This Saturday, the city of Lynwood, California challenged its residents to shed unwanted weight by introducing its seventh annual “Cash for Chunkers” challenge. The contest provides one driven team of “chunkers” with the chance to win $3,500.
Britain’s National Health Service (NHS) is set to introduce its very own sugar tax in a bid to cajole government ministers into rolling out the tax country-wide. Drinks and snacks sold in cafes, shops and vending machines on NHS premises will
Media hysteria in the UK is normally the province of the tabloid papers and The Guardian, but now The Telegraph has got in on the act. It has taken a report ranking obesity as a major crisis and, in a
PROVIDENCE, R.I. (WJAR) — A man who weighs nearly 800 pounds has been kicked out of the hospital because he ordered a pizza.
Data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System reveals some stark disparities of obesity rates among different ethnic groups in the U.S.
As Britain’s obesity epidemic worsens, fat Scots are having to be buried rather than cremated because the coffins of the obese are proving too big for traditional crematorium furnaces. BBC News previously reported obesity could be costing Scotland up to £4.6bn a
Fat people are disgusting. And, worse, they’re such babies, always coming up with bullshit excuses about their big bones, hormonal problems, slow metabolisms, the “wrong gut bacteria” or, most sickeningly, their feelings. Sorry, landwhales, but no amount of whinging about your
British doctors are calling for a 20 percent tax to be levied on sugar in a bid to cut the obesity epidemic. But low tax campaigners have said that such a tax would “hit the poorest hardest” and have accused
New Zealander Jason Patterson wants a weight loss surgery, and he is going on a hunger strike until his government pays for it.
A Glasgow-based denim designer, Robert Watson, has stated that he won’t produce jeans that are over 40 inches wide in the waist, telling Breitbart London that “fatties know they need to try harder”. Watson, also known as Rabbie Denim, has been crafting made-to-measure
A new study has given overweight people another excuse for not losing the pounds – by blaming it on aircraft and traffic. Research by the Karolinska Institute in Sweden claims that the stress of constant traffic noise such as living under
Passengers on the South West Train service from Basingstoke to London Waterloo were left in shock after an announcer took to the tannoy to say that fat people should remain standing because of lack of space, the Daily Mail reports.
During an interview overseas, President Obama warned against the dangers of obesity, in the U.S. and India.
A kebab-loving couple declared too fat to work are raking in £2k a month in welfare handouts from the British taxpayer. Stephen Beer and Michelle Coomb, from Plymouth, weigh a total of 55 stone and claim their size makes it
The Chief Executive of NHS England has attacked the recent ruling by European Court of Justice that obesity is a disability. The Organisation of Economic Co-Operation and Development’s latest health report show that a quarter of British adults are obese
As the British public let their belts out a notch to feast on chocolate and eggnog, NHS bosses are calling on doctors to report patients who put on weight. The head of the NHS has said schools, the food industry
