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Amid all the other tumult, causes and revolutions of the 1960s - race, sex, war, feminism - the fight of the fat is a historical footnote. But America's overweight had their cause too. When hippies started staging "be-ins" to protest the Vietnam War, the first fat activists co-opted the idea: they staged their own event in New York City's Central Park, dubbed it a "Fat-In" and ate ice cream while burning posters of über-thin model Twiggy. Viva la revoluci...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Fat-Acceptance Movement | 7/31/2009 | See Source »

Taking the congestive-heart-failure example, here's how the payment scheme would work: A slightly overweight 60-year-old heart-failure patient comes in with coronary-artery disease and acid-reflux disease. According to a Prometheus algorithm, this patient should cost $20,750 a year to treat - including office visits, medications, blood-pressure monitoring and an allowance for complications. The incentive for the heart patient's doctor to spend less than $20,750 is that he gets to keep a portion of the difference (assuming that the patient was managed properly and happy with the outcome). And the best...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cutting Health-Care Costs by Putting Doctors on a Budget | 7/6/2009 | See Source »

...points before and after bariatric procedures. "The database collection is powered to address both the short- and long-term issues related to bariatric surgery, including things such as weight loss, improvement in health parameters like diabetes, hypertension, sleep apnea and cholesterol problems," says DeMaria. With the ranks of overweight and obese people growing each year, that would certainly be welcome information for anyone contemplating surgery as part of a weight-loss program...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Weight-Loss Surgery: Safe, but Does It Work? | 6/25/2009 | See Source »

...Jong Un is 26 and a chip off the old block, according to Kenji Fujimoto, the Japanese chef who used to cook for the Kim clan. He is short, a bit overweight and "aggressive," Fujimoto has said, "just like his father." And Kim Jong Un is now, many analysts believe, officially in line to succeed Kim Jong Il as the leader of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea - which helps explain Pyongyang's recent explosively belligerent behavior. (Read "Time to Face Facts on Our North Korea Ignorance...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: North Korea: The Coldest War | 6/22/2009 | See Source »

...their own. Studies suggest that establishing independent and healthy sleep habits early in infancy not only improves babies' daily mood and behavior, but may also have long-term implications for their overall health and well-being. Children who don't sleep enough may be at increased risk of being overweight and having emotional and behavioral difficulties in adolescence and adulthood, for example. (See the top 10 children's books...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Advice for Coddling Parents: Put Baby to Bed Alone | 6/13/2009 | See Source »

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