Tag Archives: obesity

Nation of Fatties Goes Hungry

November 16, 2009 – 3:49 pm

Those of you familiar with the “Back to the Future” series of documentaries are probably aware of what a paradox is, wherein two diametrically opposed, contradictory realities appear to coexist in the same universe, causing much confusion and the comical raising of eyebrows. Along those lines — and minus the comedy – here’s a report from the USDA, released [...]

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2 + 2 = Ham sandwich

August 26, 2009 – 2:54 pm

 
Attention fatties: If you value your brain, put down that Famous Bowl and step away from the combination Pizza Hut/Taco Bell/KFC. A new UCLA study shows that obese people exhibit higher levels of brain degeneration than their svelte counterparts. On average, corpulent individuals have brains aged prematurely by as much as 8 years.
More than 300 million worldwide [...]

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