Holiday Gluttony Can Spell Disaster for Undiagnosed Diabetics

Hearty feasts and couch-potato marathons are holiday traditions, but UT Southwestern Medical Center experts warn that packing on pounds //and not exercising could be deadly for the 6 million Americans who have diabetes and don’t even know it. Diabetes, a metabolic disorder linked with obesity,...

Religious Activities Could Promote Obesity

... recommends that religious heads need to take notice and help their// community deal with the problem. "America is becoming known as a nation of gluttony and obesity, and churches are a feeding ground for this problem," says Ken Ferraro, a professor of sociology who has studied religion and body weight ...

gluttony in Biological News

Holiday gluttony can spell disaster for undiagnosed diabetics

Hearty feasts and couch-potato marathons are holiday traditions, but UT Southwestern Medical Center experts warn that packing on pounds and not exercising could be deadly for the 6 million Americans who have diabetes and don't even know it. Diabetes, a metabolic disorder linked with obesity, can...

Running on rocket fuel

...ic, a design that ensures their stomachs can't be too big, which in turn limits the amount they can gorge in a sitting: a physical limitation on their gluttony which biologist call "a morphological constraint." In the same way that Size Zero women can struggle to have children, and bouncing babies, this study...