Gadling

United Airlines just announced their plans to charge obese passengers for the extra seat they take up on their planes. They are not the first airline to do this, and most likely won't be the last. That said, their definition of obese means that ...

Any health professional will tell you about the epidemic of obesity that is sweeping the country. With over thirty percent of the populous in this category, health care costs are skyrocketing, diabetes is becoming more common and the situation is ...

Obesity on airlines is becoming a big issue. Just a couple weeks ago a flight attendant was ruled too fat to fly, and of course the overweight passenger debate is always one that flares up people's opinions. There are two schools of thought. The ...

This is hard to believe, but I don't think The Sydney Morning Herald would make it up just to beat the US at something. The Herald reports that, according to a new report, 26 per cent of adult Australians - almost 4 million people - are now obese, 1 ...

I'm 5'10", and I weigh about 150 pounds. I am by no means fat. However, when I lived in Zambia, I was routinely called fat by my neighbors. At first, I found it insulting, but I quickly got used to it. After all, compared to them, I was fat. ...

Your mother was right - it actually might be a good idea to chew your food 20 times before swallowing... In a recently published study from Osaka University, researchers examined the eating habits of around 3,000 Japanese people, and found that ...

I'm not sure what it is about small countries that makes me so interested in them. Maybe it's the fact that they seem so manageable, so knowable. I could spend the next five years in, say, China, and still feel like I hadn't seen a fraction of what ...

Drumroll, please. CalorieLab United States of Obesity rankings published their 2008 results. Mississippi has claimed the title of fattest state for the third consecutive year. Colorado repeats as the leanest, according to their new analysis. Here ...

Earlier this year, Gadling reported on the upset of the century: The US lost the title of fattest nation to Australia (US 25). But the surge in amply proportioned Aussies is causing a bit of a backlash. A survey by travel.com.au found that 53% of ...

Having recently arrived in Los Angeles after three...yes, THREE totally full fights on Southwest Airlines, I HAD to post this photo. I was sitting in my seat on the plane and a very obese person (tho not quite this obese) came trundling down the ...

Less than 20 years ago, the problem facing Mexico wasn't an overweight population, but one plagued by hunger. Today, Mexico rivals only the US in the percentage of obese citizens, with a new survey revealing that 71% of Mexican women and 66% of ...

While boarding a Southwest flight on Sunday, I found myself in the back of the airplane looking at the two remaining seats--both of which were middle seats. One, however, was next to a particularly overweight woman whose girth spilled over into the ...

Some filmmakers have all the fun. In this article in the Sydney Morning Herald, filmmaker Antony Balmain heads to the island nation of Tuvalu to film a documentary about the nation and its troubles. Expecting a Polynesian paradise (as well as ...

You don't hear very much about obese spelunkers; exploring the dark crannies of subterranean caves just isn't normally done by the large and hefty. This wasn't however, enough to stop an overweight woman who ventured into the Cango Caves in South ...

With travel to exotic destinations peaking around summertime, The World Health Organization has expressed concern for traveler's legs, and in particular the risk of developing Deep Vein Thrombosis. DVT is a potentially fatal condition characterized ...