| 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.”
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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.
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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.”
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Local6
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| August 16, 2007 | - A study found that mothers who ate junk food while pregnant predisposed their children to obesity.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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BBCnews.com
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| January 5, 2007 | - The FDA approved Slentrol, a weight loss drug for dogs.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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New York Times
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| September 5, 2006 | - Visitors to the Texas State Fair were enjoying deep-fried Coca-Cola.
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Local6.com
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| September 3, 2006 | - A British professor announced that five-year-old girls were worried about their weight.
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AFP via Breitbart
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| July 25, 2006 | -
Radiologists announced that many Americans were becoming too fat for X-rays.
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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.
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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.
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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.'”
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Seattle PI
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| January 6, 2006 | -
Pet
obesity was on the rise in Britain.
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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.”
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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.
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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.
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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.
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AP
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| December 24, 2004 | - A study found that gastric bypass surgery is more effective than dieting for the severely obese.
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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.
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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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