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Body Weight

  • Blogs

    July 15, 2011

    Jon Stewart on Why America is Fat

    The Daily Show Hey Jon - put down that pizza!​A recent study, entitled F as in Fat: How Obesity Threatens America's Future 2011, came out just in time for National French Fry Day. That irony wasn't lost on Jon Stewart. In his Daily Show monologue, Stewart states that 38 states have an obe ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 6, 2011

    New Reality Show Casting Overweight Chefs, Foodies

    Sketchpot He'd be perfect if he were real​The producers of such "high-brow" television fare as Kitchen Nightmares and Celebrity Fit Club have finally realized where to merge their two successful concepts into one big, fat concept of a show - make a show about overweight food-industry work ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 28, 2011

    Doctors Want to Ban Fast-Food Ads From Kids' TV Shows

    ​Doctors are trying to conquer the obesity epidemic by focusing on American youth.According to this article courtesy of Reuters and the Huffington Post, a third of American children are eating fast-food meals on any given day. That reportedly amounts to in excess of $110 billion every year on ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 30, 2011

    Low Rates of Smoking and Obesity Keep Broward and Palm Beach Healthier Than Most of Florida

    Wrong idea, kid. Low rates of smoking and obesity kept Broward and Palm Beach healthier than most of Florida. ​Florida falls below the national average in quite a few significant measurements that reflect its quality of life. And healthy residents is one of them. But if you live in Broward or Palm ... More >>

  • Film

    January 27, 2011

    "Biutiful" More Bloated Than Babel, Even with Bardem

    Wrong idea, kid. Low rates of smoking and obesity kept Broward and Palm Beach healthier than most of Florida. ​Florida falls below the national average in quite a few significant measurements that reflect its quality of life. And healthy residents is one of them. But if you live in Broward or Palm ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 19, 2011

    Did You Get Your DIY Gastric-Bypass Kit Yet?

    'Cause if you didn't, you're out of luck, bub.​Up until yesterday, for about $265, you could order one on Amazon. They work great. Anyone can install one in seconds with a penknife and some packing tape.Actually, the kit contained a scalpel, a syringe, and some other medical-like doodads. And, app ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 11, 2011

    Get Paid to Lose Weight? That's the Idea at Paid2Lose.com

    The Consumerist via Flickr​We're solidly into the new year, so perhaps you've already tossed aside those overreaching resolutions that were made after a month (months?) of booze-fueled dessert debauchery and nights on the town charged to a credit card with a billion percent interest rate. But ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 3, 2010

    Cookie Diet Doctor Sanford Siegal on New Cookbook, Working With Snooki, and Why $50 Cookies Are a Bargain

    Dr. Sanford Siegal and Matthew Siegal ​Over the years, we've kept in touch with South Florida doctor Sanford Siegal, inventor of the Cookie Diet phenomenon. When we heard he had released a new cookbook (with surprisingly yummy low-calorie recipes... including chocolate and cheesecake!), we had to ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 30, 2010

    Florida Ranked 36th Most Obese State (Tickets to Gun Show Now on Sale)

    Flickr: TobyotterThe obese woman: An endangered Florida species​The seventh annual "F as in Fat: How Obesity Threatens America's Future 2010" is, first of all, apparently an R as in Real thing. But moreover, the study revealed that Florida's adult obesity rate is 25.1 percent, making us the 36th m ... More >>

  • Calendar

    January 22, 2009

    Too Tough to Die

    Flickr: TobyotterThe obese woman: An endangered Florida species​The seventh annual "F as in Fat: How Obesity Threatens America's Future 2010" is, first of all, apparently an R as in Real thing. But moreover, the study revealed that Florida's adult obesity rate is 25.1 percent, making us the 36th m ... More >>

  • Calendar

    January 1, 2009

    I'm Starvin'

    John Pinette lays down some low-cal comedy at Palm Beach Improv

  • News

    April 17, 2008

    Cookie Monsters

    It's the old diet doc versus the marketing gun in the great war of the tasty appetite suppressors

  • News

    September 27, 2007

    Fat Chance

    He ain't heavy, he's my lover

  • Foodstuffs

    May 15, 2003

    Best Takeout Chicken

    Poultry King

  • Dining

    January 13, 2000

    Foodstuff

    Bone Appetit

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