Last month, we found out the Army has been dismissing so many overweight applicants that its top recruiter is thinking about starting a fat farm to turn chubby trainees into fit soldiers. Now a report from the Pentagon says the number of troops diagnosed as overweight or obese has more than doubled since the beginning [...]

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Earlier this week, we talked about how a lot of people are chowing down on comfort foods to ease their money woes. Now a new poll from the American Psychological Association shows the stress from this rocky economy is hurting our emotional and physical health. In the survey, more than half of Americans said they [...]

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Here’s more proof of what stress can do to your family’s health. New research from the University of Illinois finds millions of poor children in the United States may be getting fat before age 10 because their moms are stressed out and the kids turn to unhealthy comfort food to escape.
Researchers say the stress is [...]

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