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Airline Introduces Pay-By-Weight Ticket Pricing

A tiny Samoa airline is giving passengers a big reason to lose weight: Tickets sold not by the seat, but by the kilogram. Samoa Air plans to start pricing its first international flights based on the weight of passengers and their bags.

2013/04/03

DFW Fitness Pro’s Tips For Keeping Kids Active

With freezing temperatures and wind chills, who wants to be outside? This leaves kids at the mercy of video games and snacks. However, parents in DFW do have options.

2013/02/16

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Researchers Try To Separate Obesity Fact & Fiction

Researchers who reviewed the science behind some widely held obesity beliefs found it lacking. Their report says dogma and fallacies are detracting from real solutions to the nation’s weight problems.

2013/01/31

Coca-Cola To Address Obesity For First Time In Ads

Coca-Cola became one of the world’s most powerful brands by equating its soft drinks with happiness. Now it’s taking to the airwaves for the first time to address a growing cloud over the industry: obesity.

2013/01/14

A real human brain being displayed as part of an exhibition in Bristol, England. (credit: Matt Cardy/Getty Images)

Brain Image Study: Fructose May Spur Overeating

This is your brain on sugar — for real. Scientists have used imaging tests to show for the first time that fructose, a sugar that saturates the American diet, can trigger brain changes that may lead to overeating.

2013/01/01

Overweight teenagers during a morning walk. (credit: Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)

Texas Offers Online Help Against Childhood Obesity

Texas has unveiled a website meant to help battle childhood obesity and identify areas of the state where youngsters are most at risk.

2012/12/20

America’s Health Rankings Show Worrisome Rates Of Chronic Disease

A new report shows it’s not only what you put into your body that affects your health — it’s where you live.

2012/12/11

Lawmakers & Doctors Talk Texas Childhood Obesity

There’s a movement to get state lawmakers more involved in addressing the obesity problem in Texas. Lawmakers and doctors continued a dialogue at the third annual Texas Public Health Coalition (TPHC) public health forum.

CBSDFW.COM–2012/09/27

Special School Helps Teen Combat Childhood Obesity

Texas Obesity Rates To Nearly Double By 2030

A health group predicts that obesity rates in Texas will nearly double, and more than half the people in the state will be obese in less than 20 years.

2012/09/18

Overweight children and their parents participate in a group exercise. (credit: John Moore/Getty Images)

Fort Worth Mayor Launches Health Initiative

Childhood obesity is a challenge that familes and cities all over the country must face. But in Fort Worth, the mayor has unveiled a plan to get both kids and adults to live healthy.

2012/09/17

Healthy And Obese? It’s Possible

Usually being obese means a higher chance of developing health problems. But, a new study shows that it is possible to be fat and fit – and also to be at no greater risk for some chronic diseases.

2012/09/05