What I tried to make clear in Good Calories, Bad Calories was that nutrition and obesity research lost its way after the Second World War with the evaporation of the European community of scientists and...

If only we correct our eating habits than not only we would have perfect body weight but also we can get rid of most of the diseases.- Subodh Gupta , author “7 food habits for...

Most of the human body disease such as Obesity, Cancer, Heart disease are linked with our food which we eat in our day to day life. If people are eating health food than how come...

Childhood obesity is a huge systemic problem. It’s a pandemic to a certain extent.

There are definitions of morbid obesity. Doctors define it.

I’m not for obesity, I’m not for single parenthood, and I’m not for poverty. But I realize those groups are more likely to be targeted than others.

Eating a salad (in public) is an overweight person’s attempt to appear in control.

Based on the statistics, most of the charges saying that obesity caused various diseases or that obesity caused thousands of deaths were simply not supported.

People think there is nothing that they can do, that obesity is inevitable. This is not rocket science: It’s all about how many calories you’re putting in yourself, and how many are getting out. We...

However gnawing a deficiency, satiety is worse… We are meant to be hungry.

A recent survey or North American males found 42% were overweight, 34% were critically obese and 8% ate the survey.

There is a strong social bias against such findings because many people want to believe obesity is due to an individual’s lack of control on some personal, mental level, but we now think viruses may...

Tackling childhood obesity is key.

Oh, pity the poor gluttonWhose troubles all beginIn struggling on and on to turnWhat’s out into what’s in.

America wrestles with its obesity crisis to such an extent that Americans forget there are worse weight problems on earth than obesity.

While we’ve heard a lot about the problem of obesity, only recently communities, schools and workplaces are starting to intervene and impact the way we live. Until we really change the education factor and say,...

We can’t say for sure it’s causing obesity in humans. We just know there’s some pretty strong evidence at this point.

What sets science and the law apart from religion is that nothing is expected to be taken on faith. We’re encouraged to ask whether the evidence actually supports what we’re being told – or what...

The people in power have created an obesity epidemic.

These findings are very reflective of what we see around the world. The rise in weight and obesity is being seen globally.

Appetite is governed by our thoughts, but hunger is governed by the body.

This is a novel concept as far as a cause for obesity. If these viruses are contributing to obesity, as we get to the point of developing a vaccine, there may be a way to...

It may be easier to believe that we remain lean because we’re virtuous and we get fat because we’re not, but the evidence simply says otherwise. Virtue has little more to with our weight than...

When it comes to fat, there has to be a reason. We need to be able to trace the genealogy of obesity. Without that genealogy, we are simply mystified. People need an explanation for how...

More die in the United States of too much food than of too little

Cookies don’t make us fat. They’re not to blame for our obesity epidemic. You know what else isn’t to blame? Fast food, chips, candy, technology, soda, or anything else. The choices we make over a...

Even if these researchers do see the need to address the problem immediately, though they have obligations and legitimate interests elsewhere, including being funded for other research. With luck, the ideas discussed in Good Calories,...

Most of us think of obesity as a problem of rich and western industrialized countries. But our data shows that it also affects low and middle income countries especially people living in cities,

According to the surgeon general, obesity today is officially an epidemic; it is arguably the most pressing public health problem we face, costing the health care system an estimated $90 billion a year. Three of...

Most of the seven billion people in this world suffer from malnutrition. Half do not have enough to eat and the rest of us eat too much.

If you keep on eating unhealthy food than no matter how many weight loss tips you follow, you are likely to retain weight and become obese. If only you start eating healthy food, you will...

Fat is a social disease, and fat is a feminist issue.

THE RELIABLE WAY OUT OF OBESITY IS VIA PERSONAL RESPONSIBILITY. This point has been lost on the hundreds of folks who have railed against my arguments for food addiction in periodicals, so I”m eager to...

21Most food goes to waste in affluent societies. When we throw leftovers into the garbage, it goes to waste. When we eat more food than we need, it goes to waist.

Eating healthy nutritious food is the simple and right solution to get rid of excess body weight effortlessly and become slim and healthy forever.

But if sedentary behavior makes us fat and physical activity prevents it, shouldn’t the “exercise explosion” and the “new fitness revolution” have launched and epidemic of leanness rather than coinciding with an epidemic of obesity?

So why is a third of our world battling obesity and spending huge sums to burn off excess calories, while the other two-thirds yearn to get more of them?

Black-and-white thinking is the addict’s mentality, which can be a bar to recovery when one is still active. But an addict who finds the willingness can then rely on the same trait to stay clean:...

People usually live up to their expectations. The kid picked first for dodgeball feels a duty to be the best, and to perform the best, and to be better than anyone else. They feel a...

On need of supplement & vitamins- “If you eat a balanced diet you get all the vitamins and minerals you need and you don’t need any supplement and overdosing can actually be more harmful.

…Why is it, that from the moment you enter medical school to the moment you retire, that the only disorder you will ever diagnosis with a physics book – is obesity? This is biology folks,...

You’ve lived in America for twenty years. Eat badly, damn it.

Larry broke my morose train of thought with his laughter. “Welcome to America,” he said, “where even our zombie epidemic has an obesity epidemic.

In any case, seeing care for certain groups as an excessive cost reflects an arguably perverse way of thinking about health care in terms of human need. […] In other words, care for the sick...

I’d always assumed Beth and I would be friends forever. But then in middle of the eighth grade, the Goldbergs went through the World’s Nastiest Divorce.Beth went a little nuts.I don’t blame her. When her...

In the eleventh century obese English king William the Conqueror took to bed and consumed nothing but alcohol to shed pounds, a practice many of his countrymen seem to continue to this day.

About eighty percent of the food on shelves of supermarkets today didn’t exist 100 years ago.

Overeating is the addiction of choice of carers, and that’s why it’s come to be regarded as the lowest-ranking of all the addictions. It’s a way of fucking yourself up while still remaining fully functional,...

Fat people are funny … until obesity pays your loved one a visit.

If two heads are better than one, then what about double chins? On that note, I will help myself to seconds.