- Fat City: What can stop obesity?
- Obesity worldwide: the map of the world's weight—"American women not employed outside the home were burning about 360 fewer calories every day in 2010 than they had in 1965, according to a new analysis, with working women burning about 132 fewer calories at home each day in 2010 than in 1965."
- Israel passes law banning models that have a BMI under 18.5
- What Housework Has to Do With Waistlines
- Obese heart patients 'do better'—"Obese cardiac patients are less likely to die than their normal weight counterparts, say researchers."
- What Losing 180 Pounds Really Does To Your Body — & Your Mind
- President Vladimir Putin calls for fitness tests for Russian schoolchildren—And teams up with Steven Seagal to promote fitness.
- Judge Blocks New York City's Limits on Big Sugary Drinks NYT
- No soda ban here: Mississippi passes 'Anti-Bloomberg' bill
- The Extraordinary Science of Addictive Junk Food—"Inside the hyperengineered, savagely marketed, addiction-creating battle for American 'stomach share.'" NYT
- 'FastDiet' book is attracting dieters, and doubters
- Biggest Loser Trainers Publicly Promote Diet And Exercise, Quietly Endorse Unproven Weight Loss Pills
- This Man Thinks He Never Has to Eat Again—"Rob Rhinehart's vomit-coloured cocktail could change food forever."
- Heart Attack Grill's Unofficial Spokesman Dies After Heart Attack
- CVS wants workers' weight, body fat and glucose levels
- U.S. Won't Appeal Court's Block Of Graphic Cigarette Warning Labels
- Let your flatulence fly, scientists urge
- Sitting next to pretty woman for a 5-hour flight almost kills a man
- Medical Scans Show Leonardo Da Vinci's Drawings Were Right All Along
- Feeling sick makes us less social online too—"A new study from BYU finds that while most of us go online regularly for help in diagnosing health issues, very few of us actually post information, including questions or our experiences, on health topics."
- Montreal bodybuilder Joe Weider, who helped lift Arnold Schwarzenegger to fame, dead at 93
- It's the Demographics, Stupid—"Our population is aging, and there's nothing to be done about that. As it ages, it's going to need the same level of healthcare we provide for today's seniors. Unless you're a sociopath, there's nothing to be done about that either. As a result, Medicare spending is going to rise."
- Bachmann: Repeal Obamacare Before It 'Literally Kills' People
- Boehner: House will keep trying to repeal Obamacare—"'The House will continue working to scrap the law in its entirety,' he said on Obamacare's third anniversary." Salon
- Kids Ingest Potentially Poisonous Medication 500,000 Times Per Year
- Hitting Your Kids Increases Their Risk of Mental Illness
- Women Who Were Abused As Children More Likely To Have Kids With Autism
- Surrey woman left without care dies in hospital—"A woman in her 80s left at home in Surrey without medication, food, or water for nine days after a care agency shut down has died in hospital."
- Senior facility defends nurse who wouldn't perform CPR on resident
- Japanese man dies after being turned away from 25 hospitals
- As Families Change, Korea's Elderly Are Turning to Suicide—"The number of suicides among people 65 and older has nearly quadrupled in recent years, ranking the country's rate of such deaths among the highest in the developed world." NYT
- Healthy Vancouver senior commits suicide in bid to change right-to-die law—"I am a 91-year-old woman who has decided to end my life in the very near future. I do not have a terminal illness; I am simply old, tired and becoming dependent, after a wonderful life of independence."
- Support grows in Vermont for an end-of-life bill—"Most states ban physician-assisted death, but a movement is growing to give terminal patients the right to choose their fate."
- Daylight saving time has a way of cleaning your clock
- Up All Night: The science of sleeplessness—"New technologies have made the study of sleep cheaper, easier, and less intrusive. But if this is sleep research's golden age, then why are we all so tired?"
- 8 Benefits of Napping: Why you Need to Nap Everyday
- Poor sleep in old age prevents the brain from storing memories
- Snooze button bad for you? Yes. Here's the science of sleep that explains why.
- Sleep Hits the Reset Button for Individual Neurons
- Overcoming Bias : Sleep Signaling
- Nothing personal: The questionable Myers-Briggs test—"The Myers-Briggs personality test is used by companies the world over but the evidence is that it's nowhere near as useful as its popularity suggests."
- You're Distracted. This Professor Can Help.—"David Levy's course at the University of Washington puts technology in its place--in the control of students."
- Social isolation shortens lifespan—"Ageing study finds being alone is a health risk."
- Brain scans predict which criminals are more likely to reoffend—"Neuroimaging 'biomarker' linked to rearrest after incarceration."
- AAN: More Proof of Effects of Pro Fighting on Brain
- Researchers Discover the Brain Origins of Variation in Pathological Anxiety
- Learning hurts your brain—"Mice left to explore new environments get DNA damage in their neurons."
- When Autocorrect Isn't to Blame—"A jumbled text message could help diagnose a stroke."
