| May 28, 2009 | - Fairfax County, Virginia, sued Krispy Kreme for dumping massive quantities of “doughnut grease and other pollutants” into the sewer system.
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Washington Examiner
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| March 4, 2009 | - A European study found that obese teenagers are as likely as heavy smokers to die prematurely. “It's fairly dramatic when you say something is as lethal as smoking,” said one of the researchers. “We know of very few things from a health perspective that are as lethal as smoking.”
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New York Times
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| August 27, 2008 | - The attorney for a nearly half-ton Texas woman said she could not have beaten her toddler nephew to death because her obesity limits her movement.
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CNN
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| May 4, 2008 | - The sister-in-law of Josef Fritzl, the Austrian electrician accused of locking his daughter in a basement dungeon for 24 years and fathering seven children with her, told the Associated Press that Fritzl hadn't had sex with his wife in many years: “I believe it was because my sister had been getting bigger,” she said. “He never liked fat women.”
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AP via Google
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| April 29, 2008 | - An Illinois newspaper carrier rescued an elderly woman whose leg had been pinned for four days under the dead body of her obese 77-year-old husband.
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Fox News
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| April 28, 2008 | - An inmate awaiting trial for murder sued an Arkansas county jail for underfeeding him after he shed 105 pounds from his 413-pound frame. “About an hour after each meal,” he stated in a complaint, “my stomach starts to hurt and growl [and] I feel hungry again. We are literally being starved to death.”
| Source:
CBS
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| February 24, 2008 | - A man in Swansea, U.K., died from eating too much fairycake.
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BBCnews.com
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| February 2, 2008 | -
Mississippi lawmakers introduced a bill that would make it illegal for restaurants in the state to serve obese people.
| Source:
Mississippi Legislature Introduces Bill that Would Ban Restaurants from Serving the Obese
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| October 5, 2007 | - Studies found that nearly two-thirds of HIV-positive patients in the United States are overweight or obese. “It would be very sad to survive HIV,” said an epidemiologist, “and die of something else that was preventable.”
| Source:
Local6
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| August 16, 2007 | - A study found that mothers who ate junk food while pregnant predisposed their children to obesity.
| Source:
Times of India
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| July 25, 2007 | - Scientists said that obesity can spread like a virus among friends.
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New York Times
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| May 30, 2007 | - Adults and children in the European Union were getting fatter.
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AP via Yahoo!NEWS
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| May 25, 2007 | - The execution of an overweight prisoner in Ohio was performed 90 minutes behind schedule because medical workers were unable to find a vein for the lethal injection.
| Source:
New York Times
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| May 20, 2007 | -
Iraqi President Jalal Talabani flew to the United States, where he hopes to lose weight.
| Source:
Reuters via Yahoo! News
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| January 15, 2007 | -
Scientists in London were working on a gum that suppresses appetite and fights obesity. “Obese people like chewing,” explained a researcher.
| Source:
BBCnews.com
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| January 5, 2007 | - The FDA approved Slentrol, a weight loss drug for dogs.
| Source:
USA Today
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| November 1, 2006 | - In Aurora, Colorado, chubby girls robbed younger children of their trick-or-treating
candy.
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ABC 7 Denver
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| October 25, 2006 | - Scientists concluded that fat people lower the fuel efficiency of automobiles.
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Local6.com
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| October 18, 2006 | - An Ohio cult leader who shot and killed a family of five as they stood in a pit dug inside his barn contested his upcoming lethal injection on the grounds that it constitutes cruel and unusual punishment to execute a fat man.
| Source 1:
Reuters via New York Times
Source 2:
CNN
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| September 14, 2006 | - An Ontario woman died after choking during the Chubby Bunny marshmallow-eating contest. “It was just an unfortunate incident that happened,” explained a fair manager.
| Source 1:
EdmontonSun.com
Source 2:
London Free Press
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| September 8, 2006 | - Political analysts debated whether Arkansas governor Mike Huckabee's 100-pound weight loss would harm his presidential aspirations in the South.
| Source:
New York Times
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| September 5, 2006 | - Visitors to the Texas State Fair were enjoying deep-fried Coca-Cola.
| Source:
Local6.com
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| September 3, 2006 | - A British professor announced that five-year-old girls were worried about their weight.
| Source:
AFP via Breitbart
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| July 25, 2006 | -
Radiologists announced that many Americans were becoming too fat for X-rays.
| Source:
Reuters
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| July 11, 2006 | - In Mauritania, where local custom favors obese women and where girls are sometimes fattened up by being force-fed sweetened milk and millet porridge via a funnel, large numbers of women were attempting to lose weight for health reasons.
| Source:
The Christian Science Monitor
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| July 7, 2006 | - New research confirmed that smoking and obesity increase the risk of erectile dysfunction.
| Source 1:
New York Times
Source 2:
Reuters
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| July 6, 2006 | -
Prosecutors declined to press charges against Rush Limbaugh for possession of Viagra.
| Source:
Associated Press
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| June 19, 2006 | -
Nestlé announced that it would buy weight loss firm Jenny Craig.
| Source:
The New York Times
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| June 18, 2006 | -
Pennsylvania
Representative John P. Murtha criticized Karl Rove for “sitting in his air-conditioned office on his big, fat backside saying, 'Stay the course.'”
| Source:
The New York Times
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| April 13, 2006 | - Polls found that 90 percent of Americans believe their peers are too fat, but only 40 percent believe they are too fat themselves.
| Source:
The Sydney Morning Herald
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| March 29, 2006 | - A Las Vegas ambulance company was using a special extra-large ambulance to deal with extremely obese patients; the company said that it had served 75 patients weighing over 600 pounds in the last 6 months.
| Source:
WBAY.com
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| January 12, 2006 | - A study found that 24 percent of Americans find fat people less attractive than thin people; this represents a significant change from 20 years ago when 55 percent of Americans said that they were repulsed by fat people.
| Source:
Seattle PI
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| January 6, 2006 | -
Pet
obesity was on the rise in Britain.
| Source:
Reuters
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| November 17, 2005 | -
Fidel Castro said that Florida Governor Jeb Bush was fat; Bush, who at 225 pounds is between 18 and 44 pounds above the ideal weight for his height and frame, said he was flattered by the criticism. “It is not a criticism,“ clarified Castro, “rather a suggestion that he do some exercises and go on a diet, don't you think? I'm doing this for the gentleman's health.”
| Source:
AP
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| October 7, 2005 | - In Kent, Washington, a man named Neelesh Phadnis, accused of shooting his mother and father, defended himself by claiming that the murder was carried out by a gang of obese Samoans and their girlfriends.
| Source:
The Seattle Times
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| August 10, 2005 | -
Cream puffs with 560 calories and 47 grams of fat were selling briskly at the Wisconsin
State Fair.
| Source:
AZCentral.com
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| July 27, 2005 | - An executive at Coca-Cola said that the company would soon start producing a soda that burns calories.
| Source:
Ad Week
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| July 8, 2005 | - A man was arrested for paying children to yell at him because he is fat.
| Source:
The Salt Lake Tribune
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| April 17, 2005 | - One hundred thirty-seven million people were overweight in China.
| Source:
Medical News Today
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| April 10, 2005 | - A study found that store clerks are more respectful to slender shoppers than to obese ones.
| Source:
AP
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| December 24, 2004 | - A study found that gastric bypass surgery is more effective than dieting for the severely obese.
| Source:
AFP
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| December 16, 2004 | - Scientists announced that 70.6 percent of husbands are obese.
| Source:
New York Times
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| September 10, 2003 | - The Department of Agriculture proposed adapting its dietary advice to the fact that most American adults are overweight.
| Source:
New York Times
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| July 7, 2003 | -
Kraft Foods, apparently worried about tobacco-style lawsuits from obese people, announced that it was committed to producing healthier foods.
| Source:
Daily Telegraph
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| July 24, 2001 | -
Obese people who exercise were found to have half the death rate of skinny people who don't.
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| March 27, 2001 | -
Scientists warned that clones often have random genetic flaws that produce severe developmental problems, immune-system disorders, and other defects; some cloned mice, for example, become enormously obese when they reach a certain age.
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