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A $1 national increase in the price of gas results in a 10 percent decrease in national obesity rates.
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There is more and more talk of the U.S. returning to a coal-based energy economy, with very little seeming to actually be done about it....
Last summer, as gas prices seemed like they would never stop rising, there was a trumpeting of statistics that people were saving money by taking...
Rather than teaching about the perils of obesity, new research out of Stanford suggests that teaching college students about where their food...
To defend our way of life abroad we may need to reconsider how much junk food it involves at home. It's not every day that former generals and...
The average American is both overweight and spends more than 100 hours per year commuting, that vast majority of those hours being spent in a...
At a talk I went to the other night, Nora Ephron said that while she thought the job of First Lady seemed like a really great gig-it was a shame...
On mornings such as these, the Obamas must have simply wanted to pull the covers over their heads and call it a day. Massachusetts politics be...
This week's most popular post is Mapping America's Eating Habits by Andrew Price. Each map takes a look at a different aspect of food culture in...
Earlier today, Morning Joe featured a clip from Parks and Recreation, where kids in the fictional town of Pawnee, Indiana are "beefy, husky, big...
We need programs like Michelle Obama's "Let's Move" to ensure the health-and safety-of future generations. "Lets Move," says Michelle Obama in...
Which states get hit hardest by high gas prices? The rural ones. From Reuters: The five states that are most vulnerable to the higher fuel prices...
James Fowler explains how smoking, obesity, and happiness can be contagious. In their pioneering research, James Fowler and Nicholas Christakis...
Following yesterday's shout-out, the White House and GOOD are officially joining forces to ask: What kind of healthy kid app would you like to...
This nice infographic from the NYT shows gas prices around the nation and where they're taking the biggest toll. It looks like people in...
On the heels of my post about gas prices and rural America, here's a map showing how much people would be spending on gas if prices spiked to 2008...
Not only does gas cost $500 a gallon (this is an exaggeration, nowhere in America has gas even reached the $100 a gallon mark), but according...
Back in 2007, everyone was talking about the "pain at the pump." But did that change what people drive? This infographic by Chris Svetlik looks at...
In Oregon, declining gas tax revenues are prompting the state to look into some wacky new ways of getting money from drivers. The LA Times...
The NRDC did a little legwork and decided that the American Clean Energy and Security Act*, which passed the House last Friday, would result in...
Our friends at Streetsblog found a new report by the EPA that contained the chart below. It shows the dirtiness of the vehicles produced each year...
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