Childhood Obesity News

As a previous post noted, to be called skinny used to be an insult. It implied that no one cared whether you lived or died, or that you were too stupid and inept to earn enough to feed yourself. Anyone who was that poor would be consi...

Over the centuries of human life on Earth, obesity has always been a judgment magnet. Through a long chapter of European history, vast populations of serfs were ruled by a tiny minority of “nobles,” or people with inherited wealth. To the average peasant, a wealthy person’s obesity translated as a painful reminder that peasants were always expected to get along on alm...

As demand for GLP-1 medications continues to surge across the United States, a growing number of states are reevaluating whether they can afford to cover these drugs for obesity treatment under Medicaid. Recent proposals in Massachusetts and Rhode Island highlight a bro...

Journalists in the obesity field have written about why poor people become overweight, and also about how overweight people can become economically disadvantaged. Between those two inconvenient facts, a mutual causative relationship exists, which h...

Is any other natural substance so encrusted by myth and practical observations? The number of informal borrowings of the word to imply humanly recognized concepts is staggering. For example,

“To capture unwary investors, they salted the mine.”
“She salted away most of her fortune.”
“He’s not worth his salt.”

Salt is fundamentally sweat, whether g...