Doctors call it “super obese” - it’s a category for the new epidemic of children as young as two and three years old who are extremely overweight. According to the Centers for Disease Control, obesity rates among children younger than five have doubled over the last two decades. This is serious stuff - doctors say [...]

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Weight gain may be another potential danger caused by food additives. A new study shows if you eat foods with monosodium glutamate (MSG), you are more likely to be overweight or obese. Researchers from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and China find those who used the most MSG were nearly three times [...]

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Here’s an interesting explanation of why more Americans are obese - researchers say extra weight may be contagious because most people feel good about themselves if they are about as heavy as the people they hang around. In other words… the norm that most people compare themselves to has become fatter and fatter, feeding a [...]

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You know I talk a lot about the obesity epidemic in this country here at FFTV, but this is something that even shocked me. New research finds if things don’t change, most American adults - 86 percent - will be overweight or obese by the year 2030. 86 percent!
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If you’re obese before you become pregnant, you may be more at risk of having a baby with defects of the brain and spinal cord, says new research from the March of Dimes. The study finds that’s especially true if you tend to put on weight around the waist.

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He used to weigh 1,234 pounds. Now after two years of diet, exercise, and medical care ABC News reports Manuel Uribe has dropped more than 520 pounds and he’s determined to shed many more.
Has anyone else been following this story? It caught my attention when I read Manuel had gained so much weight that he [...]

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