It's More than Morals: A Look at Obesity and the Brain
As most people know, obesity has impacted the lives of many people in western society. Everywhere you turn, there is a fast-food building, a convenience store ...
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The Secret to Becoming the Biggest Loser
Avoiding obesity is simple. You eat well, you work out. You don’t eat McDonald’s every night, and you don’t sit all day. Problem solved. So why is it that so ma...
The Vicious Cycle of Obesity
America has a problem Obesity rates are on the rise in America. Obesity is currently the second leading cause of preventable death in the US behind tobacco use....
Obesity: Being You
In the last decade, obesity has become what some would call an epidemic. There is no question about it, obesity rates are increasingly high with 34.9% of adults...
How Stress Can Lead to Obesity
We’ve all heard that stress can lead to weight gain, but how does it really do that? Chronic stress causes many harmful cycles that can lead to this excess weig...
Obesity: How it Happens
Obesity is often a very difficult topic. So many Americans are getting diagnosed with obesity every day. Some people may want to simply say it is their own faul...
Obesity: The Mother's Fault?
It has been proposed that obesity is a disease of the brain. The article we read for class revealed that there are substantial effects on the brain that qualifi...
Obesity: Health vs. Stigma
Obesity in America has an overwhelming prevalence in adults. Nearly 36% of adults are considered obese and 1 in 20 are considered morbidly obese. Even scarier,...
Obesity: What Can You Really Do?
Obesity is quite a sensitive topic in today’s world. Obviously it is not very polite to call someone fat or to say that they are obese because they would ...
Obesity: Moderation or Modulation?
There is an obesity crisis in the Unites States. We are getting fatter and fatter every year in this country, with now 33% of adults in this country being class...