Another store is closing its doors in San Francisco. The company says a change in shopping habits is the driving reason. To ban or not to ban natural gas? The Biden administration is asking the courts to decide and review such a case to hopefully overturn a previous ruling. A new candidate is throwing his […]
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) warned consumers not to use off-brand versions of weight-loss drugs Ozempic, Rybelsus, and Wegovy because they may not have the same ingredients. Those off-brand versions of the drugs are possibly unsafe or ineffective, the federal regulator said in a notice this week. Officials said they received reports of […]
One out of five children in the United States is obese, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. And just a few weeks ago, the American Academy of Pediatrics came out with the first set of childhood obesity guidelines in 15 years. Now, criticism is flooding in. NTD spoke to Dr. Joel Warsh, […]
A United Kingdom mother who purportedly called her obese child a “doughnut,” and prevented the teen from participating in physical activities, allegedly continued to provide fast food to him or her as the child was dying in the hospital, according to a report.
In the United States, childhood obesity is a big concern—and it’s growing bigger.
Children are at a greater risk of being obese than ever before. A recent study found that lack of exercise, fast food, and the number of hours spent watching television are all factors contributing to the epidemic.
WASHINGTON—President Donald Trump has put on four pounds over the past year. According to the results of a physical examination conducted last week, he remains in “very good health” despite his weight just nudging into the ‘obese’ range of a widely used government body mass index. Trump spent more than four hours at Walter Reed National […]
When doctors told Darren McClintock that he was ‘eating himself to death,’ McClintock’s personal trainer, Mike Hind, decided to do the unthinkable. Hind gave flyers to all of 27-year-old McClintock’s regular fast-food stores in their hometown of Middlesbrough. The flyer featured a photo of himself and McClintock. “Save Dibsy,” it reads in large letters, referring […]
A Mexican man is beginning the first stage of procedures to help him lose weight. He is believed to be the world’s heaviest man. Juan Pedro Franco is 33-years-old. He hasn’t been able to get out of bed for seven years. He has weighed up to 1,311 pounds at times. Doctors feared for his health, […]
