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How to Talk to Your Children about Putting on Weight
From Jamie Oliver’s 'Food Revolution' to the first lady’s national crusade, it seems that the issue of child obesity is everywhere. Clearly a major health issue, it is also a major self-esteem issue...
View ArticleTakeouts: President Faces New Roadblock to Reform, Listener Responses
FINANCIAL TAKEOUT: To paraphrase the Vice President's now immortal exaltation, President Obama's signing of an historic health care bill into law last week was "a big deal." But some of the nation's...
View ArticleMaking Unhealthy Meals Less Happy Meals
Tuesday, the board of supervisors in Santa Clara County, California, decided to take a step further in the fight against obesity: they banned toy giveaways with kids' meals that don't meet certain...
View ArticleNew York's Declining Obesity Rate Bucks National Trend
A new report from federal health officials has found obesity is still on the rise across the country. But New York is bucking that trend.Obesity rates edged downward across the state, from 25 percent...
View ArticleNew York's Declining Obesity Rate Bucks the National Trend
A new report from federal health officials has found obesity is still on the rise across the country. But New York is bucking that trend.Obesity rates edged downward across the state, from 25% in 2007,...
View ArticleDoctors' Prescribing Produce to Help Fight Obesity
In an effort to help fight childhood obesity, doctors at several Massachusetts health centers have begun distributing prescriptions for farmers' market produce to their patients.The doctors...
View ArticleNew School Nutrition Bill: Better Lunch, Less for Dinner
Welcome to Politics Bites, where every afternoon at It's A Free Country,we bring you the unmissable quotes from political conversations on WNYC. On today's Brian Lehrer Show, Aine Duggan, Vice...
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Opera's Weighty Debate: Does Size Really Matter?
Since I am an opera lover myself, I've enjoyed reading the related comments that have been posted here during Operatic October on WQXR. Along the way, there have been allusions to the ongoing "size...
View ArticleWhy We Get Fat
Gary Taubes, correspondent for Science magazine and author of Why We Get Fat: And What to Do About It discusses diet and the obesity epidemic.
View ArticleCalorie Labels Don't Influence Many Fast Food Customers, Study Finds
Calorie labels at New York City's fast food restaurants don't have much influence on the kind of food teenagers end up ordering, according to a new study from NYU's School of Medicine.Dr. Brian Elbel,...
View ArticleFood Pyramid is Ancient History
The U.S. Department of Agriculture has decided to knock down the 20-year-old nutritional food pyramid and replace it with a simpler guide to healthy eating — a plate. Today the USDA will unveil how...
View ArticleF is for Fat
Richard Hamburg, deputy director of Trust for America's Health, discusses his organization's recent report on obesity in America.
View ArticleAfter The Takeaway: Celeste Headlee Says It's Time to Act on Childhood Obesity
On today’s show, we discussed an article published on Tuesday in the Journal of the American Medical Association that says the state should intervene in cases of morbidly obese children. After the...
View ArticleShould Parents Lose Custody of Morbidly Obese Children?
An article published Tuesday in the Journal of the American Medical Association says the state should intervene in cases of morbidly obese children. The authors say that parents should lose custody in...
View ArticleMark Bittman on Taxing Bad Food to Subsidize the Good
New York Times columnist Mark Bittman talks about taxing unhealthy foods. His article in the Times’ Sunday Review on July 24, “Bad Food? Tax It, and Subsidize Vegetables,” looks at why it’s so...
View ArticleMother of Overweight Son Reacts to Obesity Campaign
In August, Children's Healthcare of Atlanta began a billboard and television ads to raise awareness about childhood obesity, modeled after a successful anti-meth campaign. However, some health...
View ArticleAnti-Obesity Drug Approved by FDA Advisory Panel
This week a Federal Drug Administration panel backed the approval of a weight loss drug called Qnexa. Strictly intended for use by clinically overweight people with BMIs over 27kg/m2, Qnexa is a...
View ArticleThe American Way of Eating
Tracie McMillan examines why we eat the way we do in America and how we can change it. She describes what it was like to work, eat, and live alongside the working poor to see how Americans eat when...
View ArticleBMI Is Flabby Measure of Obesity, Study Shows
If you think you’re overweight, it’s possible you’re being too soft on yourself: You may actually be obese.As many as 40 percent of people classified by BMI as overweight actually had body fat levels...
View ArticleToo Fat to Work as a Health Professional?
Citizens Medical Center is, by most measures, a respected and respectable hospital. A non-profit, their mission is to serve their community of South Texas. And in their mission, they’ve been mostly...
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