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  • the international obesity task force

    Many prominent obesity researchers have ties to the International Obesity Task Force, which gets very large amounts of funding from drug companies. The task force in many respects just acts as a affluent drug-company funded lobbying group but presents itself as an organization of disinterested and independent scientists. Thr task force has ...
    Posted to Medical Examiner by Nerak77 on May 6, 2008

  • Weighting out the Military

    While the number of available recruits dwindle, the Army does the run around keeping their service members on active duty past their obligated end of service date. Whether or not dumbing down or weighting around for a very large army of one, we need service members to enforce US policy abroad. The question that crosses my mind might be a ...
    Posted to Explainer by aerospaceman on April 23, 2008

  • Flawed logic

    I think Engber is arguing from flawed logic. As an RTI employee, I can personally attest to the fact that the company takes research methodology very seriously. The candidates may indeed be overstating the numbers, but regardless of the columnist's opinion, problems associated with obesity are in fact a considerable drain on the health care ...
    Posted to Science by Porkins on March 4, 2008

  • OBESITY

    AS A VERY LARGE PERSON,I DO NOT LIKE IT AND HAVE MANY AILMENTS DUE TO THE FAT. I AM DISABLED AND CANNOT WORK, SO THIS SUBJECT HITS AT HOME. INSTEAD OF 500.00 OF MEDICINE EVERY MONTH WHY CAN'T MEDICARE SPEND 30.00 FOR DIET PILLS OR A ONE TIME COMPLETE COVERAGE OF LAP BANDING? THEY WOULD SAVE MONEY,I COULD GO BACK TO WORK WITHOUT ALL MY BACK,LEG AND ...
    Posted to Science by BIG LADY on February 20, 2008

  • Cost of obesity

    It's not just people who eat their way into the mass graves but certain medicines also make people obese. Look at steroids such as Prednisone even the diabetics are prone to gain weigjt from taking a certain amount of insulin. Not all ''fat'' people go to the doctor more than the skinny skanks. I only have to go every 3 or 4 months sometimes ...
    Posted to Science by Becki on February 20, 2008

  • teleological genetics

    ''Fat, diabetic, and heart-disease genes may have evolved to survive the cold. '' Well, that certainly explains the propensity for obesity in the people of oceania (Samoa, Hawaii, etc.)
    Posted to Human Nature by gzuckier on February 20, 2008

  • The Missed Point

    Both the studies and the article are too narrow. The point is, I don't care how much health care for fat people costs, I only care how much health care for fat people costs me. Of course health care costs more for people who live longer, but they are also contributing more productivity over the course of those long lives. There is an implicit ...
    Posted to Science by etymologue on February 18, 2008

  • Re: environmental impacts of obesity

    And you base this analysis on what? How many fat people seen on a bicycle? How many AMERICANs do you see on bicycles? Do they provide the weight of people who buy SUVs? So how do you know that obese people buy SUVs? I think there is a stronger correlation between income levels and SUV purchase. Overweight people have enough discrimination to ...
    Posted to Science by aereuter on February 17, 2008

  • Re: dieting failures

    Weight Loss in 5 Easy Steps Thank youThank you for taking the time to read this article. We know that your time is valuable, and aim to give you the most value possible for the time you invest in reading our article. We have put together a 5 step success plan for losing weight.Step 1: GoalsThe first step to achieving the healthy body you ...
    Posted to Medical Examiner by mejohn7779 on January 3, 2008

  • Turkey isn't the only victim! However...

    the article misses the point in one of the largest advantages turkey has. One of the great pushes in turkey breeding has been its low fat and cholesterol which was not mentioned in this article. Porks has suffered similarly under the same market pressures. What the article another item the article doesn't mention is the prominence which the ...
    Posted to Food by stardude82 on November 23, 2007
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