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1 Being Overweight is More of a Headache Than You Think
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2 Who You Calling TOFI?
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3 What Causes Heartburn?
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4 Not Enough Sleep and Weight Gain: What's the Connection
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5 Part 3: Are You in the "Pre" Phase of Disease? Obesity
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6 Carrying a Few Extra Pounds May Not Be a Bad Thing
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7 Plus-Size Version of The Bachelor: Cool or Not?
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8 Is America's Antifat Rhetoric Out of Hand?
Created by Aly Bellissimo, the illustrator behind the blog Creepy Miranda, these obese Disney princesses are definitely disturbing. They don't look unhappy next to their thinner counterparts just because they're heavier, but because their faces and body language say, "I'm sad." What's the point? Not to be a stickler, but princess culture already has a bad enough rap, so when adding 300 pounds to Read more
This question comes from Group Therapy in our TrèsSugar Community. Feel free to add your advice in the comments! There is someone in my life who I don't see very often, but every time I see her she makes comments about her weight. I can tell that she feels really bad about it because she talks about it A LOT— in a way that she is jokingly making fun of herself. Since she is overweight (but Read more
Being obese is unhealthy for many reasons — most recently, we learned it could lead to brain degeneration — but does that mean we should demonize overweight people? A recent story on Newsweek.com questions whether this antifat rhetoric is totally out of control. From the "real" sized model featured in Glamour to outrage over President Obama's nomination of a heavyset woman, Regina M. Read more
Television networks can get away with a lot during the Summer when most shows are in rerun mode. We've grown to expect reality programming up the wazoo, and this season the lineup includes a new Mike Fleiss (executive producer of The Bachelor) creation called More to Love. Premiering July 28, the dating show will feature "a single and eligible man with a big waist and an even bigger heart as he Read more
Admittedly, I've never been a calorie counter. Even if you're really good about reading your food's packaging, how often do you do the same for your pet? Other than checking out the ingredients of his food, I've never thought about the calories in treats I give North other than some seem like they pack quite a few . . . based on his look afterward! I've rounded up the counts of common dog snacks Read more
Well, this news has come in just in time. Now that candy-driven Halloween is over and we're preparing to gorge ourselves on Thanksgiving, a new study shows that being 25 pounds overweight doesn't appear to raise your risk of dying of cancer or heart disease. Having a little extra weight may help you to survive various illnesses such as emphysema, pneumonia and certain injuries. Those between the Read more
I've been talking a lot about Diabetes and if you're putting yourself at risk or not. So, along with Diabetes, what are the identifiers of common health diseases? Medical News Today has outlined four "prediseases" to watch for, here is the first: Overweight: Why It's Important: Not only is overweight the forerunner to obesity, a known risk factor for many diseases, just being 5% to 10% Read more
Are you getting a restful night of sleep? Do you wake up and feel energized? If the answer is "No," it could be causing other problems besides making you tired. Scientists found that people getting 4 or less hours of sleep have a rise in the hormone ghrelin, that is related to stimulating the appetite, which in turn causes them to eat. At the same time, they have lower levels of the hormone Read more
I'm sure you've all experienced heartburn once in your life, some unfortunately more than others. Maybe you ate a spicy meal, a huge meal or a huge spicy meal and got that overwhelming burning sensation in your lower chest. But it doesn't stop there, it can start to creep up into your esophagus and into your throat. You may know this already, but heartburn doesn't actually affect the heart at Read more
Do you hate your coworker because she eats whatever she wants and never works out yet still is thin? Well don't because chances are she is TOFI. TOFI stands for "Thin on the Outside, Fat on the Inside." New studies are finding the fat deposits these so called Tofis carry are hidden in the white fat that lies around their vital organs, streaked through their underused muscles and wrapped around Read more
