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Stress in America: Overweight Children Are Affected More Read more: http://healthland.time.com/2010/11/09/stress-in-america-overweight-children-are-affected-more/?hpt=Sbin#ixzz14uB1zBqW Americans are really stressed out — not least of all American kids, according to a new survey [PDF] from the American Psychological Association. The report found that children who are overweight or obese feel particularly stressed, more so than their normal-weighted peers. And such stress [...]

How can I break my sugar addiction? There is no doubt that this kind of eating arises from an emotional component. In addition to stimulating brain reward centers, sweet food markedly affects stress hormones in ways likely to provide a sense of temporary reprieve from anxiety. Of course, in addition to all the health problems [...]

Michele Obama : Childhood obesity fight is about fitness, not looks (CNN) — Michelle Obama says her call for the country to fight childhood obesity isn’t about physical appearances, but rather quality of life. “Teachers are seeing the challenges that kids with weight issues are having — not being able to participate in gym, feeling [...]

Heart disease to kill 400,000 in U.S. in 2010 LONDON – Decades of progress in the United States on cutting cholesterol, blood pressure and smoking are being stalled by rising obesity rates, and heart disease will kill around 400,000 Americans this year, experts said on Monday. A study by British scientists found that around half [...]

Being Fat Goes Global It’s not just Americans anymore; the whole world is becoming obese, and we have more than just the advent of cheap cheeseburgers to blame. Two years ago, when Barry Popkin announced that more than a billion people worldwide were overweight—easily outnumbering the 800 million who were malnourished—folks looked up from their [...]

Stress: Alabama goes to bat against staff obesity, ties insurance costs to Body Mass Index One in three American adults is obese. Medical costs for obesity-related illnesses (diabetes, cardiovascular disease, asthma, some cancers) eat up one out of every six health care dollars. Should obese people pay more for health insurance than those of normal [...]