Word: overweightness
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...ridiculous for overweight teenagers to sue McDonald's [SOCIETY, Dec. 2]. The kids say McDonald's didn't adequately warn them that its meals contained lots of fat, salt and sugar. But the teens' obesity and health problems are their parents' fault as well as their own. Their parents should not have let them eat at McDonald's nearly every day for years on end. Children must be taught that some foods are bad for you. Any lawsuit shouldn't be against McDonald's; it should be against the negligent parents. CHARLES KYUNGHWAN KIM Hacienda Heights, Calif...
Even for those with high risk of contracting the disease, eating peanuts may be a good way to lower risk. The study found that peanuts help decrease the risk of contracting Type II Diabetes in people who are unfit, overweight or smokers, all of which are risk factors for the disease...
...grease should know it's a house of gastronomic excess. No food establishment that leaves your fingers glistening and your clothes smelling like sizzled meat can be good for you. So it's tempting to scoff at the lawsuit heard in a Manhattan court last week on behalf of overweight New Yorkers who say McDonald's food made them fat. And scoff folks did--on chat shows, in the papers, even overseas. "Perhaps they should also take out a lawsuit against staff for saying 'Have a nice day' when the weather is bad," sniffed London's Express...
School lunches are also drawing scrutiny for posing long-term hazards to children's health. At a time when childhood obesity is skyrocketing--there has been an almost threefold jump in the number of overweight teens since the 1970s--some school cafeterias look little different from food courts at the local mall. Many serve burgers and pizzas rife with full-fat meats and cheeses or simply turn the prep work over to franchises like Burger King and Papa John's, which have a burgeoning side business in catering school meals. "If nothing changes, a generation will be having heart bypasses...
Blackburn even ran into a bit of controversy earlier this year for a cartoon that ran in the Crimson’s Oct. 16 issue. The drawing showed an overweight girl chowing down on a ‘Bucket O’ Chicken’ while answering the phone for ECHO, a Harvard eating concerns group...