- The Fat Trap--"While researchers have known for decades that the body undergoes various metabolic and hormonal changes while it’s losing weight, the Australian team detected something new. A full year after significant weight loss, these men and women remained in what could be described as a biologically altered state. Their still-plump bodies were acting as if they were starving and were working overtime to regain the pounds they lost." NYT
- Fat Doesn't Mean Unhealthy: Obesity, Judgment, and Chicken McNuggets
- Why a Big Mac Costs Less Than a Salad NYT
- Scientists find fat is the sixth human taste
- Clothing sizes getting bigger: Why our sizing system makes no sense
- Trans-fat blood levels plummet after FDA food-labeling regulation
- Woman Who Made Fun Of American Apparel Contest Wins, American Apparel Act Like A Bunch Of Babies
- Boring playgrounds tied to sedentary kids, study shows
- Preschooler’s Homemade Lunch Replaced with Cafeteria "Nuggets"
- Study Finds That School Junk Food Doesn’t Lead To Childhood Obesity
- Ralph Nader: Why Are US Health Costs So High?
- New Study: Health Care Costs Fall When Poor Get Health Care Coverage
- Americans put their health-care costs in spotlight after flap over skier Sarah Burke's hospital bill--It's very telling that fans are paying for medical-bills her family can't afford.
- Another Patient Dies From Arizona’s Medicaid Cuts As Gov. Brewer Ignores Possible Solutions
- Study links 45,000 U.S. deaths to lack of insurance
- Court action could prolong health care fight
- Blast from the Past: Health Care and the Profit Motive
- Anti-vaccination attitudes percolate amongst those with superiority fetishes
- More Doctors 'Fire' Vaccine Refusers: Families Who Reject Inoculations Told to Find a New Physician; Contagion in Waiting Room Is a Fear
- Critical Shortage of Children's Leukemia Drug--"All five pharmaceutical companies that make the injection drug methotrexate, which treats acute lymphoblastic leukemia by slowing the growth of cancer cells, have either slowed and stopped manufacturing of the drug, according to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. The companies have cited high demand or manufacturing delays as reasons for the shortage. "
- PIP breast implant boss Jean-Claude Mas charged--"The silicone inside the implants is not medical grade - but was intended for use in mattresses."
- The High Cost of Bad Handwriting
- Mobile phone brain cancer link rejected
- Judge to SF: Back off on cell phone radiation warning
- NTSB recommends full ban on use of cell phones while driving
- Researchers have discovered a natural hormone that acts like exercise on muscle tissue - burning calories, improving insulin processing, and perhaps boosting strength
- "Need a boost?"
- Powerthirst--Aaargh!
- VH1's "Ton of Cash" - The Greek Mystique's Final Animal
- Arm-wrestling game recalled for breaking arms
