weight

Interesting take on the quality of calories, not just quantity:

"John Gunstad, an associate professor of psychology at Kent State University, and a team of scientists from several research centers analyzed memory tests taken by 150 people who weighed an average of 300 pounds. Many had several health problems, such as high blood pressure, type 2 diabetes and sleep apnea.

Of that group, 109 of them then had bariatric surgery — mostly gastric bypass surgery, which creates a smaller stomach and bypasses part of the small intestine. The other 41 obese patients did not have surgery.

Some good finds from mom... essentially saying...

Interesting research to follow!

"A team of scientists led by Dr Iain Brownlee and Prof Jeff Pearson have found that dietary fibre in one of the world's largest commercially-used seaweed could reduce the amount of fat absorbed by the body by around 75 per cent.

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/03/100321203508.htm

I'm curious about the degree of impact education/income level has on this... and think it's interesting that Starbucks is considered fast food, on par with dunkin donuts and McDonald's...

Interesting research on the relationship between gut bacteria populations, diet, and weight gain.  From the time article, though, it seemed they were trying to say that the bacteria population had a causal relationship to weight gain, but it didn't seem they proved that...

http://www.time.com/time/health/article/0,8599,1938023,00.html