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Lifestyle
What Rising Gas Prices Mean for the Obesity Epidemic
There's a striking correlation between driving and obesity. Could a future with fewer cars help reverse one of our most pressing health crises?
Lifestyle
Check Yourself Out! The Science of Supermarket Design
Supermarkets are designed to trick you into buying more than you planned to. Can marketing psychology be used to push healthy foods instead?
Lifestyle
Obesity in the U.S.: American Life Expectancy Falling Dramatically
As other developed nations see their populations grow older, Americans are bucking the trend and dying earlier.
Lifestyle
When Urban Planning and Obesity Collide
Take a look at what the streets of Louisville, Kentucky have got to do with the battle against obesity.
Education
The Coming Paradigm Shift in Education Reform
Instead of ignoring the role poverty plays in hindering student achievement, the next wave of reformers might tackle it head on.
Lifestyle
Coffee Lids, Cupholder Cuisine, and America's Obesity Crisis
What the history of cups and cupholders tells us about one of the driving forces behind obesity—and a simple solution.
Lifestyle
Are "Headless Fatties" in the Media Making Us Fat?
New research suggests that the media should be careful with all those images of headless overweight people they use for stories on obesity.
Lifestyle
Feast Your Eyes: Gout, Not Just for Kings Anymore
How the "diseases of affluence" manifest themselves, painfully, in our body's joints.
Lifestyle
Warning: Subsidizing Healthy Food With Fat Taxes Might Undermine Obesity Fight
The combination of taxes and warning labels deters us, but should we use that revenue towards healthier fare?
Education
Beyoncé's Killing It with These "Let's Move" Videos
Check out Beyoncé's new video for the Let's Move campaign against childhood obesity. It's really fun.
Lifestyle
Here's What A Lifetime's Worth of Corn Syrup Consumption Looks Like
Could a cherished aspect of our diet—those sweet drinks and sugary snacks—actually be toxic in the long run? If only it were that simple.
Lifestyle
Jamie Oliver Still Isn't Offering Real Solutions, But Maybe That's Fine
The new season of Jamie Oliver's Food Revolution probably won't offer any practical solutions to childhood obesity. But maybe it only needs to be fun.
Lifestyle
Map: Globesity and Nutrition Data From Around the World
What's the connection between world nutrition and globesity? Take a look at these maps.
Lifestyle
Your Microbiome and the Battle to Combat Obesity
Gut bacteria can influence our behavior—and understanding the incredible diversity of the human microbiome may help us solve our obesity problem.
Lifestyle
Tackling Obesity with Neuroscience and Clever Design
Learn what David Kessler thinks we should do about our addiction to food and the country's burgeoning obesity problem.
Culture
Americans Are Now Fat Enough to Require Lower Passenger Limits on Boats
The Coast Guard's assumed average weight per person is jumping by nearly 30 pounds.
Lifestyle
Food Studies: What I've Learned By Washing Down Organic Food With Diet Coke
Erin and her classmates cook with both farmers' market vegetables and Crisco. What does that have to do with larger questions of poverty and obesity?
Lifestyle
U.S. Obesity Epidemic Now Requiring Fatter Crash Test Dummies
The super-sizing of all forms of American transit continues apace, in response to the country's obesity epidemic.
