A new study shows that elderly people who are overweight or obese have significantly less brain tissue than those of normal weight. The difference was 4% for overweight people and 8% for the obese in a study of 94 people...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/08/27/as-waistlines-widen-brains-shrink/We've posted some creative prison smuggling schemes before on Neatorama, but never one this ... beefy: An obese inmate in Texas has been charged after officials learned he had a gun hidden under flabs of his own flesh. [...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/08/08/fat-inmate-hid-gun-in-fat-rolls/A study by Mile End Centre for Sports and Exercise Medicine in the Whitechapel area of London, England asked 11- and 12-year-olds to wear pedometers to measure their activity. Researchers were surprised to find that the...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/07/11/children-cheat-on-exercise-study/Most people's New Year's resolutions usually involve losing weight, but Australian underwear model and personal trainer Paul "PJ" James's was the exact opposite: he wanted to become fat to better understand his...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/05/20/personal-trainers-new-years-resolution-get-fat/Ever wonder why some people can eat anything they... ...covery of its role could be the key to preventing obesity , diabetes and heart diseaseScientists found that...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/03/15/fat-enzyme-explains-why-some-people-never-get-fat/Think that because diet sodas have low calories they help prevent weight gain? Think again! David Zinczenko and Matt Goulding of Men's Health wrote an article on the ugly truth about diet soda:When confronted with the gr...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/01/04/how-diet-soda-actually-makes-you-fat/Image: J Fowler and N Christakis/New England Journ... ...aled how oher people's happiness, depression, and obesity can affect you:Recent research shows that our moo... ...ot entirely understood: happiness and depression, obesity , drinking and smoking habits, ill-health, the inc...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/12/31/depressed-sick-and-fat-blame-your-friends/It may be the wrong time of year to think about how fat you are -or maybe it's the best time of year to change your habits before you put the pounds on! HealthAssist lists 14 habits you want to examine to turn your healt...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/12/18/14-habits-that-make-you-fat/Simon Tofield, the creator of the Simon's Cat se... ...was created for the RSPCA's campaign to fight pet obesity . There is of course a serious message to this a... ...to this animation. According to leading vets, pet obesity is one of the biggest issues affecting pets’ he...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/12/10/cut-out-the-stuffing/In America, most of us believe that we shouldn't discriminate based on characteristics that people can't control (e.g. race, gender, etc.). However, we also believe that weight is something that people can control, and w...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/04/04/weight-ism-more-widespread-than-sexism/
