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This page features recent news articles relating to obesity. Topics may include bariatric surgery information, weight loss alternatives to surgery, lifestyle, coping with obesity, life after weight loss surgery, and social/work place issues.
An Indiana state court’s ruling that would require a small business to pay for weight-loss surgery could make employers more cautious when hiring obese people, employment attorneys say. The...
Every Wednesday, Debra Slocum is up to her elbows in pounds of potatoes and mounds of chicken -- but for the first time in the busy grandmother’s life, her only interest is in serving them up...
Doctors fighting to save the life of the world's heaviest man are considering calling in an RAF Chinook to move him 150 miles to a specialist centre that will treat him.Paul Mason, who weighs 70...
In 1932, Russell Wilder, one of the leading obesity experts, lectured the American College of Physicians, saying that his patients lost more weight on bed rest than an exercise regime.
Daily lunches of a cream doughnut, a chocolate eclair, a packet of chips, two rolls, ice-cream and a bar of chocolate led to Durban youngster Yusuf Rawat tipping the scales at 215kg.
At 24 years old, Jaime Kendall never knew what it was like to ride a roller coaster. At 5 feet 4 inches and weighing 400 pounds, the Dalton, Ga., resident was too large for the seats. She couldn't...
On Dec. 21, 2007, Fremont lawyer Bob Springstead reluctantly stepped on the scales and saw it register 386 pounds. "That’s when I told myself ‘enough was enough,’ and I had...