Obesity

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  • Supermarket sleuth

    Stalking the aisles of America's grocery stores, "What to Eat" nutritionist Marion Nestle tells you how to keep junk food from sneaking into your cart.
    By Katharine Mieszkowski June 12, 2006

  • "In America, seduction is dishonest"

    Marketing guru Clotaire Rapaille explains why Americans invented fast food and fast sex -- while the French, despite their cultural "senility," know how to savor their adulterous liaisons.
    By Laura Miller May 20, 2006

  • The gagging and the glory

    Ryan Nerz spent a year on the competitive eating circuit -- land of therapeutic vomiting, esophagus control and "meat sweats."
    By Sarah Goldstein April 19, 2006

  • We are what we eat

    "The Omnivore's Dilemma" author Michael Pollan on how Wall Street has driven America's obesity epidemic, the misleading labels in Whole Foods, and why we should spend more money on food.
    By Ira Boudway April 8, 2006

  • It's a McWorld after all

    A writer and a photographer visit 30 families around the world to show us what the world eats -- and how industrial food is creeping into every corner of the globe.
    By Ira Boudway December 10, 2005

  • A dance contest for the obesity era

    Teens compete to log the most steps on a pedometer.
    By Katharine Mieszkowski November 11, 2005

  • Tyra Banks plays obese

    The supermodel dons a fat suit.
    By Katharine Mieszkowski November 3, 2005

  • Boogie Woogie Elmo and the junkyard future

    What happens when you match 3D printers with free computing power? Chapter 2 of "Themepunks."
    By Cory Doctorow September 19, 2005

  • Let them eat cake -- sometimes

    Not everyone believes that fat kids should greatly restrict calories to slim down, or even that it's healthy for them to try.
    By Katharine Mieszkowski September 18, 2005

  • Gut check

    Wellspring, a camp for overweight teens, trains kids to have a "healthy obsession" with food and exercise. Sure, they shed pounds on the 1,200-calorie daily diet, but what happens when they get home?
    By Katharine Mieszkowski September 18, 2005

  • The biggest loser

    I joined Jenny Craig to do research for my novel. Instead I came face to face with all of my prejudices against the obese.
    By Dale Hrabi June 14, 2005

  • Do today's kids have "nature-deficit disorder"?

    A new book argues that children desperately need to be able to play in the woods -- and that our culture's sterile rejection of nature is harming them in body and soul.
    by Sarah Karnasiewicz June 2, 2005

  • Getting religion about health

    Mike Huckabee, Arkansas' newly skinny governor, weighs in on the humilation of being fat, why government shouldn't police our grease, and whether he's planning to diet his way to the White House.
    By Katharine Mieszkowski May 31, 2005

  • Growing up too fat

    Twenty percent of American children are overweight. An expert offers advice on how to talk to your kids about their weight, why diets don't work and what society needs to do.
    By Katharine Mieszkowski April 16, 2005

  • Letters

    "Why should wearing appropriate clothing be the privilege of only one body type?" Salon readers respond to Lynn Harris' article about fashion for plus-size teens
    April 8, 2005

  • Living large

    Clothing company Torrid makes cool clothes for overweight teens. Its bodacious bras and extra-large camisoles help salvage fat kids' self-esteem. But do they also encourage obesity?
    By Lynn Harris April 6, 2005

  • The fat lady sings and the Gipper passes on

    What Table Talkers are saying this week about American optimism and the "sin" of obesity.
    June 11, 2004

  • Teenage Waist-land

    An increasing number of obese teens are opting to undergo stomach staplings. Are they trading one type of hell for another?
    By Stephanie Booth March 16, 2004

  • Luring preteens with red meat

    A Web site produced for girls by the National Cattlemen's Beef Association solves self-esteem problems with heaps of ground round.
    By Katharine Mieszkowski February 11, 2003

  • "Fat Land" by Greg Critser

    In America, fat and poor go together. A new book looks at why.
    By Laura Miller January 9, 2003

  • Can we sue our own fat asses off?

    Flush from their victory against Big Tobacco, activists are now gunning for the purveyors of junk food.
    By Megan McArdle May 24, 2002

  • Segway's assault on walking

    Dean Kamen's much-hyped superscooter is a slothful step in the wrong direction.
    By Christopher Orlet December 7, 2001

  • Better dead than fat

    The pharmaceutical industry hooked millions on the dangerous diet drug fen-phen by manufacturing demand and ignoring warnings, says a new book.
    By Janelle Brown May 16, 2001

  • Germ theory of obesity gains weight

    An Indian researcher believes a virus may be responsible for obesity -- and he's not as crazy as he sounds.
    By Tabitha M. Powledge September 19, 2000

  • Chunky Chinese

    A growing number of spoiled only children are obese, and may face diminished future sex lives because of it.
    By Jack Boulware April 10, 2000
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