Fit Mom Banned From Facebook for Fat-Shaming Is 'Sorry Not Sorry'
Remember 32-year-old Maria Kang? She's the fitness-obsessed mom who posted a picture of herself with her three kids and the caption "what's your excuse?" on Facebook. After a recent rant about how there is "unrelenting support" for people who are "borderline obese," she's been banned from Facebook. But she is not…
Morning After Pill Doesn't Work on Women Over 176 Pounds
In a move that's bound to frighten everyone, HRA Pharma, the company the manufactures the European version of Plan B called Norlevo has revised its packaging to indicate that the pregnancy prevention medication is not always effective for women over 165 pounds and doesn't work at all for women who weigh more than 176…
Halloween Jerk to Hand Out Notes Telling Trick or Treaters They're Fat
A local busybody in Fargo, North Dakota has decided to take America's child obesity epidemic on herself this Halloween by only giving candy to the trick or treaters she deems thin enough to deserve candy. The rest of the kids — those the woman deems "moderately obese" — get notes telling their parents to stop having…
'Healthy Obese' Is Possible, But Maybe Not Forever
As many as a third of obese adults are considered metabolically healthy, meaning they have normal cholesterol and blood pressure levels and show no signs of developing diabetes. Still, they're considered a medical mystery, but new research has shed some light on why some people can be healthy at any size, while…
Study Suggests Your Fat Pet Is Stress-Eating Because of Your Bullshit
If your formerly jaunty, energetic pet has melted into a fat puddle of loose skin and belly sag, becoming so lumpy and gross that you can’t even bring yourself to touch it anymore, you might want to get over your fat phobia because you’re clearly depriving your pet of physical affection. Then, once you’ve sunk your…
Skinny People's Poop May Hold the Disgusting Key to Weight Loss
"Are you obese? Have you tried everything to lose weight (black and white footage of a person accidentally springing a thighmaster into a flatscreen TV. TV falls down on top of person/ footage of person running in sweatbands and wristbands and kneebands and looking miserable/ footage of a heavy person forlornly…
More and More Women Giving Birth to Giant Babies
Any baby weighing 8 pounds, 13 ounces or more at birth is considered "oversized." But in the past two decades it's become increasingly more common for newborns to be tiny giants—and not just in gluttonous America where entitled expectant mothers are stuffing their face with buttered Pop-Tarts. It's happening in…
Dr. Oz Raps While Wearing a Sparkly Stethoscope. For the Children.
Somehow we missed this but the video for "Everybody" — a track featuring Doug E. Fresh that will appear on Michelle Obama's hip hop album, which is a real thing that exists — features Dr. Oz rapping. While wearing scrubs and a stethoscope.
How to Lose All The Weight You Want in Just 89 Simple Steps
Summer's here and the time is right for getting super duper skinny! Where to begin? Since there are always approximately one point seven two zillion stories about how to lose weight, you might be confuzzled. Don't be! We collected the most important weight loss stories we've seen over the last couple of months and…
Fat-Shaming Actually Leads to Weight Gain
Unsurprisingly, you can't bully people into being skinny. According to a new study, ridiculing people about their bodies does absolutely nothing to motivate them to lose weight and it actually increases a person's chance of becoming or staying obese. So fat-shamers can't even hide behind "health" concerns…
San Francisco and New York Have the Nation's Skinniest Dudes
A new report from the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation at the University of Washington finds that in 2011, in a nation-wide study of counties, the lowest levels of obesity in men were found in San Francisco and New York. The New York Daily News crows, "Manhattan men nation's 2nd-skinniest." Meggings for…
Obesity Officially Recognized as a Disease by the A.M.A.
The American Medical Association has officially decided to recognize obesity as a disease. The A.M.A.'s decision has no legal authority and, as of now, weight loss drugs remain uncovered by Medicare, but the A.M.A. board members hope their decision will lead the medical community to pay closer attention to their…
Study Suggests That Indian Matriarchs Are Making Their Kids Obese
Walking dangerously parallel to a path first trod by Michael Pollan when he complained that feminism is one of the unwitting culprits of obesity in American children, researchers in India are starting to blame Indian mothers for spreading childhood obesity. Mothers are overfeeding their kids, suggests a new study…
Mika Brzezinski Has an Eating Disorder, Paid Her Friend to Lose Weight
Morning Joe's Mika Brzezinski has a book hitting stores tomorrow titled Obsessed: America's Food Addiction — And My Own. She talked about the project this morning on her own show, as well as Today, and a lot of what she had to say was great, and made perfect sense. For instance: "The obesity crisis in America is not…
This Week in Tabloids: A Dubious and Fucked-Up Guide to Celebrity Eating Disorders
Welcome back to Midweek Madness, in which Tanisha Love Ramirez assists as we gorge on gossip from In Touch, Us, Ok!, Life & Style, and Star. This week, there's a ton of Kardashian "news": Scott "American Psycho" Disick may not be the father of Kourtney Kardashian's son; Rob Kardashian's been boozing and seeing…
Just Shut the Fuck Up About Kim Kardashian's Weight
Even before 32-year-old Kimberly Noel Kardashian got pregnant, her weight was a talking point. Her curvy body — and that infamous derrière — landed her on magazine covers, and she was paid handsomely to use and promote the non-FDA-approved weight loss supplement QuickTrim. But now that Kim is with child, the blaring,…
Breastfeeding 'Unlikely' to Prevent Childhood Obesity
It would appear that one of the benefits that had previously been attributed to breastfeeding is, in the words of Basketball Wives, a non-motherfucking factor. According to a new study, breastfeeding does not lower a child's chance of being overweight or obese by the time they're pre-teens.

