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A Long Island school district is tackling the issue of childhood obesity in a controversial way. The Bay Shore school district has ordered 10 electronic monitoring devices to keep track of students' physical activity. The Polar Active monitors are...

In August of 2002, Big Boy weighed in at 511 pounds. With several attempts at weightloss, he was finally able to shed some pounds and keep them off. He recently published a book about his journey: An XL Life: Staying Big At Half The Size. To promote a...

What does sexy feel like? Sure, it might be a pair of cute black stilettos or some lacy underwear or driving a sleek sports car. But really, when it comes right down to it, sexy is far more. It's your whole lifestyle that gives you confidence, vibrancy...

An ad for a gym in Dubai featuring a picture of a famous Nazi death camp generated so much outrage, it quickly disappeared. The ad promotes weight loss by using a photo showing the train tracks leading to Auschwitz, where millions of Jews were murdered,...

Suffolk county cops and first responders thought they were answering a call to help a man who had fallen in an upstairs apartment bathroom in Center Moriches but they found much more, including a house with debris stacked almost to the ceiling. They ended...

Here is Dr. Platkin's quick guide to starting the Diet Detective's All American Diet: - Make A Solid Commitment To Stick To The Plan. Mark the date you’ll begin on your calendar (and don’t make it a month from now). - Start with your 21-Day...

It’s time to make New Year’s resolutions. We make these pledges with the best of intentions, but inevitably, we stray from them within just a couple of months, sometimes weeks. By the time Thanksgiving rolls around, most of us can’t even...

Have a question for Dr. Blythe? Write to her at AskThePediatrician@tribune.com May 21, 2012 Q: My school-age children have been sick with colds lately and, because of conflicting information in the news, I'm still unsure about which over-the-counter...

What's making Americans so fat? Many think the answer is that we eat too much and don't exercise enough, but the reasons are more numerous and complex, say obesity researchers. And so are the solutions. In the early 1970s, 14 percent of the adult...

For the many Americans genetically programmed to add pounds, the effort to lose weight can seem doomed from the get-go. Mix in other factors no one can change — age, race, birth order — and the struggle becomes even tougher. Though innate...

Despite popular belief, a surge of laziness and gluttony is not what's making Americans fat, says science writer and fat researcher Gary Taubes, author of "Why We Get Fat." In looking at the past 30 years, during which time obesity rates have soared,...

Weight-loss surgeons from across the United States are attempting to distance themselves from surgery centers affiliated with the 1-800-GET-THIN advertising for Lap-Band surgery. In a letter to House members considering a congressional investigation of...