories, they promised huge health gains--calorie labels would prevent 30,000 cases of diabetes, they said, and reduce the number of obese New Yorkers by 150,000. Of course, it's too early to know whether or not ... More >>
Blogs
July 22, 2009
'Taxidermia': A Film About Gluttony From Hungary
Gyorgy Palfi's Taxidermia was released in his native Hungary in 2006, and has only now made its way to the US. It premiered in Portland last year, and will be screened in Los Angeles and New York August 14. The fantastical storyline surrounds three generations of men, each with insatiable appetite ... More >>
Blogs
July 14, 2009
City Says Fat Kids Lag in Learning; We Suggest the Prince Fielder Approach
Mike Bloomberg, whose Administration has made education a priority, has bragged on rising test scores, greater matriculation into CUNY schools, and especially the shrinking achievement gap between minority students and white students. But what about the achievement gap between physically fit and phy ... More >>
Blogs
June 16, 2009
Kids Still Fat, But Not Getting Fatter; Who's Really Manning Your Favorite Food Cart?
Is your favorite kabob guy operating under a dead guy's license? Maybe. The city is investigating a racket in which street food vendors pretend to be other vendors who have died or left the country. Renewed permits go for $200, and can be leased for thousands. [NY Post] Kids are still too fat these ... More >>
Blogs
March 26, 2009
Canadian School Bans The Bottle
Food safety advocacy groups are urging President Obama to appoint a senior food safety official within the FDA, and are pushing for a new agency devoted solely to food safety to eventually be created. [Reuters] A study conducted by Columbia and the University of California has shown that high scho ... More >>
Blogs
December 19, 2008
Food News From Around the World
Food safety advocacy groups are urging President Obama to appoint a senior food safety official within the FDA, and are pushing for a new agency devoted solely to food safety to eventually be created. [Reuters] A study conducted by Columbia and the University of California has shown that high scho ... More >>
Blogs
December 16, 2008
Health Officials Defend Soda Tax, May "Look At" Pizza, Cheeseburgers
Food safety advocacy groups are urging President Obama to appoint a senior food safety official within the FDA, and are pushing for a new agency devoted solely to food safety to eventually be created. [Reuters] A study conducted by Columbia and the University of California has shown that high scho ... More >>
Blogs
September 8, 2008
Eating with the Pols: Council Member Eric Gioia
Food safety advocacy groups are urging President Obama to appoint a senior food safety official within the FDA, and are pushing for a new agency devoted solely to food safety to eventually be created. [Reuters] A study conducted by Columbia and the University of California has shown that high scho ... More >>
Blogs
May 8, 2008
Most Disturbing Foie Gras Headline Ever
Food safety advocacy groups are urging President Obama to appoint a senior food safety official within the FDA, and are pushing for a new agency devoted solely to food safety to eventually be created. [Reuters] A study conducted by Columbia and the University of California has shown that high scho ... More >>
Blogs
September 27, 2007
Nike Makes Special Shoes for American Indians and Their Weirdly Shaped Feet
Food safety advocacy groups are urging President Obama to appoint a senior food safety official within the FDA, and are pushing for a new agency devoted solely to food safety to eventually be created. [Reuters] A study conducted by Columbia and the University of California has shown that high scho ... More >>
NYC Life
June 12, 2007
Big Girls, Don't Cry
The fight for the right to be fat, queer, and proud
News
May 18, 2004
No Sex, Please. We're Eating
Feds say teens are screwing less but gaining more weight. Is there a link?

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