![]() Daily Mail | Growing up fat is no fun: Childhood obesity is on the rise and parents ... Daily Mail Apart from all the social and emotional problems of being a fat kid, health risks also abound. Childhood and teenage obesity is dangerously on the rise throughout the country. In addition to the risk of early death, obese teenagers are also at an ... |
85 pounds lighter and couldn't be happier about turning 40 Baltimore Sun I've called myself overweight, and heavy. My clothes have been for "big girls" from the "women's" department, but fat has never really been in my vocabulary. Other people have called me fat. I remember an incident, probably 15 years ago, ... |
Throw a Spitball, Go to Jail ScienceBlogs (blog) Other kids don't like me," said Sarah, who has been diagnosed with attention-deficit and bipolar disorders and who is conscious of being overweight. "They were saying a lot of rude things to me. Just picking on me. So I sprayed myself with perfume. |
![]() Christian Science Monitor | Super Bowl ads battle for top spot Christian Science Monitor Super Bowl ads ranged from overweight dogs to naked M&Ms. In the end, the game between the Patriots and Giants outshone the Super Bowl ads. By Mae Anderson, Associated Press / February 6, 2012 Super Bowl ads: This photo shows a scene from the Dannon ... |
Jason Wu for Target Sells Out in First Morning Yahoo! Contributors Network (blog) Target launched Wu's Capsule Collection with clothing items priced at $60 or less. This follows the mass retailer's enormous success with getting other high-fashion designers, most recently Missoni, on board to offer affordable collections to the ... |
Commentary: Weight discrimination not so funny Dayton Daily News In Georgia, where 40 percent of children are either overweight or obese, Children's Healthcare of Atlanta last month caught flack for its “Stop Sugarcoating” campaign, which features frowning fat kids. Some wonder if the anti-childhood obesity campaign ... |
![]() Catholic News Agency | Maggie doesn't need a diet or a humiliating billboard Catholic News Agency Sugarcoating things or telling kids that beauty comes in all shapes and sizes may not put an end to childhood obesity, but neither will shaming fat kids. Dorian Speed recently brought the new anti-obesity campaign in Georgia to my attention. |
PREPESPECTIVE: Wrestlers balance losing and ways to lose weight Rocky Mount Telegram Then there are the much more common tales of wrestlers refusing to eat or wearing multiple layers of clothing during exercise (or both) to make weight. In wrestling, making weight is of the utmost importance, and those who don't make the cut are looked ... |
Brian Meifert drops pounds and inspires others to do the same Sentinel and Enterprise Kate Meifert said she now goes to the gym to work out after she gets the kids off to school, and has lost 32 pounds and four dress sizes. "It helps to do it first thing in the morning before anything else on the to-do list crowds it out," she said. |
![]() New Straits Times | They are simply fatbulous New Straits Times The toughest part about being fat, she says, is not finding a man, but finding modern and fashionable clothes. "There are shops in Malaysia selling plus-sized ladies wear but most of them are 'aunty-looking'. That's why I started my own online clothes ... |