A British man has been fined and barred from driving for six months after taking his pet for a stroll while sitting behind the wheel of his car.

Yes indeed, this is laziness to the max!

Paul Railton was spotted by a cyclist driving slowly along a country lane, holding his dog’s leash through the car window, as the animal trotted alongside.

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Montgomery, Ala., and Stockton, Calif., Share the ‘Honor’ of Most Obese Metro Area

By Bill HendrickWebMD Health News

Reviewed by Louise Chang, MD

March 3, 2010 — A ranking of No. 1 — or being in the Top 10 — isn’t always something to crow about.

The latest Gallup-Healthways Well-Being Index lists the 10 most obese metropolitan areas in the U.S. and finds that adult obesity rates in each are significantly greater than the national average of 26.5%. Here’s a ..read more

Have you ever wondered why certain foods just taste so good and induce extreme cravings in some people?

We all know that our tongue tastes sweet, sour, salty, and bitter, but did you know a Japanese chemist, Kikunae Ikeda, actually isolated a fifth taste back in 1908 called “Umami”?

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Living in the city that hosts the Olympic Games has been quite an experience, and 2010 brought with it some memorable moments.

Here are some current and former winter Olympians who have accomplished incredible feats, beat the odds and have otherwise given us reason to believe.

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MONDAY, March 1 (HealthDay News) — There appears to be a back-and-forth link between depression and obesity, say researchers who reviewed the findings of 15 studies that included nearly 59,000 people.”We found bidirectional associations between depression and obesity: obese persons had a 55% increased risk ..read more

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MONDAY, March 1 (HealthDay News) — Researchers are reporting that treatment with a hormone linked to weight loss seems to control type 1 diabetes in mice better than insulin does, raising the prospect of a landmark new treatment for some human ..read more

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It is not simply a matter of the extra calories in and of themselves.  Excessive caloric intake turns on gene signals that actively promote the storage of calories as fat.  If those gene signals are repetitively activated and conditioned to stay on, you are in real metabolic trouble.  A new study in the FASEB journal is part of an emerging body of science showing how improper food consumption sets gene-related metabolic signaling that cripples healthy metabolism.

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Two new studies are more than sufficient to scare the living daylights out of any parent watching their child gain weight.  The first, published in the journal Pediatrics, shows that inflammatory changes that cause heart disease are clearly present at age 3 and steadily worsen up to age 17.  The second, published in the New England Journal of Medicine, shows that childhood obesity is the strongest factor linked to premature disease-associated death, more than doubling the risk.

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A study published Monday in the journal Health Affairs paints a picture of children who can’t stop eating.  They are addicted to junk food snacks and they just can’t seem to stop.  They are getting larger and hungrier by the minute.  They have three extra meals per day in the form of snacks, composed primarily of utter junk food and junk beverages.  The study is just now being picked up by the national media, although I first reported on it ..read more