Obesity

National Institute of Health officials are spending more than $2.1 million to develop shoe insoles and special buttons that track a person's weight. (iStock Photo)

Step away from the chicken nuggets, NIH’s anti-obesity device will order

Mark Tapscott · October 18, 2014 6:00 pm

First lady Michelle Obama is joined by school children as they harvest peanuts in the annual fall harvest of the White House Kitchen Garden at the White House in Washington, Tuesday, Oct. 14, 2014. In celebration of Farm to School Month, Obama invited students from Arizona, California, and Ohio to participate in the fall harvest. These schools were selected because they are participating in farm to school programs that incorporate fresh, local food into their school meals, and they teach students about healthy eating through school gardens and nutrition education.(AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

What does Michelle Obama turn out for? A turnip

Darlene Superville · October 15, 2014 8:56 pm

Soda makers pledge to reduce calorie consumption

Soda makers pledge to reduce calorie consumption

Candice Choi · September 23, 2014 7:31 pm

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Report: Baby boomers have nation’s highest obesity rate

Paul Bedard · September 12, 2014 12:53 pm

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CDC: 76% of fat kids think they’re ‘about right,’ fueling their obesity

Paul Bedard · August 28, 2014 7:08 pm

FILE - In this May 31, 2012 file photo, a man leaves a 7-Eleven store with a Double Gulp drink, in New York. The New York Court of Appeals ruled Thursday, June 26, 2014 that the city's health department overstepped its bounds when it restricted the size of sodas. The court is siding with a lower court that overturned the 2012 ban. (AP Photo/Richard Drew, File)

Drink up, NYC: Ban on big sodas canned

DAVID KLEPPERJENNIFER PELTZ · June 26, 2014 8:27 pm

An anti-obesity group that includes first lady Michelle Obama on its leadership team blames people, not food companies, for the epidemic, according to a new study. AP Photo

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Study: Michelle Obama anti-fat group treats obese as ‘idiots’

Paul Bedard · June 10, 2014 4:19 pm

Big Apple schools will now change the way fitness reports are distributed to families. But changing the delivery route doesn't address the expansive government encroachment on our children's health based on dubious science. (Thinkstock)

The data-mining body monitors in our schools

Michelle Malkin · May 30, 2014 4:47 pm

30 percent of world is now fat, no country immune

Maria Cheng · May 29, 2014 8:53 am

Once world’s heaviest man cremated in Mexico

Once world’s heaviest man cremated in Mexico

Washington Examiner · May 27, 2014 7:03 pm

FILE - In this June 9, 2008 file photo, Manuel "Meme" Uribe, 42, shows how he exercises from his bed during an interview in Monterrey, Mexico. Uribe, once listed as the world's heaviest human being, has died at the age of 48. His death was confirmed Monday, May 26, 2014 by an official of the health department of Nuevo Leon state in Mexico. Doctors have not yet certified the cause of death. (AP Photo/Monica Rueda, File)

Mexican man, once world’s heaviest, dies at 48

Porfirio Ibarra · May 26, 2014 7:36 pm

The 2014 souvenir egg 5-pack sold for $31.99.

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Michelle Obama’s ‘Let’s Move!’ takes over annual Easter Egg Roll — again

Paul Bedard · April 8, 2014 4:00 am